The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-27
LIVELIHOOD FOR
NEARLY A MILLION
Motor Industry Also Is Vital Factor
in Many Allied Lines of Produc
ton and Manufacture.

With view to showing how closely the
automobile industry Is related TO many
other primary industries OF the country
and how many associated businesses are
directly dependent upon the manufacture
and sale Of motor ears, the National Au-
touohilc Chamber OF Commerce has pre-
pared some interesting figures.
Raw material consumption by the INDUS
try amounts to S300,Q00 600 yearly. There
are l.0S0 parts aud accessory makers,
having an invested capital Of 1896, 0o0OOO.
They employ 100000 workers and pay
SOS 100000 in wages annually. Tire max
ers alone produced 100000 tires during
the fiscal year ended june 80 1917. val
ned MT $50 100000 Nearlg hall Of these
were bought hy car manufacturers TO
eouip new cals produced during the year.
TIE automobile and truck manutac-
tulers are the hub of the industry. They
draw then parts and materials that enter
into the construction of complete motor
vehicles from the parts and accessory
malers and also directly from the manu-
facturct4 Of many raw and partly fabri-
Gated materials In the y months ended
las, June they paid $3.50 ,Go9ooo for parts
and materials
acre are 1o' manufacturers bl IttS@tii-
ger and commercial cars, with factories 10
Gated IN - states al the Union. They
have IN invested capital Of SI36 GOO 09H,
employ $50 000 workers and pay S215oo0.-
coo annually in wages and salaries. Dur
inc the fiscal year ended June ~, 1917,
they produced SEQ, 1914 motor vehicles Of
a gross wholesale value Of SOL, 41o,93S.
! Exports og motor vehicles alane during
F.! that period amounted to more than 800
| oC0. 600
Manufactured automobiles and trucks
were sold hy the factories 70 distributors
and dealers and direct To users. Sub-deal-
| er- buy from distributors or wholesalers
ana Iuaet ct the users huy from dealer,
and ouhieaiels. There are $500 dlatrh
utors with Sl. oaaet0 invested capital ant
! y, 600 employees, To whom $25,29o,0O i
paid in wages annually.
| Retail dealers scattered throughout cv
cry city and village IN America numhel
2J.00o Their invested capital amounts {
>lSt t00.eo0. and they employ 202 600 sales
men. Irpanm,n and other help, to whom
>l59.tao.Clo are paid yearly.
| N5,t 81 tia garage, and repair shop
ave owned and operated by dealers AM
distributors. and the statistics Tor then
are Included under dealers. although tker
are many independent garages and repal
shops that are not connected Wlth Ga
agcuci,~.
! On July /, 1917. there were A,242,so
IIcgiste,,d automobile owners III til" Unite
States. about 100000 pi the regiStere
vehicle; wr1" commercial cars .\itc
purchasing their car- from the dealers {
from tie manufacturers direct, these owl
cr- store their cars in public garage
= have rcpans made IN the repair shop.
, buy tires. supplemented equipment. auto
, mobile clothing. etc, from the $500 suI
ply houses. which draw thoir stocks iroi
the accessory makers, and purchase lma
quantities OF gasoline from imumerab
gasoline stations which IN tmn eccw
them gasoline direct from the oil CON
panieo
Tie automobile industry is the sole d
prndenca ui 2I.Stp distributors and dea
J crs. and provides livelihood Tor neml
r l.0o9neQ employees with their families