Arizona republican., 1921-07-24
CADILLAC MEN
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 1T CONVENTION

DETROIT. July 2s. (SpeciaD-En- thusiastic confidence as to the revival of business was expressed at the con- ventiop of nearly 100 distributors of Cadillac cars at the new factory of the Cadillac Motor Car company on Clark avenue. Detroit, during the sessions held July 6, '. and 8. Dis tributors were present from practic- ally every state in the country, in- cluding such distant points as Florida and Oregon
 There are a great many reasons to believe that the automobile industry healthy prosperity according to H. H. Rice. president and general man ager of the Cadillac organization, in the opening address of the convention There are many indications that the farmers will make profits this year, and farming being the basic industry will have a beneficial effect upon other industries. With the German Ireparations settled and with a general convalescence m numerous phases oi business ,the future seems decidedly encouraging.
 Progression in the automotive in- dustry Is always short lived affair." said MT. Rice speaking in the light oi his long automotive career. which be- gan nearly 30 years ago, and which followed through the various ups ant downs of the industry. "The automo- tive industry Is usually the last tt suffer from business depression, ant the first to recover The period whicl we have just been passing through i! by no means so bad as others in tn, | past"
 1 The convention was held primaril, as a house-warming for the new l Cadillac factory, recently completed l and declared to be one of the larges and best constructed in the country It was brought out in a speech b. George H. Yayng. vice president o Cadillac. that the new factor, | grounds cover nearly 50 acres. largel. occupied by fourstory factory build Il ings. The space and facilities fo manufacture of the Cadillac S-cylin der motor had been increased nor than 30 per cent, and the factory ha capacity of more than 25,000 car per year without the use of nigh shifts. The ideal back of this in creased capacity has been to clea the way for the making of better an more Cadillac cars than ever before
 It was pointed out in Mir. Layng' speech that the increase in capacit of Cadillac's factory has been ac companied by an improvement in tn already high standards of precision c workmanship and inspection. H cited the low labor turnover of Cadil lac as an evidence of the moral which has marked Cadillac since it j inception nearly 20 years ago. Cadil lac being the oldest Detroit automo bile company.
 I M mana ger, introduced the speaker He brought out in his remarks tha the splendid expansion of Cadilla
 would now make it possible to pro duce as many Cadillac cars as tn
 public demanded. So great has bee
 the public's preference for Cadiila
 cars that it's output actually out
 numbers all cars of it's price or abov
 combined. This popularity which ha
 constantly grown has almost alway
 made it impossible to meet the ds
 mand. but with the new expansion the factory it is believed that tn
 obstacle will be overcome.
 I. M. Uppercu. New York City dis
 tributor for Cadillac. voiced the CT
 thusiastic confidence of the distribr
 tors in the future of the automobi
 industry and Cadillac in particula
 Claude Nolan, distributor for Cadills
 at Jacksonville. Florida, announce
 meeting of the Old Guard, an ol
 ganization of Cadillac distributors.