HC Deb 14 May 1962 vol 659 cc107-8W
Sir G. Wells

asked the Minister of Works whether he will give instructions that all vehicles used by his Department on the public highway shall be fitted with direction indicators.

Lord John Hope

It is my Department's policy that, with the exception of tractors, mechanical handling plant, motor cycles and motor cycle combinations, all its new vehicles shall be fitted with direction indicators. Less than fifty of nearly one thousand existing vehicles are without direction indicators. These are older vehicles due to be replaced in the next few years. Most of them are heavy trucks and tippers used mainly on site work; if they have to be used to any extent on busy roads they will be fitted with indicators.