The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-06-07
Record Crowd
at Newport Show
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Two Commerce trucks stood
out in the spaces engaged by the
Commerce Truck Company OF
New England, Inc, and one
glance showed that they are
meant for business. They are of
| one and of two and one-half ton
/ capacity respectively. H. c An
drews, in charge of the exhibit,
stated that they surely received q
hard test last night in the rain
on his way up from Boston. He
lost the road to Newport some
where after ne left st. Johnsbury
and it was over two hours before
he found it again. In the mean
time he was .loundering over some
Of the steep and muddy Vermont
roads that try drivers patience as
well as autos engines to the ut
most.
The Champlain Motor Company
exhibited four Bucks. one Mar
mon, and one Peerless. Every
body knows the Buick and every
body knows it favorably. These
cars received the amount of at
tention to be expected and one
smart sport model excited especial
admiration. The Peerless won its
full quota of praise as also did the
Marmon. The Champlain Motor
Company are Vermont distributors
of the Marmon and they are call
ing attention to the standardized
service which protects owners of
this car. Repair jobs of all kinds
are performed at Marmon stations
all over the country at a fixed
price, thus taking the work
out of repairing cars of this make.
J. A. Hunts two Oldsmobile
touring models and Oldsmobile
truck stood prominent among the
many fine cars exhibited.
Frank d. Burns, Newport's
genial Velie agent, showed five
models of this fine make. One of
them, the model 4S Speedster, was
as handsome j car as any automo-
bile show could present. The
long, low, racy lines, the robins
egg blue color, the nickel disc
wheels, the "angel" side wind
shields of amber colored glass, all
combined to make this job to at
tract the attention of every indiv-
idual who attended the show.
OF course the good old Ford
was there strong. A Ford Sedan,
Touring, a Roadster, one
Truck and a delivery Truck made
up this exhibit. The Fordson
Tractor, otherwise known as the
steel mule, was also there.
The popular and well-liked
Franklin was shown by the
Drown Motor Company.
d. |. Grapes occupied nine
spaces and showed three closed
Essex models, a REQ "Speed-
wagon, a REQ Touring car, a REQ
Sedan, two Hudson Touring cars,
and a Hudson Sedan which was
sold to F. S. Tinkham of New
port. One could not help but OBJ
serve that the Essex closed Jobs
were especially neat and attrac-
tive.
The C. H. Goss company of St.
Johnsbury showed a very hand
some Dodge Sedan, a Dodge half
ton truck and a Dodge one and
one-half ton truck with Graham
Brothers rear end. The Dodge
exhibit showed that this popular
make has as many friends as ever,
for an interested crowd was at
their spaces practically all the
time.
OF course an auto show would
not be an auto show without hav-
ing the Packard represented. The
Packard agents were unfortunate
in one way and fortunate in an
other They were unfortunte in
having no model for display yes
terday, but they are surely for
tunate in having such demand
for their cars that they are over
sold. The touring model they had
on hand served its purpose as q
demonstrator, and today they
made arrangements to show their
latest model.
A Cadillac touring and a closed
model occupied the spaces of the
Northern Cadillac Company. They
received enthusiastic praise from
all Cadillac admirers the number
of whom is by no means small.
|. c. Bryant's display boosted of
a total of eight cars. Three Stu
debaker touring models, an ex-
tremely handsome Studebaker Sc
dan, and a smart Studebaker
Roadster attracted both attention
and prospective customers. An
International Speed Wagon and a
three-to International Truck !
completed Mr.. Bryant's exhibit.
E. C. Cass of Newport showed |
the sleeve valve WHY'S Knight |
touring car and a Sedan and tour
ing model Overland which is the
make with the famous three point |
suspension triplex springs.
The only motorcycle shown at |
the show was the Light weight |
champion "Cleveland," exhibited |
by O. r. Brown.
A total of sixty-seven cars were
exhibited by seventeen different |
dealers ana agents ana IepIcSchl-
ed 81 makes.
Charles J. Cote was so well To-
Gated that without actually engag-
ing show space he was able to IN
terest his many visitors in his fine
line of tires and tubes. Bucks |
Garage is well along towards com
pletion and he is already dealing
out gasoline and oil. All New
port stores that specialize in au-
tomobile accessories found the oc-
casion ripe to interest the public
in their goods.
ALI in all from eYprV StandnOint