Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-08-02 | Page 14 | Big Ford Agency is Opened in This City

! big ford ral is I QPKDIflTIISCITY I J. A. Handin, Manager, Predicts Pre-dicts a Large Annual j Business Here. Tho Ford Motor com pan y opened its j hoay automobile factory agency on Pier- ! pout street in this city yesterday, hun- ! dreds of visitors ffoin through the spa cious salesroom and viewing the In rue building which occupies iifi.UOl) scjuaro feet ot1 ground on t lie corner of west Temple am! I'ierpont streets. The new j company, which is n branch of the Font I Motor company, of which Henry Ford is the head, succeeds the Alii iro-Smith j companv of Auto row, which until yos- terdav had held the Ford agency in this ! city. " ! It is. estimated by'.T. A. Handin, man- , ager, that the new' division of. the Ford Motor company will handle a yearly 1 business ranging from $3,000,000 to $.",-. (KM), 000, all' of which money will go, I through Salt. Lake City banks. Mr. , Handin, wlio is well known in this city, where he was formerly an employee of i : the MeOornick bank, said yesterday thnt the local division would handle more than 7000 cars annually. .It will have for its district the states of Utah, western west-ern Wyoming, eastern .Nevada and all of Idaho. The new branch is under the man-; man-; agement of Mr. Handin. who has for his assistant W. L. Chapman. Mr. Handin Han-din has been in the employ of the Ford people for a number of years. Until tho change to this city he had held a responsible position in Chicago.