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WHEN about a year ago we found it difficult to get matches I thought of a plan for producing a light especially of value where gas is available, which if brought into use would mean economy in chlorate of potash and elimination of match-sticks and matchboxes—surely a desirable end. But then the definition of a mechanical lighter in the 1928 Act of Parliament was shown to me, which would impose a 2s. 6d. duty on an article which otherwise could be sold for a penny. I concluded, and the recent Bow Street Police Court tinder box case has shown that I was right, that the Excise would not hesitate to impose the duty on any lighter however advantageous it might be.
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BOYS, C. Mechanical Lighters. Nature 151, 336 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151336c0
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