Då var det dags att skriva om de svenska nummerplåtarna. Om man jämför med dem andra länderna i den här serien så har vi det, om något tråkigt, väldigt bra i Sverige. Vi har tre bokstäver och tre siffror. Dessa har ingen betydelse utom den sista siffran som avgör när på året man måste besiktiga [...]

Now we get to Sweden in this article series on number plates. Compared to other countries Sweden is rather boring when it comes to number plates, but it is a simple and easy system.

[English] Wer als Kind durch Deutschland gefahren ist, hat sicherlich einige Zeit damit verbracht, alle möglichen Kennzeichen zu vergleichen und auch zu raten, woher sie alle kamen. Sowohl in Deutschland als auch in Österreich und in der Schweiz sind Kennzeichen „persönlich“. Das bedeutet, dass sie vom Beisitzer des Fahrzeugs und seinen Wohnort abhängig sind. In [...]

Anyone who, as a child, travelled through Germany probably spent plenty of time comparing number plates and trying to guess where they were from.

Italian license plates have nothing to do with poetry, like the Quebec ones which contain the sentence je me souviens (I remember it) at the bottom of the plate, and nothing to do with some funny plates from the U.S.A and from Germany. License plates were introduced in Italy in 1900 for the public transportation system and extended to all vehicles in 1903. Insignificant modifications were implemented in the following years and all were related to the depletion of alphanumeric combinations for the plates.

[English] Le targhe italiane non hanno niente di poetico, come la scritta je me souviens (mi ricordo) sulle targhe del Quebec, o di divertente come alcune combinazioni che si possono trovare nelle targhe tedesche o statunitensi. Le targhe automobilistiche furono introdotte in Italia nel 1900 per i veicoli pubblici ed estese a tutti i veicoli [...]