The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-01
Motor Vehicle Production To Top TlUo MiAon--R N A. C. C. General Manager Also Quotes Figures to Show How Auto Industry Boosts Employment.
 Continued Increase Seen in Transpor-
 tation by Truck

The production of passenger cars and trucks during 1922 will exceed R.ooo, 900, and with return to normal conditions next years output should be 25o,OOo higher. according to AL fred Reeves, general manager of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. who included these figures in an address made last week 1t Buffalo before the Motor and Ao- -eessory Manufacturers association.
 MT. Reeves also declared that more than 100000 people were given em- ployment either directly or indirect ly through tho automobile industry. His address in part Is as follows;
 ''The present prosperity in the au tomobile business means employment for 2,226,ooo people. in addition to the 100000 men working in the automobile plants. to the hundreds of Thousands of professional ohauffeurs and drivers and of retail garage em- ployes. there are about 250,000 ao- esssory factory workers, 10000 tire Headers and salesmen and thousands more in allied retail trades
 "One can realize also the effect on ether industries by the fact that S2 per cent of the aluminium supply, { per cent. of the annual production Of irGn and steel, 20 per cent. of tin, IS per cent of the copper output and so per cent of plate glass manu- fracture are used in the making of motor cars and motor trucks.
 This effect of the public demand for increased modern transportation naturally Is very prompt stimulus to the business of those factories making parts and accessories. Sales for the past four months have been the largest for any similar period Cn record due to the keen competition on the part of manufacturers, each en- deavorins to get large amount of business by giving the most value for th emoney. In fact, more value for tho money is being given today Ina motor vehicles than any previous time in the business.
 "This ia reflected in the accessory market by the increase in the equip ment and appointments supplied with the finished product and the creation of . public desire to get the last word in motor improvement.
 "This years production should ex- eeed 100000 cars and trucks. be- Heve 1t is safe to say that next year. with export demands increasing. mere than 2.2bo.ooo motor vehicles will be sold.
 'In this years production, about 10 per cent. are trucks, but the truck production will keep on increasing es general business gets better.
 "Of the cars produced this year. probably TO per cent. will sell at $1o0o or less.
 shipments from the factories dur ing August were tho biggest in the history of the industry Preliminary reports indicate a production in Au- gust of 2To,o00 vehicles, of which a2.0oo were trucks This iH 90 per cent. more than July and only 2b,- 900 less than June, the biggest month fin the history of cur industry
 s'During the first eight months the industry has made 1.664,ooo motor vehicles, which Is practically equal to the full years production of 1021,
 .'Of the production this year. about so per cent were closed cars and this proportion I expect to see increased to 50 per cent within the next few years.
 ~our rspcrtss show an increasing use of motor vehicles over the high ways, not alone in the use of passen- ger ears, but trucks and motor busses.
 lover half . miflien persons mo tor camped in our national parks dur ing the past year.
 sMotor bus lines are new running