USE OF TRAILERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 8

USE OF TRAILERS

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —The motoring fraternity is indebted to the Transport Department for its unseasonable advice concerning trailers. As you remark, "the majority of motorists do not know they require a warrant of fitness for a trailer or caravan." Well, they have been told now—four days from the end of the working week,. and the next day Christmas Eve. If all the trailers that repose in blissful ignorance of "shall nots" were now to be produced to the workshops for conversion to the "shall haves," the concentrated efforts of all the workshops, plus the good will of the Transport Department, could not effect the changes necessary. I refer in particular to the ban on adapted, front axles. What can be the particular objection to these, if they are properly secured, I cannot fathom. The makers designed them for harder work than that they are called upon for in use on trailers. Even our civic authorities use them. And adaptation of back axles? lam no engineer and just how they can be used does not suggest itself; but as the front axle has always been used it does indicate some difficulty not known to the Transport Department. I have y only seen one, and that was derelict on the side of the road near Napier. But in any case, four days! It would appear that having to work dtself during the festive season, this Department will spoil the days for as many as possible. So this modern and unregenerate Scrooge goes its way. " Yet the Hon. R. Semple twelve months ago advocated the use of trailers in preference to loading down the back of the car.— I etc., , TINyTIM