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Show lUTIOML EHJOVS TREMEN0003 BOOM More Than 300 Per Cent In-crease In-crease in Business of Car of Comfort. George M, Dickson, general manager of i.ii(3 National Motor Vehicle company, com-pany, points with pri.le to tho Herculean strides being made by tho National factories fac-tories during the past year, and says that this company is one of America's , fastest growing automobile concerns manufacturing better grade cars. The increase of moro than 300 per cent in ! National car sales this year registers a pkonomenal advance in the production ; of cars of National's price and over. It is only becnuso of this tremendous ! manufacturing capacity that tho Na-- Na-- tional car builders aro able to produce ' both a six and a twelve-cylinder. It is said that only about 5 per cent of all tho automobiles built in the 1 United States annually are of the Na-. Na-. tional 'k price and over. Tho vast ma-f ma-f joritv of ears that compose the 05 per cent" being of less than the National's prieo. In other words, it is calculated that in 1917 there will be 3,000,000 i automobiles in operation in the United States, of which about 150,000 cars are known as the hotter grade machines of tho National's price and over. The i 2,850,000 others are of the lower priced i cars. : For tho past several years this ratio has remained about tho same, as the j number of lower priced cars increased, ! tho number of bettor grade cars in-' in-' creased pro rata, due to tho fact that owners of lower priced cars graduated into the National 's class. In fact, George M. Dickson, general , manager of the National factories, gives tremendous credit to the builders of such low-priced cars for having made possiblo tho increased market f or : the better grade cars. Ho says: "Hundreds of thousands of people would not invest the price of a hotter grade car originally, original-ly, but when they bought their lower priced car and found it a success, it whetted their appetite and established them once and forever as car owners. From the ranks of these people have come the increase in purchases of better bet-ter grade cars. Of course, there is a certain clientele who always did and always will buy the best and most expensive ex-pensive cars. But this class would not create the market for the tremendous increase in better grade cars that has come about. |