ATC 1 Car Registration
 

ATC 1 was advertised in the latest Sunday Times for £125,000. Perhaps you wealthy NATS types would like to club together and buy it for Mr Barron. A leaving present perhaps ...

I've never seen the point of personalised car registrations, just extra cost and makes your car easier to find if someone has a grudge against you, besides which they're much less entertaining than the unintentional words which can be made from the current and old type sequential plates.

We used to encourage our children (8 + 11) to make the best word from passing numberplates until the youngest informed my wife she'd seen PORN again (P**ORN) to which her older brother said "that's nothng, I've seen a ******! (W**NKR).

We don't play that game anymore.

Me neither, Mr Goatface but this one caught my eye when I was flicking through the motoring section. I hoped to provoke ribald comment and outrage from my NATS friends!

If the aforementioned W**KER was for sale we might be interested...

:E

Remember that NATS pensioners got a ZERO percent rise this year. As a result I can only donate 3 crisp green farthings for Mr Barrow........ but it's the thought that counts.

It's beginning to work - I knew you guys wouldn't fail me!

Pardon the intrusion into the ATC world (and thread creep!), but by coincidence I think the best Private Reg I've ever seen on a car in the UK, was many years ago on a large Merc, in one the EGLL central area multi-storeys:

PEN15

That's not so bad, operational staff had a 2.8 % pay cut ;)

Thread creep
 

I think that if you check your payslip at the end of the month you will find that you got a 2% increase.
It might be less than the August 2008 RPI figures gave you cause to expect, but it's still more than the pensioners got (and 1.1% more than the RPI increase over 2008).

Anyway, wouldn't SC53 WAT be a better plate for PB (with appropriately placed rivets)?

Whilst it is indeed disappointing for those already receiving their pension not to get any increase, I can't get too emotional over it. Many of us with the company and with possibily up to 30 odd years to go have the more concerning thought that we will not have the final salary scheme we expected or that we are already on a different pension scheme.

I rather suspected that talk of a 2.8% cut was somewhat inaccurate.

Traffic is.... No need to get emotional for me; I'm happy with my lot and I get pretty well what I was promised all those years ago. I retired at 58 or I would have had bucketloads of extra cash - it's just the way the cookie crumbles. It just disturbs me a bit to know that my ex-Civil Service acquaintances received a 5% increase in their pension this year as their increase was calculated on the RPI last September!

You have possibly 30 years to go so you have plenty of time to get yourself organised so you too receive a good pension.

Coincidently I was driving past Swanwick on Sunday and saw a large Bentley coming out with the registration WIINNER, if that was Mr Barron he certainly is, unlike most of the nats staff.

Maybe that was the successful gambling ATCO who used to have Merc CA51NOE......

He's still got it!

PEN1S
 

Steve Parrish His ex was a real looker. Featured in Mayfair many a year ago.


BTW if it was pulling a caravan would that be a PEN1S extension?

''You have possibly 30 years to go so you have plenty of time to get yourself organised so you too receive a good pension.''

HD - methinks that nobody of sane mind would even contemplate placing precious spare cash (despite current tax relief) into a future money purchase pension fund. A PONZI scheme would be a much better bet.