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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1926
Page
3
Dealers report unprecedented interest as the Willys Knight Seventy sedan lists at 1495 dollars. Visitors praise its sleeve valve design and European styling while Willys-Overland engineers emphasize a rigid, economical chassis with a heavy pressed steel frame and reinforced radiator support for smooth, strong on road performance.
Records show 680 Chevrolet dealers and service stations spent less than $5 per car on repairs and adjustments during the 90 day factory guarantee. Only 15 percent of owners returned for adjustments, while inspectors ensuring precision to one ten thousandth inch keep maintenance costs down. A dedicated network of inspectors and a super checking group report to Chevrolet’s engineering division to monitor performance.
Jar W. Barber, a 17 year veteran of Peerless Motor Car Co in Cleveland, has been appointed General Sales Director of Towell Cadillac Co. He will base headquarters in Cleveland and has long supervised a large dealer network. Towell Cadillac, established in 1912, maintains a wide Ohio distributorship with HW. M. Andress & Son as local dealers.
The River Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Company, long named for the river, is renamed Fordson Plant under direction from Edsel B. Ford. The nearby town of Springwells, now Fordson, hosts the change as the facility expands with blast furnace, motor plant, body shop, mills, coal and cement operations.
A 1920s report stresses that traffic safety is everyone’s problem due to rising motor use from 13 000 to 20 000 000, urging collective effort across federal state municipal and private sectors including AAA and railway and trolley companies to reduce danger and improve highway safety.
Engineers and students of trattiny problems. It is hard to imagine a more thoroughly representative group. Such a gathering makes possible a procedure that will have its influence in the great cities, as well as in the rural hamlets. The men who like the income, who make an income by collecting it.
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