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Show ITiOlLS ARRIVE IN SPITEOF TIE-UPS "One of the rare exceptions to the present condition of congested traffic," said A. E. Tourssen, manager of the i I EndaIl-Dodd Auto company yesterday, "is the uninterrupted shipping of National Na-tional cars from the National Motor Vehicle company in Indianapolis. "On my recent trip to the Chicago show and the various plants handling the cars manufactured by my concern, I visited the Buick, the Oldsmobile and the National plants. "At the Buick and the Oldsmobile factories I found shipping almost hopelessly hope-lessly tied up. Buick dealers were coming com-ing into the Buick factory for hundreds of miles around and driving their cars home. In many cases snowplows and gangs of men are employed in making roads through deep snowdrifts so that the cars might be driven over the road. Freight shipments in box cars are almost impossible and what few cars are shipped on flat cars are shipped at the owner's risk. "At the National Motor Vehicle company's plant in Indianapolis conditions condi-tions are much better. The railroad facilities fa-cilities are such that there is practically no congestion and automobile factories there will be able to keep up shipments, unless something unforeseen now happens. hap-pens. "The consequence is that we are able to deliver Nationals to our customers as soon as they are purchased a condition that we probably do not fully appreciate appre-ciate the value of." |