Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1916 — AMERICAN CARS HARD HIT [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN CARS HARD HIT

English Owners Can't Import Spare Parts to Repair Old Ones. London. — A correspondent who is thoroughly conversant with the motor car business sends an interesting communication to the Manchester Guardian with reference to the new regulation prohibiting the importation either of motor cars or spare parts. The regulation affects in practice only American cars and repair parts. Practically no new cars are to be bought at the present time except American cars, and as the standardized self-starting American cars are the simplest for an amateur to work a doctor or a commercial traveler who wants a car naturally prefers in these times to buy an American machine. It seems remarkable that not even a limited import is permitted. There are thousands of American cars in use in this country by doctors and professional men, commercial travelers, military officers and others with a good reason for having a car. Apparently, under the new regulation, as soon as these cars need repair they will have to be laid up, since spare parts cannot be imported, and it is quite impossible to get spare parts manufactured in this country at the present time.