California License Plate Sticker Colors

From 1963 to 1969, California-issued license plates featured gold numbers on black a black non-reflective paint with an embossed state name. 1963; Photograph courtesy wikipedia.com In 1969, the. Classic Blue and Gold California License plate with HOME text. Heart Sticker is the premier developer of stickers that promote love, pride, passion for a home, activity, or thing. Stickers are both art and message board. This decal shows you love to like art, home, place, thing, or activity.

RESTAMPED License Plates
From the Metal Shortage WWII War Years

During W.W.II there was a metal shortage. The iron used in making licenseplates was needed to make the necessary tools of war. Scrap metal driveswere a common sight in America during World War Two. Many old license plateshanging on barn walls went to the scrap heap to be recycled into jeeps,helmets, and C-Ration cans. The states themselves looked for waysto help conserve the natural resources (Gasoline, Rubber, Steel, Iron,etc.) for the WW2 War effort. One method to save metal was to onlymake a single license plate and not issue pairs of plates. Later, insteadof issuing a new plate every year, a new metal date tab was issued to attachover the previous year's plate. The next step was to only issue a stickerto affix to the inside of the automobiles windshield. Some states evenstarted making plates out of soybean pulp and fiberboard. These soybeanplates are like press board fiber. They were made by the thousands, butgoats seem to have liked the taste of them so many are found with bitestaken out of them.

Several states found that they had already started making pairs of plateswhen the decision was made to only issue a single plate. The states savedone of the two plates and sent the other plate to the registered ownerof the vehicle with that license plate number. The duplicate platessaved by the state (the mates to the ones mailed) were often: flattenedand restamped with a new number or saved for another year (or more) andonly the date was restamped. The restruck or overstamped plate was sentto the registered owner of that license plate in subsequent years.

Here are photographs of the plates that were first stamped, and thenrestamped again in WWII to help save metal for the War effort. I do notown all these plates. I received help in the form of photographs from severalpeople listed at the bottom. Please see my Listof other wanted WWII vintage license plates I am looking for.
Please email me if you have any I collect or I am missing.

WANTED: MilitaryLicense Plates & License Plate Toppers
Bases,Camps, Forts, Fields, Victory, etc. (but not US forces plates)

Clicking on some pictures take you to large size photographs.

UNITED STATES
US Military 4-Star Army General
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's restamped plate

World War Two - WW2 - WWII
1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945

MacArthur's Four Star license plate.
Many officers fighting to hold off the invasion of the Phillipinesby the Japanese brought symbols of their rank from Manila to the new HQof the American Army on Corregidor. And for MacArthur it was his four starplate which was hung over the General's desk in the tunnel on embattledCorregidor. <source>

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Connecticut

1930's - 1950's

From the 1930s to the 1950s, the Connecticut State Police Cruiser plateswere made from flattened and restamped passenger plates.
See cover of Saturday Evening Post, March 24, 1945

Can anyone send me better pictures of thistype of plate to post here ?

1942 Connecticut License Plate
from cover of
Saturday Evening Post, March 24, 1945

Florida

1942

Florida plates were recycled and restamped as 1942 plates

Maryland

1945

Many, but not all of Maryland's 1945 expiration plates had a digit ofthe serial # restamped. They had probably already made some 1943expiration plates in pairs when they decided instead to renew the 1942expiration plates with metal date tabs. They then restamped one plateout of each 1943 pair to make unique serials and also restamped the year,and issued these plates singly as 1945 expiration plates.

the 1942 plates were issued in pairs. The 1942 plate became the firstMaryland multi-year base plate, as metal tabs dated 1943 and 1944 wereissued to extend the expiration year stamped on the base plate. The 1943tabs were also issued in pairs, but only a single 1944 tab was issued.A new base plate was issued for 1945 expirations; it was identical in designto the 1942 base and differed only in that the colors were reversed tosilver on black; however, only a single plate was issued on the 1945 base
An interesting detail about the 1945 base is that some of them werestamped a second time to change a digit of the serial number. There doesnot appear to be a consistent pattern for this restamping. The 1945 basepictured above had its first digit changed from a '3' to a '5', as youcan see from the close-up photo. I've seen photos of other 1945 platesthat had been restamped, one where the first digit was changed from a '4'to a '1', and another where the second digit was changed from a '2' toa '5' (the first digit was already a '5' in this case). Also, on my exampleat least, it looks like the last digit of the year was also restamped tochange the expiration year from 1943 to 1945. (This is impossible to seein a photo and difficult to see in person, because of the size of the digit.)I've seen a photo of a 1943 sample plate, but no real 1943 expiration plateswere issued. It would seem that the state had intended to produce 1943expiration plates and had already manufactured some, when, due to the metalshortage caused by World War II, they decided to hold on to the 1943 platesthey already had and issue the 1943 renewal tabs instead. Probably the1943 plates were made in pairs, but the 1945 plates were issued singly,so apparently one of each pair was restamped to a create a different serialnumber.

Minnesota

1944

1942 Minnesota Restruck License Plate

Mississippi

1944

1944 1-Ton Mississippi Overstamped License Plate

1944 1 1/2-Ton Mississippi Overstamped License Plate

1945

1945 1-Ton Mississippi Overstamped License Plate

1945 1 1/2-Ton Mississippi Overstamped License Plate

California License Plate Sticker Colors By Year

Montana

1943

1943 Montana tabs were made from previous year's plates that were restampedto include the 1943 date
Montana used a fiberboard plate in 1944, and some of them were doneon the other side of an expired plate from another state, IL.
Can anyone please send me better picturesto post here ?

1944

Some 1944 Montana plates were made from 1943 Illinois Fiberboard plates!
Thus creating 2 sided license plates from 2 different states.
Recycling and saving metal for the war effort at it's finest.

Nebraska

1940

New York

1944

New York stamped 1942 plates in pairs, but issued only one of the plates.For 1943, the 1942 plates were renewed with a metal strip tab that attachedto both top bolt holes. In 1944, NY finally issued the unused 1942 plate,restamped as a 1944 with the last digit in the date restamped from a '2'to a '4'.
The 1942 plates were yellow on black, but the 1944 plates were blackon yellow.

South Carolina

1943

1942 was remanufactured to flat and re-stamped 1943

Utah

1942

previous years plates were remanufactured to flat and re-stamped 1942

.. .

Washington, DC

1946

previous years plates were restamped to flat and re-stamped 1942

CANADA
Manitoba, Canada

1944

Manitoba 1941 passenger plates were recycled and restamped as 1944 Trailerplates. The 'TR' was painted on as a prefix to indicate trailer,but was not embossed.
Can anyone please send me pictures to posthere ?

Nova Scotia, Canada

1943

In 1942, Nova Scotia plates were stamped out as pairs, but only oneplate was issued.
The mate was held back and stamped out as a 1943 plate. Thiswas done to save metal for the War.
Evidence of the 1942 colors (black on green) are visable on this plate.

Ontario, Canada

1943

1943 Ontario plates made by overstamping the 1942 plates.

Did the Military Run License Plates?
Yes, sometimes. Here are some original US& Canadian photos below.

Eary Jeeps (1-3). A 1941 Staff Car at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th 1941
British/Canadian Vickers Mk VI Light Tanks

<<Nice photos of the Ontario F suffix plates on the military vehicles. They look to be the '41 base. I'm pretty sure that was the firstyear for the F suffix plates, and they were issued in '42 and '43, anually. Then in '45 they came out with permanent white on brown plates, which wereused up to 1968. Since then the Dept of Defense has taken over registryof all military vehicles, with plates marked CANADA. More can befound here: http://www.canplates.com/canforces.html

I can supply you with a scan of a DC plate restamped if you wish. It's a '47 restamped over a '46 I believe.
You'll want to mention that NS did basically the same deal as NY exceptfor '42 and '43. '42 was black on pale green and '43 was white onblack. The '43 plate was validated in '44 with a windshield sticker. Nfld did something similar as well. the '44 plate was a repainted'42, except they didn't restamp the date. The '42 is orange on black,and the '44 is red on black. Strangely enough they did have a '43plate in the interim, white on black.
Cheers,
Tiger Joe>>

South Carolina 1942 Paul Thomas ALPCA 4114
garfield731@ftc-i.net
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Thanks for the help on this License Plates Page goes to the followingpeople:
'Tiger' Joe Sallman -
David Turner - ALPCA #2467
Barney Williams - Muskogee, OK - ALPCA #2635 - website
Dave Steckley - Acton Ontario - ALPCA #1296
Mike - ALPCA #3989
Paul Thomas - ALPCA #4114
John Shoesmith - ALPCA #8226
Rick Kretschmer - Raleigh, NC - ALPCA #9652 - website- MD Photos & text Used with permission.
Ned Flynn - ALPCA #2083
Peter Cohen - Pleasanton, CA
Les Gottleib -
Kenneth Rendell - Museum of WWII - Boston, MA website
John Connors - TROOPER TAGS website

Sorry to be so late in getting back to you on this. Here's thephotos. The NS '43 you can see has traces of the '42 paint underneath.

The DC '48 taxi pair is interesting, since each plate seems to havebeen stamped from a different crushed plate. The top plate seemsto have come from a 1946 commercial plate, C-4807 backwards. Thebottom plate seems to be from a passenger plate 43-812 - date is hard toread, 1946 I assume?

I have never seen anything like this.

You're welcome to use both these photos on your website with creditgiven to me ('Tiger' Joe Sallmen).