A NEW TAX WAS BORN!

In the early 1900s cars began to be seen in Wyoming.  In 1912 permit numbers were required for automobiles.  The "license plate" was often made by a local blacksmith, fashioned of leather and very primitive, it displayed the permit number, which was issued by the Secretary of State.  In 1913, the first metal plates were made, a medallion of the State Seal was placed on the small rectangular plate and could be removed and used as a belt buckle.  By 1915 the seal was embossed on the plate.  And in 1916 the porcelain plates appeared.  They were beautiful, durable and expensive.  The year appeared on the plates for the first time in 1918.  And in 1919 the State Seal disappeared and the plate said WYO, the date and the number.  In 1930 the county numbers were included on the plates.  And in 1936 the bucking horse was added-but only to the plates for cars=the truck plates did not show it.