HC Deb 21 July 1938 vol 338 cc2405-6
25. Major Mills

asked the Home Secretary the number of cases in which the power of inspecting the brakes on motor vehicles given to the police by Section 95 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1937, has led to prosecutions; and in how many of such cases the decelerometer has been relied on as evidence?

Sir S. Hoare

I regret that the information asked for is not available.

Major Mills

Do the inquiries my right hon. Friend has made lead him to think that benches of magistrates are tending to accept the evidence of these machines?

Sir S. Hoare

I think my hon. and gallant Friend had better put that question down.

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