In response to the question on the overspeed governor on the DHC-8, the overspeed governor test is now an engineering fuction and is not carried out by the flight crews on the normal first flight of the day checks.
Slight thread drift here, but similarly the T-handles are not pulled to test the fuel shut-off valves, we only test the loops for continuity, and the fire bells and fire detect lights in our company. This has also been relegated to an engineering fuction.