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900 PENNIES FOR THE GUY

12th May 1967, Page 77
12th May 1967
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A NORTH Westmorland haulage firm,

summoned at Penrith (Cumberland) Maas' Court last week for failing to preserve drivers' records, said the documents were accidentally destroyed on Guy Fawkes night.

Tuer's Motors Ltd. of Morland, near Penrith, was fined £1 with 13s. expenses and £2 2s advocate's fee, after Mr. G. N. Worthington, prosecuting for the Ministry of Transport, had explained that employers had to preserve drivers' records for three months.

In December, when a Ministry inspector visited the company to check records for October, Mr. Fred Tuer said: "All the records up to the end of October were accidentally destroyed on the bonfire on November 5."

One of the firm's directors told the court the destruction was done in error,


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