There has been very Ikeen antiipation of the Motor Show, which pens at Olympia to-day. "Deals amounting to many millions of pounds were completed during the week-end as a preliminary to the Show, one individual contract, amounting to some £3,500,000, ing alleged to have been entered into between a more-car manufacturer and a leading agent, whilst playing a round of golf. The Motor Show, for many years the most Fopular meeting place of motoring. enthusiasts from all over the world, has now developed into something more. It is definitely the world's most important centre for buying and selling cars. Motor-ear magnates from every country' that makes cars are. arriving. in Fandon, and agents from the far corners of the world are reaching London every day.
Procedure Questions are to be asked in Parliament og soon as the House ro-assembles and there is a general belief that the Home Office is con-
On Tuesday night the Prince of] Wales attended the dinner of the Commercial Motor Users Association and he uttered a grave warning and an appeal to motorists. He, sal his problem of the. road is! 1 very serious one, and it may be very much more serious if all the commercial motor-users and the private motor-users do not get together and ce-operate and prevent this becoming a very great battle of the roads."
Mr, Herbert Morrison, the' Minister of Transport, the gravity of the problem. said that fresh legislation for the control of traffic was urgently necd-ed, It was impossible any longer to defend the present system of licensing, based as it was on Acts which were passed long before motor vehicles were known. This year is considered to be a vital year <the first clash in an organized fattempe to sweep American cars from our Empire markets. For three months, many hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent in propaganda, and, as a result, excite-mont is greater this year than ever before.
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