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25.04. Car plate numbers
1901 - In New York, all the lucky owners of the iron horses owe their description of the car and we add them to their names and addresses. That is to say, held the first registration of vehicles. Then the plates were issued to owners (for which they paid a dollar), in which the owners of the initials were given. During the first year we registered 954 cars.
But it was the first registration was in law. In general, the first license plates for cars appeared in Munich in 1899, a year later - in Paris. And then the Americans, evaluate the merits of this device, put the case for a stream.
Incidentally, the first number plates were issued not on self-propelled vehicles. They were equipped with horse-drawn carriages.
Initially, chaos in this case was, of course, wild. Izgalyatsya every city in its own way.
Different shapes, sizes, colors. And in Moscow before the First World War and we do change every year. And, again - without any system. Each individual machine can prisobachit number of the colors, which seemed proper official who gave the number.
"From the car license plate is required for it to be clear, clear to read, and therefore, a simple and robust. Oddly enough, none of these requirements do not meet the specified numbers in Moscow ", - he was indignant newspaper" Auto ". They were as follows: on the sheet size almost from the yards of carved figures. This stencil is covered with a layer of paint corresponding year. Under it is laid a piece of sheet metal, painted in white color, and another located below a tin of black. The result was a three-layer cake: "something ridiculous, heavy, creaking and bending"
