FARMER 1933-1960
Farmer plates were first issued in 1933.
1933-1938X00000 or 1/X 00000
1933

1934

1935

1936

1936

1937

1938

1939-1950X/A 0000
Starting in 1939, X/A, X/B, and X/C prefixes were used for farmer plates.
1939

1939

1940

1940

1941

1941

1942

1942

1943

1944

1944

1945

1946

1947Dave Zullo

1947

1948

1949

1950

1950

1951-1960X/A 00A
X/A 000A
Starting in 1951, farmer plates became smaller and used an X/A 10A pattern. As high as the XH prefix was reached in 1951.
In 1952, numbering started again at X/A 10A and reached at X/X 99Z (?) on the 1952 base.
1951Dave Zullo

1951

The 1952 plates shown here are listed in the order they were issued.
It is quite possible that some of the tabs have been changed (a '53 tab on X/W 89J ??)
1952/60

1952/57

1952/59

1952/56

1952/54Dave Zullo

1952/55Dave Zullo

1952

1952/58

1952/60

1952/54

1952/56Ross Day

1952/55

1952/53

1952/57

1952/58Dave Zullo

The 1957 base continued numbering from the 1952 series and started somewhere after X/X 80B and before X/X 81W.
1957/58Dave Zullo

1957/59Ed B

1957/60

1957/60

1957/58

By 1960, X/Z 99Z was reached, and a small number of plates were issued with 3 numbers starting at X/A 100A.
The highest number known is X/A 553D.
1960

1960

1960

1960

No black and orange farmer plates are known to be issued with the new 1960 base number dies.