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Maltese width 3 3/4"
Maltese height 3 1/2"
Bottom tab 1 1/4" that is the bottom part where the screw is thru the opening so the entire height is 4 3/4 "
I saw one a year or two on a car on the Upper East Side, but I can't remember if it's markings said NYC or FDNY. Not can I speak on the officiality of the car in question.
Its mine. I found it when I was packing up my parents house in da Bronx. My dad was on da job in da Bronx back in da day so I know it goes back awhile.
What kind of cars would use them? Chief cars and the like?
most likely.. would love to have one in my collection will have to look for them at the flea markets
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Back awhile Cars basically had the cast Maltese Cross Plaque painted white with red numbers & also some Rigs had one (the Commissioner had chrome trim around the edges on his ) ....they have long since been replaced earlier on Cars & SUVs by a license plate sized piece of masonite & today it is a piece of plastic with a red background with a small stick on Maltese cross & stick on Registry number......if any of the original cast Plaques are found they will be expensive .
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^^^^^^^ here is one of the old Maltese Cross's on a Dodge Wagon BN Rig....
..they had nubs or protrusions cast into the back that were threaded to accept a bolt used to mount it on a shop made "T" shaped steel strap ...early ones had the number painted in the circle later ones had stick on numbers ... everything within the circle was interchangeable only the designs in the outer wings were cast ......big bosses like the FC's Car 1 had an address type number screwed in the circle
..they had nubs or protrusions cast into the back that were threaded to accept a bolt used to mount it on a shop made "T" shaped steel strap ...early ones had the number painted in the circle later ones had stick on numbers ... everything within the circle was interchangeable only the designs in the outer wings were cast ......big bosses like the FC's Car 1 had an address type number screwed in the circle
For some reason the leased ambulances have the shop plates while the department owned buses have actual license plates. For what it's worth I think the shop plates are better looking.