Telephone Officials Compare Car Ownership to Phone Use in Indiana
Indiana licenses show 415,400 passenger cars and 57,200 trucks since Jan 1 while telephones total 439,000 in use statewide. The report notes growth in auto licenses from 1913 onward and claims Indiana’s 1922 auto business was the best in the industry with about 1,000 licenses issued daily May through Sept.
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Indiana
State Automobile Licensing Department
Indiana Bell Telephone Company
What Will Your Next Motor Be
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce surveyed over 20 000 motorists nationwide asking why they prefer open or closed models. Early results show a strong market shift toward closed cars and factories plan major production revisions for 1923.
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National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Mrs Noblet Embarks On Southern Logging Tour
Mrs Margaret Noblet wife of M E Noblet secretary and manager of the Hoosier Motor Club leaves Monday on a logging tour of the Jackson Highway Despite bad weather the journey aims to aid rehabilitation of the highway below the Mason Dixon Line She travels in the Cole Eight pathfinder car she has already driven 60000 miles
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Margaret Noblet
M. E. Noblet
Hoosier Motor Club
Jackson Highway
New Orleans
Mason-Dixon Line
Noblet
Trucker Crashes Kill Man Jumping From Overturned Vehicle
Elmer Blue of Kalamazoo Michigan, 38, died when he leaped from an overturning truck and was pinned. Driver John Terberger stayed at the wheel and was unhurt.
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South Bend
Ind
Elmer Blue
Kalamazoo
Mich
John Terberger
Lafayette to employ 800 men at Milwaukee plant
Ben W. Twyman of Nash Motor announces a new Lafayette factory in Milwaukee will house between 0 and 1,000 workers by March 1, 1922, with operation shifting from Indianapolis after January 1, 1922. The Nash purchase ends Lafayette’s Indianapolis plant, a valued product line for the city and state. The Lafayette firm produced 1,200 cars during its Indianapolis era, seen as a success by dealers and owners.
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Ben W. Twyman
Nash Motor Company
Milwaukee
Lafayette Motor Company
Indianapolis
Lafayette
Nash
The
Fifty Young Men to Enter Free Sales Training Class
One hundred fifty applicants at Willys-Overland Company Michigan Street and Capitol Avenue seek entry to a free salesmanship training program led by W. D. Chambers who arrives from Washington to oversee door sales for the firm. James W. Boyd is general manager. Fifty applicants are selected to begin instruction next Monday night, Dec. 11.
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Willys-Overland Company
Michigan St
Capitol Ave
W. D. Chambers
Washington, D. C
James W. Boyd
Watch and Motor Compared as Marvels of Mechanism
Robert E. Jack of Olds Motor Works compares a watch and an automobile. He notes a watch ticks 60 times a minute and 630,720,000 times in twenty years, while an Olds eight at 60,000 miles produces 642,600,000 explosions in seven months, more than the watch ticks in twenty years.
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Robert E. Jack
Olds Motor Works
Olds
Two Trucks Set Speed Records Between Chicago and Washington
Announcement from Washington reports two trucks set speed records. A GMC truck carried the President's Thanksgiving turkey on a 825 mile journey from Chicago to Washington in 37 hours 34 minutes at 22 mph on average. A REO speed wagon completed 801 miles from Chicago to the White House in 27 hours 48 minutes, lighter and with fewer passengers. Both faced snow sleet and mountain travel but were considered gratifying by the manufacturers.
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GMC
Harding
Reo
White House
Washington
Chicago
Indianapolis
Movies Promised for Fourteenth Annual Motor Show
Hoosier motor fans will glimpse the Madison Square Gardens event in New York City from January 8 to 11 through moving pictures. The program will also include a style congress as part of the motor show coverage.
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Madison Square Gardens
New York City
Women Drive Car Purchases Here Say Dealers
Indianapolis dealers report women are the primary buyers of motor cars with daughters preferring closed models. The 1922 closed car demand is expected to reach 50 to 60 percent of sales in the city, with forecasts for even higher closed model shares in 1923 as manufacturers shift production accordingly.
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Milady
America
Nasmuch
Indianapolis
Survey Reports Boom in US Auto Industry Across Midwest
Alfred Reeves of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce says the automotive industry in Michigan Illinois Ohio and Indiana is booming with a 10 percent rise over 1920 figures and expects continued growth into 1923. He cites improved farm sector finances and notes the closed body shortage as a winter production limit and a sign of strong demand.
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Michigan
Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
Alfred Reeves
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Reeves
Santa may need services of several chauffeurs
Santa Claus may arrive in his pro verbial sled and behind his trusty reindeers, but some of his presents are expected to be brought by motor, according to announcements from several automobile factories which report heavy demands for deliveries this month in order to care for the Christmas trade. One Packard dealer is said to have notified the factory that his entire December allotment was to be devoted to sales for Christmas presents, and other factories are speeding up production to meet the holiday demand.
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Santa Claus
Packard
New York Motor Salon to Exhibit Cars from Seven Nations
News notes that seven nations will exhibit cars at the New York motor salon from December 3 to 9. The item also mentions a Hudson tunnel to handle 60 000 vehicles daily and other automotive statistics from the era.
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New York Motor Salon
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Eveready
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Room of Motor Business
Hudson
New York
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United States Bureau of Mines
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Manifold
Riinois St
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Meridian
Eleventh
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Illinois St
Circle
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Lincoln
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