Recent Book: Motor Vehicle Testing and Plating
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X7705000312 |
| Date | 01 July 1977 |
| Published date | 01 July 1977 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
RECENT BOOKS
SIR
ROBERT
MARK:
Policing a perplexed society. George Allen &Unwin.
Hardback
£5.00.
Paperback
£2.50.
The
Police Journal is privileged to In
an
era
not
noted for
articulate
have printed more
than
one
of
this senior police officers,
Robert
Mark
not
collection
of
papers delivered by Sir only had something
worth
saying
but
Robert
to a wide variety
of
different he was prepared to say it.
audiences between 1971
and
1976.
Now
that
he has retired,
one
can
When one has the
opportunity
to only hope
that
this is a
"trailer"
for
read
them
in this collected edition, you more
of
the Marksist texts the service
become even more conscious of the so badly needs.
quality
of
the
man
and
the debt the
AEOlUS
police service will always owe him.
McLEAN
and
MORRISH:
The Magistrates Court. An Index
of
Common
Penalties
and
Formalities.
Third
Edition. Barry Rose (Publishers) Ltd.
It
is a measure
of
the success of a information in an easily accessible
and
legal work when it can be seen amongst compact form. This
book
fulfils
that
the established reference books
upon
need admirably.
It
is designed as a
the desks
of
the Crown
Court
and "comprehensive reference guide to
Magistrates
Court
clerks. This book, everyone whose work takes
them
into
together with its sister volume:
The
the magistrates
and
juvenile
courts".
Crown
Court,
can
be seen regularly in As many practitioners
and
police
both
tribunals,
and
it takes very little officers have already discovered,
the
perusal
of
it to discover the reason why. learned
authors
have succeeded in
Sentencing has become such a compli- their stated aims.
cated
matter
and
so tied up with
H.C.W.
formality
that
one has dire need of
c. C.
TOYNE,
B.Sc., E.ENG., F.I.MECH.E.,
M.I.E.E.:
Motor Vehicle Testing
and Plating. Paperback, 120 pages. Liffon Engineering Services,
Evington House,
The
Avenue,
Northwood,
Middlesex,
HA6
2NL.
£2.25.
Mr. Toyne is the
Head
of
the complex subject in a very practical
Vehicle Inspection Division
of
the manner.
Department
of
Transport,
alecturer The book is in two parts.
Part
I deals
on his subject
and
Vice-Chairman
of
with the
statutory
annual inspection
the International Committee on
Motor
of
goods vehicles.
Part
II
is devoted to
Vehicle Inspection. the
"M.O.T."
inspection
of
passenger
Books are very rare indeed on the cars and
motor
cycles.
requirements
of
the law in respect of Guidance is given which
can
be
the
Motor
Vehicles (Construction and most useful to Traffic Division vehicle
Use) Regulations
and
The
Goods
examiners
and
to personnel employed
Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regula- in Police workshops.
tions. By means of questions
and
R.H.H.
answers the
author
deals with this
H.L.S.
July 1977
296
YVES
CADIOU
and
ALPHONSE
RICHARD:
Modern Firearms.
Routledge, Kegan Paul. £12.00 net.
This
book
is undoubtedly aimed at
ground
so
that
much of the detail has
the collector
of
firearms and although been lost.
it would be of interest to
Weapon
The
majority of the information
Training Instructors it could
not
be published in this volume has obviously
relied on as a reference book, as in been gleaned from
other
less expensive
many
cases it lacks detail.
and
more detailed publications and I
On the whole I found the
book
to be feel
that
the price of this one at £12 is
well illustrated
but
in some cases the
rather
excessive.
subject has been posed on a black back-
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