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Their first months were a struggle to build a dining room and studio, whose modernistic design drove native workmen crazy. They visited sheiks, harems (a disappointment), native officials (most of them later assassinated), and the 24-year-old King of Iraq, a motoring enthusiast who had a Mercédès done in phosphorescent paint. Their collection of native lore ran to such curiosa as the law forbidding mermaids in the River Tigris (which ran through their yard) to marry human beings. They particularly liked Iraq love lore of the Arabian Nights sort...
...Madrid, the siege of which still rages, written by the London News Chronicle's, civil war Correspondent Geoffrey Cox, a warm Communist sympathizer and a fairly objective reporter. Merrily he writes of a Madrid midnight spree with police of the present regime in a "black, swift, open Mercédès-Benz" which he thinks must once have "belonged to a millionaire." The driver "had nearly half a bottle [of] John Haig [whiskey], drinking it off like wine. . . .You know what this car is for-to shoot down Fascist snipers. . . . For half an hour we went...
...also fitted to the chassis free of charge." There is also something about the little British roadbug at the humorous other extreme from Rolls-Royce, the Baby Austin. And on sale in Manhattan last week, after five years of successful manufacture by the German firm of Mercédès-Benz, was a medium-sized car in which the most advanced European features of construction have been merged: tube frame, engine at the rear, independent springing of all four wheels...
...Mercédès-Benz rear-engine car (see cut p. 33) is delivered in Manhattan for $2,175. Also on sale last week was the large Mercédès with supercharger and promised speed of 110 m.p.h., at $14,000. No French, Italian, Czechoslovak or Japanese car was offered last week, though European Motors Inc. specializes in importing on order and servicing anything, however exotic.* A new firm of interest to swanksters was J. S. Inskip, Inc., successors to defunct Rolls-Royce of America Inc. in importing the English article. On their floor...
...What other cars might claim to be in the same category as the Phantom III? Only five that I can recall offhand: the latest Hispano-Suiza, Horch, Mercédès-Benz, Packard, and the huge 'golden' type Bugatti...