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Show m mm iote JIS m SHORTAGE jarth of Autos Greater ?Than Anticipated, Says Manager Foreman. jtienca a postwar appetite for motor ;: s seems to be insatiable. tte can soil 'em. ' is now the jovful of automobile row from end to end. ,nd then the dealers chant in lugubn- : chorus: But we can t get 'em to deliver. Jid these dealers can t be booked on charge of flirting with the truth. ' There is. at the present time, a snort-age snort-age of passenger cars."' sa.ld Jj. D Foreman Fore-man of the Inter-Mountain Motor company, com-pany, local distributor of KisselKar sixes. the snortage is even greater than we anticipated, and when we predicted pre-dicted a shortage earlier in the year we took into consideration the fact that most of tae automobile plants would not be back to normal production until July 1 at the earliest. ' But even with the factories turning out automobiles at their normal prewar rate there would not be suf neient cars to satistv the present demand. This demand de-mand is so tremendous and insistent that another burden has been put on the shoulders of t lie automobile builders- who have gradually lightened their rhange-of-production load until it now weighs very little. With all government contracts completed, com-pleted, the KisselKar companv. for example, ex-ample, must now exert everv resource to fill orders from distributors and dealers tnat have been on the books since carlv sprint. This will require moro than lust a normal on tout. It means the building of more cars during the next six months tnan ever were built oefore m the Kissel factories during a hali-vear period "If anvone doubts that tne present demand for motor cars is anything but tremendous, all he need do is to stndv the statistics, which show that the orders taken in the first three months of 1913 exceeded in number the cars sold during the entire twelve months of 191$. Our Mr White is now at the factory with tne hope of being able to speed up deliveries to this territory." |