Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1922 — Page 15
DEC. 8, 1922
Telephone Users Take Back Seat as Autoist Steps Up to thè Wheel Hoosierdom, Battle Ground of a National, Telephone System, Becomes Playground of Automobile in Mine Years—72,2sß v More Cars Registered in 1922 Than in 1921. The number of motor passenger cars and trueks outnumber thè telephones in use in tlie State of Indiana by 43,000, according to latest figures obtainable from thè State Automobile licensiug Department and thè Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Licenses for 415,400 passenger cars and 57,200 motor trueks have been issued by thè State since Jan. 1. The Indiana Bell Telephone Company states it has 171,000 phones in use in thè State, while independent and connecting companies have 268,000
statif>ns, which malte a .otal of 439,000. (\,mparlson of figures shows that thè telephones lead thè pleasure cars in numbers, though thè number of trueks. added to thè pleasure car list, produce & total many thousand In exeess of thè telephones. When llcensing of automobiles firn became a statutory requirement In 1913, there were 44,738 cars and trueks. The number increased to 66.410 In 1914. An increase of 30,000 in 1915 swelled thè tqtal to 96,616, and in 1916 thè figure mounted to 139,117. In 1917 thè total number llcensed was 192,195, which Increased to 227,160 In 1918. In 1919, thè last year before an act of Legislature changed thè lieensing requlrements to Include segregatlon of trueks from passenger cars, thè total number combfhed reached 277,256. Under thè new pian In 1920, thè numbe- of pleasure cars for which 11censes were secured was 300.22 6 t and thè nunber of trueks 32,481. The figure* for 1921 glves thè number of passenger cars as 357,028 and trueks 43,817. Computed on thè basis of yearly galns, thè number of cars In 1914 exceeded that of 1913 by 21,672, a net gain of 46 per cent. A gain of 30.205 or 45 per cent was registered in 1915. An Increase of 42,502 or 43 per cent edeurred in 1916. A net gain of 53,078 In 1917 produced an increase of 88 per cent. In 1918 a gain of 34,965 resulted In an Increase of 17 per cent. The figure sustalned a notable “comeback” in 1919 with an Increase of 60,095 or a 22 per cent lnorease and mounted stili hlgher In IS2O to a figure of 55,452 with a 20 per cent Increase over thè previous year. A total gain of 67,635 In 1921 produced a gain of 23 per cent, followed in 1922, thè banner year since thè automobile was invented, by a gain of 72,250 over thè previous year s figure, showing an increase of 18 per cent. The total gain in number of motor vehicles in Indiana in thè nine years that have elapsed since thè first car was llcensed in 1923, amounts to 427,862 or 906 per cent. These figures show an average yearly gain for thè nine-year period of 48,651 and an annusi Increase of 69,992 for 1921-1922. In support of thè contention that thè 1922 automobile business has been •♦he best in thè annals of thè industry, McClelland makes thè statement that In thè period from May' 1 to Sept. 1, an average of 1,000 licenses were issued by his department each day. Of thls number thè percentages of rew and used cars were practically thè sanie, he said.
What Will Your Next Motor Be? Mr. Automobile Owner, will your next purchase be an open model or a cioè ed car? ■e The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce has addressed thls query to more than 20,000 motorista throughout thè Nation In an effort to obtaln a"straw vote” to be used as thè basis of guidane© to manufacturers in mapping their 1923 programs. The query asks that thè owner teli why he or she prefers thè model named. . Aocordlng to thè best obtaln&ble Information, thè trend of thè market is favori ng thè closed models very strongly and radicai revtolon of production programs In many of thè factories le expected to result. MRS. NOBLET LEAVES ON SOUTHERN LOCGING TOUR , Mre. Margaret Noblet, wlfe of M. te. Noblet. secretary and manager of thè Hoosier Motor Club, left Monday on a logging tour of thè Jackson Hlghway, despite inclement weather. The trip, whlch will carry her to New Orleans, is belng made in thè interest of rehabilitation of thè highway which has talleri, into dlsrepalr below thè Mason-Dlxon Line. Mrs. Noblet is making thè trip in thè Cole Eight pathflnder car of thè Hooeler Motor Club, which she has al ready driven 60,000 miles. TRUCK CRUSHES^MAN SOUTH BEND. Ind., Dee. B.—Elmer Blue, 38, of Kalamazoo. Mich., was killed when he jumped from an overtuming truck and was pinioned. John Tcrberger, driver, remained at thè wheel. He waà unhurt.
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LMETTE WILL EMPLOyiO NEI Nash Representative Speaks of Future of Locai Product. According to a public statement from Ben W. Twyman, generai manager of thè Nash Motor Company's four-cyhnder plant In Milwaukee, thè new factory which is being built there for thè Lafayette Motor Company, which wili leave Indianapolis some timo aster Jan. 1, 1922, wllr] house between 800 and 1,000 employes by March 1, 1922, if present promises materlallze. The removai of thè Lafayette plant from Indianapolis through thè purchase of control of thè company by thè Nash interests, marks thè losa of a very valuable product to thè city and to thè State. The 1,200 cars built by thè Lafayette during its existence as a manufacturing institution | In Indiatfìapolis are regarded by dealers and owners alike as a success in every particular. FIFTY YOUNG MEN WILL RECEIVE SALES TRAINING C ourse of Free Instniction Will Open Monday Night. One hundred and flfty young men have applled ut thè Willys-Overland j Company, Michigan St. and Capltol lAve., for entrane? to thè free salesmanship training class which ls to recelve Ita course of Instruction from • W. D. Chambers, retali sales manager, who recently arrlved from WashingI to?., D. C., to take over thè floor ; salea for thè company, of which James IW. Boyd is generai manager. Fifty ;of thè number have been selected ! and wlll recelve their first instruc- ! tlons next Monday night, Dee. 11.
WOMEN ARE ULTIMATE BUYERS OF MOTOR CARS
Once again Man and Industry courtesies to Miìady. The bow thls time is made from thè stage of thè automobile salesroom and no restraint marks thè gesture as lt Comes as thè naturai acknowledgement of thè prowess of woman in thè achieVement of thè thing which she desires in motor cars. No less a personage than thè sales manager of one of thè largest automobile concerns in America has called upon his organization to pay great heed to thè women patrons of automobiles, inasmuch as thè lady of today in ninete*>n cases out of every twentv ultimately chooses thè car which husband buys, he says. The open car has its widest appeal to men who, being more rugged of nature and less given to attention to minor details are thè ihore ardent admirers of thè open and sport models, whlle thè femmine purchaser has largely tumed to thè closed car as tha acme of perfection in motor cars. It is thè consensus of opinion of Indianapolis dealer that thè ladies are outdone in thls rt-spect, however, by their daughters, who invarlabN insist upon closed models. Milady of thè coming generation seenis to bave been born with an innate weakness fcr closed cars, one dealer said, as he
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WATCH AND MOTOR ARE SUBJECT 0F ARGUMENT Which is thè more marvelous from a technical standpoint, a ! watch or an automobile? Robert E. Jack, chief engiheer of thè Olds Motor Works, has made thè following calculations, which are self-explanatory: A watch ticks sixty times a i minute, 3,600 times an hour, 86,400 times in one day, 31 f 536,000 times a year and 630,720,000 i tiipes in twenty years. An Olds eight, which had just completed a 50,000-mile tour, was : made thè basis of comparison. For each mlle thè engine turns over 3,213 times. There are 12,852 1 separate explosions taking place during' this number of turns. Figured another way around, an 1 explosion takes place every five , inches of travel. In 50,000 miles explosions would have taken place. i The 50,000 miles was covered in seven months. Therefore there were more explosions In this one motor in these seven Anonths than there are “ticks” in a watch in twenty years.
TIMCKSIKE TMPJOCAPITAL GMC and Reo Carry Part of Presidenti Dinner. Announcement of speed records of two trueks. one made by thè’ GMC truck which carrled President Hard ir.g's Thanksgiving turkev and thè other by a Reo speed wagon which carried Eskimo Pie for ihe Whito Illuse Thanksgiving dinner. have been made from Washington. The GMC truck completed thè journey of 825 miles from Chicago througn Indianapolis and other points along thè old national traii. In thlrty-seven hours and thirty-four minutes, an average of twenty-two miles per hour for thè entire trip. The Reo truck completori a nin of 801 miles from Chicago to thè White House over practically thè some route ir. twenty-sev*i hours and forty-eight minutes. The Reo wagon is considerably lighter than thè GMC truck and carried fewer passengers. Both trueks encountered b“rzards and hazardous mountain travel, due to snow fall and sleet and their nonstop records. all things oonsidored. are considerai by thè respeetive cornpanies as exceedingly gratlfying. SHOW MOVIES PROMISED Hoosler motor fans are promlaed a gllmpse of the< Fourteenth Annual Motor Show in Madison Hquare Gardens in New York City. Jan. 8 to 11. through moving pictures which will. be taken of thè event, which, aJso, wiil include a style congress.
appraised his dtvindling stock of closed cars and prospected upon thè future. A visit to twenty-ftve Indianapolis dealers revealed thè fact that thè closed car business for 1922. so far as thls city is concemed, will reaeh thè unproeedented figuro conservati vely placed between 50 and 01 per cent of thè total annual sales. Dealers. however. are not alarmed by thls shifting of tastes, as it merely cunfirms thè earlier convictions of a great number of them that thè trend of thè market would shortly favor thè closed or all-season models. Predlctions of dealers point to an (>ven larger percentage in favor of thè enolosed models for thè coming year. ard already are calling upon their manufacturers to schedule more of thls type on thè 1923 production program. The lighter types of care nave only rècently come lnto thè all-season market, some of thè older and moie expenslve cars having been engaged in closed car manufacturo for a number of yeare. This entrance lnto thè market of thè lighter type car slgnifet- thè accomplishment of a task legun qulte a few years ago to tmild a closed body at a prlce that would nmke it some what competitivo w.'ih open models.
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SURVEYREVEALS COODCjpiOH Reeves Speaks of Boom of ■ Motor Business for Year. A survey of motor car and truck in. dustries in iJichigan, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana by Alfred Reeves, generai manager of thè National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, completed this week, resulted in his statement today that thè automotive industry is enjoying a boofia of prosperity, thè like of which it has not experienced before. A 10 per cent increase over high figures for thè 1920 market is indicated in his report, which forecasts a continuation of thè swelling market lnto 1923. Mr. Reeves points to improved flnancial eonditions of many classes, particularly those engaged in thè farming industry, as holding promise for continued good business. Mr. Reeves commenta upon thè closed body shortage as thè limiting factor in thè winter production and as thè sure sign of thè times. Sudi shortage, he says, indicate* a demand and thè heed which manufacturers are givlng this emergency is indicative, he States, of thè faith of thè builder in thè market of tomorrow. SANTA MAY NEED SERVICES OF SEVERAL CHAUFFEURS Automobile Dealers Report Exeellent Sales for Holiday Presenta. Santa Claus may arriva In hts proverbiai sled and behlnd his trusty reindeers, but some of his presenta are expected to be brought by motor. according to announcements from several automobile factorles which repoit heavy demanda for deliveries this month in order to care for thè Christmas "trade.” One Packard dealer ls said to have notified thè factory that his entire Decomber aliotment was to be devoted to sales for Christmas presents, and other factories are speeding up production to meet thè holiday demand. Reminders Seventy per cent of thè cars produced sell at less than SI,OOO each. Ton per cent of thè automobiles produced this year were enclosed cars. Cars of seven natlons will be exhibitod at thè New York motor srUon, between Dee. 3 and 9. Forty per cent of automobile* stolen in twenty-elght "index” citles in 1921 have not been recovered. New vehicular tunnel under thè Hudson at New York ls destlned to accommodatc 30.000 vehicles a day. Canadian oustoms offlclals report a 600 per‘cent Increase of motor trafile lnto Canada. Gasoline is being made more volatile, says United States Bureau of Mines officiala. Nlnetv-seven per cent of automobile driver are careful, say lnepectors of thè Pennsylvania R&llroad, who checked more than 30,000 cars at grada crossi ngs in Ave States.
Come to STEINH ART’S for Your CHEVROLET Touring Car, $525 F. O. B. Flint, Michigan The touring car is thè car of thè American family. Eight, easy to handle, and easy to buy. Chevrolet Vada all in value. Eeonomy, bependability, enurance and beauty combiued in a car at a prlce ithin reach of all. Ve bave beén successful In thè automobile busi:ess because we have seryed our owner faithrilly. When you come to Steinharts for your Chevrolet you’ll leai’n why our business grows year by year. THE E. W. STEINH ART CO. MERIDIAN AT ELEVENTH "indiana’s Largest and Finest Sales and Service Institution”
Attention, Garages and Service Stations THE FISTON SERVICE COMPANY Are now ready to take caro of you in thè Motor Replacement Line. A complete line of Pistons, Pins and Rings, any oversize you may need. Also Bushlngs, Bearings and Valves for all makes of cars and trucks. On re-grìnding we can not be beat in price or workmanshlp. We will Guarantee our jobs to be within a half-thousandth limit. We are also equipped to align connecting rods at a very small cost. YOU si? FOR BETTER SERVICE PISTON SERVICE COMPANY of Indiana 442 N. Illinois St. Clrcle 0311 i •
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