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£1,100 Fines for Fuel Duty Evasion
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THE evasion of Customs duty as a result of using tractor fuel instead of dery in motor coaches and lorries led to two brothers being fined a total of £1,100 at Bakewell last Friday. They were also ordered to pay costs of £50. John William Mycock and Dennis Mycock, of Rowson House, Monyash, pleaded not guilty to 12 charges.
It was said that in addition to a haulage and coach business, the two men with their mother owned a farm on which there was a tractor. It was unlikely that one tractor could have used the quantities of tractor fuel that had been bought.
The defence said that the bulk purchases of dery were not the whole amount used because frequently vehicles had to be refuelled by bunkering arrangements on journeys. One lorry had used 156 gallons of dery bought on the road in less than two weeks.
The chairman of the magistrates said that they regarded the charge as very serious and that they were bound to impose heavy penalties. The men were fined £100 on each of the first 10 charges and £50 on each of thc other two.
PRODUCTION CONTINUES
PRODUCTION of normal type Atkinson vehicles will not be affected by the recent fire at the company's office section at Preston. A considerable amount of records was lost and a certain number of special classes of vehicle, under development, may be delayed for a short period.