23 APRIL 1948, Page 5

With the basic ration still on a medicine-bottle scale in-

genuity will still be needed to circumvent the shortage. Which means that car-hire firms will still have their role. The procedure is simple. You sell your car to such a firm, which is generously supplied with petrol. It is then the firm's car, and the firm hires it to you to drive yourself, with no restriction, or next to none, on mileage. Later bn, when petrol is flowing freely once again, you buy it back at a price agreed at the outset. All concerned are happy —which cannot often be said in these hard days. Jaws.