Vintage Tags...

[dudley32]

Since I love all kinds of old stuff, I have, since I was young, collected license tags. My dad gave me my first one, a 1940 N.C.
Well today I picked up some tags, and seeing how this is an international site, perhaps you can help me figure out what I have here. I'll post a couple of pictures and see if there's any interest in this.



The ones at the bottom of the photo says France on the back...but I still don't know what year they might be...or even if that is correct...



As for the ones at the top of the picture...no clue...but each letter is an individual piece and is riveted on...note the strangley shaped "4", and the tags are two different sizes...I hope someone recognizes these...I have a couple more but let's see how this goes...thanks

 

[NutmegCT]

Here are a couple North Carolina area license plate collector groups:

https://www.alpca-chesapeake.org/

https://www.alpcacarolinas.org/

And Rich Kretschmer's general reference site:

https://www.ricksplates.com/links.htm#genl

I never realized there were so many plate collectors!

Hope this helps.
Tom M.

 

[dudley32]

Thank you sir...I was hoping to get some international response, perhaps from some people who grew up around these things...maybe even some posts and pictures of other vintage plates ( as I find this very interesting ).
Here's a couple of tags a friend from another forum sent me...He's from North Wales, and was telling me that you can tell the year on seven digit British tags by the letter on the end, starting in 1963 with an A so these tags would be 1974. Right?

 

[catfood]

That is correct but I think some letters were omitted if they could be confused with numbers O and I for example which would make it 1972.

 

[catfood]

Also the second two letters (YX in this case indicate) where the car was from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehic...,_Crown_dependencies_and_overseas_territories

 

[catfood]

By the way those plates came off a 2 door 1973 Volkswagon 1300A.

 

[dudley32]

By the way those plates came off a 2 door 1973 Volkswagon 1300A.

does that mean I have to find a VW...maybe no one will notice...haha


How did you determine that...that's exactly what my friend in North Wales said?

 

[catfood]

In the words of Sherlock Holmes..

Elimentary my dear Dudley!

First you have a square plate and a long plate.

In 1973/74 there were very few cars in the UK that used a square plate and the VW was the most common.

The long plate appears to have a kink in the middle, a very common thing to happen on VWs

and the 1300A was the most common VW at the time...
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No I'm lying. I'm not that good.

I put the number in one of the car insurance comparison sights in the UK in the off chance the number would exist on a database somewhere and it was!

 

[Roger]

Yes, the red plates are French. The 4 is normal for France. Red plates are, or were, temporary transit plates. The last 2 digits indicate the Departement of registration and I remember 33 as being Gironde, the area around Bordeaux.
The French plate system changed a few years ago, I don't know it today although we go to France every year.

 

[dudley32]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the replies...Here's three I think are earlier six digit British...but again because of the number/letters and the fact that the LRY 741 is again riveted on...It makes me wonder...also what is the reason for the number/letter inversion...thanks again...

....catfood...you had me going for a minute there...thanks Roger

 

[catfood]

They started to run out of combinations of letters/numbers in some districts so when they did they inverted them.

 

[dudley32]

I have one more that I got with the bunch...someone has written Germany on the back...any idea what year and if this is correct?