Foreign News: Bathtub Cars

Henry Ford watched pensively, last week, while a line of motor cars no bigger than bathtubs moved briskly toward completion in the huge, humming plant of Morris Motors Ltd., at Cowley, England.

Because there is a crushing British tax on engines of Ford dimensions, the tiny and lightly taxed Morris-Cowleys are bought in preference to Fords by thrifty Britons.

Through minute after minute Henry Ford watched the swift, straight, line of bathtub-cars with a fascinated gaze. "You

English," he observed at last, "are further ahead here than most Americans realize." Formal entertainment proffered last week to the visiting Motor Man (TIME, April 16, 23) included a luncheon given by David Lloyd George in the Members' Restaurant of the House of Commons. "My goodness!" said Mr. Ford, later, of Mr. George, "how that man can ask questions about America!"