Number Plate 1
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Re: Number Plate 1
B4 'E' series is 'S' series.
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longhorn;531252 said:
B4 'E' series is 'S' series.
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Re: Number Plate 1
Private car licence plate numbers began in the early 1900s when Singapore was one of the four Straits Settlements, with a single prefix 'S', then adding a suffix letter S 'A' to S 'Y', but skipping a few like S 'H' and S 'Z' (reserved for taxis and buses), S 'D' (reserved for municipal vehicles), and S 'G' for goods vehicles large and small. No changes were made when Singapore became independent in 1965. Later, the suffix was added. Previously there was no suffix, for example, SS1234, as in the vehicle registration plates of Malaysia.
When 'S' was exhausted at SY, in January 1972, Private cars started with E, Motorbikes with A and Goods Vehicles under 3 tonnes with Y. E was followed by EA, EB with the letters EC in 1973 up to EZ. From 1984, the "S" series of number plates was launched again, but now with two serial suffix letters, starting from SBA. Currently, as of this writing, the SJY series is in issue for private cars.
Other classes of vehicles have registration numbers beginning with specific letters:
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Private car licence plate numbers began in the early 1900s when Singapore was one of the four Straits Settlements, with a single prefix 'S', then adding a suffix letter S 'A' to S 'Y', but skipping a few like S 'H' and S 'Z' (reserved for taxis and buses), S 'D' (reserved for municipal vehicles), and S 'G' for goods vehicles large and small. No changes were made when Singapore became independent in 1965. Later, the suffix was added. Previously there was no suffix, for example, SS1234, as in the vehicle registration plates of Malaysia.
When 'S' was exhausted at SY, in January 1972, Private cars started with E, Motorbikes with A and Goods Vehicles under 3 tonnes with Y. E was followed by EA, EB with the letters EC in 1973 up to EZ. From 1984, the "S" series of number plates was launched again, but now with two serial suffix letters, starting from SBA. Currently, as of this writing, the SJY series is in issue for private cars.
Other classes of vehicles have registration numbers beginning with specific letters:
- A series: Motorcycles (used until 1980)
- CB series: Company or school buses
- F series: Motorcycles
- FB series: Motorcycles [Ex. FBA, FBB...], m/cycle plate started in end of December 2005
- G series: Goods vehicles (class 3) [GA-GZ,GBA..GBB]etc
- P series: Private buses (PA, PB, PC, PH, PZ were used to separate Private bus, Pte Hire etc, subsequently they were not issued and all are issued under PA
- Q series: Company vehicles (QBx, QCx etc, except QX and QY)
- SH series: Taxies or Street Hire vehicles (SJE - Singapore-Johore Express)
- W series: Heavy vehicles (class 5) (Currently issuing WD)
- X series: Heavy vehicles (class 5) (Currently issuing XD)
- Y series: Heavy vehicles (class 3/4/5)
- CSS: City Shuttle Service buses
- LTA: Land Transport Authority, formerly known as ROV, Registry of Vehicles
- MID: Singapore Armed Forces vehicles (suffix), originally stood for Ministry of Interior and Defence
- MP: Vehicles operated by the Singapore Armed Forces Military Police Command (formally SAFPU prefix)
- PU: Pulau Ubin
- QX: Law enforcement-related vehicles operated by government agencies (Singapore Police Force, Singapore Civil Defence Force, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority, etc)
- QY: Quasi-Government / Statutory Boards
- RD: Research & Development (like fuel-cell cars, smart car rental cars)
- ROV: Registry of Vehicles, now known as LTA [Land Transport Authority] - Obsolete
- RU: Restricted Use vehicles, a special category where taxes are not paid. A vehicle with such a licence restricted to certain areas, for example a pushback truck within Singapore Changi Airport grounds or shuttle buses on Sentosa Island.
- S/CC: Vehicles of the Consular Corps
- S/CD: Vehicles of the Diplomatic Corps
- S/TE: "Technical Employment" vehicles
- S1 to S10: "State Cars" - Used for ferrying high government officials or foreign dignitaries during State functions.
- SBS: Buses operated by SBS Transit
- SEP: "Singapore Elected President" - The Official Car of The President of the Republic of Singapore (SEP 1)
- SJ: Supreme Court Justices - With the Chief Justice's car displaying plate number "SJ 1", and so on.
- SMB: Buses operated by SMRT Buses, used in tandem with the TIB series.
- SP: "Speaker of Parliament" (SP 1)
- SPF: Police commissioner of the Singapore Police Force (SPF1)
- SZ/SZA: Rental vehicle. No new issues. New Hire/Rental cars use same series as normal cars
- TIB: Buses operated by SMRT Buses, originally stood for Trans Island Bus Service (TIBS)
- TP: Motorcycles of the Traffic Police Department, Singapore Police Force
- WTO: For vehicles used during the World Trade Organization's inaugural Ministerial Conference held in Singapore in December 1996
- IOC: For vehicles used during the International Olympic Committee's 117th Session held in Singapore in July 2005
- NDP: For vehicles used during the National Day Parade, 2005, in August 9, 2005
- SAA: For vehicles used during Asian Aerospace
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Re: Number Plate 1
NNB no wonder toto plate start with "PU"... thought how much he pay...
NNB no wonder toto plate start with "PU"... thought how much he pay...
Re: Number Plate 1
Still have... seen maybe 2 the past 1 year...
Still have... seen maybe 2 the past 1 year...
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Just saw a SE4M.......Black CLK GTR.......dam fast......
Very few in S'pore somemore......
'The Great White'
Just saw a SE4M.......Black CLK GTR.......dam fast......
Very few in S'pore somemore......
'The Great White'
