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21st October 1966
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VHEN Customs officers found traces of duty-free oil in the fuel tanks o(two buses )3r seized eight buses belonging to a Fife to of coach hirers. Later the buses were sold ck to the firm, Rennie's Lion and Comfort )aches Ltd., of Main Street, Cairmeyhill, £25 each.

This was revealed at Dunfermline Sheriff mrt last week when Rennie's admitted using proportion of duty-free gas oil in the buses xed with normal diesel fuel. The firm was ed .£25. The court was told that Customs ficers found traces of gas oil in the fuel tank

one of the buses during a roadside check. hen one of the partners in the firm returned the garage while they were carrying out eir tests they became suspicious, followed m, and found him draining the fuel tank of 'other bus.

An agent said that the firm had a tank of gas 1 for a legitimate purpose. A man who had :en employed by the firm for only three weeks id used this to top up bused when he ran it of diesel fuel. The instructions to the nployee who normally fuelled the buses, but as in hospital at this time, were to buy diesel 1 at local garages if the firm's own supply ran

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