Evening star., 1937-11-07

generally prevails. The efforts Of the
the Washington Automotive Trade
are to be congratulated.
While the United States Is expected
to make many purchases and replace
ments during the new automobile
calendar year, added stimulus is seen
by the manufacturers in export sales
All the world enjoys the products OF
the American industry and many
buyers in foreign lands are foreseen.
As the 1888 models Of passenger
cars, trucks and buses are unveiled by
their proud makers in other automobile
shows which, during the ensuing weeks
open in rapid succession in the
principal cities of the United States
the American public pauses, studies
and admires in contemplation Of auto
motive rehabiliment, according to
Irving H. Taylor of the United States
Department Of Commerce. Wherever
one turns or casts his eyes there are
reminders Of the presence of the new
cars which will make the 1888 chapter
Of our automotive history. These most
typical American products long ago
assumed international stature. Today
the people Of far of New Zealand, in
the Argentine, and others close to the
heart of what was once darkest
Africa" are reading, just as eagerly as
do New Yorkers, cabled descriptions
OF the new American cars. These are
the cars that will be chosen by better
than four out of every five who order
q new automobile next year.
According to official figures or re-
liable estimates, the world production
OF automobiles during the past 10 years
Q927 through 1856 totaled 42,146, ,576
units. of which plants in the United
States and Canada, and their assembly
branches abroad accounted for 34,-
809,224 units, or 82.6 per cent. OF
the world passenger car output during
the 10 years, rs per cent (29.1O8.631)
we're American; of the 7,502,739 COM
mercial car total, better than "a per
cent bore familiar American trade
names.
For many years the Department of
Commerce. through the various agen-
cies Of this Government abroad, has
made a careful count of the motor
vehicles in circulation throughout
the world. Ten years ago, as of Janu-
airy /, 1928. this survey revealed
29,687 ,499 automobiles in world use
Q61 political subdivisions covered)-
better than 90 per cent were then in
the United States. At the beginning
of 1887 the world total had advanced
about 81 per cent, to 40,56O,167; Of
which slightly over 10 per cent were
in the United States.
Not only is the United States with
better than 20 automobiles to each 100
persons by far the most motorized
country of the world but American
factories are also supplying more than
four-f1fths of the new cars and trucks
required to move the people and goods
OF the world over its 100000 miles Of
highways which include the 5000 ,000-
mile network in the United States.
The 42,l46,576 automobiles that
rolled OF American or foreign assembly
lines during the past decade went to
two groups Of buyers. Well over 3l,-
o00,006,' or "a per cent. we're required
to replace those which went out of
circulation. while the remaining H.
100000, or rs per cent of the total
accounted for the added stream of
highway traffic. Analyzing world pro-
duction and sales in more detail, we
flnd that for the l0-year period the
most pronounced growth has been on
the side of commercial cars where
better than 38 per cent of the new
units went to swell the registration
total. while but % per cent of the
passenger cars produced were reflected
in the net increase; truck registrations
increased almost 81 per cent and
passenger cars advanced about 80 per
cent during the decade.
The 1898 models. making their bows
throughout the United States these
days, will as the year advances, find
their counterparts rolling along, not
only in the near tropics of our South
ern States and battling the snow drifts
Of the great Northwest, but just as