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21 GV9s 'not a wonderful record'
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• Malcolm McNeil Ltd, Glasgow, had its fleet of 44 vehicles authorized (42 specified) reduced to 42 with the further reduction to 39 for one month at Glasgow on Tuesday. Admitted were 21 prohibitions over the past two years, 14 delayed and seven immediate. Mr Malcolm McNeil, managing director, said that the Road Traffic Act 1968 contained much bad Jaw but the Scottish LA, Mr A. B. Birnie, ruled that he had to administer the law as it was and could not allow these observations.
Mr McNeil said that while he criticized the law, his firm had not flouted it but he stressed that no firm could keep vehicles in showroom condition. That would be commercial suicide. Of the 14 delayed prohibitions he said that none of tbern was serious and that there had been differences of opinion regarding the severity and the causes. Of the seven immediates, he said that they included inherent design faults to the braking system of the type of vehicle his company had been operating. Of the seven immediates, three concerned these handbrakes, one was on internal gears which could not be seen by any system of inspection and one concerned breaking of bolts which could have happened at any time. It was not, he said, a wonderful record but the crux of the matter was that there were different interpretations of "fit and serviceable". By introducing the new defects notices, the DoE had admitted that the GV9 system was unsatisfactory.
Mr McNeil claimed that his firm's facilities were sound, and their recordings in order. But no matter how good the system was, vehicles did break down and become unserviceable and it was beyond the ability of any system to prevent such happenings.
Mr Birnie said that the firm had described their difficulties with honesty and had been given a good report from the examiners. But they still had this list of prohibitions and he would have to make curtailments. He wanted to see this flood of GV9s stopped.