New Speeds for Track-type Vehicles
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THE Minister of Transport has issued I. The Motor Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limit) Regulations, 1935. By these, the provisions of the First Schedule to the Act are varied to have effect as follows :— (1) As if they applied only to vehicles other than track-laying, and as if the sub-headings "Part 1" and " Vehicles other than track-laying vehicles" were inserted under the heading " Limits of speed (2) as if the words " For the purposes of Part 1 of this Schedule " were substituted for the words " For tho purposes of this Schedule
(3) as if the provisions in the Schedule hereto were added to the First Schedule as Part H thereof.
The new Schedule, Part II, is for track-laying vehicles.
1. Motorcars and Heavy Motorcars,
I. When not drawing a trailer : (a) if the first or second condition be satisfied, 20 m.p.h. ; (b) if the third condition be satisfied, 12 m.p.h. ; (2) When drawing a trailer (a) if the first condition be satisfied or if the trailer be. attached to the drawing vehicle by partial superimposition so as to cause a substantial part of the weight to be borne by• the vehicle, and the second
condition. be satisfied, 20 m.p.h. If the trailer be not so attached and the second or third condition be satisfied,
1.2 ; (b) In any other case, 5 m.p.h..
II. Motor Tractors. (I) When not drawing a trater : (a) if first or second condition be satisfied, 20 m.p.h.; (b) if third condition be satisfied, 12 m.p.h. (2) When drawing a single trailer : (a) if first condition be satisfied, 20 m.p.h. ; (b) if second or third condition be satisfied, 12 m.p.h. ; (c) in any other case, 5 m.p.h.
III. Locomotives. (1) Heavy Locomotives, 5 m.p.h. (2) (a) light locomotives not drawing more than two trailers, if first, second or third condition be satisfied, 12 m.p.h. ; (b) in any other case, 5 m.p.h.
For the purposes of Part LE (a) satisfaction of the first condition 'means that all wheels (if any) of the vehicle or of the 'trailer or trailers be fitted with pneumatic tyres and the tracks of the vehicle, trailer or trailers be fitted with springs between the frame and the weight-carrying rollers and with resilient material between the TIM of those rollers and the road surface; (b) satisfaction of the second condition means that the first is not satisfied as regards tyres, but that each of the wheels aforesaid has one or other of the following types of tyre—pneumatie, soft or elastic, and that the first eondition as regards tracks is satisfied; Cr) satisfaction of the third condition means that either the first ot second condition is satisfied as regards tare, and the first not satisfied as regards tracks, but the tracks of the vehicle are fitted with resilient material between, the rims of the weight-carrying rollers and the road.