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Admonition for British Gypsum
Page 28
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• After changing a plea of not guilty, to guilty, regarding a summons for permitting the use of a motor lorry with defective tyres, British Gypsum Ltd, Kirkby Thore, Penrith, was admonished at Stonehaven Sheriff's Court, Aberdeenshire, last week.
Withdrawing the plea of not guilty, Mr F. H. Lefevre, counsel, said this had been done on his advice. He said, in mitigation, that after the vehicle received a prohibition when stopped in a spot-check on September 28 1971, a summons was issued for contravening Regulation 83 of the 1969 Construction and Use Regulations. It had been pointed out by Mr J. M. Stringer, the company's transport manager, who was present, that only five days previously there had been a complete fleet survey and tyre
check by the Pirelli Tyre Co.
Mr C. Norris of Pirelli Tyre was in court, and his evidence would have been that at the time of the check the two tyres in question were perfectly safe and with tread depths of not less than three millimetres.
Between the inspection and the time of the vehicle being stopped in the spot-check it had covered only 300 miles. In these circumstances it was submitted that the company had exercised all possible diligence to prevent the offence.
The Sheriff congratulated British Gypsum on taking the time and trouble to be represented. No system was infallible and, in view of the evidence, he proposed solely to record an admonition against the company.