For the first time since I took this photo in London in the 1960s, I have checked for the Ghanaian area code SG in RPWO and found no entry! –
Later: 1959 special issue to celebrate Self-Government.)
Anyone know what the SG code might have indicated, please? On the big Fiat 2100 of the period. (Answer given below by Alex Kafka, under Comments.)
SG 1267 Ghana plate from the early 1960s. Brumby archive
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Posted by Victor Brumby
Daughter-in-law Sophia captured this new Rolls in London’s Hyde Park Mews
on Sept. 24, 2011, attracted by the opalescent pink coachwork. But the plate is even more ‘tailor-made’ – in pink on brown, TTT 94! Can we take it to be KSA royal household plate? (see Comment from Cedric, below)
There are quite a few good arabic plates in central London at the moment (2011), mostly Qatari.
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The Belgian Congo/DRC has one of the longest lists of different international ovals, starting with no ovals (no cars?) during the Leopold private ownership period (King Leopold’s Congo Free State 1855-1908) then adopting CB for the Belgian State-owned Congo Belgique until 1960. There followed RCL, CGO, ZR and ZRE, to DRC today (in which the ‘D‘ amusingly abbreviates the concept ‘Democratic!’). Some of the area codes overlapped. This RCL was photographed in Cannes during the early 1970s by VB on that great Africa-favoured car, the Peugeot 404. The front plate was a normal, yellow on blue, pressed ?Howoco? plate, but the rear plate had been lost and replaced by this well-painted version.
Does the Consular Corps oval suggest that Congo had not established a special plate series for Consular in those years?
One of the six Congo ovals-RCL – Republic of Congo – Leopoldville (later re-named Kinshasa) Brumby archive
Here is a new concept by means of which we can liaise with each other at will, on any subjects we choose. A mail system between members, starting from the RPWO web site.
The (WordPress-hosted) Europlate Blog site can also be set to allow non-members to read our correspondence and to contribute comments if they please. We might derive useful information or images from exposing our odd hobby to others!
Entries to a blog are kept permanently, in date order, enabling subjects to be re-visited if required – say, before adding new information.
Just log in here and write your first post!
That’s all!
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