El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-06-24

at a cost of 100000 and increased out
! put has been made possible
Use TraiIers for Camping.
THE Simplex trailers have been very
| popular with the tourists who like to
I take along camping outfits" said man
ager frost. of the Franklin Motor Car
| company. Their light weight, perfect
I traction and low cost have made hit
: with the motorists. We are placing
several subagencies throughout the ter
ritory for the Simplex line"
C. F Coleman, of the Universal Auto
Lock company. reports good business
with the new locks
Many visitors called at the Pioneer
Motor company's salesrOoms this week
to look over the new Moon and the
car has been the subject OF much praise
FOrm-a-Trueks Sell Fast.
The Smith Form-a-Truck is grabbing
off a big slice Of the southwestern
frucI1 business The Southwestern
six more sales this week and is await
ing the arrival OF another shipment OF
the attachments which convert a ''fliv-
YER into a real truck. Sales mana ger
H. n. Gillespie is wearing the smile
that won't wear off and says that he
is "tickled 10 death" with the Form-a-
Truck
Several agencies have been closed
for the Smith Formatt---TrUck in the
smaller cities OF the southwest The
company is opening a branch at Al
buquerque and may also invade Ros-
we'll Dealer contracts have been made
in many OF the business centers, but
there are still a few good towns open
fOr-live dealers, according to c. f.
Johnson, general manager.
More Trucks Arrive.
The Oakland Auto Sales company IN
loaded another carload of l. H c.
trucks on Friday and truck sales man
ager E. NJ Ford reports a brisk de-
mand for these trucks
THE outlook for the 1917 season IS
unusually bright" according to A H
Elmore. general manager OF the oak
land Auto Sales company. We are al
ready lining up our subdealers and
their acquisitions make very pleasant
reading"
Republic trucks are the popular
truck in FL PasO," said Davis Russek,
manager OF the Southern Motor COM
pany, in reporting SIX more Republic
sales in the past eight days. The com
for delivery out OF the next shipment
10 arrive Their stock Of Republics
was exhausted this week but the fac
tory has promised immediate shipment
Of a couple Of more carloads
The Southern Motor company Is AZ
ranging TO extend the time payment
plan to Republic trucks and Grant
six pleasure cars
CregOr Gets in a Boost.
L. N. CregOr. of the Lone Star Motor
company, IS q real live booster for the
Dodge and when he turned in his re-
port Of sales for the current week. Mr.
CregOr added Listed in the above
sales you viii note we delivered
Dodge brothers touring car TO J. B.
Woods, war correspondent Of the Chi
cago Daily News, which car Mr. Woods
VIII drive through into Mexico 10 Join
the staff Of Gen Pershins as war cor
respondent Mr. Woods spent two
months in Mexico with the troops when
the first expedition was sent by the
United States and the result OF his
personal experience with cars settled
the question firmly in his mind on his
return TO FL Paso from the Chicago
paper, an order was placed for a Dodg3
brothers touring car. completely I
equipped, for the hard Mexican trip"
More Lees for Army.
That Lee tires are popular with the !
united states army was evident on
Friday when several Dodge tOurings,
sold by the Lone Star Motor company
to the Quartermaster's department
were run up TO the BOrderland Auto l
supply company's establishment TO be
completely equipped with Lee puncture
proofs Besides four tires IN use. two
extras were carried on each car. This
just makes me mad-nit" said Ben
Clements And then he opened a let
ter from Columbus and found an order
for more Monogram oil Cor the aero
squadron Ben almost shed tears-os |
joy.
When the Borderland company tool,
off a Lee puncture proof tire from It's
delivery car this week to have IL re-
treaded. the tire had run 1900 miles