The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1922, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Reductions Made By Detroit Man (Chicago Journal of Commerce) Henry Ford may find himself busy tending to his own business the next few months that he will have little time to reorganize the currency demonetize gold or flay the money barons of Wall system of the country, Street. The new prices quoted on tractors and the temper of Harvester officials would seem to indicate that the pray- ers of the country that someone give Mr. Ford some real competition are about to be answered. A week ago son tractors $625 to $295. INTERNATIONAL MEETS FORD ON TRACTOR PRICES Harvectcr Company Cut Follows Mr. Ford announced a reduction of $230 in the price of Ford- cutting the price from Last night the Interna- tional Harvester Company sent out the following statement and officials refused to add a word or to change a syllablo of the official announcement. ‘the announcemeat said: Announce Big Cut “The International Harvester Com- pany today announced price reduc- tions of $280 on two-ploy tractors and $200 on three-plow tractors, effective ‘immediately. “Until May 1 next, the company will present: to every farmer purchasing cne of thes? tractors a two-furrow or! jthree-furrow plow wr a tractor disk} harrow t Harold F, McCormick eduction is not justified ble our dealers tio retain thir po- |sition in the tractor trade. The bur. den of this reduction and the cost of | | the plo or harrows presented to purchasers will be borne entirely by the company.” Meet Ford’s Endeavor Read it again and then consider the attendant circumstances. ago Edsel Ford gave an interview that the company lost $100 apiece on every tractor manufactured in 1921. Officials of the International Harves- ter Company know enough about man- ufacturing costs to know that he spoke the truth. When that tractor, which cost $109 more than the sale price to produce in 1921 was cut from $625 to $395 International Harvester executives knew that Mr. Ford intend- ed to throw his personal fortune into the game of selling tractors at a hug? ‘oss to corral what business is to be be operating at a lo: had and to dominate the field when the farmer begins to buy again. 'Mr. Ford has said much about build- ing and selling a million tractors a year. ‘Thus far he has had little luck in the direction of this ambition. Last | vear ho built 36,000 tractors and lost $3,600,000 thereby. He appears still to hope that he may achieve the mil- lion figure at which time he would not ‘Have these things in mind when you read what Mr, McCormick has to say about the price being entirely competitive, about protecting his deal- ers and about the company losing money at ‘the game. Incidentally, have them in mind when considering the fact that the International ‘Har- vester Company will give away plows worth $125 to $175 with each tractor bought. Ford Ahead of Game Mr. Ford, is in fortunate circum- stance to begin this price war. While other tractor companies have their Not so long; yards full of tractors and other farm machinery they cannot sell, the De. troit wizard has unloaded practically all of his tractors on protesting deal- benefit of the recent cut. themselves with half a dozen to fitty tractors which they were induced by various devices to purchase at the old get the They find These deal2rs do not price. They lost tho $230. Mr. Ford doesn't. Thus the wily Mr. Ford will obtain millions of words of free advertising and suffer little. The Ford dealer gets 17 1-2 per cent commission for sell- ing a tractor. By the time he deducts | One person out of every ten in the the $230 which Mr. Ford has chopped | United States owns a motor vehicle— off the price of the machine at rotail | for a grand total of 10,502,000 passen- this commission wanders across the| ger cars and trucks. ‘This represents ledger page into the red ink area. the registration of the various states ‘Like the flivver the Fordson comes] ag of December 31st, 1921, and is an stripped. Nonesof the competitors of | increase of 1,206,748 cars and trucks the machine charge that it is not well| over 1920 when 9,295j253 cars and built, of honest materials. They do|trycks were recorded, according to say that, like the flivver, the first cost| in¢ormation sent in to a prominent should be added to the equipment and | rotor car company here. extras necessary to put it into. the!" in some states the gain was as much field adequately equipped it prices are | .4 35 per cent and ten states reported compared ta rove, Ad they, ava an increase of more than 20 per cent. i y je: price Warzis, over. York state for first position the lat- TO NORMALCY VIAAUTOMOBILE Michigan, Texas, Iowa and Indiana. | Combined the first nine states own One Person In Every 10 In The United States Owns a ovér half the cars of the country, ac- cording to these statistics. Motor Vehicle CHEVROLET OUT FOR SALE MARK AT AUTO SHOW Stimson Cites New ‘York and Chicago Sales Totals as Goal Cleveland, 0., Feb. 11—Economic students here declare the automobile industry is leading the country back to normalcy. They cite as evidence, advance 1921 registration statistics. Effort to maintain the sales record of the Chevrolet Motor Car company, which led the field at both the Chicago SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 and New York Auto Shows, is being made at the Minneapolis Auto Show, according to B. E. Stimson, Minne- apolis branch manager of the Chevro- le “It was believed at first that the Tecor] of 148 cars sold on the floor of the New York Automobile Show would be the record of show sales this year, not only for all makes of cars, but also for Chevrolet cars,” states Mr. Stimpson. “But the Chevrolet Motor Car com- pany shortly afterwards smashed this New York show record by a consider- able margin, by the sale of 181 cars at Chicago. All manufacturers at the show were greatly interested in Chev- rolet sales, because this car being the world’s lowest priced standard equip- ped.-automobile, is the first to show the recovery that has been so eagerly awaited by the entire industry. 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