Fate of Motor Cars
OLD MODELS DESTROYED OFFSETTING OVER-PRODUCTION " LONDON, Dec. 10. Cars worth in the aggregate thousands of pounds were set on lire during tho week and sent over a steep bank into a disused gravel pit, which was then flooded to a depth of more than 30ft. In this way prominent car distributors followed tho drastic methods of American wheat and coffee growers, who destroyed surplus stocks in order to offset over-production. Saloons, coupes and tourers of all makes made tho fatal leap. Most of them had been taken in part exchange for now cars since the Olympia Motor Show, and included a car which cost £1750, and which roared to its doom like a racing car. The chairman of Hcnlys, Limited, said that most of the car's were unsaleable owing to the exorbitant tax, and the large engines were not worth dismantling, even where the engine was brand new.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7037, 22 December 1932, Page 7
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152Fate of Motor Cars Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7037, 22 December 1932, Page 7
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