{"id":13380,"date":"2019-07-09T17:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=13380"},"modified":"2019-07-09T17:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:43:44","slug":"aj-1-a-plate-with-an-interesting-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2019\/07\/aj-1-a-plate-with-an-interesting-history\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ 1 \u2013 A Plate with an Interesting History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AJ-1-\u2013-A-Plate-with-an-Interesting-History-1024x444.png\" alt=\"AJ 1 - Speedyreg\" class=\"wp-image-13381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AJ-1-\u2013-A-Plate-with-an-Interesting-History-1024x444.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AJ-1-\u2013-A-Plate-with-an-Interesting-History-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AJ-1-\u2013-A-Plate-with-an-Interesting-History-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AJ-1-\u2013-A-Plate-with-an-Interesting-History-1200x520.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AJ-1-\u2013-A-Plate-with-an-Interesting-History.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>AJ 1 &#8211; Speedyreg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AJ 1 recently sold at auction Wilsons Auctions in Belfast for \u00a3243,000. This plate has a truly fascinating history and it seems to still be making its mark on history even after it has been sold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>North Yorkshire\u2019s Oldest Plate <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AJ 1 was the first plate to ever be registered in the county\nof North Yorkshire. It was registered in 1907 to the North Yorkshire Police\nForce where it had remained ever since until it was recently sold. The first\ncar the plate was displayed on was a single cylinder Argyll owned by Chief\nConstable Major Sir Robert Bower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A great way to raise funds <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No longer used by the North Yorkshire Police, it made sense\nto sell the valuable plate and put the money to good use and so the decision\nwas made to send the plate to auction and with such an interesting history and\nbeing such an early plate, it came as little surprise that AJ 1 raised a large\nsum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Two worthy projects to benefit <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money made from the sale will fund two great projects.\nOne will be to update and maintain a garden at the police headquarters that was\nbuilt to honour all those emergency service men and women who have lost their\nlives, and as a tranquil space to remember all those who are no longer with us.\nThe second project is to fund small local road safety initiatives across the\ncounty, in areas that perhaps don\u2019t get the attention with regards to road\nsafety that the larger towns and cities do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AJ 1 never forgotten <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a community or local parish receives funding for their\nroad safety project, in return for the investment, they will be required to\ndisplay a replica of AJ 1 alongside details about how the group got the funding\nand the meaning behind AJ 1. It seems that AJ 1 will always be a famous plate,\neven though it\u2019s now with a new owner. There certainly seems to be something\nrather special about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJ 1 recently sold at auction Wilsons Auctions in Belfast for \u00a3243,000. This plate has a truly fascinating history and it seems to still be making its mark on history even after it has been sold. North Yorkshire\u2019s Oldest Plate AJ 1 was the first plate to ever be registered in the county of North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1696,1698,1697],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13382,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions\/13382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}