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...should find Genevieve in automotive paradise. The lover of English comedy will be no less pleased, for J. Arthur Rank's latest film has been compared favorably to Tight Little Island and the Alex Guinness series. Though such praise may be a bit thick, the film makes the annual motor-car parade from London to Brighton with ease and good humor...
When British motor club members drive their Stanley Steamers over the seventy mile route, the pace is slow and racing is forbidden. Genevieve puts some extra pressure into the yearly pageantry with an indiscreet race between two old rivals whose jealousies extend from women to automobiles. Breakdowns, sly tricks, and unlikely delays plague the contestants and usually amuse the audience. The humor of racing in cars of 1910 vintage has an almost amazing durability, at least for about three-fourths of the journey...
More than that, Millionaire Cunningham is the ranking figure in the whole throbbing, racketing U.S. preoccupation with motor cars and engines. Before World War II, youngsters with a hankering for speed and excitement almost inevitably took to airplanes. Now the young U.S. speed fancier is apt to find his big kick in tucking a Cadillac engine into the ribs of a Ford and barreling out to surprise his friends on the highway. Among the well-heeled, there is a boom in sports cars; among the nostalgic, the urge to find a "classic," or "antique," such as a vintage Mercer, Marmon...
...MOTORS, which has climbed from a deficit of $2,000,000 to a profit of $2,000,000 in four years, making trucks and power lawn-mowers, has been sold to Henney Motor Co. Inc. of Freeport, Ill., makers of custom-body hearses and ambulances. The sale, still to be approved by stockholders, is a straight cash transaction for $16.5 million, equal to nearly $30 a share for Reo stock. Henney will take over Reo's plants and distributors...
...OUTBOARD motor boom is putting along faster than ever. From October through January, a record 168,000 outboards worth $39 million have been sold by U.S. firms, a unit increase of 39% (51% in dollar figures) over the same period...