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Show HI W1LLYS-0VERUBIDI COW! EXPANDS II Cll w I nm Canadian company, known jip the Willys-Overland Limited. hP,s.just been organized in Canada. It will have a capital of six million dollars with head offices In Toronto. Mr John N. Willys, head of The Willys-Overland Company of Toledo, ulll be president of the-Willye-Over-land Limited. T. A.-Russell, at present vice president of the Russell .Motor Car companj of Canada, will be vice president Five of the directors of The Willys Overland company of Toledo will be dfrectoie of ths new company These five are J. X. Willys H T. Dunn, V.'al-fer V.'al-fer Stewart, Harry Shepler, C. A. Earl of Toledo, T. A. Russell and Lloyd Han is of Toronto, and two of tli1 other Canadian stockholders will also be on the Board This new company will take over the complete automobile business of the Russell Motor Car company and all of the business in Canada of The Willys-Overland company. . Although the Canadian company will be independent of the parent com-panj com-panj and will be run and conducted entireh independent as a Canadian corporation it will have the advantage of the advice and engineering skill of The Willys-Overland company organisation. organi-sation. The plan is to undertake in Canada the actual manufacture of both Over-laud Over-laud and Willys-Knight automobiles or this purpose, the plant of the Russell Rus-sell Motor Car company of Toronto has already been acquired, and this will quickly be enlarged to permit quantity production Adequate arrangements will be made for distribution throughout the Dominion, and particular attention will be given to the provision of service ser-vice facilities for Overland and Willys-Knight Willys-Knight owners. The plans in this direction di-rection call for facilities which will surpass anything previously undertaken underta-ken In Canada. In fact, the organization organi-zation will, in its facilities and equipments, equip-ments, probably equal anything in the states. The policy to go Into manufactutc and assembly in Canada will give, employment em-ployment to a large number of people. Advertisement. " |