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Police lose recovery trade plates appeal

2nd July 1971, Page 22
2nd July 1971
Page 22
Page 22, 2nd July 1971 — Police lose recovery trade plates appeal
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• Justices sitting at Coleshill were right to dismiss an allegation that a Land-Rover with a fixed, crane-carrying trailer was not a recovery vehicle entitled to use trade plates, three Appeal Court judges ruled on Tuesday.

They dismissed a police appeal against the decision of the justices in. July 1970 clearing Mr Anthony Alfred Dean, of Robin Hood Lane, Hall Green, Birmingham, of illegally using the vehicle on trade plates. Mr Dean, who appeared personally to support the decision of the justices, did not ask for costs against the police. "I am satisfied with the outcome of the case, without recovering my expenses of the hearing," he told Lord Widgery, the Lord Chief Justice, who sat with Mr Justice Cooke and Mr Justice Bean.

Lord Widgery said the issue to be decided was whether the Land-Rover and its fixed trailer were a single component or two separate vehicles. "To my mind these components clearly come within the category of a recovery vehicle within the meaning of Vehicle Excise Act," he said.

The justices had obviously been impressed by the fact that the towbar attaching the trailer to the Land-Rover had been removed only once in the previous eight months.

They were therefore entitled to regard the trailer as a permanent feature of the Land-Rover. As such it became exempt from excise duty.

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Organisations: Appeal Court
Locations: Birmingham

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