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Finland license plate: Museum motorcycle M

Issued today Documented since 1996. Historic plates for motorcycle and quadricycle, issued by Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency). One of 18 Finland license plates.

Finland license plate, Museum motorcycle M (documented since 1996), sample MSD-986
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Format, years and the law

Format
MLL-999, for example MSD-986 (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
Documented since 1996; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for motorcycle and quadricycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
280 × 118 mm · every country's size
  • Finland license plate, Museum motorcycle M 165×200 mm (documented since 1996)

    Museum motorcycle M 165×200 mm

    historic · 165 × 200 mm

About this plate
THE MUSEUM MOTORCYCLE SERIES, and the neatest thing in Finnish plate law: § 16(3) lets a museum L-class vehicle keep the pre-2008 letters-first arrangement, so the historic regime preserves not just a colour scheme but a SERIAL GRAMMAR that ordinary issuance abandoned. Combined with the M marker, a Finnish museum motorcycle plate is the only Finnish string that declares both its class and its regime.

Legal basis and sources

  1. A 162/2021 § 16(3): black museum plates, and the L-class museum exception permitting 2-3 letters then a number of at most 3 digits https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/statute/694140/mainPdf/main.pdf
  2. 'Museoajoneuvon tunnus alkaa M-kirjaimella' https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/ajoneuvon-rekisterointi/museoajoneuvon-rekisterointi
  3. määräys §§ 3.3.2 and 4.3: 118 x 280 or 200 x 165, hyphen required, 70 mm characters at 8 mm stroke https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/authority-regulation/536142/mainPdf/main.pdf
  4. 'Museomoottoripyörän kilpi M-alkuinen (118x280 mm)', illustrated with MR-100 https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/ajoneuvon-rekisterointi/suomessa-kaytettavat-rekisterikilvet

This plate in your app

The series id is fi-museum-motorcycle-m. 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-museum-motorcycle-m")'
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