Victoria number plate: Standard 3L3N

Retired 1960 to 2013. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by VicRoads (Department of Transport and Planning, Victoria). One of 3 Victoria number plates.

Victoria (Australia) license plate, Standard 3L3N (1960 to 2013), sample MMY 145

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example MMY 145 (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
1960 to 2013. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Size
372 × 134 mm · every country's size
How numbers are issued
ascending through the three-letter block; VicRoads' table gives the first combination issued in each calendar year, which makes this the only Australian series in the wave with an agency-published year-to-serial map

Legal basis and sources

  1. vicroads.vic.gov.au https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/registration/number-plates/standard-number-plates/general-issue-number-plates

Before and after

This plate in your app

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

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