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'HE manager of a transport firm was sent to prison for nine months when pleaded guilty at Stafford Assizes last ek to charges concerning the falsifica n of drivers' records. He was Harold eaver, manager of Norman Green enton), Ltd., trading as the Dilhorne • Co., Atlas Street, Fenton. One of : drivers, Alfred John Shenton, was ed £.20 with an alternative of one )nths' imprisonment, and the other, ichael Fogden, was given a conditional ;charge.
Passing sentence, Mr. Justice Pearson iinted out that it was essential that :ords of haulage transactions should be irrectly maintained, and if there was no tndard of honesty there could be no ccessful licensing system.
,Loaded with Bricks Mr. W. R. Handforth, prosecuting for
e Crown, said that the case concerned to vehicles on limited B licence, both Ning conditions to carry coal, one 'thin 30 miles of base and the other ithin 15 miles. On May 11 Mr. K. J. 3rris, an enforcement officer, had seen le of the vehicles leaving the premises a brick company loaded with bricks id bound for Wilmslow, Cheshire. Five tys later Mr. Burris visited the headtarters of Norman Green (Fenton), Ltd., id asked to see drivers' records covering
e previous three months. Weaver had ad him that they were not available, but ey would be delivered to his office the Cowing day.
Later. Weaver sent for Fogden and ttenton and asked them to make out .audulent record sheets showing that the to vehicles had been carrying coal, hen in reality they had been carrying ricks substantially outside their normal ser, and from these operations had nproperly earned just over i1,000.
av days later the true record sheets ere given to Mr. Burris.
Mr. Wilson Mellor. for Weaver, said e must have been in an awkward osition when the carriage of coal had diet) and there had been a sharp tcrease in brick traffic, The case was tore disciplinary than criminal and ieaver had withdrawn from his decepon at the earliest possible moment, NEW RESEARCH LABS
OEW research laboratories for London Transport were opened on Monday y Mr. A. B. B. Valentine, chairman of ondon Transport Executive. Built at a Dst of £200000. and containing equiptent worth 05,000, the new laboratory enable the whole of London Transort's scientific and research activities for oth road and rail services to be housed ruler one roof for the first time in their istory.
Mr. Valentine said the annual savings btained through the department's work 'ere far greater than the total cost of the ew building and its equipment.