Show MOTOR MEN PREDICT NE NEW PRICE LEVEL A General Increase in in Costs of Automobiles and Trucks Within Next Sixty Days Is Is Declared Inevitable There will wUl be a general Increase In to Inthe the price of ot automobiles and trucks within sixty das This Is tho the rather positive if not overly cheerful impression brought home to Salt Lake by local distributors who oho ho have recently visited the p places a un 3 where autos ana and trucKs are arc made The upward trend will not stop short of ot 10 per cent Is the consensus of or opinion It Is ia not a c case sc of at the automobile distributors seeking to stimulate de demand demand demand de- de mand for tor there are but few local dealers who have not sold all the cars they can deliver between now and next December But few have new cars now on their display room floors and andall andall andall all reports indicate that intermountain tain dealers deniers who are arc supplied from this city are aro In little better shape Virtually Virtually Vir Vir- every distributor alon along motor row Is so snowed under with advance orders that his hopes of ot seeing a re return return return re- re turn to normal conditions this fall tall has been entirety entirely dissipated In nearly all aU lines Unes prospective purchasers purchasers pur pur- ch chasers sers have to wait walt their turn to get deliver delivery This has bas brought about a a. decided change in selling methods for were the sales organizations as as' as aggressive aggressive ag ag- as In war pre-war days the situation situa situa- tion would become impossible Apparent r nt II n en ll no as na Rising cost in mn materials and labor which tend always upward plus the plus the insistent and unusual demand for tor the product of or the tho factories explains the probable reasons for another advance soon Unsettled labor conditions which L have materially lessened the output or of some of or the large e auto plants lants Is given Iven as ns another reason In Industrial In In- contentment is lacking In all the large centers of ot the east and Inmany In Inmany nian many motor factories tho the skilled help is 15 hard to get Sel and harder to keep Andas And Andas as the motor car can only be properly made b by trained and md skilled mechanics those who are competent demand and get Jet abnormal wa wages es The great reat de demand demand demand de- de mand for or men of or this class has brou brought ht about a situation where the worker may mav switch from one factor to another giving them a measure of independence hitherto unknown Distributors who have ha been used to predicting the future futuro in past years declare de declare de- de clare dare they see seo no hope for changed conditions for tor at least another year Th They contend that not over half halt of or the people who want new cars have been ac accommodated this season and they foresee another year ear of or big buying ahead of them They have taken into consideration the apparent fact that all factories will be able to speed up p production pro pro- during the thc winter months but months but the they discount this by declaring that as soon as spring opens all the surplus cars will soon disappear It Is evident to most of or the distributors that there will he be a grand rush to place orders during the winter the buy buy r hoping to get an earl early spring delivery This will absorb practically the tho full tull output atthe of at the automobile plants and leave but tut few tew cars as 15 margin a to work on on- on for C r new prospects next next spring 1 Get Gel Your Order In InThe InThe Th The moral pointed to by the distributors distributors dis dis- In view Ie of or the tho foregoing ls is that all motor fans who want a aV new CI Car V next no t s p ran should lw tl r t l 4 their 1 their T vuu h ge fed orders or or- or d ders rs in as soon as ns convenient They The will pr promise to deliver cars this fall fall If it ir the factories can c make them In ln sufficient tent number to spare the west at least a portion of its allotment which should be much Jar larger er considering lh the unusual demand deman than In former ormer seasons sea sen- sons And And the truck distributors distributor are practically lien sewed served up in the same sack as ns the tho automobile man They are having th their lr own distinct line of 0 troubles to contend with and lack of ot deliveries Is Isone isone one ono of the tho biggest est The great nationwide nationwide nation nation- wide movement toward better roads has hns brou brought ht about a shortage e of oC trucks coupled with th the fact that the truck has taken n its place In the field of at commerce in Jh ever Increasing numbers With the expansion in tho the use of ot trucks that must follow follo their entry into tho the road making plans plan of ot state and Patton and tho the increasing call for or trucks for or all kinds of transportation transportation transportation trans trans- stunts especially for or short hauls haub the power wagon has s surely roly come into its own and henceforth will be bo ns as the most potent agent o.-ent in and arid ma maintaining tho commerce com com- merce merco of the na nation lion |