Index-
Mark. Locale.
AICo. Meath
BICo. Monaghan
CIQueen’s County
DICo. Roscommon
EICo. Sligo
FITipperary, North
HITipperary, South
IACo. Antrim
IBCo. Armagh
ICCo. Carlow
IDCo. Cavan
IECo. Clare
IFCo. Cork
IHCo. Donegal
IJCo. Down
IKCo. Dublin
ILCo. Fermanagh
IMCo. Galway
INCo. Kerry
IOCo. Kildare
IPCo. Kilkenny
IRKing’s County
ITCo. Leitrim
IUCo. Limerick
IWCo. Londonderry
IXCo. Longford
IYCo. Louth
IZCo. Mayo
JICo. Tyrone
KICo. Waterford
LICo. West Meath
MICo. Wexford
NICo. Wicklow
OIBelfast
PICork
RIDublin
TILimerick
UILondonderry
WIWaterford

FRANCE

In France the index-numbers are divided among sixteen sections, including Algeria, which are called Arrondissements minéralogiques. Some of these sections contain as many as eight departments or counties. The majority have single letters. Paris has five sets of single letters. It is necessary for a motoriste from the United Kingdom, when taking her car into France, to affix a French index-mark above her British one. This mark and number will be given her at the point of debarkation on registering the car and on passing a pleasant and easy little examination in the art of driving. This test consists in driving round a square or up and down the street for about a quarter or half a mile, turning a few corners en route. The French index-marks are as follows:

Index-
Mark. Locale.
AAlais (Gard, Hérault, Lozère, Ardèche)
A-LAlgérie
BBordeaux (Départements du sud de la Garonne, Charente-Inférieure, Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne)
CChâlon-sur-Saône (Côte-d’Or, Jura, Ain, Doubs, Yonne, Saône-et-Loire)
DDouai (Nord, Aisne)
EParis (also G, I, U and X)
FClermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme, Haute-Loire, Cantal, Allier, Nièvre)
GParis (also E, I, U and X)
HChambéry (Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Isère, Drôme, Basses-Alpes)
IParis (also E, G, U and X)
LLe Mans (Sarthe, Départements de la Bretagne, Mayenne)
M-VMarseille (Départements de la Côte, Corse)
N-ONancy (Départements de l’Est, including the Aube)
P-KPoitiers (Départements du sud de la Loire, including the Loiret)
SSt.-Etienne (Rhône, Loire)
TToulouse (Languedoc, including Tarn and Lot)
UParis (also E, G and I)
XParis
YRouen (Seine-et-Oise, Seine-et-Marne, Eure, Eure-et-Loire, Seine-Inférieure, Orne, Calvados, Manche)
or
X

GERMANY

The motoriste from the United Kingdom can take her car into Germany and drive it there without having to put on a new number. Germany willingly accepts the British index-mark already on the car. Index-marks in Germany are allotted in twenty-six different sections, one of which, Prussia, is sub-divided into twelve provinces and the city of Berlin. In nearly all the distinct kingdoms and duchies an attempt has been made to utilise the initial letter of that section, thereby making recognition of the locale of the car quicker.

In Prussia the mark is the number I in a Roman figure followed by letters of the alphabet. In many other provinces numbers in Roman figures are also used, the figure in most instances being followed by a letter of the alphabet.

The following are the German police index-marks for cars (Kraftfahrzeuge):

Index-
Mark. Locale.
Prussia
I ABerlin
I CEast Prussia
I DWest Prussia
I EBrandenburg
I HPomerania
I JPosen
I KSilesia
I MSaxony
I PSchleswig-Holstein
I SHanover
I THesse-Nassau
I XWestphalia
I ZRhine Province
Figures—Bavaria
II and
letters
A, B,
C and
so on
Figure—Saxony (Kingdom)
only, I
II, III,
IV
and V
Figures—Würtemburg
III and
letters
A, B,
C and
so on
Figure—Baden
IV and
letters
Figure—Hesse
V and
letters
M IMecklenburg-Schwerin
SSaxony (Grand Duchy)
M IIMecklenburg-Strelitz
OOldenburg
BBrunswick
SMSaxe-Meiningen
SASaxe-Altenburg
KGSaxe-Coburg-Gotha
AAnhalt
SRSchwarzburg-Rudolstadt
SSSchwarzburg-Sondershausen
WWaldeck
RAReuss (old line)
RJReuss (young line)
SLSchaumburg-Lippe
LLippe
HLLübeck
HBBremen
HHHamburg
Figure—Alsace-Lorraine
(Elsass-Lothringen)
VI
and
letter
A, B
and so
on