The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-12
GREAT DEMAND
 FOR ALL MOTORS AND ACCESSORIES

The automobile manufacturers of the United States made. in the fiscal year just ended, their highest record in supplying foreign markets. The total value of automobiles and ac- cessories, such as tires, engines, and other separate parts, exported in the fiscal year 1920, says a statement by The National City Bank of New York aggregates $275. 100000 against s38,- 000,000 two years ago. and $30,00O,- % in the year preceding the war. Thus, the value of automobiles and accessories exported in the fiscal year 192 are nine times much as in the year before the war, and more than double that of the closing year of the wear.
 The whole world, adds the banks statement, seems to be demanding motor vehicles for passenger and freight purposes, and looking to the United States for it's supply. The number of commercial cars exported in the first II months of the fiscal yeSr 1920 was, according to the off cial reports of the government, 21,- 656, against 11,154 in the same months of 1919, and the number of passenger cars, 103,146, against 33,- 412 in the corresponding months of 1919- Great Britain. which saw the practical qualities of the American commercial automobile during the war, took in the first Il months of the fiscal year 1920, according to the above authority, over s5,50o,0o0 worth of our commercial automo- piles, against $2.500.O00 worth in the same months of the preceding year. Cuba, which recognized the conven- fence and practicability in a tropical climate of the power-driyen vehicle, against that driven by animals, took of our commercial autom obi1es in the II months of the fiscal year 1920, 1,419 machines. valued at over S3.000,O00, against 610 machines val ued at a little over s1,0O0,0O0 in the same months of the preceding year. To the distant Dutch East Indies, the number of commercial machines sent was 44O against 3O9 in the same months of 1919, and only 6S in the corresponding months of 1918, and to our own Philippine Islands. 69S com mercia1 machines in the 1920 period against 159 in the same period of 1919. while British Oceania. which consists chiefly of Australia and New Zealand, took e29 commercial ma chimes in the II months of the fiscal year 1920, against 271 in the same l m months of 1919. and IFS in the cor responding months of 191S-
 In passenger machines the growth | is equally striking, the total number l exported to all parts of the world in the Il months ending with May hay ing been. according to the official ! records. 103.14S against 33,412 in the | same months of the imm ediately pre- | ceding year. and the stated value for | the II months of 1920, $111, 100000 I against $3S.0oo,O00 in the same 1 months of 1919. This increase in the I number of passenger machines is l especially marked in the movement to l the tropics: to British India the num-
 Der of passenger machines sent in the II months of the fiscal year 1920 is 1 stated at 7.Goz. valued at $7,589,o00 | against only 349 machines valued al | s422.00o in the same months of the
 preceding year, and 59 machines val
 ued at $4o.oeo in the corresponding
 months of 1918. To Argentina the II number sent in the II months of the
 fiscal year 1920, is 3,049 against l ,470
 in the same months of the preceding
 year; to Brazil 5,610 against 1.16S ir 1 the corresponding months of 1919; tt l Peru, S66 machines against 485 in the
 same months of the preceding year
 to the Philippines 2,073 against 1 ,601
 and to British outh Africa, 5.11( ragainst 1,161 in the same months o!
 the preceding year. practically all the
 countries above named being. with the
 exception of Argentina, distinctly
 tropical, and illustrating the growing | demand of the tropics for the horse.
 less vehicle. Mexico, despite the un l settled conditions, took in the Il , months of 1920, 2.4S9 machines
 against 1,951 in the same months O. , the preceding year; Cuba APIS pas
 senger machines. against 1887 in ths ? same months of the year preceding.
 This demand for our machines
 brings with it a corresponding de
 mand for equipment to accompany
 them, The value of automobile tires
 exported in the II months of the ifs
 cal year 1920 was -36,e6e.6O0 agains
 $19,000,006 in the same months o. 1 last year, and s12,os6,e0 in the cor l responding months of the year pre- , ceding, and of automobile engines
 35,S1S, valued at s5,397,80 in the Il
 months of the fiscal year 1920, agains
 same months of last year. Of the
 s36,0e0,00o worth of tires exported 1T
 the 1 months ending with May, 1920
 IS million dollars worth went tc
 France; 2 F million dollars worth te
 Great Britain; million dollars wortr 1 to Cuba, and about 4 million dollars
 worth to South America as a whole.
 Scottish banking employees, to the
 extent Of so Der cent Of their mum