Throwback: Each Kenyan town had its own car number plate

President Jomo Kenyatta's car stuck in mud. Photo: Courtesy.

Did you know the Kenyan number plating system is borrowed from the British one and that the earliest plates were such that each town; Mombasa, Nakuru, Nairobi, Kisumu, had their own numbers? Well, today’s plates are reflective yellow and white in black lettering, but the first generation plates were black with silver lettering for the front. Mombasa took the cake for the earliest registration: KAA 00A in 1938. Nairobi came second with KB, followed by Nakuru with KC, Kisumu with KD and Nanyuki with KE.

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