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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1929.

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THE AUTOMOBILE

THE FATHER OF PROSPERITY

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way in supplying individual trans-small town. If "the factory" in |portation without the necessity for that town is active, one thousand

time tables.

workers are employed. One, thou- This extraordinary development sand familles buy bread, clothing, has given work to many people and furniture and fuel: At least one [By Alfred Reeves, General Mana- distributed money through many merchant in each line is kept busy, and these merchants are passing on

channels.

It has increased the efficiency of orders to the suppliers of bread, the doctor, the business man and clothing furniture and fuel, there- even the housewife.

by keeping the makers of those pro- Trucks have lowered the trans-ducts busy. The merchants have portation cost of commodities to prospered, the makers of bread the point where they have been out have prospered, and, in turn, these standing contributors to the makers are customers, to some ex- tent, for the original factory in the general wealth of the country.

ger of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce.] From what was termed a luxury industry twenty-five years ago, the rapid development of highway transportation has pushed the saturation point farther away until the automobile industry is now rated first, with a production in

The old cry that the motor small town, whether it is producing 1928 of 4,600,000 cars, tracks and vehicle was uneconomic and with automobiles, clothes pine, or cheese buses, valued in excess of held money from home-building, crackers. In other words, once $3,500,000,000 and acknowledged to from insurance and from general money is used to keep the wheels be one of the keystones of our pre-investments, has received. a sub-of one industry going, the healthy sent American prosperity.

No longer do we hear disserta- stantial setback, because coincident effect is registered all along the

with record of motor car sales we line. tions by learned men about the in-have the biggest savings accounts, On the other hand, if the fac- comes of people and their ability record investments in stocks and tory" closes down in our small bonds, an unparalleled increase in town, a thousand men are thrown Rather do these economists

insurance and the building of more out of work, a thousand families hasten to admit that the added and better homes than ever before buy as little as possible of bread, efficiency, the bread education and

in history.

clothing, furniture and fuel. The the health-giving advantages of the

Of more than ordinary interest is merchants in these products feel motor car are such that

the fact that this great industry the pinch of hard times. They send one can no more afford

to has been erected on the highest in fewer orders for supplies. No- be without it than he can

afford

wage scale ever known and with body can afford to buy more cheese so be without a telephone and a constant lowering of the prices crackers, and there is no immediate in this connection, it is worth for the consumer of the product. prospect of the local factory's start. noting that we now have

more The introduction of more and ing up again. motor vehicles than telephones better machines has never been That kind of slipping is likely to 23,000,000 as against 18,750,000-questioned by the workers, as hap come upon an industrial community and every time a telephone bell

pened in the old days when workers every seven years or so in the rings some motor car travels ix fought the new machinery for fear opinion of Messrs. Foster and

to own motor vehicles.

miles!

it would decrease the number of Catchings, unless some new in- All this is because the latest form jobs., Leaders of the motor indua-dustry or some super-apurt in old of transportation supplies an inde- try take pride in the fact that motor industry occurs to keep the wheels pendent form of travel which the cars are being sold at less than pre-moving in the positive rather than American and, we believe, the war prices and that practically the negative direction. people of other countries will con-every buyer makes his purchase in tinue to use at an increasing rate.

the firm belief that he is receiving. full value for his money.

The Growth of the Automobile The enormous growth of the The motor car is one of the few

automobile made possible by its articles that everybody wants, We find motor vehicles giving re- time-saving facility, and by the which undoubtedly accounts for the cord freight returns to the rail willingness of people to work 20,200,000 passenger Cars and roads and adding materially to the harder and more efficiently in order 8,000,000 trucks and buses register; increased business in repair parts, to have this facility, has according- ed in the United States or 78 per tyres, servicing, labour, gasoline, ly been the economic saving of the cent. of all the motor vehicles in lubricating oils; garage structures community during the past ten the world.

and garaging; salaries of years. Look, for example, at the There was little or no improve-chauffeurs and truck drivers; in table of motor vehicles sold and the ment in transportation from the surance, registration and taxes, wholesale value of these from 1918 Year One until Fulton invented his and road and street construction to the present day. steam boat.

with their maintenance.

Number of Wholesale

Cars Sold Valué 1,170,686 $1,236,106,917- 1,983,595 1,885,112,546 2,227,349 2,232,420,878

Transportation then improved Before stating the very large Year rapidly but in the form of larger part which the automobile has 1918 units bigger boats. and longer played in the prosperity of the past. 1919 trains.

ten years, and its policies for the 1920 The motor vehicle went the other future, let us first be clear-minded 1921

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enough to indicate some of the ad-1922 ditional forces which have brought 1923 this about. The motor's part can1924 hardly be disputed.. But there have 1925 been other "elements in the situa- 1926 tion.

1927 Restriction of immigration has 1928

1,682,365 1,261,666,550 2,690,627 1,793,022,708 4,167,455 2,592,088,428 3,738,492 2,367,413,015 4,427,660 3,015,163,562 4,508,531 3,214,817,491

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WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT...BUICK WILL BUILD THEN

had a lot to do with it because it There have been a vast volume motor vehicle, for example, buys has kept the purchasing power of of currency and great growth and 14 per cent. of the finished rolled the worker on a high plane, and no employment brought about by the steel output: 63 per cent. of the leas an authority than Eugene rise of a new industry. The cry plate glass production; 26 per cent. Grace of Bethlehem Steel recently that went up when this of the aluminium production; and expressed the view that this was phenomenon first took place was 21 per cent of the US. consump- very important for prosperity that the automobile factories were, tion of nickel.

Prohibition has reduced the amount simply taking money away from A Fourteen Billion Dollar Outlay of drinking and has meant that other businesses. This has not There is also a vast outlay of man power in the factories is far been the case, in the main. There money, estimated at 14 billion dol- more efficient than it was in the have been certain industries which lars in the business of motor trans- | pre-prohibition days. I am aware have held their prices at wartime portation. The following table was that this is a controversial subject levels or nearly so. Such indus-originally worked out by the US. and I do not wish to get into the tries have not had their relative Bureau of Public Roads, and has arguments of the merits or de- share of growth and would not been brought up to date by merits of the proposition 28 a under any circumstances.

estimates of the National Automo- whole, but industrialista are pretty The motor car and the motor 'bus blie Chamber of Commerce. The generally agreed that, as far as did replace certain types of rail-table of estimated motor trans- plant operations are concerned and way transportation business but portation expenditures is as fol the prosperity of workers' families, have added to the railroad trade in lows:

RADIO SUPPLIES Electric Gramophones

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the improvement from this cause enormous freight shipments and in Motor vehicles for has been very considerable.

acting as feeders in short haul new owners and re-

business or other businesses to ARISTOCRAT OF CARS Credit has also been given to motor routes to the main lines.

placements.......$9,830,000,000 keep employment at a peak. Celvin Coolidge for the prosperity The layman is inclined to ask Hepair parts (includ-

must bear in mind too that employ-

MR: EU TONG-SEN'S NEW of the era, and properly so. Mr. where all this wealth came from, ing tyres)

2,000,000,000 ment means not simply the factory

PURCHASE Coolidge was of course favoured by and if it was not taken from some- Servicing labour 900,000,000 end but everybody all along the all these other circumstances, but one else. The answer is that it Gasoline and inbricat

line through executive positions, his temperament and policies in came from the growth of prosperitying oll (including

Says the "Singapore Free Press": because when there is unempley-A conspicuously elegant addition the White House encouraged busi-which an active industry creates. gas tax)

2,870,000,000 ment out in the plant the paralysis to Singapore's thousands of motor ness in the feeling that it could and from the time-saving value of Garaging of cars and

does not take long to creep back cars will be seen in the course of proceed safely along progressive the motor vehicle. In all sections trucks in cities...

$115,000,000 ward into the executive rooms. next week in the form of the latest lines without disturbance from gov- of the country suburban conumuni- Truck drivers' salaries 1,500,000,000 | It is clear, however, that the out 40/50 hp. Phantom model Rolls- ties have been increasing. This Chauffeurs', salaries' 750,000,000 look is highly encouraging. The Where The Automobile Fits In means that land which formerly Insurance. But when all these factors have had little value has been out Into Registration fees and been realized, we then come to use for home sites. This develop-

taxes these questions:

ment has come because of the auto- What provided the employment mobile and indicates one form of for men thrown out of work by wealth that has enhanced due to Road and street machine improvement?

improved transportation...........

construction and What instrumentality made it

Growth in Savings,

maintenance possible to utilize vast new areas There are various forme of

ernment.

Total

490,000,000 radio, the talking pictures, and the Royce, which has just been purchas A airplane are three new industries ed by Mr. Eu Tong-sen, through 445,000,000 which are going to help to keep in Malayan Motors, of which he is a dustry stimulated. But in addition director. The distinguished look $12.400,000,000 to this, I think that we want to get ing body, specially built by Vanden out of our heads any ides that the Plas is the outstanding feature of automobile industry is anywhere this latest addition to the compara- 1,600,000,000 near its top level

tively small fleet of Rolls-Royce cars. The growth of public interest in in Singapore. It is a seven seater the two-car family had led to saloon body with very fine interior a virtual doubling of the motor lighting, a new feature being the $14,000,000,000 possibilities in this country. step-lights, which light upon the Our replacement market is now opening of either of the rear doors.

of land for suburban homes? savings which have increased con- Total annual motor What Industry provided a market currently with the motor age in- transportation for the surplus of raw materials sofar as the automobile industry which existed during the early part has contributed to general basi-

costs.

panels that have been beaten or use in car bodies, the roof and the back being constructed in one place.

Our foreign trade has passed the 600.000 level of 1927 and final 800.000 and the countries of the an aristocrat of the road ls natural, Curiosity as to the cost of such figures for this year may indicate

American producers for more than this type can be purchased for a world will soon be calling upon and we understand that a car of ene million motor vehicles annual sum in the neighbourhood of

$27,000

of the last decade? Det ness, it can be said to have had an With this statistical evidence in in excess of three million cars and In the body are some of the finest

What instrument created an influence in this increase... Un-| enormous tourist business by which doubtedly, such infinance has been hand it seems clear that the auto-trucks an annual re-discovery of America very direct in the growth of the mobile industry has added to em- is made by the summer vacationist? building and loan association totals ployment, stimulated savings, in- The automobile is, to be sure, the which represent gains in suburban lateral industries and created the

creased suburban life, aided col answer to these questiona, but let life. A tabulation of these savings huge business of highway trans is not rest with the feeling that during recent years is as follows: when we have said that we have

Building &

portation w

told the whole story. The leaders

Savings Loun in the Industry are familiar with

Deposits Ass'n Asseta these points and realize their 1919 validity, but it is important for all 1917 of us in the business to consider 1921 the facts behind these opiniona 1926 which we hold, so that we may pre- 1927, sent these for the consideration of 1928 bankers, economists, and others who are interested in the present stand- ing and in the future of the motor industry

· Keeping Up Velocity Of Currency:

Gains Will Continue But this still leaves undecided $ 8,548,346,000 $1,248,479,139 the question of whether we can 10,875,602,000 1,769,142,175 expect a similar degree of pros- 16,500,668,000 2,890,761,621 perity in the coming ten years. 24,698,192,000-6,334,108,807 Now that general employment 26,090,902,000 7,000,000,000 and living conditions have been (Est)

geared up to the standards of the 27,300,000,000 7,800,000,000 motor age, the same problem will Wholesale present itself again as improve- Value of** |ments in production methods are U.S. Motor made all along the line, resulting in Force Vehicle Output in the output of a greater supply

Life Insurance

WTrufant Foster and dill 1918-$20,520.598,372-3 443,802,000 of goods requiring a lesser supply

Catchings have made

With the growth of the domestic The conspicuously painted prim market and the large fields abroad, rose coloured Rolls will not be seen the automobile business will con on the streets immediately. for it tinue to be a constant stimulators to be exhibited in the Orchard of American prosperity.

CYCLING

SOUTHALL WINS 100 MILES RACE AT HERNE HILL

Farogon CC won the 100 miles FW, Southall, of the Norwood

tandem-paced race at the Marlboro tion." Othera call A.C. meeting at Herne Hill on June Under his time being 3 hr. 31 min. ver, is simply a 0. 1-5 sec. In doing so he beat his word for “un- own record of Shr. 83 mín. 22 1-4

very 1917 27,116,690,770 1,274,488,449 of manpower, thorough analysis of the effect of 1921 45,983,400,338 1,201,371,847 Some have called such a condi- the automobile on

In 1926 79,644,487,109 3,041 127,189

1927 - 87,400,000,000, 2.583 186,611: 1928 (Est.

generál, esp

providing new job

the Mackened empl

occurs in variong Industries when productive iener is improved.

In

the cres:

3,400,000

Effect on Other Indu addition to the

Road showrooms of Malayan Motors for a few days next week, and vill be seen to best advantage beneath the strong lighting of the show- -room at night.

Paris Show

forthcoming Paris Motor Show are Applications for space at the

already far in excess of the aren available.

The wants of the sec, established last year, and also VAUXHALL

lly Imitless the his records from 51 miles to 100...

tabllity to par- Southall bent F. H. Wyld (Derby)" loyment is active by 7% laps, the letter's time being 3 hr. 36 min. 13 2.5 sec., with J. E. fact that there foldsworth (Kentish Wheelers); tant Increases in the third In 3 hr. 45 min. 45 45 sec.

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