No Appeal for 'Take-away' Driver
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AN application by a 34-year-old driver for leave to appeal to the House of Lords against his conviction at Hampshire Quarter Sessions last April of taking and driving away a van belonging to his employers was refused by the House of Lords Appeal Committee last week. It was stated that the driver, Mr. Glen M. Wibberley, of Winchester, took the van home at tea time instead of leaving it in a yard, Later in the evening he drove in it to Southampton and Chandler's Ford. He had been placed on probation for three years. Mr. F. O'Donoghue, for the applicant, said the Court of Criminal Appeal had certified that the case raised a point of law of general public importance. He submitted that in view of the large number of similar cases occurring throughout the country it was desirable that the House of Lords should consider the question of whether an unauthorized journey in an employer's vehicle was an offence under the Road Traffic Acts, Without calling on counsel for the police, Lord Hodson, who sat with Lord Guest and Lord Wilberforce, said the application was refused.
NIC's Lim. Orders
TO combat the effects of possible delivery delays, Northern Ireland Carriers has now placed orders worth over £1m. for replacement vehicles required over the next five years. Except for one heavy tractor for 200-ton-g.t.w. work. all are Leyland Freightline Beaver and Badger tractive units, ordered through T. B. F. Thompson (Belfast) Ltd. NIC has yet to decide on its semitrailer orders, these being out to tender, and it will soon be considering its longterm replacement programme for the Scammell Scarab three-wheeled tractive units uied on local services.
Go-ahead for Air Freight Terminal
17 was announced last week in the I Commons that the planning of London Airport's new freight terminal at Heathrow was now being carried out and that work was expected to start on it early next year. Making this statement, Mr. John Stonehouse, Parliamentary Secretary to the Aviation Ministry, said that the Air Ministry had conducted the preliminary planning in liaison with the airlines and many other interests involved. In a • special air-freight edition published on December 17 The Commercial Motor drew attention to the inadequate facilities at the Airport.