TESTING OF CARS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 63, 11 September 1937, Page 10

TESTING OF CARS

NEW HALF-YEAR PERIOD

Under the motor regulations drivers are required to carry warrants of fitness to be renewed at intervals of six months. The first half-year period commenced on March, 311, and consequently those drivers whose warrants were issued in the first'batches are now required to have their machines re-examined. The examination of cars has, in fact, been carried almost steadily on since the end of March, and the spreading out of those first examinations will in turn spread the reexamination dates as tb>e six months shown on the warrants expire.

The arrangements for examination are as they were on the introduction of the scheme; the City Traffic Office has its testing station at the Corporation Yard and owners who pisefejr to have their cars examined by private firms must obtain their warrants from one or other of the authorised garages. Some time ago a proposal was made that special equipment should be installed by the Corporation f<yr the much more expeditious examination and testing of brakes, headlight adjustment, wheel alignment, anjd general structural soundness and safely, but the proposal has not been carried further as yet. This equipment is ingenious and gives a positive test in much shorter time than that required for manual and visual examination. Each device attends to a particular noint, and the testing lanes are arrange^ so that the testing is made step by stgp as the cars move forward.

There is an item on the estimates for the purchase of the equipment this year, but apparently there is some difficulty over a building suitajble for its most efficient arrangement.