Finland license plate: L-class letters-first
Retired 1996 to 2008. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle, moped, and quadricycle, issued by Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency). One of 18 Finland license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL-999, for exampleJWD-121(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
- 1996 to 2008. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle, moped, and quadricycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
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165 × 200 mm · every country's size
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L-class letters-first 280×118 mm
motorcycle · 280 × 118 mm
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Legal basis and sources
- A 1598/1995 § 36(1)(a): cars, L-class vehicles and trailers share the letters-then-digits mark; § 70: in force 1.1.1996 https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/1995/1598
- A 893/2007 § 25(1)(2) (Rekisteritunnuksen sisältö ja rekisterikilpien väri) inverts the L-class mark to digits-then-letters; § 58 Voimaantulo: 'Tämä asetus tulee voimaan 1 päivänä kesäkuuta 2008'; Siirtymäsäännökset:... https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/2007/893
- the gallery still illustrates letters-first motorcycle plates (KM-560, AK 202, BX 971) beside the digits-first ones https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/ajoneuvon-rekisterointi/suomessa-kaytettavat-rekisterikilvet
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is fi-lclass-lettersfirst. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Finland's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/fi \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "fi-lclass-lettersfirst")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fi/fi-lclass-lettersfirst.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fi/fi-lclass-lettersfirst/template.svg
