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Luxembourg license plate: Legacy yellow

Retired 1974 to 1988. 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 yellow (1974 to 1988), sample LE 528
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999, for example LE 528 (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
1974 to 1988. 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 #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
340 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Luxembourg license plate, Legacy yellow 240×200 mm (1974 to 1988)

    Legacy yellow 240×200 mm

    standard · 240 × 200 mm

About this plate
THE 1974-1988 DESIGN WINDOW, this is where Luxembourg's yellow comes from, and the date is exact. No European element of any kind: the EC emblem arrives with the next window and the euroband with the letter arrives in 2003. So a Luxembourg plate that is yellow, 340 x 110, and carries nothing at its left-hand end is a 1974-1987 first registration, which makes this the most datable design in the country.

Legal basis and sources

  1. RGD 17-06-2003 art. 12 §2: vehicles first registered from 01-01-1974 and before 01-01-1988 may carry front and rear plates of 340 x 110 mm 'avec un fond de couleur jaune retroreflechissante sur lequel sont apposes des... https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2003/06/17/n2/jo/fr/pdf

Before and after

Luxembourg license plate, Legacy black (documented 1955 to 1974) It replaced Legacy black documented 1955 to 1974 Luxembourg license plate, Legacy euro (1988 to 2003) Replaced by Legacy euro 1988 to 2003

This plate in your app

The series id is lu-legacy-yellow-1974. 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-yellow-1974")'
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