Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 23, 1924, Page 17

H : H : i $ OLDS COMPANY . SHOWING GAIN Sales Records for This Year are Ahead of Last, Claim Factory sales figures submitted by the Olds Motor Works show that this company is one of the few auto- mobile companies in this country that have made appreciable gains so far during 1924 as compared to sales over the same period of 1923. In fact, the industry as a whole has failed to reach the record set last year. Production of automobiles during the first ten months of 1924 was less, by 200,000, than during the same months of the previous year, accord- ing to N. A. C. C. reports: ~ This shows a decrease of about 6 per cent for the entire industry. It is be- lieved that if there is any change in this percentage figure for the entire year it willbe an increase, as auto- mobile factories exceeded all pre- vious raéords for November and De- cember production in 1923. During these same ten thonths the production and sales of Oldsmobiles increased approximately 15,000 cars, or about 62 per cent over production figureg. of the year previous. ‘This large increase in the face of a loss for the industry as a whole, indicates that Oldsmobile correctly analyzed the trend of public desire and sup- plied this want with the introduc- tion of the present popular-priced six cylinder model. It is expected that the gain shown by Oldsmobile will be continued, and probably increased, during the’ re- maining two months of the year. Such a result will be due, in part, to the introduction of the Olds- mobile coach this fall, which set a new low. price mark for a six cylin- der five-passenger closed car with steel body by Fisher. Factory pro- duction schedules call fo 5,000 of this one body type alone for the two months of November and December.” Ce PRICE COMPARISON 19 GUIDE TO ECONOMIES IN MAKING MOTOR CARS ‘What motor cars cost in 1913 as contrasted with their cost today, demonstrates a striking proof.of the economies wrought in automobile manufacture and distribution. Near- ly every make of car that was sold in 1913 and is sold today cost con- siderably more in the pre-war per- lod. , Statisticians of the Chevrolet Mo- tor company have shown that tak- ing @ group of cars in the $1500 class and @ representative group of cars in the less than $1,000 class, the price decrease since 1913 hi been almost 50 per cent, while the price differential for all commodities as shown by Government figures is a 45 per cent increase over 1913. In, spite of the fact that the price of automobiles is less today, the pro- duct itself has been vastly improved. Today cars are more beautiful, more comfortable, more mechanically per- fect and more G sky Scena The Chevrolet tistical depart: ment has worked out an interesting comparison between the quantity of basic food products ‘that were re- quired to purchase a Chevrolet touring car in 1@i3 and that re- quired to purchase the. cprrespond- ing'model today. It must be borne in mind that the 1913 Chevrolet fac- tory price for the touring car was $1,000, while the touring car that has succeeded this modél lists today for $510. BUICK SALES MANAGER SEES RECORD YEAR FOR INDUSTRY There Is plenty of discussion. re re: garding high business mortality among automobile dealers, but it is mostly mythical according to HE. T. Strong, general sales manager of the Buick Motor company, of Flint, Mich., who was in Denver last week, conferring with officials of the Farland Auto company, of that city. There is still a great market for used cars, and every indication that 1925 will see the greatest year in the history of the game, in the opinion of Mr. Strong. “I have met with more enthusiasm over the business prospect among automobile dealers at this time than has been manifested during the last five years,” said Strong. “Probably because of the onpacalite youth of their business, automobile dealers have been flooded with propaganda tending to convince them that their problems are unique in the commer- clal world. At the same time, a wide variety of cures tn the form of co-operative effort, in one guise or another,, has been and still is being offered. “The real situation’ s- that selling automobiles is no diferent from sell- ing any other kinda of merchandise. NASH TO BREAK RECORD AGAIN Sales This Month to Establish Company ~ Record, Belief. November will set another new Nash sales record, according _ to | every indication in the first half of | the month. Continued demand foo the new Nash series of cars, w | has left the factory oversold evey | since the announcement August 1, will make this the greatest Novem: | ber in the Mistory of the Nash Mo- ° tors Company ‘and a very close sec- ! ond tn point of sales, to the month of October which had the greatest business ever recorded by Nash. Ata time when the automobile in- dustry as a whole is passing through the normaTy “low period” of the year, plants of the Nash Motors company are literally working night and @ay. Nighi shifts were put on at the Advanced Six factory in Kenosha within a few days after the anonuncement of the new line; two weeks later the Milwaukee’ plant, where the Special Six is built, also put on a night shift, and about the same time the plant of the Seaman Body Corporation, which builds Nash enclosed was operating day and night. Many of the departments in the Seaman plant run not only night and day but Sunday as well; this is rot true of the entire plant but is an indication of the usual efforts that announcement of its new line of With the election over bus- general has turned the cor- according to those who have given the situation close study there is every indication of a prosperous year throughout 1925. GLYCERINE | The Incomparable Radiator Fluid. NO EVAPORATION GREATER SATISFACTION The First Cost Is the Lact. } ASK US. The U-Drive-It Co. ' 133 S. Center. Phone 2370 | Comon sense and good judgment are the main requisites for success. Factories Know Dealer Problems. “Co-operation is required, but it should be close co-operation between the dealer and his factory organiza tion. Factory oficials fully and appreciate the problems of the dealers. They also’ know that their anufacturers depends largely om thy of their dealer organization.” With regard to bus'ness mortality among automobile dealers, Strong sald: “It must be remembered that to- day there are less than half the number of automobile munufactur- ers there were in 1916. Stretched throughout that period, more than 100 manufgcturers Rave withdrawn from the industry. Each had a deal: er organizatior which automatically went out of business when the fac- tory ceased production. These changes in. the manufacturing field explain a large part of the so-called failures among retail dealers,” Business Outlook Called Pleasing. Strong declared himself particular. ly gratified with the business out- look in the Rocky mountain terri tory and declared Denver is main- | taining ‘its place’ among the three or four most important automotive distributing centers of the United States. He declared big business in the east, particularly the automo- tive industry, {s watching the growth of Denver and plorado along the lines of oil development and other industrial activity with the keenest interest. “Your climatic, scenic, Industrial and comercial ‘resources are attract- ing the attention of the entire world just at ‘this time, particularly In connection with the development of the Moffat tunel project," he said. land’s grent. be agen Sunday Cribune MOTOR TRANSPORT CONFERENCE Io SCHEDULED FOR BOSTON BOSTON, Nov. 22.—A New Eng- ‘and Motor Transport conference to way transportation 2s of New England will be Boston on December 11 and 12, under the guidance of the Na “onal Automobile Chamber of Com- meree, and with the co-operation of many New England organizations representing motor velicie users. Leaders in the automobile indus- try are convinced that there is a istinct place in the transportation field for each facility—the railroad, the waterways, the electric lines and the highway vehicles, and that if the Proper economic sphere of each is nere fully determined ‘and better inderstood, there need be no con- tet. It is their belief that the meet s to be held In New England wil! assist in the process of making be! er understood the function of each transportation facility. Itailroad men and trolley officials will speakers, sbeclal sess! the conference will be devoted entirely to discus sion of how electric. railways. are using the motor bus, and how rat! roads are solving, with the motor truck, the problem of handling loci less-than-carload freight. The rapid progress which been made in New Englanc be a has and else. | where in building up a net work of intercity motor coach operation, {r response to popular demand, will be discussed. 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