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Date Passed Test ?
I have had a letter from 1ST Central car insurance who have had a look at my application that I took out and bought from them 5 months ago and said a check with the DVLA states I had my licence in 1973 ( which is on my photo licence ) and not 1966 as I had told them, so now they are demanding another £95 extra, (£45 + £50 admin.) however it was 1966 that I first got my full licence, I'm 71 now and have been driving since I was 18, how can I find the date I passed my test ?
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By way of background, DVLA (DVLC as it was then) only began issuing driving licences in 1973. Previously, book style driving licences were issued by Local Taxation Offices and were valid for a maximum period of 3 years. As drivers renewed their book licences between 1973 and 1975 the details were converted to a computerised record and it is the renewal date...
15:13 Mon 24th Jul 2017
I've had a licence since 1964, passed my test in 1965 to get a full licence but the date on my photo licence is Feb 1975 - it's just the wa the DVLA did things. Tell your insurance company they are being very silly - I suspect it's a new clerk working for them that doesn't know how things work. Ask them to check the licence of anybody that works with them who has had a licence since before 1973 and look at the date DVLA have put on it.
yeah mine is the date I passed Oct 1975
but I asked and looked a few 70 y olds - "you passed way before 1974?" and he couldnt remember.
I cd - it was in the sixties
The insurance point is important and you have to make them see sense because at present there is a record that you didnt truth
very important to get this corrected - they queried a point and you were right
insurance contracts are 'uberrima fidei' utmost faith or truth and they can call it all off ( even post facto ) if a relevant fact is not true.
I am not sure if the date of passing a test forty y ago is in that category
keep us informed
but I asked and looked a few 70 y olds - "you passed way before 1974?" and he couldnt remember.
I cd - it was in the sixties
The insurance point is important and you have to make them see sense because at present there is a record that you didnt truth
very important to get this corrected - they queried a point and you were right
insurance contracts are 'uberrima fidei' utmost faith or truth and they can call it all off ( even post facto ) if a relevant fact is not true.
I am not sure if the date of passing a test forty y ago is in that category
keep us informed
"I am not sure if the date of passing a test forty y ago is in that category"
Neither am I Peter, hence my earlier post.
It's quite true that insurers rely on their customers telling them the truth and I could understand their concern if you'd said you passed your test 10 years ago when it was only eighteen months. But the difference you mention cannot possibly influence your risk or the premium.
Neither am I Peter, hence my earlier post.
It's quite true that insurers rely on their customers telling them the truth and I could understand their concern if you'd said you passed your test 10 years ago when it was only eighteen months. But the difference you mention cannot possibly influence your risk or the premium.
By way of background, DVLA (DVLC as it was then) only began issuing driving licences in 1973. Previously, book style driving licences were issued by Local Taxation Offices and were valid for a maximum period of 3 years. As drivers renewed their book licences between 1973 and 1975 the details were converted to a computerised record and it is the renewal date which remains on the database as the date of first issue (with the aforementioned < symbol to signify 'before').
"Details of your Certificate of Competence to Drive (known as the 'pink slip') will be recorded at the DVLA."
Only if such information had been transferred to the newly set up DVLC from the Local Taxation Offices administered within 183 local authorities, the very LTOs whose failing maintenance of records [5 million files a year were already being shuttled between local authorities as far back as 1965] prompted the centralisation of driver and vehicle records.
Only if such information had been transferred to the newly set up DVLC from the Local Taxation Offices administered within 183 local authorities, the very LTOs whose failing maintenance of records [5 million files a year were already being shuttled between local authorities as far back as 1965] prompted the centralisation of driver and vehicle records.
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