CARS DESTROYED.
CURE TOR OVER-PRODUCTION. LONDON, December 16. Cars worth in the aggregate thousands of pounds were set on fire during the week and sent over a steep bank into a disused gravel pit, which was then flooded to a depth of more than 30ft. In this way prominent car distributors followed the drastic methods of American wheat and coffee growers, who destroyed surplus stocks in order to offset over-production.
' Saloons, coupes and tourers of all makes made the fatal leap. Most of them had been taken in part exchange for new cars since the Olympia Motor Show, and included a 45 h.p. model which cost £1750, and which roared to its doom like a racing car. Other makes, which from five to 10 years ago were the pride of their makers, were among those destroyed.
The chairman of Henlys, Ltd., said £hat mosti of the cars were unsaleable owing to the. exorbitant tax, and the large engines were not worth dismantling, even where the engine was brand new.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 302, 21 December 1932, Page 7
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