DRIVING TESTS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21413, 4 March 1935, Page 6

DRIVING TESTS

INSTITUTION IN BRITAIN MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT OUTLINES SCHEME (BRITISH orriCIAL WiaZLBSS.) (Received March 2, 5.5, p.m.) RUGBY, March 1. Speaking in the House of Commons Mr L. Hore-Belisha (Minister for Transport) outlined the steps which he had taken to institute a svstem of tests for new applicants for licenses to drive motor vehicles. The new organisation would have this work as its special duty, and would, be based on the 12 existing traffic areas, with a supervising examiner in charge of each area and a chief examiner at headquarters. Under these supervising examiners, Iherc will be 250 ordinary examiners. All the supervisors had now been selected and more than half the examiners. A maximum fee of 10s for those undergoing the test had originally been contemplated, but it had been found that at 7s 6d the service will be self-supporting. It was estimated that there would be 400,000 new drivers examined every year. In the case of large organisations such as the army, navy, air force, post office, police, and employers of not fewer than 250 drivers, those organisations will have their own examiners, authorised to issue the I certificate.