The Archive · 1928

Story of a Frozen Car

In ILM, Supreme Court on Thursday, before Judge G. W. King, the euse was heard in which Mr.

Be Taylor, managing director of the Taylor Garage, from Mr, E, 8, Barraclough for certain repairs done to a small Wolseley, and payment of a bill for painting and upholstering the defendant's own car. Mr. M. B. Brown appeared for the complainant.

Mr, 'Taylor, in the witness box, anid that on December 7, 1926, he had lent the defendant a Wolseley ear while the defendant's own ear was being done up.' He first saw the ear again on the following day when he was shown it by the num-}ber one Chinese in the garage. The water jacket and the cylinder heed Thad burst and the cause of this was fee, It had cost exactly Tls. 33, which hho had charged the defendant in his bills, to repair the damage with copper metal patches but the value fof the ear was depreciated by 60 per cent, Ie had had e prospective buyer for the ear, but the sale was now off as a consequence of the damage, The night of December 7, was an extremely cold one and several ears in the garage had been frozen and had bur The No, 1 driver of the garage was then called and said that he had left instructions. wi at the garage for the water in all the ears that came in to be let out. At 2 o'clock in the morning the coolie came to him and said the water would not come out of the Wolseley. He went ross to the Garage and found th the water fu the ear had frozen and the car was a "little spoilt."

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