DVLA and tractor registration.
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 5:34 pm
Now the DVLA have closed all the local licencing offices and everything has to go to Swansea, things are becoming more difficult to licence your tractor or get the original number re issued.
It seems that to get a number re issued, even if it is on the tractor, the DVLA now will not take your word that the number pertains to the tractor without documentary evidence, eg the brown log book. In the log book the registration number and the ENGINE/SERIAL NUMBER are shown together on an official document. If the engine has been changed and the number on it does not match the original you will not get the number re issued and may have to prove that what you have is indeed a tractor. It seems that only the original registration documents are acceptable so if you do not have a log book or your county has destroyed its old files, you may have to have a new registration, There is then a possibility it will take you out of the "Historic Vehicles" category and into the "Agricultural Vehicle" category with all that means as far as insurance is concerned.
Pictures, verification of casting codes and verification by a DVLA recognised body like the Ford and Fordson Association are not now enough to road register our tractors with age related numbers.
We have one gentleman in our next village who has tried to register a tractor five times with the help of an "approved" body (not the FFA) and each time the documents have been returned and registration denied. Both parties have filled the forms in correctly (in theory) but still they will not allow the tractor to be registered.
It seems that to get a number re issued, even if it is on the tractor, the DVLA now will not take your word that the number pertains to the tractor without documentary evidence, eg the brown log book. In the log book the registration number and the ENGINE/SERIAL NUMBER are shown together on an official document. If the engine has been changed and the number on it does not match the original you will not get the number re issued and may have to prove that what you have is indeed a tractor. It seems that only the original registration documents are acceptable so if you do not have a log book or your county has destroyed its old files, you may have to have a new registration, There is then a possibility it will take you out of the "Historic Vehicles" category and into the "Agricultural Vehicle" category with all that means as far as insurance is concerned.
Pictures, verification of casting codes and verification by a DVLA recognised body like the Ford and Fordson Association are not now enough to road register our tractors with age related numbers.
We have one gentleman in our next village who has tried to register a tractor five times with the help of an "approved" body (not the FFA) and each time the documents have been returned and registration denied. Both parties have filled the forms in correctly (in theory) but still they will not allow the tractor to be registered.