Show USED CARS BRINGING I v J HIGH PRICES IN EUROPE Values alues Increase With Age Ageon on Account of Demand for Machinery English factories are turning out SOO airplane engines dally daily at the present time while the motor car business is almost at a standstill the factories formerly engaged In building cars now I turning almost all their attention to the making of airplanes and munitions sn says S Motor 1 Age e. This is the word I brought direct from London by br J. J J B B. Clarkson mana managing director of Hope i Gibbons Sons J J. J B. B Clarkson Ltd I Wellington and Christchurch N N. Z Z- v is ig his to the antipodes antipodes antipo- antipo who i-who B now on way I des after having spent some months I i in Great Britain and also the United I I States purchasing purchasing- supplies es for which i I his company is a distributor In New ew ewI I Zealand and Australia Australla I Mr Ir Clarkson was a witness to the th I recent bombardment of London by byi i t German airplanes His son is in inI I charge of an airdrome in the vicinity I of London which is one of man many I maintained by our British allies ames for forthe the training of aviators and happened to be in the airdrome at the time I two twenty German planes were sighted sight sight- ed cd and stood b beside an gun gun 1 I while It fired ninety rounds during d I I which time English birdmen together 01 J with operators of the antiaircraft deI de- de I de I I pieces drove back the German f planes d 1 BIG PRICES I The motor car situation according to Mr Clarkson is almost at a standstill stand- stand standA A a Astill 1 I still in England Light cars that sold r for 1000 to 1500 three years ago apo o now I have a market value of from irom 2500 to notwithstanding their age Owners Owners Owners Own Own- I ers of heavy cars are the buyers buers oC of i i-f i I these used light cars They find ind th the I u uI I lighter vehicle more economical in fuel 1 consumption which is the material factor when it Is considered that paso gasp asoline aso- aso 1 t line commands a price from 8 83 85 to 90 cents a gallon and that only a limited amount weekly is allowed each car i rr owner Some of those factories that were making light cars previous pre to the war wart t I continue to turn out two or three aday a aday day but this production Is a negligible I quantity so far as supplying the de deI demand demand de- de mand Is concerned Great Britain gets I most of Its motor car fuel from Ameri Amerl- America ca but hut present prices make touring al almost almost almost al- al most prohibitive and very few cars are I used for anything except business AVIATORS I England Is turning out expert aviators aviators avia avia- tors at a rapid pace and these men I get practical flying instruction almost I from the start There is no long period i of training and the prospective pilot pHot is given charge of a plane under U the I j I direction of an instructor without much if any preliminary work worl The ThA Th Theames allies ames have drawn the lines closely In designating the physical type of ot men who can enter the aero service England is not concentrating on an any anyone one type of aviation engine such as the tha United States has in mind but factories factories facto facto- ries are turning out duplicates of those thosa types which are found to be the most dependable in actual conflict I English women are performing most of the tasks that once were done only by men Seventy-five Seventy per cent of the farm work worl In Great Britain Ir Mr Clarkson Clark Clark- i i l son says is now done by women and women are to be bs seen as elevator operators op OJ- bus drivers street car conductors con and also in the place of the i brass buttoned bellhop In the hotels 1 In the factories and machine shops by far the greater percentage of workers are women In returning Mr Clarkson came t to toa to- to a 11 Canadian port without sighting a a. submarine and declared he was impressed impressed impressed im- im pressed by the manner in tn which boats now leave English ports These ships start across the Atlantic to the west perhaps as many as twenty five or thirty at one time and all about them are battleships submarine chasers and patrol boats which stay on guard until they are out of the danger zone I |