A letter and report from the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce passed along to President Coolidge by the Advisory Committee on Automotive Affairs, a short-lived part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, elucidating the importance of highways and motor vehicles in America's economic life. Case-file material selected also touches on motor trucks and buses. Automobiles were the leading consumer product of the 1920s. At the start of the decade, fewer than ten million vehicles were registered. In 1925, there was one automobile for every six persons in the country, compared with one for every one hundred in Great Britain. By 1930, the U.S. figure had jumped to twenty-six and a half million cars, one for every 4.6 people in the nation.
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