# South Australia number plate: Standard 3L3N

> The South Australia standard 3L3N number plate: format LLL 999, for example TSB 575, documented 1967 to 2008, car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.

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Part of [South Australia license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/australia--south-australia) (3 registration series).

![South Australia (Australia) license plate, Standard 3L3N (documented 1967 to 2008)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/au-sa/au-sa-standard-3l3n/south-australia-license-plate-standard-3l3n.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LLL 999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | ~1967–2008 (documented from 1967; the format is likely older) |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer |
| Plate size | 372 × 134 mm |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `au-sa-standard-3l3n` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/australia--south-australia/standard-3l3n) |

Sources:

- [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 of THIS series, which is stronger evidence than the successor series enjoys](https://web.archive.org/web/20041206044325/http://www.transport.sa.gov.au/registrations/number_plates/alpha.asp)
- [plateshack.com](http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/South_Australia/southaustralia.htm)
- [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_South_Australia)

## 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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Replaced by | [Standard](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/australia--south-australia/standard) | documented since 2008 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/australia--south-australia/standard) (documented since 2008)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/au-sa/au-sa-standard-3l3n.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/south-australia?series=au-sa-standard-3l3n
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/au-sa` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "au-sa-standard-3l3n"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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