15 facts about car plates

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2) Car number in Canada



License plates appropriated bicycles and horse-drawn carriage in the XIX century. Exactly 110 years ago, April 25, 1901 for the first time in the world were introduced official license plates. It happened in New York, all owners of cars should have to register their vehicles and hang rooms, this procedure is worth one dollar. RIA Novosti presents you 15 interesting facts from the history of car plates.

3) Sign of the cab, the end of the XIX century



1. "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.

2. 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.

3. In the Russian license plates appeared in 1904, but not in the capital at the time - St. Petersburg and Riga.

4) Car number until 1936



4. In pre-revolutionary Russia in every city have 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!

5. 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.

5) Prior to the reform of 1981 were license plates with black background



6. 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.

7. For 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

8. 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.

6) The first Soviet truck AMO-F-15 released in 1924
Automobile Moscow Society. The parade of cars in Moscow. Samples were given special signs - try



9. 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).

10. Registered number 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.

11. 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.

12. Non-labeled «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.

7) Car number, Pennsylvania



13. The system of the auction for the "criminals" 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.

14. In Russia, it was not legally allowed number, "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 series E *** KH77 owned FSO Russia. In people, letters are considered an acronym for the phrase "food as I want».

15. 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.

Source RIANOVOSTI.

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