“But we have heard that mechanics wore in the habit of winding back speedometers,” said Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court at Well ngton, when a witness, the managing director of a motor company, protested against referencs to trickery in the wnue. In reply the witness said that speedometers were wound back frequently and openly, not with the object of tricking purchasers, but because flic mileage shown on the speedometei of a car that had been reconditioned was not a fair criterion of the machine’s condition when it left the workshop.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1932, Page 5
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