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South Australia number plate: Standard 3L3N

Retired Documented 1967 to 2008. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Department for Infrastructure and Transport (South Australia). One of 3 South Australia number plates.

South Australia (Australia) license plate, Standard 3L3N (documented 1967 to 2008), sample TSB 575
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example TSB 575 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented 1967 to 2008; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Size
372 × 134 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE PREVIOUS SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL ISSUE. The strongest single piece of evidence attaching to this series is the contemporaneous Transport SA page of 2004, which describes it as the current general issue in the department's own words, the successor series has no equivalent. That inversion (the DEAD series better sourced than the LIVE one) is worth naming: it is what happens when an agency stops publishing plate information and the only good pages survive in an archive.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Transport SA, 6 December 2004: the general issue AS IT THEN STOOD, black on reflective white, 'SA - The Festival State'. Because the capture predates the changeover, this is a contemporaneous departmental description... https://web.archive.org/web/20041206044325/http://www.transport.sa.gov.au/registrations/number_plates/alpha.asp
  2. plateshack.com http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/South_Australia/southaustralia.htm
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_South_Australia

Before and after

South Australia (Australia) license plate, Standard (documented since 2008) Replaced by Standard documented since 2008

This plate in your app

The series id is au-sa-standard-3l3n. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of South Australia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/au-sa \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "au-sa-standard-3l3n")'
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