The number cards were personal and were issued 'for life' (of the holder). Until 1951, the issue and registration of vehicle documents was provided by the Provincial Executive of the provinces.
This is very important, because in some cases a vehicle owner must be able to identify quickly and easily. The number plate as we know it today, which is divided into three groups of two characters, came out as the clearest and most recognizable. A lot of visual possibilities have been tested on the criterion of recognizability. Before 1951 extensive research was done to determine which combination of letters and numbers would be the best. The Dutch registration numbers are made up in pairs from a combination of 2 letters and 4 numbers or 4 letters and 2 numbers. It was not until 1951 that the license plate system – as we know it today – was introduced with the combination of three times two letters or two numbers. That was the origin of the RDW (then still the Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer). But traffic increasingly went beyond the provincial border and it was decided to arrange the administration nationally, at a central location. The first license plate numbers were also linked to a province, because the motorists usually stayed within the province in the beginning. This system functioned until after the Second World War. This license plate, say the new license plate, was set up according to a provincial system.
CAR BY LICENSE PLATE DRIVER
From now on, the car and driver had to have both a driver's license and a proof of number. Seven years later, on January 15, 1906, the last driving license was finally issued (number 2065). Documents show that this very first set of numbers had progressed to 8 on August 1899, 168. The first set of license plates ran from 1 to 14, skipping the crazy number 11. This made the Netherlands the first country in the world to introduce a national number plate.
Two years after the first car appeared on the road in the Netherlands, the first number plates (then still called driving permits) were mounted on a number of cars in 1898.
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