PROTECTING THE BUYER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 6

PROTECTING THE BUYER

SALES OF OIL IN AMEMCA Bills making it a misdemeanour, pua. ishabla by fine or imprisonment, or both, to sell to a motorist, without hu • knowledge, an oil different from throi t he orders, have been introduced in an* States and have become laws in soie*. As the result of consultation witn automobile club officials. State wtier, of weights and measures, and leading j oil manufacturers and service station proprietors, the American Fair Tr&av Association has drafted a aodfi statute ’ against copies of leading aatoj mobile clubs throughout the country. iThis forms the basis of several *at> j substitution bills now pending, i The proposed statute makes u sa. lawful for any person, firm or ror» poration: 1-—To fill with a spurious or auiasutute article any order for a lubricating oil for an internal combustion engine, if such oil ordered is designated yy & trade mark or distinctive trade nam*. unless and until it is explained tc the person giving the order ihat the article offered is not the article that he has ordered, und the purchaser shall thereupon elect to take the substitute article that is being offered to him. -• —To display on any can. driun or ther vessel in which lubricating oh for internal combustion engines is kepi for sale, or from which it is pouree or drawn for sale, a trade mark x trade name, which is not the diruncnve designation of the oil acttnflr contained therein. 3. To fill any order for a lubotaifeg i f° r internal combustion eiupc* that is identified by a trade mark or distinctive trade name, unless the ail delivered is poured or drawn from a , van, drum or other vessel that is I clearly marked as hereinafter sper;j lied, with the trade mark or. riJutiEc* I tive trade name by which the oil :i j identified. 4. —To display any sign, label or other designating mar-: which de?«nb« any lubricating oil for internal com- , bustion engines not actually on **!* at the place of business where th°r label or other designating mart » I displayed.” The association also reports that is some States where legislatures are ** in session, steps have been 'aJsm 1 against fraudulent motor oil sake t Trough State and local department |of weights and measures, acting existing 'aws against fraudulent Mir* i ness practices. BARNEY OLDFIELD STILL RACING BLT FOR HUD6CH A n yone who has k—“ The Story of My Lif?" - emember a certain Barney 1 idhett who was hired, because of his suengtu to dri\e the first Ford ir. a mot?r iw* The same Barney Oldfield if solacing in America, but with a differ*!:: motor company. He recently irove a Hudson Coach over the Culver Cry -peed way for 1,000 miles at an hv««? of more than 76 m.p.h., and then start** ••n a little drive toward Calif mil ? i The same car. At Les Angela* speedometer showed 18,587 nil** ® .seven weeks’ driving' He r*cto*H* ais benzine consumption out at i - miles to the American gallon. Barney Oldfield must be a preu ; \ old man now for a racing drive*. - when Ford hired him over 2*l 7 igo, he had been a blacksmith.