Heavy. Penalties for Using Flushing Oil as Fuel
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4TOR the use of flushing oil as a fuel for oil-engined lorries, and other offences, fines totalling more than £700 were imposed in .a prosecution at Leeds West Riding Police Court, last week. Pickard, Bulmer and Co., haulage contractors, Rothwell, and Albert Bulmer, director and manager of the company, were each fined £303 15s. 10d, for using flushing oil as fuel, and they were each fined £50 for mixing certain oils contrary to the. regulations. The company was fined a further £21 for not keeping a record of heavy-oil used. The prosecution was allowed £30 costs.
The defendants were summoned under the Finance Act, at the instance of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.
For the prosecution, Mr. Whitham said that the company had used a Mixture of flushing oil and oil fuel for their oil-engined lorries. The duty on oil fuel was 9d. per gallon and on flushing oil' ld. per gallon. Mr. Albert Bulmer had admitted buying 3,500 gallons of flushing oil and ordering it to be mixed with oil fuel. Ile ,said he .did so in order that he could keep his vehicles on the road and fulfil his contracts.
In reply to Mr. W. R. Hargraves, for the defence, a• Customs officer, who gave evidence, said Mr. Bulmer had been perfectly frank throughout.
Announcing the penalties, the presiding magistrate, Mr. H. B. Pickard, said that £303 15s. 10d. was the figure representing the amount which should rightly have been in the Treasury.