Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-24

to use buses as feeders.
"Twenty-three electric railways
are using buses as feeders to their
main lines.
'Twenty-eight steam railroads
twenty in twenty-three states are
using Hanged wheel motor buses to
handle short line business.
Additional Opportunities in Aces
series.
IT have been asked to say some
thing regarding the future Of the
accessory business. One can only
outline general principles and not
predict in detail.
Parts and accessory makers may
look for business even better than
they are doing this year. But I be-
lieve there are additional possibili-
ties open to those firms which can
develop new and useful devices.
This is fully as true of the for
eign field as the American In fact
in some countries, such as Argen-
tina, where owners will some times
use several types of horns on one
car.
aside from the fact that the
public is an intelligent judge of
motor products, and hence has an
interest in improvements as they
come along, there is a potential ac-
cessory demand in the fact of the
great numbers of low price cars
which are being manufactured. The
man who buys a low price car and
finds that he would like some par
ticular added feature on it usually
feels that he has bought his car at
'such a low price that he can afford
to pay for minor improvements.
Automobiles Pay for Themselves.
An important assurance of the
future of the automobile business
lies in the fact that cars and trucks
in the main are creators of wealth.
1T was readily recognized from al
most the beginning that railroads
were builders of empire, but the
editorial minds were slower to real
ize that motor cars and motor
trucks, developing the country in
tensively, are also productive of
economic value. The industry itself
was partially responsible for this
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its advertisements it stressed the
recreation feature, a desirable ele-
ment, but one which could not alone
explain the continued increase in
motor transportation.
Lower Rents Coming.
But recently even as critical
mind as that of Roger w. Babson
has pointed out that thousands Of
persons have been buying motor
ears and moving into the suburbs.
A survey of the various real estate
boards by the N. A. C. c. developed
the fact that around sixty cities in
the country there are over 1876, 200
suburban homes depending chiefly
on the motor car and motor truck
for transportation. This release of
housing pressure on the cities and
the settling of families on less ex-
pensive land gives promise of lower
rentals, q prediction in which many
leading economists of the day con-
cur.
There are about 100000 farm
ers in the country owning cars to-
day. A survey of farmer car owners
indicated that the use of motor
transportation increased the aver
age farmers efficiency by 6S per
cent. In olden times it used to be
said that the farmers could not af-
ford the number of horses which
they were using, but still less could
they afford to be without them. The
same applied to power machinery
including motor transportation to-
day.
with these two important points
of increased efficiency for the out
door worker and lower rentals for
the city man accomplished through
use of the car and truck, there ap.
pears to be before us in the long
run a continually growing market
for motor vehicles and allied prod
ucts.
"This progress, of course, is con-