1930-04-24 — Page 11

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930.

TIME TO RE-TIRE

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Sole Distributors: GILMAN & CO.

Telephone C. '290.

PROFITS IN CARS.

Nash Earn $18,000,000 in 1929..

Total' holdings of $42,011,403 f cash and government securities are disclosed in the balance sheet of the Nash Motors Company giving the position of that con- pany on November 30, a gain of $766,699 from the previous fiscal year, Of the total $17,214,333 is in cash and $24,797,072 in govern ment securities. Total holdings of cash and government securities at the end of November, 1928, were $41,244,734.

Net income in the fiscal year, ending on November 30, 1939, was $18.013.781 after deducting ex penses, depreciation and Federal taxes. This is equivalent to. $6.69 a share on 2,730,000 no par shares of stock, and compares with $20,820,085, or $7.63 a share, in the previous fiscal year. Dividend pay ments in the last fiscal year totalled $16,380,000.

Inventories at the close of the 1929 fiscal your were tarried at $5,246,094, against $5,809,840 at the end of the previous fiscal year.

Plants Kept in Condition. During the year mere than $2,000,000 was spent in recondition- ing the plants of the company for accurate and economical production. The Nash balance sheets show current assets of $53,141,007 and current liabilities of $2,900,691, not working capital being $50,240,816. Current Habilities are made up en- tirely of accounts payable. The dompany has no preferred stock or bonded indebtedness,

SINGAPORE MOTORS.

Over Ten Thousand Registered.

The following official figures re- garding motor vehicles in Singa- pore will prove of considerable interest:

Vehicles Registered at December. 31, 1929,

Private vehicles registered

motor cara... 6,308 Public vehicles registered: and licensed:1st class care

262

Public vehicles registered and licensed 2nd class

care.

527

Public vehicles registered:

and licensed buses

438

7,535

Private motor lorries regis

tered

Hire, motor lorries ragi

od and licensed,

53

2,185 728

New Reg

$10,448 ohe 1929.0 Above

1,978

181

161

Motor Cycles registered

December

Motors Motor Cy Motor Loy

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"THE BLUE TRAIN.”

Agricultural Propaganda in Italy.'

A procession of eight bright blue motor-vans, containing agri- cultural exhibits, has left Romo on a three months' tour of south- ern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. The vans, which have movable sides, are fitted up to illustrate intensive modern systems of agri- culture, told in pictures and models sülted to the intelligence of peasants, in remote parts of the country. Books will also be distributed at the stopping places and films bearing on rural life will be shown.

THE CHINA

THE SIDE-CAR.

Why It Will Always Be Popular.

"Thero, have always been pessim ists who declared that as the small car geta better and cheaper so must the sidecar machine gradually fall Into the background," declares Motor Cycling, going on to prove by means of official statistics how wrong those pessimists have proved to be. The article then gives reason why the small car, cannot oust the combina- tion; the more obvious reasons being, of course, lower original cost and Lower running and maintenance costa.

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MAIL.

SPRING CLEANING.

An Overhaul in the States.

Detroit, Mich., March 1, The automobile industry is in- sugurating an intensive spring house-cleaning period: It is one la j„which ̧not only the distributora end dealers are participating, ́ but also the manufacturers. Those familiar with the general plans, say that the clean-up will be drastic--more' so even than in 1921.

It was in 1920 and 1921 that the automobile trade experienced its last readjustment period. It was brought about by deflation following the "Yet another sweeping advantage | post-war boom. That was the first enjoyed by the owner of a combina time that the automobile magnates tion," Motor Cycling continues, "k | found that mistaken judgment and that should he meet with an unfor- miscalculation had led them into tunate breakdown, making it im- over-production. The consequence possible for his machine to be driven was that prices had to be reduced to home under its own power, he can restore equilibrium. easily get it to a station and take it home by train. This is substan- tially out of the question with a car. When a breakdown occurs it has to be towed to a garage and left there for the repairs to be carried out, the owner being compelled to make a double rail journey, in the first place

The situation to-day is in contrast to that of ten years ago. The num- her of companies building cars and marketing them nationally has de- clined more than one-third, but those remaining in the field have flourished until their volume and profits are compated in millions as to get home, and secondly, to retrieve compared with the tens or hundreds his car after it has been put right." | of thousands of a decade ago.

Miss Marietta Perry, who doesn't claim to be a magician, stand- ing beside her wrecked automobile in which she collided with another. car, turned a couple of loops and calmly crawled out of the shattered “ interior with a smile, instead of usual marks of her disastrous experience. She agreed, however, that it was a very lucky escape.

Supercharged Cars.

To-day finds production budgeted Probably many people interested | according to requirements as deter in motoring have heard of "super- mined by surveys that sales depart- charged" cars, but do not under-menta make, but still dependent up- stand the meaning of the word or on merchandising judgment Into the operation of a supercharger. which the human factor and there- It is a device which forces mixture fore uncertainty, sometimes enters. One van is emblazoned with into the engine cylinders by sup- It is this process of thought that had mottoes.. from Signor Mussolini's plementing atmospheric pressure, led heads of the industry to decide speeches: "We must ruralise which, a normal cars, is solely that there, are too niany "junk" cara Italy, even if it costs millions of relied upon, for the purpose. At in daily use, that such cars are not money and half a century of high engine speeds, the period only a menace to public safety.on time"; and "If my will and during which gas con enter the highways, but also a drawback tenneity are supported by your the cylinders is so short that the because thoughtless dealers and collaboration a prosperous future quantity which can be taken in owners still regard them as worth opens before Italian agriculture." under ordinary conditions is limit trading in.

During the three days that the ed. A aupercharger increases the This is one of the reasons why "blue train" WELS OR view in quantity by increasing the presexcessive stocks of used cars con- Piazza Venezia, it was visited by sure behind the gas in the inducstitute a burden on the trade and more than one hundred thousand tion pipe. The device is not yet why a concerted effort is being made people. Signor Mussolini was very widely used, being confined to to rid the business of the double present at the start, when the high-efficiency engines and multi- incubus. vans were blessed and sprinkled cylinder racing cars, Research with holy water by the clergy of work into the principle involved, the neighbouring basilica of S. which-ls proceeding, is expected to Marco.

lead to important results.

A few minutes after his arrival at Daytona Beach, Kaye Don, British automobile race driver sweat lout to the hard packed, sandy Broadway, and tested the course.over which he hoped to racë: 'hia Silver-Büllet, 2 Dom in khown test

cn which he hoped speed record is held

airishmarks of four miles, a min

miles an hour

That stocks of used cars the.

country over must be reduced, has been one of the main points of agreement among motor car execu- tives who have conceded that con. trolled output should be the order of procedure for 1930.

The junking plan therefore is being supplemented by a concerted effort to clear off large accumula- tions of second hand cars - "by methods different from the practice in other seasons.

In 1928 for the first time, the sales departments of several com- panies created used car divisions In charge of executives entrusted with the job of watching dealer stocks. While business was at the peak, lit- tle action was taken. With the let down, however, the used car divi- elons have become active. E

The result is apparent in used car offerings "de luxe" sponsored and endorsed by factory branches. For several weeks to come, there will be a snccession of them demonstrating. high value at prices that will force attention because they are the lowest

THE

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telling

"There is a growing tendency on of doing it Is by the part of the motoring public to the public the fact that the legiti buy used cars with confidence. The mate automobile dealer fa in an la industry's effort to build better is finitely better position than the gyp steadily Increasing the amount of to sell good merchandise." dependable transportation in each

AI, Philp, chairman of the board.

of directors of Durant Motors says

The changing viewpoint of the motor, which to all intents and pur company executives on the status of poses is new, for a nominal figure, the used car is reflected in opinions as compared with its original pur

chase price." voiced-recently, AT

Charles W. Naan of Nash Motors, "According to Emerson J. Poag has pointed out that used car buying sales executive of the Buick Motorcar Le no longer beset with the element Company "The numerous improves of chance. The driven public to-day ments in performance, riding com is in the habit of turning in its fort and appearance have made the cars frequently – as automobile im- used car of to-day an entirely differ provements are made by the manu-rent commodity from the car which facturers. The great majority of went under that name a compara turn-Ins are in excellent condition Lively short time ago. with years of service remaining in The fact that the car which them. In addition thorough recon- leaves the factory to-day is a vastly ditioning brings th auto a high improved product over

eces standard.

Ben dori la the greatest single factor is Nash the rising populariizot

the subject of further co-operation on the used car question has been discuss frequently in the sessions of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. · In justice to the automobile dealer and the public, ho believes, the time has come when action, should be taken.

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