£80 penalty for forging certificate
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• Lorry driver and stone mason's labourer, Patrick Harry Green, 29, of Paddington, was fined £80 with £20 costs at Acton magistrates' court on Wednesday after he admitted forging a certificate of driving experience and using it to get an hgv licence.
Prosecuting, Mr B. Weir said that Green had sent to the Metropolitan LA offices forms which had been filled in and signed ostensibly by Mr Pickley.
Mr Pickley was Green's former transport manager who had signed an priginal document but explained to Green at that time that he could not fill in his driving experience of a 7-ton truck.
On being seen by the Metropolitan traffic examiner Mr W. M. Markham, Green said the first form had been "mucked up" and he had rewritten inserting his experience of a 7-ton lorry which he claimed to have driven twice a week during 1969/70.
Mr Weir said in court: "This is a clear case of trying to get a licence without taking a test."
Green told the magistrates: "When the form got mucked up I could not get hold of Mr Pickley and signed the form myself. I didn't think I was doing anything really wrong".