Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-27 | Page 36 | Hudson Official is Optimistic

pany before the Hudson factory goes entirely on a war basis. "American" motor car manufacturers will semi hundreds of thousands of automobiles auto-mobiles abroad after the war," declared de-clared Mr. Drumpelmajln. "The European automobile manufacturers manufac-turers have never been on a quantity production basis; they have never really known what quantity production means, and we all look forward to a tremendous export trade. On tho other hand, tho consumption of motor cars in the United States will be greatly increased in-creased after the war is over, and, despite de-spite the hard raps the motor car in dnstry has sustained as a result of the world conflict, we are taking it with the best possible grace and making our plans for a tremendous after-war business. busi-ness. "1 would certainly advise anyone who is thinking of purchasing a motor car this year to do so now at the earliest earli-est possible moment. Hudson, with many other manufacturers, will be on a 100 per cent war basis after January , and it will be almost impossible to secure cars of any description. Right now, in many portions of the country, good used cars that have been renewed and refinished are selling for more than they sold for when absolute!' new and fresh from the factory. There is no telling, either, how soon the factories that go on 100 per cent war work will be able to resume production after peace is declared. It will depend, for one thing, on how soon the part makers can deliver parts, and I feel very suro that I would be making a conservative statement in saying that it will be at least three months after peace is det-clared det-clared before any motor ear manufacturer manufac-turer can resume production. "One of the things that is a great source of satisafction to the Hudson Car company is the manner in which distributors like Mr. Botterill are accepting ac-cepting the inevitable, so far as the Hudson company '-s going on a 100 per cent war basis is concerned. It is working a severe hardship on distribu-, tors who have spent years in building up an organization, to have their cars suddenly cut off, but Mr. Botterill and all our distributors are taking it iu fine spirit, and are planning to 'carry on' with their establishments and organizations organi-zations to the very best of their ability through the period when they will not be able to secure Super Sixes. We are certainly proud of the whole-souled support sup-port and co-operation our dealers are giving us in this predicament. ' ' . ma ran. r is (iptiistii: Predicts Big After-war Production of Motor Cars and Trucks. Foresees a Huge Export Trade for All American-Made American-Made Autos. , That the American manufacturers of automobiles will enter upon (he greatest era of quantity production for both home consumption and export trade in the history of thi industry as soon as the present war is over, is the state-Trnadc state-Trnadc by IV. .1. Drumpelmann, assistant as-sistant sales manager of .the Hudson Motor Car company of Detroit, who made Salt Lake a brief visit last week. Mr. Drumpelmann is one of the best known men in the selling end of the motor car manufacturing business in the country, and has been a prominent figure for several years in motor car sales work among manufacturers. He reached Salt Lake en route to the Pacific coast on a tour of inspection of Hudson distributors, and while in !salt Lake Mr. Drumpelmann made his headquarters with Frank Botterill of the Botterill xutomobile Company, distributors dis-tributors throughout this section for Hudson Supd Sixes. Coming direct from the city that is probably the greatest motor car manufacturing manu-facturing center in the .world, Mr. Drumpelmann has a fivrfd of interesting data to reveal regarding the present j automobile situation. I The Hudson Motor Car company has announced that itwill go on a 100 per cent war basis after January 1, or as j soon before that date as the company can use up the balance of its raw material ma-terial and complete ' the cars now in ! process of manufacture. This means, of course, that Hudson distributors wiU be without Hudson Super Sixes during the latter part of this year and after January 1. Meanwhile, Mean-while, the Botterill company has been fortunate enough to secure several large shipments, and probably one or two additional ad-ditional shipments will reach the corn-