Strength through Joy car. In Germany, on the
other hand, second-hand cars are fairly expensive.
A law enacted in May 1933 exempting cars built after that date from the State tax, has had the effect of maintaining the re-sale value of such cars;
others, while they may be had cheaply, must pay the
tax, which is very high. In the opinion of an authority in the motor transport division of the German Army, what is needed to bring about cheap motorization in Germany is a second-hand car market similar to that in the United States.
 
 In this connection, the experience which has
been gathered with respect to the sale of motorcycles in Germany is interesting. Since 1934, when
the government building and armaments programs began to have the result that many workers in the semi-
skilled and skilled categories made more money (the
first, by virtue of being transferred to the skilled
classes owing to a general labor shortage, and the
latter, by virtue of working overtime for higher
pay), the motor-cycle has become more and more a
means of conveyance for these classes of workers.
Within the last year or so there has grown up a market for second-hand motor-cycles and these in turn
are at last finding their way into the hands of
many unskilled workers. The particular authority
consulted envisaged that the strength through Joy
car would gradually take the place and repeat the