Failure in Tests

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 7

Failure in Tests

CARS WITH WARRANTS Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, East Night. Additional cases of cars lhal had been given warrants of fitness by garages and xvere later found to be in an inefficient condition were mentioned to-day by the chief traffic inspector (Mr. J. Bruorton), who supported the viexv of Mr. E. C. Eevvey, 8.M., expressed in the Alagislrate ’a 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 ou Alarch 30, xvheu it was issued by the garage coucerned with a warrant. On the following day the purchaser underwent a test for the issue of a driver’s license.

“The examining inspector failed the applicant and put in a report that the car was not efficient,” Air. 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, Mr. Bruorton 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.