'Premature results'
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REPORTS that the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Trai has found serious errors in Department of Trans' comparability tests on various commercial vehicles have t described as "premature" by SMMT spokesmen.
This week the spokesman confirmed that the society had t carrying out tests along the lines of those done by the Trans' and Road Research Laboratory but he said that the results v still being analysed and it was too soon to draw any con clusi TRRL took nine imported and home produced tractive u and put them through tests designed to compare environmental aspects of maximum weight vehicles in use others at higher weights and the results were compared with test results.
Later CIW's technical editor criticised the methods of testing and the results which were published in January I February 2 and February 9) and our criticisms were 1. answered by the Department of Transport.