Auburn number plate found - can you decipher?

Keep digging, there has to be a car in there somewhere.

Hello. This is from a 1931 Auburn 8-98-A Pheaton Sedan by serial number this car is presently not known to survive. Randy Ema

greg95945 wrote: Today I was digging out a stump in my yard, and found various things in the dirt. A ceramic base 5 pin power vacuum tube (no glass) from the 40's, a chrome plated fishing spoon with the hook rusted away, pieces of plate glass mirror, bits of pottery, and a small rectangle of metal, 2" x 4 3/8".

Upon examination, the metal plate turns out to be a number plate with the name Auburn on it.
It has the Auburn shield logo, and three sets of numbers stamped into the metal:
MODEL P S D
<unreadable caption> 98A11142H
<unreadable> No. GU42877
Auburn Automobile Company
Auburn, Indiana USA

Does anyone know what and when this is from? I don't see any reference to PSD in the Auburn entry in Wikipedia.
Here's a picture. I dampened the metal to make it more readable.

Thanks!
Greg

I am a 1934 - 1935 guy, but I believe the dataplate is from a 1931 8-98A
the H designates phaeton.

I notice that the center bar on the tag is longer. I always thought the dataplates on early cars (pre 1934 ) the bars were all the same length and the 34-36 cars the center bar extended forward. Can some one streighten me out on this?

The GU42877 indicates the lycoming engine model GU that powered the 1931, 32, &amp; 33 Auburn models 8-98, 8-100, &amp; 8-101.
Al Light, <a href="mailto:[email protected]][email protected][/url]

Today I was digging out a stump in my yard, and found various things in the dirt. A ceramic base 5 pin power vacuum tube (no glass) from the 40's, a chrome plated fishing spoon with the hook rusted away, pieces of plate glass mirror, bits of pottery, and a small rectangle of metal, 2" x 4 3/8".

Upon examination, the metal plate turns out to be a number plate with the name Auburn on it.
It has the Auburn shield logo, and three sets of numbers stamped into the metal:
MODEL P S D
<unreadable caption> 98A11142H
<unreadable> No. GU42877
Auburn Automobile Company
Auburn, Indiana USA

Does anyone know what and when this is from? I don't see any reference to PSD in the Auburn entry in Wikipedia.
Here's a picture. I dampened the metal to make it more readable.


Thanks!
Greg