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Show THE RED AUTO IS IIHI CAB Local Distributor Tells of the Efforts Being Made at Factory. "It has heen said time and ag-ain thai 7a per ce::t of the automobiles in uc toJay are ued almost entirely for business busi-ness purposes; hut I want to add to thai: just a pttie bit,'' said E- W. Grndy of the Gracy Motor company, local distributor. -"a:.d s-ive it as rr.y cp.r.ion that within six months we s;-all :;r.d that over per cer. cf the motor care w !!1 be use-i either :or strict. y business purposes or for r ' " rr--v s e s that s re necessary to a n ultin-.ate victory in tee war. j " For a number or" years now out at our bis: factory we have been strivics1 toward to-ward aad s'jceeedin? in building what es-rer:e:i-e has proved to be a 'lifetime car." Sevenil Reos now in u?e have been driven eonsidern'ciy over '.C'0.'"""1 miles, with only t::e niinor repairs and adjustments required re-quired by anv piece of mechanism. "But at that we weren't satisfied. ad when dur cc-untry entered the fight to preserve freedom and democracy for our posterity, we decided then and there to build the Keo still stronger, still more pewverf u! and still more lasting. "Ve knew, within a few weeks after the resident show ed us our course, that America and the world would have to fall back upo.n the motor-driven vehicle as it never had before. We knew that the automobile, to a large extent, would have to perform what had heretofore been the : .motions of the steam and electric elec-tric railroa.;?. We knew that owners cf a-jtomob: would be expected and called upon to do those things, which, up to a few months ago, were considered impossible. impos-sible. We knew. then, that it was plainly plain-ly up to us to build the Reo better thsn ever to strengthen them for the r.o:1.-i r.o:1.-i combJ.ti.nt ind '.atrial struggle on this side. "Reo engineers were instructed to give the cars more of the rigidity r.i.d longevity necessary to make victory a reality; to make them more comfortable, if that wer possible, for those who would find it necessary co sit bchincl the steering wheel hours at a time. Another factor was to make Reo motor cars even more simple in operation and more economical: and. with ail these improvements, to bold the price down so that all who found an automobile au-tomobile essentia! to their business or to their wa r w o r k co u 1 d m a e the investment in-vestment without hardship. Thus -motor c-.r owners did not rind it necessary to forego the patriotic pleasure of subscrf-inq- to the Liberty loans, y. M. C. A. and Red C to s s funds. "The new Reo mode! is to a large rie-gtee rie-gtee a counterpart oi its predecessor, suil it is being built under such different dif-ferent conditions, and has been reinforced rein-forced and strengthened and improved 'r. so many ways, that it is in every sense of the word a "wartime car.' 'All of the improvements have been 1 made so that this new Reo could go out from our factory on its business of helping help-ing to win the war. with all of us know ing and feeling down in our hearts that it "would put up a good fight and would play an important part in attaining victory. vic-tory. "There's satisfaction to "be had in its power, its built-in strength and rigidity, its comfort, its conveniences and i:s gocil looks. And there's an intense satisfaction satis-faction to be derived by the people bark at the factory from the fact that the famous fa-mous Reo facto; y effieh-Ticy has made it 1 ossihle tor us to do ail of these tilings directly for the peoi-le of America and indirectly for the government, without increasing the price of the car one penny." |