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:

    “Cultivated labor drives out brute labor. An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing, and this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Say “Yessum” to the ladies, an’ “Yessur” to the men,
    And when they’s company, don’t pass yer plate for pie again;
    But, thinkin’ of the things yer’d like to see upon that tree,
    Jes ‘fore Christmas be as good as yer kin be!”
    —Eugene Field (1850–1895)