Reply To: Tracing original number plate to region/ town

[Roger GrixParticipant]

Hi Bill,

At that stage, when a car changed départments, it’s registration number changed to reflect the new département so it could have started out anywhere.

Now, when a car changes hands or département, it has to be re-registered with one of the new style plates. I don’t know if this applies to Véhicules de Collection.

If you could find a fonctionnaire in Deux-Sèvres, who was interested, I expect that the information is “in the system”.  Napoleon decreed that everything had to be recorded.  However that would require him/her to be interested enough to work outside their job definition and that is unlikely (unless you can find one who is a tractioniste).

Bonne chance

Roger