Postal strike blamed for plates offence
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• The postal strike in early 1971 was responsible for the failure of a Glasgow road ha Wage firm to get one of its vehicles plated on the appropriate date and resulted in loss of its use between February and April.
This was pleaded in mitigation by Mr Charles Elliott, trading as Brand's Transport of 178 Maxwell Road, Glasgow, before the City's Sheriff's court last week.
Changing an original plea of not guilty to charges brought by the Scottish LA for having no plating certificate and operating without an 0 licence on February 23, to one of guilty Mr Elliott claimed that the offences were technicalities. He said the plating application was submitted in due time in February but because of postal difficulties never reached the DoE offices in Swansea. The vehicle was not allowed to be used in the intervening period until a plating certificate was eventually granted on April 2 and a licence issued.
After hearing that the firm had had no convictions since the introduction of the Transport Act, 1968, Sheriff Norman Macleod said there would be a fine of £10 for not having a plating certificate and the defendant would be admonished for the 0 licence offence.