Show r WILLYS ALWAYS A SPEED MERCHANT Noted Nosed Motor Car Maker l T Was as Once Onee a Fast rasp Cyclist That John Willys s president of ot the Overland Willys-Overland Motor l Car Manufacturing Manufacturing turing company ha has been lIeen a a multi multi- c cylinder lInder speedster ever cr since his boyhood boyhood boy boy- hood hood days dars Is shown In n an Interesting newspaper clipping which ha has just re recently recently rOI rO re- came into tho the possession of ot I Sales Manager Imager Edmonds Edmons of the BrownIng BrownIng Browning Brown Brown- ing Automobile com company pan distributors of oC tho the Willys Knight ht and Overland C cars TS T'S The Interesting document Is culled from tho the Shorts Enterprise of Shorts N. N y V. It Is dated July 25 5 11 1019 and under the caption of ty t Years Ago tells of an article a PP caring In the th nr columns nf of the same newspaper d r ir twenty venty years a ago Tho The Tho I article In question boro bore the tho l headlines and follows Speedy John was as John Willys s tho the speedy cyclist of or I Canandaigua who has won so man many laurels this season BOsson Is book booked cd for tho the big bis meet at Detroit a week from Sat Sat- urda All of which goes to show that tho the now famous automobile manufacturer was going some In his youth as a bike ce rider That he lie has shown tho the world is Js same speed In the business l e evidenced b by the tho fact that today he ho ranks as one of or the nations nation's foremost captains of or Industry He lie has kept up I his speeding that won woJ him fame on tho the thoI I bicycle cle tracks of a quarter of a century century cen cen- tury tuO ago o. but his record as an industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial giant is so 50 far ahead of his record rec roe OT ord as a n bike speedster as to put to shame his youthful speeding speeding- an and to tomake tomake make malte Speedy John even o a n misnomer Tho The article Is being treasured b by Mr Ir E Edmonds In keeping with other documents docu docu- meats ments that go to show the rapid strides made In the the- automobile Industry for from bicycle rl rider er and Speedy John Johno to o head of ot such a gigantic concern concern as the Overland Willys-Overland company is a far tar cr cry and but proves the repeated oft assertion assertion assertion as as- that the boy is father to tho the thomal thoman mar man |