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Hey Steven, you can thank me for that! Back in 1983 when the then DMT started auctioning numeric plate fallen into disuse, one of their sales pitch statements was “two for the car, one for the bar”. This of course referred to 2 full sized plates to use on your car and the miniature souvenir to hang in your bar. They continued to release plates by auction, and also by tender, until 1991, but then inexplicably stopped. Then over time they simply forgot about it, forgetting about the people still buying & selling getting their mini. The people within the RTA at the time move on, change roles, etc, and they dropped the ball.
Then in 2000 I hot my 3 digit. I knew about the minis, and I wanted mine! I fought them. They wanted me to produce proof they did it! Which I did as I had original DMT documentation from the auctions, all saying they did it. Then they wanted proof I paid my transfer fee! No problem, here’s my receipt for $1300. They then made me one! And re-introduced the service. But get this, they started charging people $90 if they wanted one from just an enquiry!
Anyway, glad to see they are still doing it, and for free. So they should!
While Q plates for cars ceased to be issued in 1955, existing ones at the time could still be used til the car died. Of course some still stayed alive. In modern times it became possible to transfer to another car by paying a fee to MRD, and from that time a pair of new Q plates had to be used ( in QLD back in the day only one plate was required and it went on the rear).
But for motorcycles it was different. The Q motorcycle plates not only ceased to be issued, they were recalled, and the new stamped steel plates were issued. That is why none exist, only in collections and museums.
Heritage plates, or numeral only plates were only used in TAS until 1930. These things that folks are calling Tas heritage plates are merely plates ordered by folks as personalised once Tas had Prestige plates, and then they get illegal enamel Vic style plates made in Vic. There’s nothing “heritage” about them.
