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Show THE CITIZEN Make Your Motor Car A Sound Business, Investment automobile is an investment business principles are applied is the emphatic assertion of Marmon and W. K. Lovering, Lake Salt Mitchell distributor, City. The fundamental to a sound include: motor car investment a dealer whose policies render you honest service and hence the maximum efficiency from your car, and a manufacturer who not only honestly manufactures your car, but who places it on the market at a price carrying no inflation. The Lovering Cojnpany has long been known to the people of Salt Lake and vicinity for the excellency of its service. Its recognition of the obligation to customers is your assurance that Lovering at all times is more than anxious to enable you to secure the greatest operating efficiency from your car with the least possible expense. When service is requested, our constant endeavor is to always be able to place at your disposal, the facilities of a shop completely equipped and manned by the most capable workmen possible for us to employ. Nothing is more expensive or aggravating, than to have your car rendered unserviceable on account of the lack of a necessary part. Located as this city is, distant from the factory, the prospective customer should very careful YOUR -- investigate whether the distributing dealer carries an adequate stock of parts to place delays from this ly source at a minimum. The manufacturer of an automobile, in the true sense of 'the word, builds most of the units entering into the construction of the car in its own plant as against the assembler, who buys a motor here, an axle there, transmission elsewhere, and so on throughout the car. The Marmon 34 as well as the Mitchell ,are manufactured in large completely equipped plants, assuring the ultimate purchaser that the units of his car have been constructed under the personal supervision of the manufacturer, whose reputation will stand or fall on the inComdividual worth of each part. pared to the assembled car, whose producer has to depend largely on the and whose reputation is but slightly known in the final product, the value of a manufactured against an assembled car is clearly apparent at the outset. Economy of production is also effected by the manufacturer, since he includes in his price a centralized charge for overhead overhaul, against the charges of many plants which the assembler must include in his price. Consequently, it is not difficult to realize that the car of the conscien unit-mak- er mini uni mck 9 ilium tious manufacturer represents dollar for dollar value. Continuity of service is another large factor in the intrinsic value of the manufactured car, for in this case the final producer is also the maker and hence the owner, indefinitely of jigs, patterns and equipment to produce in after years a service part and thereby maintain the serviceability of his car. The unit maker producing for the assembler, finds little hesi-tenc- y in discarding patterns and jigs for parts no longer produced in volume, since his reputation is hardly at stake, consequently the assembler; sincere though his policies and inten tions may be, finds himself unable to supply the needed parts, and the serviceability of his car greatly diminished. Reliable motor car dealers will tell you that like all other property, an aift Your tomobile deprecites in value. own good sense shows you that the car sold by a responsible dealer and produced by a sound manufacturer, suffers a lesser depreciation. The fact that Marmon and Mitchell motor cars are sold by the Lovering Company is your assurance that these cars represent mavimum return per dollar of your motor car investment. , CHOOSE SHORTEST ROUTE article in the January, 1920, number of Successful Methods, a magazine devoted to the interests of road building and construction, sets forth the reasons- why the short and direct routes should be selected in planning highways. The author of the article is A. R. Hirst, State Highway. Engineer of Wisconsin. Among other things he says: It has been the custom, when building roads, to stick too closely to the old established lines. The costs of buying new land for right of ways, of building new cuts and fills, bridges, etc., have been considered too great to justify a selection of new and An - shorter routes. The present tendency is to select the shortest and best route and to make co&t of co 1C t ruct ion a secondary feature. The new traffic conditions are so different and so intense that in considering the construction of a main trunk highway all of the old governing considerations no longer bind us to the old locations. We must connect centers of population because they are the points from which things and persons come and to which they wish to go. Cost of construction has become secondary. If the very conservative sum of 10 cents per mile is allowed for each mile of travel saved, the saving of a mile in distance on highways carrying the following number of vehicles per day will save the traveling public the given amount per year, i iiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiii in t Enow OPENS MONDAY n At our own show rooms 53 West 4th South Streets we will display a full line of 1920 Buicks in attractive and spacious We will be open all day and each evening. surroundings. All of these cars have been rushed through from the factory for this private Buick show exclusively and are to be most advantageously displayed. Come to this biggest of Buick Shows. d The Buicks strength begins with the powerful motor and extends through the frame, body and wheels. valve-inhea- It is ii car of beauty every line of which brings to the eye the joy of symmetry and elegance. See the GMC Truck at the Auto Show At the Automobile Pavilion at Bonneville you will see, beautifully displayed, the two favorite GMC models the 4 and trucks. We can make 3-- 53 West 4th South immediate deliveries on the GMC trucks. 3-- 4, and 5-to- n on RAND ALL-DOD- D AUTO CO.. Ltd. Wasatch 4560 SALT LAKE CITY illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMIIIMIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIMIIII lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllin i;- - |