CAR LAWSUIT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 12

CAR LAWSUIT

millions involved gear-changing device LONDON, Oct. 20. It is understood that tho most sensational lawsuit in the history of. motor car industry is contemplated m the United States. It concerns the master patent ot fin easy gear-change device. Millions of pounds will probably be involved. At the moment motor manufacturers throughout the world are concentrating on providing cars with some method of changing gears that is simplo and, in fact, fool-proof. At the Motor . Show at Olympia there are hosts of such devices, in which the public has shown tho keenest interest. Whatever happens in regard to the present controversy motorists will not ho the sufferers, for tho battle is purely a domestic affair. One of the big American corporations alleges that a rival Ims infringed its master patent. This has been adopted under license by numerous manufacturers throughout the world—British, French, Italian and Gorman included. Plant costing hundreds of thousands of pounds has been laid down in various countries to develop this particular typo of easy gear-change. Many thousands of cars are already equipped with the device, and plans have been made for tho production, of vast numbers Similarly fitted during tho coming season.