Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1922 — Page 12

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WATCH USED CHI DEM E General Manager of Automobile Dealers’ Association Sounds Warning. AUTO MEN HOLD MEETING Dealers Meet and Discuss Problems of Great Interest to Trade. The seeond annua] convention of thè Indiana Automotive Trades Association. held at thè Claypool Hotel Tuesday. was a distinct success in every particular. accordio, g to D C. Barnett. secretary-manager of thè organization. A largo number of dealers accessory vendors and garage men from out State were In attendance and generai discussione of business problems confror.ting thè trades resulted in thè solution of m&ny vexing problems. J. Cooper Props of Muneie. president of thè organization. presided at thè sessions, which were held in thè nalm room. D. C. Barnett gave a summary of thè year's work and polnted thè way for thè future of thè organization. Charles Watkins of Muneie former govemor of Rotary Clubs. talked on thè subject "He Protits Most Wtao Serves Best.” a very enlightening address on cooperation between dealer and thè public. C. A Vane, generai manager of thè National Automobile Dealers Association. delivered a very spirited address at thè aftemoon Pession. in which he called attention to thè dangers which surrounds thè trades in used cars. and asked dealers to exercise greater i are in all transaetions involving thè second-hand car. and pointed to thè fact that there are too many manufacturers of as well as dealers In cars. and that thè high competition. wlth lts eonsequent inflated overhead. was proving thè “Waterloo” of many good companies. He made thè statement that 90 per cent of all thè automobiles manufactured in thè United States were thè Products of fifteen factories. while thè remaining 10 per cent were made in 100 factories. He said his duties called him to many cities throughout thè Nation. and it had been hb obeervar.ee that in many towns where ten dealers could'easily supply thè community wlth necessarv cars he had sound as many as thirty. all trading heavily in used cars. Thls condition he denounced as economlcally wasteful. The meeting discussed thè used car proposition thoroughly and went into thè matter of legislation at thè Corning General Assemblv, at which time a tax levy on gasoline used in motor vehicles will be proposed and inevease of thè license fees will be asked In a separate bill in thè process of belng framed. A banquet was held in thè Kiley room at 7 o'clock in thè evening. at which Colin Campbell, generai manager of thè Chevrolet Motor Company who was in Indianapolis attending thè Chevrolet dealers’ convention, deliv ered thè Principal address.

SEDAN I At the new low price the Ford Sedan will give you even greater value than ever before. It provides enclosed car comfort in a dependable, quality product at a minimum cost. Your order placed now will insure reasonably prompt delivery. Terms if desired.

FRANK NOBLITT JOINS BARBER-WARNOCK FORCES Will Become Industriai and Transportation Manager. Frank Noblitt, formerly of thè United Motor Company’s sales force and for a number of years a prom inent truck salesman, has ldentifled bimself with thè Barber-Warnock

v '/A Company. 813 to 822 E. Washington St.. dealer in Ford and Lincoln cars. Mr. Noblitt will become industriai and transportation manager for which his years of training bave best quipped him.

STUDEBAKER BRANCH OPENED ON MERIDIAN Factory' RepresentaHves Are He re j Establishirig New Quarters. The Studebaker Motor Corporation ■ of South Bend has opened a factory | branch in thè quarters formerly oc- i cupied by thè Sterling Motor Com- ! pany, 832 N. Meridlan St., which Is tn be in charge of W. J. Owens, retai! j branch manager, and George Mander. Wholesale representative. L. O. Youckey and S. W. Baldwin of thè fac tory are assisting in establishing thè branch which will handle thè Studebaker produci excluslvely. Two models bave been placed on display and others are heing sent to com- j plete thè line and a full line of parts j and accessorie.® will be carried, Mr. ; Owens announces. ‘FIDDLING PILOTS' VIOLIN IS INSURED FOR SIO.OOO POMEROY, Ohio. Dee. 15.—Wliat is said to be thè largest Insurance | policy ever issued on a violin tvas lssued to J. B. Downlng, who insured thè instrument of his fafher, thè late J. B. Downing. for SIO,OOO. It was with thls violin that thè elder Down ing won fame as thè "flddiing pllot." I recorded by Mark Twain in his "Lise on thè Mississippi.” Twain served as a cub pilot under Mr. Downing. In- j timate friendship developed between | thè men. The violin has been in thè Downing family for nearly seventy ; years.

14 HfIDSIER CARS ENTEREDINSHDW 200,000 Visitors to See Indiana Products at N. Y. Exhibition. The produets of fourteen Hoosier automobile factories will be displayed before an estiniated crowd of 200,000 visitors at thè national automobile show in New York City Jan. 6 to 13. along with those of slxty-seven other natlonally known motor vehicles. according to announcement by thè show officiala In New York City today. Those which will be displayed are Apperson, Cole. Durant. Elcar. H. C. S.. Haynes. Lafayette, Lexington. MeFarlan. National, Marmon, Pilot, Studebaker and Stutz. Engineering departments of Hoosier factories bave been humming for thè past six weeks in construction of thè li'23 models to be displayed at thè New T York and Chicago show. The public, like thè dealers. is watching for thè announcenients of policy and price and awaiting thè display of thè new models with intense interest. The number of accessory concems which will have displays at thè ex bibition. says an announcement is thè largest in thè history of thè event and promise to hold unusual attrae tion to thè throngs that wdll visit thr Grand Palace during thè show. Alfred Reeves. generai manager of thè National Automobile Chambcr of Commerce, has taken occasion :o com mi-nt upon thè number of closed moti elp that will be displayed as an un mistakable indication of thè trend o* thè motor market toward thè year round and utility models He polnts to thè present closed body shortage as another indication of thè adoprion of thè closed models by a large num ber oscar ow r ners as thè "eventua, car.”

11RT EIINEER PAYSCITTVISIT Merits of New Six-Cylinder Explained to Locai Salesmen. W. M. Buck. factory sales englneei of thè Dori Motor Company of Flint. Mtch., has been spendlng thè week at thè Buck Sales Company. 313 N Pennsylvania St.. In thè interest of organization work for thè sale of th.new Dort Six. w’hich thè Buck Com pany has aequlred in additlon to thè Chandler line. Mr. Buck has just retumed from thè Pacific eoast, where he attended thè Los Angeles show, at which thi new Dort models were displayed foi thè first lime. He is lnstructing thè locai salesmen for r sales campai gn to be started immedlately. Mr. Buck has been explaining to them thè merits of thè oli System of thè car. It is of a new type of force feed for all bearings through thè crankshaft. thè pressure of which is regulated by thè load heing ltnposed by automatic regulation. lndependent of thè speed. by being connected with thè gasoline throttle.

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MRS. NOBLET WIRES SHE IS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE Word from Mrs. M. E. Noblet, wife

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of the secretary of the Hoosier State Automobile Association and the Hoosier Motor Club, who depart A last week on a logging trip of the Jackson Highway to New Orleans, re-

eelved at the club’s headquarters at the Claypool Hotel, was of a very encouraging nature. The pathfinder was severa! days ahead of her schedule upon her arrirval in Nashville,

Tenn., and had experienced no trouble with her car. Heavy rains had been encountered in Tennessee and bad roads were expected in Miseissippl and

Come to STEINH ART’S for your CHEVROL E T Sedanette, SBSO F. O. B. Flint, Michigan A roomy fonr-passenger body built by Fisher—the world’s master body builder. Mounted on the sturdy Chevrolet chassis. This combination brings beauty, comfort, economy and dependability in a greater measare than ever before oSered thè motorlng pnhlic. Then. too, thene's Steinhart service back of yottr car. What a comfort it is to know that at any lime you can get prompt and efflcient Service. —THE— E. W. STEINHART CO. MERIDIAN AT ELEVENTH "Indiana’* Largest and Flneat Salea and Service Institutlon'’

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Louisiana, but Mrs. Noblet gave no indication in her lettera of any dlacouragement and reported success in rehabiiitation work.