FREE , UPON REQUEST FROM A CUSTOMER FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY , TO SELL CASH REGISTERS TO SUCH CUSTOMER .
HOWEVER , EVEN WHEN AMENDED , HUGIN AB ' S INSTRUCTIONS TO ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND DISTRIBUTORS WILL STILL NOT PERMIT THE EXPORT OR THE SALE OF SPARE PARTS TO INDEPENDENT COMPANIES OUTSIDE THE HUGIN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WHICH MAY WISH TO SERVICE , MAINTAIN , REPAIR OR RECONDITION SUCH MACHINES ANYWHERE IN THE COMMON MARKET .
F . THE EFFECT OF THE REFUSAL TO SUPPLY SPARE PARTS
THE RESULT OF THE ACTION OF HUGIN UK IN WITHDRAWING THE SUPPLY OF SPARE PARTS WAS TO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR LIPTONS PERMANENTLY TO CONTINUE IN THE BUSINESS IN ITS OWN RIGHT OF SERVICING , MAINTAINING AND REPAIRING HUGIN CASH REGISTERS . LIPTONS WAS , IN FACT , FORCED TO TURN DOWN AT LEAST ONE IMPORTANT CONTRACT TO SERVICE HUGIN MACHINES AND CAN NO LONGER OFFER ITS SERVICES AS AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE OF SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE .
THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE SUPPLY OF SPARE PARTS OF HUGIN CASH REGISTERS CREATED PARTICULAR DIFFICULTIES FOR LIPTONS IN THE BUSINESS OF RENTING HUGIN CASH REGISTERS . LIPTONS HAD NATURALLY TENDED TO CONCENTRATE ON RENTING OUT HUGIN CASH REGISTERS NOT ONLY BECAUSE LIPTONS WAS THE DISTRIBUTOR OF THESE MACHINES AND HAD A HIGH OPINION OF THEIR QUALITY , BUT ALSO BECAUSE AT THAT TIME HUGIN ALSO SUPPLIED A RANGE OF CASH REGISTERS WHICH PROVIDED LIPTONS WITH A WIDER CHOICE TO OFFER TO ITS RENTAL CUSTOMERS . THE RENTING BUSINESS OF NEW AND RECONDITIONED MACHINES WAS NOT A SOUND ECONOMICAL PROPOSITIONS FOR LIPTONS UNLESS IT COULD ALSO MAINTAIN AND REPAIR THE MACHINES ITSELF , AND THIS BUSINESS HAS ACCORDINGLY BEEN DRASTICALLY REDUCED AND ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE LIPTONS DISMANTLED HUGIN CASH REGISTERS TO THE VALUE OF POUND ST . 9 000 IN ORDER TO USE PARTS OF THESE CASH REGISTERS AS SPARE PARTS FOR OTHER MACHINES .
THE SALE OF RECONDITIONED HUGIN CASH REGISTERS WAS PROFITABLE SO LONG AS LIPTONS HAD A READY SUPPLY OF SPARE PARTS TO RECONDITION SUCH MACHINES ITSELF . IN THIS RESPECT THE WITHDRAWAL OF SUCH SPARE PARTS WAS EXPECIALLY DAMAGING TO LIPTONS SINCE LIPTONS HAD BOUGHT A NUMBER OF SECONDHAND HUGIN CASH REGISTERS FROM HUGIN UK WHICH HUGIN UK HAD TAKEN IN AS ' TRADE-IN ' WHEN SUPPLYING CUSTOMERS WITH NEW MACHINES AS IS CLEAR FROM THE LETTER FROM HUGIN UK TO LIPTONS DATED 14 SEPTEMBER 1972 IN WHICH THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HUGIN UK , MR POPE , STATED :
' YOU WILL KNOW THAT AT NO TIME HAS THERE BEEN ANY AGREEMENT BETWEEN US WHERE WE HAVE SANCTIONED MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS BEING CARRIED OUT BY ANYONE OTHER THAN ENGINEERS IN THE EMPLOY OF HUGIN CASH REGISTERS LTD , AND I THEREFORE ASSUME THAT THE PARTS YOU REFER TO ARE THOSE WHICH ARE SPECIFICALLY NEEDED TO RECONDITION THE " TRADE-IN " MACHINES YOU HAVE PURCHASED FROM US .
IF YOU WILL BE KIND ENOUGH TO SEND ME A LIST OF THE PARTS YOU REQUIRE -