Private Numbers UK
These Private Numbers UKstarted in England in 1903. In the beginning each county council was allocated either 1 or 2 letters that denoted their area. So, for example, B 1 was originally issued from Lancashire County Council. We don't believe this is currently available for sale, but if it were, you would be talking about £100,000.
Looking up B 1 and who currently owns it - it's S.Bawarshi, who also owns EEE 1.
B 2 was owned by Richard Biffa in Buckinghamshire. Out of the B's (the right way round - i.e B first) one of the more interesting people who owns one is Lady Boroughs (who lives in London) who's the proud owner of B 9. It's also interesting to note that nearly all the people who own the B's do not live in the area it was issued in.
We pride ourselves in trying to achieve a very well run business. To this end we decided that we would try to achieve an award that is recognised by industry throughout Europe. We prepared to try and gain the quality award BSI 9001 2000. National Numbers managed to do this at its first attempt. The Chairman, Eric Craggs, had previously worked as a manager at ICI for 30 years and had been involved in trying to get businesses within ICI to get this award. We have had the award for six years. For the last two years, BSI have required us to conduct a formal customer survey - we are the only company within the DVLA number plate business to do so. Please look at our Testimonials to see what they think. You may think that a lot of web sites just make up their feedback, a lot do, but we are actually audited by a British Standard Quality Expert to verify that our customer comments are genuine.
