§ Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGEasked the Minister of Transport if he will specify the classes of vehicles concerned in the instructions he has issued that certain classes of agricultural vehicles are to be shod with rubber when being used on roads?
§ Mr. HERBERT MORRISONI have made no regulations requiring agricultural vehicles, as such, to be equipped with rubber tyres. The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1931 (of which I am sending the hon. and gallant Member a copy), require locomotives and trailers generally to be so equipped as from 1st January, 1933, but in the interests of agriculture exemption has been made in respect of land locomotives and land tractors which are defined as locomotives and tractors designed and used primarily for work on the land in connection with agriculture, forestry, land levelling, dredging and similar operations which are driven on a road only when proceeding to and from the site of such operations and which, when so driven, haul nothing other than land implements and (in the case of land tractors) agricultural trailers.