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Show CLOSED AUTOS NOW NUMEROUS Growth of Popularity Since 1916 Startling; Figures Given Comparing the number of closed cars In operation ut present with those runnlng In 1916. brings to light a startling fact. There are now L.6S5.-1 000 closed cars In operation. This Is 16 per cent of the total car registration. regis-tration. In 1916 the percentage of closed to open models was only 1 per cent. Of the closed models at present In use, over half are light cars. In 1918, only 71.000 closed care were turned out. In 1919. 197.444. or 10 per cent of the total registration. Two years later 1921, production of closed models had risen to 816,000, or 1 0 per cent of all of the cars built that year. It Is believed that the output this year will approximate 6.ir..000 Miller lire men sav that tho rapid Increase In the popularity of the closed car has I taken the automobile business out of the seasonable class and made It a year around proposition. Today there Is a gradually mounting demand for tires in the winter season. In cold weather, people want their cars Just as comfortable ns possible. Contrary to the practlco of two year! ago when machines customarily were stored for tho winter months, people now require them the year around pome makers today turn out as high flP pi per e n! of I h ir ' nMi . , nnual output In closed cars. There does not seem to be anv limit to which this part of the business mav go Not so many years Ago the closed car model was an exceptlona4ly scarce article jo oe seen on the street. Economy In volume production was ati of tho question so th0 price was kept up and the demand restricted. Them the automobile was u luxury for the majority. a refinement of construction be-ean be-ean to unfold themselves and Stand-ardlzatlon Stand-ardlzatlon became a fact tho scaling down of former prices and the perfection perfec-tion of the simpler models caused pro-Auction pro-Auction effort to turn to more elaborate elabo-rate models That all of this has been accomplished ll seen In the number-Tew number-Tew closed cars that may bo bought at moderate prices. |