The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-29
AMERICAN AUTOS
 USED ABROAD. Chances for Their Increased Sale on Vancouver
 Island.
LOCAL LAWS FAVOR IT.
American Models NotAttrac- tive to Dutch
 Market.

made by American consuls in foreign countries. There would appear to be an increasing interest in cars of American manufacture.
 Consul A. E. Smith, of Victoria, states that perhaps nowhere on this continent has the automobile trade expanded more quickly or the use of such ma chimes become more general, in propor- ton to the population, than in Victoria, concerning which he writes: "This is largely due to the fact that the roads on Vancouver Island are peculiarly well adapted for automobiles, the soil being generally gravel and rocks, the heavi- est rains not leaving standing water thereon, but drying up with really re- markable rapidity; also to the addition al fact that there is a large leisure class of wealthy residents in Victoria, who have the means and time to take extensive trips daily. While three years ago only one or two automobiles were owned in the city and two years ago there were not twenty cars in Victoria now there are over 100. It is a remark able fact, which speaks largely for the superority of American machines, that, notwithstanding the large English in- fluence here. due to so many of the res- idents being English born, who still have social and business connections with the mother land, that the majority of the automobiles in use in Victoria were manufactured in the United States.
 Every automobile has to be register ed in the provincial police department, and an examination of the records shows that majority of the machines registered are of American manufac- ture. An investigation among the own- CTS shows that the American machines are giving the best satisfaction. It is evident that this is one of the most in- viting fields for American automobile manufacturers, as the demand Is con- stantly increasing.
 "An agency for the sale of American motor carriages has been established here. It Is evident that American man. s&facturers of automobiles should give special attention to Victoria, Nanaimo, and other places on Vancouver Island, a< large sales will result therefrom, as there are no automobile manufacturing establishments in the province and the people are generally quite prosperous. The law requiring nonresident com- mercial agents visiting the province to pay license has been repeal, of which American mercantile houses have been duly notified by reports from this con- Sulate.
 Consul Frank D. Hill furnishes the following practical pointers from Ann sterdam on the automobile, bicycle, and motor-boat trade in Holland: "The following statement, made to me by the president of the Netherlands Automo- bile club, under whose auspices the largest and most successful exhibition (annuaD ever held in the Netherlands, and which was visited by S0,000 persons, including the Prince Consort, has re- gently closed at Amsterdam although relating to automobiles and cycles is good enough to be stereotyped and placed on the desk of every American business house dealing or contemplating opening relations with Dutch firms, no matter in what line. The whole question of American export trade with Am sterdam is contained in that as in a nutshell:
 "9The trade in automobiles is almost nil, American models are not suited for European markets nor do they compete in price. Importers are overflowed with catalogues sent from America of houses whose names are barely known here Naturally, nobody will order motor car from a catalogue, nor will they make payment according to the Amer ican terms on arrival against delivery oe shipping documents, Buyers will bt found in the Netherlands for the small CT machines. such as are fitted for doc tors use (runabouts), but they must follow the Belgian and French models : and must be sold at a price not higher than these. An American company solo me fifteen cars but they are of an ole model and price are not favorable hence this factory cannot sell any nor machines here. At the late exposition at Amsterdam the only American fac tory represented was one manufactur. ing steam cars. American cars are no so favorably regarded here as those O French. German and Belgian construc lion. The distance separating the Meth. erlands and America makes the speedy delivery of automobile parts very diff | fcult. which is very disadvantageous t, their sale. If American exporters de sire to do business in the Netherland they should first send a representativ who shall post himself thoroughly a to the requirements of the local trade.
 ',An American firm making stean cars informs me that it has sold thirty five machines this year, six of these t. the Netherlands government for use il the postal service of the Dutch Eas dndies. Motor cars are used more an more here TOT coHlIlleICldl puIposesl
 have just seen, for the first time,
 large delivery motor truck on tn streets loaded with beer barrels of on of the large breweries. How littl American motor cars are known her may be illustrated by the questio asked me by prominent physician g the late Amsterdam exhibition, if W .,oo5a r,a+o,. oarc in tha TTnitad cfat presume he thought the one loa steam landaulet there, sent over fror Lcndon, was an English machine"