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suffer as the result of the ignorance, an the part of magistrates, of some technicality of road-transport law. A recent judgment should. go a long way towards striking a balance in that connection. An owner was summoned for overloading a trailer, but his counsel, evidently an astute if, perhaps, not-tooscrupulous advocate, got hina off by persuading the magistrate that the word "transversely," in the phrase maximum weight transmitted by two wheels of a trailer in line transversely," meant diagonally. By that interpretation the claim that he was overloading his trailer failed, and the police lost the case. IT was recently estimated by the American Antomobile Association that the substitution of inferior oil for that actually ordered costs motorists in the States approximately £8,000,000 in engine repairs. The practice of supplying cheap qualities when better brands have been paid for is, however, not unknown in Great Britain. In fact, in a recent case reported. from Luton, a police officer, who was suspicions ofthe oil supplied to hith from a local garage, gave a test order, which resulted in the garage proprietor being fined £5, with costs, on a charge of selling goods to which a false trade description had been applied.