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NBC gets faulty tyre fine
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• Police alleged at Wmsford magistrates court last week that a tyre shown to the court by Wigan-based NBC Asphalters was not the tyre that was on an NBC vehicle when it was stopped by police.
The company and its driver, George Kay, were charged with using a vehicle with a defective tyre.
Police constable Bennett of the Cheshire police said that when the vehicle concerned was stopped near Northwich it was seen that two pieces measuring 5x2.5cm and 25cm apart were gouged from the rear nearside outer tyre on the edge of the tread, exposing the cords.
Kay said he examined the tyres before he set off and found no faults. He went straight back to the depot after being stopped by the police, and the company's fitter told him to take the vehicle to the tyre company to have all the tyres on that axle changed, and to bring the original tyres back to the depot.
Fitter Rodney Foreshaw said that when the vehicle returned to the premises he checked the tyres and did not think they were faulty.
When the driver returned from the tyre company he marked both tyres with the vehicle's registration number in chalk and stored them in the garage. He later arranged for the tyres to be steam-cleaned to get rid of the dirt and muck.
Bennett said the tyre produced to the court, which did not have the alleged defects, was not the tyre that had been on the vehicle because he could not find the initials he had marked on the tyre in black ballpoint pen.
John Backhouse, defending, pointed out that the tyre had since been steam-cleaned but the magistrates found the case proved, fining the company £100 with £80 costs and Kay £50 with 220 costs.
The company and Kay admitted using the vehicle when gases from the exhaust were escaping to the atmosphere without passing through the silencer. Backhouse said that it was a perfectly good exhaust system which had taken a knock, and it had proved to be perfectly satisfactory once realigned and tightened up. The company was fined £20 for that offence and Kay £10.