INSPECTION OF CARS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 455, 12 June 1937, Page 4

INSPECTION OF CARS

MANY WITH BRAKES DEFECTIVE

Necessiay Of Inspection Evident

I i Press Association —Conyr’erhi Wellington, June 11. i The Minister of Transport, the Hon. I R. Semple, announced to-day that re1 turns to hand from garages throughi out the Dominion showed that to 1 April 30 113,383 warrants for fitness i had been issued. i Details were not available regarding 9089 vehicles, J?ut of the remainI ing 104,294 vehicle: 20,966, or 20 per ; cent., qualified for the issue of wari rants of fitness without correction, ! while 83,328 vehicles, or 80 per cent. | required adjustment to bring them up i to the necessary standard of fitness ! before warrants could be issued for ! them. j . “The following summary,” said the : Minister, “shows an analysis of the j 104.294 vehicles for which details are | available under each heading covered : by the inspections:—Foot brakes cor- ! rect 72 per cent/, requiring attention 128 per cent.; hand brakes, 74, 26: I headlight, 29, 71; tail light, 83. 17; i wheel alignment and steering, 85. 15; : windscreen wiper, 85, 15; rear mirror, | 96, 4; warning device, 97, 3; door fast- ! enings, 97, 3. : “Apart from headlights, the most ly large number of vehicles with de- ■ fective brakes,” added Mr Semple. ; serious point disclosed is the relativei ‘Brakes are probably one of the most ■ important items in the proper control •of a vehicle, and I am satisfied it i would be hopeless to expect a rea- ’ sonable standard of safety on the roads with more than 30,000 vehicles with defective brakes ruhning at large.”