The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-10
Automobile News
Nopeafies and Tnnprovennents.

Nopeafaes and MnrFoVementss
 No aaatornobale show of recent years has produced as many novelties and surpxfaan6 Improvements in design, as win be seen at the Fifteenth Annual Nation6ld Automobile Show under the auspices of the National Automobile Chamfsr Of Commerce. which is to be held ia Grand Central Palace, N. one season to another has revealed such marked strides in the matter of of equipment, refinements of detail, new ideas in accessories,- as we'll as cs the coming 1915 season. The war in Europe, coupled with the Pana1na Pacific exposition and the San Diego exposition on the Pacific boast con spire to send tourists across this coun- try instead of out of it during the next few months. and motorists are look ing forward to seeing magnificent stretet1es of our own land by auto mobile while on the road to the Pa, cific.
 Pensions His Oar.
 A man who runs a, general store in a small town in Illinois, writes: If you want to explore my barn you'd find a pretty weatherbeasten and bat tered old car standing in one corner, and right next to 1t is 8 spick and
 
 me a week ago When your new model was announced I decided to buy ofe and offered the old rig for. sale A fellow came along and offer ed to buy sit at good price. go T showed him how to operate it and he prepared to drive 1t away. The wife, the kiddies and myself watched him crank up and climb in and we all felt pretty choky all around. We were all thinking Of the countless good times we had in the fifty odd thou, sand miles the car had been driven and it seemed asif some loved mem. ber of the fairnly were leaving for ever as the little old car, m owed slow. ly toward the street. My little girl began to sob and somehow n found myself standing on the running board Of the ear forcing the money back on the man He was a. good fellow { and Asreed to recall the deal and 1t would probab bly have amused you to see how happy we all were when drove our good old car back into the barn. And there she stands, sort of pensioned you might say, and the kfddies have great times taking make believe trips Maybe the new car will } take her place in our affections some day, but right now the old machine is earning her keep as a means of keeping the children good, for I can get them to behave mighty quick by threatening to sell 2
 CoaIec4 Army Mail.
 < Among the many uses made of the motorcycles in the armies of the war } ring nations. is that of collecting the all Mounted on sturdy two-w1aeel- CTS, the carriers scout about the camps gathering in the letters from the fmpropfsed mall a,oxes and then 1 delivering the to the stations
 Canst Get the Money.
 The fact that automobile dealers generally are reluctant to take de- ! livery cars during the winrer months 2 is due to the lack Of co-opeTation on 3 the part Of the financial interests of the country in giving dealers ample bank accommodation according to a nufacturer. He says:
 The activity of the dealer. in all- tornobdlas ls seriously han1pered due to the general anEipathy on the part i ofsbankezB to grant dealers accommo- Gatfon whereby the latter may ware house cars during the winter months and thus be in 6 position to make prompt spring delivery
 teKJnder existing conditions the dea1- CT in a11tomobnes is active in the sale { of machines from early spring until abOw1t the middle of November. Each [ ana every car shipped from the fac [ tory finds ready market during that period From November until March t ] ways are closed to automobile travel land. as a result purchasers of cars E t1zrRng these months specify spring { delivery which may mean March I first March fifteenth, April first or EApr11 fifteenth.
 Now, insofar as tho dee1er is con- ! cerned, that which troubles him is to necure enough cars from the factory to enable him to i'll his spring or derB pronaptly. He himself is not all Wags financially able to- stock the required number of cars during the thus he is to a very great extent wholly dependent upon the manu- factHrer making shipment as cars are FreQuked.
 ssvVshat is the situation insofar as E the manufacturer is concerned 2 Fac 5 tories are actually worlzdng overtime 2 during spring, summer and early fall, } leepfng the dealer supplied with cars but when that demand ceases in the late fall, the manufacturer must 2 of necessity cuEtan his production. Thousan ds of mechanics are thereby E4hroWn out of employment and their services are not reiustated until the resunnption Of busdness in the spring. Then ths manufactures faces. the ! problem of having too many orders.s EDeaIers and their customers become 6fuopatfeut ousr the late delivery of cars Ecance1Iat1ons follow as a matter of course and general dissatisfaction kpermeates Chr osg1out the entire sell ing end Of the industry as well as Earnong thCueands of automobile pur- chasers'
 ! The remedy suggested is that bank CTS should advance the local dealer f a certain per centage of the list price i of each car taking the car as security 1 and thus protect the dealer on spring g deliveries. In this way the dealer ecould order cars shipped from the factory during the winter months