Talk:Vehicle registration plates of South Africa
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Military vehicle plates do not begin with an 'M'. They are working through the alphabet (missing out the vowels). Military plates all end with an 'M'. Older military plates with an ‘R’; military vehicles are still referred to as 'R' vehicles in the SANDF. Still older military plates began with a 'U' for Union.
[edit] History Info Inaccurate
White on black was std across the country until the early 1980's - no mention is made of this. Military vehicles had a "R" (Regiment) prefix under the black/white scheme and an "M" (Military) suffix under the black/yellow.
Under the old numeric system, it was possible to know approximately how many inhabitants/vehicles a town had, as vehicle registrations were released sequentially. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Socrates2008 (talk • contribs) 05:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
- Fixed Socrates2008 06:15, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Photographs of license plates
At commons:Category:License_plates_of_South_Africa there are some photographs of SA license plates. Perhaps you can add these photgraphs into the table? --62.203.237.220 13:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
