B Red Bu Ry, Stockport

By Ashley Taylor • A dozen and a half British Railways trailers provided a useful filler at the opening of the official testing station at Bredbury but there was also a steady......

Lancing, Sussex

by Paul Moody • Everything was fresh. Not a spot of grease soiled the floor of the testing station on the new Churchill Industrial Estate, Lancing. Everything was of the future.......

H A Ndswo Rth, Sheffield By Carolyn Hyams • One

lesson that operators would do well to learn from the result of the first vehicle to go through the Ministry test at the Handsworth, Sheffield station is that brakes with new......

Featherstone Wolve Rhampton

by Paul Brockington • A deficiency in the brakes of a 1956 Leyland Comet 2,000-gal four-wheeled tanker was the only disqualifying defect that MoT examiners recorded at the......

Ipswich, Suffolk

by Ron Cater • The first official test day at the Ipswich testing station (the first one to be opened in England, with 871 voluntary tests under its belt) got off to a slow......