§ 9. Dr. John Dunwoodyasked the Minister of Transport if she will take steps to ban the use of coloured side and parking lights on motor vehicles.
§ Mr. CarmichaelExisting regulations require side lights to be white and parking lights to be white to the front and red to the rear. I am not aware that there are any problems in this respect.
§ Dr. DunwoodyDoes not my hon. Friend realise that, despite the existing regulations, there are an increasing num- 414 ber of cars on the roads, usually of foreign manufacture, which carry amber or orange sidelights to the front and that in poor visibility it is difficult to distinguish whether they are coming or going? Would he ensure that his Department looks into the matter?
§ Mr. CarmichaelI am aware that there are occasional lapses in this matter. Vehicles brought temporarily into this country must abide by the 1949 Convention on road traffic. The position for vehicles registered in this country is quite clear—white to the front and red to the rear.