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Old 10-03-2017, 11:24 PM   #1
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Smile Early WA Registrations 1917 to 1928

http://www.blog.carnamah.com.au/2016...strations.html
Online Index of 80,153 Early WA Motor Vehicle Registrations

The Royal Automobile Club (R.A.C.) of Western Australia historically published an annual Year Book & Road Guide. Some of the early editions included lists of every registered motor vehicle in Western Australia. The lists included the owner, their address, the type of vehicle, its license/number plate and the local authority it was registered with.

In partnership with the North Midlands Project we have transcribed, indexed and created a searchable online database of motor vehicle registrations from throughout Western Australia (extracted from the R.A.C. Year Book & Road Guides of 1917-18, 1922-23, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27 and 1927-28). A great many thanks are due to those who worked so hard to transcribe, check and reformat this wealth of information, which can now be searched via the below link...

During this period the most popular make was undoubtedly Ford (28% of all registrations) followed by Chevrolet (12%), Dodge (11%), Overland (7%), Buick (5%), Rugby (3%), Studebaker (3%), Essex (3%), Hupmobile (2%) and then Morris, Fiat, Maxwell and Chrysler (1% each). Other brands, with a less than 1% market share included Reo, Citroen, Austin, Oldsmobile, Willys-Knight, International, Graham, Whippet, Republic, Pontiac, Swift, General Motors Company (G.M.C.), Leyland, Guy and Vauxhall.
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Great resource thanks for the link.
I've been picking up early country plates for a while now, bought a few cars just to keep the plates. Looks like I've got a couple of good ones in particular one that goes back to 1918 from the Beverly road board. Picked up a numeric one last year and resold the car with a new plate.
Interested to read about the double ups, they count the point as a digit so for example there is A28 and A.28
Theres alot of heritage in these old plates...
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Great resource thanks for the link.
I've been picking up early country plates for a while now, bought a few cars just to keep the plates. Looks like I've got a couple of good ones in particular one that goes back to 1918 from the Beverly road board. Picked up a numeric one last year and resold the car with a new plate.
Interested to read about the double ups, they count the point as a digit so for example there is A28 and A.28
Theres alot of heritage in these old plates...
It would be interesting to find out where these cars. trucks, motorbikes are now. I presume a rubbish tip or a farmers paddock......
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The cars maybe long gone but alot of the plates have been kept as family heirlooms. Most regional WA towns have they're own prefix and you can tell how long a family has been there by how low the following number is...
You can't directly sell or transfer these plates unless its to a family member or you buy a car with the plate already on it. As I said theres alot of heritage in these plates.
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