A hundred years ago | India’s demand for motor cars

London, November 12: A great expansion in the market for motor cars in India was foreshadowed by Sir Reginald Ford, who, in an interview in London, expressed the opinion that the Government of India would soon reduce by 30 per cent the import duty on cars and establish a Ministry of Transport to allocate the petrol tax to road development. He pointed out that roughly 75 per cent of the cars used in India at present were non-British. He called for appointing a British agent for Indian market. Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences.

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