Three Months' Suspension
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k HAULIER who was convicted of. -1 among 'other things, .altering records ith intent to deceive, has had one of is B vehicles suspended for three lonths by Mr. j. A. T. Hanlon, the forthcrn Licensing Authority.
Mr. William George Rhea, of Stockm, was called before Mr. Hanlon to low cause why his B and C licences tould not be revoked or suspended.
Mr. W. R. Fisher, tiaffic examiner, said aat the convictions concerned 10 harges of a breach of licence conditions, 4 charges relating to the keeping of ecords, and a further eight charges of hexing records with intent to deceive. Asked to explain how the offences ccurred, Mr. Rhea said that the vehicles -ere working locally for another haulier. ifter a time, and without his knowledge, hey were switched to long-distance work. lecause they were regularly employed n sub-contract, he did not see the rivers until the week-end. He had ltered the records to get himself covered." "Instead, I made myself vorse off," he added.
Giving his decision, Mr. Hanlon said hat he had to consider whether Rhea /as a fit and proper person to be allowed o continue to have a licence at all. He tad not got a good record, having had everal previous convictions of a similar [attire.
He agreed with Mr. Wardlaw, for thea, that the proceedings should be a earning to other hauliers and clearing louses_ In all the circumstances he would limit Is action to striking off one of the B Thicles from the licence for a period of hree months. TELEHOIST EXPANSION
PAA NEW factory is to be built at Winsford, Cheshire, by Telehoist, Ltd., of Cheltenham, A 15-acre site has been acquired and an initial production space of 40,000 sq. ft. is planned. The new factory will be used to assemble gears and bodies built at Cheltenham.
In announcing plans for the new factory, Mr. Arthur Palmer, director, also revealed his intention to launch a big sales drive in the European market. As part of this drive, the firm will exhibit at the International Motor Show in Geneva and at the British Trade Fair in Moscow.
Telehoist are at present turning out 400 steel truck bodies and hydraulic tipping gears a month at Cheltenham, where the production area has been more than doubled in the past four years. number of intermediate positions can be arranged to special order.
The standard timber deck ing covers the front and rear portions so that when the semi-trailer is in its shortened form the deck is continuous, there being a 14-ft, gap when fully extended This gap could, however, be bridged to provide support for long, flexible loads.
The Trombone can be equipped with vacuum or air-pressure braking and in either case a flexible hose is used.
The design has the advantage in that an operator can move a special, indivisible load with the trailer without having the problem of returning art overlength trailer either empty or with a conventional load. All that need be done is for the trailer. to be telescoped, and it then becomes a conventional, legal-length unit.