Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-11

Until the present trailer industry
has arrived at certain definite types
and weights for house trailers 1t is .
waste of engineers time to work on
the problem" declared one prominent
authority. From the automobile
manufacturers viewpoint the house
trailer does not exist, except in the one
or two exceptional cases where q
builder of cars is also in the trailer
business"
A suite of offices devoted to attend
ing American tourists has been opened
in Laredo, Tex. only three blocks from
the International Bridge and on the
main approach to 1t by the Mexican
Automobile Association. Senior Bell
sario Quiroz will manage the offices,
which will attend to automobile per-
mits, securing tourist cards, supplying
maps and information and issuing
automobile insurance with Mexican
company for all who wish to apply for
it, as well as extending all the other
services of the Mexican Automobile
Association.
The new offices are located at the
functions of highways 81 and 90, on
Matamoros and Convent avenues.
The tourist Office is a non-profit,
Mexican civic institution. and will
attend all tourists who apply to it,
whether they intend to take out the
temporary memberships offered by the
Mexican Automobile Association or
not. Members are entitled to free
emergency road repairs and service.
legal representation In Mexico and
many other extraordinary services.
Production of passenger cars and
trucks in the United States and Cam
ada showed some Improvement this
week as more plants got under way
on 1897 models, says Automotive Daily
News in its midweek summary. Out
put for the week ending October 10,
says A. D. N, should reach a total
of 29,170, against q revised estimate
of 1912 for the week ended October
8. This is an increase of close to
10000 units. Reports that the Ford
plants would resume output this week
were unconfirmed.
AS is usual following a change
over, some time is required to get
assembly lines running smoothly and
another week or more Is likely to
elapse before a real production pace
can be attained. With most COM
panies reporting 1886 stocks almost
or completely absorbed, it is expected,
says A. D. N, that the output during
the closing quarter this year will run
10 to 80 per cent above the final
quarter of 1885, depending to a large
extent upon how quickly Ford and
other volume producers get their new
models in the works.
New passenger car registrations in
September are estimated at 200, 900
units as compared with l57,o9S in
1885, which leads A. d. N. to pre-.
dict that close to 100000 new pas
senger cars will be registered for the
calendar year of 1886 This would
be about II per cent below the record
of 1929, but well above the average
Of 2,750,000 q year for the 10 years,
1925 to 1885. Last year during the
final quarter 605,481 new passenger
cars were registered, says A. D. NJ,
and this year If the same rate of in
crease continues that has marked the
first nine months record, the final
quarter should yield close to 100000
new passenger car registrations.
In the commercial car field, A. D. N.
points out, the picture is even more
encouraging. At the end of the first
nine months. with September esti-
mated at $4,000 units, commercial car
registrations are close to 1916 units,
which is we'll above the 420,252 regis
tered in the same period of the pre-
vious record year. 1929. During the
closing quarter Of 1885. commercial
car registrations totaled 1884,
Should the current rate of increase
over last year hold during the last
quarter of 1886 the total for that
period will run to about lao, 1000 units,
bringing total for the calendar year
of 1896 to $4,000 units. This would
establish a new all-time record for
commercial car registrations in the
history Of the industry and would be
some 100000 units above the previous
record Of 27,057 set in 1929.
Combined passenger car and truck
registrations in 1896 would thus total
100000 units, or only about 100000
less than the record year of 1929.