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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1929)
SUES FORCE BKDI'inElfl ! 1 I t i ' ) wssEoineEfJ! rA Spacious N(nv (tiiipe by Cliryclcr t. - - - i 1 1 . " - r - ' - - . Large Staff Heeded Because of - Public's. Interest Says Kirkwood, " ' -. ' Interest abwn,br pablic'ln too new Hupmoblle Centary r- s &ai' occasioned an enlargement f 'In the sales force ot'tlfe local of fice of the or gaalzaUon according - to an announcement made, Friday ' by Fred KJrkwood, local dealer. . .v '-o.;f. Fallm an, -who has been i identified r with Hapmobtle - for .-,trseTeral years as field salesman for - the organisation In tie northwest z l has come from the company head- . - charters at Portland to accept a ' position on the local staff. ; C. IX. Bell, who has been' am ployed by the Standard OH eom- - pany her 'or 11 Tears, has also , ' accepted a place on the Hup force ' . Mr. Bell has been contemplating '-".J entering the automobile business for some time, and after looking oyer the field, has decided upon Hapmoblle. ".'. . V Although .Hnpmoblle. has pic neered . the aatomotive Industry , for 'years,;; Increased demand, tor ijnupmoWles'"Jias led. the company. .-A- to organise a new; comprehensive service staff " which' will assure owners complete' serric lag -wher-4 ' over ttiey xnay" beV Mr. Fallman : said. ; Expert; mechanics win 1e selected by examination and will be Instructed, by the company so that they may keep in touch with , the latest derelopments. - Century Om Display . Rupmobile's . Century eights and sixes are on display at Salem "'headquarters. 111 N. Commercial street, and the dealers Invito the S'ablic'a inspection and Invite per ns to ask for demonstrations. - In a demonstration accorded the. Statesman representatlTo Fri day afternoon, Mr, Fallman took at a Century six and-sped along the highway at 76 miles per hour . with utmost ease and comfort to the occupants. Thecartoorthe - carves at CS and held the road fine. Traveling at '70, efficient .r : : " - - - The for-pKgerpUtrt addition ' . GlVlng- unqualfled .credit, to Richfleld-Ethyl gasoline and Rich lubo'PennsylTanla.inotor,:oll for their perfect, performance under the severe stiln, Ikldie Fuuen, nationally;: known: auto . engineer and former ace of the speedways, this week reviewed at Los Lngeles the recent record-smashing ; see? ondrgear runTinadoifromBollyt f wood to Bishop; Calif.. In a stock model DeSoto six sedan. - ' rTkl4 total of tit miles, non stop, In second gear, an average elapeed time of 40.S9 miles per hoar, establishes' a, new, world's record "" lor ; sustained travel in second gear," - declared pullen. who piloted the car on its sensa- tionaf run.--" v ' T ' vntttif ttA' rnmoiw)iAAI -if w mmw ' w avsuvuiv .4. vaabw i us : was equivalent to over 7Z miles per hour, had "we ben trav eling in high gear. The Rlchlubo motor oil gave perfect lubrication; the RIchfield-Ethyl gasoline gave us the unfailing '.power and speed necessary to set so high, an aver age la Intermediate gear." " brakes 'Stopped . the '-ear- without jikldding it an vnx&txW: short space. . - The car. ' is exceptionally well balancedL.-. v:- ' . Mr.FJrkwood'a'ndvMrV FaUman are " enthusiastic over the outlook for 'Hupmpbile in the local- field. and Invito persons'. to, come in and discuss Hupmoblle's. new features with them." ' ,r ' Most of the haulage by motor truck is less than 100 miles. . ' In California 11- per cent of ' the truck operation Is for more than 100 miles, but in most states 95 per cent of. the truck haulage is for less thihithfat distance. Joins UcKtfy Fowo Mel - P. Brown. Is . the latest addition to the McKay sales force. . He , y formerly of Portland. , 'L . ? Motor bus and truck lines In North Carolina cover 1,000 miles of state hjghway, giving dally and sometimes hourly service. - ' Healthy Business Condition i Prevails Opiriidh of John s Willy ofWillys Overland . TOLEDO, Ohio, .March M. John N. Willys, president of the Willys-Overland company, en his return - hero , from California, where he spent a month on busi ness, declared thatmever before In the entire history of the com pany has It faced such a healthy business condition as exist .at present. - . Mr. Willys was enthusiastic over the reception accorded the new lines of .Whippet fours and sixes,' both on the part of the dealer organisation and the buy ing public. New line Popular .. "Our new lines," he said, "are " j .' . w IS We Just Love to -Fix Em 2 - , v .... . ; South' -. Cosnl t MI TIRE SERVICE ''RUSS" SMITH by far the most popular over In. trodaeed by as. This Is reflected in the record afilpmenta of 04.S1S cars tn January and ' February which are more than doublo the shlpmenU In the tarn twd months of last year. This has been in the faeeref severe winter ha all parts pf the -country and-maybe taken as a barometer of the In creased business that lies ahead when fair weather breaks. ; "We are now employing 22,000 workers at our Toledo plant which of course' means a great dally out put of both Whippets and Willys-Knights.- v V - Mr. Willys said that in the past five weeks he has called on scores of Willys-Overland dealers and declared that, the sales, volume of the company's new products more than Justifies' the plans for IS 29 which call for the 'greatest pro duction of motor ears In the his tory of the company. . Commenting on the progress of the new Willys-Overland assem bly plant which ; was recently opened in Los Angeles,- he said that production already is well over 70 cars a day and that April car building, schedules in the coast plant will . reach 120 cars dally. - "Business In California in Feb ruary was three times greater than It over has been before," he said. "I look for a still greater increase tn that territory because of the operation of our plant there, Five thousand coal miners are employed anually In 'digging the luel consumed." by. automobile manufacturing plants. : The average life ol m motor ve hicle is seven years , . TOPI DEUVEIir VBIICLES Hudson Motor Car. 'eoaapany maker of Hndson and Essex cap, has completed plans' to .launeh a lino of light delivery commercial vehicles, with bodies specially de-' signedjto. meet. the requirements of the chief users of a carrier of this type.", Bodies 'win be mount It is announced that the line will be introduced about July, and win be marketed through .the present Hudson and Essex dis tributor and' dealer organisation. Hudson's dealer fatally, it is said, has been expanding with note worthy rapidity since the first of the year and covers the country moro intensively than at any pre vious time in the company's his tory. The Hudson management felt Its selling organization would appreciate the' added sales - op portunity offered by the new pro-duet. County Dealers Here Fred Cavender of Sllverton, and HoIIIs S. Smith of Dallas, were visitors at. the State Motors Friday.' They were ; very - optimistic for " the spring season in their communi ties. t Both , handle the Hudson Essex' lines. 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