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Show If SPECIAL TRAIN ! I OF AUTOMOBILES , 9 Tho Howard Automobile company Mm rind the Buick Motor company an- Snounce the largest single automobllo transaction that has over been made In the history of the automobile busl- U neBs, ThIB is the shipment of a Bolld Wi special tralnload of Buick automobiles I This tralnload Is made up of seventy - 1 i five double-decked carloads, contaln- -t I B lng 375 Duick automobiles, valued at '4 flg practically half a million dollars, the I I total value In oxact figures being 1 m $482,400. J 9, This shipment Is made undor one i Wj bill of lading, and a sight draft for 1 III tn0 iTnount ot tho ontiro shipment 91 will be met by the Howard Automo- II -M bilo company "on the arrival of the II tralnload. This will nccessitato the -M largest check ever signed by an auto- fl M' mobile dealer In favor of a manufac- j W turer for a single shipment in the hlfitory of the industry, being tho rec- fll ord for large checks, which was made IV- bv tho Howard Automobile company ' f In paying for their largest trainload ' lust year, which contained 254 muff mu-ff chines, valued at $341,000. Beats All Records. m Prominent railroad officials state I that this trainload of Buick automo-I automo-I biles is the largest single shipment I J of firnt-claso freight that has ever M i been handled In the United States. M 1 The ahipment comes over the Rock M ttf Island to Denver, the Union Pacific tB I to Ogdon, and goes west from here 41 over the Southern Pacific to San 9 Francisco. mk I That thlB deal Js creatmS a sensap- gm I tion In the automobile trade can bo fM readily understood when it Is stated "M , that the freight alone on this ship- M i J ment will amount to approximately J $32,000. iH One of the greatest problems with SB J which the Buick Motor company had 9 ' to contend in making this enormous jj t tralnload shipment was tho securing fm I of seventy-five automobile freight 1 cars of uniform size at one time, there z9I I being at the present time in the east jfll J Buch a shortage of automobile freight a) equipment that automobile factories 91 In general have trouble in getting 9 enough cars in which to ship their W production. It has taken the Buick 9 Motor company all of thirty days to 9j get the necessary cars for this traln-I traln-I j load, over and above what the' need W for their dally shipments. j9 A representative of the railroad B i company will accompany this spe-:JB spe-:JB cial train from Chicago to the coast B I The two sections of the trainload will H j be consolidated at Ogden for photos' photo-s' I graphic purposes There will also nl be moving pictures taken of the spe-M spe-M cial. |