Local number plates - check the elephant

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Tue 8 Mar 2005 13:05
Local number plates - check the elephant - Ian (Cape Town)
www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/AF_SAFR.html

A selection of local 'provincial' plates. No kidding - these cartoon jobbies are all compulsory if you register in that province!

Our local government are a boring bunch, and we just have to have letters and numbers and no fancy animals.

CA 774 624.
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Wed 9 Mar 2005 23:33
Local number plates - check the elephant - Imagos
Remember some years back seeing lots of SA plates very simular to ours but were all T reg ie. MTW 290T, what does that mean?
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Wed 9 Mar 2005 23:41
Local number plates - check the elephant - henry k
Our local government are a boring bunch, and we just have
to have letters and numbers and no fancy animals.
CA 774 624.

I have seen a few of the CAs in my area especially on small BMWs.
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Thu 10 Mar 2005 06:42
Local number plates - check the elephant - THe Growler
Here in the Philippines we have pretty coloured ones with mountains and stuff in the background, along with some political slogan or other. Mine being translated means "Towards a Strong Republic". Totally meaningless.

But my all time favorite -- seen on a Porsche Carrera in the US:

WAS HIS
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Thu 10 Mar 2005 06:58
Local number plates - check the elephant - Ian (Cape Town)
imagos, the old 'T' plate was from the Old transvaal province.
originally, all the cars were reg'ged as follows:
TJ 12345 - johannesburg
TP 12345- pretoria etc etc etc
THEN in about 1980, after the change to democracy, and the splitting up of 4 provinces into nine new ones, they changed to the T plate - BBB 001 T onwards.
THEN in 1994, they changed to the GP plate - (Gauteng Province, in whcih Johannesburg now lies)R Depending on the geographical area, also the BBB 001 N (Northern province) plate, and the BBB 001 MP (Mpumulanga) plate.
Natal plates stayed as N reg - ie ND 12345 as durban, and Orange free state plates were OB 12345 - bloemfontein, but have since changed to FS plates (the one with the cheetah).
C plates used to be Cape Province, but that split up into East Cape (the elephant plate) Northern Cape (the one with the antelope!) and us here in the Western Cape stuck with the CA, CY, CL prefix.


For some reason though, if you buy a personalised plate (you order the name and they make up the plate and charge you $$$) it comes with a WP suffix - ie AJAX - WP.
Bizarre - as Western Province doesn't exist - the area is actually the Western Cape. But I suppose putting WC on cars would look a bit silly!

Oh, and the best plate EVER was for the 'new town' of Sasolburg, where they built a huge oil-form-coal processing plant, from scratch, and built the town around that.
It was in the Orange Free State (O reg), and THEIR plates were OIL!




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