When a police officer stopped Gerald Braund

driving a tractor through Parkham village and asked him to produce his driving licence, he replied “I haven’t got one but I would like to learn to drive as soon as I know if I am being kept on in this job or not.”

Braund was told by the Chairman of the Bench, Mr R B Blackmore, “We do not want to jeopardise your work so we have decided not to disqualify you as we could have done or perhaps we should have done.”

He was fined £7.

Full article dated 16 May 1958