PAWWING THE CAR
SPECIAL BUSINESS IN PRANCEIn France, where the Government and municipalities are- also in the pawnbroking business, loans can now bo raised on cars. Special pawn-garages have been constructed, and within a few days of the opening of the first, it was guarding its full accommodation of 200 motorists’ pledges. The French idiom for pawning an article is putting it “au clou," hanging iu “on the nail”; but nails sufficiently large to hold cars cannot be found in ordinary pawnshops, so (hat pawngarages arc being prepared all over the country. “Uncle” usually has the same idea of the value of a car as a motor trader has when a trade-in is wheeled up for inspection; but then the pawnbroker is leudiug, not buying, and ho charges only 9 per cent, for his money. Government pawn-garages arc not rapacious in France. Petrol must be drained from cars as soon as they are in “pop," but if the pawner remembers to bring a can with him he is allowed to take the petrol away, presumably for use in his automatic cigarette lighter, if that has not been pawned first.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6613, 18 May 1928, Page 10
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189PAWWING THE CAR Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6613, 18 May 1928, Page 10
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