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Special Types Orders Now Consolidated and Amended

26th December 1952
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Page 47, 26th December 1952 — Special Types Orders Now Consolidated and Amended
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PAST regulations dealing with special types have been consolidated and amended in the Motor Vehicles (Authorization of Special Types) General Order, 1952, which corns into operation on January 1.

Where speeds of more than 5 m.p.h. are permitted by the Order, they do not apply if the lower speed is laid down in the Road Traffic Act, 1934, for any particular class of vehicle.

Articles 3-8 supersede paragraphs 4-10 of the General Order of 1941, as amended. Art icles 9-11 incorporate S.I.1948/963, S.I.1948/1197 and 5.I.1950/ 2103.

Article 12 represents the Motor Vehicles (Authorization of Special Types) (No. 3) Order, 1951, with certain amendments. It permits the use on the roads of unladen vehicles for moving excavated material, of an overall width of up to 11 ft., instead of 9 ft. 6 ins. It includes trailers, articulated or otherwise, up to 28-ft. long overall. The vehicles concerned are those designed for use in private premises, but have to travel on the roads. Additional restrictions are imposed on vehicles over 9 ft. 6 ins, wide overall. A speed limit of 8 m.p.h. is applied and there must be three people in attendance.

Articles 13-21 and the Second Schedule supersede the Motor Vehicles (Authorization of Special Types) Order, 1951.

An anomaly by which the vehicles limited to 5 m.p.h. or 12 m.p.h. were liable to carry a " 20 " disc has been eliminated.

Article 18 has been amended so that where the vehicle or its load exceeds 9 ft. 6 ins, wide, the attendants do not have to stay with it while it is parked at the roadside. Nevertheless, the police strongly advise that at least one man should always be present. If the overall width of the vehicle or its load does not exceed 9 ft. 6 ins. and the total weight is not more than 75 tons, prior notice of a journey need not be given in the case of roads on which trams do not run. Previously, the exemption referred to roads without tram tracks, but tracks often remain after the trams have ceased to operate.

By Article 20 (1) the notice and indemnity in respect of a trunk road must be sent to each highway and bridge authority responsible for the maintenance and repair of any part of it, but if a notice and indemnity have been given to that authority in its own right in respect of other roads, a separate notice concerning the trunk road need not be sent.

Claims Restricted

Indemnity is now restricted to claims made within 12 months of the date on which the vehicle concerned was last used on the journey covered by the notice.

A new provision is that where a load is being moved on a specially constructed non-articulated trailer hauled by a drawing vehicle which is not specially constructed, a different drawing vehicle may be substituted for the former on giving two clear days' notice. Six days' notice has to be given of the intention to make the journey.

Various old Orders have been revoked and the only Orders or Instruments referring to special types which will be in force on and after January 1 will be the new General Order, S.I.1951/1963 (snow clearance vehicles), Sit. and 0. 1941/1471 and 1942./939 (individual vehicles) and S.R. and 0. 1947/1290 and 5.11951/ 2264 (Interpretation of Orders). The new General Order can be obtained from the Stationery Office at 9d.

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