Vehicle testing station
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• Facilities at the MoT's Shrewsbury goods vehicle testing station are now available (by appointment with the station) until October for the testing of lorries on a voluntary basis and free of charge, in order to give as many local operators as possible an opportunity to see for themselves the standards which their vehicles will be expected to reach in the compulsory tests that come into operation, in England and Wales, on October I.
The £100,000 station at Shrewsbury, on the Harlescott Industrial Estate, was designed by the Ministry of Public Building and Works. It comprises a test hall with ancillary accommodation (offices, technical library, staff rooms), a circulation track (a route linking the points used by vehicles being tested), a parking area, a test track, an artificial gradient for checking the holding power of parking brakes and a weighbridge.
The test hall is 160ft-long and 37ft-wide and has a test lane capable of handling up to 10,000 vehicles a year. A spare lane is also available for vehicles which cannot traverse a pit (three-wheelers and "four-inline") and for some re-tests and other vehicle examinations.