Q I am converting a minibus into a luxury coach which
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I intend to use as a public service' vehicle. Could you suggest a book which would help me to do this job and say what legislation applies?
a copy of Vehicle Bodybuilding and Drawing by J. B. Braithwaite which should be of assistance to you in converting the vehicle as you wish. It is published by Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, London.
If you intend to use the vehicle as a psv then it will require a Certificate of Fitness and a psv licence. It will have to comply, therefore, with the conditions laid down in the Public Service Vehicle (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment and Use) Regulations 1972, Si No 751 price 21p, available from HM Stationery Office or through any bookseller. If you operate the vehicle as a psv you will, of course, need a road service licence under the provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1960, which is also available from HM Stationery Office price 971p. Also the driver will need a psv driving licence.
QWe are a household and industrial removal company and, as is the usual practice, we send porters with our vehicles to load and unload furniture to be transferred between premises. Under the EEC record-keep