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Show H : MOTOR MOTIONS One of the largest deals in the history of the Hf automobile industry of the country was made Hf public a week ago, when J. P. Morgan & Com-By Com-By i pany, of New York, announced that in accordance H ; with an agreement with the stockholders of the Hp Studebaker Brothers company, the banking firm Hi had purchased all of the stock of the Everitt-Hj Everitt-Hj Metzger-Flanders company, of Detroit, manufac-H manufac-H turers of the E-M-F-30 cars, not already owned by Hf the members of the Studebaker firm. The price H paid for the 64 per cent of the Detroit company's HJ stock bought for the Studebakers, was nearly H $5,000,000. Mr. Walter E. Flanders, president and H' general manager of the E-M-F company, will re-K re-K Ihaln with the firm in the same capacity for a B period of three years, and litigation between the j Studebaker firm and the big Detroit company over Hi the cancellation by President Flanders of the sell-H sell-H ing agreement between the two companies is to H b"e terminated, and beginning immediately the H E-F-M-30 cars will again be sold to the motor-H motor-H buying public by the Studebaker company, the H t cars being manufactured in the great factory H they have come from in the past, in Detroit. H The deal is of great importance locally, from B the fact that the Studebaker company has done H much to popularize the E-M-F cars in Salt Lake, Hj ' and up to the time when negotiations were broken Hf off between the parent Studebaker company and H the makers of the E-M-F, a large number of the Hi t cars had been sold here. Manager C. A. Quigley, Hj of the local Studebaker company, is now in the Hi 'east, perfecting arrangements for pushing the Hj i sale of E-M-F cars throughout the intermountain HI states this season. The cars are beyond doubt Hj among the best in their class now on the Amer-Hj Amer-Hj ican market, and it is understood great plans are Hj " afoot for .their future manufacture and for the Hj j manufacture of Studebaker automobiles in gen-Hi gen-Hi eral; for if one may judge from the incorporation H at Albany, New York, on March 9th, of the Stude-HI Stude-HI i baker Vehicle company of New York, with a capi-H capi-H tal of $8,600,000, the Studebaker people are going HI to lead the automobile manufacturing procession. HI The new eight-million-dollar company is incorpor-HI incorpor-HI ated to manufacture automobiles and other ve-H ve-H hides and supplies. 1 HI The consolidation of the L. J. Gilmer company H and the Utah Motor Car company having been HI effected and the business of the two companies HI handled under the Utah Motor Car company's HI name, Mr. L. J. Gilmer, manager of the big con-Hi con-Hi cern, is going ahead rapidly with his plans for HI the season. Until the company's new garage HI sales room and automobile supply department in H the new State street building is completed, head-H head-H quarters for the concern will remain at 225 West H Temple street, where models of the American, H Packard, Cadillac and Detroit Electrics are on Hj view and in readiness for demonstrating purposes. H The company reports the following sales of H Cadillac "30's" the past week: one to C. A. Doyle, H one to Russell Tracy, and one to Mary E. Gilmer. H Two American Travelers will be delivered to Mr. H Gilmer early in April, and eight Cadlllac-"30's" H will reach the company the last week of this H month. M H The Botterill company received another big H shipment of cars Thursday of this week, includ- H ing a 6-cylinder 36-horsepower Pierce Arrow for H T. Regan, of Boise, and a 6-cylinder 48-horsepower H Pierce for Mr. D. F. Walker, of S'alt Lake. The B' shipment also includes two 45 horsepower Pope- H Hartford cars, one a beautiful grey miniature ton- H nqau model, and the other a touring car, finished H in red. Among the sales of the week reported H by Manager Frank Botterill, of the company, is H a Stevens Duryea to W. P. Noble, a Chalmers De- H troit to C. II. Rellly, and one to J. H. Beifuss; H a Hudson to J. Fred Daynes, and a 7-passenger 6-cylinder 48-horsepower Pierce Arrow tour ng car to A. Mays. H. Heiner has purchased a 6-cylinder 6-cylinder 48-horsepower Pierce 7-passenger touring tour-ing car as well. Among the sales of Hudsons of the Botterill company are those to Drs. Wherry, and Sprague, and to A. S. Spauldlng, all of Salt Lake. The record the Consolidated Wagon & Machine Ma-chine company has made since the first of the year in the sales of Velie motor cars in and about Salt Lake and the intermountain states, is one of the most remarkable in the history of the business busi-ness locally. The company has sold fifty thousand dollars' worth of cars in the time mentioned, and from all indications before the end of the season will have disposed of more Velies than any other firm in the country handling that make of car outside of possibly New York. The company's clever stunt of driving a Velie-40 Velie-40 to the top of Ensign peak a week ago has drawn no little attention to the car, and this has been enhanced, if anything, by a challenge issued early this week by another dealer that the Velie did not get to the top of Ensign. The company posted a one-thousand-dollar bet that the car could do the trick again, and at this writing everyone seems willing to let it go at that. The Bertram Motor Supply company moved into its new building at 151 South State street early in the week, and is now doing business in one of the finest and most modern and completely . equipped motor supply establishments to be found outside of Chicago. Mr. Bertram has spared neither pains nor expense to make his sales room a model of convenience and comfort, and he is carrying an enormous stock. It has proved something some-thing of a venture to put in so extenshe and expensive ex-pensive a business as the Bertram's, but from the interest motor car owners are exhibiting, It will shortly develop into one of the biggest lines of its kind in the west. The company will have its formal opening early next week, when the public pub-lic will receive a general invitation to visit the new store. |