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Manitoba licence plate: Standard 1983

Retired 1983 to 1998. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Manitoba, with Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) as administrator under The Drivers and Vehicles Act. One of 9 Manitoba license plates.

Manitoba (Canada) license plate, Standard 1983 (1983 to 1998), sample 891 CVC
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 891 CVC (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
1983 to 1998. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
The numerals-first arrangement is secondary, as in the successor series. Manitoba ran one plate per vehicle throughout this series (the 1997 release's word is "returns" to two plates), so a 1983-97 Manitoba vehicle is a rear-plate-only vehicle.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 'first issued in 1983'; the black / black-and-red on white description; the coexistence window https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=22982&posted=1997-06-13
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Manitoba

Before and after

Manitoba (Canada) license plate, Standard (1997 to today) Replaced by Standard 1997 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-mb-standard-1983. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Manitoba's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-mb \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-mb-standard-1983")'
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