In an early example of product placement, the sketch in the garage involving inflating a huge inner tube features several prominent advertisements for India Tyres. The firm also sponsored Douglas Wakefield and his comedy team in their stage shows, which featured this same knockabout routine.
Ronald Gow sold the outline to John E. Blakeley during a train journey between Manchester and London. He received £20, but no film credit. The plot is very similar to Gow's Lancashire Luck (1937), which was written some years earlier.