Maybe someone can clear the fog surrounding the above, or point me definitively!

 

I have an old twin axle braked trailer with rod operated over run brakes and a non damped over run head so experience 'push/pull' thro' the ball I think the unit predates '85 and the neccessity for any plate info, do i need ULW and MGW indicated?

The hitch is rated at 30cwt(1500kg), think the trailer is less than 10cwt(500kgs) unladen.

Help please!

As it is pre-85 then the rules as of that date apply, so no weight plate required.

If stopped a VOSA Inspector would check things like specific axle weight limits, hitch limits and tyre loads specifications, which would give him a Max Gross Weight limit.

Personally I would mark the trailer with an ULW and "sensible" MGW, using a dymo tape or even painted.

Thought you'd know! Thanks for the info, will get some stick on letters etc. However need to visit a local public weighbridge to get  weights of trailer and Marlin, which shouldn't be a prob, as the Marlin has a tow hitch(for lugging classic dinghies about here!

its an old Brian James transporter which I've now almost finished renovating/restoring, and  its to transport the Marlin about here ie to vintage /veteran tours etc now don't know if its me - the veteran/vintage!

Thought the car had to be veteran, not the owner..........................................

 

Somewhere I've got details of a big "classic" tour every year around Brittany, I think based on the museum at Loreac (??)

There are several, most or all organized by abva(ass Bret Vet auto), covering Bretagne, and western parts of Normandy. Normallystart at different location each year, but the tours tend to cycle round and return to a locale eavery 3 yrs. This last summer a tour started in Brest Sat of the Ascension day weekend and finished Quimper the Mon, a public hol here. It actually passed my house, 900 vehicles, lorries, coach/buses/ cars m/bikes and velosolex(motorised push bikes), it took over 4 hours to pass by and Chateaulin, a watering hole, was snarled up with huge traffic jams, irate parisiens wanting to cross the river to hit the auto routes home, apparently a cacophony of horns etc. The wonderful thing about it was a total lack of gendarme presence, and few security m/bikes - brilliant!

Yes there are also several star /finish at Loheac, dotted thro the year.

As an aside, protests here about carbon taxes etc, all the auto route/route nationale speed cameras have been destroyed by fire, I have a vision of hundreds of gendarmes hiding around the last one and on a meal break it was destroyed! Vast protests every weekend with water cannon out and being used, a wonderful spectator sport on the rolling news channels!

Coime and live in France, its never dull!!

Edited 19 November, 201312 yr by Frenchtone