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Kōrero: Cars and the motor industry

Warrant of fitness

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Warrant of fitness

The motorist in this cartoon asks whether his car passed the emissions tests in a warrant of fitness examination. In 2006 a visual check of the amount of smoke emitted by the vehicle was added to the other tests for a warrant of fitness. This car would presumably have failed.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: DCDL-001852

by Allan Charles Hawkey

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Eric Pawson, Cars and the motor industry – Cars and urban planning, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/22872/warrant-of-fitness (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Eric Pawson, i tāngia i te 2 March 2010, updated 1 December 2014.