The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-05
Automobile News
DULL PERIOD OVER.

CA. G. Seiberling, General Manager
 Inc Havnes Automobile Company
 The annual dull period is over Due to a variety of causes, it was more acute this season than usual The pessimists, who generally become con n their. innings. Tariff and currency reforms also unsettled business and the automobile industry, as whole, suffered to some little extent Buyers were scarce not because demand for cara did not exist, but because of a. general tendency on the part of. buyers to await renewed activity Tn all: lines of business.
 This was demonstrated at the New York Automobile Show, which event was attended by 25 per cent more people than any previous show, Tn spite Of the fact that trade exhibi- tions are not so popular today as they once were. But the recent New r ork Show was the exception the at tendance. in my opinion, increased simply because the number or people in the market for cars was aDnornaI- " high and consequently the show was very widely patronized ms condition will also become manifest at all of the automobile shows held throughout the country. 4ODtinaisrn is now expressed on all sides Money is becoming more plentiful and business is rapidly pick ing I'D. Reports from Haynes dis trfbutors and saIesr11en are very en- couraging, so much so, that instead or fhe 1914 season being but moderately successful, I Believe it will prove high Iy prosperous for those manufactur- CTS who like ourselves, anticipated conditions and looked forward conh- dently, to what the future had in store for us
 The Ford plant at Detroit alone would support a city from 75,000 to 100, 900 people and the branch as sembling plants are located at Bunalo, Cambridge, Chicago. Columbus, DaI- las, Denver. Houston, Kansas City, Long Island City, Los Angeles. Mem. phis, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pitts burg, Portland, Ore. San Francisco. Seattle and St Louis in this country. and beside those there is the Ford Mo- tor Co. Ltd. Of Canada, with a asfactory at Ford, Ont-s across the Detroit River from Detroit and Canadian Service stations at Montreal, Toronto, Van vouver, London, Ont, Calgary, Mon treaI, Hamilton, Saskatoon and Win, nepeg. Then there are the Manches- ter, Eng. factory and service stations at Hamburg. and Paris.
 Every cog in this wheel of indus try works to perfect this service. Ev- cry Ford agent no matter how few cars he handles, is required by his contract to, carry supply of Ford parts so that Fora owners never nave their cars out of commission except for few days, or generally only hours, unless the car has met with a serious accident.
 If it were not for the branch as- sembling plants sthe Ford company could not market it's enormous output because railroad facilities could not be provided for shipping, the cars if they were all assembled at the De- troit factory But shipped in knock down form single car will carry as many motor cars as could be carried in a train if the cars were shipped in the ordinary fashion. Of course, all the parts are tested before shipping and standardization has made it easy for the assenblers and when these parts arrive at the assembling plants it requires but little labor to put the cars together and they are soon in proper running condition.