Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-15 | Page 53 | Automobile Insurance Men Favor Studebaker

AUTOMOBilE INSURANCE MEN FAVOR STUDEBAKER P Pick Car From m Many Offered for Use r in n Contest Where Safety Was Sole Factor Automobile Insurance protecting the owners of care car against t accident robber robbery robbery rob rob- ber bery and other hazards U Is now a R. highly highly high high- high ly Iy specialized ed business busine s More than 0 20 fo- claim s artS are passed on dally daily by tho the officers of or the seventy-four seventy accident Insurance companies companies l making up what Is known as the Detroit conference Records on on which rates ats are arc based rival In degree of or completeness those accumulated accumulated accumulated In many years of life insurance Insurance ance history Ono One of ot the tho mo most t Interesting tables furnished the conference at Its annual meeting In Detroit a tow row days ago showed tho the percentage e and variety of accidents arranged according to the tho various makes ts of ot motor cars Strenuous efforts were vere made by several several several sev sev- eral manufacturers to secure ecu re this ta tabla ta- ta ble blo It was readily whose appreciated d that th tho manufacturer whoso cars made mado tho the best boat showing In the table would d be full fully qualified to claim his pr product tho the safest on the market The Tho o Insurance Insurance insurance ance men refused to allow such use uso of or their private Information but the word was waR quietly P passed around to that at atthe the Identity of the true leader In the table would be bo disclosed In an informal Informal Informal mal malVa Va way before tho the conference was over One Ono of ot tho the scheduled events of the Detroit meeting was an automobile rido which would carry the tho delegates around Belle Delle Isle through a part of the city's manufacturing district and along the shores shores of or Lako Lake St. St ClaIr cast of the city It was naturally inferred In Inferred Interred In- In that tho the executive officers ot of the big big- accident Insurance companies would pick for this outing those cars which their table showed as winners of at the safety leadership Detroit hospitality was nev never r more freely treelY offered All the tho Detroit manufacturers manufacturers man man- offered cars for the sion slon Offers alao also made by dealers dealers dealers deal deal- ers representing manufacturers located elsewhere The conference virtually had its pick of or the entire American field flold The Tho decision came In the tho form of or a a. aletter lotter letter to the tho Studebaker corporation from Henry Henr C. C Walters alters representative of or the conference In It Mr Walters Valters reviewed the tho situation and stated that with tho the safety tabulation playing the star part In tho the choice the members member of tho conference had expressed a desire to make mako the tho scheduled ride In Studebaker Studebaker Stude- Stude baker or cars The testimonial from the Insurance experts Is probably the first that has over ever been tendered a car In a contest whore safet safety was tho solo sole determining factor