ARIZONA LICENSE PLATE TRIVIA:
Firsts!
1912 -- First year
1914 -- First state-issued plates.
1915 -- First plates marked Dealer.
1916 -- First passenger plates to come in different lengths. 1916 thru 1922 varied in size according to how many digits were present. Most of these years had just 2 sizes but the 1922 plates came in 5 sizes with the 6-digit being the longest at 16.15.
1917 -- First graphic, the steerhead. Some consider this
the first graphic ever to appear on any plate in
1922 -- First year of county-coding.
1929 -- First year vehicle registrations surpassed 100,000.
1929 -- First commercial plates. Commercial vehicles from previous years used regular passenger plates.
1932 -- First year of the copper plates.
1939 -- First person ever honored on any license plate in
1940 -- First time the slogan
1943 -- First year passenger plates were not produced. Windshield stickers used for the '42 base. Windshield stickers also used in 1944 and 1946 since passenger plates were also not made in those years.
1947 -- First prison-made plates. Plates are currently made
at the
1947 -- First aluminum plates.
1952 -- First year pairs were not issued. Pairs also not issued in '66-'68 and '89 to the-present.
1956 -- First plates standardized in size. All current passenger plates must be 6"x 12" for all states.
1957 -- First renewal sticker to appear on a plate.
1966 -- First fully reflectorized plates.
1973 -- First year vehicle registrations surpassed 1,000,000.
1975 -- First year of handicapped plates.
1980 -- First undated passenger plates. The maroon cactus base only has stickers that are dated.
Send me your license plate images and I will post them; I'd like to show every year to date, especially the rare & unusual. Thanks, Nancy