Yorkshire Evening Post – Monday 19 December 1949

Ran Home-Made Car on Gas: £3O fines

After a Doncaster dealer saw a strange car parked in a Doncaster street bearing registration number plates assigned to a car he had sold some years previously, police investigations were begun which led the appearance at Doncaster to-day Henry Tingle, ice-cream vendor, Station Road, Wombwell.

He pleaded guilty acquiring and using “calor” gas to provide motive power to a motor vehicle, and fraudulently using an Identification mark.

Fines totalling £3O were imposed

The Chief Constable (Mr. H Needham) said Tingle bought an old car chassis, then a body and fixed them together to make car. He asked a dealer for number plates and a log book and was supplied with plates and tog of car which had been scrapped