A seven. counts was imposed last week by Ammanford magistrates on
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George Wimpey and Co.. Ltd., which was alleged to have used vehicles for hire or reward under C licences and to have infringed the conditions of a B licence.
It was stated that the Wimpey company carried open-cast coal from a site at Saron to the Wernos washery at Penybank, Ammanford, in C-licensed vehicles. The prosecution maintained that B-licensed vehicles should have been used, and said that the goods were at all times the property of the
Ministry of Fuel and never that of Witnpey, The coal was carried for reward. •
The defence was that the coal was delivered or collected in the course of a trade or business carried on, and that it had been, or was to be, subjected to a process of treatment in the course of a trade or business carried on. Therefore, the company argued, the use of C-licensed vehicles was permissible.
It was indicated that the prosecution was regarded as a test case, and Mr. Morris Morgan, for the Ministry of Transport, said that the aggrieved party might take the matter to a higher court.