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[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

[Nigel C]

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

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