Dealers May Sponsor Big Auto Show Next Season
Quincy trade center area intends to stage a major automobile show next season with most city dealers participating. Recent display at the Lesser building boosted optimism, suggesting 75 cars from multiple makes could draw about 75,000 attendees, with space allocation by lot or proportional to location. Industry analysis notes business use of half of the 3,000,000 U S cars and foresees steady demand and rising prices to offset costs.
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Tampshire Street
Armory
East End
Quincy Trade Center
Quincy
Illinois
Missouri
United States
Automobile Market: 7 Million Prospective Car Buyers
Analysis divides buyers into rural and urban classes with 7,000,000 potential prospects. Rural farm families total 4,000,000. urban owners with cars number 2,000,000, leaving 3,000,000 urban prospects. The combined market suggests about 7.8 million buyers in 1917 for a 1.6 million car build in 1918, with conservative factors noted.
Fifty-Two Cars in Half Hour From Toledo Factory
Leaton Irwin, manager of the local Overland business, says the shipment of fifty-two cars from Toledo last Thursday shows this is not an exception but about half an hour of the plant’s output. He notes daily production nears a thousand cars, with shipments sometimes a train load of one model. Toledo’s advantage comes from extensive railroad facilities and numerous trunk lines serving the Overland plant there.
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Leaton Irwin
Toledo
Chicago
Kansas City
New York City
Detroit
Overland Company
Plunger spindle vacuum aids carburetor fix
A carburetor issue forms vacuum in the plunger guide as the valve closes, causing leaks that are hard to locate. These leaks can be cured by drilling a tiny hole in the cap over the check valve.
Louis Disbrow Builds Two New Race Cars
Louis Disbrow, veteran dirt track and speedway driver, displays two racing cars built by him for this season. The machines use T-head Wisconsin motors rated at 60 and 90 horsepower respectively for on track use.
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Louis Disbrow
Wisconsin Motors
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