Dumper Classed as Motor Vehicle
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ADUMPEK has all the essential
features of a motor car, and must he classed as a motor vehicle, according to the Staffordshire Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. Kenneth Wood. He said in a case at Wolverhampton, last week, that he found a dumper was a mechanicallypropelled vehicle, intended for use on the road, so an Excise licence and insurance were needed when it was used.
D. B. Evans (Bilston), Ltd., were fined £6, with £5 5s. costs, for allowing an employee to use a dumper without an Excise licence, a driving licence or insurance.
Mr. Wood said the defence plea was that no driving licence or insurance were needed because the dumper was not a motor vehicle as defined under Section 1 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930. This was based on a 1941 Scottish court decision, but he disagreed with this view.
The driver was given an absolute discharge on payment of costs.
CO-OP DRIVERS WARNED ABOUT REVERSING
ABOUT 50 per cent, of the accidents in which Leicester Co-operative Society drivers were involved last year happened when vehicles were being reversed. This was pointed out when safe-driving awards were presented to the Society's drivers last week.
Mr. S. French, president, said it was important that all drivers should take extreme care on new housing estates.
young children gathered in the streets.
Mr. R. Mark, Leicester's chief constable, said the police would not shirk prosecutions to ensure safe driving. But there were two other ways of trying to improve matters—by propaganda and by example.
PERKINS TO BRANCH OUT FROM OIL ENGINES
PLANS for expansion into "new 1 spheres "were revealed this week by F. Perkins, Ltd., the Peterborough oilengine manufacturers, Mr. M. I. Prichard, deputy managing director, said although the company would not rush into anything new in a big way, it was felt that they should branch out from their present limited field.
A. new products division has been formed, and several potential products are being examined. Mr. D. F. W. McNair, formerly export sales manager. has become general manager of the division.
NO CUSTOMS DOCUMENTS K'ROM the beginning of next year, 19
countries will abolish all customs documents for temporary importation of private cars, but in addition Sweden will suppress customs documents required for commercial vehicles. This .follows two years' discussion of customs procedure by a group of experts of the inland transport committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.