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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7296, 5 August 1930, Page 4

Did You Know ?

That it is stated that nearly 400 new cars awaiting removal by train wera destroyed by fire at the railway terminus at Toledo, Ohio? The damage was estimated at £IOO.OOO. That arrangements have been made by the German railways for ears to bo transported as ordinary luggage at a special tariff equal to half the usual, rate? The minimum distance will be approximately 125 miles. That it is" estimated that no fewer than 51.5 per cent, of the cars produced in the United States during the past year were of a value lower than £200; 15.3 per cent, were valued at between £2OO and £400; 2.7 per cent, between £4OO and £G00; and only 0.5 per cent, over £G00? That the latest German rocket car. designed by Max Yalicr, is propelled by a burning mixture of oxygen and petrol? The acceleration is said to be ‘ ‘ kolossal ’'! That John Kenyon, aged 18, of London, is on the way to New York? Ho has with him £2O in cash and a secondhand 500 c.e. motor cycle, with which he intends to ride from New York to Vancouver, a distance of over 3500 miles.