£85 Fines for Exceeding Limit
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'r OR exceeding the 15-mile limit stipu1 latcd in their carrier's licence, Messrs. M. G. and A. E. Eaton, 11, Lawton Road, London, E.3, were fined £85, with £10 10s. costs, by Thames magistrates, last week.
The partners, Albert Edward Eaton and Mabel Grace Eaton, pleaded guilty to 17 summonses alleging failure to comply with their licence conditions and to failing to keep records of work. One of the firm's lorries was seen in Huntingdonshire and inquiries revealed that grain was being carried up, to 65 miles.
The defendants were asked to produce records for the 17 days on which it was alleged that they had committed offences. and Albert Eaton said that three weeks previously a large number of records had been destroyed and new ones compiled from memory.
The prosecuting solicitor declared that these records were completely false.