Business & Finance: Ford Music & Price

Many a bright British shilling landed in the tills of Albert Hall last week. Londoners who gathered there got more than their shilling's worth of fine music by a full, tail-coated orchestra, of plain & fancy singing by sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, coloratura-mezzo-sopranos, baritones, bassos. They also got, between numbers, a good view of what the concert's impresario, Henry Ford, had cannily got them there to seeĀ—his new "midget" automobile to compete with the little Austin and Morris.

The British Ford differs from the Austin and Morris by four inches of extra length. All are low, racy, big-doored, have slanting radiators, are smartly painted....

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