WW2 auto license plates

[RCS]

With a big effort to save steel, some motor vehicle license plate were made from a cardboard and soybean mixture for general use. There was a problem with animals such as dogs and livestock who would chew parts of the license plate off when mounted on a vehicle. These plates belonged to a neighbor of my father who was also a local policeman, his badge was #95 and his address was 934

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[browningautorifle]

There was a problem with animals such as dogs and livestock who would chew parts of the license plate off when mounted on a vehicle

Like today's vehicle wiring that has coatings made from vegetable products and has vermin attack it, I would think rats and mice would join racoons and others. Come out in the AM to find mounting hardware alone...

[Youngblood]

Like today's vehicle wiring that has coatings made from vegetable products and has vermin attack it, ...

Brings to my mind the 24th Panzer Division that suffered a number of their tanks being rendered combat-ineffective behind the line at Stalingrad by hordes of hungry Bolshevik mice that ate the insulation off of their wiring.