The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-22
NEW ENGLISH MOTOR CARS
 AT REASONABLE PRICES ARE
 FEATURE OF LONDON SHOW
British Manufacturers Exhibit Many Fine, High Priced Cars, But Have Realized Demand for the Cheaper Makes and Tiny Roadster Can Be Pur chased for About Four Hundred Dollars

LONDON. Dec. 22-There recently opened at the Olympia the great Au- tomobile Pageant of Europe.
 There are cars of beauty and lux ury. costing anything from $6OOO 10 $1O.Ooo. and against these aristocrats of the broad highway there is the tiny roadster known here as the "Runabout." which the young city clerk can acquire for meagor $tnC. It is the later that makes tho i,pu- the appeal.
 Last year the concurrent "Nh.li- tions of the British Society of N1or Manufacturers and Traders at O'ym- pia and the White City held unique position as th" only large and im- portant show in Europe.
 This year at first sight tHo c.m"'. tions appear to be somewhat d@lnr- ont. owing to the fact that ha French have revived their Salon. with no small succcss. and ..". tain umlor of thn new French .nI Italian model. have been shown H- ready in Paris
 nciinntall,. also. the G,u.ns no,n held their first posr-war o,Mh- uon in Berlin. showing a lara. range of new models.
 The Paris Salon in reality on 1. the actual industry itself has dou' very little moro than Berlin. oNnot uoaiAy on papor ro anticipate thu Hr.i.n shows.
 FRENCH MADE BLIND MOVE
 Last year when the French in 'ho hours of slump. coupled with "n. production. -.t "cold foot" and #. cidod somewhat prnripar.'r To abandon their Salon. they did uot realize until some time aft,rw1rd that they had allowed tho European center of interest to pass out of their hands to the British capital. and with that ill-judgcd decision the crstwhilc prestige of the Salon has to a large extent been yielded for good
 The British show is noteworthy not merely because design is necessarily more advanced, but more especially because prices are such that better value for money Is offered than at either of the previous postwar shows
 The 1919 show was a higeley-pig- gledy of the transition period be- tween pre-war and postwar Then those who could not show a postwar model tried to improve on their pre- war one. and for the most part they did better than their confreres. whoI rushed out a post-w war model full of imperfections. And of both clqssos the prices were eXtortionate
 Last years show was an aftermath of the 1919 one; but prices were cha otic and changed from day to day Then followed a setback, period of depression and of failures
 At the present show we see the trade has extricated itself from the briars and thickets of the two pre- vious years and has emerged some what tattered and shorn of it's pros Derity.
 PRICES HAVE COME DOWN
 Prices have come down with a run and manufacturers have realized that low prices alone will attract the or ders that will keep them in bread and butter through the next year
 As it is. the present exhibition at Olympia has broken all bounds as re- cards the matter of numbers and cx- hibits. and this in the teeth of the worst and most trying year that au- tomobilc manufacturers. not only in England, but all over the world. have ever experienced.
 Two wonderful examples of the motor manufacturers art were snapped up before the show began for $15,00o and $l3OO, respectively
 They are princeIy cars of forty horsepower, the one a magnificent sa- loon. built in sweeping lines. painted ultramarine and upholstered in gray Bedford cord. and the other in white upholstered in pigskin. Each has a host of technical excellencies.
 And princes have purchased them.