(02 Nov 2013, 5:06 pm)Andreos1 wrote Aye, that is where the Wright factory is - so it makes sense vehicles allocated to operators in Northern Ireland get NI plates.
But unless these demonstrators were doing work over there before coming to England, then why give them NI plates?
As I say, there will be a reason for these two having them and the others not having them, just not sure what that reason will be.
It's like the Scania Gas bus demonstrator having Swedish plates (or plates for wherever it was constructed) or a VDL vehicle coming over on Dutch plates.
The Renown with the NI plate has always bugged me too - espec when other vehicles in the batch have GB plates.
What actually happens with demonstrators once they have done the rounds, do they ultimately end up going back to Ballymena, which could be why it always keeps it Northern Ireland registration...
A LITTLE OFF TOPIC HERE...A little funny story about Northern Irish reg plates, my uncle got married 25 years ago to a Belfast girl, they married in our local church, because my aunts family and friends are N.Irish and this was a time when everyone was wary of the IRA, the local constabulary got in a flap wondering why so many N.Irish people and cars descended on Murton...Could just see the conversation now, worrying if the IRA were about to bomb Murton...As if, blow this dump up and it would cause millions of improvements