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4 ORM at the DVLA auction

4 ORM sold at the DVLA’s July 2026 timed online auction for a winning bid of £10,000.00, £12,440.00 in all with VAT, the buyer’s premium and the £80.00 assignment fee.

Style
Dateless: an original British registration mark
Fits
A suitable vehicle of any age
Area code
RM: Cumberland (1924 to 1974), then Carlisle (from 1974)
DVLA auctions
  • July 2026, July Timed Online Auction: sold for a winning bid of £10,000.00, £12,440.00 in all with VAT, the buyer’s premium and the assignment fee.

The same letters at DVLA auctions

The latest winning bids for registrations of the same style with the letters ORM, and what each cost in all:

  • 21 ORM £1,520.00, £1,958.72 in all, June 2025
  • 100 ORM £1,930.00, £2,465.48 in all, March 2025
  • 3 ORM £9,220.00, £11,475.92 in all, Jan. 2025
  • 730 ORM £1,010.00, £1,376.84 in all, May 2023
  • 9 ORM £6,080.00, £7,886.72 in all, Sept. 2022
  • 2 ORM £10,100.00, £13,048.40 in all, July 2017
  • 1 ORM £11,200.00, £14,161.20 in all, April 2006
  • 57 ORM £4,000.00, £5,109.00 in all, Dec. 2001

Results from March 1990 to Nov. 2024 are from the DVLA’s own published results; their price in all is at the charges of the time.

More on DVLA auctions

Every lot and the top prices of that sale are in our report on the July 2026 DVLA auction.

What a bid costs in all is on our DVLA auction calculator, the coming auction’s lots are in our DVLA auction checker, and when a registration of any style was issued is in our guide to number plate years.

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