Vlinistry to Continue Smoke Checks
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a means of bringing home to ffending operators and drivers their risibility for ensuring that their es do not emit • excessive smoke, the try of Transport is to continue its idc checks both nationally and tally. This is being done, said the try this week, because the latest s, based on a country-wide check inc 12, show no reduction in the er of smoking vehicles compared the results obtained in last year's of roadside observations.
; checks on June 12 were made at ifferent points and some 25,000 -engined commercial vehicles came observation; of these, says the try, 3,200 were emitting too much e. and of. this number 1,700 (about cent of the total observed) incurred bition. In 83 cases the prohibition took effect immediately while in
the other eases a few days' grace was given in which to get the defects remedied-.
The remaining 1,500 of the 3.200 " smokers.", which were not offending so badly, were dealt with by warning letters to the operators and by visits from Ministry inspectors.
A comparison with last year's smoke check figures Showed that the ratio of " smokers "to" non-smokers " observed on the roads was approximately the same—about one in eight. But this time a higher proportion was made the subject of prohibition notices-7 per cent as against 5 per cent in 1962. This comments the Ministry, was accounted for by a reduction in the number of silent" checks in which examiners do not stop vehicles on the road hut instead note their registration numbers for later follow-up action.