MOTORS PAWNED
SIX HUNDRED CARS PLEDGED IN PARIS NEW BUILDING WANTED (Australian and, A.Z. Press Association) PARIS, Saturday. Motor-cars and motor-cycles are fast becoming as numerous as the time-honoured watch for the purposes of pledging. The Paris municipal pawnshop today requested the Paris City Council to vote £75,000 for the erection of a three-storey garage, to house the cars. At present 60<J cars are in pawn. No fewer man 100 were pledged this year. Another use for the motor-car is reported from Rome. An owner sold his car to the proprietor of a cafe for 10,000 cups of coffee. The proprietor is bound to provide coffee for the seller or his friends as often as he is requested to do so. It is calculated from six to eight years he will have paid off the debt.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 550, 31 December 1928, Page 9
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136MOTORS PAWNED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 550, 31 December 1928, Page 9
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