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"Numbered" the primacy of the United States contested Germany. Also in 1901 the Berlin businessman Rudolf Herzog with the permission of the city administration has attached to his car number IA1. IA - the initials of his young wife Johanna anchor, and the unit means that it is his first and only.

Initially, there were no standards for license plates, and each motorist could make itself or buy from artisans plate and attach it to the car.

In Russia, car license plates have appeared in 1904, but not in the capital at the time - St. Petersburg and Riga.

In pre-revolutionary Russia in every city it has its own numbering system. Rooms should be changed annually on March 15 after passing inspection, and the numbers change color. Red, blue, pink plaques accumulate at drivers with experience on the walls of the garage. Signs were two holes and fastened to the car with the help of ... laces!

The standard rooms are a single sample for the whole country have been introduced in the USSR in 1931. On a white field with black portrayed the letter and two pairs of numbers. In those years, the front rooms of motorcycles installed on the front fender along the axis of movement, and were visible, and the left and right. They repeated the shape of the wing and were shaped like a part of a flat ring.

Yuri Gagarin after the momentous flight was awarded the "Volga" with the numbers 12-04 YUAG formed by initials and date of the flight. Next to the name of the machine the astronauts kept the letters YUAG index Star City in Moscow Region and the numbers have continued to indicate the date of the flight.

2-3 months before the Moscow Olympics in 1980 in the capital appeared machines with larger white numbers with black letters series OLM - to serve the Olympic Games. And since all nonresident cars were expelled from the Moscow ring road, and the cars travel to Moscow was strongly limited

When the city was renamed Frunze in Bishkek, replaced the regional letters rooms FI on BI, then switched to the Latin alphabet, and in the room there was a combination of BI. At the same time in the winery (Vinnitsya) Ukrainians stamped series of the same standard with the same letters. So what nationality Room A 50-62 BI can not be set.

Signs today samples were installed in 1994. Then, instead of 27 letters were only 12, which is in the Latin alphabet (A, B, E, K, M, N, O, P, Q, T, Y, X).

Registered numbers originated in the United States and in many countries today used quite legally - in England, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, as well as in South Africa, Argentina, Indonesia. Just they cost several times more expensive than usual. Russian-speaking expats are widely used this opportunity to express its "personality." You can come across as patriotic numbers ODECCA, Russian and obscene phrases in Latin.

In 1992, when the company AM General decided to open the sale of its army Hummer jeep civilians. The purpose of advertising they have provided the car with numbers TERMINATOR Arnold Schwarzenegger. But he had somehow not caught on.

Rooms with the inscription «Keep Kids Off Drugs» («Keep children away from drugs") have recently been introduced in Florida under the personal signature of the governor. The owners annually pay $ 25 to go on a program to combat drug use among young people.

Auction system on the "thieves" number is quite common in the world. In 2008, a modest 25-year-old Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Saeed al-Khoury was the proud owner of number "1" for only $ 14 million. The starting price of the room is a little more than $ 27 thousand.

In Russia, registered number is not legally permitted, "beautiful" and "criminals" are available on the "black market", while their cost ranges from $ 400 for room 555 or 007 to 70 000 dollars, when it comes to special characters, such as the series E *** KH77 owned FSO Russia. In people, letters are considered an acronym for the phrase "food as I want».

All number plates ever issued in the United Kingdom, are still valid. The sign must be replaced only in the event of the departure of the vehicle to another country, or at the request of the owner of transport. Newly arriving to vintage cars can be assigned a number of antique series of numbers are not issued earlier. Number of old car can be moved to the new optional surcharge, with the old car, if it still exists, gets a new number, depending on the year.