Talk:Vehicle registration plates of France

Paris (RATP) buses have 4-digit plates

Not mentioned here is that RATP (Paris city) buses have 4-digit numeric plates, the number corresponding to their fleet number. This is mentioned in the French version of this article: "Les bus parisiens de la RATP, sauf les plus récents, ne sont identifiés que par une série de quatre chiffres." TiffaF (talk) 15:57, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Department number compulsory

The "départment" number and corresponding region logo is compulsory in the new system, although the choice of the department is completely free, and does not depend on residence. "Département" number and region logo must match. If not, the owner may be fined.

This part of the regulation is quite absurd, since it requires to display an information that is not recorded anywhere and can be changed any moment. It was decided upon pressure of local government members who disliked the idea of a national registration system. It is also a bonus for plate makers, since second-hand car buyers may want to change the plates if it doesn't please them. A compensation for losing business with the new system?

91.181.52.169 (talk) 22:19, 1 October 2010 (UTC) (Thierry Pauwels, Belgium) Edited Patch051 (talk) 06:51, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

1928 system: extended life on postal/telecom vehicles?

In 1986 I visited a campsite in Vendée for a while. One afternoon, I went with my sister for a walk around the site to see how many of the département numbers we could see on the vehicle registration plates. We did not find any particularly interesting ones, nor see any pre-1950 vehicles, but we did see a modern van, bearing the PTT branding on its doors, with a plate having four digits and followed by DG. This is an old style number that would have been from the neighbouring Charente Maritime. The plate was the common pressed metal one, in the usual black. Was this in fact an extended use of the old system? EmleyMoor (talk) 11:55, 6 July 2022 (UTC)