Number Plate

A number plate may be:

  • a vehicle registration plate
  • a plate attached to a locomotive indicating their number, particularly in the UK and Australia, which are often collected as memorabilia.
  • a plate attached to the front or sides of racing vehicle denoting the ranking level of the racer at the end of the previous racing season

Famous quotes containing the words number and/or plate:

    “[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “Say “Yessum” to the ladies, an’ “Yessur” to the men,
    And when they’s company, don’t pass yer plate for pie again;
    But, thinkin’ of the things yer’d like to see upon that tree,
    Jes ‘fore Christmas be as good as yer kin be!”
    —Eugene Field (1850–1895)