Companies failed to check delivery tickets
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• After two drivers short-weighted on coke deliveries in Kent. a solid fuel merchant end two sub-contracting hauliers appeared before Wingham and Sandwich magistrates this week to admit a number of offences under the Trade Description and Weights and Measures Acts.
William Cory and Son Ltd, fined a total of £30 for 32 and three offences respectively, also admitted 32 offences of recklessly making false statements and was fined a further £190. A. Truder (Transport) and Co Ltd, of Bromley, was fined £210 for 32 Trade Descriptions offences and £30 for three Weights and Measures offences: Thomas Evans (Welling) Ltd was fined £40 for five of the former offences and £45 on three of the latter.
Mr Roderick McVarish, prosecuting, said Cory's delivery tickets were headed "solid delivery in sacks" but were delivered by conveyor belt: there had been a lack of diligence by the companies and the two drivers were short-weighting customers. A check between the weighbridge ticket and gas works, and the delivery ticket with the index number of the delivering vehicle, would have revealed the discrepancies. There was no suggestion of fraud on the part of the companies.
The two drivers, Trevor Green of Erith, and Brian Chalmers, a Londoner, were each fined £12 for offences under the Weights and Measures Act. They had previously been fined £140 each and given a six months' jail sentence, suspended for two years, by Dover Magistrates for the theft of the coke.