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Show SHORTAGE OF CI, SAYS BOTTERILL Demand for Super-Six Hudson, Hud-son, He Believes, Will Be j Beyond the Supply. I That tho big automobile distributors throughout the country anticipate a se- j rious shortage of motor cars before the i close of 9Jb", find that many look for an increase in the prices of all new models mod-els announced from now on, was thoroughly thor-oughly indicated yesterday by Frank Botterill, manager of the Tom Botterill Automobile company, who declares that the outlook for next year in the automobile automo-bile industry is not at all promising in this respect.- The predictions being made of higher I prices for next year's cars are based on the possibility of the European war con- timnng another twelve months. ! The influential connections of the 1 Botterill company with eastern manu-j manu-j facturers give Mr. Botterill accurate in-j in-j formation of the situation confronting manufacturers and distributors of American-made cars. He says: If the war is to continue, I advise ad-vise any man who- expects to buy any kind of an automobile, new or old. to buy it now. To begin with, I can recollect no period iu the past ten or fifteen ! years when there has been such an insistent and widespread demand from the public for automobiles as ! there is at present. Our experience here at the Boi-terill Boi-terill establishment the past two weeks, since we have had the new Hudson Super-Six on display, is an indication of the trend or the present pres-ent demand for automobiles. Judging Judg-ing by our actual sales of Hudson i Super-Sixes the past two weeks, we will not have enough of the new ! Hudsons this year to 6upply the demand. de-mand. Nor can we count oh getting j enough. The Hudson company has ; material on hand to make every one ', of the 30,000 cars it planned to pro- ! duce this year, and these 30,000 I cars will bo made and delivered on ' schedule. The Hudson company, j ! however, has attempted to arrange ' to increase this year ?h output to I ! 40,000 ears. but. has had to abandon the effort because the war has so increased the cost of materials that j the price of additional cars made i from materials secured under new ! additional contracts would have to : l be increased $200 cah, and this 1 would create endless misunderstandings misunderstand-ings and confusion. - j When T received my first inkling j i of what the now Super-Six would be T contracted for a far greater i j number of these cars than the Botterill Bot-terill company has ever ha.udled in I a single season before. Yet at the I end of the first two weeks of Hudson Hud-son sales T know that we cannot i possibly hope to supply the demand, despite the fact that wo will receive everv car that we have contracted for. ' i To the public. I wish to say, with i no personal motive whatever, that . Unless the war ends the price of all automobiles for which materials I have not already been contracted will probably increase. This would mean that most of next year's cara will cost more than this year's. Dodsre brothers have been offered a million dollars cash for their aluminum contract within the nast month, and have refused it. . Many makers of parts have notified us this month of increases amounting to as much as -10 per cent. These are examples of what is transpiring now with impressive rapidity among , the larger antomobilr interests, j T say again that if the war is to continue T advise nnv man who ox-' ox-' peels to buv any kind of a car. j new or old, to buy it at once, i Mr. Botterill reports a large number 'of sales on the new Hudson Super-Six. I together with many additional wales of j I Podge brothers' cars the past week.! Three new Pierce-Arrow cars have been i ordered recently from the Botterill company, and advance literature has ' been received hy the Botterill company illustrating and describing the Series '"4" Pierce- rrow cars now being made I 'ready for delivery. |