Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-23 | Page 25 | Record Motor Show in Britain

RECORD MOTOR SHOW IPI Attendance at London Event Surpasses Any of Previous Previ-ous Years' The biggest motor show in Great Britain's history the annual Olympic show in London, which has been interrupted inter-rupted by the great war was held recently. re-cently. The attendance passed the 280,000 mark. The attendance at the previous show, in 1913, was 220,000. Next year, to accommodate a predicted predict-ed increase and to circumvent London's Lon-don's limited hotel facilities, there will be two shows, one following the other. The exhibitors will d$iw lots for both dates and space, just as in the past they have drawn lots for space. The outstanding feature of the show in the British metropolis Is the fact that light economical cars held the leading role. There were all sorts of cars displayed, dis-played, but almost all were built with an idea of saving gasoline or petrol, as our British cousins called it and using just as little fuel as possible. Will Import Many. The London Times' summary says the output of the British makers in 1920 will be 150,000 cars, while the British market will require 300,000 cars. The excess, of course, will be supplied by foreign cars imported by British dealers, and among these will figure American, French and Italian cars which were exhibited at the Olympic Olym-pic show. There were twenty-two new English cars on display, and the London Times regards as significant of the trend of development in England the fate tuat sixteen of the twenty-two were in the 11.9 horsepower class. The Times says: "There is nd doubt that, providing it be developed on common sense lines and too much is not extracted from the willing small engine of high efficiency effi-ciency this new 11.9 horsepower has been so largely instrumental In developing, devel-oping, it will prove to be most valuable. valu-able. Essentially a car that is Inexpensive Inex-pensive in running costs, the 11.9 is quite capable of taking a light four-passenger four-passenger at a rousing speed and of climbing any ordinary hill. Point to Small Car. "The Calthorpe was the first small car to show that, under proper conditions con-ditions of gearing and when due attention at-tention was paid to economy of weight and v.lnci resistance in body work, a 12.11. 1 nmilrl Krk iTltfl very iuuw migiue tuum u- wu."- ; doing, and in a most economical manner, man-ner, the work that hitherto had been regarded as almost inseparably associated asso-ciated with a big one, and that even so very few concessions had to be made by the user in respect to comfort, upkeep ahd appearance. To adapt the small high efficiency motor to the full-sized full-sized car work is a difficult-problem, only to be solved witn great care." Features of some of the new English Eng-lish cars pointed out are. "The A. B, C. and C. A. R.'use air-cooled air-cooled engines. "The 1920 English car, for the fir3t time, is .complete with famps, horn, speedometer, clock, generator, starter, demountable rims, etc., all included in the purchase price. Hitherto they have been 'extras.' "All rubber treads following the American example, predominate in tires. "Four speeds forward, instead of three, are used in a nr.mber of leading lead-ing cars, although the three-speed gear box Is holding its own.. OO