Took Lorry on Holiday
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AMAN who took a British Road Services vehicle and went touring England, Scotland and WaleSswith it fora month, aPPeared at Notts Quarter Sessions at Newark on Monday. He was Thomas William Realty, 21-year-old unemployed cook, of no fixed address, and he was charged with stealing a motor lorry and 12 tons of concrete blocks to the value of £1,507 16s., and with obtaining 15 gallons of diesel fuel by false pretences. He asked for 41 other offences of obtaining goods by false pretences and credit by fraud to be taken into consideration. Sentence was poStpaned until the New Year.
Reahy said in an alleged statement, "I have been all over the.. country— England, Scotland and Wales." He said he had been stopped for speeding, and since then had been to 40 different garages for fuel, telling them to charge it to depots.
Support for Rochdale
I N a statement this week on the Roch
dale committee report, the Association of British Chambers of Commerce said that "by and large" it supports the general recommendation of the report on docks and does not quarrel with the longterm aim that each port should be financially self-supporting. Money spent on new docks will be largely, wasted, states the Association, unless something much better is done to accelerate the movement of goods both into and out of the ports.
New Perkins Engine?
EXTENSION of Perkins' Eastfield factory at Peterborough as part of the group's recently announced film. expansion scheme will include seven bays for the manufacture . of a new fourcylinder diesel engine (possibly the fourcylinder version of the 6.354 announced at the Public .Works Exhibition).
The new factory to be built at Spennymoor, Co. Durham, is to be used for component machining and will supply the Peterborough plant with connecting rods, rocker levers, gears, pulleys and so on.
0-licence Figures THERE was a small decrease in the I numbers of C-licence operators between September, 1961, and September last. But the number of C-licensed vehicles went up by roughly 1.5 per cent. Details are shown in the table below:—