Fingerprint recognition in schools

[Roland Perry]

In article <088C736C66454516A9398C20F95D516E@neos.tv>, Tom Thomson 
<cmt@btinternet.com> writes
>> [2] One of the "improvements" of the plastic licence is that it doesn't
>> actually say when it was first issued [although you can deduce when the
>> test was passed from the counterpart], just when it was last renewed (in
>> my case because of a change of address).
>
>Field 10 of the UK plastic license (on the back) gives, for each vehicle
>category, what appears to be the date at which a revised format license
>for that category was first issued to the holder. For old fogeys like me,
>that's the date at which the little booklet with red covers was replaced
>be the single folded sheet - not the later version of the single sheet
>that didn't expire until age 70 or something like that, but the first
>version of it which expired after 3 years.  But for people a dozen or more
>years youngerthan me (which is most license holders) that will be the date
>they were first issued with a (full) license.

You are right about a date being on the back of the plastic licence - 
I'd not noticed that before either.

In my little red book I've got three stickers:

1) A one year provisional licence
2) A three year full licence dated to overlap the provisional by a day
3) A receipt saying I'd applied for a full licence to commence the day
     before those three years were up.

The plastic card is dated a week before the three years was up.

The counterpart has the same date as the plastic card, so doesn't 
represent when I passed the test after all. I think you were allowed to 
drive on a provisional licence plus a pass certificate, and if that's 
the case I probably passed the test about four months after getting the 
provisional licence.

It's entirely possible that the very short overlap periods are as a 
result of me leaving things to the last minute, especially as you had to 
travel to County Hall and queue up to do that sort of thing.
-- 
Roland Perry