Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-11
AMERICAN AUTOS HONK
IN EVERY COUNTRY.
$4,000 Passenger Machines Ex-
ported From United States
During Last Decade

The A m erican automobile
"honks" in every language of the
world and does business in every
climate. 1t sounds its warning in
over hundred different countries.
colonies and islands, and renders
service from Iceland at the far
north to the equator and thence to
the most extreme southern line of
human habitation. 1t takes" the
steep grades of the Andes or the
Himalayas with the same compla-
cency with which it traversea fhe
pampas Of South America or the
desert roadways of AS4ca and
Australia.
Figures compiled for the Trade
Record of The National CITY Bank
of New York show that the num-
Der of passenger machines export
ed from the United States in the
last decade was $4,000, and of com
mercial machines, including motor
trucks and buses, $4,000. The
value of the passenger machines
exported in the last decade is
1854, 900, 900, and of commercial
machines $288,0O0,0O. If we should
carry the record back to a dozen
years and include motor cycles,
which are in fact automobiles"
the total number of machines ex-
ported, including those sent to our
own colonies, would reach a mil
lion, and the value a round billion
dollars, Even this total of an
proximately billion dollars of au-
tomobiles of all types exported in
the last dozen years does not fully
tell the story, for the value of
parts of" machines exported for
repair purposes aggregates in that
period about $4,000, 900; the value
of automobile tires exported in
that period was $18O,OO0,0O0, and
the engines about $300OOOO0.
A much larger proportion of the
machines exported is still doing
business in some form than is gem
orally realized, for many of the
machines originally sold for pas
senger purposes are after they
have rendered service in the capaci-
ty originally intended TRANSFORMED
into condition in which they can
be used for the minor trade traffic
and industry purposes, rendering
service to enormous numb@s of
persons engaged in business and
mechanical industries, and thus
minimizing the time lost by the
former traffic methods and to that
extent increasing their business
facilities. Automobile authorities
estimate that more than three
fourthS of the motor cars manu-
featured are used more or less for
business purposes.
One interesting feature of this
compilation prepared for the Trade
Record lies in the opportunity
which it offers TO compare export
prices at the present time with
those of a decade ago. The num-
Der of passenger machines export
ed in 1918 was $3.50 and the value
S.5,5H.644. an average of przctS-
cally $1,000 per machine, while the
number of passenger machines ex-
ported in 1922 was $3.50 and their
recorded Talue on expectation ssh
05G.0O0. an average of S764 per ma
chine, while the commercial ma
chimes show corresponding de-
crease in average value.
These figures showing the enof-
nous expectation of motor vehicles
hre especially interesting at this
moment when the latest trade fig
ures show tremendous increases
over the corresponding period Of
last year. OF passenger machines
alone, the total exports in the 9
months ending with March, 1923,
are, according to official reports OF
the Government, 62,454 against Z3.-
6o4 in the same period Of last year,
and of motor trucks and buses
1885 against 4,226 In the same
months of 1921.
One especially interesting feztrre
of the big increase in exports dur
ing the current fiscal year occurs
in the fact that the large increases
are chiefly in movements 70
European countries and their cob
onies. OF passenger machines this
number sent to tine limited Kfng~
dom in the 9 months ending wsEh
March, 1928, IS 1870 against S79 10
the same months of tine precedTE&
year; Belgium 400 against S2:
Denmark 901 against 49, Norway
1.tA against IS; Sweden 80
against IS; Spain 2.SS against Zd5i
Australia 1867 against SSa3. whHlG
to the South American uDumtrnra
there are also large increases I'd
Argentina 2T7S against 4HSh, AMID to
Brazil f-gD fm the @umths emdmma
with Mzrch- 1928. sgsfmst go I'd
she same period of the PRecedTHa
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