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Davis Brothers Fined for Licence Disc and Haulage Offences

11th November 1960
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DAVIS BROTHERS (HAULAGE), LTD., of 52 Grays Inn Road, W.C.1, were fined £50 at Old Street Magistrates Court on Monday for using a vehicle identity certificate with intent to deceive. They were also ordered to pay £18 5s. costs.

On a second 'summons, also brought by Traffic Examiner Philip George Wainwright, for using a vehicle for the carriage of goods for hire or reward without a carrier's licence, the company were fined £20. Mr. D. Purcell, for Davis Brothers, pleaded not guilty to both summonses.

Mr. Michael Hill, prosecuting, said the company were summoned for their use of vehicle TGU597 on August 23. On the vehicle was found an identity certificate issued on October 12, 1956. pursuant to a licence granted to a Mr. F. Youldon, who died in September, 1956.

Under the Act, said Mr. Hill, one could not assign or transfer. a licence. The vehicle, when seen on August 23, was loaded with 140 boxes of oranges arid was outside the premises of a firm called Adler and Sons. The court would hear that 82 boxes of oranges had been delivered at the agreed rate of 7d. a box and that the money was paid to someone other than to Davis Brothers.

Mr. Goodman Schneider, director of Adler and Co., Ltd., 92 C.'ornmercial Street, Stepney, said the invoice delivered to him was from H.A.W. Transport, Ltd. He did not deal with the defendant company.

Mr. Hill read a letter to the authorities in which Davis Brothers said that TGL1597 was not operated by them on August 23.

Mr. Wainwright agreed with Mr. Purcell that TGU597 was on an A licence. The identity document carried on the vehicle was in respect of that A licence. There was nothing against defendant company being the owner of a vehicle and it being used by someone else.

Mr. Nathan Tresman, cashier employed by Davis Brothers, said that the defendant company and H.A.W. Transport were separate entities but he believed there was some association between them. They had the same registered office.

FEWER FORMS THE need to keep records of diesel fuel I used by road vehicles may be ended if the Commissioners of Customs and Excise introduce a scheme, now under consideration, of marking duty-free heavy oils with chemical tracers and colouring substances.

The scheme cannot be introduced until the regulations have been made and the necessary equipment installed and it is emphasized. that the records ritil5t continue to be kept in the meantime.


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