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Uninsured Vehicle : Driver's Liability

1st April 1955, Page 47
1st April 1955
Page 47
Page 47, 1st April 1955 — Uninsured Vehicle : Driver's Liability
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Keywords : Truck, Trailer, Labor

IT was reasonable for a lorry driver to assume that the vehicle he was employed to drive was kept properly insured by his employers, Mr. Vincent Matthews declared at Brierley Hill court last week. He was submitting that there were special reasons why a man should not be disqualified from driving, although he had driven an uninsured vehicle.

Cyril Linsey, North Yard, Ruby Street, Llanelly, was fined £2 for failing to display two red reflectors at the rear of a trailer; £1 for not having a mudwing on the rear off-side wheel of the trailer; £3 for not having an efficient hand brake, and ES for driving without insurance.

His licence was endorsed on the last charge, but the magistrate found special reasons why he should not be disqualified.

His employer, John Davies, trading as M. Davies and Co., 6 New Zealand Street, Llanelly, was fined £2 for failing to provide the trailer with two red rear reflectors; £1 for allowing the mudwing offence; £1 for permitting the brake offence, and £10 with £10 I ls. special costs for permitting Linsey to drive without insurance. His licence was endorsed and he was disqualified from driving for 12 months in regard to the insurance.

Mr. Matthews, representing both defendants, said Linsey worked for Davies in the winter as a driver. When Linsey was stopped by the police at Brierley Hill, he thought the insurance policy covered the drawing of a trailer which, in fact, it did not.

VAUXHALL "STRAINED TO LIMIT"

PRODUCTION facilities of Vauxhall

I Motors, Ltd., were strained to the limit of capacity in 1954 to keep pace with demands, it is stated in the company's annual report. Output rose from 516 vehicles a day in December, 1953, to 577 a year later.

Total production in 1954 amounted to 130,951 vehicles—a record figure 19 per cent. higher than the 1953 total of 1,10,141. Sales of Bedfords exceeded 50,000 for the first time in any year. Export markets took 70,769 vehicles.

The number of employees reached 15,000. Earnings of hourly paid workers averaged £13 Is. 3d. a week..

Reference is made in the report to the unsettling effect of purchase tax and the inadequacy of the roads system.


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