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.
