Electric-vehicle Rules Absurd, Court Told
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nRIVING regulations applied to
electric milk-delivery vans were described as absurd at Stockton Magistrates' Court, when Northern Dairies, Ltd., Hull, were accused of aiding and abetting a learner to drive one of their vehicles without supervision.
"This kind of vehicle is more like an invalid carriage or a tractor than a motorcar," said Mr. W. Rosen, defending. " It is so simple a child could drive it."
The Chief Constables' Association and the makers and users of the vehicles had tried to get the regulations altered, he said, because a person who passed a test in an electric was then entitled to drive ay vehicle. However, the Minister of Transport had made no move yet.
Fining the company £2, Mrs. R. Phillips presiding, pointed out that they knew the regulations and should not have employed as a driver a person who had held a provisional licence for only two days. The driver, a woman, was. fined 0 for being unaccompanied in the vehicle.