Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
LOCAL GARAGE
GETS BIG BOOST
Story and Photos of Macs
Garage in Two Auto
Periodicals

In the issue of October 9 of
Motor World" and October "a, of
Motor Age, two of the largest
automobile magazines or the mar
ket, appears the story of the rise
of one of Harrisburg's new garages.
This is MACS Garage" the new
fireproof structure on South Third
street, the Harrisburg niece for the
Famous Tin Lizzie"
Both of the magazines takes this
model garage and the business
methods used as an example for
other garage men to follow. Num-
erous photos showing the outside
of the garage, the office, the layout
of the three floors, the stock room,
and several pictures of the women
mechanics who are helping Mac put
across the work.
Here is an extract from Motor
Age:
must be right"
If this motto were instilled in the
hearts of every repairman of your
| organization and carried out to the
letter, you should, theoretically at
least, never have a single comeback.
1t would mean in the first place
that the cars particular atlment a
been diagnosed correctly, that the
proper relief had been administered
in the quickest possible time, and
at a price definitely settled upon
between owner and shop proprietor
before the job was tackled.
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ment to eliminate guess work,
especially now that expert help is
| so scarce, has been pointed out re-
peatedly in these columns, but per-
! haps you have been one of those
dealers who say:
An this special shop stuff is all
right for jones place or Smiths
place; his work is different from
mine. 1t wouldn't do me any good.
My men are pretty good, ETC."
All of this is all right as far as
it goes, but did you ever stop to
think that your men get tired to-
ward the end of the day, while a
machine that might line up rods
for you, burn-in-bearings, etc, is
indefatigable? You may not have
the proper devices to hold the pis-
ton while taking the rod out of it,
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| twisted out of alignment, which de-
feet would cause trouble that only
another overhauling would correct.
One of the most striking examples
of good equipment, practically green
help and all-round good business
ability brought together and max
ing money in such trying days as
these is that of Macs Garage at
Harrisburg, Pa, The live wire here
is A. G.. Mcmillan, and anyone lucky
enough to spend a day al his place
will declare he is carrying several
hundred volts, in fact, so high a
potential, that it is indicted into
everyone else around. This man
is enthusiastic when others throw
up the sponge and yell mo bust
ness, no help, can't get parts, etc.
And he radiates his enthusiasm,
His customers feel like coming back,
If for no other reason than to have
Mac ask them how the bus in run
ming, but we noted that every time
q customer came in Mac sold him
something whether the unsuspect-
ing owner came there with the idea
of buying or not. And here begins
one of the important chapters of
Macs way of doing business, a bust
ness that is doubling every month.
And this is just part of the story
of Macs Garage. 1t has recently
been incorporated as q company
with Mr.. Mcmillan as the President
and Harry M. Cohen as secretary
and treasurer. The business is still
on the increase and everyone is sure
to here more of Macs Garage"