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A BOLTON garage was celebrating being well ahead of its time in 1976. McIntyre s Garage on Cuthbert Street off St Helens Road had become the first garage in the town to be authorised to carry out MOTs under new conditions imposed by the Department of the Environment. The garage had installed what was then the latest hi-tech equipment including sophisticated brake and headlamp setting machines which complied with the new regulations. Back in 1976 there wasn t the need for complex diagnostic machines which are essential today. The new rules weren t due to come into force until June 1, 1979, when all testing stations would have comply but owner Len McIntyre had wasted no time in getting ahead of the competition.