Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-31 | Page 50 | Big Shortage in Autos Imminent

BIG SHORTAGE IN AUTOS IMMINENT A. H. Mayne, sales mann'gcr of the YV. K. BoveriiiL' 'o.. Fourth South and State .streets, lucal distributors for the Marmon, has just returned from an extended ex-tended trip rant to Betroit and also to Indianapolis, lnd., the home city of the Nordvke-Mnnnon factory, where the famed Marmon car is made. Mr. M a vne report a t he en t u live to the necessity of speeding up all branches of war work. He assert that the big auto factories aro now devoting devot-ing much of their time to I'ncb Sam and have assumed a huge task and considerable con-siderable responsibility in the war for the perpetuation of democratic ideals of government. But, withal. he discovered dis-covered that mo-t of the auto makers are finding time to turn out a limited number of pasener car, for which, he -avs, there is on instant and growing demand. Here is how Mr. Mayne told it: "All ! m a a u fact ui er1 of automobiles and trucks are today ntnig-jling with a serious short a e in sh i pping f a-d 1 it ie-. There a re no freight earn t o bo had. The big Nordyke-Marmon plant, one ot the largest in the cast and which i now engaged on lnrf;e jjovernment contracts, had only one freight car set M the tnetorv for the shipment of automobiles automo-biles during marlv all of the month of March. "Most of the mi to mal'erti are now depending en t i rely on drive aw ays. It in not an uncommon sight to see pas-Miier pas-Miier trains land huudieds of men at Betroit in a sinrle day who have been .it there to drive ears to their native towns and ei t b'M, 'I'h is manner of el t i n g t i' c mo! ori:'.ed vehhde to t lie b.jyer now embrace n very large territory, terri-tory, iuc ind d v. it )'i:i a radiu of I Out) mil'i'i of I'etiinr. 'I'lien- h.is been -ome t ; I k of i ri e n a I o the i u ter nuiii n t;nn veciion, but this form of delivery . the we'd is not considered practical by many of the manufacturers. Yet it j may come. ' ' "My advice to any man who wants a new auto this spring is to buy it I now," concluded Mr. Mayne.