India license plate: Dealer 1989
Retired 1989 to 2022. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India. One of 16 India license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL 99 LL 999, for exampleMH 12 TC 123(L is any letter, 9 any digit)State code, office code, then two letters and up to three digits per vehicle on the dealer's trade certificate. The famous "TC" was only the rule's worked example, the two letters were never actually fixed.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1989 to 2022. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
- About this plate
- THE OLD TRADE (DEALER) MARK. Its shape is instrument-evidenced and its end is instrument-evidenced: G.S.R. 703(E) substituted rule 35 with effect from 1 November 2022.
Legal basis and sources
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20211130113450id_/https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/CMVR-chapter3.pdf
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20230429221141id_/https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/notifications_document/GSR%207...
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is in-dealer-1989. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of India's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/in \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "in-dealer-1989")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/in/in-dealer-1989.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/in/in-dealer-1989/template.svg
