Danish bicycle VIN-system

Because of this, insurance companies in Denmark will not pay indemnities for stolen bicycles without a VIN.

In very special instances, and only with the approval of the Danish National Police Commissioner’s Office, it may be applied by other means and on other locations.

This table shows examples of manufacturer codes, but is in no way to be considered a complete listing.

Two examples of the WN prefix (which denotes "Nordisk Cyklfabrik A/S") have been found so far on Raleigh branded models.

Because Raleigh had a long standing policy of shipping out frames to distribution centres in export territories where they would be then built into complete bicycles, it seems highly likely that any Raleigh made frame shipped from England to that particular company and built into a bicycle which was then destined for sale in Denmark, was stamped with the WN prefix.