The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07
BIRMINGHAM AUTOMOBILE BUSINESS IS BOON1IN'
PASSING THE BUCK ON
 THE "FLIVVER ROUTE"
By ALLEN J. KREBs, JR.

Sam Jones, vice president of the Dren- nen Motor Car company, and one of the most popular automobile men in the city is rounding out his seventh consecutive year with this firm. Sam is always the same Sam, and his motto in life is smile and hustle. He has clearly demonstrated this fact during his term with the Dren- Een company.
 Bradley J. Saunders announces the acquisition of the Saxon Six to his line of cars which he has handled so success fully during the past two years. Hud- son, Saxon and Scripps Booth, hard hand to beat.
 Ray Bolton Of the Newell Motor Car company is making the dust fly literally and figuratively with the Mitchell Six. Bolton has put over a number of cars recently and anticipates doing a record breaking business during the next 30 days.
 Who said Hal Cooms wasn't the popu- lar boy when the telephone bell rings? Hal skinned his knees in his mad rush to get on the wire yesterday when the telephone rang thrice. Nothing like hav- ing the right tip under any and all cir cumStanCes,
 Gordon Hewson of the Saunders Motor Car company sold Saxon Six to George B. Mccormack, Jr., yesterday. The Sax ons had just been unloaded. Hewson got MT. Mccormack in the car and when he came back Hewson had check and Me Cormack had the car. Everybody smiled and the boss wired for more Saxons.
 
 J. P. Wright of the Birmingham Rec company reports a big week in sales of Rec trucks and pleasure cars. He has sold more Reos in the length of time he has had the agency than any other dealer in Birmingham.
 An owner (named suppressed) of one of the numerous little motorettes or cyclecars, as they were first called, broke down in front of Jack Cummings shoe store yesterday. He climbed out, lifted the hood, contracted his eyebrows in a. studious manner and cursed. He swore loudly and ardently: then, with g. debon- air air, he took off his coat and com menced to work on the thing" He had been working and swearing at varying intervals for half an hour or more when Frank Gafford, star salesman for the Goodyear company, came along in his striped Bengal semi-F'ord. He stoppeo g.
 
 hurled this question at the would-be fxer: What's the trouble, buddy? One of tho jewels out of adjustment?" Frank hasn't been seen since. It was reported that Frank ran hot box on the Ford immediately. ''Tantalizing Taylor of the Goodyear company was in Montgomery last week. He said he was going down on business. The old boy appeared to have been sue cessful in his venture judging from his looks last night. He refused to state just what sort of business he transacted. Joe Anderson expects to go to Atlanta in Stakeholder Six tomorrow or next day to compete in an endurance contest He invited a newspaper man to accom- pany him. Everyone knows Studebaker is capable of high rate of speed; put, with a scribe, a true sport, and a Den zinc buster" the Georgia crackers are liable to find out lot about the Ala bama yaps that they might not want to know. Which leads one to say "tomor row may see a wet day" No, nobody means what you are thinking about
 Speaking of speed, who ever heard of Joe Anderson riding an ice wagon when a Zeppelin was available?
 Or Sam Jones riding motorboat when a Cadillac Eight was about?
 Or Bun Roberts riding a mule when a. dreadnaught hovered nearP
 In recent statement issued by the Ford Motor company. it shows @ net