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Show HEAVY SALE OF AUTOMOBILES October Establishes Two Records for Motor Car Industry BY WHITOOMB WILLIAMS. PETROIT, Mich. Deo. The month or October established two records for tho automobile Industry. It WBS tho seventh consorutlvo month of the year to show a production In excess of 200,000 cars and truck'), an 1 it brought tho flpurx for tho ten month vorlod to vlthin a few thousand thou-sand of the total output for thc best previous year In iho production history his-tory of the Industry. An Indication of further expansion In early spring Is the prcat number of dealers who aro at this early date flocklnR to tho hub of tho motor 'n-dustry 'n-dustry to arrange for If U3 retail supply. sup-ply. Sorno nro promised the quota of cars they auk; others are booked for less than the number applied for. while no small number would take more were they euro of sufficient railroad rail-road facilities to get tho cars into their territory. This, too, is looked upon by manufacturers as a serious problem, it is tho one, that hold down the production of the present year, for the railroads were not only unablo to meet the shipping demand for the finished product, but also In moving raw materlalto thc great automobilo plants of llichlgan. if the 2,'joo.ooo.ooo tons 11 ft o i by the railroads of this country had not been supplemented by the 1,400,000 -ooo tons carried by motor vehicles this last year, there probably would havo been an utter collapse," according to Julius H. Barnes, president of tho Transcont ln ntal Le'eloplnp company. In an address before the Detroit board of commerce. Mr. Barnes' belief Is that the motor industry still Is In Its Infancy and that the future of motor transportation transporta-tion Is a difficult problem on which to speculate He announced that the transportation situation lias been saved by thc Introduction of a new and real factor through the unregulated unregu-lated motor Industry and tho public I highways In the field of motor transport tho play of natural laws of supply and demt&d has saved the day," he added, j The advantaso of motor transport With Its flexibility of delivery and its elasticity of route services clearly ap- parent so lonp n.s tho public highways ufford road beds free and open to Us , operation." While factories, as a whole, aro still behind on unfilled orders It Is probable prob-able that there will be a tapcrlnp off In production during the late days Of , November., although the present de- j mand for cars shows no signs of weak- i enlnpr. The manufacturers aro rontT- ' Injc their efforts on closed models, for' they anticipate a heavy demand fori that style of car. ' Reports from all sections of Mie country show that there Is only a QpHltible Blocking up of open cars. nrr(, h St the present time riot more han nr.r month's supply of open cars n tho dealers' hands, or on route to bcm. This fact lndioutcs that tho j entire production is being sold and that manufacturers are not producing I in excess of actual demand. |