FATE OF MOTOR-CARS
OLD MODELS DESTROYED OFFSETTING OVER-PRODUCTION LONDON, Dec. 10 Cars worth in the aggregate thousands of pounds were set on fire during the 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 the drastic methods of American wheat and coffee growers, who destroyed surplus stocks in order to offset overproduction, Saloons, coupes and tourers of all makes made the n'atal leap. Most of them had been taken in part exchange i'or new 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 Henlys, Limited, said that most of the cars were unsaleable owing to the exorbitant tax, and the large engines wtsre not worth dismantling, even where the engine was brand new"..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21371, 21 December 1932, Page 12
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