The other side was presented by Colonel Moore- Brabazon in
the Times of Wednesday. He believes that the Mt per cent. import duty on foreign cars shipped to Britain was never enough to secure the position of the British manufacturer. It was, he says, the horse-power tax which was the real saviour of the British motor industry, because it checked the purchase of the cheap American cars which are subject to a high horse-power tax. Sir Robert Home would reply that this very horse:- power tax has influenced British design to the great dis- advantage of British trade .in the Dominions. It is a pretty problem which is sure to figure in the Budget debates, when a demand will be made for the new method of taxation: For our part we believe that the British manufacturer's real salvation has been his own inventive; ness and determination, and that the balance of argument will be found on the side of the petrol tax. Colonel Moore-Brabazon himself hints that he believes in a petrol tax though he thought it well to point out how many arguments could be brought against Sir Robert Home's advocacy of it. • * * *
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