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Smoke Meters to be Tested Under Field Conditions

23rd June 1961, Page 43
23rd June 1961
Page 43
Page 43, 23rd June 1961 — Smoke Meters to be Tested Under Field Conditions
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THE Ministry of Transport is to start making tests under "field conditions" shortly to see whether some satisfactory system of measuring diesel smoke canbe evolved, so thatthe law about its emis sion can be enforced. • Announcing this last week, Lord Chesham, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry, said the tests would involve two types of meter, neither of which was fully effective at the present time. But certainly one was showing considerable promise— probably both were—and it was the Ministry's intention to see if they could be improved.

Lord Chesham had been asked by Lord Teynham, in the Upper House, whether he would now consider enforcing the prohibition of the emission of black smoke in a more rigorous manner.

" I cannot help feeling that if it became known that the Ministry of Transport intended to enforce the law with regard to this matter, we should find that no false economies would be made by not providing adequate power to deal with excessive loads," commented -Lord Teyn ham. "Transport operators generally would ensure that they had an adequate and practical maintenance programme for their fuel-injection equipment."

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