General Information

Serial #

HED 159

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Aluminium with enamel paint

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

30.3 cm

Width

15.2 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Motorized Ground Transportation

Category

Accessories

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Waldale

Country

Canada

State/Province

Nova Scotia

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Newfoundland and Labrador

Period

2002-2004. Validation period between June 2002 and June 2004.

Canada

Standard format of licence plate used in almost every province in Canada since 1957 (6"x12") and personalised according to each province or territory. Licence plates were introduced in the early days of auto mobility to register car owners and their cars, in order to regulate them as they were getting more and more numerous on the roads and also obtain money to pay for different expenses linked to car road driving. Newfoundland and Labrador united in 1965 and this is shown on plates starting the same year. This plate is of the style that started in 1993 and lasted until 2002.

Function

To inform authorities in a visible printed way about a vehicle owner and the registration of his vehicle.

Technical

First licence plates were made by hand by the owner. They consisted often of numbers put on a rubber or leather piece or painted numbers on tin. Then provinces started to issue them using different materials at first. By the 1920's most provinces were stamping plates on steel. This plate is representative of recent plates being made of aluminium. It is also usable from year to year by using an expiration sticker instead of getting a new plate each year. This system began in the 1960's and 1970's in different Canadian provinces and later for Yukon and Nunavut. This plate also has with reflective paint.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Plate reads: "Newfoundland & Labrador/ HED 159/ A WORLD OF/ DIFFERENCE"/ Lower left sticker reads: "JUNE/ NF 06697553/ 2002"/ Lower right sticker reads: "JUNE/ NL 06422854/ 2004"/ Handwritten in black marker on back of plate reads: "10."/

Missing

N/A

Finish

White reflective background with red embossed numbers and letters. Graphic of a Viking ship is black, red and yellow.

Decoration

Graphic of a Viking ship is black, red and yellow.