Show JAPAN y- y LEADING ASIAS ASIA'S M TRADE Forms Best present resent and an Prospective Market for Automobiles Jap Japan n lot id 1 the lea leading motor mark marol ot of the Ule tar i w In ills ill's opinion of oI W II e Linda pom coma to Il export export- managers com contention of ll National Automobile Chamber of o Cot Com Kt at the offices of the Hie N ACe A C In New cw ork list week c lt fa o al t le leads Ts not in- in con lionor tion of of but in poten- poten potent poti t Said Baid In inc Ho No also ad rated that China Chint is a n promising tier as Its walls can call be used for high a al s I and some som wall all wal material mat nal is ms no nOll being used fo fog roi toad load banding There Theio T ro good roads rob ro b in Ih time ils e and Malay Tb The success of o automobile business them there th depends upon the the condition of o the theand Un U and rubber Markets Thich are the lb main businesses of that W V S Culbertson MCP vier p chairman c of tho United States State tariff thrift commissIOn addressed the m DS on tho cun curter ent Edward ard Prizer pi pies os I lent clont of the Vacuum Oil on company compa poke on the motor fuel problem abroad es of f land I batters batten companies discussed methods of o rendering service senke abroad In those lines J Walter Drake chairman of ot the th tIN I c A C C foreign trade commit presided Otner Other members of this ibis con com I are ore ore- H I M Iii Robins Jl Jay Jai Path RaUl- hun bun 11 lI J t D ll Mooney 1 11 Welch Ich C r P Bauci sect etar a among Among mong mho ito significant comments comment which lne made on Far East mar mar- Lets were efe the follo following Ing The automobile has made good pro pro- progress progress gress in Japan and nd today the of the Ute wealthy ba have their own cars can while the less fortunate lire are riding mm motor busses and taxicabs for tor the mo motor motor 0 tor vehicle Is i proving that not only Is IsIt it It twitter swifter than the leg dla two t 0 wheeled carriage but also mole mote ceo cco In distances In excess ct cf a ame a amile me mile There are in Japan today to loda a usable motor i not including motorcycles Of Ot this figure about 25 per cent are trucks More than one third of these were im imported ported during durine the sears scars ears 1920 and 1921 As the life Ufe of a car Is s set fEt at about 11 five years eara e ra dealers estimate that me Ie placements alone will Bill v call for 2000 ve- ve vehicles hide e- e a year scar ear It is 15 now thought that hard sur sur- surfaced faced highways a s will III be completed within two fears ears between the major joT comes of Japan and if it this is realized 1 It will be of greatest value Rlue to the use of automotive e vehicles Cars rs will be bo used by business men to tomake tomake make the frequent trip trips necessary In n the conduct of business 1 as a well ell as commuting while trucks will Il bo be em- em employed plo cd for the of cargo VI is now very cry slow low between the cIties because of the congestion In the case else of ToLio Tokio the tho new road roa Is sure to bring about a x suburban de- de development development d for the Ule city is Js crowded This will mean Menn many new car 0 owners ners an and the introduction of passenger bus transportation v which makes males its aI- aI now no hene whenever er conditions ap aD approximate proximate an ans thing like v what hat they should be ideas In time the An An Idea of progress in Celestial empire may be bo gained from the fact that serious senous has been given shen to the proposition to build bulla a 8 motor goad loid on top of the great all great hall 01 out of the material of the wall call all The The Th late city c ty wall tail of Canton CInton which bleh looked not unlike a t section lection of time the Great Gleat Wall now serves senes as a top surface sur- sur surface face for tor 28 2 S miles of high aay ay over which motor buses and motor cars are arenow arenow arnow now running At least 50 SO per cent of the cars cai which enter China toda today are pur- pur purchased pu hated chased by natives This is ms a tIemen tIemen- domes dOlls gain gIn The ground work has beEn done and the T v ay a is open for greater motor car sales All Alt business is suffering In the Straits Settlements and the Mala Malay y statts and the fact tact that some cars are being sold saId speaks well cell en for the tho motor representation Cars Car an and Lucks huck ale aie a real neece- neece U I l ln in Malaya as hundreds of estates and mines are re far tar remo removed ed from the railroad t The poor business conditions conditions here bere bereHe He ere t temporary Tb There re are good roa roads i In n all aU parts part of the country and the vehicle u is assumed of a steady nt He Tin Tm and rubber quotations quotation w will l be bethe bethe bethe the best index best Inde index of bt f business conditions In fu this legion as they are the too tv 0 dominant products a |