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Apportioned Bus (1982) FORMAT: BN-00000 to current high
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from Jordan Irazabal
from Jordan Irazabal
from Tom Perri
from Jordan Irazabal |
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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 BA23115. 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, www base, dash separator, narrow font tag line.
FORMAT 2: LM-23000 to LM-26999, www base, dash separator, wider font tag line.
FORMAT 3: LM-27000 to current high, visitPA base, keystone separator, wider font tag line. Format added 12/5/10. |
from Tom Perri
from Tom Perri |
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Mass Transit (1982)
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.
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: OB-59000 to OB-60999, series uses the serif I on tag line. Other formatting same as FORMAT 1.
FORMAT 3: 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
from Clayton Moore |
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FORMAT 1: SC-00000 to 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: 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: 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) FORMAT 1: SV14000 to SV14499, on www base, narrow font on tag line, no separator. NOTE: Some pre-www plates are still in use into 2010-11. See School Vehicle History. 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 ~ SV20749 On visitPA base, wide font on tag line, without keystone separator. Added 11/12/09.
FORMAT 7: ~ SV-20750 to ~ SV-21249 On visitPA base, wide font on tag line, with keystone separator. Appears to be same as Format 5. Added 5/16/10.
FORMAT 8: ~ SV-21250 to current high On visitPA base, wide font on tag line, without keystone separator. Appears to be same as Format 6. Added 3/27/11.
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from Bruce Bufalini
from Nick Tsilakis
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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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