The New York herald., 1922-12-31
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR BIGGEST SHOW
Seventy-nine Different Makes
of Cars and Four Hundred
Accessories.

Once a year the automobile industry
makes New York city its headquarters
for a week. bringing with 1t the best
that manufacturers can offer to the pub
lie The 1923 visit will begin next Sat
urday, January 6. when the twenty
third national automobile show will open
in Grand Central Palace. to continue
until Saturday. January 1s. inclusive
The display will be on more elab-
crate scale than ever before. There
will be seventy-nlne makes OF cars In
the Palace, with an accessory list of
nearly 400, thus making the show the
biggest in the history of the automobile
industry. not only because of the num-
Der Of exhibitors. but also because of the
quality of the exhibits. Arrangements
have been made to provide space for
more than $50 Individual car models.
Manufacturers have spared no cx-
pense to get the very best ready for
the annual exhibition with the result
that the public will see an array of cars
such as has never been gathered under
one roof before. Competition In automo-
bile building was never greater, and for
this reason more individuality is being
built into cars. 1t is expected that
some of the body designs and color
schemes that will be offered will cause
a sensation.
The display this year will occupy the
lower four floors of the Palace, an area
equal TO four city blocks. and every
nook and Granny not needed for aisle
space will be crowded with exhibits.
The first two floors will be devoted en-
tirely to cars with perhaps three or four
manufacturers showing on the third
floor. The remainder of tho third floor
and all of the fourth viii be filled with
accessories. Never has there been as
sembled such group of devices that so
TO aid the nlotorist as will be seen at
the Palace. All records have been
broken by the list of applications FOR
space in this division of the show, and
with nearly 400 spaces reserved. the
total is approximately 100 moro than
for any previous display.
Realizing that flattering adjectives are
much less convincing than the actual
demonstration of a product, the coming
show will be made more interesting and
informative to the motorist than any
previous affair of the kind in the his
tory of motoring. Every exhibitor whose
product lends itself to actual proof of
merit has been requested by the show
committee to make his exhibit as COM
plete an illustration of the action of the
article under working conditions as pos
siblc.
Exhibitors of complete cars. as a rule,
make every effort toward establishing
conviction In the minds of prospective
buyers through the employment of cut
out motors and chassis. as well as by
hooking in electrical power to actuate
the motors and transmissions. Short of
showing the car in actual performance
this has been the only available means
of demonstration.
The plan OF the show committee does
not comprehend any particular change
III the method of displaying complete
cars. To a great extent the idea Is to
ada color and atmosphere to the floors
that are devoted to the display of parts
and accessories.
Nowadays, when every other visitor to
the big annual show, is motor car
owner, the accessories divide interest
with the cars. In the opinion OF s. AZ,
Miles. manager of the show. the access
sories can be displayed with such a
wealth of Illustration that a visit to
that section VIII be a liberal education
TO every motorist.
1t may be expected, therefore. that the
windshield cleaners will be shown re-
moving actual water: the carbon re-
movers at the beneficent task of dis
integrating real carbon: lubricants and
the methods of using them being demon
strated as the motorist will have to
utilize them. In short, the show of 1929
VIII go further than ever. not only in
showing the motorist tho latest devices
but In teaching him how to make the
most of them.
General Manager Miles reports that
the questions" contest that has been
inauguratcd has drawn hundreds Of re-
plies and that it will take some time
to sort them and decide on The winner.
The facts" contest will not get under
way until the show opens.
Mr.. Miles has also announced that
the winner OF the prize offered by the
National Automobile Chamber of Com
merce for the best design for an in
Vitatlon that has been issued TO $4,000
automobile merchants throughout the
country, was Miss Louise IT. McLendon
of the New York School Of Fine and
Applied Arts. The design Is simple. vet
striking. showing Washington Arch
New York city. on one side and the
Logan Monument, Chicago, ON the
other
Tho following are the cars that Will
be displayed: American, Anderson. Ap-
person, Auburn. Barley. Buick. Cadillac,
Case, Chalmers. Chandler Chevrolet
Cleveland, Cole. Columbia, Courier,
Crawford. Dagmar. Davis, Dodge Bros.
Doris. bort, Durant. Earl, Elcar. FL
gin. Essex. Franklin, Gardner. Gray, III.
c. s.. Handley-Knight, Hatfield, Haynes.
Hudson. Hupmobile. Jewett, Jordan
King, kissel. Lafayette, Lexington. Lib
erty, Lincoln. Locomobile, McFarlar
Marmon, Maxwell. Mercer. Mitchell.
Moon. Nash, National, Noma, Oakland
Oldsmobile. Overland, Packard, Paige
Detroit. Paterson. Peerless, Pierce
Arrow. Pilot. Premier. II. &c r. Knight,
Rauch Lang. REQ. Rickenbacker
Roamcr, Rotary Six. Stanley, Star.
Stcarns. Stevens. Studehaker,-. Stutz,
Nelie. Westcott, Wills Sainte Claire,
Willys-Knight
The show committee consists OF the
following: III. M. Jewctt. chairman r..
g. Chandler, J. Walter Drake and S. A.
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