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Greenough Museum and Gardens > Records

Vehicle number plate GH 4

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c. 1920

Overview

green and red enamel paint on a metal background.

Historical information

A Greenough Roads Board vehicle number plate that possibly belonged to Emily Jane Hamersley of Georgina who had a Studebaker with license GH.4 between 1922-27.
Emily Jane Hamersley (nee Anderson) was born in 1860. She married George Hamersley, farmer at Greenough on 02/11/1880.

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Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB1062

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Material

Width

178 mm

Height or length

77 mm

Depth

2 mm

Contextual Information

If this can be proven to have belonged to Emily Hamersley, it is an important indicator of early female ownership of motor vehicles.

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Place made

Greenough, Western Australia, Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

Greenough Museum and Gardens

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