The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-23
AlAONG THE AUTOMo8ILlSIS Great Growth in Export of
 Motor Cars and Parts < Record For This Year Likely to Reach $2O,OOO, 900 - Only q, ,OOO, 900 Exported Ten Years Ago Average Price Re duced From $2, ,0O0 to al Little More Than 900 Since 1908

Automobiles and parts thereof ex- ported from the United States during 1911 will aggregate approximately twenty million dollars in value. Fig nres of the Bureau of Statistics, Re- partmont of Commerce and Labor, show already for the seven months of tho year for which export statis- tics are available. more than nine million dollars worth of automobiles exported, two million dollars worth of parts thereof other than tires, and one and one-half million dollars worth of tires, making the aggregate for the seven months, twelve and one half million dollars. Should the ex- ports continue at the same rate dur ing the five remaining months of the year, the total would cross the twen- fy-milljon dollar line. Even this does not include the automobiles sent to Porto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska,whic with the parts thereof, aggregated over one and one-half million dollars value during the last fiscal year.
 Tffe increase in the exportation of thds article of American manufacture has been almost as rapid as the growth in their use in the United States. The total value of auto mobiles and parts thereof exported in 1901, only a decade ago, was less than one ~millfen. dollars, in 1902 it passed the one million dollar line, in 1908 1t was more than one and one millions. in 1905 two and one-half millions. in 1906 four and one-half millions, in 1907 five and three-quar- ter millions, in 1907 seven and three quarter millions, in 1910 thirteen mill lions, and in 1911 seems likely to be, for automobiles alone, about fourteen million dollalrs; for parts thereof, ex- cept tires. about three and one-haif million dollars, and for tires about two and one-half millions. These fig ures are all for calendar years.
 Even this increase in value does not fully represent the increase in the number of machines exported, since the export price has fallen in the meantime. The average export price of automobiles exported in 1908 was, in round terms $2,000; in 1909, s1,- 500; in 1910, a little over 1900; and in the seven months of the year 1911 for which figures are now savaila ble, a little more than $l,OoOeach, the ex- port price having thus fallen practt- caiiy one-half since 1908, these fig ures of average export prices being obtained by dividing the stated num- Der of automobiles exported into the stated value thereof for each of the years in question.
 Canada is by far the largest mar ket for automobiles exported from the United States. Of the practically nine thousand machines exported in the seven months ending with July, 2,724 went to Canada, 1875 to the United Kingdom, 93S to British Oceania (chief1y Australia and New Zealand) ATT to Asia and Ocessnia other than British 444 to South America, PTS to France, 175 to the West Indies and Bermuda, 147 to Mexico, 137 to Italy, and 73 to Germany. These figures do not include the shipm ents to non contiguous territory of the United States, the number sent to Hawaii in the seven months in question being 202, to Porto Ricot 154 and to Alas ka 2.