FRANKLIN BRITTINGHAM ,
SR.
AUTHORITY ON LICENSE
PLATES
Franklin Brittingham of
Lewes is one of Delaware's foremost authorities on license
plates and has a collection
of near 3000 that took him ten years to complete. Also he
knows the history of
Delaware motor vehicle department. His collection consists of
all most every type of tag
issued by the state.
1909 was the first year
the state issued a tag, he has two of them. Up to 1942 Delaware
require tags on front and
back.
He has truck tags, taxicab
tags, political tags, mvd tags, blue, gold, black, silver, red,
and above this collection
is a Delaware tag 1, with “ governor “ on it.
He has a good bit of money
in this collection and is ready to sell or trade. 1930 to today's
tags are not too hard to
find, but 30's back is tedious. Dealers tags, began in 1914 and are
difficult to come upon.
He has two of these.
Homemade tags were used
before 1909 and sometimes made of leather.
There were no state police
until 1923, in Sussex County, so lower \Delaware people never
bothered with tags.
In 1909 tags we $1. There
were 298 cars registered, five in Lewes, eight in Georgetown,
Milton nor Rehoboth had none.
Salisbury Daily Times,
April 19, 1970, by Rick Cullen.
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