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Show .BRITISH BUYING MANY FINE CARS IN UNITED STATES (By International News Service.) LOXDON, April. 21. 'Those aro critical times" Is conclusion of a writer for the London Times, who has been sent to America to Investigate at Its source the danger of an American motor car invasion which will hamper the development of the British automobile auto-mobile industry. "At the present moment the public, utterly disgusted with the enforced I factories months ago, is roadyto buy anything which will convey it about business. In many cases British cars arc preforrod, but the disastrous de-J de-J lays which have so nearly wrecked British trade have had their effect, I and patriotism ns well as personal inclination in-clination arc being sacrificed. "Today we will buy anything v.o can get at once. And here lies the ultimate test of both American ami British cars." It Is the first impressions, gained from cars bought in a hurry, from whatever nation Is able to deliver immediately, im-mediately, which will determine the future purchasing point of tho automobile auto-mobile buyer of Britain, the Times writer concludes. So ho gave warning to the Brjthh manufacturer: "There is no comparison between the American car- of 1915 and those of 1920. A certain number have deteriorated, de-teriorated, but the great majority uf the better known makes have Improved Im-proved beyond all recognition. 'They are faster, more powerful on hllla, better designed, far more solidly constructed, con-structed, more comforlablo and enormously enor-mously hotter looking. "At a normal rate of exchange and free of tho 33 1-3 per cent duty their prices would make them well nigh irresistible. ir-resistible. As it is, and with our own prices monstrously swollen, they may pVove to be a real danger to the British Brit-ish maker.. "The class of American cars which , will shortly be coming to this country i In larSP. niimhors is lmmnncni-.iWir porior to any class that has been seen , here before. j "A considerable number of these cars have already arrived and are be-v ing sold to a motor-hungry pubh.-. ! They may be regarded as tho pioneers j of the army .of invasion. Their appearance ap-pearance at 'this vej-y critical pcri-rl I of our Industry is a serious matter. 'i |