Show TOURISTS SCARS TAKE CARS ABROAD Large and Small Cars Loaded Onto Ships for Other Lands UY EDW EDWARD n H Manager Foreign Department Auto Auto- Automobile Automobile mobile Club of America Never before was there such an exodus of ot motorists to foreign lands landsa a M took look place plate from the United States during the tho summer Bummer of 1922 It Is Interesting to note noh that the type of taken abroad was nas by no means mean confined to the lordly limousine or 01 orthe orthe II the spacious touring car There nas nasa wasa aa aaa I a marked marl Increase the ln In the number ot of smaller and leis les-i expensive vehicles I Needless to say the the most car lar In the world arid figures prominentlY In the tho small-car small contingent and In tours of thousands ot of some cases on mlle miles ga Base gaie e its owners the tho faithful to be expected One of the reasons for tOI or the exceptional exceptional exceptional Increase in motor travel that proved such a noticeable feature la 11 1922 was nas undoubtedly the tho facilities for the details of at I car transportation customs and 1 li- li licenses 1 censes A few fow ners earo car Owners still deem J ii necessary y to worry themselves es and else elso incidentally about at- at attending at attending tending to each cach minute detail con con- connected connected con connected with UIt their automobile all the time and so BO lose loee 25 26 per cent of th pleasure they would could auld otherwise derive from their tour The experienced tOUl toul- toul lil isi 11 simply hands his automobile 0 oser overto er erto to a II concern on this side that makes a special feature of foreign motor touring tour tour- tourIn touring In ing He forgets about the machine during his vo across the Atlantic reminded of Its lis existence by be- be being be being ing ang met on by a II uniformed au- au automobile au automobile club or a representative t tive e of the forwarding font agents who I In- In Informs in informs forms him that h his car is standing out out- outside out sido side the pier with Ith tanks filled all r ready ady for Its 0 owner ner to lo step into Inlo It and begin his tour Ot the end ond of the tour the experienced tourist repeats the operation of ot handing over his auto auto- automobile auto mobile and forgetting it till it is de- de de delivered 11 livered ered to him again in the United Customs duties dulles and licenses for t foreIgn tour lour are handled In tn an nn equally sImple manner Members of ot the thO Automobile Club of America deposit with the foreign department cash suf- suf sut to cover the highest duty charged on cars cus by any country ins In Included eluded In their proposed tour Thus for a tour lour through France Switzer Switzer- Switzerland Switzerland land lane Italy Spain Belgium Holland Denmark and the British Isles lales the thu only deposit necessary for tor passing the tho automobile through the customs of o 0 those countries is is that for tor France because the rate Tate of ot duty on cu cars care ens en entering France which is 45 46 per cent ot of the cost Insurance and freight salve alue plus 10 per cent tax do de is higher than the duties into any of ot the other countries mentioned A document known as an 1111 international customs pass carnet de passages en cn dounes is 15 furnished In exchange for tor tho the des de- depo desposit de deposit po posit lt and Is used to pass the car across the various arlous frontiers Trouble and ard delay aio u e avoided by this means as the tho annoyance of o cash ca h transactions transaction lIh alth foreign customs officials and ads ad- adjustments ad adjustments of ot International exchange are completely eliminated License difficulties are met by the theIs Is Issue uc ue of ot a special combined license for car and driver er called an International traveling pass International de route valid for tor touring p s sIn In all c countries forming part of the tho International convention With this license which I is entirely different torn the customs pass the automobile niB may be driven under the license and an with one set Bet of number marl markers throughout the tour With regard to the automobile roads of ot practically all re- re reports reports re reports ports rece received Id I'd from returning motor motor- motorist list agree In all nil essential points as to ta their condition On the whole hole I a marked Improvement was nas found on tl the 1 principal routes as 8 compared with their condition the tho previous season many of ot the s secondary roads s were found to bo superior to the main roads British roads am arn generally reported to be he as good as any in EUI Europe ope at nt tho present time as all regards rogarda surface which Is described as being smooth as velvet civet while there are ate not moro more than OD one or two really severe grades I tl bo ho met Inet with lIh throughout England Scotland and Wales For the time Ireland cannot boo bo be I from tho the viewpoint of o tho the motor tourist In France the Route Roule are arc showing sho Ing signs of wear near In certain localities and lod on a tow few of the tho more routes such as ae those bo- bo ts tween c een n rails Palls and Nice via la II the valley the tho Parl Paris Bordeaux road ann ana some of ot the tile war zone roads the sur- sur acc sur face rac has deteriorated to such an extent ex- ex cx tent as to render anything but slow during dr Ing distinctly uncomfortable Not the secondary roads Routes de e Communication and even the Routes Department Department- Department ales ales were found to bo ho of excellent quality and In good condition A con con- considerable con considerable amount of repair work cork Is 00 necessary on the tha main roads ot of J France rance to put them Into really good order and it I Is satisfactory to lo notice that lat the matter Is recel receiving Ing serl serious us attention The more of Fiance 11 anee such Buch as the Vos- Vos Vos-Stis Vos ens the Alps the Pyrenees and tho splendid touring section of ot central which In Includes lude the tha and Auvergnes mountains are re- re reported reported re reported ported to be more fortunate in the tho condition of at roads doubtless owing to the tho fact that In III such regions tM the amount of ot fast and an heavy bossy traffic I isles Irs less as III a general rule than In tho more level parts of the country |