REPAIRMEN MAY GYP YOU-1951
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune, "the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with 1,700 calls on repair shops." "And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass this book with indifference Whatever your experience with repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here. You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say: 'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't think of any subject for research that touches more people. Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and over, in amounts saved through your wisdom." "There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were "the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing machines used by some shops to impress customers." "The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting," remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests, is alarmingly convincing."
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune,
"the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a
nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the
American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished
make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked
more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with
1,700 calls on repair shops."
"And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass
this book with indifference Whatever your experience with
repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here.
You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say:
'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And
you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't
think of any subject for research that touches more people.
Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and
over, in amounts saved through your wisdom."
"There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore
Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were
"the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing
machines used by some shops to impress customers."
"The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting,"
remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room
for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost
laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests,
is alarmingly convincing."
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14 <strong>REPAIRMEN</strong> WILL GET <strong>YOU</strong><br />
cut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.<br />
John Patric, whom Mr. Wallace asked to do<br />
the eventual traveling when the<br />
survey should<br />
start and who had done prior work for the Reader's<br />
Digest, managed the painstaking preliminary<br />
explorations. The story of them is best told<br />
in his letters to Riis.<br />
DEAR BILL :<br />
Bridgeport, Connecticut<br />
December 28<br />
Since yesterday morning I've had the Buick in six<br />
garages. I don't think the Buick dealer who sold you<br />
the car and said it was in perfect condition was quite<br />
truthful. There seem to be quite a few things really<br />
wrong<br />
with the car or<br />
at least things that could be<br />
fixed legitimately. However, for this preliminary test<br />
trip I'm letting the garagemen do pretty much what<br />
they like.<br />
The first thing they always ask is : "What seems to<br />
be the matter with it?"<br />
"It seems to run all right," I say, "but I just<br />
bought it last week and I'm going on a long trip with<br />
it.<br />
I want you to check it over and see if it needs anything<br />
to put it in first-class shape."<br />
Garagemen seem astonished. Why should a stran-
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