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Show "Tin Cans" Take Lizzie for a Ride The 'tin lizzie" may have dis. appeared from Utah highways, but the "tin can" is more important im-portant than ever in the lives of motorists. The state's 197,000 car owners are just as dependent today on canned auto accessories as housewives are on canned foods, according to American Can company, com-pany, manufacturer of metal containers. The firm explained, however, that modern cans automobile au-tomobile supplies are just about as tinless as the "tin lizzie" of yesteryear. Most of the containers are made of attractively lithographed litho-graphed steel plate. C. W. Parry, Utah district sales manager for the company that has developed special cans for such auto supplies as anti -freeze, motor oil and polishes, said that motorists now regularly buy about 30 different products in cans to keep their cars on the roads. The items, he explained, range all the way from grease to windshield cleaner and among others include radiator additives, carbon removers, tire repair kits and waxes and cleaners of many kinds. "Providing the American motorist mo-torist with canned supplies and accessories has grown into a big business a business measured in terms of two and one-quarter billions of cans a year," said Mr. Parry. "That averages out to about 50 containers annually for every car in the U. S." |