Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 30, 1916, Page 14

16—A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL, 30, 1916. BUICK MAN OPPOSED T0 CREDIT SALES| R. H. Collins, General Sales Man- ager, Does Not Favor Buying Cars on “Time” BELIEVES IT HURTS INDUSTRY “There (s & serlous menace to the | whols automobils industry and a grave | danger to the automoblle dealer in too gréat a spread of the Installment plan feature in buying motor cars. I can see no necessity for such a selling plan in these times of prosperous business, and | feel that the introduction and encourage ment of the scheme s, except In excep tional cases, a mistake,” sald R. . Col line, general sales manager, Bulck Motor compuny. “It s my opinion that no greater calamity can ultimately overtake the automoblle business, including the manu facturor, the dealer and the individual buyer, than for the leading factories to adopt a deferred payment sales plan and I eannot belleve that the leading manufacturers are really giving Mrluul consideration to auch a plan ‘The Installment plan of buying s fundamentally wrong, regardless of (he artiele tnvolved. This 1s espscially true an applied to automoblles, The automo- bile business was started on a cash basis, 1t {a the only big business that has ever heen operated on a cash princl- vle, and In my Judment the cash basis in one of the biggest reasons why the automoblle industry has grown so won- dorfully fast. Cash salos hinve mads pos sible the rapid bullding up of big re- serves of cgpital, Pledty of lquid capi- tal has made possible rapid extension, improvements in manufacturing methods and quantity production. Quantity pro- duotion has made it possible for motor oar makers to market & constantly im- proved product at a constantly lowering price, Always on Cash Basis, “The automobfle is one of the few things in everyday use which has not sd- vanoed rapldly in price in the last few years. And all these favorable conditions oconnsoted with marketing of automobiles can be traced, In a very large measure, to the fact that automobiles have been lmM for cash. “And now all this is threstened by the Introduction of the (nstallment plan of buying, The present scramble on the part of thess “trust companies” to force au- tomoblles Into the hands of everybody Who has a few dollars—regardless of the fact that the time part of the contract | In llkoly to work a severe hardship upon the purchaser and his family-4s the worst thing that has happened In my entire business experience. 1f persisted In T bellove many purchasers will impone an obligation upon themselves which they will find hard to meet. “Frankly, 1 believe the praotice ine dulged tm by those manufaoturers who ONoOUrag lers to sell cars to any- body and orybody, by having “trust companies” carry the paper—with tho dealer's endorsement—is a porniclous practioe which is destined to ruin some of the best men 1n the automobile trade. It i easy for the manufacturer to urge | many dealors Into this kind of business, but In my opinfon it is & policy which should not have the endorgoment of well established automoblle companies. Captain Ford Says Auto Makers Will Aid Air Service Asroplanes with roomy, upholsterod bodies, windshields and all the comforts of the modern motor car, with the addi- | tlonul convenience of the wirciess leie graph, are now In use In Kurope, Cuptain Archibald B, Ford, of the Royal IMylng corps, Great Britaln, says. Caplain Ford who s on leave of absence from the Britsh army, 18 visitor in Detroft Captain Ford has been in the nerial service of his country since the beginning of the war, His visit to the United States s unofficial, but is in the Intereat of alreraft, Captaln Ford visited Menry B. Joy, president of tho Packard Motor Car | company, and a director of the Aero | Cub of America, and went with him to | #e0 the Packard aviation fleld near Mt Clemens, Mich, He said that his Interest in the aeroplanc 1s solentific and not commercial | Super- Six Shows ‘Sp( ed of 102:63 Miles Hot 1r The Hudson wHuper-Bix on April 10| was %:11 weconds, which 15 equivalent agnin distinguished ftaelf by making the [to 10258 miles per hour, This is the fantest mile ever negotiated by an Ameri- | highest speed over made by a stock can stock oar chassls, 102:60 miles per | chassis, While these spoed trials hour. havo been n surprise to the public, may they This sensational apeed was made over | were not unexpected among motor-car the famous Ocean Beach course at Day- | people who keep tab on things. The tona, i, under the officlal supervision of the American Automoblls ussociation, | cationising on the sunny sands of Florida mnction No, 008, ¥. K. Kdwerds, repre- | and that he probably had “something up senting the contest board of the Ameri- | his sléeve.” When “Smiling”’ Ralph | can Automobile aswociation and Fred J. | Mulford showed up and soon after had Wagnor wero present and officiated at | his wizard-like Buper-Six spinning on the the trials, The Buper-six wag piloted | rocord-produoing besch at Daytons, wine ones knew that IF'red Wagner was va the by Ralph Multord. In six trinl ‘runs the | secrot was out. And now it Is no longer milo was dashed off each time In less | u secret. The splondid mark s one that than thirty-six seconds, The fastest tima | will “take some going” to even match. olimbed lhn hill after driving all the Metz Gompany Bavoy | (e sr g Y., but just for thelr own satiafa - 7%, ————— e Yy Sma«ll POI tllll(} by came 1o u full stop (n the middle of the nill, then started up again and finished Climbing Big Hill = “The new Mets Modal % 1s everywhors .Bfficieflcy wlu recognived an a wonderful hill climber,” $aye N. G, Manley, manager of he looal | ContrOI Prices of branch, ““But even so far back an Bep- tember, 1911, the Motz company inserted g7 sy o B o] Autos Says Bate Ing Post, a part of which read ns follows e #1000 cash roward pald to the first per- | The introdustion of & mid-season im- #on in any locality In the United Btates | provement in the body deslgn of the new who will show us & hill on any traveled | Mitchell has brought forth from various highway which the Motz car eannot | sutomoblle manufacturers a v elimb.’ Awcussion as to just what can “It happened that in New York state | to the huyer without extra price A man promptly olaimed the money, ing he knew of a hill which was s and #o long that it could not by the Mets car or any other It was | that practically every feature of / wpirited o given | con- known as ‘Barker’ hill, and was locatud | venlence, every feature of construction near Hemlook, N wost of Hyracui sompany pleass draft for the thousand the manufacturing efficlency “Hut the Mete company had more at | It 18 not such a long eall from the eost | Y., about ninety milos | and accessibllity on the Mitchell is free #0o would the Motz | to the purchaser because the cost s urry rnd send him a ! equaled by the factory savings due to stake than the money, and accordingly, of twenty-six extra features to the re €, M, Metz, In company with one of his | duetion In manufacturing coits by drivers, John MoGann, set out In a regu- | clent methods, modern machinery Iar stock car for Hemlock, N, Y., 13 do off| and equipment that it has taken thirteen what had: never been done In the hill- | years to bring to such a high standard climbing lne, or forfelt $1,00, Kven five yoars ago no manufac “The result was that/they not only | would have attempted to bulld a STORAGE BATTERY Captain Ford is classed as a “skilled observer.” His work consisted of flying St a helght of 10,000 feet over 'German | and Austrian lnes, making maps. and signalling by wireless to the British gunners, twelve or fifteen miles away He says the woik of akilled observers in | %0 acourate that by following thelr sig hals, gunners are enabled to explodo | #hells fn the enomy's trenches within five attempts. Additions Made to Plant of Goodyear Auto Tire Company The oconstanily rowing demand for compelind us to greatly In litiss for making Good tod L. . Roekhill, man utomeblla tire department of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber com | rany | Motortsts are rapidly learning the dis AVAniARes of tord tires and are de " thelr oAre. As oar Antieipating this condition, we have made additions | faet r— Uhat give ue & eapa of L0 cord tires Wil pespert (o (hess tires ave bestt tharaughly {ried adithons and these definite somfart, extre & MA st - - 5 lowsr gaseiine Arraugu to Handle Briscoe Auto Here A abe a1Tang - " ) s of val A0 A seuth e (T ! The Lure of the Open Now that you're no longer limited to paved streets and side curtains, make a sPurt for open country where you can “let 'er out.” But first of all, be sure of your storage battery. Start the season with it in healthy condition and take care of it all summer, ' Maybe it's all right, but a free in- spection here will prove it. Bring it in anyhow and get some pointers on how to make it produce, Willard Service is the key to better starting and lighting. You are assured of expert attention here, Nebraska Storage Battery Co. 203 Farnam St. Phone Doug. 5102, Bare Dl Avpon Vol e ® | i o Ve chasmt woe e abiey W Free inspection of any battery at any time turer car | y John W, Bats, the efficlency engineer teop | ing expert, who has been bullding emied | Mitchell cars since 1008, 18 frank to say part he regular equipment, 11 are now naldered a ¢ Ading to the It bile prices and drift and small 0 the operatc wanufacturers have grown nvenjer but coat! While the welght of cars, as a | whole, has been gradually reduced, this - 4 1 “0all” Durham in Movies, a8 In most instances been accomplished S X ol . U R g b ull” Durham, who was | | by the use of lighter metals proport) . M oot ey B < | ately higher in cost, so the reduction In | [n motion pleture drama. The villain: POWER =~ Amols 0 tabe @ o bbb agywhare u» S - mn? 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