Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 32 | General Manager Visits Salt Lake

GENERAL MANAGER VISITS SALT LAKE Prank C. Eiggs of the Willys-Overland Factory Fays Local Dealer His Respects. Frank C. Kiggs, general manager of , the Willys-Overland Pacific coast or- I ganization, who passed through .Salt Lake City last week, after a. 'month's tour of the eastern cities, where he had been studying manufacturing and market mar-ket conditions in Chicago, Toledo, Detroit, De-troit, Boston, St, Louis and Penver, expressed ex-pressed himself as most optimistic over the. outlook for the automobile industry. in-dustry. 'liur company," said Eiggs, "is shipping twice 'as many automobiles into Canada as it did before the war began, ami we expect the sale of our cars to increase in the same proportion in the United States. The demand for Willys-Overland c.'irs hns Yicon grout or i hi rin t; the fast summer than ever before. be-fore. "As tho Ovenimout domainls noon tho resources ot the country increase, raw materials will bo proportionately more difficult to obtain and transportation transporta-tion problems will "have to be solved, so that prices will have au upward tendency ten-dency for a lonp time to come. There is no doubt about tho fact that right now is the time to buy an automobile for those who want to avoid paying o. higher price later. ' ' The principal magnet that drrw "Rivets to the east w:ts the Jhn X. Willy, congress con-gress of retail salesman, of which Mr. Kig3 was appointed an honorary member. mem-ber. The congress was composed of 300 star salesmen of the Wiilys-Overland organisation. All ot" them won their si'ats in the eoncres- in a nation-wide sale? contest which covered a period of three months prior to the meeting of thy congress.