Derelict Cars

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29228, 11 June 1960, Page 3

Derelict Cars

Sir,—Observation over a considerable period encourages a suspicion that there are more derelict cars encumbering the city streets than there should be. How these decrepit vehicles reach their last resting-place was exemplified recently when two youths drove up in one such battered wreck, parked it opposite a bungalow in this area, got out, and disappeared into the blue. There the thing has remained. To whom should the affronted housewife appeal that the eyesore may be removed from her view—to the traffic authorities or the City Council? There should be an unequivocal answer to this or we may never get anywhere; nor will the car. Incidentally, how on earth have these vehicles, almost on the point of disintegration, got warrants of fitness? Or haven’t they?—Yours, etc-, June 5, 1960. R.S.V.P. [The Town Clerk (Mr H. S. Feast) replies: "The law permits the removal of an abandoned car if it is unregistered or if no licence to use the vehicle has been issued for the current licensing year. In answer to the specific questions contained in the letter, I would advise that the writer of I the letter should communicate with the City Council, which, if she resides in the city, is also the traffic authority. As she neither gives her address nor identifies the vehicles I cannot answer her question as to whether or not they carry a warrant of fitness.”]