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Show JEFFERY COMPifY TO CHANGE HE Local Firm Will Now Be Known as the Tracy Motor Car Company. Jeffery motor cars, one of the best known and most popular mokes of high-grade high-grade four and sii-cylindcr automobiles in the country, will hereafter be distributed dis-tributed throughout this section by the Tracy Motor Car company, Albert Tracy, Tra-cy, proprietor, according to an announcement announce-ment issued yesterday from the offices and salesroom of the company, 39 West Fourth South street. Heretofore the distributing agency for the Jeffery cars has been known as the Jeffery Distributing company, owned principally by Mr. Tracv. A change in the name of the com pany to the Tracy Motor Car company is mado simply to facilitate the company's com-pany's operations, and with the change in the company's name comes the further announcement of the appointment appoint-ment of William B. Erickson as manager manag-er of the concern. Coincident with this news conies a further announcement that will interest a great many prospective purchasers of motor-cars. "The Tracy company is out with the statement that during 'the five days of the automobile show beginning Tuesday and lasting until Saturday, it will "give away free a Jeffery sedan winter top with every cash order placed for a Jetfery during tho show. "We believe Salt Lake City and the territory of which it is the center offers of-fers one of the greatest automobile selling sell-ing and distributing fields in the entire en-tire western country," declared Mr. Tracv yesterday. "'We are getting under un-der splendid headway with the Jeffery cars and .just at present I am busy allotting al-lotting territory to outside agents. We can still use "some good agents in a number of localities throughout the intermountain in-termountain west, and we have some splendid territory left for tbem." "The Jefferv car is today conceded to be one of the finest mado cars in the world and in mauv respects I believe be-lieve it beats all other tours and sixes. Mr. Tracv calls particular attention to such exclusive Jeffery features as the low, hammock-swung body, service brakes that block at any speed, and strength and simplicity, together with its low cost of maintenance. "Here is a car of wonderful power," declares Mr. Erickson; "a car that will do better than sixty miles an hour on the straightaway and that will throttle down to two miles an hour on hih gear. We can take a 13 H per cent hill with a turn that niokos any sort of running start impossible, at fifteen miles an hour on high, without a murmur. mur-mur. From a standing start tho Jeffery will jump to nineteen miles an hour in five seconds; in the next three seconds we can put it to twenty-five and in eighteen seconds we can have the car doing sixty miles an hour. It was the Jeffery engineer who three vears ago introduced to America the highest speed high-powered aeroplane type of motor that has made Jeffery cars famous tho world over." Mr. Tracy is impatiently awaiting further advices from the Jeffery factory fac-tory regarding a now truck wtighing from luijO pounds to a ton to be brought out in the near future, and declares he is already receiving many inquiries regarding re-garding it. Tho Tracy company is fortunate in having a number of Jetferv pleasure cars at their salesroom readv for immediate delivery, and the company com-pany has arranged an elaborate exhibit for the automobile show which opens in Salt Lake next Tuesday, February 2(1. |