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Old 07-03-14, 12:54
Lynn Eades Lynn Eades is offline
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David, they had specially built Jeeps.

New Zealand has had on it's statutes a requirement for a LHD permit since about or before WWII. A few years ago it reared it's ugly head and we all had to have permits, to be carried in the vehicle at all times. It then slowly died away and I don't think we are required to carry one any more. It all came up over the import of LHD cars from the states, with government employees, paid to find ways to make our lives more difficult, and as someone already mentioned, the supposed high accident rate, which later prooved to be a jacked up statistic.
At the time government was looking to buy a replacement fleet of vehicles.
the hummer family was a consideration, It was soon dropped because there were no RHD ones being built and the Govt. of the day were not going to allow an exemption. That's my rough recall on the Kiwi perspective.
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