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Show j DO YOU KNOW: j ; f That there was invested in a total 01 T50 companies making finished automobiles automo-biles or trucks in 1013, $730,(11)0,000. That experts now estimate the amount invested in complete vehicle building companies at moro than $1,-500,000,000. $1,-500,000,000. That in 1917, 238 par.scnper car factories fac-tories (including the Ford) produced 1,71?. 77S cars, and that this year because be-cause of tliorlnjre of raw materials and labor unrest production of passenger cars may be cut to less than 1,500,000. That it is estimated distributors and dealers throughout the country have ordered or-dered from the passenger car factories this year about 500,000 more cars than the manufacturers can produce. That statistics compiled for the 1919 truck production in America estimate the number of trucks to be manufactured manufac-tured this vear at 350.000 as airninst 227,250 in" 1918. August "Motor Land," San Francisco. |