SERVICING CARS Snt,—Your Motoring Correspondent very rightly criticises the service
obtainable from the retail motor trade since the war. While many people may feel that an all-night petrol service is unnecessarily extravagant, at least it should be possible to obtain attention to minor breakdowns over the week-end. I have had the experience of a puncture on Saturday afternoon, which none of three garages within a quarter-mile 'was able to repair, as all were only open for petrol and oil.
I hope Mr. Wilkins will have an oppor• tunity to develop his ideas on the reorganisa- tion of the retail motor trade. The system by which motor dealers are able to obtain discounts varying between 15 per cent. and 25 per cent. off the list price of a car, solely for the service of being unable to supply you with the car you want when you want it, is nothing Short of a scandal.—Yours faithfully, E. C. DEANESUI 19 Fitz Roy Avenue, Birmingham. 17
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