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Free pollution checks for cars, The Ontario Motor League will be offering motorists free pollution checks on their cars' exhaust systems beginning nex(...)
Free pollution checks for cars, The Ontario Motor League will be offering motorists free pollution checks on their cars' exhaust systems beginning nex(...)

Free pollution checks for cars, The Ontario Motor League will be offering motorists free pollution checks on their cars' exhaust systems beginning nex(...)

Date5/28/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Free pollution checks for cars; The Ontario Motor League will be offering motorists free pollution checks on their cars' exhaust systems beginning next week with the first mobile testing unit set up at Yorkdale shopping centre on June 7.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0010935F
      Strong message: Motorists on the Gardiner Expressway yesterday met up with this banner, hung by Greenpeace activicts to protest pollution from cars and mark the start of Bike to Work Week
      Strong message: Motorists on the Gardiner Expressway yesterday met up with this banner, hung by Greenpeace activicts to protest pollution from cars and mark the start of Bike to Work Week
      Greenpeace
      6/10/1991
      Clearing the air, Esso Petroleum Canada driver Yvon Bissonette checks the controls of a vapor recovery system, just launched to reduce air pollution b(...)
      Clearing the air, Esso Petroleum Canada driver Yvon Bissonette checks the controls of a vapor recovery system, just launched to reduce air pollution b(...)
      Dunlop, Al
      11/28/1991
      Getting the message, Greenpeace signs against car pollutions greet motorists heading downtown on the Gardiner Expressway today. The environment group (...)
      Getting the message, Greenpeace signs against car pollutions greet motorists heading downtown on the Gardiner Expressway today. The environment group (...)
      Stawicki, Andrew
      6/10/1991
      New year's eve can be an unpleasant time for motorists who drink too much and get caught at police spot checks
      New year's eve can be an unpleasant time for motorists who drink too much and get caught at police spot checks
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      12/26/1972
      Two cars were trapped on the crumbling bridge on Friday night and one of the motorists spent an anxious four hours on the roof of his car before being(...)
      Two cars were trapped on the crumbling bridge on Friday night and one of the motorists spent an anxious four hours on the roof of his car before being(...)
      Teskey, Frank
      10/21/1954
      Pollution-free car at U of T, University of Toronto engineering students show the space frame for the all-electric, pollution-free urban vehicle they (...)
      Pollution-free car at U of T, University of Toronto engineering students show the space frame for the all-electric, pollution-free urban vehicle they (...)
      Bull, Ron
      5/17/1972
      Car exhausts spew out half the pollution in the city air, Bill given good chance to pass U
      Car exhausts spew out half the pollution in the city air, Bill given good chance to pass U
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      4/23/1965
      Absentminded motorists who can't remember where they parked their cars in the underground lot beneath Nathan Phillips Square will have the use of this(...)
      Absentminded motorists who can't remember where they parked their cars in the underground lot beneath Nathan Phillips Square will have the use of this(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      11/6/1964
      It was slow, slow driving for Metro motorists yesterday and today as trucks and cars groped their way along snow-swept roads and highways. This line o(...)
      It was slow, slow driving for Metro motorists yesterday and today as trucks and cars groped their way along snow-swept roads and highways. This line o(...)
      Norris, Dave
      1/27/1971
      Midget motorists in pedal cars are being taught the basic rules of traffic safety in a model village in a shopping centre parking lot at Don Mills Rd.(...)
      Midget motorists in pedal cars are being taught the basic rules of traffic safety in a model village in a shopping centre parking lot at Don Mills Rd.(...)
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      5/2/1963
      Line-up wasn't worth it: Motorists drove up to 100 kilometres, lined up 50 cars long ad waited as long as 12 hours, all in vain, for gasoline prices to drop at a Cargo service station
      Line-up wasn't worth it: Motorists drove up to 100 kilometres, lined up 50 cars long ad waited as long as 12 hours, all in vain, for gasoline prices to drop at a Cargo service station
      Bock, Tony
      5/15/1983
      Junior Protesters Want Cars To Slow Down, Waving signs and yelling at motorists to slow down, a group of 15 girls stood for more than an hour on the s(...)
      Junior Protesters Want Cars To Slow Down, Waving signs and yelling at motorists to slow down, a group of 15 girls stood for more than an hour on the s(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      9/7/1973