The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 1, 1924, Page 13

HARRY W. BANGER, Automotive Manager aamminc ' NO DISPLAY OF THE Seattle Auto Dealers Open Houses for Week BY LELAND HANNUM EATTLE’S 1924 “Spring Ope ," exhibiting the newest models and makes of motorcars, will open Monday, March 3, as a united “open house” observance by practically all the larger dealers’ agencies, accessory and jobbers’ houses and tire purveyors. The show will end March 9. Unable to secure ample accommodations for a united exposition of the automotive industry this year, the dealers have agreed on individual displays, united to further their business and acquaint Mr, and Mrs. Seat- tle with the very latest in automobiles and their equip- ment, FOLTS WILL HEAD GENERAL COMMITTEE General arrangements are under the supervision of a committee of seven, headed by W. A. Folts of the Sunset Motor Co., with W. A. Simonds, secretary of the Washington Automotive Trades association, as commit- tee secretary. Other members of the committee, representative of the various branches of the Seattle industry of selling motorcars and their accessories, are: A. R. Tyson, Frank Sutton and L. P. Schaeffer, representing auto dealers; Robert T. Hall, the truck dealers; Roy G. Ross- man, the tire agencies, and George Morrissey as repre- sentative on the committee for the accessory shops and jobbers. And it isn’t going to be the fault of the committee if the “show” isn’t a success. Already approximately 70 individual businesses are signed up, including all the 12 Ford dealers as a unit, for the “open house” week. The general plans are outlined and adopted, but the actual observance and features therefore are being left up to the individual dealer. It’s up to him to produce the triumph. FORTY TO OBSERVE “OPEN HOUS Approximately 40 dealers are entered in plans for individual exposition. Another 20 in the show will represent Seattle’s accessory houses and the jobbers’ branches here. About 10 tire agencies have agreed to take part also. All up and down “Automobile Row’’— that section of East Pike, Pine and Union s where the grease- splotched repair men and the suaye motorcar salesmen have their habitat—special and uniform waterproof board archways will decorate shop fronts. These will be surmounted by facsimiles of black metal firepots. During the evenings, when the dealers will keep open to accommodate visitors inspecting the new models and their. appurtenances, improved methods of these fire- pots, while bombs, colored lights and other pyrotechnic - we * * displays will draw attention—and crowds to this dis- A, R. Tyson (Autos) tinctive portion of Seattle’s business district. : : 2 E As: AEN PERL L. P. Schaeffer (Autos;