Five Jailed for Stealing Bus Engines
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FOUR employees of the Daimler Co„ I Ltd., Coventry, and a retired coach and garage owner, were jailed at Coventry Quarter Sessions, last week, on charges resulting from the theft of bus engines and motor spares worth a total of £3,454 during a period of eight years.
Ernest Victor Jackson, 44, fitter, of Edgwick Road; Samuel James Clarke, 51, foreman fitter, of Vecqueray Street; and Edward Costigan, 39, fitter, of School House Lane, all of Coventry, admitted seven charges concerning the theft of three bus engines and spare parts.
William Ernest Webb, 49, factory clerk, of Redesdale Avenue, Coventry, pleaded guilty to two charges a helping in the theft of two engines.
Arthur Edwin Tindall, 52, retired coach and .garage owner, of Sutton Road, Mile Oak, Tatnworth, admitted three charges of receiving property valued at £1,505. Jackson, Costigan and Tindall were sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, Clarke to 21 months and Webb to 9 months.
Mr. H. G. Talbot, prosecuting, said that three employees concerned with fitting and reconditioning engines stole the property and sold it when out on duty. Most of the property had been recovered.
Det. Sgt. G. Bennett said all five had previous good characters.
• Richard Horton, 55, a coach operator, of Whitgreave Street, West Bromwich, was found not guilty of two charges of receiving a bus engine and a gearbox, value £1,052, the property of the Daimler Co., Ltd.
Mr. Talbot said a stolen engine had been fitted to one of 'Horton's coaches by three of the men. The engine number had been removed.
Horton said he bought the engine and gearbox from two of the men, whom he regarded as "highly responsible servants of the Daimler company."