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Haulier, Driver Sent to Prison A YATE, Gloucestershire, haulage contractor, Gilbert" Isaac May, and a Stoke .Gifford lorry driver, Francis
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John Pearce, were jailed at Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions last week for stealing five tons of zinc worth £435.
May, was sent to prison for five years, and 'Pearce for nine months. It was said that Pearce, who was employed by 'a firm Of haulage contractors, collected the zinc and later, told his employers that the lorry had been stolen, with part of the load. On thejsame day May sold the load of zinc to a refining company. It was being transferred from one lorry to another when the police arrived.
On behalf of May, it was said that he had led the life Of "an habitual criminal" until 1953 when he had bought his haulage business and settled down. This year he had got into serious financial difficitifies. On behalf of.Pearce, it was said that hire-purchase commitments had left him in serious financial trouble'.
TEHERANRE-EQUIPS
TEHERAN City Council has decided
to re -equip its city cleansing and refuse collecting system, and has ' pkiced a £400,000 contract with Leyland' Motors, Ltd. The' order is for 45 Leyland Super Comet. 14-ton. vehicles, 37 Scammell :Scarab ,6-ton .meehanical horses, and 2,000 hand-carts. Forty Of the Super Comets will have .18-26-cu.-yd. Eagle CompressMore ' refusc-,collection bodies, and the other five will be supplied .as
street washers.
Thirty of the Scamrnells will have -10-12-cu.-yd. side-loading, mechanically ,tipped refuse colleetdr Sefni-trailers; Five Will be : fitted-"With Seaniniell:: street-sWeeper-ccillectOr sernitralieri; 'and . the other •tWO wilFhave-•800=gal. gully emptytug tank. semi trailers
; ORDER FROM :ISRAEL :
A. Israeli 'contrail. valued...at elver £500,000 ,haS .receivedlby Ley; land Motors, Ltd.,fir 165.: Worldmaster_btises and: 150 of the newLeyland
Power7Pltis. engineS..: Most.-if the Worldmasters-Will allocated to .thc
three largest. .C1;',;-.operative, bits:Undertakings in-Jsra& The PoWer-Plus engines will beinstalled in American buses.'
The Leyland Group has also received an order worth £280.000 for the supply, of goods and passenger vehicles to the road motor services of South African Railways.
LOWER RESIN PRICES INCREASED production has enabled CIBI (A.R.L.), Ltd., to effect substantial reductions in the prices of their Araldite epoxy resins, and these new prices become effective from October 1. Full details are available from the manufacturers at Duxford, Cambridge.
JAPANESE ROADRAILER
rn.A VEHICLE capable of travelling on road or rail is being marketed by Togo Kogyo Co.,' Ltd., 'Hiroshima, Japan. It is called the Mazda D1500.