Did you know that the first Vehicle registration plate was made
way before automobiles?
The first place to have invented the
vehicle registration plate was in France they were the first to introduce the
license plate with the passage of the Paris Police Ordinance on August 4, 8,
1893 and followed by Germany in 1896 the Netherlands were the first to
introduce a national license plate called a driving permit .In the U.S
Massachusetts was the first in 1903 to have a license plate. Then every state
in the U.S followed after and the UK started using them in 1904.
Materials for the License Plate
When the first plates were made they used Porcelain
baked on to iron or ceramic with no backing. They were fragile and impartial
few of these early plates survived. Later on they experimented with cardboard,
leather, plastic and during wartime, they had shortages so they used copper and
pressed soybeans. In 20th century, plates varied in size and shape for
jurisdiction Standardization of plates came in, 1957 they are now made with
metal are plastic and use numbers and letters that uniquely identify the
vehicle within its issuing region database. Depending on the country, the
License plate can be called a license plate or tag (United States) license
plate (Canada) or number plate (United Kingdom, Australia etc...)
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