AMERICAN OR BRITISH?

Evening Star, Issue 19197, 13 March 1926, Page 1

AMERICAN OR BRITISH?

THE TYPEWRITER INCIDENT. LONDON, February 2i. “ One of the moist dramatic ami pungent interviews in the annals of British commerce,” i» how the newspapers describe the chance meeting at the British Industries Fair between King Oeorge and a typewriter salesman, Mr W. It. MawJe. When ills -Majesty expressed liis indignation at the use by officials of American typewriters Mr Mawlo told him that every additional typewriter sold to the Government would moan the employment of another mechanic. The King demonstrated his amazing memory by recalling that he had decorated Mr Mawlo with the Flying Cross during the war. “1 could not let the chance pass,” said Mr Mawlo, “ of telling the King of the unfairness of the Government toward British producers. The King’s heated questions seemed to so embarrass Sir Philip Cunliife-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, that 1 Jumped in with the facts. I pointed out that at least one make of British typewriter was 10 per. cent, cheaper than any American machine, and guaranteed for three times as long.” _ ' The Duke of York, who visited the fair, tested a British typewriter and promised to recommend it for the .King’s use. • (