A Licences Were Forged
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FINES totalling £330 were imposed at Northfleet last week on Ralph William Tedder, of Culverstone. Garage, Meopham, Kent, when he appeared on 19 summonses. He was fined £100 for using a forged certificate by which a lorry was identified as being authorized under an A licence and £100 for a similar offence involving a second lorry. A £20 fine was imposed for having in his possession a document resembling one by which a vehicle was identified as being covered by an A licence.
He was further. fined Li on each of five offences of failing to produce current records of work, £10 on each of 10 charges of carrying goods for hire or reward when the holder of a C licence only, and £5 for permitting a driver to work without having 10 consecutive hours for rest in 24 hours.
A Photograph Tedder was given seven days to pay the money with 12 weeks' imprisonment in default. He had pleaded guilty initially to all 19 offences but after the prosecution's case was outlined byMr. C. B. Croft, for the Licensing Authority, he changed his pleas to the charges concerning current records to not guilty.
Mr. Croft said Tedder had C licences for his two lorries but traffic examiners found his vehicles carrying goods for hire or reward. The A licences for the vehicles were found not to be genuine. Tedder later produced a photograph of an A licence from which the forged ones were made.
Tedder told the court he would appeal.