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USA & CANADA 810-OJ-200 USA & CANADA
General
Goldberg, Baton Rouge. Josh Goldberg still has both VRs; though one was advertised on e-Bay at one stage it
would appear it did not attract a buyer and Josh intends keeping it for the time being.
The Caterie, Baton Rouge. GKA 524M is parked in the large public car park to the front of this club/restaurant; it
appears to have been towed to this position. It has images of tigers on the sides and is lettered “Tigers”; the
Tigers appear to have been the 2003 National Champions and the bus was painted in 2004 to reflect this.
REGISTRATION NOTES
Abu Dhabi (UAE) has introduced a fifth series of plates. These have 5 and Arabic text in white on a red band
above a serial in black on reflective white. No Arabic letters are used at all. The single line version has the 5 in
white on a red band at the left followed by the country name in Arabic and the serial, again in black on reflective
white. At an auction in May a registration from this series with the single digit 5 was sold for £3.4 million!
Denmark has announced that europlates will be introduced from 2008. It is also anticipated that the present
series will be exhausted in 2009 and that they will then start again from AA, presumably omitting any registrations
still in use.
Lesotho has decided that once Maseru is exhausted the present series at AZ 9999 before much longer, then
they will continue from A 10001 upwards. Leribe reached C9999 in 2000 and now issues marks from CA 001
upwards. All other districts are still using the original single letter and four numerals series which has been used
since 1979. The plates are blue on white.
Michigan is the last US state to adopt reflective plates for general issue. The 1982 series of white on blue plates
are, since January 2007, being replaced with blue on reflective white plates using three letters and four numerals
from BAA 0000 upwards for passenger cars and CA 00000 upwards for commercials. MICHIGAN is in white on a
blue band at the top and www.Michigan.gov at the bottom. An optional graphic plate in 1AA A23 format is also
available, starting from 0HA A00 for passengers and G00 00A for commercials.
Norway has introduced a new style of plate which has a blue band to the left or upper left. This has the national
flag above the letter N. There has also been a change in the style of the characters. These plates are being
used for most categories of vehicles.
In the Caribbean, Sint Eustatius has introduced very colourful graphic plates with a blue base and two fishes
against a reef to the left. ST. EUSTATIUS is at the top and THE HISTORIC GEM at the bottom, both in white.
The registration, in white, consists of an alphabetic code and a serial from 1 upwards with the island crest as a
separator. Private cars use the prefix E and buses the letter B.
In South Africa, Northwest Province now has graphic personalised plates with the letters NW as a suffix.
Northern Province has been renamed Limpopo and, reflecting the change, the suffix L has replaced N. Both
normal and personalised plates have been seen with the L suffix.
Zimbabwe has started to issue a new series of plates, presumbably only for new vehicles or on change of
ownership. In black on reflective yellow they have three letters and four numerals, from AAA 0001 upwards, with
the national crest in the space between them. Similar plates in red on white are for commercial vehicles. What
appears to be a personalised plate with eight letters has been observed together with diplomatic plates still in the
same format, but on the new style of plates.
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