Repossession of Vehicle Heralds Fines
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WliN haulier Sidney Moss Lighton, cf Boston, Lines, fell behind with payments on two vehicles, the Mercantile Credit Co., Ltd., decided to repossess them. Last January they pounced on one at a level-crossing in Boston and the other at the village of Fishtoft.
This story was told to Boston magistrates last week —because the finance company asked Kenneth Bruce Marshall to drive the unlicensed vehicles to a garage. Consequently, Lighton, Marshall and the company were accused of using the vehicles without licences.
Mr. G. F. Roberts, prosecuting for Holland County Council, said that Lighton, now bankrupt, was the registered owner of the lorries at the time they were repossessed. Marshall was acting on the finance company's instructions when he took them to the garage.
For Mercantile Credit, Mr. G. G. A. Whitehead pointed out that although they were the owners of lorries whose purchase they had financed, the hirepurchase agreement stipulated that the hirer had to keep the vehicles licensed.
They were fined a total of £10 with 15s. 10d. costs; Lighton was fined £20, with similar costs; and Marshall £4, with 15s. 7d. costs.
UNLAWFUL OPERATION ADMITTED
FOR breaking the law by operating his
vehicle without the appropriate licences on six occasions, a St. Helens haulier was fined £50 and ordered to pay £10 advocate's fee by Liverpool magistrates, on Monday.
Arthur Charles 'Harrison, Beechfield, Glazebrooke Road, Glazebrooke, St. Helens, pleaded guilty to charges made by the North Western Licensing Authority. He admitted that he had recently operated vehicles without licence, and carried a valuable cargo of tobacco from Southampton.
Mr. R. Slinger, for Harrison, said that for a long time the accused had been a very sick man. He had been heavily punished by a fine of nearly £170 for his past misdeeds (The Commercial Motor, May 6, 1960). When approached to carry tobacco from Southampton he had been extremely ill and under normal circumstances would have asked the Licensing Authority for a licence.
RAILWAYS MUST HAVE GOODS
THE necessity for the railways to have freight traffic if they are to survive was stressed by Sir Brian Robertson, chairman, British Transport Commission, at the annual meeting of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce on Monday. He said that the Commission had made every effort to attract back traffic which had been lost to road haulage.
Sir Brian said that he hoped the time would never come when the railways would have to cut down on passenger trains, as had been done in the eastern parts of America.