Tuesday next is Testing Day
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• Three Ministry of Transport Goods Vehicle Testing Stations were opened in Yorkshire last week. They are at Beverley, Rothwell, near Leeds, and Keighley.
Next Tuesday the compulsory plating and testing of goods vehicles will begin in England and Wales (December I in Scotland). In England and Wales some 30,000 vehicles over 3 tons and registered before January I, 1958, will have to be plated and tested before the end of November.
Driving Test Centres
• Proposed Centres at which, later this year or early in 1969, the Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving Tests may be taken are as follows (there are 64 full-time centres and 27 occasional centres which will be used according to local demand):
Full-time centres—Berwick, Newcastle, Carlisle, Darlington, Kendal, Scarborough, Wetherby, Keighley, Beverley (Hull). Leeds. Hatfield (Doncaster). Sheffield, Preston. Manchester-Bredbury. Heywood: Liverpool. Birkenhead. Wrexham. Grimsby. Derby, Grantham, Leicester. Northampton. Nottingham, Culham (Oxford), Waterbeach (Cambridge). Ipswich, Peterborough, Chelmsford, Neath, Llantrisant (Cardiff), Pontypool: Bristol. Gloucester, Exeter, Taunton. Plymouth, Camborne. Chiseldon (Swindon). Poole, Canterbury. Gillingham, Hastings, Lancing (Worthing), Reading. Southampton; London (Enfield, Croydon, Purfleet, Reading), Guildford, Glasgow, Leighton Buzzard, Birmingham. Kidderminster. Stoke, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury. Norwich, Livingston (Edinburgh), Kilmarnock, Aberdeen, Inverness, Perth: Occasional centres—Sunderland, Caernarvon, Lincoln. Boston. Hereford, Warwick, Bury St. Edmunds, Haverfordwest. Barnstaple, Yeovil, Frome, Isle of Wight, East Grinstead/Tunbridge Wells. Selkirk: Oben, Kintyre, Dumfries. Wigtown. Port Ellen, Dram, Keith, Dunfermline, Stornoway, Kirkwall, Lerwick, Wick, Montrose.