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Western Australia number plate: Standard

Retired 1978 to 1997. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Department of Transport and Major Infrastructure (Driver and Vehicle Services), Western Australia. One of 3 Western Australia number plates.

Western Australia (Australia) license plate, Standard (1978 to 1997), sample 6JK 740
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Format, years and the law

Format
9LL 999, for example 6JK 740 (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
1978 to 1997. 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
About this plate
WESTERN AUSTRALIA'S PREVIOUS GENERAL ISSUE, 1978-1997, AUTHORED IN THE COMPLETION PASS. Both boundaries are secondary: 1978 from the article (itself footnoted to a print periodical that was not obtained), 1997 from the successor's own government start date, which is the firmer of the two. WHAT THIS SERIES BUYS THE PARSE LAYER: a WA string with a leading digit and SIX following characters is the current series; a leading digit with FIVE following characters is this one, the 1997 redesign added a character, which the Minister states in terms ("The new general purpose plates contain seven characters"). That is a clean, government-sourced length discriminator between two eras.
How numbers are issued
6AA-000 onward, the leading digit advancing 6 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9 as each block exhausted; reported to have ended at 9MZ-999 (cars) and 9RZ-999 (trailers)

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010058/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Court/1997/07/Unveiling-of-new...
  2. The 1978 sentence is footnoted in the article to a print periodical ('Registration Notes, Fleetline issue 41, December 1978, page 4') which was NOT obtained https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Western_Australia

Before and after

Western Australia (Australia) license plate, State series (1997 to today) Replaced by State series 1997 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is au-wa-standard-1978. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Western Australia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/au-wa \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "au-wa-standard-1978")'
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