Early Motor Vehicle Registrations from Moora to Mingenew

2016 Update:

We have since published online a Motor Vehicle Registration index for ALL of Western Australia! It can be found at www.carnamah.com.au/car-registrations 

2014 Original Post:

A new addition to our online content is an index of early motor vehicle registrations for the road board districts of Moora, Carnamah (including Coorow and Three Springs), Perenjori-Morawa and Mingenew. The index lists the vehicle licence or number plate, the owner's name, their address, the type of vehicle and the year/s it was registered. It can be viewed at:

www.carnamah.com.au/number-plates

1913 number plate issued by the Upper Irwin Road Board at Mingenew
Image courtesy of Jim Gordon

The information has come from a selection of RAC Motor Guide & Year Books digitised by the State Library of Western Australia. The index was created from transcriptions made by five of our virtual volunteers, with many thanks to David Senn, Lisa Dorsett, Ross Croft, Sandie Keeble and Tamara McPhee).

A similar but much larger project, to index all Commonwealth electoral rolls for the subdivisions of Irwin/Moore, is nearing completion but some extra help wouldn't go astray! If you've got some spare time you can help us finish the last pages on our Virtual Volunteering website.

Motor Vehicles registered with the Mingenew Road Board in 1922-23

We're Recruiting Virtual Volunteers!

We are a small organisation hoping to keep up the pace at doing big things, and request your assistance whether you are near or afar!

The team working on preparing information for the Coorow-Waddy, Carnamah-Winchester and Three Springs databases presently stands at a grand total of two - it's highest number to date! We are very keen to increase the content and and names represented in this rich and nationally unique resource.

We are hoping to index Commonwealth Electoral Rolls for the subdivision that our districts fell within. The benefit is that instead of having a massive pile of electoral rolls we will have a list of names, their occupation, address and the range of years they were enrolled. This information can then be directly and very quickly added to the databases.

So how can you help? We will send you electoral roll images and you simply add the details to an online document. If the details are already there (from an earlier or later roll) then you only need to add the year! We will be very happy to acknowledge all assistance received on our sources page.

If you'd like to assist, or would like to know more, please send an e-mail to andrew@carnamah.com.au

Update 20/08/2013:

You can now volunteer online at our Virtual Volunteering website