CMP/MV Licensing

[Bob Carriere]

HI Clive

Catch 22...... if you find a truck or C commercial license plate for Ontario 1940 you can't use it because they only had one plate and Ontarion insists on having a front and back plate..... just in case you rob a back and drive away backwards...!!!

I have also found a T trailer plate for 1940..... remains to be seen if I can have a YOM plate for the trailer...... which I will swear on a bible was built in 1940.....

The license bureau at Westgate told me that a set of 2 car plates is acceptable for a truck providing it is not used commercially.

..... as you explained last week....... since a cop can check a license plate number on his onboard computer in a few seconds .... why does it take a month for the Belleville license HQ to tell you if the numbers on your 1940 plate can be used...?? than charge you the same price as a hand made vanity plate (approx. $250) and you provide the plate...?? Geez!!!!

BooB

[chris vickery]

Just to play "devil's advocate" here;

Why would one want to put a 1940's license plate on their MV anyways???

Now before I get a plethora of complaints here, yes, I know, some cmps did wear a plate on occasion; that was few and far between as I know it. I believe only trucks used on public roads during test etc as well as maybe an odd base vehicle.

If you are restoring your truck as used in theater, do away with plates altogether when you go to a show. Old speaker magnets work great, they hold like a bugger but not so much as to make quick removal of a modern plate easy.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Chris: Since my truck never left Canada, and since millitary vehicles in Ontario in the '40s had provincial plates, is the reason why I'm going this route, and hence the original question.

BTW...trivia question...if I have a '44 Chev, why have I put on a '43 plate?

[Brian Gough]

Hi Jon,

My guess to your trivia question is that Ontario did not issue license plate(s) in 1944.


Brian

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Brian Gough

Hi Jon,

My guess to your trivia question is that Ontario did not issue license plate(s) in 1944.


Brian

it seems Ontario issued only one plate for trucks. I am going the historical vehicle route and will put a 45 plate on the truck at shows just for year of manufacture reference purposes.

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Jon

Some 43 plates were done on a hard 1/4 inch masonite......adn I image very rare today....

..... I have also seen, in collections, license plates that had been recycled by rolling flat and re punching new numbers....even with the new paint the old number can be seen faintly.

I think Brian is correct if they were so short of material as to make wooden plates some kind of stickers may have been used for 44....

Personally I see nothing wrong with driving my 1940 with school bus yellow plates of that year....after all if it was used in Ontario it would have had plates. It is not my intention to depict my truck as if it rolled out of a battle field with bullet holes on the doors and windshield ..... but come to think of it a big roll of concertina wire on the front bumper guard.... a few empty French wine bottles in the cab......spent shell casings..... leaking gerry cans.... retard the ignition to make it pop a bit.... that might be fun.... but will they let me in the parade...???

Boob

[Dennis Gelean (RIP)]

google Brian Asbury
He is a certified military appraiser. as well as a major supplier of hard to find Parts. and honest
dennis

[Jon Skagfeld]

Bang on Brian...no metal plates were issued in Ontario in 1944, due to the shortage of metal "for the war effort". One placed a decal in one's windscreen to validate their plate.

Another trivia question:...in what other, later, year did this "decal vs plate " situation occur?

[Jordan Baker]

Would $60 for a pair of 1942 ON plates be a fair price. I found a pair that are good with the MTO and I'd like to use them on my Jeep.

Ive just never really looked around too much. What have others paid?

[Bob Carriere]

.......they used to be $25 to 35 at flea markets.

Price went up when the province started allowing YOM..... strange coincidence..... however NONE of the sellers will give you your money back if MOT says the numbers can't be used.

A good original with good paint is probhably worth up to $75....

Some dealers sell good repainted plates for around $60......

I paid $30 for a 1940 T trailer plate in very good original condition....

Will check at Barrie next weekend just for comparison...

Bob