New-York tribune., 1921-11-06
ClosedC.ar Show
Plans Call for
Un,lsualDisplay
Twelfth Infantry Armory on
Nov. l4I9 Will Reveal
Many Attractive Offer
ings for the Cool Weather
Entertainment Features
Exhibition is Expected 10
Mark Decided Sign Post
on Road of Auto Industry

Plans for the big Closed Car Show
a. the New York City Automobile
reslers' Association. to be held at the
18th Regiment Armory, Columbus Ave
nue and Sixty-secoUd Street, from No
vcrnher ii to 10. began 10 crystalline
fsxt Wednesday with the auctioning off
Of some Of the Shcw space and the
urorating Of the rest of the space
among the forty-fve dealers who will
exhibit their cars there. Drawings. as
we'll SIS the auction. took place in the
~oclns OF the association. at iS45 Broad
way. and interest was keen
number of attractive features are
being arranged which, together with
the efforts of the individual exhibitors
10 make z show OF success by focusing
public interest in oid-weather auto
mobiles. are expected to create strong
appeal. Ray Miller and his famous
Folies bergeres orchestra have been
engaged as musical feature They
will keep the crowd enlivencd at hoth
the afternoon and evening showings.
The decorative scheme of the show
has been designed with q great deal of
care and the show committee believes
that the new features embraced will
make the armory during the week of
November IA the most attractive picture
for AT automobile setting that has
ever heer seen IN this or any other
city. The whole is expected to mark
q decided sig1post on the road of the
satomotlve industry
fiTteen or more years ago goggles.
linen busters and gaunelets adorned
the seasoned motorist. Such accouter-
ments were ar essential part of the
motorists equipment and distinguished
nim, IN s way, from the non-automo obi 10
owner. Goggles, busters and gauntlets.
however. we're the only means Of nro-
tection, and the more dust the motorist
could display on his wrinkied duster
ana the greater the wear on his gloves
tue more he could boast of his motor
Ing efficiency. the running qualities of
his car and the like.
Closed Car Assures Comfort
To-day the motorist who encases him.
self and his family comfortably in q
closed car does not have TO worry about
MS apparel. Assured OF the comfort of
travelling as IL Pullman, he goes
"nere ne pleases with the utmost con-
venlence and ease. The develonment
eI the closed car has shown such rapid
STRIDES that to-day fully go per cent of
me factories output are closed car
nlooels' what the motorist lacks in
eqolphent Tor dusty roads is more
lsan onset by the luxury and pleasure
OF getting to his destination without
the necessity Of taking a bath and di0.
eng the dirt out of his eyes afterward
ne closed car bodies on the markat
to-day are the result OF nearly twentu-
Years OF concentration and careful at
seHtlon TO the wants and comforts of
tne motoring public. Thew comnrisa
the thought. skill, care and inpenn;t'5
OF Americas 5 and Europe's best coacb
builders Some Of these coach builders
WI. nave special exhibits at the forth
coming show Each in its way will
snow tnat the closed body was CON
strucsed with the idea Of permanencv
as we'll as comfort.
In the auctioning Of snace fo- +b.
Closed Car Show Harry s. Honnt te
hudson and Essex distributor drary
nrst place at a cost of s7l0. OF the
3ouF other places which went under the
hammer, hammer Samuel Toback, Nordvke and
harmon distributor, paid $500 for the
SECOND; Lee j. Eastman, of the Pack
ara Motor Car Company. drew third ,t
s5oV; Charles H. Larson, Oldsmobile
olserlbutor, paid $500 for the newt
space auctloned. and W A. Woods.
.oea; Feer4ess dealer, paid s40O. The
~i on ouAC tdktH IN from the auctiO0
was $1,000. The remaining spaces wera
chpsen BY the exhibitors from hat.
NJ Houpt, who IS one of the show
committee, has been identified with
automobile shows since 1904. but saws
tae forthcoming exhibition is the first
lor New York City which may be re-
sar0ed strictly as a seasonable dispIav
OF automotlve merchandise.
Houpt Optimistic for Show
With reference to the show. he said
There is hardly a question that, the
coming exhibition will be the largest
ana most comprehensive disnlav Of
closed cars ever held in this countrv
me show will demonstrate that the
closed car has reached a point of re-
ahement that approaches perfection
The closed car is particularly adapt-
ed TO fall and winter use, but outside
OF TINS 1t is the ideal 'all-year round,
vehicle for those who can agord IN
Keep but one car.
We expect the show to be success
not only from the dealers point Of
View. but from the buying public's
Viewpoint as WELL