Noel Woodall
Noel Woodall coined the phrase
Autonumerology in 1964 to put a
name to his interest in car registrations, thus making him the world's
first Autonumerologist.
In the past 40 years ,
he has remained fascinated by personal number plates and is recognised
as an authority on the subject.
Noel's interest in number plates
began in 1962 - he saw a car with the registration BB 4 in his home town
of Blackpool.
It captured Noel's imagination and he
immediately questioned who owned the car? He started asking around and
his tenacity paid off when he discovered that a local bookmaker owned
it.
With this new found interest Noel began
to research the subject but found no available books- he compile
together his own findings and published Car Number Galaxy
It contained a
fascinating list of registrations, the cars they were on, and who owned
them at the time. Noel did his homework and included in the book's
forward a brief history of car registrations from 1903 on, plus a whole
page on the history of
A 1 .
The book also contained
an index of registration letters and where the cars bearing them were
first registered in the UK. The MP, Gerald Nabarro was featured heavily
in this first issue as he owned NAB 1 through to NAB 5 (he eventually
owned NAB 6 through to 10 as well). Other well-known registrations and
their celebrity owners featured were, Arthur Askey (AA 10), Norman
Wisdom (NW 4), George Formby ( GF 1 and GF 2 ) and Harry Secombe ( HS 92
).
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