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According to tax commission reports and newspaper articles over 2000 farm tractors were registered and tagged in 1917 increasing to over 50,000 in 1941 before being discontinued in 1942. I am trying to find photos of tractors with license plates to confirm their use. Is anyone in the group old enough to remember whether they actually put license plates on tractors in Oklahoma?
 
Paul: You might have to eat those words, there were states and provinces that issued tractor lisence plates. Province of Nova Scotia here in Canada still issues a no expiry licence plate and registration. That registration has to be transfered when tractor is sold. When I left there 7 years ago, stolen tractors were unheard of.
 
Here in Germany they go through inspection just like a car, get taxed, and have a title. That title has weight, measurements, tire sizes, etc. Any changes have to have the title redone and the vehicle reinspected. Have to have ROPS, lights, signals, etc. You can get a green (farming), black (hobby) and Oldtimer plates.


Dave
 
I had a 1947 UTIL MM that I bought out in the Ok. panhandle and it had a tag on it. I sold it to Richard Walker in Ar.

Jim
 
whoops----didn't mean for my comment to be ugly, read in a hurry last night & didn't take serious. now that i have taken my medicine, will work on your request. i'm from okla.-66 yrs old.post back later after asking around--paul
 
Paul: I can't speak for OK, however I can speak for a 66 year old. Being on YT close to 8 years now I know some states and some provinces have registration, some used to have but don't anymore.

I know in Nova Scotia we had an annual registration until the late 60s. We swore at it as it was just a damn nuisance. Government said they weren't making any money at $2. per tractor per year. Farmers pushed for and got a no expiry registration for tractors, combines, etc. We like it, tractors tend to stay parked where farmers leave them. One can even leave the keys in them along isolated country roads. What this does, if police see a tractor, and they suspect the guy driving has no business doing so. About 2 minutes on his computer and he knows who owns the tractor.
 
Maybe off topic but in New Zealand if a tractor is on a public road it must be registered and the operator has to have drivers licence (car at least). Registraion is annual, for a farm tractor (nominally up to 20km from farm, i.e going to service or from one part of farm to another, though a lot of vintage onwers also use the B resistraion)about NZ$29 and for other tractors anout NZ$105. If the tractor an o more than 30 km/hr also has to have warrant of fitness, lights, including turning lights, horn, etc. Luckliy very very few vintage tractors have to comply as they do not possess these modern attributes.
 
I saw a mccormich deering I think a 29 model but not sure on the year. It had a tag on it and it had never been off the farm that was selling it in 2000. Had the orginal owners manual with it too.
 
I beleive there was such a thing. Here is a picture from CASE that shows a plate on the top of the radiator.
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i asked at the feed store today, no one remembers tractor tags in my area. this time period covers the dust bowel days & depression, if tag was required by state, could have been on new only-maybe county option,i just don,t know. paul
 
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