Show SCANDINAVIA IS ISTEN ISTEN TEN YEARS BEHIND Motor l I Cars Just Coming Into Their Own in Norway Norway Nor Nor- way and Sweden By John D. D Mansfield General Sales Manager Dort Dart Motor Car Company The motor car la is starting In Scandinavia via where the United States began ten years ago Public gar garSes es are being built buill the farmers farmer's hatred for the motor vehicle has disappeared legal restrictions restrictions restrictions have been eliminated plans for good roads Toads are aie on the way in fact everything that opposed the progress of the motor vehicle five years ears ago has been eliminated eliminated eliminated by an insistent demand from people who have suddenly become rich from war business Conditions in the country are abnormal now The use of gasoline is practically prohibitive on account of the scarcity and 1 the eto to u unusually 3 a u gallon o high Its price use h has ranging been g rr regulated regulated regu regu- from by all the countries A royal de decree decree decree de- de cree has been issued in Sweden to conserve conserve conserve con con- serve that country's country s supply of gasoline Permission to buy gasoline must be se secured secured secured se- se cured from the industrial commission PRICE JUMPS SKYWARD Before the royal decree Sweden had a fixed price for foi all gasoline held by the government On the other hand those who had large amounts of ot gasoline in store and who were not under a license sold this fuel above 3 a gallon Gasoline in m Sweden always has been high At the beginning of the war it sold at 45 43 cents a gallon To conserve the supply before the recent ro royal al decree the Danish government government government gov gov- made it a rule to take over out of every 1000 gallons received by a dealer Now supplies have become so scarce that hardly anyone anyon can buy Even the royalty are arc using horses instead of cars Only in long runs are cars being used and even then much consideration is given in the use of the railway Sweden and Norway have very yer r few tires and though Denmark has a limited number of tires only 50 O per cent of them are being used because of ot the scarcity of gasoline In many cases Swedish buyers I are paying for one tirE The Ro Royal al Automobile club of Norway is licensing all buyers of tires and cooperating cooperating cooperating co co- co- co I operating with Great Britain to see that none of these gets out of the country HORSES ARE SCARCE i iThe The scarcity of horses in D Denmark has i opened a big market for tor trucks and tractors trac trac- tors Denmark with a population trac-j trac of ot is a big farming country and has big prospects for the sale of farm I tractors Sweden is mostly indu Industrial trial and forms a good market for trucks Norway on the other hand concentrates Its business business business busi busi- ness activities on fishing and shipping This country with its huge tonnage together together together to to- gether with Sweden after the war will handle a lot of transit goods to Russia and with its Us very good harbors transshipments transshipments transshipments transship transship- ments will be made Each section of the world has Its own styles of bodies and colors when it comes to the purchasing of cars Dark and closely allied hues seem to be the predominating predominating predominating pre pre- dominating colors In Scandinavia Disappearing Disappearing Disappearing Dis Dis- appearing tops and painted painter radiators are the two big features of European body design |