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Show HIE STANDARD EIGHT "I went east to choose a car that would outdemonstrate any other near its price class and I came back with a contract con-tract to distribute the Standard saia C. A. Quigley at the auto show yesterday. yester-day. Mr. Quigley was standing with one hand on a handsome model of the Standard Stand-ard which be is exhibiting with a good deal of pride at the auto show. Continuing', Continu-ing', he said: "Fifteen vears ago the Standard Steel Car companv built its first, plant in But-lir. But-lir. Pa., and from tnis parent house there has sprung an average of one larg plant a vear in the United States and auxiliaries of similar importance in many foreign countries. "A large faculty of engineers, chemists and metallurgists, production experts and cost analysts" have been brought to high efficiency to meet the varied needs of . tiie great railways that this company supplies with rolling stock and safety equipment. "Out of this organization of thoroughness thorough-ness has come tiie Standard S. For years before this car was marketed models mod-els were constantly brought out to be measured against the rigid Standard criterion cri-terion of precise performance, to under- j go the severest mountain tests, until, in 1S12, a car fully worthv of the r the traditions of its makers w-" pietely developed. Since that v. Standard S has held a p 1 a i . van of the finest cars and the oirpu: has never equaled the d1 ""1 don't care how steep the r"' "anything on wheels can go over Standard S will make the clirr. it will do it in high at any rate o-' from three miles to fifty." "The Standard isn't built to do -stunts, though, and then be th-.-? the scrap heap. Structural sojh.--1 its dominant feature. On the so' ; chanical foundation proved by 1c--eminently successful practice in ' acting work of raiiway quipmen -'i the beauty and grace of this higr.-;.--and luxurious car. "I was very glad to receive rr. tiie Standard in time to exhibi: -auto show. Visitors who see it r.-;. want a demonstration of its w.y-qualities w.y-qualities need only say the wc-we'll wc-we'll put it through the stiffen it? can be devised." |