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Show RAPID GROWTH OF AUTQ BUSINESS Many important phases of the automobile auto-mobile industry are brought out in a' communication recently received by Manager O'CarrolI of tho Pacific-Nash Motor company of Ogden. from C. W. Nash, prcsidenl of the Nnsh Motors ! company, nt Kenosha, Wis. j The head of this big motor company discourses on developments of auto in-'dustry in-'dustry and depicts olden times In his j letter. He points out the fact that once it was an accomplishment if a car could go a few miles without trouble, trou-ble, but now a car Is expected to travel thousands of miles under the most adverse ad-verse .conditions without a whimper, j "I am doubtlul if the ordinary individual, in-dividual, owing to the pace at which ! Hie American public is traveling, has (given much consideration to the de-' de-' velopinont of the passenger car or au-, au-, tomobile industry," writes Nash. I "It was not so many years ago thai 1 the automobile made its first appear-'anco appear-'anco on the slrets and with the early 1 models It was considered a real accomplishment ac-complishment if the owner wns ablo to drive It twenty five or fifty miles without mechanical trouble. "I think crenf. ererlit nlirmlrl ho civnn i to Ihe automobile engineering fraternity. fraterni-ty. I am doubtful if any industry in th? last hundred years has made" the ! rapid strides in the direction of perfection per-fection that the automobile has made. We now have arrived at a point when, Jduc to the ene-rgotlc and thoughtful work done by the automobile engineer- in g fraternity, we have a standard i article in the motor car. Automobiles as produced today, regardless of who produces them, are considered as a rule quite reliable. j "I wonder, too, if the public fullv (realizes the magnitude of the automobile automo-bile industry. I believe it Is conceded ,that it is the secoond or third Industrv in our country. The automobile, as it J Is built today, Is no nearly foolproof ; thai a person of very little'experience can drive It in safety over extended trips with a feeling of security. I "It is interesting to observe the ef-j ef-j feet the automobile has had on our everyday business life. Thousands of ; business and professional men have become more or less dependent upon their cars. I Think, if a correct analv-sis analv-sis could be made of the saving and gi eater amount of business accomplished accom-plished by thoir use. as comp.-.rcu to the ordinary method of transportation , tho figures would be astonishing. "Aside from the purely business .phase the development of the automo-'bllo automo-'bllo has brought enjoyment and com-, tort to unlimited numbers of families."! nn |