W A Shire plates

Submitted: Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:15
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Does any one know of somewhere the above are listed. I wrote to the RAC asking to provide a list in their magazine but no comment.With the council amalgamations plates have changed and I'm interested in an up to date list.Geraldton alone now has 4 plates
GN Geraldton, G the old Greenough, GNG the joint Geraldton/Greenough, MU Mullewa now the whole lot as CGG City of Greater Geraldton.
We are the envy of the eastern states being able to pick where people come from if they have Shire Plates on, which gives us a intro and conversaion starter.
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Reply By: Rod W - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:25

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:25
If you mean vehicle number plates then try here http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/licensing/my-vehicle-plates.asp
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Follow Up By: new boy - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:42

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:42
I didn,t find a list of district/ shire plates listed just what in the way of personlised plates are avaiable.
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Reply By: disco driver - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:28

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:28
Never heard of Mullewa being MU, has always been MW for as long as I know, and that's some 60 years.

And just to confuse the issue GN is Geraldton and GN. (dot) was Gnowangerup or was it the other way round.

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Follow Up By: new boy - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:34

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:34
I Stand correct on the MW and I knew of the GN DOT
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Follow Up By: Alan S (WA) - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 17:36

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 17:36
Wasn't the dot the differentiator between Town Councils and Shires. So in the example of Northam, there was a town council and a sperate shire, both had plates with the letter "N" but one had a big dot between the letter and the number.

With amalgamation of shires and councils this may no longer be the case.

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Follow Up By: kevmac....(WA) - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 21:57

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 21:57
Before amalgamation down here, we had A for Town of Albany & AL for shire.... there goes your dot theory here.
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Follow Up By: Alan S (WA) - Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:58

Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:58
Kev

I just read the attcahment in the link posted below and it confirms that where a town and shire had the same letter the dot was used to differentiate.

Maybe it didn't apply in Albany as you had because A and AL there was need to differntiate.


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Reply By: Member - Rod N (QLD) - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:54

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 14:54
Have a look at Licence Plates Numbers - Local Authority

Hope this helps.

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Follow Up By: Member - Rod N (QLD) - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 16:58

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 16:58
Click on the PDF icon to open the number plate list.
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Reply By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 15:03

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 15:03
The list was always posted in the back of the Street Smart road directory. Haven't bought a directory for years so don't know if they still provide the list.

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Reply By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 15:08

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 15:08
Then to create more confusion there are suburb ones like GH - Gooseberry Hill, SV-Swan Valley and there's bound to be a stack more kicking around.

WA must also be the home of personalised number plates?

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Follow Up By: Member - Rod N (QLD) - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 16:36

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 16:36
On the list I posted the link to Swan is SW. Don't know if that includes Swan Valley.
GH - Gooseberry Hill doesn't appear, although I don't know how up to date the list is.
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Follow Up By: disco driver - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 19:33

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 19:33
As you say, Dunc, there are plenty of locality and/or event plates other than the ones listed on Rod's posting
Down this way we have PLB-Peaceful Bay, WLP-Walpole, RCS-Rottnest Channel Swim. and there are plenty of others around.

The local Lions club arranged with transport/police to have a series 0000DE-9999DE authorised to fund raise for their community activities. The "regular" plates start at DE0000 and go up continuously as needed

I've seen a PMH series as well.

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Reply By: Member - Frank P (NSW) - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 15:21

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 15:21
I had Kalamunda plates for a while, until I emigrated to the other side of the continent.

I think they were KM - it was a long time ago.
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Follow Up By: Member - Rod N (QLD) - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 16:38

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 16:38
Yep KM. I had an uncle who lived at Pickering Brook with KM plates
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Follow Up By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 19:53

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 19:53
And now to confuse people more the Shire actually has plates that are still KM plates but a different style and colour to the DoT plates.
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Reply By: Tjukayirla Roadhouse - Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 17:30

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 at 17:30
I had KBC plates come with the new cruiser last year .. Couldn't wait to change them for LA plates .. didn't want people thinking I was a kalgoorlieite ... LOL
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Reply By: new boy - Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:52

Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:52
Thanks for the info I now have a list albeit not up to date as stated in my post GNG and CGG are not listed.
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Reply By: pop2jocem - Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:51

Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:51
Just to throw a little more mud into the water, the local shire where I live (Mundaring) offered a bunch of plates with the numerical prefix and the alpha suffix. The regular plates have numbers so unwieldy that the plates are getting out of hand such as MDG.10100 etc. We have all the low numbers i.e. MDG. 6, MDG.7 up to maybe MDG .100 etc on shire owned vehicles.
So now we have 6.MDG, 7.MDG and so on.
And of course you can buy within the shire locality plates such as Glen Forrest GF.001 Sawyers Valley SAW.001.

Fun huh (;-))

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Reply By: allein m - Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:59

Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:59
I had a car with DN 4259 sigma sedan from Dandarigin

the the WA street directory used to have the full list on the back not sure of it now
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Follow Up By: disco driver - Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 15:01

Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 15:01
Dandaragan, a small town with a largish shire area, is about 140km north of Perth.

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Reply By: allein m - Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 16:02

Friday, Jul 04, 2014 at 16:02
right next to Moora I used to go there and help out a friend of mine on the farm driving tractors during seeding and harvest time .



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