diff --git a/quantities/tests/test_methods.py b/quantities/tests/test_methods.py
index ba184a3..94710f3 100644
--- a/quantities/tests/test_methods.py
+++ b/quantities/tests/test_methods.py
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ def test_sum(self):
         self.assertQuantityEqual(self.q.sum(1), [3, 7]*pq.m)
 
     def test_nansum(self):
-        import numpy as np
         qnan = [[1,2], [3,4], [np.nan,np.nan]] * pq.m
         self.assertQuantityEqual(qnan.nansum(), 10*pq.m )
         self.assertQuantityEqual(qnan.nansum(0), [4,6]*pq.m )
@@ -108,7 +107,7 @@ def test_nonzero(self):
         self.assertQuantityEqual(q.nonzero()[0], [0, 2, 3, 5])
 
     def methodWithOut(self, name, result, q=None, *args, **kw):
-        import numpy as np
+
         from .. import Quantity
 
         if q is None:
@@ -153,7 +152,6 @@ def test_nanmax(self):
         self.assertQuantityEqual(q.nanmax(), 4*pq.m)
 
     def test_argmax(self):
-        import numpy as np
         self.assertQuantityEqual(self.q.argmax(), 3)
         self.assertQuantityEqual(self.q.argmax(axis=0), [1, 1])
         self.assertQuantityEqual(self.q.argmax(axis=1), [1, 1])
@@ -178,7 +176,6 @@ def test_nanmin(self):
         self.assertQuantityEqual(q.nanmin(), 1*pq.m)
 
     def test_argmin(self):
-        import numpy as np
         self.assertQuantityEqual(self.q.argmin(), 0)
         self.assertQuantityEqual(self.q.argmin(axis=0), [0, 0])
         self.assertQuantityEqual(self.q.argmin(axis=1), [0, 0])
@@ -252,7 +249,6 @@ def test_mean(self):
         self.methodWithOut('mean', [1.5, 3.5] * pq.m, axis=1)
 
     def test_nanmean(self):
-        import numpy as np
         q = [[1,2], [3,4], [np.nan,np.nan]] * pq.m
         self.assertQuantityEqual(q.nanmean(), self.q.mean())
 
@@ -267,7 +263,6 @@ def test_std(self):
         self.methodWithOut('std', [0.5, 0.5] * pq.m, axis=1)
 
     def test_nanstd(self):
-        import numpy as np
         q0 = [[1,2], [3,4]] * pq.m
         q1 = [[1,2], [3,4], [np.nan,np.nan]] * pq.m
         self.assertQuantityEqual(q0.std(), q1.nanstd())
diff --git a/quantities/tests/test_numpy.py b/quantities/tests/test_numpy.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36d22f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quantities/tests/test_numpy.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import warnings
+from .. import QuantitiesDeprecationWarning, units as pq
+from .common import TestCase
+import numpy as np
+
+class TestNumpy2_0(TestCase):
+
+
+    # issues between NumPy < 2.0 and > 2.0 appear to be missed in current quantities testing
+    # https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/python-neo/pull/1490
+    # this is a small test class to add changes to ensure pre and post 2.0 compatability
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.q = [[1, 2], [3, 4]] * pq.m
+
+    def test_numpy_concatenate(self):
+
+        concatenated_array = np.concatenate((self.q.flatten(), self.q.flatten()))
+        self.assertQuantityEqual(concatenated_array, [1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4]*pq.m)
+    
+    def test_numpy_dtype(self):
+
+        test_array_float32 = np.arange(10, dtype=np.float32) * pq.s
+        self.assertEqual(test_array_float32.dtype, np.float32)
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