Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1950 — Page 62
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Car Shorioges Bri 7 Record Post-War Sales *
Year to Big
Waiting Lists Lengthen in Five Lines; Chrysler Strike Called Key to Pull
By THE TIMES
CAR SHORTAGES are piling up in the. biggest post-|
war sales year of all.
wo The- waiting lists are longest in five lines—prineipally : Chevrolet, Ford, 88 Olds, Cadillac and Buick. And there's
a heavy pull on the others.
The Chrysler strike, on since ‘Jan. 25, seems to have
done the trick, along with re-| organized methods of mer-
chandising, fewer hung-on ac-| cepsories, better trade-ins and stronger selling organizations, | There is a code of ethics among auto dealers which is making itself felt in the car shortage. Dealers could easily steal Chrysler customers, but, generally, they do not. There are in-| stances where competing dealers, actually encourage Chrysler owners to wait for the end of the switch lines.
still. avoided.
Plenty of Parts oWN ERS are ay. One -of the rysler-is that
fortunate in\ ironclad rules when a new model is Brought out parts are ware for ten years, so there is little ‘trouble, reported in getting, Chrysler parts. That keeps the old Chrysler products running until new ones start rolling off the line
again. ‘The big companies are fighting hard to keep dealers from| loading cars with accessories. This earned a lot of ill will just after the war. It was the old
* tie-in sale and it gave the acces-
sory business such a spin as it bad never seen before. - | Today, dealers are lpoking
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ahead. They want to bank good
will along with dollars, 80 ther Meridian Pontiac Opens New
{give the customer. a. break trying. to hold his business for the hard) years they feel sure will come.
THE BANKS are pretty well out of financing or floor-planning, and have been for some time. A couple of Indiana banks had losses financing they hive gradu withdrawn | [from thé business. } Finance\ companies \do it now. {They know the business\and they| know the, Bowers. hey seldom lose. op Bootlggging has su
ided after
ithe brexkup of the ring which
operated Qut of Ft. Wayne, New cars were\ brought down from Michigan to\¥t. Wayne where the bootleggers ated over their stenographer’s élephone. The bootleg business made largely by overstocked Ws they. take in. These have to be| {under-financed dealers who run|sold for other trade-ins, about] their new cars out the back door|four times before the dealer gets at. a markdown. {down to the junker. That means The Michigan tax division four or five sales to sell a new
| Pennsylvania, Sts. opened last we
nipped the ring along with the car, and the dealer doesn't al-|.
Indiana Gross Income Tax Divi-|ways make money when he adds sion and the State Police. It is/in his reconditioning costs. ! understood that the federal gov-| LINCOLN-MERCURY is hold-| ernment also is going over thel/ing a series of two-day clinics. on 00ks to see that Uncle Sam got appearance reconditioning and] his share of the profits. | used car selling which dove- tails!
Five Sales for - One {with the current number one
| {dealer problem. BIGGEST HEADACHE to new | pl JRY is going siroes
car dealers is still the used cars| mpe assembly plant at Metuchen, | iN. J. is on a two-shift basis. It] iis the first time in more than ten years. Mercury is one of the | hottest cars in the middle price | range. FORD is putting out the word! that it is the number one car lin Indianapolis sales since the
. » . Your Frigidaire i first of the year and Henry Ford II recently predicted that he KASPER ! would pass Chevrolet on a coun-
try-wide basis by 1952, PONTIAC this week will an-| 'nounce the names of more than 500 dealers’ parts and accessories merchandising managers who won awards in Pontiac's “Belt lof Champions” contest. BUICK'S sales were running 82! | per cent above last year in the! early part of April. Dealers sold {19,344 units during the ten-day period. CHEVROLET'S survey of high | school drivers in training courses revealed that backing into a! | parking pace along the curb is {the hardest maneuver in driving.
More than 150 chiropractors and their wives will attend the] {annual spring convention of the Indiana Bureau of Chiropratics in the Hotel Washington next | Sunday. Dr. Vinton F. Logan, St. Louis, | Mo., president of the Logan Basic College of Chiropractics, will be
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one of the principal speakers on all-day program. Other Dr. Francis J. Fitzgerald, Bloomington; Dr. G. Rawl Anderson, |Ft. Wayne; Dr. Roy J. Laven(good, Kokomo; Dr. Carlton F. Carey, Anderson; Dr. Robert W. Ticen, Beech Grove; George R. Rinier, Indianapolis attorney and general counsel for the Internaitional Chiropractors Association, land Dr. C. F. Aumann, Indian-| |apolis, member of the Board of| Registration and Examination of Indiana. Dr. Ralph L. Agnew, Indianapolis, president, will open the convention at 10 a. m.
'Near-Record Earnings Reported by Du Pont
WILMINGTON, Del, Apr. 29 | (UP) E. I. Du Pont de Nemours i & Co., Inc, today reported peak isales and near-record earnings) for the first quarter of the year. Consolidated net income for the three months ended Mar, 31, jamounted to $54,510,004 or $1.15 a share on common stock, compared with $43,581,325 or 91 cents a share earned a year earlier, This net was next to the largest {quarterly return in the company’s {history—exceeded only by the! $77,677,416 or $167 a share learned in the final 1949 quarter when Du Pont’s income from {ts | holdings of General Motors stock {was swelled by a year-end extra | | declaration. : |
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Speakers Named | Two States fo Study Ever Offered For 8 M ° eting ‘Hoosier Police Methods
Indiana state police methods {will be studied this week by Sgt. {John C. Holl of the Washington {State Patrol and Officer Harlan {L. Freeden of the Minnesota [Highway Patrol. The visit is part {of the course in traffic police ad|ministration at the Northwestern University Traffic Institute. Sgt. Max R. Branch of the Indiana state police and Patrolman | Jack Arthur of the Indianapolis police department also are at- : tending the course. Sgt. Branch! will visit the Connecticutt state] Dr. Perkins Dr. Potts n5)ice and Patrolman Arthur the Dr. James E. Perkins of New| Columbus, O., police department’
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