£500 Fines to Stand
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appeal by Harold Jefferies, of ishey Ground, Minster Lovell, 'shire, against his conviction and :e by Cirencester magistrates on 3 concerning breaches of the caricences regulations was dismissed lucester Quarter Sessions Appeals last week.
ries had been fined the maximum on each of 10 charges, a total of vith 117 17s. costs: chairman, Mr. W. G. Milne, said :5 seemed to have made a mockery traffic regulations for some 20 The court saw no reason to interth the sentences.
John Griffiths said, on January 20 ;le driven by a man named Hill, as employed by Jefferies, called at ;I pit, at South Cerney, owned by iffiths and Son, was loaded with and driven away. Later an invoice nt by Jefferies to Griffiths and Son ig payment for carrying gravel for Jefferies held no A licences, but hold C licences.
Griffiths said there were 58 preconvictions against Jefferies for motoring offences, five of which concerned breaches of the carriers' licences regulations.
The court confirmed the order by the magistrates that the fines and costs should be paid at •the rate amounting to 120 a month.
B.M.C. PROFITS HALVED
rOMPARED with the previous year,
group profits •of the British Motor Corporation dropped by more than half —from £31,980,253 to £15,549,827—in the year ended July 31 last. The dividend, however, is held at is. per 5s. Ordinary, or at 20 per cent, with a final of Thcl. per share. Production fell from 669,122 vehicles to 601,399.
EXPERT ADVICE
TTRAFFIC administration and organiza1 tion will be the subject of a talk to be given by Mr. Martin Brown, a director of S.P.D., Ltd., at an open meeting of the Southampton Area of Traders Road Transport Association, at the Star Hotel, Southampton, on November 22 at 7.30 p.m.