If your business missed out on the PPP program, here’s where else you can turn for money
The nearly $670 billion PPP program is down to about $9 billion reserved for community financial institutions.
The U.S. Small Business Administration recently said the Payroll Protection Program exhausted loan money available to traditional banks weeks before the planned May 31 cutoff date.(U.S. Small Business Administration)
11:12 AM on May 12, 2021 CDT
The Paycheck Protection Program was seen as a limitless treasure chest when it launched a year ago to help small businesses weather the economic catastrophe brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A brief history of the world’s most affordable cars
Ford’s mass-produced Model T set the standard for cheap yet high-quality cars; the Austin 7, VW Beetle, Mini and Eastern Bloc imports ensued
8 May 2021 • 6:30am
The genius of the Ford Model T was that it was cheap but not cheaply made. It set the trend for affordable cars that continues to this day
Credit: Pep Roig/ Alamy
Henry Ford didn’t invent the production line, as is often believed. Manufacturers had been using similar assembly methods for decades. Ford merely adapted and refined the techniques to reduce costs and produce a motor car cheap enough for Mr Average, rather than Mr and Mrs Rich, who were the only likely internally combusted customer in the late Victorian era.
They were unreliable, unsafe, uneconomic, uncomfortable and, in many cases, downright ugly compared with what we drive around in today. Even so, you have to hand it to the cars of yesteryear. They had character. And they had colour, too.
Just look around you on the roads or in the supermarket car park this weekend and you will see assorted shades of grey with the odd smattering of pastel. Back in the good (or perhaps bad) old days of British motoring, people were perfectly happy ordering a car in banana yellow, tomato red or some truly execrable shades of brown.
Richard Usher launched Great British Car Journey, showing off collection covering British motoring history
In addition to the 130 cars which are on display, a further 32 vehicles can be driven by visitors for a fee
The venture is based in Ambergate, Derbyshire and will open to the public on May 22
Mr Usher made his money when he received portion of £110million sale of firm Auto Windscreens in 2001
Take a trip down memory lane . at the wheel of Dad’s car
New museum puts visitors in driver’s seat of classics the like Austin 7 and Morris Minor that made motoring accessible to British families
21 April 2021 • 5:00pm
Classic cars on display at The Great British Car Journey will include, clockwise from top left, the Austin Maestro, Morris Minor Million, and Vauxhall Chevette
Anyone of a certain age might remember piling into the back of their parents’ old banger and heading off for a day at the seaside, or a run to the swanky new shopping centre.
Cars such as the Austin 7, Morris Minor, Mini and Ford Escort were the backbone of British motoring before the rise of foreign imports, their back seats full of bickering siblings, while up front the adults tried to coax the car into getting to its planned destination.