AIR CHARGE SUGGESTED
A suggestion put forward in Tasmania by Mr. F. L. M. Harris that garages should make a nominal charge for tyre inflation is receiving wide circulation in the Australian motor trade. "Tyre inflation is sufficiently important to warrant the careful attention of car owners," states Mr. Harris. "The garage man realises that however much he scamps the job of tyre inflation, the customer cannot 'kick' because the service is free. How much happier would be the lot of all concerned if the garage and filling station proprietors could get together and agree to abolish free air, substituting an inflation service charge of, say, a penny a wheel. First, it would encourage all garage people to keep their compressors, connectors and gauges in a proper state of repair. L'hen it would enable car owners to ask for tyre service as a right instead of to request it as a favour. They would no longer feel any qualms in suggesting that the spare wheel should also receive attention."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22058, 14 March 1935, Page 18
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169AIR CHARGE SUGGESTED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22058, 14 March 1935, Page 18
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