The sun., 1915-11-10
REQ MAN REPORTS
WIDESPREAD BOOM
Sales Manager Rucsrhaw in
Town on Swing Around
Country.
DEMAND UNPRECEDENT


for tho REQ Motor Car COMPANY. rare
to town yesterday on IA swing around ~,
| country. He has been in 'hc Ear Wos,
and on the Northwest coast r.c.n,ly
talking to automobile dealer, there. hs
reports that the demand Tor car,-and
Of course. REQ cars--is far ahead "
anything that ever has been experienced
at this time of year. In fact l.- reports
are 80 inclusive that they Indicate 4.
nation wide demand lie spoke lc,ter.
day OF calls coming from British Colun.
bia, Nova Scotia, Alberta. Montana.
Georgia and Maine. which Jus, ulot
covers tho whole thing.
In each case. he said demands ror
ears were altogether unprecedented hs.
cause at this season Of the year sales Ar.
supposed to be pretty we'll over with.
Especially is this true Of tho Canadian
points he spoke Of because the now
generally comes early and puts the au.
tomobila business to an end
Mr. Ruoschaw said that many " 81.
buyers were rockies, that Is, J wing
cars for the FIRST time instead Of L.rg
graduates from smaller cars. THIS 10
said, was "A remarkable deyelupmen' in
the business.
As to the REQ itself. Mr.. Eucsch,w
reported extraordinary progress. Work
now is being done on additional factory
buildings that will bring the capacity ~
to 1.5 cars IL day. This on the bass.
of about 215 working days would he
about $4,000 cars "A year These ars
to be divided about equally between
fours and skies. The plans also arc 20
make a truck factory that Is 70 hc tho
biggest thing of it's kind In Tho country
At present the Eco truck bus ness 4.
strong. about twenty day being turned
out. To show what their business ls
Mr. Rueschaw said that after beating
October, 1914, by 800 per cent mors
cars were sold In the first eight days of
this month than were sold all last 40.
vember, and the outlook Is for a 900
per cent. gain.
Asked whether he thought the stand.
ard closed car bodies that are now 20
popular are the thing for all sections q
the country Mr.. Rueschaw replied that,
he had an idea that they were better
for the cities than for the country uis-
tricts. "Yct it Is hard to say what any
one man will want you know he added
smiling. Il remember an osagc Indian
down IN Oklahoma, who had "a lu, -
money from oil lands, who came mo
town and bought IA hearSe for hl- pr.yg'r
use. lie bundled all his children Ins de
and drove back home. Maybe II wuu.Int /
BE- a bad idea 10 90 back after that ri.
low iight now with a Eco cha-s,.. Hi
a -. ,I. Il
! for tho horse drawn on. he has.
I'VE have Il hr, si"r" here \'N
YORK, Il. remarked, speaking p. 'c
new l;eo building, jus, opened 80 Gr'.l.
way and fifty-fnurth stree. ',. "a ~
expect to prDVid" enough CIr. t.. r.
New York demand. am Try lg - : .
100 here for this week. hut lt b. d.'N H'
To- keep up with tho call. ", tlr Do.
hind pretty much every wh"r" al".- ,n"
| line"
Some of Tia, nignes, ornc.a. rl he.
| Stuaebak"r Corporation wru, ~
/ York on Monday for . hu-'irs- ,.-..f
| enc. with Stud.uak-r d'dl r. l Nv.
| jurisdiction of tho New York. h-.' .
| In the patty We're Jalurs g. '!'t-.ei
ice-prcsidcut IN charge ut rrnuL.'.
! l.. J. ollicr, Vicc-prcs !deut a.i d.',.o-
| Of sales; Il. T., liudGllius, ,l, ra..
agcr; " \. BiggS, "i Frank : tua... lu
| advertising counsel: II. r. M,,-,. r.au.
agcr of the commercial ear d'pt-' u.'
Of Studehakor; Gcurs" Juruau, u.Ntas''
! of the Boston branch; I.tH PEE .'0.
| klc, 'hicag" distrihut'r, y T. H.'s
! cleveland. ohio, distribute 'i
Blcvius, Tolrd", nhI", d.s'li'ni.r 'r..'
| Donovan Boston disuinu''r. u..t l.'.'.
| Donovan, Baltimore di.lrihutl
They wcr" met 10y sun' "a. .''
| and fifty dealcrS from Suriuu .hN"S '''