What's good learner bike?

[Oakie]

I. like many others on here, am old enough to remember the book we got in the olden days... mine was issued by the local borough council traffic department after being tested by the chief traffic officer of the borough...

And having to go back every year(?) to get a new sticker in you licence book to allow you to carry on driving.

[Moi]

And having to go back every year(?) to get a new sticker in you licence book to allow you to carry on driving.

That's right, forgotten about that part... I think they changed it to either two years or five years before we got the "lifetime licences"...

Also, having to re-licence the car each year and it was all done in June - IIRC - until the current system of licencing began... Used to be queues at the local Post Office [remember those places?] to re-licence the car and at the local driver licence issuing authority which for us was the local borough council offices...

Ah, the good old days...

[Oakie]

That's right, forgotten about that part... I think they changed it to either two years or five years before we got the "lifetime licences"...

Also, having to re-licence the car each year and it was all done in June - IIRC - until the current system of licencing began... Used to be queues at the local Post Office [remember those places?] to re-licence the car and at the local driver licence issuing authority which for us was the local borough council offices...

Ah, the good old days...

Yes. I worked the motor registration counter on a few of those Junes and was the supervisor for the last one I did. We used to dread the last day of June at we'd do about 20% of the months regos on that day.
What about the old 'Carless Days' stickers?. People used to apply for exemptions to their chosen day to go without. Best excuse I received was from an Asian woman who had nominated Saturday as her carless day but then applied for an exemption to it because "I need go horse races on Saturday"