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Portugal license plate: National 1937

Retired 1937 to 1992. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I. P. (IMT). One of 13 Portugal license plates.

Portugal license plate, National 1937 (1937 to 1992), sample TN-40-10
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-99-99, for example TN-40-10 (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
1937 to 1992. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
460 × 100 mm · every country's size
  • Portugal license plate, National 1937 340×230 mm (1937 to 1992)

    National 1937 340×230 mm

    standard · 340 × 230 mm

  • Portugal license plate, National 1937 520×120 mm (1937 to 1992)

    National 1937 520×120 mm

    standard · 520 × 120 mm

About this plate
THE FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR SERIES. Its END is enacted law, to the day (29-02-1992, DL 54/2005 art. 3.º n.º 2 a)). Anyone re-verifying should start from the Regulamento do Código da Estrada (Decreto n.º 39 987, de 22 de dezembro de 1954) arts. 35.º and 37.º, which DL 54/2005 revokes by name and which therefore carried the plate rules for the bulk of this window, but 1954 is itself mid-series, so the 1937 instrument is a third link back and remains unlocated.
How numbers are issued
Reported to have run from AA-10-00 to ZZ-99-99 across fifty-five years, i.e. the letter pair advances as the four digits roll and the series did NOT start at AA-00-00 itself.
Separators
hyphens, drawn in the Anexo II models ('ML-79-08', 'MF-09-78')

Legal basis and sources

  1. DL 54/2005 Regulamento art. 3.º n.º 2 a), 'Matrículas atribuídas até 29 de Fevereiro de 1992, AA-00-00'; art. 5.º n.º 1 a) + n.º 2, Anexo II for numbers issued up to 31-12-1991, black ground, white characters; Anexo... https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2005/03/044a00/18921897.pdf
  2. pt.wikipedia.org https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matr%C3%ADculas_de_autom%C3%B3veis_em_Portugal
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Portugal

Before and after

Portugal license plate, National 1992 (1992 to 2005) Replaced by National 1992 1992 to 2005

This plate in your app

The series id is pt-national-1937. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Portugal's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/pt \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "pt-national-1937")'
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