Show AUTOS I TWO CARLOADS OF AUTOS FOR SHOW SOLD ON ARRiVAL I II I It If the generally accepted theory holds good that selling motorcars is more I Important than snowing showing them there ther will be at least one famous automotive classic among the absent at the big automobile show And this will be no other than the famous distributed distributed dis- dis by the Intermountain Motorcar Motor Motor- I car company Two carloads ot of the new custom built 1919 models were received In Salt Lake for exhibition at the show They were placed In the salesroom ot of the company and in less than a week there wasn't even n a demonstrator on the premises n J S. S O. O S. S was sent to the factory for tor another carload and this is 19 isnow now speeding toward Salt Lake by express Ve have a big standing order with the factory and plenty of orders from customers for tor cars said W V II White local manager of the Intermountain Motorcar company But getting the cars Is another stor story Ve are keepIng keeping keep keep- Ing the telegraph graph wires hot and hope to be In the show with one of our new I models It If this Is Impossible and weare We Weare are unable to borrow one of the new cars which we sold from the first two carloads we will e be In the show with witha a truck and the good new that the great Kissel custom built models art are on the way No sooner did we put the new modem mod els on exhibition until they took the eye of the public They are truly the thelast thelast last word In fine motorcar construction and the reputation gained in inthe inthe the past for tor originality distinctiveness and qualIty has been outdone In the new series The exclusive body designs possess those unique and distinctive features which make and set apart the custom bum built job In fact you would expect to to find such distinctive features of i design and appointment only at the foreign salons were they being held at this time That a large amount ot of the reconstruction recon recon- work now under way or to be undertakes undertaken In the future will be done by motor trucks Is the prediction of G. G A. A Kissel president of the Kissel Motorcar company In a letter to his local distributors ot of passenger cars an and trucks When changing our factory from regular production to war work It was found necessary that steps be tal taken en ento to Insure prompt delivery of raw materials ma- ma parts tools etc from other plants located at some distance To Tomake make malte such deliveries regularly and on schedule time that would permit fun full efficiency of the factory It was found Impossible to depend upon either express express ex- ex press or freight service as furnished by the railroads Motor trucks were pres ed Into service for transportation of materials within a a. range of fifty to sixty miles I These rhese trucks were with large pneumatic truck tires In front and solid dual tires In the rear The latter being used for the reason that pneumatic tires ot of proper dimensions had not been developed at the time These tires permitted a a. speed better I than that which could be maintained I Ion on so sold ld tires and the mileage secured was shown to be much better After Arter miles the pneumatic tires are still In good condition The original casings are still in use and the spare tire furnished with the truck has never 1 been removed from Its compartment The rear tires were changed at about miles The cost of this transportation after atter figuring all operating expense and depreciation depreciation de- de on the truck has been shown to be less than what it would have cost to make the same shipment by rail |