Show 1919 Exceeded All Records S In hi Output of Motor Vehicles the small email production of motorcars during the tho first N N three months of ot 1919 Just following the signing of the armistice when the industry was practically on a a. per cent war basis motorcar and truck manufacturers made such gigantic strides during the following nine nino months that the years year's production of motor vehicles exceeds al all previous records Including 1917 when cars and trucks were produced r according to Alfred Reeves Beeves general manager of tho the national automobile of CU chamber vi v. i commerce C uc CU vi v. i commerce C uc The wholesale value of ot cars produced brought the Industry almost to the two dollar billion-dollar class Passenger car production t ns s I slightly less than in 1917 totaling as asro against 1 for 1917 The truck production pro 11 fl ro however however r ol increased substantially b rising from In 1918 to moro than in 1919 1019 The total wholesale value of ot passenger cars was an average of 82 per car while the th truck value was t an average of 1338 per vehicle according to Reeves' Reeves refO report The total value A AThe products product was which when combined with the wholesale value of bodies spare tires and accessories to equip the cars or trucks ready for tor the owners owner's use uee brings the industry close to the two billion dol lar tar class with a practical certain that this year its position will b bd second only to steel among the manufacturing Industries industries industries indus Indus- tries of the country countr The Tho rapid advance of ot the truck has resulted from its meritorious performance mance 1 in the war in general n c commercial r m CI life in connection 0 with rural l motor cx- cx press prees lines and in practically every other department of ot commerce says Reeves Keeves it Busses being are worthy increasing of r note fe feI feh I in that h great e in i Newark number N N. J. J pa passengers were carried by busses during the firSt fim half halt of 0 1919 th the fares n amounting o ng to o. o l g ig 1 se Passenger p car p production In 1920 should be not far from cars oars with truck production to It will depend larg largely ly on materials materIal particularly particularly par par- in connection with closed cars for which the tho demand is increasing tre tro- tro- tro S S Exports ar are now only abOut abut but this should increase substantially substantially substantially during the next few tew years The worlds world's markets are being cov covered red by the automobile Industry our automobiles goIng goIng going go- go Ing last year to one eighty-one different countries including Iceland which bought twenty-one twenty cars and antI two trucks There l Is Is' a normal replacement annually of about 16 per cent of or the cars and trucks in use JIse Final figures from the various states would indicate that almost al al- al almost almost most motor vehicles now are registered and running in the United States alone Of this number about 10 per cent are ate trucks The biggest percent percentage ge of ot increase In Inthe inthe the registration of cars during th the last last- two ye years rs has been in the agricultural I districts Th Tile lea leaders lers are Tennessee Alabama Louisiana and Georgia where the percentage of Increase over 1918 has ranged from 29 per cent down to 30 ic 6 per cent New York has the tho g eato t number I of cars registered ap approximately 0 or on one for every eighteen I persons in the state Ohio is second with about Nebraska and Iowa are pretty close I e for forthe forthe r tP b the honor o of the tho t greatest number of cars I per capita Iowa with and Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Ne Ne- braska with or one car for every six and one one-h one half lt persons Mississippi has las the fewest cars registered less Jess than one for tor every fifty persons with Alabama Alabama Ala Ala- bama next with one for every fort forty forty- three persons person Better roads are expected to o change this situation during 1919 |