Only one hitch
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DESPITE 90 minutes' wait for the presentations, it was generally agreed that Newcastle-under-Lyme Home and Road Safety Committee did a fine job in organizing the LDOY round on Sunday. It was the Committee's first venture now that Newcastle replaces Stoke-on-Trent as an eliminating centre. The change brought fine weather, excellent catering at Wolstanton Colliery for drivers and officials-and the 107 vehicles went through the tests on schedule.
The hitch? Class G drivers protested at high marks attributed for the loading bay test and it was discovered that the results had been wrongly computed. The cause? It may have been due to the small and irregular shape of the course-test 3 had to be laid out before test 2.
Driving standards were high. After a Class H vehicle reversed a marshal remarked: "I couldn't get an ignition key between the vehicle and the rear of the bay." The committee wisely ran the largest vehicles through first and saved time by measuring the vehicles just before the test rather than at the assembly.