Test Plans Changed : To Start Nest Year
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FOR legal reasons changes have had to be made in the arrangements for the compulsory testing of vehicles (including commercial vehicles up to 30 cwt.) more than 10 years old. The Minister of Transport expects the tests to be introduced about the middle of next year. Applications for the appointment of authorized examiners and designated councils are likely to be invited later this month. It will not be possible to provide a free re-test of items found faulty if, after repairs, a vehicle is again submitted for test within 14 days of the original inspection. instead, all the items—lights, brakes and steering—which arc by law to be subject to examination—will have to be re-tested, but the motor trade has agreed to do the work at half the full fee. The Construction and Use Regulations are to be changed to provide that, subject to appropriate exceptions, the lighting equipment on vehicles must at all times comply with existing statutory requirements. The Minister has been advised that existing requirements apply only when vehicles are used at night.
REVOCATION INQUIRY THE Northern Licensing Authority, Mr.
J. A. Hanlon, is to hold a public inquiry at Newcastle upon Tyne, on November 24, when McPhee's (Newcastle), Ltd., City Road Garage, Newcastle, will have to show why five special A licences should not be suspended or revoked.
LIVESTOCK HAULIER FINED
ricA LIVESTOCK haulier who carried a bull which was not securely tied was fined flO at Chester, last week. He was Derek Day, Kingswood, Frodsham. A
further fine was imposed because he carried cows and •a bull in the same vehicle when they were not separated or tied. 2