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UNSALEABLE SECOND-HAND CARS SET ON FIRE London, Saturday Cars worth in the aggregate thous- i ands 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 30 feet. In this way promin-ent car distributors followed the drastic methods of American wheat and coffee growers, who destroyed surplus stocks in to offset over-production. Saloons, coupes and tourers of all makes made the fatal leap. Most of them had been taken in part exchange for new cars since the Olynypia Motor Show, and included a 45 h.p. Renault which cost £1750, and which roared to its doom like a racing car. Austins and Singers . which from fivie to 10 years ago were the pride of their makers, were among those destroyed. The chairman of Henlys, Ltd., said that most of the cars were unsaleable owing to the exorbitant tax and the large engines were not worth dismantling, even where the engine was br.and new.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 December 1932, Page 7
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