Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-15 | Page 18 | Defense May Bar New Autos

Defense May Bar New Autos If you are goinr to want a new car. It might be wise to get it soon. The wartime economy which Is emerging will not leave much Industrial capacity for satisfying sat-isfying whims of those who think they have ben driving the old jalopy long enough. Coupes, se- ' dans and convertibles are going to make way for airplanes and trucks and tanks. Dealers' showrooms show-rooms may begin looking quite . roomy before long. Canada now is producing twice as many trucks at passenger cars. Normally the turnout Is four pas-aenger pas-aenger cars for each truck. In this country large-scale army orders or-ders for trucks and tanks will cut down the productive capacity for passenger vehicles. Automobile - production machinery and mechanical me-chanical personnel are to be diverted, di-verted, probably Increasingly, to airplane production. At long last we have learned that all-out defense de-fense production cannot permit peacetime business at usual. Moreover, our machine tool capacitylimited ca-pacitylimited in Its expansion ability by acute shortage' of skilled workers has more important impor-tant things on Its mind than setting set-ting up the carmakers to change the chrome work on a radiator, er the lines of a hood, or the shape of the headlights, in order that next year's model may look different from this. We won't have to change cars often for a . while, to keep up with the styles. There won't be any styles. Copyright. 1941, McClurt Syndicate