MAGISTRATES' MISTAKE ON UNLADEN • WEIGHT IT was admitted in
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the King's Bench Divisional Court last week that the magistrates of Lower Strafforth and Ticknill, Doncaster, made a mistake in holding that a vehicle weighing 2f tons was a heavy motorcar. The police did not oppose an appeal by John Rayner Dawe, of St. John's Road. Tilney Street, Lawrence, Norfolk, and George William Askew, of Terrington St. John, Norfolk. against their convictions for respectively driving and permitting the driving of a heavy vehicle without a licence.
Mr. H. R. Boileau, for the appellants. said that the sole point raised was Whether in law the vehicle was a heavy motorcar. The magistrates were wrong in their contention that it was, because a Statutory Order had increased the weight of a heavy motor car from 21 tons to 3 tons.