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Show ICAR SHORTAGE i PROBLEM 'Delay in production Is certain ii practically ail automobile plant throughout the country this year, du to several unusual conditions, the most important of which is shortage of cer lain materials," is the statement made by llaaager Malan of the Goodale-oco-ville company. "The automobile buying public does not realize in slightest degree the difficulties dif-ficulties which will confront thorn when tney decide to purchase and take delivery of an automobile in the spring This year the automobile they I select in the spring is unlikely to bej ready for delivery at that time, due to the most unusual and most threatening1 j conditions that have confronted the i automobile industry from the time o I its inception. "Everyone, of course, is generally familiar with the fact that shortage of material are constantly arisil ,t r What they do not realize is that these shortages are serious enough to hamper ham-per greatly the efforts of all manufacturers. manufac-turers. This, coupled with disorganized disorganiz-ed and congested railroad traffic and the lack of coal in some sections, will oblige automobile manufactories to slow down, if not for a period of indeterminable in-determinable length, suspend operations opera-tions entirely. "Prospective automobile buyers who intend to order and obtain a motor car late in the season should be acquainted acquaint-ed with the unfortunate conditions surrounding sur-rounding the automobile industry today to-day for their own benefit. Nothing is to be gained by hiding the facts. |