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Meanwhile we will, with your permission, obtain a further supply from the manufacturer for despatch with your charged, viz. 60p per kg, should be c.i.f., and not the 5th September. The amount brought forward from your last account is incorrect, and we would ask you to check this, as we think you have not discount which was agreed. The Debit and Credit items should be typed you that we are extremely dissatisfied with the delay which has occurred in connection with the delivery of our autumn catalogues, which should have been in the hands of our customers in the third week of August and which actually reached them in the course of last week, long after the receipt of the publications of other wholesale houses. You will find that you gave a definite delivery promise of one month, and had we known you would have exceeded this period, we should have placed the sheeted no notice of any of the game, but wore a far-away, vacant she have lost all her money? Had she become dazed in her plight? 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The mobility of the machine has been restricted by the need for access to a telephone by the use of an which allow the fax machine to be connected to a car phone. This is achieved by adding another socket to the base unit so that the machine can be plugged in, as well as the phone. The fax is powered either through the car cigarette lighter or via a wire run directly into the car battery. The machine can be situated either in the front or on the back printing and scanning heads of a fax machine, so even when the data is received the accuracy of the printout may still be doubtful. Strictly speaking a faxed document is a copy of the original. The transmission report is not proof that the document has been sent or received. Therefore, whichever fax machine you use, if you want your fax to have legal status, you should arrange this beforehand with the other party and draw up Totally 415 lines including this line. This is the end. Congratulation!