The head of one of the biggest automatic car washing machine firms in britain says revenues were 15 % higher than they had been in 20 19. So it seems that the demand for car washes is probably fairly constant. And given that the cheap hand car washes have disappeared, britain is moving back into the machine car washing era. We'll see you back here to morrow.
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