Once again, the intro to Tom, George and Jim’s book Colorado  License Plates The First 100 Years 1013-2013 provides an accurate and comprehensive response to this question.  “On April 25, 1901, New York, through an action of its legislature, became the first state to require vehicle registration.  Early plates were owner-provided, bearing only the […]

The Roman Empire may have had numbers on their chariots but this has not been verified. Internationally, we have been told that the first license plate was issued in Luxembourg in 1895. We do not have the research that was done to establish this information. What may, or may not, have continued in some form for […]

Tom received his April 2016 PLATES magazine issue last week and showed me an article about Delaware license plates  that is worth mentioning. Delaware plates are unique because the rights to use the number, not the actual plate, can be inherited, transferred or sold to another owner. The lower the number of the plate, the […]

Roughly how much does a license plate weigh? Tom says there is not a simple answer. Generally, most plates vary in weight between . 0.2 of a pound  all the way up to 0.5 of a pound.  Current Utah plates, for example, are at the low weight end and Wyoming plates from the 80’s and […]