Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

SUPPLY DEPOT AT PARIS.
Establishment of This Place Proves of
Great Benefit 10 Auto l.nthusi-
asts--incrcascs Sales.

Statistics throwing an interesting
light on the cars usad by Americans
III touring abroad have been gathered
| by the George N. Pierce company of
iidttttlo. Tho st2uotics have been pre-
pared from reformation furnished by
express, freiEht forwarding and stean1-
STRIP companies and Nttie they do not,
perhaps, include every car shipped to
Europe for touring purposes during
the INtst " months IL Is believed they
| .s!tIElt'' 5t!Gpt!gss. 10 gtE.s TErrrfy M"
rurate idea of tho ears used by Amnri-
cans Ia Europe aud the proportion nj
American ana foreign made ears used
FOR thitt purpose.
only "A comparatively few years as1
an .InerIt.ln made ear II, Europe and
Gsed tor touring was II rarity. This
was in the early days of the motor car
industry in this country when Amerl-
cans believed that ii was far cheaper
10 buy foreign car FOR use In Europe
III 1891 and 1905, however, a few pt-
oneers began to take their American
cars to Europe ana in 1906 so cXten-
siSc had this custom become that the
George n. Pierce company established
a depot III Paris for the furnishing OF
parts and supplies tor the use OF Pierce
Arrow owners in Europe.
That the American now prefers to
use his home built car in Europe is
shown In a striking manner by the
siatictics prepared, The reports re-
#ceived snow that of the cars taken
abroad for touring purposes slightly
over 10 per cent were of American
manufacture and less than 25 per cent
We're of European make. In 1905 these
percentages would have been just the
other way. The figures on the makes
Of cars used shows that of the entire
number, both American and foreign
an even unefourth We're Pierce Ar
rows OF the American cars alone
Pierce, Arrows amounted to almost one
in three. Even more satisfactory than
this from a Pierce standpoint Is the
fact that almost as many Pierce Ar
rows were shipped abroad by Ameri-
cans for touring as all the foreign
makes combined, the proportion being
seven Pierce Arrows to eight foreign
made cars.
There is another phase of the mat
lei, on which, obviously. no percentage
figures could be obtained. Formerly
many automobile owners who tour III
Europe each year made practise of
keeping cars on both sides Of the AZ,
lantic. one u European car they used
for touring in Europe and another
American. for use in this country. Dur
ing the time they We're in the United
States the. car in Europe would be
stored there. Now, however, all thi',
Is changed. fully tnfee-IOuftnS OF IN"
people who had adopted this custom,
steamship and express officials says,
have changed and now own but orj
car. generally of American make: and
take this to Europe with them. What
figures We're obtainable show that the
proportion of Pierce Arrow owners
among this class is even greater than
the proportion of Pierce Arrow owners
among all American cars taken abroad.
Officials of. the company believe that
this fact can be traced directly to the
Of the depot of supplies
at Paris, Before the depot was estab
lished it was necessary for tourists us
ing American cars in IIurope either to
carry spare parts with them or, II
any We're needed, to wait until they
could be made at some European fac
tory or sent from America. Now, how
ever, an American using Pierce
car in Europe. should he need
supplies of any kind, has only to tele-
graph TO the Paris depot. This CON
has come to he greatly appre-
cinted and in Il number OF instances
sales have been traced directly to that
fact .t