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Show IKE TWO VEHICLES ITHISGGiW I "Probably the expression, 'two-vehicle' territory, will need some explanation to the eastern trade, but that Is what the automobile manufacturer i up against In tljo western territory," Fays G. H. Bryant of the Voile Motor Vehicle company, com-pany, who continued: It !s a "two-vehicle" territory and logically no, and by "two-vehicle" Is meant two general types the horsc-drawn horsc-drawn and the molor-propelled. While the majority of the better class of fanners in the central west own motor curs, and. liuve for several sev-eral years, they all own horso-drawn horso-drawn Vehicles, and the motor car manufacturer who Is golns Into tho western territory with his cars must take tills Into consideration. No wise" salesman goes out and tries to persuade per-suade a farmer to give up his horse-drawn horse-drawn vehicle and place all ills confi-denco confi-denco in an automobile. This is not because of deficiencies I In the automobile Itself, for the au-tomobllo au-tomobllo that Is properly built can I i go through any road at any time, but thcro Ib not much comfort In driving a car through four or five Inches, and sometimes a foot or two, of heavy gumbo mud after a heavy rain. For this reason tho nutomo-blle-buylng clement among farmers is certain to be In possession of carriages car-riages for short trips In rainy weuther. 'l'he combination of a. carriage-building carriage-building with an automobile-building factory becomes Ideal In the central cen-tral western states. A careful study of sales shows that the confidence inbred in the farmers for Velio carriages car-riages predisposes them toward tho Velio automobile, and the co-opcra-tlon of the sales organization of the two companies Is marked. The automobile Is a practical necessity neces-sity for farmers in the big agricultural agricul-tural parts of the country, where there are long- distances between the towns and where quite lengthy trips are necessary to reach cities of any size. A day's trip through any of tho big agricultural sections shows cars at praclf&illy every farmhouse, and these cars arc not by any means cars of low cost, but are good cars, costing anywhere from $1500 to $2000. It Is only tho good car that will stand up steadily and satisfactorily under the conditions to which the fanner subjects It. The men who arc designing Velio cars are men who for years have been building carriages car-riages and implements for the central west. Thoy know the requlrtments - that will be put on a car, and they build it strong enough to meet these requirements. At the same time thoy take into consideration the fact that the car is going to be driven a great deal in the larger . cities, not of the central west, but of the east, and that exacting demands for beauty, smoothness of running and careful construction must be nfl The Voile then becomes a pm'fl demonstration of superior strafl with the lateat development onm design, Just as the Velio Carfl company, the parent of the prV Velio automobile, adheres to came points iu the construction its vehicles. |