BRITISH TYPEWRITERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 March 1926, Page 9

BRITISH TYPEWRITERS.

WHY THE KING INTERVENED

HIS MAJESTY’S MEMORY.

LONDON, Feb. 24

(“One of the most dramatic and pungent interviews in the annals of British commerce,” is how the newspapers describe the chance meeting at the British Industries Fair of the King and (lie typewriter salesman, Mr W. It. Mawle (who told the King, when the latter expressed his indignation at the use by officials of American typewriters, that every additional typewriter sold to the Government would mean the employment of another mechanic). When shaking hands with Mr Mawle the King demonstrated his amazing memory by recalling that he had deco-rated-him with the Flying Cross during the war. “T could not let the chance pass,” said Mr Mawle, “of telling the King of the Government's unfairness towards .British producers. The King’s heated questions seemed so to embarrass Sir Philip Cnnliffe-Listcr, the president of the Board of Trade, that I jumped in with the facts, pointing out that at least one 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 British Industries Fair at Birmingham, tested a British typewriter, and promised to recommend jt for the King’s use.