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Norway license plate: Standard 1971

Retired 1971 to 1982. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, caravan, tractor, and machine, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.

Norway license plate, Standard 1971 (1971 to 1982), sample AN 54191
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999, for example AN 54191 (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
1971 to 1982. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, caravan, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
This is also where Norway's only real era signal is created: a plate whose number is bound to the vehicle cannot belong to the county-letter order.
Region code notes
the allocation file is a CURRENT snapshot and is weakest as evidence for this, the earliest two-letter period
How numbers are issued
THE REFORM THAT DEFINES THE ERA: from 1 April 1971 the number is bound to the VEHICLE for its lifetime and is not recycled. Under the county- letter order it had been bound to the OWNER's district, so a sale across county lines re-plated the car. Allocation of letter pairs to police districts began at this point and has drifted since.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2-17: 'Kjennemerke for registreringsordning fra og med 1. april 1971 til og med 31. mars 1982', 'To bokstaver og 4 eller 5 tall'. https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1990-01-25-92/KAPITTEL_2
  2. 2026-07-16): 'Dagens system ble innført fra 1. april 1971'; the number now follows the vehicle and is not recycled. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge

Before and after

Norway license plate, County letter (1913 to 1971) It replaced County letter 1913 to 1971 Norway license plate, Standard 1982 (1982 to 2002) Replaced by Standard 1982 1982 to 2002

This plate in your app

The series id is no-standard-1971. 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-standard-1971")'
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