HC Deb 23 February 1955 vol 537 cc1263-4
21. Mr. Russell

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will seek the abolition of the condition that customs documents for British motor cars visiting Spain must state the serial number and make of each tyre.

Mr. Turton

This condition does not appear sufficiently onerous or unusual to warrant the intervention of Her Majesty's Government.

Mr. Russell

Is it not rather a waste of time? No Spanish customs official ever bothers to check the numbers of tyres, and in any case, when one takes a car abroad four out of five tyres cannot possibly be new?

Mr. Turton

This regulation has been going on ever since 1910–45 years—and if it is time now for it to be altered, it would be wise for the motoring organisations to take up this matter with the Spanish motoring organisations.