PLEDGING MOTOR GARS
POPULAR PARIS SYSTEM HUNDREDS IN PAWN. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, December 29. Motor cars and motor cycles arc last becoming as numerous as the timehonoured watch lor the purpose of pledging. The municipal pawnshop today requested the Paris Council to vote £7*5.000 to erect a three-storey garage to house cars. Thus far 000 are m pawn, there being no fewer than 190 pledged this year. Another use for a motor car is reported from Rome, the owner selling the car to a cafe proprietor for 10,000 coffees. The cafe is bound to provide coffee to the seller or his friends as often as requested. It is calculated that it will take between six and eight years to pay off the debt.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20062, 31 December 1928, Page 5
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