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Show II BRITISH PREFER I SMALLER AUTOS; Great Crowds Look Over Twin Shows in London; Some Models Make 50 Miles to the Gallon LONDON, NOV. 11. (By the Asso-itend Asso-itend Press) If the attendance at Lonclon:i two simultaneous automobile automo-bile hlbitlons may be taken as an ln-ilieatlon. ln-ilieatlon. there is not much to worry about in the trade outlook. Officials state that the exhibitions are the blg- st on record, with the possible cx- epttbn of that Immediately after the war, when tho average daily attendance attend-ance approximated 52,000. At the two exhibitions, one at Olym-pla Olym-pla and tho other at White City, there are 550 exhibitors of automobiles und rn-.-essorlcs. Constant streams of well groomed prospective buyers inspect the various latest types of cars which j are attended by altre salesmen. One American exhibitor is reported to hae sold 4000 cars in one day Although there are still limousines 1 de luxe and landaulets, tho exer-ln- reading tendency of the manufacture is toward smaller and lower horse power roadsters This tendency is due I to the tax of one pound sterling per , houaepowor a year and also by the 1 fact that smaller cars consume much less gasoline. Most of the newest 1 makes shown are from 10 to 12 horso power and are capable of making 3G to 40. even 50 miles, on a gallon of gas. There has been a great effort on the part of the designers to make I UP tn attractiveness of lines, what trm earn lack In size, and the prices of I small runabouts are still rather high. I but It is estimated that they would oon make up the extra cost in tho saving on g.-us und the tax. The gen-era! gen-era! tendency- is toward two passenger passen-ger cars, with evtra collapsible "nioth-T-ln-law" seats In the rear. Exhibitors from Germany and Austria Aus-tria were excluded. oo |