Morris Minor Owners Club

i have just checked the MOT history on my new moggy

the dateless original reg number was changed on 27/08/2008 "following an investigation" just curious what that means. has anyone seen the same?

i think he possibly lived in Gibraltar for a while as there is a sticker on his boot saying something about British resident zone and there is a gap in the MOT history is there anyway to see his history while he was there?

thank you

I doubt very much whether it relates to a criminal investigation. Could be for a number of reasons.

Most likely, if it had an original registration number and then been abroad, maybe the DVLA issued another number to it on its return to UK. The owner may have then asked them to investigate the return of the original number to the vehicle, but after a thorough investigation, they turned it down. Usually for lack of written proof of the original number on that vehicle chassis number, which could occur if the person didn't really build a good solid case for the original number being reallocated.
Need to see the detail information including all dates, to form a view of why it is, as it is.

Did you contact BMIHT?

no, not looked at BMIHT. will probably contact them at a later date. i'm not worried about it really, just curious. i didnt realise that he would have lost his reg when going abroad that seems logical really

thank you for your help

If you'd send me the details (via pm) I'll check it through the database.

I lost the original Northern Ireland number (part of the UK ,(I had a real job convincing a jobs worth at DVLA ,IT WAS NOT AN IMPORT ) )
When taking the private plate off,they gave it a time dated one and I lost a really nice number !!!!

Ar** and elbow

yeah, i like the dateless ones, they look cool.