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Austria license plate: Black plate

Retired Documented 1968 to 1990. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, set by the Kraftfahrgesetz 1967 (KFG 1967). One of 18 Austria license plates.

Austria license plate, Black plate (documented 1968 to 1990), sample W-26057
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Format, years and the law

Format
W-99999, for example W-26057 (9 any digit)

Even in the black era the leading letters were geography, the code of the registering authority, W for Wien. The digits are a plain running number, and the dot enthusiasts draw between them ("W 123.456") appears in photos but never in the statute.

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

Years issued
Documented 1968 to 1990; 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.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
About this plate
Jänner 1990", which is the last lawful ASSIGNMENT of a black plate; Art. VII Abs. 1 had already limited interim re-assignment of "das bisherige Kennzeichen" to six months.
Region code notes
This series encodes the BUNDESLAND in a letter and the authority in DIGITS; the modern table maps 1-2 LETTER codes to authorities and does not apply. A parse API must not route a black-plate string through it.

Legal basis and sources

  1. KFG 1967 as enacted, BGBl. Nr. 267/1967. § 48 Abs. 4 (Bundesland letter + authority digits + Vormerkzeichen); § 49 Abs. 4, verbatim: 'Auf den Kennzeichentafeln muß das Kennzeichen in weißer Schrift eingepreßt sein.... https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/BgblPdf/1967_267_0/1967_267_0.pdf
  2. KDV 1967 as enacted, BGBl. Nr. 399/1967, 97. Stück, ausgegeben am 29. Dezember 1967. § 26 Abs. 1 (the nine Bundesland letters), Abs. 2 (G Graz, L Linz), Abs. 5 (Vormerkzeichen = Zahlen). https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/BgblPdf/1967_399_0/1967_399_0.pdf
  3. BGBl. Nr. 375/1988 Art. V Abs. 6: non-conforming plate stock usable 'bis längstens 31. Jänner 1990', the last date a black plate could lawfully be assigned. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/BgblPdf/1988_375_0/1988_375_0.pdf

Before and after

Austria license plate, Standard pre-EU (1989 to 2002) Replaced by Standard pre-EU 1989 to 2002

This plate in your app

The series id is at-blackplate. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Austria's series:

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