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MOTOR CARS IN PALESTINE.

Publication: The New York Times Date: 18 June 1922

CONSUL A. E. SOUTHARD of Jersusalem states that Palestine offers a comparatively good market for pneumatic automobile tires. The country has about 500 miles of first-class motor roads, and another 1,500 miles of second and third class roads, which can be used for motor vehicles at favorable seasons. Most Palestine roads are surfaced with soft limestone. The country is quite hilly.

Motor transportation is favored and there is a small but steady increase in the number of motor vehicles. Figures compiled six months ago indicated that there were in use 494 privately owned passenger cars, forty-two motor lorries or trucks, and eighty-three motorcycles. Most of the cars are of the lower-priced American makes.