Show r I The Th Automobile T 4 By DR FRANK CRANE W. W 1 P. P Herbert of oC th the Chandler Chandl Distributors company com corn pany furnishes heS 5 some me Interesting statistics about the automobile Tw Twenty five y years ars ago the motor car was still an experiment And regarded retarded by many as a. a toy or a a. fad tad V Very rY few manufacturers were producing efficient n ma machines a- a chines s and those were fashioned after atter the familiar buggy But at the beginning of the y year tr al' 1927 there was One one automobile r registered red for tor eV every ly five persons in the United St States tes or ot motor vehicles e per cent of the families In th the United States own mot r cars The motor Industry pays pas about a year in wages to nearly persons person Taxes that amount to are collected from the tM Industry which ranks first In the tM country In v value lue of ot its products r ducts and third In ex Ox- Ox ports Ab About 14 per cent of all aU the rolled Iron and steel o o of the country Is used in manufacturing auto auto- nit mobiles biles Fifty l per r pent cent nt of f the plate-glass plate pro produced In th the thc United States 63 per cent of ot the Upholstered leather and 11 per c cent of the hardwood used here besides 84 per cent of the crude rubber used in th the country roes poes toward this Ind Industry stry Seven and one one- one half hal per cent of the total exports is represented by the automotive Industry The automobile is not only a luxury One can b hardly transact his business today without it it Five hundred railroads in the United States and Canada use this service and many more ate are r using motor buses Thousands of ot firms are using mOtorcars motor motorcars motorcars cars and trucks for delivery purposes The Th automobile has lias brought town and ad country countr closer together It has thinned the dense dense- population of the major cities It has been Men a boon to th the farmers by making possible rapid transportation of their crops to market In spite of the enormous growth of the Industry Is still a lively market both at home and abroad for cars The replacement market is getting larger constantly as well wen as the two-car two field I The immense growth of ot the Ford Motor company company and the General Motor company Is well wen known Who Tho shall shaH sa say what Is 15 the tut future r of the automotive In Industry Industry industry In- In T Copyright 1928 1926 McClure Newspaper Syndicate ate |