£56 Fines for Using Unfit Vehicles
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THE drive by the West Midland Licensing Authority against the use of unfit vehicles continues. Last week Kidderminster magistrates heard charges by the Authority against a number of operators alleged to have run defective vehicles. They imposed fines and costs totalling £56 4s.
W. S. Southall, Ltd., Priory Street, Dudley, were fined £5 for permitting a vehicle to be used in an unsound condition, £5 for having inefficient steering and £5 for having a defective rear tyre. They were also ordered to pay £3 3s. costs. Mr. G. Green, for the defendants, said that instructions had now been given for each of the company's lorries to be examined at least monthly.
Samuel Spencer, Swancote Farm, Chaddesley Corbett, was fined £6, with £3 8s. costs, for allowing a vehicle to be used with ineffective brakes. It was stated that the vehicle could be pushed along when the hand brake was applied.
"We have had a very gruelling sugar-beet campaign and that perhaps accounts for it," stated the defendant.
On similar summonses of allowing vehicles to be used with inefficient brakes, Thomas Ernest Bisbrown, Musgrove, Kingswinford, Dudley, was fined £4, with £3 9s. costs; Richard Henry Mansell, Cartway, Bridgnorth, £4, with £3 8s. costs; and James Preston Snelson, Grange Farm, Hilton, Bridgnorth, £3, with £3 3s, costs.
Three partners in Messrs. Howell Bros., 415 Hurcott Road, Kidderminster, were each fined £1 10s. and ordered to pay £3 3s. costs for failing to comply with the conditions of a C licence, in that a vehicle was not maintained in good condition.
Mr. G. F. Davies, defending, said that the firm owned a small bakery. As a result of the case they had decided to take all their vehicles off the road and discontinue delivering bread in the town.