AMERICAN CARS

Evening Star, Issue 19843, 17 April 1928, Page 8

AMERICAN CARS

TRADE WITH DOMINIONS POPULARITY EXPLAINED Tctsa Awcciation —By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, April 16. (Received April 17, at 11 a.m.) Commenting on the statement that American automobiles are being increasingly used in the British colonies, Mr H. Smith (chief of the automotive division of the Department of Commerce) said: “Tho popularity and predominance of American cars in Australia and South Africa arc due practically to their service ability. The American car has developed from tests over a quarter of a century, when the roads mainly were unfavorable, hence our cars meet these actual conditions in other parts of the world.” An official of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce pointed out that in tho United States the tremendous domestic market permitted mass production and economies which were impossible in countries such as EngJjuid.—Australian Press Association.