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BUS AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES RELATED PLATES
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Apportioned Bus (1982) BN-00000 to current high
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from Manny Jacob
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This base is not current but with current sticker. All of these older plates are on busses owned by legitimate bus companies. The continued use of a few older yellow-on-blue bus plates remains somewhat of a mystery. My best guess on the continued use of the old base is the fact that when PA did re-plate, they did it on a number-for-number basis. So the new plates had the same number as the old plates. It is likely that some bus owners just left the old plates in place since the number didn't change. Those numbers at the time were within the range of BA-10000 and BA-47999. The replacements while sporting the same number, were minus the dash separator, BA10000 and BA47999. Beginning at BA-48000 the dashes were again reinstated.
FORMAT 1: BA10000 to BA47999 without the dash separator. When PA re-plated in 2000, all bus plates were reissued on a plate-for-plate basis. This included anything between BA-10000 to BA-47999. The replacement plates in this series on the www base did not use the dash separator. Low number spotted BA28644. FORMAT 2: BA-48000 to BA-59999 have dash separators
FORMAT 3: BA-60000 to current high on visitPA base, keystone separator. |
from Bruce Bufalini
from Clayton Moore
from Clayton Moore
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Limousine (1990) FORMAT 1: LM-20000 to LM-22999, narrow font on the tag line.
FORMAT 2: LM-23000 to current high, wider font on tag line. |
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Mass Transit (1982) FORMAT 1: M/T30000 to M/T32999, stacked prefix on www base, wide font on tag line. (Plate M/T30045 confirmed.)
FORMAT 2: MT-33000 to MT-39999, in-line prefix with dash separator on www base, narrower font on tag line
FORMAT 3: M/T40000 to current high, on visitPA base, wide legend on tag line, first observed 6/20/06 |
from Eric Butler |
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FORMAT 1: OB-50000 to OB-58999, on www base, dash separator, tag line font on this type uses a sans serif I.
FORMAT 2: From OB-59000 to OB-60999, series uses the serif I on tag line. Other formatting same as FORMAT 1.
FORMAT 3: From OB-61000 to OB-63999, series uses the sans serif I on tag line. Other formatting same as FORMAT 1.
FORMAT 4: OB-64000 to OB-68999, uses the serif I on tag line. Other formatting same as FORMAT 1.
FORMAT 5: OB-69000 to current high, on visitPA base, keystone separator, tag line font on this type uses a serif I. |
from Nick Tsilakis
from Nick Tsilakis |
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FORMAT 1: SC-00000 to SC-05499 or more likely SC-05999, on www base with small keystone separator, tag line font has slightly wider characters than the FORMAT 2 plate. NOTE: The top plate has a permanent validation sticker used on a school district owned bus.
FORMAT 2: From SC-05500 or more likely SC-06000 to SC-46999, on www base with small keystone separator, tag line font has slightly narrower characters than the FORMAT 1 plate.
FORMAT 3: From SC-47000 to current high, on visitPA base with larger keystone separator.
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from Clayton Moore
from Nick Tsilakis |
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Font comparison FORMAT 1 top FORMAT 2 bottom |
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School Vehicle (1993) Not current type. Spotted this previous base still in use with 7-07 sticker.
FORMAT 1: SV14000 to SV14499, on www base, narrow font on tag line, no separator.
FORMAT 2: SV14500 to SV17499 On www base, wide font on tag line, no separator.
FORMAT 3: SV17500 to SV17799 On visitPA base, wide font on tag line, no separator, changeover to this type spotted 11/3/05.
FORMAT 4: SV17800 to SV19799 On visitPA base, narrow font on tag line, no separator. Added 7/17/07.
FORMAT 5: SV-19800 to SV-20249? On visitPA base, wide font on tag line, and keystone separator. Added 1/20/09.
Same format as above plate.
FORMAT 6: SV20250? to SV20750? On visitPA base, wide font on tag line, without keystone separator. Added 11/12/09.
FORMAT 7: SV-20750? to current high On visitPA base, unknown font on tag line, with keystone separator. Added 5/16/10.
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from Bruce Bufalini
from Nick Tsilakis
SV-20872 Image needed |
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FORMAT 1: TX-35000 to TX-38999, tag line font on this type uses a sans serif I, on www base.
FORMAT 2: TX-39000 to TX-45999, tag line font on this FORMAT uses a serif I, on www base.
FORMAT 3: TX-46000 to current high. On visitPA base with larger keystone separator. |
from Nick Tsilakis
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