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Show Auto Business Showing Signs Of Added Life In, America Says Big Expert I Confident optimism as to the future j I ol the automobile Industry was dls-j i played by executives of 103 passenger (car and truck manufacturing coni-p. coni-p. tines, who attended the quarterly members' meeting of the National An-tomobile An-tomobile Chamber of Commerce. This i optimism also was rofleclcd at the sessions ses-sions of the motor truck manufacturers manufactur-ers hejd recently In Chicago Ji was evident at tho New York gathering that conditions are expected to Improve rapidly after the first of the year and that it is believed there will bo a marked turn for the better i In automobile sulcs in tho early spring, after the shows, which are declared to be arousing more Interest this year than ever before. UoporLs to the chamber of com- merce read ol the meeting disclosed that shipments for September were, larger than for the same month last fear. The reports indicate that com-! plete reports from all lact ui b - should 'show shipments of I'O.OOO carloads, 23,-! uoo driveaways and 5,3-10 cars shipped i by boat during the month There woi, i . v i i ..irlooj shipments than m j September, 1919, but the driveaways and boat shipments more than made up the difference. A ton, ot decided optimism, concerning con-cerning the immediate business future, Amis CUnent throughout all of the sessions ses-sions of tho .Motor Truck Manufactur-lers' Manufactur-lers' association held In Chicago re-Iccntly. re-Iccntly. The meeting was attended by executives of tho leading motor truck 1 manufacturing companies, and silb-jjiils silb-jjiils having to do with the manufacture, manufac-ture, sales and financing of the motor truck business wete discussed In dc- tall. snow m w 1.11 r "Business Is showing signs of new hr and great prosperity ta on the Way, ' declared David Thomas, general manager of the association, in the key. not address of the meeting. "The necessary post-war adjustments are being mad"- slowly. Indeed, but surely.' Whatever prosperity is ahead for the; Industries of this country, one ihlng, is certain, and that is that the motor truck industry Is sure to come in for. its share. Inasmuch as this Industry is absolutely vital to the solution of the, problems of production und dlstribu-j tion "During the last six nonths there hns been B great general awakening to the imperative demand for efficient transportation, it took the breakdown break-down In our regular transportation futilities fu-tilities to make the American people fully appreciate 'be part that the motor mo-tor truck can and will play In overcoming over-coming the difficulties that wo have experienced In the past. PI BLI4 u IKE, "The awakening of the publll to the appreciation of highway transportation transporta-tion of highway I ransportatlot Is proved conclusively by the astounding fact that right now' there Is more than $mhi 1 .1100 available for "highway construction. This great expenditure jof money is good business and it no ins that those ohstncles which have previously handicapped the manufacturing manufac-turing and sale of motor trucks arc certainly and surely giving way because be-cause the public Is solidly for highway transportation. The public wants the motor truck and It Is spending millions Of dollars in developing motor truck transportation to its highest degree of I efficiency." |