£30,000 Lorry Theft : Haulier Charged
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rHARGED at Aldershot on Monday
with being concerned in a £30,000 theft of a British Road Services lorry at Hook, Hants, on April 26, Harry Nicholas Croxson, aged 54, haulage contractor, of Berwick Road, Rainham, Essex, was remanded in custody until yesterday.
He was charged with being concerned with Arthur Albert Allen, Walter Frederick Dowsett and Victor George Lucas in stealing the lorry and its contents, consisting of 2.6m. cigarettes and a quantity of tobacco and lager beer.
Oct. Con. E. G. Franklin said the lorry was stolen from outside a cafe and several men were arrested. With Da. Sgt. Anderson he went to a house at Southend-on-Sea and arrested Croxson. When taken to Aldershot and charged. Croxson said: "Put me down as saying I don't know anything about it."
N.Z. THIRD IN WORLD MOTOR STAKES 'WITH 78 per cent, increase in vehicle VV registrations over the past seven years, New Zealand is now the third most highly motorized country in the world, says the annual report of the New Zealand Transport Department. It is preceded only by the U.S.A. and Canada.
About 39 per cent, of the 633,656 vehicles registered at the end of March this year were over 10 years old, and 17 per cent, were over 20 years old, says the report. There were 60,522 heavy commercial vehicles on the roads, and the road transport industry earned £45m. by running a total of 396m. miles in the year.
WATTS GROUP ALLOCATE BUSES 1DIUSES forming part of a £650,000 I-) order—the biggest ever . to come from Central Africa—placed with Leyland Motors, Ltd., last year, are now being allocated to the various companies of the Watts group in that area.
Salisbury United Omnibus Co., Ltd., are taking six Leyland Tiger Cub 50seaters for their European services and 16 Albion 46-seaters for African services. These vehicles will bring the company's fleet up to a strength of 96.
ESOnt. ROAD PLAN
AN £80m. plan for providing the counties of Nottingham, Leicester and Warwick with the highways that they need is outlined in a booklet newly issued by the Roads Campaign Council. For every delay of a year in building the _ local section of the LondonYorkshire motorway, which would run near the counties mentioned and be linked with them, nearly £700,000 was lost in vehicle operating costs, says the council.
Copies of the booklet have been sent to numerous parties concerned with roads in the area.