About National Numbers

Enter the company's very first computer. After a long deliberation about the expense and if it could be justified, the purchase was made and registration and customer details were added to the new-fangled box. Although it would have to run alongside the alphabetical files for a further six months (nobody trusted the computer to not simply vanish all the information that had been entered into it), once it had proven it's reliability and the staff had become confident with this new technology, the obvious value to the business that the machine introduced was endless.

Progressing things further, a completely bespoke database was commissioned to accommodate the ever expanding list of registration marks for sale.

Accolades were won, quality kite marks earned, and membership of trade bodies, such as the CNDA, were achieved. The business went from strength to strength as the demand for personalised number plates showed no signs of slowing.

In 1989 the DVLA themselves twigged that the market for personal number plates was only ever expanding and began making available previously unissued government stock registrations. Until this point the only registrations available for sale had been those that had been in general circulation, so the choices now available to clients ballooned to previously unthinkable levels.

Typically it would be through weekend national newspapers or motoring publications like Exchange & Mart and AutoTrader where people would find out about National Numbers with regular full page adverts cramming in as many of the best registrations on the books as the tiny print would allow.

This would change in the late 90's however, when a little thing called the internet started to take off.

The National Numbers website now lists over 71 million registrations and you can buy securely online at any time of the day (although our friendly sales staff are still there during business hours if you'd like to speak to them!).