A HAULIER was disqualified from r. driving for a year
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at Kilmarnock last week—for letting a man use a lorry with inefficient brakes. The haulier, Cohn Irving, Catrine, was also fined £5 after admitting the offence. He indicated that he would appeal.
James Seobie admitted driving the lorry with faulty brakes and was also fined £5 with a year's disqualification. At the same court Sheriff James Frame imposed a six-months' ban on another lorry driver, John Mason, who pleaded guilty to a similar offence. He was also fined £5.
Altogether, 15 people were disqualified at the sitting, five of them for having faulty steering or brakes on their vehicles. Most of the other disqualifications were for licence or insurance offences.
Afterwards, Mr. R. Livingstone, Scottish manager of the Automobile Association, commented: "Nothing is more calculated to destroy goodwill between motorists and the police than the wholesale impositiqn of harsh penalties." He suggested tha,t aggrieved defendants should appeal.
ABANDONED LORRY HAD PETROL IN TANK
WHEN an abandoned lorry on a piece VY of waste ground at Birmingham was examined it was found that there was petrol in the tank. Birmingham magistrates were told last week. This was contrary to the 1958 Birmingham Corporation Act, said Mr. A. F. H. Pountney, when Harry Chapman, Balsall Heath, admitted leaving a petrol container on waste ground without taking reasonable precautions to prevent danger.
Mr. R. Roden, a corporation petrol inspector, said the lorry was in a dilapidated condition but petrol was still in the tank. To make the tank safe this should have been steamed out.
Chapman was fined £5.