Re: Patents, Royalties and other Scams...???

Iain M Churches wrote:
>> I seem to remember also a royalty being paid to the chap who
>> invented
> the cat's eye, used on roads in GB. There must be quite a few of
> those too.

Thats right Percy Shaw came up with them, he use to drive home after a
few beers and had trouble staying on the road

He was a funny chap even when rich he use to use newspapers on his
kitchen table

as a cloth lol


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