Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-04-11 | Page 20 | Studebaker Co. Breaks Record

STUDEBAKER CO. fi RECORD Sells More Cars in Week Than Ever Before in History. With factories taxed to capacity and working overt me the Studebaker cor poration Detro t the last week of March enjojed the biggest week of sales n the h story of the organ zat on . A eumn ary of the sales of the entire I n onth indicates that March has been the best month btudebaker ever had I We are not a together surpr sed by the ehowine wo have beet mak ng 1 sa d E B Benson, vice president in charge of sales s nee we have been see ng the sales mount daj by day all tl ro gh the month, b t none the )es we are h ghly del ghted Do ng a b si ness all o er the wo Id we cannop for a boom a business n one dountry to offset a depress on n another but the ncrease for March has been practically niforn everywhere Mr Benson cont nued Naturally we are interested first in the sales in the Ui ted btates These ind ate that the co ntry is no v u a health er conditio i f nan c ally The ostabl shn eat of the re ser e banks tl e sourageoue faclug of the E ropean sit at on the high pr es fo foodst lis ajid the deter n inat on that business must go on as usual have all ten led to & stabii lilac of tl e on mere al -world I fituf that the co ntry s counting on absorbing tl e $200 000 000 that formerly our tourist spent in Europe each s run er Th s tremen do s sum 11 carry s over what mav be called the slack summer season I an glid to say that our con n er lal car depart ei t is even b sier. con pared to last year tban any other tya h of our n oductlon doiartment S0 far in March we have sold as n an conin ercial oars as we sold 1 j ng the f rst nine n onths of 1911 Wo soli to one western flru fortv j tney b uses pr cod at tho fa tory at $50 001 With tl rce or fo r well defined h gl ways a ross the continent there s 1 ttle woud tl at oo) le who ne er co s de e 1 tou ng iu Amer i a 1 eforo are no v b v ug n acl lues to see Vn rica first More Studo aker cars are soli west of D n er than anv othur take sell lag for more than $100, and tie sa es this seasoi r veil i al anco ot hose at tl s ti o a ear ago 1 Latin A o Ion n r ralos are 0 ng ell p i o th 1 11 n in there In 1 1c t to tho 1 nf h contlict stor lav tie e n o r t o In a do 1 I n 1 ), al rlf l ars 1 fa O n et tl a cu t I na iu creanod tre riendously this ear Wo 1 av e also j st received a repeat or lor from So tl) Afr ci O r sales of pleas re can in E gland are a surpriBi to ue I I ad tho cht tie war wo H c ta 1 then These are go g to nl 1 als aud nro n t for . e ent se rice 0 r Lsnlon b I in nger writes tl at our St lebaker six s a favorite with the crlt al Eng lisli buver who comi aro t fa or ally V Luroiean cars An th r eountn where o r sales are well a ad nnee of last ea is Austral a