Cancelled Car Registration?

[Newwriter]

Hi Folks, I am trying to understand the details shown on this record relating to a relative.

Obviously it is to cancel the registration of a car reg CWK971. Would that be because the car was being sold? It shows a date of first registration in 1937 and "Amount Paid" of £3.18s.9d. Would that have been the price of a second hand car or the cost of the license (road tax?)?

A long shot but if anyone could throw any light onto what it all means I would be very grateful. 

[ShaunJ]

Presumably the car had been scrapped or exported.

[Newwriter]

I have just found that he still had the same car in 1940. Does this record just mean that his current road fund license or something lapsed at the end of 1937? On another post someone was saying that in 1937 a new car cost between £100 and £150 or so. Does that mean that his road license cost £3.18s.9d? 

[Jebber]

There is a lot of information regarding car taxation if you Google it in  Wikipedia

[familydar]

I can't see a date on the image (date the form was completed) but it looks to me to have been filled in with a ballpoint pen.  Could the registration have been sold or transferred to another vehicle - a "cherished number"?

Jane :-)

[mazi]

The reg. CWK implies that the first registration was in the Truro area, the cancellation was in Coventry,
I think things were much more flexible then, I have feeling that you could re register a car in the local area you were living in

[mazi]

There is some significance in the year 1937 as that was the year when the tax was changed from being reserved for the road fund, administered by the local authority, to being paid into general gov. funds.
£3 18 9 seem about right for 5 months road tax, as a year ran from Jan to December you could buy a proportion amount to the year end

[Kingsclere]

"WK" means it was originally registered in Coventry. The registration was probably cancelled due to being scrapped. The use of ballpoint pen dates it to post-war, likely 1950s/60s. The amount paid is nothing to do with the first licence but was the amount paid back to the applicant (i.e. partial refund of the last fee) who was cancelling its registration.

I believe Coventry Archives have the records of registration cancellations so can probably tell you more about your specific car.
https://www.theherbert.org/history-centre/default.aspx

[mazi]

Wk is indeed Coventry, I cannot now find the website that led me astray