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Repair Bills Led to Bankruptcy
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THE high cost of running and main
tamning used lorries was given as the main reason for the insolvency of Sidney Michael Coles, Wyesham, Monmouth, at Newport bankruptcy court last week, Liabilities of £205 and assets of £40 were admitted.
Mr. Coles said that, after buying a lorry and trailer for £30 in 1945 in order to begin work as a scrap dealer, he soon ran into difficulties when his . vehicle was declared unroadworthy. It was ultimately sold for scrap: • • .
Later, he bought another, lorry for £35, but this immediately required a new tyre costing £13. During a winter spell of hard weather, the engine froze, cracking the sump and he finally sold the vehicle for £35. Well over three-quarters of his total debt was for expenses incurred for his lorries.
The Official Receiver, Mr. A. R. Haigh, commented: "The moral is to., stay away from vehicles." The examination was closed.
SKIDS MEAN CARELESS DRIVING . SHERIFF
UNLESS another explanation was put 1/4-1 forward, a skid was the result of careless driving, Sheriff Inglis stated at Dundee, last week. He imposed a fine of £8 on Thomas Sunney Crichton,. a lorry driver.
It was stated that Crichton's lorry was travelling down one of Dundee's steepest hills when it collided with a lamp standard, injuring a pedestrian. For Crichton, it was submitted that he was not at fault because the vehicle went into a skid.
The Sheriff said there must be some reason for a skid, such as a patch of oil. Anyone driving at a moderate speed who skidded for no apparent reason must be a bad driver.
BY-PASS SUBSIDES AFTER SIX MONTHS
1-1 A BY-PASS at Brereton, Sandbach,
Cheshire, which was opened last January to relieve pressure on the London-Lancashire road, is to undergo extensive repairs. Subsidence has affected the road to such an extent that the surface is dangerous to traffic.
The laying of new foundations to counteract underground movement will take about a month. Meanwhile, the old road has been opened up to traffic again. It will have to cater for the heavy volume of goods vehicles serving the Potteries and Lancashire.
bm. PASSENGERS LOST TN the past year, Leicester Corporation buses have lost 5m. passengers, making a total loss of 6m. in two years. This was stated by ClIr. S. Bridges, chairman of the transport committee, when he addressed Leicester and District Trades Council last week. He stressed that the decline was being closely examined by the transport department.
During the two-year periodthere had been two relatively small fare increases.