![]() In the final week, over 10,000 people were issued with fully fledged driver licences. For weeks beforehand, queues would gather outside motor tax offices in order to beat the regulations. Every second man and woman in the country – many of whom never sat behind a wheel in their lives, and were unlikely ever to do so in the future – decided it was best to avail of the old system while they could, just to be sure. The cut-off date was announced by the Government several months in advance, with predictable results. You could apply for a one-year or a five-year licence, at the expiry of which you simply re applied in the same way, and carried on as before. Up to St Patrick’s Day of 1964, all you needed to be issued with a full driver licence was to be over sixteen, fill out the form, sign your name, hand over a one pound note, and away you went. And most would know little of the bumpy, stuttering start to driver testing before we reached the streamlined system of today. Readers of a younger vintage (to me, anyone under the age of 60!) would hardly be aware that there was a time when a driver had no need to pass a test before taking to the road. ![]()
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