Substituted Lorry : Fined £24
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FINES totalling £24, and special costs I of £9 3s., were imposed on Sunley Transport (Stafford), Ltd., by Rugeley magistrates last week, when the company pleaded guilty to five charges concerning two of their lorries at the Rugeley depot.
Mr. 0. K. Owen, prosecuting, said that on April 13, police stopped a lorry owned by the defendants in Brereton Road, Rugeley. After examining the vehicle, the police visited the Sunley depot and found that the lorry had been masquerading as another vehicle with a damaged engine.
The number plates had been changed, there was no carrier's licence in force for the lorry in question, nor was there a proper excise licence.
Defending, Mr. J. Foley Eggington said that out of 50 vehicles, the company were authorized to use 46 to carry goods. If they wished to use one of the others, application had to be made to the taxation authority. Permission was given to use the particular lorry two days after the offences had been committed.
Without seeking permission, they used the lorry and, through an excess of enthusiasm to keep the traffic moving, did the " silly thine of changing the number plates.
POLICE SAFETY CAMPAIGN A PROLONGED campaign to reduce .1-1 road accidents in London was launched by the Metropolitan Police on Monday. During the campaign, which has as its keynote "Courtesy Everybody Please," 300 traffic patrols, mainly on foot, will man 64 black spots," where they will control traffic and pedestrians.
The " black spots" will be marked by portable signs exhorting drivers to drive carefully and asking all road users to show courtesy to one another. ANOTHER YEAR FOR CHARGES SCHEMES THE Minister of Transport has allowed the British Transport Commission another year in which to prepare and submit to the Transport Tribunal the Commission's draft charges schemes. A passenger scheme is already in force, and a draft railway goods scheme is before the Tribunal. The B.T.C., however, require more time for outstanding schemes relating to port facilities and inland waterway tolls.
Port charges will take some time to work out.
Police Prosecuted Too Late
WOLVERHAMPTON police admin
YY was criticized last Friday by Mr. Kenneth Wood, Stipendiary
Magistrate, when he heard that a notice of prosecution against Kenneth Jones, 95 Layoman Walk, Stourport, driver of a petrol tanker, had been sent after the statutory 14 days for its issue had expired.
After an accident in Wolverhampton on May 27, the number of Jones' tanker was given to the police, who alleged that he had been responsible for the accident, although he had not been involved in it.
Local inquiries failed to trace the owners of the vehicle. The police then asked for information from the London County Council, with whom the vehicle was registered. A form was sent to London on May 30. No reply was received. Another form was not sent until June 13, after the statutory period for the notice. of intended prosecution had expired. The L.C.C.'s reply was* received on June 16, and a notice of prosecution was issued that day.
The defence was that under Section 21 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, notice had to be served within 14 days, but this requirement could be waived if due diligence had been exercised. It was argued that the police had not been diligent.
' Mr. Wood agreed with this submission, pointing out that for 13 days from May 30, nothing had been done. In any event, it was then too late.
He dismissed a charge of driving without reasonable care and awarded £5 5s. costs against the police.
'fill:SM. TO REPLACE RAIL?
FOLLOWING a report by the general manager of the transport department on the effects of a possible closure of the dockside overhead railway, Liverpool Transport Committee have asked for his views on acquiring motorbuses from the London Transport Executive and of employing crush-load single-deckers. It is also proposed to invite tenders for the supply of 70 new buses.
LOCKHEED TO MAKE IN INDIA LLOCKHEED hydraulic brakes and Borg and Beck clutches are to be manufactured in India, according to a statement made in Bombay by Mr. Cecil Hayes, of Automotive Products, Ltd. Mr. Hayes added that Automotive Products of .India, Ltd., Bombay, would begin production in three months.
NOT DRIVING, BUT IN CHARGE
/-1 A LORRY driver who had had too
much to drink was, on Monday, found guilty by Feltham magistrates of being drunk while in charge of ihe vehicle, although his mate was driving. The driver, James lowers, OIdfield Lane, Greenford, Middx, was fined flO and ordered to pay i10 10s. costs.