The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-03-30
Train Load Story

In business nine months and ship
ping cars by the train load to single
distributors; this is the enviable re.
cord of the bort Motor Car Co. of
Flint, Michigan, manufacturers of the
bort 1865 Touring Oar.
A search back over the annals of the
industry fails to reveal any similar
instance OF rapid production increase.
It 10 all tho more remarkable when
one considers that on the 6rst of May,
1915, the bort factory at Flint was
shipping only two car a day.
Tho credit for this remarkable show.
ing, which Is without equal, is due to
the indomitable will OF Mr.. j. D.
bort, President of The bort Motor
Car Co., and to his two able exeeu-
tives Mr.. John D. Mansfield Sales
Manager of the company and to Mr..
d. M. Averill, General Manager, in
charge of the production of cars.
Judge of all automobiles, the public,
was quick to set its seal of approval
on the bort as q o of unusual excel
lence, at that price that as we'll within
the reach of the average buyer.
To those who know the building of
motor ears, and the many obstacles
that the raw material market has pre-
sented to any such increase of pro-
duction that the bort has been able to
show during the past nine months,
Mr.. Averill's achievement is almost
beyond belief. All join in giving these
two men credit for doing something
that a year ago the veterans of the
automobile industry would have with
out a single dissenting vote, acclaimed
impossible.
Mr.. T. NJ. Major, Of Hope, the dis
tribter for the bort in Steele County
reports the first solid train load OF
Dorts shipped this year moved on
Thursday OF this week to the bort dis
tributer in Minneapolis, This was q
solid train load of over IS carloads
and contained some 200 odd bort
Touring Cars. The freight charge
alone on this shipment was over $4,000,
Consider what this means in the at.
titude OF the men who sell bort cars to.
ward their car and their belief in its
sales possibilities. Here is one of a
number of dealers who is putting ur
over 1886, 900. 90 in cash to pay for g
single shipment OF carr into his ter
ritory. Men who have accumulated
this amount of money in their bust
nesses do not put sums Of this size I'm
less 1t has demonstrated to them, tina
they are making a satisfactory invest
ment. These men know what they ar,
doing, they know that they can move
several times this number of Dortcar!
during the coming spring and they ar
not going to take any chance of
possible shortage-an and it is know
SuCIO VIII OC " ouoILdSc LII luduy lAuC
OF cars this year.
II have contracted for about eigh
cars" said T. NJ. Major, II wish
could get the factory to allot me twic'
that number for I know I could NOV
them with very little trouble. The Dor
with its sturdy construction is remark
ably we'll adapted to our countr,,
roads, and will stand an amount O
punishment and day in and day GU
). hard work that one would not beleiv,
possible. l expect to be very success
ul with it, because it has alread,
made good everywhere and it is honest
ly built all the way through the fac
tory that has had 30 years of expel
fence in building one of the mos
popular lines of buggies and far1
vehicles that has ever been sold. | re
fer you to the Billie Ribbon line whic
you all known. lady.