New Tank and Armoured Vehicle Data Plate Sharing Website

[Robin Craig]

Good day,

Alex we have already exchanged emails about post WW2 data plates.

Both of you have identified what is an incredibly weak point in the system as it was then.

So when you couple the removal of the data plate and time removes the painted on VRN then all you are left with is a hull number or perhaps a casting number.

Sadly for some series of British armoured vehicles the hull number is not carried over onto the data cards which may have survived at Bovington or a RLC. Couple that with no factory surviving records in some cases the vehicles are lost for any genuine chance of identification by anyone restoring them.

It can be frustrating.