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webbo3 | 10:35 Tue 05th Jun 2012 | How it Works
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why did the queens Bentley have no road tax or number plate ?, I thought all cars being driven on the public highway had to have both of these.



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Driving tests were introduced in 1935 so for anyone to have a licence without passing a test must have been born no later than 1918, making him at least 94. My father, born in 1916 never sat a test but had a licence. He never drove after the war but kept his licence up because if he had got a car he would have had to sit a test otherwise.
12:25 Tue 05th Jun 2012
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very interesting, i never noticed the seat belt.


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12:29 Tue 05th Jun 2012
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My father learnt to drive in the WW2 and was issued a licence after the war, without taking any test.

I suppose the numbers involved, along with a lack of testers and other more pressing problems, meant it was necessary.
12:35 Tue 05th Jun 2012
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Not so, Mike

18th February 1947
A period of a year granted for wartime provisional licences to be converted into full licence without passing the test.
12:41 Tue 05th Jun 2012
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When I was in the forces I drove most of the military vehicles there was, I never had Insurance or tax!

I did have a numberplate but it was not on the police database.

I did need the relevent licences for different vehicles though.
23:06 Tue 05th Jun 2012
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I bet you were covered by insurance in some form, Toureman.
23:41 Tue 05th Jun 2012
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In Ireland in the late 70s a lot of people were given full licenses without having to take a test, because the waiting time for a test was so long. Those in receipt of free licenses seem to be the dithering old farts holding everyone up now.
23:47 Tue 05th Jun 2012
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There seem to be quite a few people with driving licences who have a general demeanour of not having taken the test. The Queen isn't one of them.
05:15 Wed 06th Jun 2012
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As Princess Elizabeth, the Queen served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) during WWII and trained as a vehicle mechanic and driver.
10:10 Wed 06th Jun 2012
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Yes Hopkirk, the government!
20:14 Wed 06th Jun 2012
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More to the point, why's she being chauffeured around in a German car ?!
afaik, McLaren are the only ones making 100% British cars now.
Next time she goes off hand waggling, I want to see her in an MP4-12C !
20:22 Wed 06th Jun 2012
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Answerprancer....I would have thought that you knew the queen has German ancestors.

Anyway enough of this. Can anyone give smurcfchops an explanation.:-

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1140607.html

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20:32 Wed 06th Jun 2012

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