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HEAVY PENALTIES FOR THEFT FROM LORRY

1st August 1947, Page 27
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SENTENCES totalling 354 years, and ranging from 18 months' imprisonment to seven years' penal servitude, were passed on eight men convicted in a road haulage robbery case at Leeds Assizes last week. A ninth Man received a nominal sentence. A tenth man failed to appear and a warrant

was issued for his arrest.

The proceedings arose from the theft of more than 2,000,000 cigarettes and 50 lb. of tobacco from a lorry operated by Archbolds (Freightage), Ltd., Leeds, during transit from Leeds to London. The prosecution's evidence was that, with the complicity of the lorry driver —who pleaded " guilty " and was sentenced to three years' penal servitude—the goods were stolen from the vehicle at Lofthouse Gate, near Wakefield, placed in a building there, and later moved to a farm at Shelley.

The plundered lorry was taken southward by the driver, who placed it in a lane off the Great North Road near Peterborough and then reported to the police that it had disappeared while he was having a meal in a caf& Passing sentence, Mr. Justice Singleton said this was a carefully planned scheme, and in the public interest substantial sentences should be passed.

COMMER-KARRIER AT ROYAL WELSH

VVISITORS to the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show, to be-held at Carmarthen from August 6-8, will find an imposing display of seven Commer and Karrier vehicles.

There will be six Commer vehicles, comprising an 8-cwt. van, a 25-cwt. van, a 3-4-ton drop-sided lorry, a 4-5-ton convertible cattle truck with Carmichael body, a 4-5-ton convertible end-tipper, and a 4-5-ton drop-sided lorry with Perkins P6 oil engine. The Karrier range will be represented by the CK3 3-4-ton drop-sided lorry.

COAL HAULAGE SLUMP "

LACK ACK of work" was the reason

given, last week, for the withdrawal of two applications to the East Midland Licensing Authority for licences to carry open-cast coal. It was stated that existing operators had been stood off. • EXTRA POST OFFICE FLEET IN USE

WITH the object of speeding up supplies of telephone equipment, and to lessen the load on the railways, the Post Office has started to use a countrywide road haulage service additional to the normal 23,000 postal service vehicles. About 200 lorries, of 3-ton to 10-ton capacity, are being used and operation will initially be from Wembley and Birmingham.

AUSTIN POST-WAR EXPORTS WORTH £15,000,000

SINCE the end of the war, Austin vehicles valued at more than £15,000,000 have been exported. This trade has' earned, substantially for British companies, more than £1,750,000 in inland and ocean freight, packing, insurance and shipping services—an average of 135 per vehicle.

• Chief markets for Austin commercial vehicles are Argentina, Eire, West Indies and Turkey. Finland and Spain have also taken substantial quantities. LORDS SUGGEST MORE AMENDMENTS TO BILL

CONTROVERSY over the Town and k•-' Country Planning Bill in the House of Lords, on Monday, caused consideration of the Transport Bill to be postponed until Tuesday.

The Lords had to consider the reasons of the House of Commons for disagreeing with the amendments to the Bill made by the Upper House. Although the Lords did not disagree with the Bill, several alternative amendments were moved.

One of the most important was to increase the radius for short-distance haulage from 25 miles to 40 miles, The Lords were willing that the 40-mile limit should remain as the critical mileage in distinguishing between longdistance and short-distance haulage.

Another amendment proposed that the Minister of Transport should consult the Transport Commission before appointing the Executives. A third transferred back to the: Commission the responsibility for proving that an undertaking should be nationalized, so long as the person on whom notice of acquisition had been served afforded the Arbitration Tribunal all the required information.

A fourth amendment proposed that if the Commission competed Unfairly with private operators on work other than ordinary long-distance transport, the Licensing Authority might refer the matter to the Minister, and the Minister might then require the Commission to modify its practices.

RED-AMBER SIGNAL TO REMAIN

THERE is to be no change in the 1 sequence of traffic-light signals, The Minister of Transport has come to this decision after considering the reports submitted to him on the recent experiments carried out at 35 crossings in London, Liverpool, Glasgow and Gloucestershire, at which the red-withamber signal has been omitted.

The numbers and types of accident which occurred at each crossing for an equal period before and after the change-over show no marked difference. On the other hand, the experiments indicated that the modified sequence gave rise to delay in vehicles starting.

NEW CLYDE TUNNEL APPROVED .

'TWIN tunnels tinder the Clyde. costI Mg £3,000,000, were approved by a Parliamentary Commission, which sat in Glasgow last week, Tunnels are to he built midway between the King George V Bridge, the most westerly existing bridge over the river, and the city boundary. They will he 805 yds. long and approach roads will extend north and south to a total of 360 yds.

118 AMBULANCES FOR LANCS

ANCASH1RE'S ambulance service, .1-4 proposed under the new Health Act, will call for 118 ambulances and 51 cars, costing £200,000, up to March 31, 1949. It will cover 1,621 sq. miles and serve a population of • 1,924,880. Ambulances will be pro• vided on the basis of one for 15,000 population.


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