PRIOR TO SALE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 212, 7 September 1935, Page 14

PRIOR TO SALE.

USED CARS INSPECTED. AMERICAN SYSTEM ADVOCATED'. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) "'J WELLINGTON, Friday. A sj-stem of reducing fatalities and damage due to motor accidents, was advocated by Mr. A. E. Ansell (Govt., Chalmers) in the House of Representatives. He thought it would reduce fatalities by 2.3 per cent, this being the actual experience in American cities where it is in practice. All used cars, Mr. Ansell said, were inspected before being sold or delivered, thus automatically removing from th/> road all ramshackle vehicles. The mechanical condition of a car when driven on the highways was a matter of public concern and should be subject to regulation. ThQje had been too much looseness in the past. He recently arrived on the scene of an accident, and the car involved was so ramshackle that he would not have given half a crown for it. The plan he suggested, he claimed, was a practical, common sense one for the safeguarding of life and property, reducing insurance cover and creating employment.