License plate
A license plate or license tag was a metal plate with an alphanumeric sequence on it that identified a vehicle.

A 1930 newspaper article quoted motorists without license tags near Lee's Summit using the excuse "I'm going to be drafted next month and don't want to spend $15 or $20." ()

In 2367, while showing Guinan his Dixon Hill holoprogram, Jean-Luc Picard complained about not being able to get the license plate of a 1948 Packard. ()

The license plate on the 1936 Ford truck  found floating in space in 2371 was "6-T-593". ()

Background information
Usually the alphanumeric sequence is a government sanctioned code that indicated the geographical location or an officially recognized organization a vehicle belonged to, and is an identification aid for law enforcement agencies as well as tax authorities.

In the  season four two-part episode , several German vehicles appear with license plates bearing the prefix "NA". During the time of Nazi Germany, civilian vehicle license plates began with a code that indicated the region where the vehicle was registered. Additionally, vehicles registered to the Heer [Army] had the prefix "WH", and those registered to the SS had the prefix "SS". "NA" was never used as a license plate prefix in real life. Conceivably, this fictional code could be intended to stand for "Nord Amerika", as the vehicles seen in Star Trek were stationed in a fictional, Nazi-occupied United States.

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Identification technology