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No explanation for records lack
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• The inspection and maintenance arrangements of a Norwich company, M. E. Underdown, were quite satisfactory until July 1972 when records ceased to be kept. And no one realized this was so until a vehicle examiner visited the company's premises in November after a roadside check on one vehicle.
The Eastern LA, Mr H. E. Robson, was told at Norwich on Tuesday that the examiner then imposed GV9s on four vehicles, two immediate and two delayed. Brake and tyre defects were specified.
For the company, the manager. Mr Michael Rogers, said he could not explain why records had ceased to be kept. He had assumed all was well. He believed the vehicles had been properly inspected and serviced but could not prove it without records. The GV9s, he did not feel, reflected lack of maintenance. At the time of the examiner's visit one of the vehicles was being worked on and another waiting for attention. A third was a spare vehicle. Mr Rogers had now improved the maintenance system to prevent a recurrence. Suspending two vehicles for two months, Mr Robson said there had been a bad breakdown in maintenance and a penalty had to be imposed.