Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 37 | Improvements on Popular Metz Cars

IMPROVEMENTS Oil POPUMETZ GARS Metz cars for the coming season will show many features through the working out of details for the comfort and ease of the passengers, together with improvement improve-ment of lines, according to the M. L. Graham company, local distributors. Officials Offi-cials of the company said yesterdav that the manner in which the gearless "tmns-mission "tmns-mission of the Metz was becoming known here was both gratifying and surprising. For the person who has but limited capital to invest In a motor car. the Metz distributors believe that the small car is the ideal model. Large investments and expensive upkeep expenses have been the drawback of the average person for many years. The Metz car has been built to fill this demand for email cars of small operating expenses.' A letter from Charles H. Metz, designer of the car, which reached the local distributors dis-tributors yesterday, outlined the policy of the company in advancing the price of the model. The letter follows: I did not build the Metz car down to a price. I designed it to meet my Ideal of what a light low upkeep-cost car should be. I built the first one for myself and tested it out for months befora turning it over to the factory engineers to reproduce. The best of material Is used in it. It Is all built in our own plant at Waltham, Mass., with the exception of the Gray & Davis electric light and starting start-ing system and the Dixie magneto. Everything that enters into the construction con-struction of the Metz car is made by my men, with these two exceptions and the Goodrich tires. Because of our most complete automobile auto-mobile plant, scientillc management and the fact that we make more of our own parts than any other concern, con-cern, the operating expenses are, of course, lower and we can give more automobile for the money. But the unusual increase in the cost of raw material has made It utterly impossible impossi-ble to put out Metz quality for a fully-equipped fully-equipped car at the price named. Of course, we could have taken off some of the extras that go with the car and make up for the advance in material ma-terial costs, but I do not like the idea of Belling a machine that the purchaser pur-chaser has to go out and expend a hundred or two more dollars equipping. equip-ping. I believe that the Metz car at $'."0 is the greatest dollar-for -dollar value in America.