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Show CHEVROLET KEEPS PRODUCING FASTER FIGURES FOR 1928 FAR ABOVE 1927 DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 8 With thousand.-; of the now Chevrolet sixes daily being placed in the hands of owners, Chevrolet Motor company announced an-nounced officially here yesterday that production for the first ten and a half months of 192S equalled 1,200,000 units. This fiirure, it was said, represented rep-resented an increase of 180,000 units over 1027, the best previous year. Month after month of last year j found Chevrolet shattering all former form-er production marks- Its all time record rec-ord for monthly output occurred in May, when 1 10,775 units were produced. produc-ed. May stood out in the Chevrolet calendar also because it included the greatest single day's output in the company's K, years of history. Seven thousand and seventy-five cars and trucks, completely finished, rolled off Chevrolet assembly lines May 28. Sixes Rouse Enthusiasm Coincident with the announcement of 1!)2'S production figures, Chevrolet officials at the New York Automobile Automo-bile Show last week, were viewing with interest the continued enthusiasm enthusi-asm that the crowds bestowed on the new sixes. Sevoral ranking officials reiterated the statement made a few weeks ago by W. S. Knudscn, president, presi-dent, that 1029 production would equal at least 1,250,000 units. One of the saliente tributes paid Chevrolet by visiting automhile men at the show involved the company's remarkable evolution from four cylinder to six cylinder production in the short space of a few weeks. Today all nlno of Chevrolet assembly plants are rapidly rapid-ly adjusting themselves to take care of peak schedules. Thirty-Five Sales Meets For the fourth time in as many years the sales department of Chevrolet Chev-rolet at this time is sponsoring its annual scries of nation-widf sales nicetinr.s. The first of the series, will lie extended to include !15 cities, opened yesterday in New York. Three crews, .carl composed of five men, all factory executives, will conduct the meetings. It i" the purpose of the meetings to enablo the Chevrolet (! ler organization, numbering over 1),I)00 dealers, to hear from the lips of the company's sales heads the complete com-plete I:i2!l sales program. |