Timber Dealer Cleared on Tax Charge
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A TIMBER merchant charged with
driving a tractor and trailer in Hereford when a tax rate higher than that paid should have been in force. successfully defended himself before Hereford City Bench last week. Defendant was Lionel Amos, Upper Sapey Common.
Insp. Wallin, prosecuting, asked for the prime mover, originally described as a crane, to be called a tractor. Amos objected, saying that the police had had three months to prepare the ease and still had made a mistake. Insp. Wallin said that the vehicle was a crane, but also a tractor; the police had not made a mistake.
The vehicle, he said, was licensed at the agricultural rate of £2 a' year. It was seen carrying an unlicensed van and nine lorry tyres and was therefore being used as a goods vehicle. A tax of £18 9s. 4d. a quarter was applicable.
• Amos said that the van was used for carrying his men and fuel to wherever the tractor was working, but it had broken down and was being taken for repair. The tyres were for the tractor and were always carried. The tractor was used for moving timber in the woods.
The case was dismissed.
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