Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 21 | Normal Buying and Selling Looms for Automobile Dealers

I formal Buying and ' I I Selling Looms for i Automobile Dealers iC Hp . t right In lir ill 1 iJWJ Bitl thU c o 1 1 -J 1 1 1 . n uinot go onj W 'i . : rn - y . H nffei harm th it will t ik b rf.;.lr, shall I Mi6"' M b'-ylnc and m-lllng. Wh.-n 21 '! bu from B?rtod of ''ilk I. djk W&t t)at it-. i It "t0 lr bcU te 111, P lo r.f.inmi w I fM I "-Piously nn,i pr., ' W 1 r m W,., Ume actuallv arrived W 'ual r-r firm that ln- V Kin automoblle . 'J th- purcl i8 tor ml'? S11 - Mortage ol In- C'l EuVv h"r" ' ill cars alld . Istratlons for thai year, you find how, many cars have been scrapped. For inst.uK., up to and including ISM a. three million automobiles and trucks hud been built. In 19 If. there' w.-ro not quite two and one-half mil-1 lion cars and trucks In use, as shown by registrations. which means thai j more than one-half million had gone out of service- n this basis of figurine; fig-urine; it can be shown that betwet n one and one and a half million nirsi und trucks will be snapped in 19L'lj and will have to be replaced, In ad-1 .iltioii. tber-.- i a norm.. I xpe-etat ion of at least one million hilt buyers. The fact Is. even If you discount these, figures, the automobile Industry prob-ably prob-ably has not facilities enough to man-j Ufacture all the ears that will be actually ac-tually needed, even If the Industry were running On a full production basis which It Is not. SHORTAGJ I I I.I. Second The shortage will be telt this coming spring The automobile.! like many other :irticles, Is gradually "used up." Bxtra care will make It, live somewhat past Its normal period I of usefulness, but It must be discarded j sooner or later. You cannot make million automobiles run beyond their, allotted ' life periods"' without suddenly, sud-denly, at the end of that time, having hav-ing a demand for a million new automobile. auto-mobile. This spring, at the latest, the de-j mand Will begin to arrive In a notlce-able notlce-able degrei and then what will hap-J pen? The reserve stock of new cars In the country is not half as largo as ithi public thinks, and under any real demand this stock will melt away like snow und. r a hot sun- Then there will follow a scramble on the part of manufacturers to get Into production pro-duction again. That does not sound ii Milling, but do you know that after an automobile plant Is reopened, Jt takes al bast Ullrtj days to produce the first car. sixty days to got regular reg-ular production established, and ninety nine-ty day to build production up to the plant's full i-.t.a lt ? Tie s, are conservative con-servative statements and they indicate not only a shortage of cars in 1921, but a Shortage "Ids corning spring. I s.l i ( U. Third You are losing the use of a new car. The old automobile can be made to serve little longer, peril per-il i. . but there always comes a time When Ll Is not only cheaper but more-Satisfactory more-Satisfactory in a score of ways to let meone else worry over your old car .hi. i . 1 1 ice- a new one yourself. In thcfc foregoing we have made a number of statements, both of fact and opinion, which wo believe will bo borne out by tlv experience of the next few months. We do not prophesy a sudden, great revival of general business but we do say that tho tldo is definitely turning. And we say that It is going to take s much longer than most people expect t get the factory wheels turning again thnl 'lullc a few pdrSOhS who have really found It wise to hold off purchases until now will find It very unwise to hold off much longer. Wo express ihls Judgment only after the most careful study of all the available facts 00 The middle western States lead the nation in the ownership of automobiles automo-biles per capita. oo Motor tractors are suc cessfully supplant sup-plant lux horses n logging operations I In I roll wood, Mleh.