Text 15495, 51 rader
Skriven 2005-11-07 14:20:00 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
Ärende: Plates
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 >>> It had a blue rectangle on the left of the plate.

 MvdV>> If the country code was not visible in the blue rectangle when
 MvdV>> you were driving bumper to bumper, it was not a plate from the
 MvdV>> EU. It was eiher from some rogue country or a fake.

 > It was a MB

MB?

 > with those wider than normal, EU plates,

The 52 x 11 cm plate is widely used troughout the world. It is also in use in
many countries in  Africa and the Middle and Far East. They are not limited to
the EU and a survey may well reveal that it is the "American" plate that is the
odd one out.

 > white with black numbers and letters. There was a blue field to the
 > left on that plate, but nothing readable from my vantage point.

Although the blue rectangle with the EU stars and one, two or three letter
nationality code is not yet compulsory in all EU countries, the old plates are
still valid in many countries, whenever there is a blue rectangle on the left,
there is also a nationality code.

 MvdV>> The nationality code on the EU plates is easily visible
 MvdV>> from at least 10 metres for a person with good eyes.

 > I have good eyes and wear glasses that were just recently
 > prescribed.

Then you must have seen the nationality code if it was there.

If there was no visible nationality code is was:

1) A plate from a non EU country.
2) A forgery.
3) An unofficial replacement plate.

 MvdV>> Then it was not a plate from the EU.

Not an official EU plate anyway.

 > Sure looked like them.

Looks can be deceptive.

Cheers, Michiel

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