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Trailer Summ ons Dismissed

28th September 1962
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THE owner of Boxhilt Caravan Towing Service; Harold S. Smith, Ashhurst Drive, Box Hill, Tadworth, Surrey, and one of his employees, Gordon Cox, of Boxhill Road, Tadworth, were both found not guilty by Winchester Magistrates last week of using a vehicle and trailer which was so unsuitable as to cause, or likely to cause, a danger to any person on the road, in that it swung excessively.

Dismissing the summons, the chairman. Mr. J. Troup, said: "We have decided that there was indeed some danger, but are not satisfied that this trailer was not suitable for the purpose it was intended.

Cox and Smith were each fined £10 after pleading guilty to an additional summons of using a Land Rover to tow a trailer without it being equipped with two adequate mirrors. Cox was also fined £5 after pleading guilty to using a trailer without a proper reg:stration mark being fixed at the rear.

Prosecuting, Mr. P. J. Clifton said Cox was the driver of the Land Rover and

Smith was the owner of the haulage contracting business for which Cox worked.

P.C. David William Neal alleged the towed caravan was "swinging from the nearside of the road to a position well over the crown of the road."

He stopped the vehicle and found the caravan measured 25 feet long and 9 feet 6 inches wide. It should, therefore, have been classed as a trailer, The maximum overall size of what was regarded a caravan" was 22 feet long and 7 feet wide.

Smith said that a short while ago this tape of caravan was towed on a six-wheel articulator. The manufacturer had changed to a two-wheel chassis and he assumed that they had had the Minister of Transport's approval. Since the change-over his firm had towed these types of caravan all over England and Wales without trouble.

He thought two possible causes for swaying could be the wind and the slipstream caused by overtaking cars. B27


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