Drawbar Pin Unsafe: Two Fined
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THE driver of a farm tractor and his employer were fined at Daventry last week in connection with the use of a drawbar pin, said to be of common type, which was not secured to prevent its falling out when the vehicle was in motion.
Maurice Frieze Tew, aged 26, Church Street, Crick, farm worker, was summoned for driving a tractor towing two trailers when the trailers were in such a condition that danger was likely to be caused to any person on the vehicle, trailer Or road. The farmer for whom he worked was prosecuted for permitting the offence.
Constable Main said that he saw Tew driving a tractor and the rearmost of its two trailers broke loose and crashed into a post. At the front of the trailer was a drawbar in which were holes for the units to he coupled together. The pin which had fallen from the trailer was 94 in. long.
Tew said that the pin came out when he pulled to one side to allow a car to overtake. There were five similar trailers on the farm: this was the first occasion a pin had come out.
The farm manager said that a pin placed through the drawbar was the customary method of fixing one trailer to another.
ONE-DAY STRIKE OVER SHORTER WORKING WEEK
THE return to local service of drivers
who, during the summer, trans. ferred to long-distance coaches of associated companies, caused an unofficial one-day token strike of about 75 per cent, of the drivers and conductors of Cheltenham District Traction Co. on Saturday. The return of the drivers to local work has meant fewer working hours for the other drivers.
498 PERKINS MUNICIPAL USERS !".
A TOTAL of 498 local authorities— over a quarter of those in Britain —used Perkins engines, claimed Mr. L W. Bugg, vehicle branch manager of F. Perkins. Ltd., when he spoke to the north-eastern centre of the Institute of Public Cleansing at York last week. Four years ago there were 29 Perkins users among municipalities.