(Have posted new photos of the tyres at bottom of previous page, for what it's worth...)
Remember that this is how the likes of the local press and PHTM portrayed it all back then:
PHTM wrote:
Out of 206 taxis inspected, a staggering 45 – or 22% – failed their initial safety assessments. The catalogue of faults included punctures, deep tyre cuts, defective seatbelts, and fluid leaks. In one alarming case, a taxi meter was found to be running too fast, potentially overcharging passengers.
Then you get the likes of the fleet service experts telling councillors that you should be able to see tyre faults in daily walkround checks
Ergo, councillors and the public think you're driving round with something that can be seen just by getting out of your motor and glancing down, or whatever.
Same with likes of the illegal number plate thing. It's a tiny wee issue that if on a non-plated vehicle no-one would even notice, never mind do anything about it. But it reads like it some sort of huge scam with a registration issue, or whatever
(And, as I think I said previously, I think one driver
did have properly illegal number plates - he'd bought personalised plates, and put them on his motor before they were properly registered with the DVLA as transferred to his car. But because it didn't happen during his taxi inspection, he's regarded as whiter than white in that regard
)
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