Dunlop Man's Denial in Tyre Fraud Case
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WHEN the hearing was resumed at V Bristol Assizes on Monday of the case against eight tyre dealers and their employees, one of the defendants, William Henry Creed, told Mr. Donald Sumner, Q.C., that on one occasion Mr. Farley, district representative of Dunlop's, said to him: "I don't care how many claims you send in. We will honour the lot." This was denied by Mr. Farley. The eight defendants, all of whom have pleaded not guilty, are charged with conspiring to defraud the Tyre Manufacturers Conference, Ltd., by making false claims in respect of defective tyres. Earlier hearings of the case were reported in The Commercial Motor on January 13 and January 20.
Creed said that as far as he knew the tyre manufacturers themselves had never complained about the number of claims for concessions being sent in.
John Guy, manager of Luxton's Tyre Service. Ltd., Bristol, agreed with Mr. H. Park, Q.C., that his employer's business grew as the volume of application forms irtcreased.
Morton Charles Cullimore, principal director of Luxton's, whose name had been used on a large number of concession forms sent to the T.M.C., said be was a haulage contractor operating from Stroud, Gloucestershire. He also farmed 350 acres and in addition owned gravel and sandpits. • He told the court that he bought Luxton's some years ago for £100, and admitted it was now "a nice capital asset."
Personal Income Asked to give details of his gross personal income. Cullimorc wrote this down on a piece of paper which was passed to the judge and members of the jury.
Cullimore said be first suspected something was wrong when a representative of the Firestone Company called on him and told him he had £.300 worth of credits for tyres standing in his name. " I told him this could not be so," said Cullimore. " as 1 had not bought any Firestone tyres for four or five years."
Cullimorc, who was in the witness box for the second day. was asked by Mr. Fo•6Anclrews, Q.C. (representing Huggins and Marshall. two of Luxton's employees) whether he had any doubt that two tyre company representatives who called on him "knew perfectly well" of the practice of submitting incorrect names to the tyre panel. He replied: " No doubt at all."
The hearing is proceeding.
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