No records for two years
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• When a Worcester haulage company produced a file of invoices as evidence of records of maintenance work on its vehicles the West Midland LA, Mr R. R. Jackson, said at Birmingham, "These don't appear to have anything to do with repairs; for instance you apparently bought a bag of cement on one, nails on another and an earthenware bench. These documents don't appear to relate to commercial vehicles. Some are purely invoices for spare parts; there is no pattern of vehicles being regularly inspected."
Mr J. Price, director of the company, J.G.P. Construction, of Sinder Bank, Netherton, near Birmingham, admitted that the firm had not kept a true record although he claimed it had its vehicles regularly inspected and kept a wall chart. He admitted the company had received a letter in July 1971 from the senior mechanical engineer of the DoE about the matter.
Mr Jackson said apparently no notice had been taken of this and now, two years after the firm had given its original • undertaking, it proposed to take steps to fulfil it.
Mr R. M. Tomey of Craclley Heath, Worcs, said he had been a mechanic to the firm and had regularly serviced the vehicles every two weeks although he was unaware he had to keep records for the lorries.
Mr Jackson said he would give his decision in writing after he had received copies of the inspection sheets which the firm said they were now keeping.