Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 25 | War Activities of Motor Car Makers

WAR ACTIVITIES OF ; MOTOR CAR MAKERS Never before In the history of any country coun-try has any one industry pinyd so important im-portant a part in tho work of war as doea the automobile nnrl truck industry today. 'The lAbf.rlf motor wa.j dsinM hy tho automobile engineer, the automobile factories fac-tories turned their plants over to the use of the government for tho making of trucks, tan HA, automobiles, am hula n ceo arid other methods of transportation needed need-ed in the war rone. Airplanes by the thourand which are t assure the alliej; supremacy of the air are being turned out In the fartorif-s of the automobile men. Munitions of war, she) Iff and guns are being mad: by the automobile auto-mobile men in their factories hy their trained workers and with machinery and toolH u;;ed formerly in p'-:j re times for automobile arid truck manufacture. The dealers and distributors throughout through-out the country have co-ordinated 'n the cutting down of the work of their repair departments in order that mechanics . might be spared for service at the front. "Jvet's win the war firpt and think of profits later," in t ho pa trio tic motto of tho automobile fra t ernity.