FAILURE IN TESTS
CARS WITH WARRANTS
CASES IN CHRISTCHURCH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
Additional cases of cars that had been given warrants of fitness by garages and were later found to be in an inefficient condition were mentioned today by the chief traffic inspector (Mr. J. Bruorton), who supported the view of Mr. E.- C. Lev'vey, S.M., expressed in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, that "someone must be issuing defective warrants." '" ■ . Mr. Bruorton said that the warrants were being issued not for .customers' cars, but for cars to be sold through the second-hand department of a firm. He mentioned one case where. a man bought a second-hand car on March 30, when it was issued by the garage concerned with a warrant. On the following day the purchaser underwent a test for the issue of a driver's licence. "The examining inspector failed the applicant and put in a- report that the car was not efficient," Mr. Bruorton said. "We sent the car round. to the City Council testing station and found it to be not only inefficient, but dangerous. A report from the testing station stated that the steering was defective and neither the foot brake nor, the hand brake registered on the brake-testing machine,' both being useless." -• This, lyir. Briu-rton added,, was ■by no means an isolated case. ' He mentioned another car given a warrant by .a garage on March 28 and which had failed to pass, the testing station's, requirements yesterday. ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 12
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244FAILURE IN TESTS Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 12
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