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Show . WAR WILL CAUSE 1 SHORTAGE OF AUTOS Frank Bottetrill Is Putting in Supply to Meet Any-Emergency. Any-Emergency. That, the averse Ut:ihn has but little lit-tle rroiK-cption of what will happen, in tiin event formal hosti iit ies are declared hetwern the United States and a foreign country, is bctii pretty well' evidenced thne days by tht; manner in which men and women who have made up their minds to purchase automobiles this flaring are dallying almi in reaching de-eiaionrt de-eiaionrt and placing their orders. At the present, time several of the larger dealers and distributors in Salt Lake are fortunate enough to have a limited number of cars on hand, whi'di they have f-ei-ured from the factories hy meuiirt of much pleading, and Uiee ears aro avnilnblt- for immediate delivery to purchasers. It is doubtful if there is a distributor in Salt Lake, who has not been advised by the automobile factory or factories which he represents that if war is declared de-clared there wUl in all probability panne pa-nne a series of embargoes on ail kinds of freight, throughout tue country except munitions, munitions materials, foodstuff food-stuff and other neeessurej. The larger eastern an torn obi le mauuf aeturors have been very frank in discussing the possibility possi-bility of this situation with their faraway far-away dealers and distributors, with the result that men like Frank Hotterill have taken every car the factories eon Id bo induced to ship in order to get as large a reserve supply of Hudson Supcr-Bixes, Supcr-Bixes, Pierre-Arrows and Dodge Brothers Broth-ers motor cars on hand here as possible. possi-ble. Jf war is doclared and this reserve stock of cars is depicted, the people who are then without automobiles will undoubtedly un-doubtedly experience a vexing wait before be-fore they ean receive cars from the factory. fac-tory. "We can make immediate delivery on n very limited number of Hudson Super-Sixes and Dodge Brothers motor cars," declared an official of the Tom Bottrrill company yesterday, who continued: con-tinued: Not ft day goes by but what we hear comments of the Wonderful records made by the Hudson Super-Hix. Super-Hix. Perhaps the greatest of these is its round trip across the continent, conti-nent, made in ten dava and twenty-one twenty-one hours. It is without doubt the j most sought-for record in America, A seven-passongcr touring- car, which, with baggage and passengers weighed 5000 pounds, was driven from San Francisco to New York, in five days, three hours and twenty-one minutes. It beat the best time held to within a month of the time the Hudson made its run by two and one-third dava. At the end of the trip the Hudson Super-Six Super-Six was going so wcU that it was decided to turn her about and try for a record going back. It was the first attempt ever made by a car to do a round trip across tlie continent. conti-nent. The return trip was made in live days, twenty-one hours. Heav rains were encountered in the Sierra-Nevada mountains on the way back, which delayed the time fifteen fif-teen hours. And perhaps the most coveted record in the world is that of the twenty-four hour run. For years the time mado bv S. F. Edge on the Brooklands track, England, had stood and had been regarded as unbeatable. un-beatable. But Ralph Mulford, driving a Hudson stock Super-Six chassis, covered 1819 miles in twenty-four hours on the Sheepshead bay track, lowering Edge's record 3-7 miles. j The twenty-four hour endurance run was electrically timed and was under the supervision of officials of tho American Automobile association. associa-tion. The car was examined by these officials and checked against the regular factory production. They compared every mechanical detail, measured valves, piston clearances and examined all materials used. j And they officially certified that the chassis used was identical in all these respects with those used in every Hudson factory for distri- : bution to the public. |