


The Swedish government decided to ban the EPA’s on the 31st of march 1975, but after a strong reaction from the public, they backed down and chose instead to stop registering new EPA-Tractors, and letting the existing ones continue running.įrom 1980 all EPA tractors had to be MOT tested every other year. Nyregistrering av EPA-traktorer upphörde år 1975 och ersattes då fullt ut av A-traktorer. Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Guidebook for State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Governments, and Other Partners (pdf) (1. The farmers swapped their EPAs with purpose built machines, and the youth started a subculture much like the American Hot Rods, with converting old cars.įrom 1952 all EPA Tractors had to wear a licence plate. Phosphogypsum is a material known by the EPA to contain a 'potentially cancer-causing, radioactive gas,' that's the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.

In the late 1930s the government estimated that there were approximately 5.000 of them running around on the roads, and decided in 1940 to pass the “EPA Tractor law”, with rules of how they must be built in order to be allowed to run on public roads.Īfter the second world war, the types of EPA’s you saw on the streets changed rapidly.
