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Show EUROPE PAYING IN HUGE SUMS Depreciated Currency Must Be Handled in Big Amounts to Get Car WASHINGTON. Feb. 25 The hu-1 niorl?t who surprised his audlSOOS by j remurklrnf that on n recent visit In I Moscow ho paid 1,000.000 kopecks for . a plato of Kauergraut and a frtoln of I beer and then hastened to explain that j 1,000,000 kopecks was the squfvali d 'of $1.35 In American nionev. might ; have saved the strain on his Imagination Imagina-tion If ho had recited actual facts about the cost of automobiles In A.ustrla In I terms of the currency of that realm. According to a report on "The Auto-I Auto-I motive Industry In Austria, ' which Secretary of Commerce Herbert i Hoover has received from W F. Up-son. Up-son. the American trade commlssionor at A'lenna the popular priced automo-' automo-' biles in that country arc sHiimj for 1 4. MOO 000 frowns uiih "whlli; the , snL.xllest cars of the "llssle type bring 2 800.000 crowns. Motorcycles wlthoui tires srll for 1.000,000 crowns The report of the trade commissioner says. In part; "The most popular cars in Austria are the light slx-ryllnder Daimler. 26. 90 horsepower, American rating, yelling price estimated al 14.000,000 crowns, and the Steyr, rated at I u American horsepower, With an estimated esti-mated polling price of : Crowns Thse prices must be tuk.n only as approximate estimates, Blm e most firms refuse to fix a definite pric and give only vh.' the call 'indicative prices' A few will iiint no pri. c at all on account of the OOD stant variation In cost of raw mate-; rials and labor "The Austrian factories have recent-1 iy devoted mor attention than formerly for-merly to manufacture oi light can 1 Which find a better market than thfj heavier on account ol the progress tVi tax on automobiles and th constantly Incre.iflng cost of operation The I most powerful passenger cars built In Austria are the Gr.ii & Suft six-cyl-md-r 48.ttO-hors.--pover and four-cylinder 30-horsepower models. Aside from the models already mentioned all tho other Aust rian-mnde passenger 1 1 cars are four-cylinder, ranging from the Daimler. Puch and Graf & Stlft models rated at IP 00 horsepower thru the Flat and Puch of I5 3ti and tin-Steyr tin-Steyr of 12.23 horsepower, down to the Perl, which Is rated at 7.4fi horsepower horse-power and Is quoted at 2,800 000 crowns. "In addition to regular passenger cars, the cycle car has attained a considerable con-siderable popularity during the past year. The cycle car factories already existing In Austria have been enlarged and two new ones founded. Tho Perl car mentioned above Is frequently clasaed a a largo car. Tho smallest j cy - I'sr made in Austria is the Eaja.' with an eight horsepower air-cooled one-cylinder onirlno placed In the rear of the car It Is built for two or three passengers and its price without tires Is 1,000,000 crowns f o. b Vienna, tho wholesale export price being thirty-five thirty-five pounds. It Is sold to be a very good export article, large numbers i being sold In England In particular. I "All Aust rain -made motor trucks nro four-cylinder except the Steyr, i which makes a six-cylinder two and one-half ton model. Other manufacturers manufac-turers are the Fross-Bucsslng with a 'three-ton model estimated at 8 000,000 sl crowns and a five-ton model at about !) . 'dfl 10 000.000 crowns. ' tflhl |