Arizona republican., 1921-10-30
WILLYS- OVERLAND SHIPS TRAINLOAD
 ID LIS ANGELES
Shipment Consists Of 86 Carloads of Both Willys And Overland

Eighty-six carloads of Overland and Nvilys- Knight cars were shipped from the wilys- Overland factory in Toledo on October 1s in a solid train, bound for Los Angeles.
 The record breaking shipment of the year is expected to establish a new trans continental record for rapid freight movement across the country. Three great railroads are cooperating, with all the mobilized resources of their lines. to deliver the monster train load in Los Angeles on october 27. just seven days from the time the engineer passed the last lights in the Toledo yards.
 The value of the shipment has been been placed at s517,ooo. This covers the value of the automobiles which has been plated at s4Oo,0eo: the ship ment of parts and garage supplies valued at approximately sT5,o0o; S50.e00 in freight charges and $i'Sss in war tax
 This is the largest single train load of automobiles to leave the Willys- Overland factory since 1917 and is another milestone on the triumphal march of the Overland to an unusual sales achievement in this period Of business adjustment
 Seven days for freight from To- ledo 10 the Pacific coast will be new seven day wonder in the railroad world The railroad movement is in the direct personal charge of these officials:
 Stanley H. Johnson. vice president and freight traffic manager of the Rock Island Lines, personally directed the nroN efannt cn the 4toek ss'an lines with the assistance of George w Williams of Detroit, the general freight agent and J. R. Pickering, su- perintendent of transportation.
 l.. J. Spence. director of traffic for the Southern Pacific left his office at New York to contribute his part to the effort to break shipping rec ord when the train connects up with the Southern Pacific system.
 W. A. Carlsen, general agent for the Fl Paso and Southwestern at De- troit, hurried to Fl Paso to mobilize train crews and locomotives for the pull on the Fl Paso lines.
 These transportation chiefs en- deavored to meet the challenge of w. A. NcCloud, the director of traffic for the WiIlys- Overland, for new time in a Pacific coast shipment. MT Mc- Cloud assembled the train and ar ranged the details of the loading and the routing at the factory.
 In the s6 carloads, packed to the roof beams. are 204 Overlands, in- clCding touring. roadster, sedan and coupe models and Al Willys-Knights in touring. roadster, sedan and coupe models
 From Toledo and Chicago on the night of the shipment, telegrams were sent to Rock Island freight agents along the route, to Fl Paso agent: and Southern Pacific agents advising them of the movement. At some O. the western yards, the passins through of the record breaking traiI with it's half-million dollar freigh will be especially celebrated.
 This great shipment is the first O a series that are now under way a the Overland. Another, probably no cf The some size, is destined for NeV York and Philadelphia a second t Kansas City another to Dallas, Texai and still another. as fast as the fac tory can load the bix cars, for Wash ington. D. C. and points south.
 The shipments are made necessar, because of the rush of orders fo Overland and WiIlys- Knight cars following the recently announced re auction of 42 per cent in the pric of the Overland and correspondin; reductions on the Willys- Knight September sales in the Overland deal CT organization were the largest il four years October is running strong Advance schedules for November in dicate another month equally a good.
 The railroads seized upon this oc casscn as q special and noteworth, indication that industry, generally, i regaining its sales and production f1rz