W. Andrew Robinson

A builder's plate is usually a metal plate that is attached to railway locomotives and rolling stock, bogies, construction equipment, trucks, automobiles, large household appliances, bridges, ships and more. It gives such information as the name of the manufacturer, the place and country of manufacture, the model number, the serial number, as well as the date of manufacture or date of fabrication of the item or unit.

• Samples of builders' plates
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  Schenectady Locomotive Works builder's plate
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  New South Wales Government Railways Locomotive No. 1. Builders plate 958
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  Kerr, Stuart and Company
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  Baldwin Locomotive Works builders plate
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  Lima Locomotive Works
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  New South Wales AD60 class locomotive Beyer, Peacock and Company. builder's plate.
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  BP and NBL works plate off (South African Class GMA 4-8-2+2-8-4) no. 4140.
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  Rogers Locomotive Works builder's plate on a New Zealand Railways K class
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  NBL builder's plate.
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  Nippon Sharyo builder's plate.
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  TS State of Maine shipbuilder's plate (as USNS Tanner).
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  Builders Plate of the TSS Earnslaw.
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  Leyland Motors builder's plate.
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  Clyde Engineering builder’s plate on Queensland Railways 1740 class
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  Montreal Locomotive Works builder's plate
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  Builder's Plate of EMD F9(A) locomotive D&RGW 5771
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  Builder's plate of Kinki Sharyo
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  Kitson's manufacturer's plate dated 1904 from J.B.Earle displayed in the museum at Tywyn on the Talyllyn Railway
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  Charles Roberts & Co. builders plate on preserved wagon
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  Berliner Maschinenbau builder's plate on a steam locomotive
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  Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's plate, 1922
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  SLM Builder's Plate of Locomotive at the Finnish Railway Museum
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  Vulcan Foundry Works plate No. 3977 of 1926 on LMS Fowler Class 3F No. 47406 in 2012
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  Toshiba, + Union Carriage & Wagon builders plate on South African Class 10E2 locomotive
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  Builder's plates on Class 14E no. 14-001
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  Builder's plate of EM-GG NR 4805.
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  Kawasaki builder's plate on a Washington Metro 7000 series train.

• Thompson, Keith (1 May 2006). "Builder's plates: A locomotive's birth certificate". Kalmbach Publishing. Retrieved February 8, 2008.