Show GERMAN AUTO MAKERS FEAR AMERICAN EARS CARS PARIS TARIS Nov 21 A A largo large number of ot German automobile manufacturing concerns concerns concerns con con- cerns cerns have combined under the denomination tion of Automobile I ken to be popularly known as the GD GD GD G D. D A. A forming a cooperative community to counteract the dangerous AmerIcan Ameri Amen can competition can The base of or its Us operations operations operations oper oper- is to be the simplification of ot parts manufacture and assemblage and the re reduction reduction reduction re- re of ot selling Belling costs by cooperation Every factory will specialize on certain parts and these elements will ultimately be combined Into cars bearing various names differing only slightly one from the lh other Every factory will put out but butone butone one ono model and this model In its Us general lines will be with any other manufactured by the tho tion The American automobile Is increasing rapidly In numbers in the Spanish peninsula peninsula penin penin- sula those of ot England are decreasing Formerly the largest number of ot foreign cars ars were those of ot French manufacture as was true of or tires The war has changed all 11 this I personally saw thu tho change coming and the first feeble att attempts of If the American manufacturer to bred break breakdown down the tho barnie of pf Indifference which existed throughout the Spanish peninsula towards Americans and all things Ameri Amen can I 1 suppose they have entirely forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten their Spanish war v enmities by this time l From rom recent Spanish statistics It Is I shown hown that the automobile trade wind his hLa as follows during the tho las lat last t four ears cars French cars cans 40 per cent 22 per cent Italian 25 per cent 12 per cent English 15 per cent 7 per cent Spanish 7 per cent 30 per cent American 13 per cent 29 21 per enl ceni |