What Does the Car Registration Yut1 Stand For?
Before the DVLC was created in 1962 to administer licensing nationally, County Council licensing offices issued numbers to cars sold in their area. When licensing started in 1927 Leicestershire County Council allocated the block of numbers starting YUT... to be given to vehicles in the Loughborough area under the jurisdiction of the local Police Superintendent. The first number - YUT1 was allocated to the Mayoral car.
The same number has been transferred to each new vehicle every time the car has been changed, from the very first Rolls Royce up to the present day Volvo.
