In the past, cars were a luxury item and certainly not something that every family had – nowadays it is not uncommon for families to have more than one car. As you can imagine, this meant that roads in the UK were much less busy than they are now, but of course as time went on cars became something that more people owned and as roads and motorways were developed in the 1960s and 1970s, a car became something that more families had, and of course the roads gradually became busier.
With more people taking to the roads, there had to be more services in place for the extra traffic, and also there needed to be more laws in place to help keep the roads safe. In 1960, the MOT test was first introduced in the UK.
Originally, this was only something that vehicles that were ten years or older had to undertake, but by the time the 1960s were over, the rules had changed to what they still are today – cars that are three years or older need to have an MOT test.
When you go for a modern-day MOT test at your local garage like this MOT Gloucester based company www.123carandcommercial.com/mot-gloucester/ your vehicle will have a lot of thorough checks done in it to ensure that it is safe and meets the modern standards to be on the road. Many of these modern checks however were introduced gradually and they are certainly different now to how they were when the MOT test was first brought in! Differences include the legal requirement to have seatbelts and checks on the horn and the windscreen wipers.
