Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-11
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which has manifested itself since the |
beginning of the new season, the |
Studebaker Automobile Company of |
South Bend, Ind, has made a separ, |
ate department of this branch of the |
automobile industry. Advices from /!
the Studebaker factory state that |
that organization will. from now on,
build electric pleasure and CONNER
ciul vehicles on a larger scale than
any automobile manufacturing con-
Germ in the country.
Hayden Eames, general manager
OF the concern. gives as another rea-
son for the segregation of the cleo
lric vehicles from the gasoline. the
act that the manufacturing Of the
utter class has reached such propor-
Ions during the past year that the
ecessity Of a separate department
IS been experienced many times.
Eames says that already the
lount of electric vehicle work done
the Studebakers Is exceedingly
rye. All of this Eames attributes
Nthe fact that during the past few
months the public has been made to
ealize that the progress of the cleo
.ric vehicle has been retarded by
misapplication of its uses.
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The automobile business for 1910
will be more than double that of the
1909 season." c. A. Hawkins, Paci-
fic Coast manager of the White Com
pany, made that statement upon his
return to San Francisco from an ex-
tensive trip through the East and
Middle West. Continuing, the prom
jnent automobile authority remark
ed:
with cotton at 10 cents per
pound, the entire South, with the
exception of Texas, where the crop is
short, will buy automobiles in great
quantities. and with wheat at S1.0O
q bushel in the field, and other farm
conditions better than they have ever
been In the history of the country,
the agriculturalist is truly king, and
The great grain belt of the country
Will take enormous quantities of au-
Ubmobiles, and as the prosperity and
purchasing capacity of the farmer
is the basis of the success of all 9TH
er lines of business in this country,
IL means that the manufacturing and
distributing centers will do the big
Gest business in their history. The
railroad companies are placing enor-
nous orders for extra equipment.
and the year 1910 promises to be a
better business year than any that
have ever gone before in our his
Tory. The boom is already being felt
in the East and will surely strike the
Pacific Coast by spring.
THE White factory have more
Than doubled their floor space and
will build three times as many au-
1omobiles the coming year as they
have ever built before. or this out
put, about one-half will be steam
a'nd one-half gasoline.
THE new White Gasoline Car is
The sensation of the automobile in
dustry in the East. The Panhard
factories in France have Just an
nounced almost the exact duplicate
of the White car which we are now
delivering, which they expect tt
have ready for delivery next spring
a number of American factories o.
high-class cars we have discovered
have purchased White Gas cars ant
are planning to copy many of tn,
features in their 1911 models. Elk
IRENE simplicity and wonderful eff
cheney of the car will unquestlonabl,
make 1t the popular medium ?pricel
car of the year, and the enormous
strength and large wearing surfaces
OF the parts are calculated to brini
the American product in advance o
even the best foreign product fo
durability. The tendency of tn,
times is for an automobile somewha
better made than the so-called popu
lar-priced product, and at the sam
time, lighter in weight and less cum
bersome than most of the large Anne
rican-made cars. The average Anne
rican buyer is buying more discrim
inatingly than formerly, and recog
ni2es the cost of tire up-keep as
big features, and therefore desires
light car, and, at the same time, h
wants hlgh-class construction
which, until the advent of the ncN
White Gas car, he was unable to &c
except in high-priced and unne
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