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Show FORD iliMIlf" LD1G T0U1G IIIK DETROIT. Mich., .lime 6. Summer is lie re. nearly a nd Louring tlmo. Judged by (lie inquiries at the Ford factory for road conditions, and the thousand and one t hinss tourists want 10 know, It is i a 1 most cert a In that touring" long tfis-j tfis-j (anee touring ia to be more popular this I year than e.vcr. From all corners of the 1 "nited States come indications that thi3 two. three, and live-thousand-mile automobile auto-mobile trip is poing to be strictly the tiling this season. Those who live in the east are planning plan-ning trips west; those who live west are planning trips cast; those who live north are planning trips south; and those who live south a re planning trips north. AL any rale, right now there are probably more tours in anticipation than at any time since the automobile has come into practical us;. Those deductions are necessarily made from the touring inclinations be ins shown by Ford owner?. The thousands i of owners of this car have discovered thflt I it is almost as economical to 0 touring as it is to stay at home. Year after year more and more Ford owners succumb to the lure of the "open road." Owners have taken trips ranging in Hength from moo to in. 000 miles to find at the end that it lias cost them, all told, less than 2 cents 'per mile to operate their "private transportation 11 lies." Some take their way leisurely between towns and "put up" nights within the cities, while others prefer to carry complete com-plete camping outfits and make the tour a camping trip as well. Thousands upon thousands of Fords are sold every year, and thousands upon thousands of new owners are thus added to the lists of tourists. For, no matter for wvhat purpose pur-pose the car is purchased, at some time or other; by the very nature of things, it is bound to serve as a "touring" car. |