YFW296 Previous owners ???

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YFW296 Previous owners ???

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Any of my AJs previous owners on here ???
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In all probability dead. :oops: :D
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Wossup Merlin, chaincase drippin' again?

If no luck on here and as far as I know, Lil ;) , the DVLA won't disclose previous owners. However, I have heard that if you write to the DVLA enclosing a letter addressed to the previous owner they may, if the recipient is in a good mood, forward it to the previous owner.
The number which your bike currently wears may not be the original and could have been issued (and would be shown on your V5) as 'Non Transferable', which means that either the bike was assembled by A.N. Other from unrelated parts, the frame having no authentication/proof of its original reg'n number (tax disc, MOT certs, old 'buff' handwritten logbook), or the original number may have been sold off.
The frame number may enable this Club's Dating Officer - GSOH, own house and car, rusty old bike collection, likes walking (fortunately), and cosy nights in.... ;) ) - to tell you when the bike left the factory and possibly, if you're lucky, the first dealer to whom it was shipped. The registration number will have been issued to it later by the local authority when the bike was sold, therefore you cannot trace its reg'n number from the frame number.
Rob Harknett of this parish is one of the experts on registration numbers and is welcome to correct me if I'm misleading you!
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YFW 296 is a Lincolnshire reg. no. first issued in 1961. You could try Lincolnshire Archives Office.
St Rumbold St. Lincoln. LN2 8AB. If you have no V5 you will need certain proof to re claim the old reg.no.
as advised, contact the clubs dating officer. P.S. I'm not an expert, just learnt a few things over many years and still learning.
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In view of Rob's info it looks like the bike does still have its original number Lil ;) and you already have the V5 so only this bit of my post is relevant:
If no luck on here and as far as I know, Lil , the DVLA won't disclose previous owners. However, I have heard that if you write to the DVLA enclosing a letter addressed to the previous owner they may, if the recipient is in a good mood, forward it to the previous owner.
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If Lincolshire have records they may give previous owner details, but dont take that for granted some local officies do others may not.
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Merlin wrote:In all probability dead. :oops: :D
Just thought I would cheer you all up for a change. :D :D :D
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If you use form V888, which you can download, then the DVLA will give you all the info they hold on your bike. I think it costs five pounds. This is normally in the form of photocopies of old log books. There may not be much before circa 1983 when everything was computerised.
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Rob Harknett wrote:YFW 296 is a Lincolnshire reg. no. first issued in 1961. You could try Lincolnshire Archives Office.
St Rumbold St. Lincoln. LN2 8AB. If you have no V5 you will need certain proof to re claim the old reg.no.
as advised, contact the clubs dating officer. P.S. I'm not an expert, just learnt a few things over many years and still learning.


Hi I have both logbooks fortunately ( original and new, and I do have the original number plate :D ), just would like to know what year my bike was made into a trials bike.
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What makes you think it was a standard road model which was at some time made into a trails bike.
There was a model 14 CS ( note Competition Scrambles not trails. ) Scrambles and road models of the 250's shared the same numbers series, is there CS stamped with the engine number. Maybe it was even a CS model that at some stage got a standard road model engine fitted. Only the club dating officer from factory records can state what model the bike was when it left the factory based on the frame number. What are the frame and engine numbers, the answer as to what model it stated out as may be quite simple to discover.
When changes took place more difficult, and could well had happened with the owner declaring a change had taken place.
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