Fines Follow Maintenance Offences
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A HAULAGE contractor, Eric Donald PA Edwards, whose business address was given as the British Railways Goods Depot, Station Road, Wood Green, London, was fined a total of £208 and ordered to pay £30 9s. costs, with the alternative of six months' gaol, at Wood Green Magistrates' Court last Friday. He was also disqualified from driving for 12 months.
Edwards, of " Barnfield," Tylers Cross, Roydon, Essex, pleaded " guilty " to 23 motor vehicle offences and "not guilty" to one charge of permitting the use of one of his vehicles without insurance.
The charges to which he pleaded " guilty " included offences of permitting the use of his vehicles by drivers employed by him when speedometers, tyres, braking systems, steering gears and windscreen wipers were defective. He also admitted permitting the use of vehicles without offside or reflecting c4 mirrors, with defective silencers and no warning instruments.
Edwards also pleaded " guilty " to charges of permitting a driver to drive a heavy motor vehicle when he was under the age of 21, using the vehicle without an excise licence and failing to produce a licence for examination.
Other charges to which he pleaded " guilty " were those of aiding and abetting drivers in filing to display " L " plates and in driving without supervision.
P.C. John Larkin told the magistrates that he held 22 warrants for the arrest of. Edwards for non-payment of fines previously imposed on him in that court and in default he would have to be committed to prison for six weeks.
At the end of the hearing Edwards told the court that he would make arrangements to pay £469 9s., which included the total fines imposed that day and the fines which were the subject of the warrants.