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Show AMERICAN CARS HARD HIT English Owners Can't Import Spar Parts to Repair Old Ones. London. A correspondent who Is thoroughly conversant with the motor car business sends an inteiesting communication com-munication to the Manchester Guardian Guard-ian with reference to the new regulation reg-ulation 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 standard-ized self-starting American cars are" the simplest lor 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 lim-ited import Is permitted. There are thousands of American cars in use in this country by doctors and professional men, commercial travelers, trav-elers, military officers and others with a good reason for having a car. Apparently, Ap-parently, 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 o-ite impossible to get spare parts manufactured in this country at the present time. |