news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/26/newsid_2502000/2502691.stm
"Discounted driving licences, known as half-rate licences - issued to drivers using basic petrol - will also be abolished."
Does this make any sense? A minute or two on google was no help.
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I can only surmise tht they were licenses issued to those performing essential services and and using the coloured fuel allocated for those purpose. Private motoring was forbidden. There were no driving tests during the war so I assume driving licenses were issued solely for that purpose.
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There were
>> no driving tests during the war so I assume driving licenses were issued solely for
>> that purpose.
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No, anyone could get a driving licence. You didn't need to have a car.
My mother and her sister bought licences at a Post Office while they were at school, just for a lark.
My mother took a test 20 years later when she began driving, but my aunt used hers all her life.
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"My mother and her sister bought licences at a Post Office"
Yes that 's what I meant. Anyone could get a licence without a test. You would still need a licence to drive for essential war work, personal motoring being forbidden. I suspect that these licences were sold at a reduced rate (half rate) as no test was involved.
After the war when testing was resumed the sale of "half rate" licences came to an end.
Anyway that's my theory!
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Discounted Driving Licences (half-rate licences) - CGNorwich
