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Show sfe QUICK cars J HMUTTEOT1 The Introduction of the Nineteen-Nine-teen Buicks, which are now attracting marked attention in the salesroom of the Kandnll-Dodd Auto company, recently led Sales Manager Tom Davis to review briei'lv the development of Bulck cars over a period of the last right years. "The Huick owners of today," said , Mr. I.iavis. "vill receive quite, a shuck if they will pick no a catalogue of some seven " or eight years ago and compare the relative values and prices of the cars there listed with the serviceability and cost of his present Huick cara. "Take a care that was then marketed for $isini. The top, windshield, Frest-O-Eito tank and other equipment were extra, and by the time the car was delivered de-livered to the owners it had cost hirn upwards of $-000. The Huick was n serviceable ser-viceable vatve-ln-head type and the other mechanical parts ranked with the best that tnu industry then knew. But there were no electric lights; the car was cranked by hand; the body was of a 1 quaint design, without fore-doors; the wheelbase was short ; there wero no modern dash Instruments. and other present-day conveniences and comforts were lacking. ."In tshort, tho contract in the dollar-for-dollar value In the two cars is remarkable. re-markable. What is it that has made this: difference possible in so snort a I hue'.' A hasty answer might bo that it is due to large quantity production, and this is partly true. "But the real answer is efficiency. "With the increased demand every year for Buick cars, the factory has grown to really tremendous proportions, and the development of the various departments to take care of the increased number of cars has been conducted along lines as scientific and efficient as the development of the engineering features of - Kuick cars." |