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Show 1ERICI CAB DESIGNS LEAD j Times have changed Whereas In i tho days prior to the great war the! American motor car makers feent th sir experts to Europe to seek the very best in design and manufacture, European Euro-pean makers are today sending their experts to America to study the latesl methods of manufacturing motor en , ir. quantity and of bringing forth large outputs with which to meet the d mand. Years ago before the War American engineers traveled through Europe and returned to America sat-r sat-r ih'd that America was producing tlv best car for the least money and an astounding quantities. One of America's pioneer manufae-turers manufae-turers and designers, some v ears prior to the war, went to Europe to design a car to manufacture in America and to embody the latest in European design. de-sign. Today this man is busily at work In Detroit completing tie plans for the manufacture of an American car in j France, a car designed American style, 1 and to be manufactured under American Ameri-can quantity production methods. In this car it is not the plan to follow anything but American methods nor is t it the plan to use other than Amerl-J can material And American marline -ry will be shipped to France to i ;ut out the general plans while the tooling tool-ing up will be done in America under; American ideas. This situation is one which has' Cl used unlimited comment as it is the start of a new era. It has been said that Detroit is the best advertised city In the world. A leader in the Indus-try Indus-try once explained this when lie said: "Every time any one looks at an automobile au-tomobile anywhere in the world He jii-, naturally thinks 'Detroit'" oo |