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The Government hopes that the mpdown on law-breaking foreign tmercial vehicles, resulting from the id Traffic (Foreign Vehicles) Bill will I within two months — well before the liner tourist rush.
Eldon Griffiths, Under-Secretary E, recalled to a Commons Standing mmittee last week that he had
igned as a flat-deck loose-bin type of et tidy, this battery electric vehicle ía a int addition to the range produced by th's Electric Vehicles Ltd, Gatesheadryne. It is based on a Cabac chassis with rless cab and was developed for South :Ids Corporation. In standard form with a :ell 329 Ah battery its unladen weight is Nt complete with 15 bins. According to the of tyres and wheels fitted it has a gross ig of 65cwt, 75cwt or 85cwt. When plated 5cwt, the standard model has a weight 'city of 27 !cwt for the crew and payload.
undertaken to give the Bill adequate publicity both in foreign ports and our own.
The Department expected to apply the powers in a reasonable and escalated fashion, so that the foreign operator was not suddenly confronted, when he arrived in this country, with rules and regulations of which he had never heard. We were not placing upon foreign operators any new obligations. They brought their vehicles to this country: they were supposed to obey our law now.
A large proportion of the vehicles that came in were examined, and many were found to be overweight. In some cases there were prosecutions but they were not effective because the driver might find himself in a Balkan country some weeks later, and the processes of going through our courts. contacting his embassy and effecting the service of the summons in his home country did not work.
The Government was simply saying that the British law must be obeyed, and steps were being taken to enforce British law.