The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-12

Iavent yet attained Americas SKILL m turning out good, cheap cars Dy the Ihousand. The cheapest car exnipiIeo
 t the last motor show there cost $o7o. Compared wibh the lowest priced Amer Ican cars the lowest priced ones you
 lee abroad look like toys. The first lew times you see them you wonder bow on earth they are not blown off he road when the stiff wind arises. ! It is not astonishing, therefore, that Henry Cord plans to establish a large actory outside of Kondon, with ca Racity for producing 800 cars day. britain has no such plant at present. They go in for variety. For example. chose Daimler car to- do my touring, Ind I was told that this one company Iurns out 57 different models. Whenever you reach the Slightest, hill
 ou have to change gears. The Daim- er limousine had less horsepower than Inc of our. Chevrolets or Fords. ! The reason is that cars are taxed al- host $5 per horsepowey. Therefore, the british build cars with as low as eight horsepower, or only about one-third of Fur smallest cars. The low horsepower las another distinct advantage, for hese cars can go nearly twice as far as Iurs on one gallon of gasoline and since iasoline there costs 40 to 50 cents a
 allon, this is an important considera- bon.
 Foreigners like American cars because shAy are such wonderful hill climbers, Is contrasted with the low power Eu- topean machines. And now that the labor government has done away with he high import duty on foreign cars, is believed that American manufac-
 urers, particularly of low priced cars, Fil lbe able to do 8 great deal more business there. Of course, the existing Iystem of taxation--so much per horse lower, works against American cars
 ,ith their high power, but efforts are Icing made to have this drawback re- hoved.
 Europeans love to motor" Motor fuses, similar to our own, have sprung
 p with tremendous rapidity during, the hst two or three years. Thousands Ind thousands of families patronfse hem, particularly on Saturday. after looms and Sundays, solely for the joy hey derive from riding in them. \ Outside of large cities, you meet ex-
 remely few private passenger cars. lou meet relatively more motor trucks. Apparently this system of transporta- bon has bee nfound economical.
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 er how high their station, do not own In automobile. A passenger car is re- larded as appropriate for only the em- Toying classes.
 I visited one of the very important iublishing enterprises in Britain, a con- lern issuing several daily and weekly Newspapers as well as a string of pe- Iiodicals, and discovered that not one |xecutive, apart from. the owner, had In automobile. asked one of the lead Ing executive if 1t could be possible that De could not afford to have a car.
 "I suppose could afford one, but I kould rather spend the money in put ing all my children through the uni- lersity."
 found this attitude very common hat families of all grades set great tore upon giving their children the fin Ist education in the land, and that cost k pleasures are cheerfully denied.
 The principal European countries lave excellent roads, and as few cars Ire encountered on the highways, mo-
 bring there Is a great pleasure.
 believe. however, that the number
 If cars in Europe will increase enor- hously as taxation becomes less bur lensome and prosperity revives.
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