page_title: Vehicle registration plates of Victoria
section_title: Previous general series
hierarchical_section_title: Vehicle registration plates of Victoria / Previous general series
caption_attribution_description: English: General issue vehicle registration plate of Victoria, standard size, YVO-454, The Place to Be. This plate is of standard size and incorporates the slogan "Victoria – The Place to Be" as issued from 17 October 2000 starting at QNG-100.
context_page_description: The Australian state of Victoria requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates. Current regular issue plates are to the standard Australian dimensions of 372 mm in length by 134 mm in height, but Victoria has used its own serial dies since 1977.
context_section_description: Cars 
  1910–1939: nnn·nnn
  1939–1953: aa·nnn – AA-000 to ZZ-999
  1953–1977: aaa·nnn – GAA-000 to LZZ-999
  1977–1994: aaa-nnn – AAA-000 to FZZ-999; RAA-000 to RBZ-999
  1994–2013: aaa-nnn –  NAA-000 to QZZ-999; RCA-000 to UZZ-999; WAA-000 to ZZZ-999
  Trailers 
  1910–1930: nnn·nnn
  1930–1963: Tnn·nnn – T-1 to T31-999
  1963–1977: Tnn·nnn – G00-000 to M99-999
  1977–1994: Tnn-nnn – A00-000 to E55-999
  Motorcycles 
  1910–1953: nn·nnn
  1953–1977: AB·nnn – AA-000 to DZ-999; GA-000 to LZ-999
  1977–1994: AB-nnn – MA-000 to WO-999
  1994–2010: AB-nnn – WP-000 to ZZ-999; AA-000 to JZ-999
  Registration plates have been issued in Victoria since 1910. Like other Australian plates, these are usually particular to a vehicle, changing hands with it, and are generally permanent (yearly registration is required, however). Victorian registration plates are manufactured at Hopkins Correctional Centre in Ararat, Victoria.
  Initial Victorian plates, issued from 1910 to 1939, were in numerals only, from 1 to 285-000. From 1930, "Vic" inserts were added vertically down the left-hand side of the plate.
  In 1939, Victoria switched to a two-letter, three-number scheme (AA-000 to ZZ-999) of which also bear "Vic" down the left-hand side. This format was later used for motorcycles. In 1972, the two-letter, three-number scheme was reintroduced as an optional, personalised plate style for cars. These had an embossed "Vic" above the plate's embossed characters in full length.
  From January 1953, owing to the Federal number plate system, Victorian plates switched to the three-letter, three-number standard: GAA-000 to HZZ-999, and JAA-000 to LZZ-999, coloured white lettering on a black background, and a "Vic" insert on the top of the plate. The first three-lettered plate, GAA-000 was issued on 27 January 1953. The letters "I" and "Q" were not issued in any combinations, due to these being easily mistaken for "1" and "O" or "0". For the same reason, In 1964, Victoria skipped the I-prefix series and went straight from HZZ-999 to JAA-000. However, having reached the end of their Federal allotment of letters, Victoria in 1974 commenced from LZZ-999 to IAA-000 (in some later plate sequences, the capital I had noticeable staves to tell them apart from the number 1. The earlier sequences did not, due to the I-series plates being made by two different manufacturers, who used different dies for the "I"). This was only a temporary measure, naturally, as Victoria faced the same problem having proceeded through the I-series three years later.
  Having exhausted the I-series plates, in November 1977, reflective green-on-white plates were introduced, beginning at AAA-000 and running to FZZ-999, and then skipping to a brief run of RAA-000 to RBZ-999 in 1994, bearing the slogan Victoria – Garden State at the bottom of the plate initiated by the then premier Rupert Hamer. In the early 1990s, it was discovered that the reflective properties of many registration plates in the range from AAA-000 to EZZ-999, and the principally the C-series, were defective and this had coincided with the rapid introduction of traffic enforcement cameras in Victoria. Due to the number of plates which were unidentifiable in photographs, all defective plates were recalled and new plates issued free of charge. This caused the rapid consumption of the plate stocks especially late in the F-series and some plates (those were starting with FVA-000 to FVZ-999 and FYA-000 to FYZ-999) were produced in Queensland to meet demand. These plates are identifiable by their different embossed dies and vertical diamond separator (as opposed to Victoria's horizontal diamond). It is a popular myth that the defective paint was caused by prisoners manufacturing the plates urinating in the paint mixture.
  To commemorate the 150th anniversary of European settlement in Victoria, plates from late 1984 to 1985 bore the slogan Victoria – 150 Years across the bottom. These plates were issued for the CBK-000 to CDZ-999 range and were the same green colour. In 1985, some of the CGI-000 to CGQ-999 or CGZ-999 series plates bore the slogan Vic – Nuclear
caption: Victoria – The Place to Be (2000–2013)
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