WASHINGTON, April 26, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S.
Census Bureau:
FIRST LICENSE PLATES
Profile America — Sunday, April 26th. Many
automobile license plates proclaim glories of the issuing states;
others spell out something dear to the drivers but indecipherable
to anyone else. Those plates and the more basic ones are
requirements to drive on public roads. New York was the first state to require
license plates on motor vehicles this month in 1901. At the time,
there were just fewer than 15,000 sputtering automobiles in the
entire country, traveling over muddy, rudimentary roads without a
license for the driver or the automobile. Now, there are over 250
million cars, trucks, and buses in the nation, and all sporting
license plates. Decorative frames for license plates are a niche
product in America's 37,000 auto parts and accessories stores,
which generate $48 billion in annual
sales. You can find more facts about America's people, places
and economy, from the American Community Survey, at
www.census.gov.
Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 4220
Vehicles in early 20th Century: Historical Statistics of
the United States: Colonial Times
to 1970, p. 716
Motor vehicles today:
http://www.statista.com/statistics/183505/number-of-vehicles-in-the-united-states-since-1990/
Auto parts and accessories stores plus revenue:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ECN_2012_US_00A1&prodType=table
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau