Noted Welsh footballer fined

Thursday, December 28 – 1939
Thomas George Jones, the Welsh international and Everton footballer, whose address was given as Penyllan-street, Connah’s Quay, was fined 10s. at Northop Police Court, today, for not having the front lamp of his motor-car screened with a regulation mask. Police Constable Jones (Northop) said that when he examined the lamps on the evening of December 3 he found that they were covered with a thick cloth with holes cut in the centres. The reflector was not darkened, while the bumpers and running-boards were not painted white. Jones was alleged to have told the constable that painted the bumpers and running boards white on the previous day, and the rain had washed off the paint. Jones did not appear, but in a letter expressed regret for the offence, and stated that he was under the impression that his light conformed to law.
(Evening Express, 28-12-1939)

X