INEFFICIENT CARS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1938, Page 7

INEFFICIENT CARS

OWNERS HOLDING WARRANTS OF FITNESS MORE CASES REPORTED IN CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH, April 6. 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. Levvey, 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 footbrake nor the handbrake registered on the braketesting machine, both being useless.”

This, Mr Brourton 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.