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THERE WAS A TIME, gentle reader, and not so very long ago either, when the lubricant business was very much simpler than it is to‐day ; or at least as we understand it to be from our reading of the technical press. Our childlike and trusting mind is often puzzled, by the amount of erudite scientific effort devoted to problems which we, in our happy ignorance, believed to have been solved long before either we or the boffins were born. And if the years have not brought wisdom we have at least acquired a certain low cunning, whereby we usually manage to get by. Alas, this was not so with our well‐meaning, bright eyed, clean‐souled little friend Albert at the time of which we write.