Pleaded Guilty to 130 Summonses
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AFTER pleading guilty to 130 charges of illegal vehicle operation, fines totalling £85 15s. were imposed on a Warrington haulage concern and four of their sub-contractors by Altrincham magistrates, on Monday. It was stated that Messrs. J. A. Windle and S. Monks. 33 Bridge Street, Warrington, had been working for Norris, Morris and Co., Ltd., Warrington, civil engineers, who had left vehicle organization to the defendants.
To obtain licences from the North Western Licensing Authority, Norris had written a letter for submission in court, but the application had never been made and most of the work for the civil engineers had consequently been done by unlicensed vehicles.
Mr. J. A. Windle, explaining his conduct, told a traffic examiner that he and his partner were new to the haulage business. They had been so heavily engaged in obtaining traffic that clerical matters had got out of hand. Mr. S. Monks endorsed the statement.
A total of 71 charges was made against the two men and Mr. S. L. Jones, North Western traffic examiner, said that eight vehicles had been used without A licences and 'two had been used in breach of .normal user. Windle and Monks were ordered to pay £1 for each offence, and £10 10s. advocate's fees.
On 20 occasions, Francis Dunn, 675 Knutsford Road, Warrington, had operated vehicles withoutthe appropriate u2 licences, it was stated. He had been approached by Messrs. Windle and Monks to carry building materials and had obtained a short-term licence to do so. No attempt had been made to obtain a substantive A licence. He had continued operations knowing that it was wrong.
Dunn said that he had been assured it was in order for his vehicles to be put on the road, but he was fined a total. of £5, with a month to pay.
A Stockport haulier, Isaac C. Antrobus, 10 Hooley Range, Heaton Moor, pleaded guilty to an infringement of his specified normal user. He said that he had agreed to make_his vehicles available to Windle and Monks after being assured that an application for licences had been lodged by them. He had withdrawn as soon as he realized that this had not been done. It was pointed out that applications had to be made by individual hauliers and not by other operators, and Antrobus was fined £2 I5s. for 11 offences.
Similar charges were made against Eric Essex and Crowood Haulage, Ltd., both of 19 Choileys Lane, Widnes. They had been asked to put their vehicles on the road and had been assured by Windle and Monks that everything was in order.
Essex was fined £1 10s. on six charges and told to pay £2 2s. advocate's fee. Crowood Haulage were fined £5 10s. on 22 charges, and had to pay £5 5s. advocate's fee.