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Show j WILL THE COLE CAR BE POPULAR HERE? LOOK BELOW j ' i' " 4 ,x i 1 ! ; '"ptf ifttrv itK ;,T" u- i 4- Sf" h - CXI '-, --4-4. " A V N ' " V. - -J : ' , ' "'-4t' I I, 4-,44 . ' j , r , S", 1 (Left) C. P. Henderson, sales manager for the Cole, with headquarters in -Indiaoiapolis. (Right) Harry Wilson, president of the Shank Auto company, com-pany, Colo distributors. (In car) Harvey Travis, service manager of the Shaiik company zild J. E. McD-ermond, Cole sales representative, now with Shank company. The photo was snapped in front of the new Cole home, 415-7-9 South Main street. "Send me a trainload of Cole cars, quick." This was the message that came flashing flash-ing into the big Indianapolis factory i last week, bearing the Salt Lake date stamp and tho signature of Harry Wilson Wil-son of the Shank Auto company. "Who is this gink that has the whole world by the horns and speaks of - a whole carload of Coles as if he were ordering his breakfast? ' ' queried the general munager of the company, turning turn-ing to ('. P. Henderson, sales manager of the company. "Why, Wilson is the president of the Shank Auto company of Caldwell, Idaho, which has recently changed its headquarters head-quarters to Salt Lake," answered the sales manager. "Don't you remember that we shipped seven carloads to him a few days ago?" "Better get readv for vour annual tour of the west and drop fn on Wilson as soon as possible, ' ' said the G. M., "and by the way, find out if he did not mean a carload instead of a train-load.'? train-load.'? Well, Henderson arrived in Salt Lake yesterday. He immediately hiked for the Shank company headquarters, where I he met Mr. Wilson, Mr. McDermond, Mr. Travis and others of the local com- pany. Impressed by the general atmosphere atmos-phere of the new Cole home and the great activities that surrounded it in getting the place in shape for the grand opening, Mr. Henderson at once felt that the telogram was 0. K. A train-load train-load could be taken care of. Within a few minutes after his conference con-ference with Mr. Wilson a message was on the way to the factory. It was brief but businesslike. It read: "A trainload was right. Ship as soon as possiblo. " Later in the day the answer came flashing back, as follows: "Will ship trainload Coles as soon as transportation transporta-tion is available. ' ' Mr. Henderson will leave Salt Lake to complete his western tour this afternoon. af-ternoon. He said that the demand for cars this year will eclipse all previous records. The Cole output will be double that of 1316, he said. |