Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-08-14
Heavy Demand
for Automobiles
In Foreign Lands

| The automobile manufacturers o.
| the United States made, in the fisca
year just ended, their highest record
in supplying foreign markets. The to-
tai value of automobiles and accessor.
les, such as tires, engines, and other
separate parts, exported in the fiscal
year 1920. aggregates $275.000, ,000
against $318.000.000 two years ago land
$50, 900, 900 in the year preceding the
war. Thus, the value of automobiles
and accessories exported in the fiscal
year 1920 are nine times as much as
in the year before the war, and more
than double that of the closing year
Of the war.
The whole world. seems to be de-
manding motor vehicles for passenger
and freight purposes. and looking to
the United States for its supply. The
number of commercial cars exported
in the first IL months of the fiscas
year i 920 was, according to the official
reports of the government, 21,656 as
against 11,154 in the same months of
1919, and the number Of passenger
cars, 102,146 against 33,412 in the
months Of 1919.
Great Britain, which saw, the practi-
cal qualities of the American CONNER
cial automobile during the war, took
in the first i months of the fiscal year
1920, according to the above authority
over $5,500,000 worth of our CONNER
cial cars, against $2,50O,00 worth in
The same months the preceding year.
Cuba which recognized the convenien-
,e and practicability in tropical eli
mate of the powerdrive vehicle, as
against that driven by animals, took OF
our commercial automobiles in the II
months of the fiscal year 1920, 1,419
valued at over $3,000,000
against 610 machines valued at little
over $1,o00,000 in the same months
If the preceding year. To the distant
Dutch East Indies the number Of com
nercial machines sent was 440 against
800 in the same months of 1919, and
,nly 6S in the corresponding months
If 1918, and to our own Philippines
1913 commercial machines in the year
800 period against 159 in the same
period of 1919, while British Oceania
which consists chiefly of Australia
md New Zealand took 929 commercial
machines in the / months Of the fis
al year 1920, against 271 in the same
months of 1919, and 178 in the cor
months of 1918.
In passenger machines the growth
S equally striking. the total number
Exported to all parts of the world in
he 1 months ending with May having
,een, according to the official records,
02,146 against 33,412 in the same
months of the Immediately preceding
ear, and the stated value for the IL
months of 1920. Sill, ,0o0,00O against
$4,000, 900 in the same months of
919 This increase in the number of
machines is especially mark
d in the movement to the tropics; to
British India the number of passenger
machines sent in the IL months of the
iscal year 1920 is stated at 1902, val
ed at $7,589, 900, against only 349
machines valued at $4,000 nj the
anne months of the preceding year,
nd SO machines valued at $4,000 in
he corresponding months of 1918. To
argentina the number sent in the III
nonths of the fiscal year 1920, is 3,049
gainst 1.470 in the same months OF
he preceding year; to Brazil 5,61O
gainst 1,168 in the corresponding
lonths of 1919; to Peru, $50 machines
gainst 4S5 in the same months of the
receding year; to the Philippines
.O73 against 1,601 an to British South
frica 5,110 against 1,161 in the same
,onths of the preceding year, practi-
ally all the countries above named
eing, with the exception of Argentina
tropical. and illustrating the
rowing demand of the tropicsfor the
orseless vehicle, Mexico, despite the
nsettled conditions, took in the III
lonths of 1920, 2,4S9 machines against
,951 in the same months of the pre-
eding year; Cuba APIS passenger ma-
hines against 1887 in the same period
f the year preceding.