Shooting-brake Case: Appeal Likely
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AN appeal is being considered by Lancashire County Police against the decision of Manchester County Magistrates, who last week declared that a Press photographer did not need a C licence when using a Standard Vanguard shooting-brake to carry his equipment.
The photographer, William Thompson, aged 40, Greenhill Avenue, Sale, Cheshire, pleaded not guilty to three summonses for having no C licence, not paying the higher taxation and not being covered by insurance when carrying goods.
In evidence, he said that at the time his shooting-brake contained two cameras and lighting equipment. He did not think he needed a C licence as the equipment was private property and not the subject of trade.
Insp. .I. Taylor, prosecuting, said that it had been held that a shootingbrake was a goods vehicle and consequently needed a C licence when carrying goods. The photographer's equipment, he contended, were "goods' within the meaning of the 1933 Act.
Mr. Lionel A. Cohen, defending, said that if the inspector were right. thousands of owners of shooting-brakes needed C licences to carry amminor tool of their trade.
The magistrates dismissed all three summonses and declared: "We have come to the conclusion that this estate waggon was not essentially constructed for the carriage of goods.