Vehicle Registration Plates
The two-letter provincial codes were used in vehicle registration plates between 1905 and 1994 (except Roma, whose vehicle code has always been ROMA instead of RM).
In 1994, a new universal notation was introduced, dropping the province code entirely. This proved to be unpopular, and the two-letter code (or "ROMA") has been allowed to be added to a new, EU-style, blue border of the plates since 1999.
Read more about this topic: ISO 3166-2:IT
Famous quotes containing the words vehicle and/or plates:
“You utilitarians, you too love everything useful only as a vehicle of your inclinations—you too really find the noise of its wheels intolerable?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)