San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-14

Toledo, Ohio, was a visitor in San
Antonio last week, having business
with the San Antonio Overland Com
pany. Willys-Overland distributors fol
Southwest Texas.
OF interest to many San Antonio
automobile men is the announcement
that II. Il. Harper, sales manager OF
the Studcbaker Corporation, is leaving
that company to enter another field
of endeavor. Mr.. Harper. it will be re-
membered, has visited San Antonio on
numerous occasions and numbers many
acquaintances here. Before going with
Studebaker he held an important posi-.
ton with the Willys-Overland Com
pany of Toledo.
Dewitt Reed, Cadillac dealer at
Corpus Christi, and j. w. Greenwell,
district representative of the Cadillac
Motor Car Company. were among call.
ers at the Manford Cadillac Company,
| last week. Both visitors were enter.
tanned at luncheon by J.. G. Manfori
and C. 4. Hopper of the local Cad
lilac agency.
c. f. Hopper, sales manager of the
Manford Cadillac Company. has re-
turned from a visit in Corpus Christi
and other West Gulf Coast towns.
Business in ard around Corpus Christi
on the whole is unusually prosperous
Mr.. Hopper says, farmers in that sec
ton having just gathered one of the
largest cotton cropsI in recent years.
Bank deposits both in Corpus Chris i
and in towns like Robstown and
Bishop, he says, are the largest in
years. OF course, automobile dealers
are enjoying a good business, he says.
The Manford Cadillac Company.
Cadillac distributors for Southwest
Texas. last week received another
shipment Of the new series V-63 Cad
lilac models. Included in this shipment
were four-passenger open touring
car, five-passenger sedan and seven
passenger suburban. All were to have
been delivered TO purchasers last
week.
Jack W. Neal Jr.. who was recent
ly appointed general manager of the
Jack Neal Nash Motors Company. re-
turned last week from st. Louis where
he attended the air races at which
new worlds record for speed was
established. An experienced filler him
self. Mr.. Neal says he enjoyed every
event on the program thoroughly.
Supplementing its Regular newspa-
per advertising, the Jack Neal Nash
Motors Company last week distributed
many thousands of circulars announc-
ing its used car sale by airplane. The
plane was piloted by Jack w. Neal
Jr., general manager of the Jack Neal
Nash Motors Company, who was ac-
companied by Grayson Lubbock. also
member of the Neal firm. Distribution
of the circulars was confined to the
rural sections of Southwest Texas
chiefly.
Ton Simmons, road man for Jack
Neal Nash Motors Company. spent
few days with the home office last
week, before departing on another
swing around the territory.
An innovation in automobile de-
sign is the new Maxwell club sedan
just received by the Guarantee Motor
Car Company, Maxwell-Chalmers dis
tributors for Southwest Texas. The
new sedan contains but two doors but
these doors are unusually wide. mea-
surfing more than three feet in width.
The new car is surprisingly roomy
and all the more surprising is its price
which is but slightly more than $1100
delivered in San Antonio.
Abuse Of the dealers license tag
privilege was the subject for discus.
sion at the last regular meeting of the
San Antonio Automobile Trades As
ISOLATION ut the Gunter Hotel. Dealers
were warned by President w. A. Vii
hanson that this abuse must stop.
else their licenses might be revoked
by the state.