Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-02-19
WILL HAVE EXCELLENT
EXHIBIT AT AUTO SHOW
Colonial Motor Company TIC
Display Special Models Lin
coin And Ford Cars
SALES OUTLOOK BRIGHT

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The Colonial Motor Company will
enjoy the unique distinction OF dis
playing both the highest priced and
the lowest priced models at the An.
napolis Automobile Show, which will
be held in the ST. Johns College gym
nasium, February "a, 26 and q. The
Lincoln Town Car which sells for 81,
600, is the high-priced product to bt
shown here. while the Ford models
will be the lowest-priced ones.
The Lincoln Town Car has the fam
GUS go degree Twin V shaped motor
and Is an extremely handsome car
In fact, the Lincoln car exhibit OF tho
Ford Motor Company is most impos
ing and cannot but help attract tho
attention OF everyone interested II
quality cars. They show remarkable
advances In the construction OF fno
motor car body work. All are dis
tingnished by superior finish. In IN
general chasssi and motor construc
ton certain recent improvements il
design and construction are revealed
including a new conception in finisl
OF the operating parts of the motor Il
self All developments in the Lincol
tend toward the ultimate perfection l.
automobile design and construction.
Ills Car Attracts Attention
The Colonial Motor Company ais
will show a Ford Four-Door Sedan
the very latest development OF tn.
Ford Motor Company. aluminium body
making II so pounds lighter than tn
two-door Sedan.
The new four-door Sedan attract.
much attention. II is a real creation
In body building with full. easy lines
The front seat extends the full widt'
OF the body and is unusually huge
The four doors are wide and strong
and the window lowering devices ar,
of the same general type as thos,
used in the more expensive models
Another exhibit OF this company
1928 Model Ford Touring Car, whicl
has the one-man top. slanting wind
shield. and removable top rests
In the Ford exhibit the open bod.
types. touring cars and runabouts
present the new sloping Windshield
which is creating so much Favorable
comment. In the two-door sedan tn
new upholstery material is mos
pleasing and gives the car the appear
ance OF high quality usually associ
ated with higher priced cars.
To Display "BaltO. Show" Model
A special model shown at the Balti
more Show also will be displayed b.
the Colonial Motor Company
THE outlook for increased sales
Ford cars in this territory never was
brighter" said Louis B. Myers. loca
Ford dealer. today. "The presen
month is starting out wonderfully.
81 know of no better way of demon
strating the popularity of the Fort
car than to cite figures recently com
piled. which show more clearly thar
anything else the ascendency of thu
Ford product
"Of the 10,4S2000 passenger car
registered in the United States as
December 1. 1922. forty-eight pc
cent, or 5,000,162. were Fords, and
all automobiles in use on farms of the
country, flfty-three per cent. are Ford
cars.
"Then there are the commercial
cars and trucks. These registered a,
of December /. 1922, totalled 1908,
607 and OF this figure Fords held fifty
one per cent.
Jas. +. Smith In Charge
"And there is something else that i:
interesting. In 1918. forty-eight pei
cent. of all trucks in use in the com
try were one ton or less. but in 1872!
this percentage had risen to eight.
per cent. while one and half to two
and half-ton trucks were but eigh-
teen per cent; three to five-ton trucks
one and half per cent, and five-tor
or more trucks only one-half of one
per cent"
James F. Smith will have charge OF
the Colonial Motor Company display
at the local show.