Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-02
III. ]. KLINGLER
Vice-President and General
Sales Manager
Chevrolet Motor Company

NlOtOT company
KlinsIer as Vice PRESIDENT and Gen
eral Sales Manager Of the Chevro-
let Motor Company. Mr.. Kringler
takes charge OF a selling force Of
more than $4,000 people and be-
comes the leader Of an organization
geared up to sell more than one mil
lion automobiles annually.
III his new position. Mr.. Klingler.
at 40. takes over the work formerly
directed by r. H. Grant, now a
vice president of General Motors.
Mr.. Klingler was born July s..
1889. at St. Clair, Mich, where he
lived until finishing at the St. Clair
high school in 1903. That fall he
entered the University Of Michigan
becoming a member Of the Lit-Law
class Of 1912.
He left the University before TAX
ing his degree to become associated
with the Chalmers Motor Com
pany, where he remained for a
short time. His first introduction
to sales work was in the summer of
1912 when he went with the Muir
ply Chair Company in Detroit.
During his five years with this or
ganiZation, the new Chevrolet sales
chief had q hand in the company's
advertising work. served as traffic
manager and later as sales mana
ger.
At the outbreak Of the war he
volunteered and was sent 10 the Of
ficers' training camp at Fort Sheri-
dan. Ill. where he was commission
ed a First Lieutenant Of Infantry.
He was transferred later to the
Fourth Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun
Battalion with which he saw a
years service overseas.
After he was mustered out of SER
vice early in 1919. opportunity beck
oned in Dayton and he went to the
Ohio city mad joined the sales or
~ganiZation of the Delco-Light COM
pany. In his five years with this
company he gained a broad knowl-
edge Of sales and advertising in va
ried capacities and in many sec
tons Of the country. This was his
first contact with r. II. Grant with
whom he was later to become more
closely associated.
MI. Grant came 10 Chevrolet
early in 1924 and recognizing Mr..
Klingler's success in Delco-Light,
urged him to join Chevrolet. The
new Chevrolet sales chief then re-
signed his post as branch manager
for Delco-Light at Sioux Falls, S.
D.. and went to st. Louis. Mo-. as
zone sales manager for Chevrolet.
A year later he was called to the
central office Of the company in
Detroit and in 1926 was made an
assistant general sales manager.
Public acceptance OF the Chevro-
let car had been increasing by leaps
and bounds and it became neces-
sary for MI. Grant as director of
the far-flung selling organization
to extend and expand hiss ales force
TO cope with the growing demand
for the product. In the working
out of his plan of perfecting the or
ganiZation that was soon to sell
more than one million cars annual
", Mr.. Grant found it advisable to
share more Of the responsibility
with Mr.. Klingler. AS a result in
May 1927, MI. Grant became vice
president in charge Of sales and
Mr.. Klingler became general sales
manager.
For the last two years, Mr.. Kiln
gler has been closely associated
with Mr.. Grant in the designing
and carrying out Of plans that
brought to Chevrolet such a spec
taCular measure OF success. He has
seen Chevrolet sales double in vol
ume since he joined the organiza-
ton and has seen the personnel OF
the organization double in size.
Mr.. Klingler. an outstanding sue
cessful man. has no patent formu-
las for success and knows Of no
short cuts to independence. He
dispatches the question with the
admonition that work-and plenty
Of it, is the best guaranty.