Thanx, Rob....it was indeed a snooker player who told me that....
....he was also an engineer....he made my best snooker cue, also.
He knew the pres of Brunswick of Canada....apparently, that machine cost 100 thou
...when you could buy a brand new Ford for a few hundred.
My friend's name was Harvey Rothwell...he's in Stein and Rubino's Billiard Encyclopedia.