Driving permits by country

The carnet of the Paris convention of 1926: good for a year in every state it bound, for the categories stamped on its last page, and the exclusions of a country that took it away.

Bearer prints it for 3 offices: France, International type, United Kingdom. Each is read off a document of the time or reconstructed on the country's law, and says which.

Bearer makes an investigator's papers for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: the passport a consul would have filled in, with the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, and the permits, certificates and tickets of the period, to print or to share.

An example

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Every office Bearer prints it for

Each version in full

• The international travelling pass of 1909
• The international driving permit

Sources

• Wikimedia Commons (British Treaty Series print), Convention internationale relative à la circulation des automobiles, Paris, 11 octobre 1909, with Annexes A (the model of the Certificat international de route) and B (its languages), French text and English translation, art. 3: international travelling passes drawn up in the form and giving the particulars annexed (Annexes A and B), valid one year from the date of issue, the manuscript entries in Latin characters; Annex A: title page (Circulation des automobiles, Convention internationale de 1909, Certificat international de Route pour la Circulation temporaire à l'Étranger, valable pendant un an, Délivrance du Carnet: Lieu, Date, signature of the authority or of the association empowered and its visa, Ces États sont); the inside sheets (Indications relatives au Véhicule; au Conducteur ou aux Conducteurs, two drivers, photographs); the last sheet (Visa de l'entrée, Visa de la sortie, Cachet de la Douane; Exclusion d'un Conducteur; Admission d'un nouveau Conducteur); Annex B: the title page, first and last sheets in the language of the issuing State, one inside sheet in the language of each other contracting State (read directly)
• League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. CVIII, no. 2505, pp. 123-161 (French official text; English translation of His Britannic Majesty's Foreign Office), International Convention relative to Motor Traffic, signed at Paris, April 24th, 1926, with its annexes, art. 6: nobody may drive in international traffic without an authorisation, never under eighteen; art. 7: the international driving permit, valid one year from its issue for the categories it names (A, motor vehicles of not more than 3,500 kg laden; B, above; C, motor-cycles with or without side-car), its handwritten particulars always in Latin characters, issued by an authority or by an association it empowers with its visa, recognised in every contracting state without a new test; art. 14: the convention binds each state one year after its ratification or accession reaches Paris. Annex D: the permit is drawn up in the issuing state's own language. Annex E, the model, 10 by 15 cm: page 1 (name of country, International Motor Traffic, INTERNATIONAL DRIVING PERMIT, International Convention of April 24, 1926, Issue of Permit: issued at, date, seal and signature of the authority or of the association empowered by it and visa of the latter), page 2 (valid for one year in the territory of all the contracting states listed, for the categories on page 12; list of contracting states; the holder still bound by the laws on residence and on the exercise of a profession), page 3 (particulars concerning the driver: photograph under the seal, surname, other names, place of birth, date of birth, home address), pages 4 and 6 (two blocks each: Exclusion, M. … authorised as above by the authority of … is deprived of the right to drive in … by reason of …, place, date, seal, signature), page 5 (the particulars again, translated; the photograph see page 3; "pages 5 and 6 should repeat the particulars given on p. 3 translated into as many languages as may be necessary"), page 11 (the three categories, "in all languages"), page 12 (a box per category for the authority's seal, and the particulars numbered 1 to 5). (read directly)

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