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Originally Posted by Mark T
Hi Nigel
How doe the Car numbers work? Are they assigned daily, weekly? I have seen letters on the cars eg:
7CF450 Car L
7CF452 Car B
Cheers
Mark
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Hi Mark,
Sorry, I missed seeing this until just now.
Each car was assigned a letter a few years ago, but when the Vee-Lo's were introduced, the cars were then assigned a specific car number. The Vee-Lo that pumps out the code for, say Car 66, is only found on one vehicle (Car P from memory). Car L is Car 72, Car B is Car 11 (I think).
The newest cars (new livery) have been allocated a car number, clearly seen on the side of the car and bonnet. However, if one of these cars goes off-airport for maintenance, we do have spare pre-programmed Vee-Lo's which are attached with magnets and powered off the 12V car charger points. This will be the only time when the Vee-Lo won't correspond with what car you're visually looking at, although you will see there's two Vee-Lo antenna on the roof of the car.
Hope this helps
Nigel