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'Law encourages inferior bodies'
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• Ill-prepared legislation in Britain has cramped the freedom of designers of specialist bodies to the point that unnecessary risks are being taken with safety. This, claims the Vehicle Builders and Repairers' Association, is the complaint among the Association's members and will be an issue which will dominate a special conference of vehicle-builder members being held on October 9 in Cheltenham.
There will be two papers presented at the conference. The first will be entitled Body Building for Europe, presented by John Dickson-Simpson of Transport Press Services, and the other will be entitled Code of Practice on Load Security presented by Mr W. Mills of the Freight Transport Association.
The VBRA maintains that vehicle licensing laws encourage operators to make enormous weight-savings and to achieve this the body builder is often compelled to construct an inferior body. In particular the Association complains of the below 30cwt unladen and within 30cwt to three tons unladen ranges.