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DEFERENCE to a previous conviction IN. at Liverpool in October for similar offences was made at Thames Magistrates Court, London, last Friday, when Raffaelo Solferino, of Hackney Grove, Hackney, was fined a, total of £75 and ordered to pay 5 guineas costs on seven summonses alleging that he used goods, Vehicles without a licence and on one of using a -false identity certificate, with intent to deceive. At a previous hearing, Solferino had told the court that he had carried on a business with a man named D'Alessio, as Direct Transport Services, but he claimed that the business had been transferredto the control of another man. William Wates. At the time the offences were committed he was merely driving the lorries for Wates. Last week, Solferino. who pleaded not guilty, maintained that he was riot in control of the business at the time of the alleged offences. Mr. Wates could not give evidence on his behalf. as he was unable to trace him.
Diamond-mine Comets
JIVE Leyland Comet CS3 12-ton-gross
four-wheeled goods chassis have been ordered by the Sierra Leone Selection Trust, Ltd., for work in connection with its open-cast diamond mines. These five vehicles wilt augment the present Leyland ffeet, which consists mainly of Comet tankers with Darham 960-gal. tanks. These tankers convey fuel oil between the railhead at Segbwema and the mines at Yengema—a distance of 65 miles. The latest contract calls for two CS3.2R tippers. with Edbro-B. and E. tipping gear and 6-cu.-yd. bodies; two CS3.1R chassis with Edbro-B. and E. drop-sided bodies; and one CS3.1R chassis with Darham 1,500-gal. fuel-oil tank.
DISTRIBUTION SCHEME AS a result of the recent judgment of the Restrictive Practices Court, it is pointed out by the Institute of the Motor Industry that the section dealing with the distribution scheme agreement in their book "Law and Practice of the Motor Trade " no longer applies as that of an agreement collectively entered into by the manufacturers and concessionnaires that were signatories to it.
The result of the decision is that in future the terms and conditions on which vehicles are supplied must be ascertained from each individual manufacturer's agreements with his distributors and dealers.
COME TO THE BALL PRINCIPAL guest at the banquet and ball of the Metropolitan and South Eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association will be Mr. Stephen McAdden. M.P. for the East Division of Southend.
The banquet is being held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, on March 13. A firstclass cabaret has been engaged for 11.30 p.m., and the ball will continue until 2 a.m.
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