THE MOTOR TRADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17631, 18 November 1920, Page 8

THE MOTOR TRADE.

BUYING STILL BRISK.

COMMERCIAL VEHICLES WANTED.

The buying of motor-cars goes on as briskly as ever. In fact, according to one dealer, business has never been so good as "it is now. Large numbers of machines are arriving, but the market is eager and quickly absorbs them.

"There is no indication at all that people are holding off," an importer said. The adverse rate of exchange, he added, made no difference. His firm was not altering its prices, because they believed that the rate of exchange -would not stop where it was. The tendency of retail prices to fall in the United States was not yet reflected in New Zealand. The majority of the United States factories whose motor-cars were most in demand fehowed no tendency to fall. On the other hand, in many cases the" dealers had been guaranteed against alteration in the factory prices. Many motor vehicles are being imported for commercial purposes. There is said to be an especially heavy demand for motor-trucks suitable for the carriage of metal and timber. Sufficient of these machines could not be obtained, said the manager of one firm. United States motor-cars form the preponderance of those arriving at present. One man had just received the first of 11 machines ordered from England in October, 1918, and it would probably be some months before the last arrived.