FADDY MOTORISTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 957, 28 April 1930, Page 10

FADDY MOTORISTS

SYDNEY SUPERSTITIONS SPECIAL NUMBERS WANTED Motorists are faddy, but not superstitious, according to Superintendent Dennetts, of the Sydney Traffic Department. He says, according to a faydney exchange, that he gets numerous applications for special numberplates from individual motorists, but these cannot be granted, a. 4 the practice was done away with several years before the war. The only way a motorist can get a particular number he wants is by buying the car which has it. Otherwise the numbers are issued m rotation, and he has to take what he can get. Some of the new car owners, said the superintendent, want a plate with nothing but sevens in it; others don’t want any sevens at all. There is no trouble nowadays in getting rid o£ No. 13. At present it is adorning a private car. In the days ot the cabbies it was very hard to place No. 13, and for a long time nobody would take it. At last a man with a hansom cab was persuaded, and, far from the number bringing him bad luck, he was able to sell the goodwill of his run for three times the price he paid for it. Superintendent Bennets says there are still people who will do anything to get a number they want. He knows of one man who wanted the plate numbered 100,000. It was isued in the ordinary way to an old Ford car, which in time was sent to the auction rooms, •t, was bought at quite a high price by the man who wanted its number plate.