#TEXAS MOTORCYCLE PLATES LICENSE#
Texas Highway Patrol car with 1947 State Exempt XS prefix license plate.Used by DPS vehicles in conjuntion X/S State Exempt plates of the same color and format. State Exempt plates would have used the XS prefix.Īpprox. Used as metal conservation method during World War 2.
Used by DPS vehicles in conjuntion with other exempt plates of the same color and format. Used by DPS vehicles in conjuntion S/X State Exempt plates of the same color and format. May have been used by DPS vehicles in conjuntion with passenger car plates of the same color and format. A fully marked Texas HP car is seen in the gallery displaying a 1938 F-prefix passenger car plate as well.
#TEXAS MOTORCYCLE PLATES SERIES#
The use of passenger series plates were interspersed with the use of Exempt plates during this time.
The state was divided into 6 regional commands, each headed by a senior officer with the rank of major and responsible to the director. In 1957, a reorganization of the DPS took place. On August 10, 1935, the Texas Department of Public Safety was formed to properly organize law enforcement of all levels in the Lone Star State, and the Highway Patrol as well as the legendary and renowned Texas Rangers were incorporated into the new Texas DPS. After only 2 years, the License and Weight Section was increased to 50 men and renamed the State Highway Patrol.īy 1931, that number increased to 120 men.
The Texas Highway Department was thus authorized to hire 18 license and weight inspectors and one chief inspector. In the late 1920's Texas began to experience a deterioration of the state's bridges and highways from overweight and unregulated truck traffic and the state legislature knew it was time to form an organization dedicated to enforcing existing traffic legislation.