Found an old post.
Originally Posted by
fiestaturbo1984
Weren't registrations that end in HAR something along the lines of press car's or something like that?
Just means they're first registered in Chelmsford,Essex.
Not necessarily Ford owned..
I just found a post from last year
Originally Posted by GVK
Under the previous system, the registration plate usually contains a group of two or three letters (if three, ignore the first, and use the second & third); very old ones use only one letter; these indicate the place of first registration. Some of the ones marked ‘unused’, and some special combinations, e.g. N 1 GEL, were issued centrally as vanity plates by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency). Originally the letter group was placed first, followed by the number group, but from 1952, this order began to be reversed.
AR - Chelmsford
EV - Chelmsford
JN - Chelmsford
HJ - Chelmsford
HK - Chelmsford
NO - Chelmsford
OO - Chelmsford
PU - Chelmsford
TW - Chelmsford
VW - Chelmsford
VX - Chelmsford
If you look at a lot of (pre 2001) Ford press cars and Boreham built rally cars, they will probably have one of the above reg plates.
Full list here -
http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/where/gb.htm