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Show Old License Plate Still, Useful : : t -.'...". ' ; A : --v ML fVi- m . ( AVM.. .1 7' ' The small tabs which this New York miss is holding fits right over last year's license. By using them, instead of full size tags, the state will save many tons of strategic metal, besides thousands of dollars production costs. Regardless of the size of the license, they will still cost the same as last year. j It all depends on where you are living whether you will be seeing new automobile licenses, or new color combinations combina-tions on the license plates on automobiles. This year only five states Colorado, Illinois, Mississippi, Wyoming and South Carolina are having new color combinations on the licenses. Of course, you might be living near one of these adjoining states and get to see them, but the possibilities are very small, considering how gas rationing ra-tioning is cutting down highway travel. The reason for the use of 1942's license for the current year, 1943, is due to a WPB order, of March 18, 1942, curtailing the use of steel for license purpose by 90 per cent. State officials have devised many schemes to overcome the obstacles brought on by the lack of steel for plates. Some states will use a windshield sticker, some will use date tabs on the license plates, while even wooden, wood-en, fiber board tags will be available. avail-able. About half of the states will continue to use the old plates with a small tab, or strip (as shown above) attached to them. Of these states, 13 will not even use steel for the purpose, registration regis-tration will be shown by a windshield wind-shield sticker. Florida and Massachusetts will use both tag and windshield identification. - Pennsylvania's license, which has had added a touch of individuality by having the plates in the shape of the state's outline, will go a little further this year in originality by having a date tab in the form of the state's symbol, a keystone. Ingenuity has been shown in every state with the license problem. Illinois is using new plates made from fiber board. Arkansas is using wooden plates for trucks and motorcycles, motor-cycles, but passenger cars will use their old license plus a windshield sticker. Wyoming will have new plates of orange letters and black background, back-ground, because they were made before the WPB order went into effect. The other four states' new color combinations are: Colorado, yellow letters with black background; Illinois, Illi-nois, white letters with green background; back-ground; Mississippi, white letters with green background; South Carolina, Caro-lina, black letters with yellow background. back-ground. The new plates with the exception of Illinois will be issued one to an automobile while the WPB order stands. |