‘Nothing To Do With Me’

For driving an agricultural tractor with thresher attached without lights at Landcross on December 18th, Merlin Glover, of Ebber Down, Frithelstock, was fined £1 by Bideford County Magistrates.

Police Inspector E H Turner said he overtook the tractor at 5.20pm on December 18th, forty-four minutes after lighting up time. There was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and the night was dark. When asked why he was driving without lights, Glover said ‘It’s nothing to do with me, you had better ask the boss.’

Glover told the magistrates the lights had failed to work.

Gazette article dated 26 January 1951