Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-25 | Page 51 | [Illegible] Announces Export Corporation

, -Organization Designed 0 Operate in Eighty Foreign Countries. promote Sale of Amer--an Made Motor Cars I Abroad. So,-, -3X. Willys, president of Willys-3 Willys-3 Inc-. h'ls inounccd U,a or- 1 v ."oa of tho John N. Willys Kx-;"wporstion, Kx-;"wporstion, with offices in New U . according to word received by .- BrowninK of the Browning Auto-compay. Auto-compay. distributors in this car- :c-'r for Willys-Knight and Over-et'!:i: Over-et'!:i: passenger cars. f" -vj organization, through its head- - :'fm in New York City, will direct 8!":;. saies activities for a number of itli t; I'xtfn't various interests, chief of 1 are Willys-Knight and Overland taps': i :,-.r tars. i campaign of trado development 1 t. eip-msion. world vride in its scope, "'V .'.jv has been outlined nnd will be 10 - grated immediately. The John N. Dt it-:- Export corporation will servo k -i in eighty or more countries; in ' "wherever "there is a market for fit i-njuCIS. J iociated with Mr. Willys in tho '' - corporation are K. C. Morse and j Macfadyean, both of whom aro :- live been for a number of years --inent in the automobile and export di, The former is vice president i "general manager and the latter president in charge of sales. Iro;.-- lie Personnel. ) rev- it. Morse has been affiliated with :- automobile industry for more than :'cade and his acquaintance with ex-8 ex-8 fe - trade dates back even farther. Vwinp several years of service with :;i:e western railroads and a period ilOT s-rtivityin tho bicycle business, ho ost :ed the National Cash Eegister com- with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, com-pany, first as a branch manager, then as a district manager, finally as manager man-ager of the export department and vice president -and general manager of tho Goodyear Tire & Rubber company of South America. At the beginning of the war he left the Goodyear company to accept a captain's cap-tain's commission and upon his discharge dis-charge from service allied himself with Mr. Willys. The scope of the new corporation will be practically unlimited. Direct contact between the home of factories and all markets of the world will be established through the export office of New York City. The John N. Willys Export corporation corpora-tion is expected to play an important part in the development and expansion of American business in foreign lands. While established primarily to market the products of the Willys industries, it will aid materially in the universal development of American enterprise throughout the world. " k Ea! for this company in France, hal a Jv, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, and gained first-hand knowledge of : eiport trade. His first connection with the auto- : ::ie industry came in 1907, when he ne commercial manager of the E. : Thomas company of Buffalo, X. Y., ' -iii at the time marketed the output IF!!, : the E. E. Thomas Detroit company. ' jil the organization, of the Hudson - 'Jr Car company, Mr. Morse was III liesilcs mauager. Ho served in that until October, 1916, when he ::;ried to become vice president of Chalmers Motor company. Subse-rKi Subse-rKi '.itly he also assumed the duties of ral manager. He resigned this post J1' : iriy two years ago to join .the Willys-W Willys-W "land interests, representing the y,m in its relations with the TJnit- ;'Jtates government at Washington ag the war period. !!r. Macfadyean comes to the Willys- erland organization after extensive (3 ::frienee as a sales manager and di-TT di-TT ' of export trade covering a pe-I pe-I " i of nearly a score of years. I '!r. Macfadyean served the country : 'be Philippines during the Spanisli- "-ncan war and again in the world "1'tt just closed. I 1501 ho was associated with the 0. Burns company of New York, iers with an extensive- business in and Central America. toner Tire Maker. .later he joined the American Sewer company of Pittsburg and Akron, ' serving as sales manager and saes manager, sales manager and 4 sger durin a piod l je latter year he allied' himself