GOERING'S CAR

Evening Star, Issue 25750, 25 March 1946, Page 6

GOERING'S CAR

BULLET-PROOF MERCEDES ON OFFER AT £5,000 (From Our Correspondent.) (By Air Mail.) LONDON, March 14. Even in these days of inflated prices, £5,000 seems to be a stiff price to offer for Goering's bullet-proof Mercedes, now on exhibition in a London suburb. If the offer is accepted by the Ministry of War Transport, the intention presumably is to use it -for show purposes. If it is destined to make its appearance on the roads one may hope at least that its raucous klaxon may first be removed. Anything mpre arrogant than the motor horns attached to°these official German cars it would be impossible to imagine. They made day and night hideous as they went screaming through quiet German villages, or speeding at 60 miles an hour through main city streets. Many, like this Mercedes car, were bullet proof, and were even furnished with steel floors against the risk of running over a live' bomb. The bullet marks on Goering's car were the result of experimental shots fired by our own marksmen after it was unearthed in a lemote German garage.