FADDY MOTORISTS

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1930, Page 9

FADDY MOTORISTS

SYDNEY SUPERSTITIONS.

SPECIAL NUMBER WANTED. Motorists are faddy, but not super* stitious, according to Superintendent Bennetts, of the Sydney Traffic Department. He says, according to a Sydney exchange, that he gets numerous applii cations for special number-plates from, individual motorists, but these cannot be granted, as 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 a car which has it. Otherwise the numbers are issued in rotation, and he has to take what he can get.. Some of the new car-owners, said the superintendent, want a plate with no-thing but sevens in it; others don’t want any sevens at all. There is no trouble nowadays in getting rid of No. 13. At present it is adorning a private car. In the days of 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 issued in the ordinary way to an old Ford car, which in time was scut to the auction rooms. It was bought at quite a high price by the man who wanted its npnibQr plate.