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Norway license plate: Numeric 1899

Retired 1899 to 1913. Standard plates for car, truck, and bus, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.

Norway license plate, Numeric 1899 (1899 to 1913), sample 667
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Format, years and the law

Format
999, for example 667 (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
1899 to 1913. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
About this plate
PERIOD HONESTY: 1899 dates the RULES, not a plate, the first Norwegian registration mark was issued on 23 May 1900 and the amts outside the towns displayed no number at all until 1903-1911. The lint's 1893 floor is respected.
Region code notes
none possible, the register was local and the plate carried no jurisdiction code at all, only (sometimes) a place name in words
How numbers are issued
sequential within each local register; numbers freed by sale or scrapping were re-used
About the format
There was no national system: each kjøpstad and each amt kept its own register and its own sequence, so "1" was issued many times over in different places and a bare number carries no jurisdiction claim whatsoever.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 2026-07-16): the vedtak of Kristians amt 22 March 1899 confirmed by kgl.res. 2 September 1899; Kristiania's bystyre 29 June 1899 confirmed by kgl.res. 24 July 1899; Trondhjem 5 May 1900 confirmed by kgl.res. 26 May... https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge
  2. § 2-16 closes everything before 1 April 1971; this era has no separate statutory description. https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1990-01-25-92/KAPITTEL_2

Before and after

Norway license plate, County letter (1913 to 1971) Replaced by County letter 1913 to 1971

This plate in your app

The series id is no-numeric-1899. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Norway's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/no \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "no-numeric-1899")'
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