Cripps v Cooper    Street Traffic – Motor trailer – Indivisible load of exceptional length – Motor Vehicles
(Construction and Use) Regulations, 1931, regs 62, 85.
Appellant used on the road a motor-drawn trailer loaded with five fir trees, securely fixed,
which projected over the back of the trailer for 32 ft. He was convicted at petty sessions for
using a trailer in such a condition that danger was likely to be caused, in breach of the Motor
Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1931, regs 62, 85. He appealed to quarter
sessions on the ground that reg 51 provides that a trailer may exceed 22 ft in length if
constructed and normally used for the conveyance of indivisible loads of exceptional length;
this appeal was dismissed:—