Luxembourg license plate: Legacy black

Retired Documented 1955 to 1974. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Ministere de la Mobilite et des Travaux publics. One of 15 Luxembourg license plates.

Luxembourg license plate, Legacy black (documented 1955 to 1974), sample JT 363

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999, for example JT 363 (L is any letter, 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
Documented 1955 to 1974; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
340 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Luxembourg license plate, Legacy black 240×200 mm (documented 1955 to 1974)

    Legacy black 240×200 mm

    standard · 240 × 200 mm

About this plate
THE MISSING LINK, pinned for the next pass: art. 19 §2 of the 2003 instrument abrogates by name "le reglement grand-ducal modifie du 21 decembre 1991 sur le mode d'attribution des numeros d'immatriculation et d'identite des vehicules", which is the immediate predecessor allocation rule and the most likely home of the four legacy compositions. Legilux serves the Memorial issue for 21-12-1991 (A n.

Legal basis and sources

  1. RGD 17-06-2003 art. 12 §1: vehicles first registered before 01-01-1974 may carry 340 x 110 mm plates 'avec un fond de couleur noire non retroreflechissante, sur lequel les caracteres alphanumeriques sont reproduits en... https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2003/06/17/n2/jo/fr/pdf

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is lu-legacy-black. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Luxembourg's series:

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