DESERT TRACKS
CARS IN THE NEAR EAST. The motor-car is ousting the camel on the routes to Mecca and on other age-old desert tracks in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. The number of cars in the Near East region has risen from 52,000 in 1929 to 75,000, and the proportion of cars to population is one for every 700 inhabitants. The goods transported by motor between Syria and Irak rose from 2000 tons in 1930 to 6318 tons in 1932, the last year reported. Annual imports of cars and accessories into the Middle East are valued at present at nearly £1,000,000 and over 60 per cent, of the trade is American.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19750, 17 March 1934, Page 10
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110DESERT TRACKS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19750, 17 March 1934, Page 10
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