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 serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.”
    —Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

    “Our press is certainly bankrupt in the “thrill of awe”Motherwise reverence: reverence for nickel plate and brummagem. Let us sincerely hope that this fact will remain a fact forever; for to my mind a discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)