NEVER ANYTHING LIKE IT

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1928, Page 2

NEVER ANYTHING LIKE IT

ENGLISH MOTOR TRADE BOOMING THIS YEAR.

Writing a week or two before Faster the motoring correspondent of the London “Daily News and Westminister Gazette ” "sc-crdcd an unprecedented rush to buy now cars.

will be Britain’s record mechanical holiday,” he writes, “Car sales have boon astonishing since January 1, and, on the figures of increased business done compared with last .year, there will bo on the roads at Faster approximately 1,400,000 cars and mo-tor-cycles, not to mention chara-bancs.

“If the sales continue as in the last three weeks, there will be at least 37,000 now cars and motor-cycles licensed by Good Friday (April 6). Motorcycles represent a small proportion of this total. In round figures by Easter £7,500,000 will have been taken by the motor trades since January 1.

London and the South have broken all records for the first ten weeks of the year. Three firms alone in London sold 1,000 new cars between them in a week.

In the first ten days of March one agent took more than £5,000 a day for new cars, as well as breaking all his records in used ear sales. Another agent sold' by auction 139 used cars at .the rate of one car every 20 seconds.

In Birmingham and the Midlands there is the same tale of high business. In Birmingham more Rolls Royces wore sold in January than in this Midland district during all 1927. Nearly 4,000 a Week. One extraordinary feature is that the sales of chassis, on which buyers -want to place their own designed bodies, and two-seaters have bounded up. Some producing firms are not doing well, but those with big names are flooded with orders and from now on until Easter new car deliveries will be at the rate of nearly 4,000 a week. Among the well-known firms trade has risen 40 to 100 per cent, this year compared with’ the first quarter last year.