The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-24
THE AUTOMOBILE WORLD
CLOSE OF COMMERCIAL
VEHICLE SHOW

CLOSE OF COMMERCIAL
 VEHICLE SHOW
 New Forks first exhibition of com mereial motor vehicles ended Satur- day night when the doors were closed the, eleventh national automobile show, which the Association of Li- sened Automobile Manufacturers con ducted in Madison Square Garden for . the past two weeks. The attendance during the past week was very much greater than either the exhibitors or show committee had expected and the exhibitors of freight-carrying vehi- cles took good many orders for cars and made arrangements for demon strations with a great many business firms who intend buying commercial cars
 The part one period of the eleventh national show was often referred to as an educational show,' owing to the large number of exhibitors of pas senger cars who showed chassis of their cars. but the part two period of the show was an educational one in a larger sense. The public has had opportunities for more than ten years to study motor vehicles of the passen- ger-carrying kind in shows held in the Garden, but motor driven trucks and delivery wagons have just had their first exclusive exhibition so that the part two period of the show was an educational one for thousands of men who will some time use motor vehicles in the delivery systems of their businesses.
 Many a merchant who visited the Garden last week went there secure in the belief that horse-drawn wag- ons and trucks were all right for his business but arranged for demonstra- >( ff4 nd n freight-carrying vehicles before he left the Garden. The exhibitors of trucks and delivery wagons made care full plans for the commercial car week of the show. and the men they put in charge of the exhibits were we'll posted on the vehicles they had to talk about
 Some of the firms that exhibited in the Garden last week did not follow the popular plan of having demOnstat- ing cars of each of their models ready outside the Garden They declared that a hurried demonstration of a commercial motor vehicle is generally so unsatisfactory that it is better to wait until a show Is over and then ar range for the desired demonstration by sending a vehicle to the prospeL- tive buyer to do some of his regular delivering of goods.
 Colonel George Pope. chairman of
 
 tion of Licensed Automobile Manufac- turers, expressed himself as very much pleased over the success that at tended the two weeks of the eleventh national automobile show. In all his long experience with automobile shows, Colonel Pope declared he had never seen such hearty interest shown by the exhibitors and he warmly praised the officials and employees of the firms that were represented both weeks for their cooperation with 1he show committee to make the eleventh national show the immense success it was.
 Colonel Pope characterized the ex hibitors in the two parts of the show as members of big business family who remained uniformly courteous to each other during the past two weeks that Madison Square Garden has been used for displaying motor vehicles and accessories. The good feeling shown by the men in the spaces naturally pleased Colonel Pope, as it had a big share in assuring the success of the chow and in keeping the troubles of the show committee down to a mini n1um-
 Alfred Reeves, general manager of khe Association of Licensed Auton1o- bile Manufacturers and a member of the show committee, declared that the eleventh national automobile show was the greatest industrial exhibition ever held in this country. He said that ex- hibitors of cars during each week had sold a great many vehicles and that he had heard nothing but praise for the manner in which the show was conducted. Mfr Reeves thinks the at- tendance of visitors during the show is the most convincing answer that could be made to some of the pessi- mistic talk heard recently about the prospects for the American automo- bile industry.
 Charles Fl. Green, manager of the automobile show to be held in Brook lyn next month. said he believed the unparalleled success of the Garden Show assured the success of tine Brooklyn exhibition. He praised the careful planning of the show commit tee and was particularly enthusiastic over the show committees achieve ment in getting the passenger cars out of the building and the freight carry ing vehicles into the spaces between eleven on Saturday night and eight o'clock Monday evening. He thought that the show committees plan of in stalling the two big electric elevators was one of the best ideas he had ever seen at any kind of an indoor extibf- tion, as it facilitated getting cars in md out of tho building.