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2nd February 1968
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• An invitation to operators to make use of goods vehicle testing stations to put their vehicles through the test free of charge before the official scheme starts in July was made by Mr. Stephen Swingler, Minister of State, MoT, when he opened the first official testing station on Monday, at Ipswich. And he assured operators that faults found on these trial runs would not be used for prosecutions.

The test-station programme was going well, he said. In Eastern England, stations at Norwich and Peterborough had already been completed, those at Royston and Downham Market would be ready in May/ June and another was going up at Chelmsford. A further 12 stations were likely to be opened elsewhere in the next three months; they included Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Derby, Carlisle, Canterbury, and Pontypool.

Mr. Swingler revealed that the Standard Lists of goods vehicle plating weights would be published by HMSO about February 12.

The station at Ipswich, costing £104,000, has a capacity of 10,000 vehicles a year, and will undertake a four-stage check (general body/chassis inspection, pit inspection, lights check, roller brake test) of the type described in COMMERCIAL MOTOR on April 14 1967.


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