Manitoba MOTORCYCLE plates

MOTORCYCLE

ORIGINAL SHEETING	REVISED SHEETING DARKER	PERS ORIGINAL SHEETING	PERS HI-SIGNS	PERS REVISED SHEETING	4x7" ORIGINAL	4x7" NO LINES	PERS 4x7" ORIGINAL	PERS 4x7" NO LINES	CENTERED

VINTAGE 1001-1199	VINTAGE 1200-1499			COLLECTOR ORIGINAL	COLLECTOR NO LINES	COLLECTOR PERS ORIGINAL	COLLECTOR PERS NO LINES		TEMP

VETERAN ORIG	VETERAN NO LINES		BILINGUAL	BILINGUAL PERS		DEALER ORIG SHEETING	DEALER REV SHEETING	DEALER 4x7"	DLR NO LINES, HD

The 1997-base 5x8" motorcycle plate (MC) was produced by Waldale and remained unchanged from AA until the late C-series was reached in 2008.
In 2003, a few personalized MC plates were produced by Hi-Signs.
In 2009, the trees and province name were darkened slightly on regular and personalized MC plates. This change occurred in the regular series somewhere between 5CW59 and 6CW82.
Vintage MC plates were introduced in 1985 for classic motorcycles that are at least 30 years old. These plates were made by Western Tools using number range 1001-1199. The initial inventory of 200 plates took 27 years to issue until stocks were finally exhausted in 2012. That year a new, fully-embossed, black on white Waldale-made plate appeared in number range 1200-1499. Over 260 (or 87% of those made) of these plates were issued in just 7 years, with the high observation reaching 1466 in 2019. These plates have always measured 5x8" but perhaps this will change. Watch this space for updates.
In 2012/13, approximately 8000 5x8" MC plates were produced in the number range 5DT01 through 4EB99. Due to the popularity of the smaller 4x7" MC plates that emerged in the spring of 2013, demand for these 5x8" plates never materialized. The circa-2015 high 5x8" observation of stickered 2DT91 lasted until 2018 and was finally trumped with the spotting of newly-issued unstickered 3DT17 in 2019. We will never see the last batch of larger DT-EB series MC plates as all were scrapped.
Veteran MC plates were announced to the public in November 2012 as a 5x8" plate. By the time plates became available for ordering (April 19, 2013), they had been resized to 4x7". Vet MC plates are numbered in the V123 format and were the first MC plates to appear in the new size with solid black bison.
Smaller 4x7" size regular (starting at 5EB01) and personalized MC plates first appeared in spring 2013.
"Bienvenue" slogan regular series (letters JB) and personalized MC apparently available after Nov. 2013 yet no plates actually observed until 2018. I have only seen a total of four of these plates as of 2021.
Yellow Collector plates were introduced in 2014 for motorcycles that are at least 25 years old. About 40 per year are actively registered, but these plates are not often seen in use. I had only seen a total of seven (7) of these plates on the road by 2019 but more started appearing by 2021. Current high is CL126, still with sticker box lines and original sheeting.
Sticker box lines started to disappear from regular MC plates in 2018 somewhere between 4FM33 and 1FN88.
4x7" size DLR plates first observed in 2019; high large dealer is D6437.
Numbers were realigned to be more centered in the plate somewhere between 3FS16 and 3FW18 as observed in 2021. HD sheeting appeared around the same time as well.
New MC-sized temp paper permits (4 days) introduced with new rules in January 2021. Before this, it was just a folded and taped piece of paper with no clearly visible number.

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