Oklahoma LIcense Plates on Tractors

Gus O

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Over 10 years ago I inquired thru this group trying to verify that the "tractors" that Oklahoma registered from 1915 to 1941 were in fact farm tractors. (License plates were issued from 1915 to 1937 but registration continued thru 1941. Industrial Tractors however were issued tags from 1937 to 1941. I still do not have a photo of a farm tractor with an Oklahoma license plate on it but I did find some 1926 applications for registration with the 1925 tag numbers listed. Among the Tractor registrations were some for 1919, 1920 and a few other years of Fordson tractors. The few plate collectors that did not believe the state issued tags for farm tractors had to admit that a Fordson tractor was in deed a farm tractor so I was right. However, I am still looking for anybody that has information specifically about OKLAHOMA license plates on tractors that they purchased, or old photos of a tractor with an Oklahoma plate on it. I am also interested photos of any Oklahoma license plates you have regardless of what type vehicle they were for.
 
My Grandpa told me Indiana did that for a few years in the 50's. I was young and asked why a tractor in a family photo had a plate on the front.
 
(quoted from post at 04:46:40 05/19/19) I have a couple of Tractor license plates from New Jersey.

Yep. I was going to say that NJ had plates for tractors. At one time when garden tractors were new in the 50's they had to have plates too. Dad and mom bought a house in 56 when I was a year old. Because dad had an artificial leg he bought a "Tiger Garden tractor" with plow, disk, cultivator, towed real mower, dozer blade and trailer. I remember plates on it and the trailer up through 62'63 or so. And I remember the one farm we use to hunt in the Colts Neck area in 67/68 or so that had license plates on their Oliver tractors.

Rick
 
I thimk here in Ohio you can still get plates for wagons if you plasn on pulling them at over 25MPH. It is just a trailer plate. Haven.t seen any sonce the SMV came about as that makes it now legal to pull that wagon behind the truck. Before that it was not legal to pull that wagon with the truck unless it had a trailer plate on it. The cost of the plates was exorbinate if you had multiple wagons to be wanting to use, the SMV emblen got away from that. Bur if you had a wagon today that was safe to tow at 50MPH you could get that trailer plate and use it as long as you do not have that SMV on it behind a truck but to pull that wagon with the plate on behind a tractor you have to have that SMV. Just cheaper to try to stay in limits for SMV than put plates on multiple wagons. And when you put plates on wagons it puts them in the reqirments of lights and brakes. After the SMV came we never put tags on wagons after but only had one wagon at that time. Andwhen it was only state fees it was not as bad as when they started putting county and then city fees on top of state fee that more than double the state fee.
 

If Oklahoma required license plates for farm tractors it would surprise me because several yrs back Oklahoma didn't require license plates on trailers such as utility & livestock trailers.
 
My state has a tractor plate. Like for
mowing roadsides or non farm use. Farm use
is exempt. The do include stuff like road
grader street sweepers and so on. Will say
rare to see a plate and not much
enforcement.
 
I live in northern Indiana and we had a neighbor that lost his drivers licence permanently because of his drinking. But he could drive a farm tractor and he had a farm tractor plate on it. He lived about 6 miles for town and drove it to town about every day.He wore out a Farmall H and 350 before he got to old to drive.
 
. Illegal to have a SMV plate observable if the machine is exceeding 25mph. That includes for example a sprayer being hauled down the highway on a truck/trailer.
 
Gus, hello. Oklahoma did in fact register and issue license plates for Farm Tractors. My Husband has a couple of plates that came off his Rumely Oil Pull tractors. I found a site that shows the number of farm tractors registered in Oklahoma between 1929 and 1941 and hope this information helps. I tried to attach the link but this site won't allow it, but the site name is allaboutlicenseplates.com. You can pull it up and then click on Oklahoma and then look under the tab 'how many' to see the thousands of farm tractors that were registered each year. Hope this information helps. Perhaps I can take a picture of the plates that my Husband has and send to you.
 
(quoted from post at 12:01:35 05/19/19)
If Oklahoma required license plates for farm tractors it would surprise me because several yrs back Oklahoma didn't require license plates on trailers such as utility & livestock trailers.

They still do not require them. You can get one but it is not required.
 

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