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Old 21st September 2016, 19:46   #1006
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Re: Early registration numbers in India

You are probably correct , just noticed the name of the town on the bus "Hippomere " which is in Durban, SA
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Guys, any idea how a 'modern' car is sporting a number such as this?

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Spotted in Gurgaon today.
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Guys, any idea how a 'modern' car is sporting a number such as this?
Must be from Punjab, numbers are transferable


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I too have very few PJx numbers, but it is also important to keep in mind that in Punjab you can transfer numbers, so often older numbers are reissued to newer cars.
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Old 27th September 2016, 09:54   #1009
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Must be from Punjab, numbers are transferable
I know about this practice in Punjab. But what's confusing is, this number appears to be from Delhi or Kanpur (as brought up earlier in this thread back in 2012). Hence my query.

Can anyone confirm if this is a early Punjab number?
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Old 30th September 2016, 12:42   #1010
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Were there ever "M" registrations in Madras Presidency? I was under the impression that these were "MC" and later expanded to "MCP". Maybe this was spoken about earlier and I have forgotten.
This question came up when I got this pic showing both types of registrations.

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Re: Early registration numbers in India

Thanks to Darshan Patel for sharing!

He got a picture of a bicycle registration purchased in 1947 (it's in Gujarati).

Bicycle owner- Vallabh Natha Kanbi
License Issuer - Police Superintendent
Gondal State
Authorized by - In Kingdom of H.H. Maharaja Thakore Shri Sir Bhagwat Singhji Sagramji Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Gondal GCSI, GCIE (then only a GCIE)

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Guys, any idea how a 'modern' car is sporting a number such as this?


Spotted in Gurgaon today.
Old registration plates are transferable in Punjab and Delhi but IIRC the clauses are slightly different with respect to retaining/scraping the old vehicle.
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Were there ever "M" registrations in Madras Presidency? I was under the impression that these were "MC" and later expanded to "MCP". Maybe this was spoken about earlier and I have forgotten.
This question came up when I got this pic showing both types of registrations.

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Harit,
The only M alone registrations I have on the list is Mandi in Punjab. I have not seen an M alone from Madras.
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Old 14th November 2016, 10:10   #1014
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The only M alone registrations I have on the list is Mandi in Punjab. I have not seen an M alone from Madras.
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Hey Cedric,

In the meanwhile I got it.
It is Malacca.
Seems our Indian folks also migrated to those eastern shores even in the 1920's.

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Somewhere in the Madras Presidency I assume.
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I know about this practice in Punjab. But what's confusing is, this number appears to be from Delhi or Kanpur (as brought up earlier in this thread back in 2012). Hence my query.

Can anyone confirm if this is a early Punjab number?
This is a Delhi number. Old numbers are very much transferable in delhi.

For reference, have a look at this :-

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/indian...ml#post3409906

Edit: Sorry for going slightly OT.
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Re: Early registration numbers in India

cross posting , this could be from Rangoon, then a part of British India as per the quoted post below.

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RC-9 is Rangoon (Burma). R, RA and RB were issued when it was still part of British India but in 1937, Burma was split off and administered separately.
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cross posting , this could be from Rangoon, then a part of British India as per the quoted post below.
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I am sorry but I don't actually think it is R for Rangoon.
When I blow it up I think it looks like P or F.nnnn and my best guess is P.8900.
It is an early car (20s at the latest I guess) and to me, the location looks more tropical than India. However the style of the registration is very much British India rather than anything else.
Although there was P for Punjab and P.8399 was photographed in the 20s, it could be from Pinang (Penang) in the Straits Settlements close to Singapore. It was actually pretty rare for code letters to be duplicated around the British Empire back in those days although, unfortunately, the Malay unfederated states and the straits Settlements were duplicated a lot with British India.
I don't know of any tropical F registrations although I guess there were some in the colonies in Africa.

Is it possible it is Punjab?
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Old 21st November 2016, 15:39   #1019
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Kartikeyal,
I am sorry but I don't actually think it is R for Rangoon.
When I blow it up I think it looks like P or F.nnnn and my best guess is P.8900.
It is an early car (20s at the latest I guess) and to me, the location looks more tropical than India. However the style of the registration is very much British India rather than anything else.
Although there was P for Punjab and P.8399 was photographed in the 20s, it could be from Pinang (Penang) in the Straits Settlements close to Singapore. It was actually pretty rare for code letters to be duplicated around the British Empire back in those days although, unfortunately, the Malay unfederated states and the straits Settlements were duplicated a lot with British India.
I don't know of any tropical F registrations although I guess there were some in the colonies in Africa.

Is it possible it is Punjab?
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You are right it looks more like P, if you look at this other picture the people look like from India, looking at the architecture of the house, I somehow feel it could not be from Punjab.

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You are right it looks more like P, if you look at this other picture the people look like from India, looking at the architecture of the house, I somehow feel it could not be from Punjab.
Kartikeyal,
I agree the architecture does not look typically Indian to me......mind you, I am not an Indian and have never been in Punjab. The roof on that other photo reminds me of old, old British railway station roofs!
We know from many other photos and records that people from British India moved around the Empire and we have a few photos from Africa and the Malay area of Indian people.
I have just checked and the registration is much, much too high for Penang so that is out now. Two Penang photos attached both in non-B.I. style and both very much later.
I think I have to put my money on a very strange house design in Punjab.
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