A Howard motorcycle manufactured by the Howard Engineering company of Coalville in Leicestershire. Although not a local registration number, the owner is Mr Harry Fowkes of the nearby village of Ibstock. ~ Roger Lovell

FP is a Rutland series, so quite a rarity in itself. 1905 kicked off with FP 74, so the number was issued fairly soon after (1905 ran up to FP 109). It's a measure of the size of the Rutland area that they only got to the end of the FP series in 1960. ~ Nick Smith

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