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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1922
Page
4
Frank Noblitt, ex United Motor Company salesman and longtime prominent truck dealer, aligns himself with the Barber-Warnock group in a move signaling new support and strategic backing for their efforts.
A narrative recounts a journey involving a traveler in Tennessee facing heavy rains and bad roads ahead in Mississippi. The secretary of the Hoosier State Automobile Association and the Hoosier Motor Club left last week on a logging trip toward New Orleans, received at Claypool Hotel headquarters. The pathfinder led several days ahead of schedule upon reaching Nashville.
The second annual Indiana Automotive Trades Association convention at the Claypool Hotel drew many dealers, accessory vendors, and garage men. D. C. Barnett summarized the year and outlined the association's path forward while J. Cooper Props presided. C A Vane warned on used car risks and market wasteful competition. A banquet featured Colin Campbell of Chevrolet delivering the principal address.
The Studebaker Motor Corporation opened a factory branch at 832 N. Meridian St in the Sterling Motor Company quarters. W J Owens is retail branch manager and George Mand wholesale representative. L O Youckey and B W Baldwin assist. The branch will handle Studebaker products exclusively with two models on display and a full line of parts and accessories to follow.
In Pomeroy Ohio on December 15 the largest violin insurance policy to date was issued to J B Downing. The instrument belonged to his father the late J B Downing famed as the fiddling pilot noted by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi. Twain, who was cub pilot under Downing, spoke of their friendship. The violin has stayed in the Downing family for about seventy years.
Fourteen Hoosier factory models will be shown at the New York national automobile show January 6 to 13 alongside sixty seven other leading makes. Twenty three models are being built for display and engineers have worked six weeks to prepare them. Alfred Reeves says the exhibit will feature many accessory displays and notes a shift toward closed body, year round, utility cars.
W. M. Buck of the Dort Motor Company, Flint, Mich., spends the week at Buck Sales Company to organize sales for the Dort Six. He returns from the Los Angeles show where the car models were shown for the first time and trains local salesmen for an immediate campaign. He explains the car’s oil system a force feed for all bearings.
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