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The German "Active Service Motor Lorry Gesellschaft."

30th September 1915
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Our Copenhagen correspondent writes as follows : —"By agreement with the German War Department, and with the approval of the German Association of Motor Manufacturers, the limited company which is to act in respect of the disposal of war-worn chassis after the war has now been put on to a definite basis." We have already recorded its formation. The capital amounts to 1,000,0110 marks, and -on the board of management are such well-known men in the industry as Missing, Opel and Horch. The task of the company is specifically to be the disposal of motor vehicles, together with accessories, returned from war service, with all due regard to national financial interests involved at the time. The whole idea is, of course, to avoid a sudden overcrowding of the German market by returned .-automobiles. The German industry is evidently alive to the possibility of this vexed question. German lorries will be increasingly crowded back from their present-areas of activity, or returned by rail to the Fatherland, There will bc less and less military use for them.

France Nationalizes Alcohol Supplies.

The Ribot liquor law, now before the French Parliament, provides for-the State monopolization of alcohol denaturized by the ordinary process, for the sale

of the alcohol thus denaturized, and also for sale of wood alcohol, from 1st January, 1917.. According to the, proposed law, the State will have the power to. deliver raw alcohol to those industries entitled to exemption from the alcohol tax and requiring alcohol not denaturized in the ordinary way.

The Bill authorized the State to procure the necessary quantities of pure alcohol by contracts passed 1350 with distillers, or, if necessary, by private agreement. A decree will be issued at intervals of five years fixing the retail price of alcohol for these periods. The price will be established so as approximately to cover the cost of purchasing the alcohol, its storage, and its delivery to wholesale dealers.

The denaturizer will be furnished by the State. The cost of this denaturizer, also the expenses in connection with inspection, and, if necessary, any deficit by reason of the fixed retail price of alcohol, will be met from the revenue obtained from general liquor taxes.

The Bill does not deal directly with the motor industry, but concerns itself with providing a sufficient and steady supply of denaturized alcohol at 'a low price not liable to fluctuation. It remains for the various State departments to encourage the use of this cheap fuel in the motor and other industries. Probabilities are that the Bill will be passed through Parliament without any serious opposition.


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