BRITISH CARS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 24

BRITISH CARS

(From "The Port's" Representative.) LONDON, Sth Nov. Mr. W. R. Morris" (president of the Council of the Motor, and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund); presiding at the fund's 23rd annual banquet at the Connaught Rooms, said: "It is not long

since I was round tho world, and it gave me the greatest "pleasure to note that the 'push bike' of the British Empire ruled the world. In every part of the Empire I touched upon I found, the British bicycle doing its job." He thought also that •75. per cent, of the motor-cycles he had seen round the world were British. If that was so, with the brains of the workmen in this country, why should not the same thing happen with the motor-car? Our friends across the water had put on the markets of the world cars that had done remarkably well, but when he thought that they had learnt all. that they had done- from the Old Country, he did not see why the British should not in the near future replace those ears by British motor-cars.. If. the Government would only give them a chance they would in the near future got once more ou the top. , Responding to the toast of his health, Mr. Morris said that we had a wonderful Prime Minister. "We had never, had in the history of this country a man who had done more for its manufacturing concerns than Mr. Baldwin. .. He was at the bottom of all they had received. If they had' protection, prices would go down. He hoped they would come to the time when they would be protected to the same extent as others.

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