HOW MUCH A YEAR?
TO OWN A MOTOR-CAR
CONTROVERSY AT HOME
OPINIONS DIFFER
(United .Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, loth September.
The dictum of an English county Court Judge that nobody is justified in owing a motor-car with a salary or income below £.1500 has aroused a sharp controversy. Mr. Gordon Selfridge, the well-known merchant, expresses the opinion that a careful man with £.500 a year can safely invest in a motor-car. Sir Josiah Stamp, president of executive of the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway, says that it should be possible for a man with £600 or £700 to run a car, but below this other claims on income ought to come first. . "The Automobile Association 'says thousands of its members do not earn £500 annually. A second-hand car can be purchased for £50, and a man and his family can get an astonishing amount of pleasure for 40s a week. There are two hundred omnibus drivers in London alone who own motorcars. They say they have given ■up paying doctors' bills and spend the money in running cars.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 9
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177HOW MUCH A YEAR? Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 9
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