The Washington times., 1937-10-30
1888 AUTO SHOW.
BARES MARVELS
OF BIC INDUSTRY.
Spectacular Adv anCe
In Field Shown
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tC0nLi0ueQ lTOIn dSC HAJ
has grown from a puny infant to
a colossus.
Within the lifetime of a young
man the American automotlVe IN
dustry has become the greatest
single enterprise in the history OF
the world. Be sure to take your
family to the Auto Show tonight,
tomorrow, or any day or night
next week.
The finest products of Americas
greatest industry are now on exhi-
hition every American make
of car and practically every model
in their 1898 line are on display
. all on one floor all under
one roof at the Automotive
Exhibit Hall 1912 Twenty
fourth st. N. w.
Richard Dick" Murphy, vet
eran show director for the Wash
ineton Automotive Trade ASSocia'
ton. the sponsors of the 1888 auto
show, has created the most attrac'
lively decorated exposition and
the 1888 motor car is displayed in
an Egyptian garden setting. Hours
of the show will be from IL a. m.
today until IL p. m. tonight. Sun
day the exhibit will open at 2 p.
m. and will close at II p. m. Next
week the show will be open daily
from IL a. m. until II p. m.
ROSE FROM JOKE
When a young man scuffing the
toes out of his first pair Of shoes,
the American automobile industry
was a national joke. It was some
thing smart alecks wiSecracked-
or whatever they called it then
about; and its products were
puffy, noisy machines that more
often than not came home at the
end of a stout rope.
Here and there an old shop had
been turned into a factory for
making horSeless carriageS-and a
few stables we're being turned into
garages, and that was the automo-
tive industry. But look at it to.
day-look at it and marvel. Com
pare the new 1898 model. Com
pare it with the first car ever
produced.
Last year the American automo-
tive industry turned out 4,616,274
cars and trucks; the wholesale
value of motor vehicles, parts, and
tires was nearly $4,000, ,000, 900
Eyes, that's four billion); and
more than 100000 persons were
employed directly or indirectly.
That amounts to one out of every
seven persons gainfully employed
in this country,
From the few thousands of dol
lars which those farSighted pio-
neers invested in the tiny plants
of several decades ago the capital
invested in car and truck factories
has grown to a total of approx
mately $1,345, ,000, 900 today, a tidy
sum no matter how fast one says
it.
And John Brown, that first ven
tureSome soul who decided to go
into the automobile business, al
though his friends around the
town pump, drug store or saloon
told him he wouldn't last till the
first frost, has multiplied to 43, ,46l
motor vehicle dealers in the U. S.
A. And the total number of auto
motive Establishments of all sorts
is 465, ,443.
FRANCE SECOND
The United states tops the world
in total registrations, 28,250, 900,
while France comes next with only
1,649,718. States leading are New
York, with 2,453,542 autos; Cali
fornia, 2,327,984; Pennsylvania,
1,918.116; Ohio, 1,777,048; Illinois,
with 1,659,750 tops the entire reg
istration of France, England or
Germany. Little Delaware has
more cars than are to be found in
all of Soviet Russia.
Great Britain is the largest pro-
ducer of motor vehicles next to
the United States. Our total pro-
duction last year was 4,616,274,
and Great Britain's 481, ,447. We
shipped 508,226, which proves our
overseas sales alone topped John
Bulls entire production.
Yes, it has become quite husky
has this young and virile automo.
tive industry, and the more one
learns about it the more marvel
Gus it's record appears. So strike
up the band, folks, for the biggest,
most amazing, most breath-taking
spectacle of its kind in the world
The 1888 motor car invites you
to see it at the Auto Show.