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- noun Plural form of
numberplate .
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The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has approved a new generation of cameras that are linked wirelessly and operate in clusters, meaning that speeding drivers will be caught whichever route they take across a wide area … they read numberplates automatically and transmit data instantly to a penalty-processing centre … They are harder to vandalise than Gatso cameras because they are suspended from arms on six-metre poles.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009
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The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has approved a new generation of cameras that are linked wirelessly and operate in clusters, meaning that speeding drivers will be caught whichever route they take across a wide area … they read numberplates automatically and transmit data instantly to a penalty-processing centre … They are harder to vandalise than Gatso cameras because they are suspended from arms on six-metre poles.
Blatancy Award Dungeekin 2009
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Chris Parkins, Stanmore, MiddxA colleague used to refer to "pratalised" numberplates.
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If Gordon Brown won't listen to us, then it's right that we pass our own laws to make these numberplates legal.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Car numberplates bearing the Welsh flag could soon be legalised if a Plaid Cymru Assembly Member has her way.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Even more bizarre are the personalized plates that refer to the type of car - Jaguar XKR owners seem particularly prone to having numberplates with XKR in them.
Archive 2010-01-01 Brian Clegg 2010
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They can be positioned more than 15 miles apart and will automatically read numberplates and transmit data instantly to a penalty processing centre.
Drivers Will Have No Escape From New Speed Cameras | Disinformation 2008
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Janet Ryder said: Labour in London promised back in 2001 to legalise the use of national flags on car numberplates.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Even more bizarre are the personalized plates that refer to the type of car - Jaguar XKR owners seem particularly prone to having numberplates with XKR in them.
Look, I'm an idiot Brian Clegg 2010
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Thousands of people in Wales are driving around with illegal numberplates because they want to show they're Welsh and proud of it.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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