Northwest Territories licence plate: Regular 1970

Retired 1970 to 1985. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Government of the Northwest Territories (Department of Infrastructure, Driver and Vehicle Services). One of 14 Northwest Territories license plates.

Northwest Territories (Canada) license plate, Regular 1970 (1970 to 1985), sample 25830

Format, years and the law

Format
99999, for example 25830 (9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
1970 to 1985. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #0033A0 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
The per-territory encyclopedia format table gives, for this window, "1970-1985: Five-digit format with hyphen (1-234)". That example has FOUR digits, not five, so the row is internally inconsistent and cannot be encoded as a grammar. What IS safely carried is that the window is numeric-only and that it is the era in which the bear silhouette was introduced (reported 1970, territorial centennial). The earlier reported windows (1966-1969 "12-345", 1952-1965 "123", 1950-1951 "1234", 1945-1950 "123") are NOT authored: one unfootnoted table is not enough for five series.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northwest_Territories

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-nt-regular-1970. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Northwest Territories's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-nt \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-nt-regular-1970")'