Arizona republican., 1919-06-22
IANyF LECTURERS ARE
 FAR BEHIND DEMAND
 EUR NEW MOTOR CARS
y W. E. Ferguson of the Ferguson
 Keeler Co.)

keeler CO)
 sMotor manufacturers are not catch Fg up with the demand for cars. And key will not for some months to come -rhat is the story one learns by travel ipg about from place to place. Al Caeveland the facts were very much i'll egidence at the big plants in that city, sToladO reechoed what Cleveland 1hted. Down through the Ohio and Indiana belt one heard 1t. During the f1sw days in which thousands of dealers vgere Hooking to Indianapolis for con 'Rntions and also to see the big motor race it was plain that makers and deal 8s were alike wondering where they wire at
 4Each dealer felt that a long trip would personally repay him in getting s5me inside information about produc- tfpn. So the man from Phoenix hob Hcobed with the one from Boston. and tfey exchanged condolences. And from d{her places far off were agents on the same errand to get cars or get some dea when they would get them.
 Swinging northward there was no change in conditions In Wisconsin and Michigan the factories are working all ands of hours and every kind Of q Iaan to make both ends meet. Here in Betroit is where the dealer car is heard igng and loud. for it is the center of the industry and the place where all the celebrities congFegate.
 @lt does not take a Solomon to tell why conditions are in this shape. First there was the drop of 100000 ears from last years schedule. The war slowed down motor building to within a notch df zero. Then came the armistice.
 Manufacturers found themselves lpPded up with Q lot of machines and IAaterial owned by the government. 'Ehis stuff had to go through a clearing leuse arrangement. Motor makers VEere not allowed to push it to one side or put it out in the back yard.
 allyentually, the makers got squared aFay. But the demand had started, for oArs had started. Last year we had so many hogies about what the govern 1nent was going to do in the way of preventing motorists from using their ears that lot of people decided to wait 'nOther year before ordering.
 Hrhis included those who thought ot turning in their old cars, and new buy eFs- On top of the usual new crop were the others--a big number, too--whc made enough money out of the war tc ion the motoring class.
 .Readjustment on a peace basis found lere and there some labor troubles, and these added a handicap to some of the makers in getting parts. But things sgse more normal now.
 EThe best thing about it all is tht spirit in which the buyers meet tht conditions In Boston today you car find orders filling two and three pagee on the books of a lot of dealers, anC vrry few cancellations. Buyers are nol running around trying to see how bis aH offer they can get to turn in theil uAed cars.
 1They know that if they turn it ir they will be without a car for som, Weeks And this has kept the prices O used-cars up to high level
 rlf any one expects to see something radical when the 1920 models begin t, make an appearance they will be mis taken. The makers have not the tim to bother with new plans now.
 There will be some added refinement here and there to add to the comfor of the occupants, things that woul, have made their appearance a year az but for the war. But the main objec now is to get the cars out, and idea