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Wife Spent £7,000:

"Great While It

Lasted

1938.

Mercury '8'

Thirty-year-old Mrs. Molly Violet Carr, thrice- -A New

married £800 a year heiress, told recently how, over the last two years, she has been living at the rate of £3,500

a year.

She stood in a dark corridor alongside Carmarthen Bank- ruptcy Court, where a few moments before her public examina- tion had been closed.

Enamel-tipped finger nails flicked the ash from her cigarette as she said:

"I have had a tough break. Under my grandfather's will I had a life interest in £24,000 which brought me in £800 a year after paying tax. I had been enjoying every comfort, living in a grand house with plenty of hunting and sport. Now I am strug gling alone on £3 a week in a little flat in Brighton trying to pay back my creditors.

Ford Product

Confirming rumours

which have been in circulation for months, Edsel

Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company, announced recently that a new car, bearing its own distinctive name, and selling the lower medium- |price range, would be added to the Ford-Lincoln line shortly before the

"It needs a bit of doing, but I don't want them to lose by my New York Automobile Show. bankruptcy.

The new car will be known as the "Mercury 8." It will have a wheel- engine more base of 110," a V-8

"If I had not been made bankrupt everything would have turned out all right in the long run. Three years ago I borrowed £3,500 on a mortgage and took over Nantymwyn House, powerful than any hitherto marketed Rhandirmwyn, near Llandovery. I grazed young horses.

I

"The trouble was the amount had to pay on putting the house and other property in order. It was a great life there while it lasted. I had horses, and that meant I was happy. For two years I was joint) master of a local hunt.

by the Ford Company; hydraulic brakes and numerous advanced mechanical features, the announce-

EIGHT-MILE JOURNEYment Bald.

TO REGISTER BIRTH

Its flowing lines will reflect the modern streamlined styling ploneer- For many years 2,000 people of ed three years ago by the Lincoln- Heybridge, Essex, have travelled Zephyr, which, according to eur- way to Tiptree, rent press reports, has inspired to eight miles each

"When the place was sold up lost a tremendous amount of money. when they wanted to register a birth an important degree the design of a A mare or death-although in 1934 Hey-number of ather new cars now being All my horses were taken.

for which I had been offered £150 bridge became part of the Borough prepared for the market, two months before was sold for £8. of Maldon.

"Now I am just trying to carry on and my brother is helping."

During her examination Mrs. Carr said she was first married in 1928 to Sir Francis Cook. They lived to- gether for six months and were divorced a year later. She then married Major McCartney in Cairo, They were divorced and five or six years later she married her present husband, Captain Leonard Thomas

One of the features of the new car Now Maldon Town Council is ask-is the unusually wide and roomy in- ing the Registrar General to alter terior with passenger space equal to this arrangement.

A Welsh Lament.

that of many cars selling at con- siderably higher prices. Upholstery and appointments will be luxurious and styled in keeping with the car's modern exterior design.

London. Mr. Ford said the new car would Lament by the keeper of the be priced in the range between the Macsieg. "The people deluxe Ford V-0 and the V-12 Lin- library at around here just won't read Welsh-coln-Zephyr und would enable the although we have the grandest tales. Ford Motor Company, with five lines I've done all I can to get folks to read of cars, which include also the Ford V-8 and V12 Lincoln, to bracket the Mrs. Carr admitted gross liabilities! Welsh, but they just will not. of £7,146, of which £3,579 were only man who does is un-Welsh, Mr. market in which more than 90 per-

cent. of all cars to-day ore bought. McDermní. expected to rank,

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