San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07

in good spirits and looking forward
to the biggest fall business in their
history.
| z. A. Wickemeyer Of the Koehler-
/, Kunkel Motor Company spent the
week with the Oakland dealer organi-
zation in Karnes and Gonzales ooun-
ties. t "a
Mike Scott of Victoria, and ]. j..
Lass of Bellville were among Bnick
! dealers from territory towns calling
at the San Antonio branch of the
Buick Motor Company, last week. K
J. d. Dean, special representative
of the General Motors acceptance cor
poration with headquarters in Dallas,
spent last week in San Antonio, con-
ferring with officials of the local
Buick branch.
Col. r. B. Webb, general manager
of the San Antonio Buick branch, in
company with ]. d. Dean, representa-
tive of the General Motors Acceptance
Corporation of Dallas, spent the lat
ter part of the week in Laredo, dis
eussing business conditions with the
border city dealer.
According to G. j. Flint, the average
person has little conception of the
immense proportions Of the Buick
factory at Flint, Mich. Every depart
ment, he says, is in charge of an ex-
pert in his particular line. Recently,
Mr.. Flint says, when the Buick Motor
Company needed a new man to head
the transportation department, a. rail-
road man, of many years experience
and thoroughly acquainted with every
phase of the transportation business,
was engaged for the position at
salary that the everage person would
consider enormous. That's just the
way Buick does things" commented
Mr.. Flint. Buick will not tolerate
any but the best of employees, whether
laborers or executives"
The Yantis Motor Company, local
Ford dealer, has arranged an inter-
esting display in its salesroom in the
form of a Ford engine, partly ex-
posed, so that visitors may get n
view of the inside of the motor The
display, according to Robert S. Yantis,
is attracting no little attention.
W. G. Baer, of Yoakum, salesman
for the Yoakum Studebaker agency
was up last week to take delivery on
Studebaker Special Six. bought from
the Winerich Motor Sales Company,
Studebaker distributors for Southwest
Texas.
William Schulz of the Schulz Sales
Company, Willys-Overland dealers at
Maxwell. was in San Antonio Friday
to see about obtaining more cars for
his territory. While here he inspected
the new Overland Champion, displayed
by the San Antonio Overland Com
pany for the first time, last week.
"It's Overlands greatest" he COM
mented enthusiastically.
W. c. Harris, Lockhart representa-
tive for the Schulz Sales Company,
Maxwell dealers for Willys-O Overland,
was another caller at the San Antonio
Overland Company. last week. He
was surprised to find that the new
Overland Champion had arrived. He
anticipates selling n large number of
Overlands in Lockhart and vicinity
this fall, he said.
I. d. Mckee, general manager of
the San Antonio Overland Company
is disguised. Yes, pure. downright dts
gusted. The reason?' Simply that
he has orders on hand FER approximate
ly 80 carloads of Overhnds and Will
lys-Knights and hasn't got but three
cars in the house. Worse still, not a
single carload is in transit.
S. w. Smith. general manager of
the Winerich Motor Sales Company.
is another executive on automible
row who is Disguised. The Stude-
baker factory simply won't send them
enough cars in anywhere near the
number to supply the demand, he