Testing starts in Scotland
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• Next Monday, December 2, testing and plating of goods vehicles begins at official Ministry of Transport stations in Scotland. The scheme in England and Wales began on October 1. The Scottish scheme will be officially inaugurated on Monday by Mr. Neil Carmichael, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, at the Bishopbriggs test station near Glasgow.
Full-time testing stations in Scotland are located at Bishopbriggs, Livingston lEclinburghl, Inverness, Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and Perth, but there are 15 auxiliary stations as well.
The first Scottish-based vehicles for test are those registered before January 1, 1958 and weighing more than 3 tons unladen. Application for tests for these vehicles (to the Goods Vehicle Centre at Swansea. Glam) is required before December 31, the vehicles being tested betWeen the beginning of December and the end of January. After January 31 it will be an offence to use a vehicle of this class on the road without a valid plating certificate and a test certificate.
Pre-1958 vehicles weighing less than 3 tons unladen and based in Scotland are due to be tested from the beginning of February next, and applications for test will be accepted from January 1.
Trailers are listed separately from the goods vehicles themselves, but in Scotland the tests for trailers, too, will commence on December 2. The first category in this case is trailers manufactured before January 1, 1959.