The Tale of the Tag License Plates
The law requires vehicle registration in each state and license plates identify cars and owners. Owners once received new plates annually, but modern plates are updated with stickers to save metal.
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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 2000
Page
22
The law requires vehicle registration in each state and license plates identify cars and owners. Owners once received new plates annually, but modern plates are updated with stickers to save metal.
In 1903 Massachusetts and New York issue the first numbered plates, while most states later adopted alphanumeric formats. Early plates were steel and porcelain coated. during World War II some states used soybean board plates to save metal. Drivers report goats eating plates.
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