THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 25. 1012.
The Overland Car
THE Overland has proven a more acceptable machine to the
people than ever before if that is possible. Our model
"j9T" has shown its great popularity by the immense crowd
always about it and the many direct sales it has won. Espe
cially the dealers have realized its merit and closed large con
tracts on this model for early delivery.
This year will be the greatest, so far as Overlands are con
cerned, and the show was truly a winner.
VAN BRUNT AUTOMOBILE 00., -'
Harry Van Brunt.
"Dreadnought" Moline "35"
THE farmers are this year buying more popular-priced cars
than ever before and are demanding the best machines
t hey, can get. The Moline is proving that it is one of the best
cars made and it is having the largest Bales in its history. Dur
ing the present show we have sold a large number of these ma
chines, far more than the most sanguine could have expected.
We have had the sales and are delighted with the Omaha ex
hibit. The outlook for the automobile business is the best in
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its history.
MOLINE AUTOMOBILE 00.,
D. M. Bcal, Mgr.
How the Dealers
View the
1912 Automo
bile Show.
E-M-F "30" Studebaker--Flanders "20"
WE agree with everybody else that the 1912 show has sur
passed any other for sales and attendance. We never
have witnessed such a wonderful exhibit. Our sales have been
ten times as large as they were last year. The sturdy E. M. F.
"30" and the speedy little Studebaker Flanders "20" have met
with favor everywhere. It has been a great show in every
respeet and we nre delighted with the business that we have
done.
STUDEBAKER CORPORATION,
, , L. A. Kellar, Mgr.
The Mason Car
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THE Mason car fared more than well at this 1912 show; Peo- '
pie wanted to know what i could do but we didn't only tell
them, we showed them. As a hill climber and sand and mud
traveler the Mason has ho equal. It has been a great show for
business and we have closed more business than we ever hoped
to during the past six days. - .''
FREELAND AUTOMOBILE 00.,.
. " J. k. Freeland.
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The Long Stroke Hupmobile "32"
THE great Omaha Automobile Show of 1912 was an unqual
ified success from every standpoint Everybody will say
so. Personally speaking our new "32" long stroke Hupmobile
made a decided hit. We had a great deal of fun climbing the
Capitol and Davenport hills. The car has great power. We
wrote a large number of dealer's contracts in fact, more than
we expected. The public is alive to the fact that a powerful
car can now be had for $900. I am highly pleased with the
results of the show and anticipate another big week at the
Sioux City show starting next Monday.
f W. L. HUFFMAN AUTOMOBILE CO.
Apperson
WE are delighted with the show of 1912 and believe there
never has keen a better one for business. The Apperson
car has had large sales this week and we are more than satis
fied. . We do not believe our sales could have been much better,
for we have done a much greater amount than we had expected
to do. , We were prepared for a large trade, but not for such a
big business as was done. This show has proved its worth in
a hundred ways.
APPERSON AUTOMOBILE CO., -!
' C. J. Corkhill.
Chalmers Automobiles
TWO things impressed me greatest at the 1912 show. First,
the great number of people interested in popular priced
cars with self starters like the Chalmers. Second, the very
large number of sales we actually made at the show far ex
ceeding our anticipation. Of course, the show was a success.
V - H. E. FREDRICKSON AUTOMOBILE CO.
H. E. Fredrickson, Pres.
ANNUAL ADIOfflOI CLOSES
Big Motor Car Exhibit is Declared
a Huga Succeii.
iXhWIOBS A WELL SATISFIED
Reealts Ar Cntai la Iran All
!! at th Territory Ahoat
Out! . Many Dealer fa
Doakl Order.
Omah s seventh annua automobile
how cam to a cloa laat evening the
biggest and moat auecaaatul automoblla
exhibition aver held In thia city. Ex
hlbitora and visitors of the ahow of 1911
are equally satisfied with the auto event
of the year. The record attendance of
the ahow teatifks to the popularity op
the attraction to Omaha people.
The raaulta of the week work of the
ahow waa to five the lnduatry a booat
In Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, north
ern Kansas, eaatern Colorado and Wyo
Dilof that many declare will almost dou
ble the number of eara In use in thia
territory before another year peases. 1
The number of cara actually sold dur
bit the profrees of the ahow, although it
speaka well for the Omaha dealers and
for the prosperity of the country sur
rounding Omaha, is but a small part of
the results that will be brought to the
automobillata and the dealers. The auto
mobile snow In educating the publlo mind
to the value of owning a machine. In the
Intrlnsto valuer a car owner can gain from
his machine In a aavlng of time and in
adding to his business, has done a great
work. As one dealer remarked one day
In show week, "The show Is merely the
signboard of the real boost."
Practically every one of the dealers In
terested has declared that hla order sent
In to, the factory for the spring would
have to be doubled. As Omaha la the
center of automobile agencies all oven
Nebraska and the surrounding country,
the dealera from thia territory were ail
In attendance at the Omaha show and
they win sell a correspondingly greater
number of automobiles.
Attendance? Mane Record.
Attendance at the auto show this year
broke all records. The fine weather
Omaha experienced all of the last week
brought the farmers Into the city day
after day. And the farmer of today Is
a buyer of automobiles, both pleasure and
commercial cara. The dealera took hold
of the seventh annual ahow In 1911 and
made It an even bigger affair. i
"We held an frtCormal meeting of the
offloera today," ealoMhe president of the
association on Saturday evening. "AU
of them reported that they are i receiving
from all sides congratulations'' upon the
show of 1911. I will freely admit that It
haa much exceeded my personal expec
tations, and they were not small."
Officials At Pleased.
Clarke Powell, secretary of the associa
tion and the manager of the ahow, was a
tired but happy man. Congratulations
from the dealers In the show from visiting
automobile men from the factories of
many of the cars exhibited and from the
visitor who attended the show were his.
"I think that lha automobile dealera as
a body are more than glsd that they un
dertook the show of Ibis year. It la not
only the biggest show we have had, but
aa measured by results It la far beyond
any of the exhibitions held before."
Crowds Keep toatlaa.
During ths closing day and night of the
show the Interest waa kept up until the
last light waa turned out. The crowds
were present as large a evar all the day
and they literally swarmed Into the long
aisles Saturday evening. Both the com
mercial and pleasure cara war aa en
grossing as ever and at the closing hour
tho crowds simply had to be shoved from
the building that the exhibition might
not run into the next week.
Each year aa .the Omaha Automobile
show closes the exhibitors have learned
something new la displaying their ma
chine to the publlo and the possible
buyer. And In both the departments of
the sixth annual ahow there was sums
thing learned thia year.
One of the things that haa shown up
even to the careless observer is the value
of ahowlag the public the working parts,
the chassis, running If possible, and with
the coverings out out so that the vital
parts of th mechanical parte can be seen
In action.
Around each of the five or els cbaffix
ahown that were running by means of an
eleotric motor there waa not a minute
that tho Auditorium waa open that there
waa not soma Interested spectator gaslng
In a rapt fa h ton at th wheels working
and the pistons turning.
Seles of th Asia Shew.
Forty-seven out of th 13 car ex
hibited at the show are equipped with
Goodyear tires.
A. HoMrego of Rlverton. Neb., pur
chased an Abbtt-leirnlt ir from the
W. 1 Huffman company Thursday.
C. Cowley of the aaiea department of
the Denver branch ut th Studebaker
corporation was at the show yesterday.
Prank Smith, assistant salesmsnager
of th Studebaker factories In Detroit,
waa the guest of Manager Keller at the
show yesterday. '
C. F. Stewart, manager of the Dea
Moines branch of the Studebaker corpora
tion, was th guest of Msnsser Keller of
the Omaha branch at the show J ester
ase.
! Fred C. Voyer. manager of th Des
' Moines branch of th Uoolvear Tire and
Rubber compear. vltted Manager Uraves
I of tho local branch Thursday and Friday.
the best show that h bad eve attended,
snd that tho variety of cars exhibited
was far beyond bla expectations.
Famous Lavender
Carat Show is Sold
Among th out-of-town dealer wh
I visited the show last week. H. M. Scott
of Ptalnvlew.. Nh proved to be th
, Uvest wlr la th bunch. When Scott saw
th beautiful Violet model -M" Franklia
Ma Our U Smith exhibit h rsmsrksd
I that th car would g to Plain view. Mr.
i Scott made good oa Friday by seiltag th
j Frank. Lia car la question t Fred Free, a
prominent attorney of Plain view. ' Not
i being satisfied with thai sal Scott got
aoal of Mr. Wood Coat. hankar of
pierce, and sold aha aa exact duplicate
of th Violet car. Th Scott AutoanobU
company has th Fmnknn agency under
Guy Ia Smith and will feature that Una
this
Buick Marquette
THE thousands who viewed and inspected these two lines
went away feeling that no better cars, at their price, are
made. The contracts made with dealers and the number of indi
vidual sales recorded by the Buick and Marquette assure their
popularity for 1912. The success of the show was phenomenal
and its results far reaching.
NEBRASKA BUICK AUTOMOBILE CO.,
Lee Huff, Mgr.
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Alco
THE Alco pleasure car and the Alco trucks shown at the
Automobile show were examples of America's best auto
mobiles. The Alco has no superior. This fact is well known
in the west as well as the east. The Omaha show was a success
beyond expectations and we are highly pleased with its results.
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE CO.,
Jack Sharp, Agent.
G. M. C. Trucks
OMAHA'S greatest Automobile show has "broke up." It is
one of the "breaks' Drummond can't remedy, but the great
show of General Motors Co. Trucks will be continued daily
throughout the year at the big Drummond establishment.
G. M. C. Trucks, both in gasoline and electric, attracted
much attention but no more than they merit.
Then, remember the high class service department main
tained by the General Motor Co. representative in Omaha.
DRUMMOND MOTOR CO.,
Wm. R. Drummond, Pres.
The Cadillac Car
rpO find the busiest booth at the Automobile show, look for
1 the Cadillac." That was our saying before the show and
all during the week it was well borne out. Our exhibit was
educational. It told hundreds just what a motor car is and just
how it is operated. It proved conclusively the absolute super
iority of the Cadillao over any other car selling at anything
like its price. Our business was certainly good. The orders
came liberally and we are surely pleased.
CADILLAC COMPANY OF OMAHA,
Geo. F. Reim, Pres.
Arthur Storz Supply Co.
THE newest business firm, consequently with the newest,
latest and cleanest stock, represented at the show is more
than pleased with its reception. The show demonstrated there
has long been an opening here for the sort of a business we
shall conduct and the market will be good for our splendid
merchandise. A complete automobile Supply house, with no old
stock still to sell, and one quoting merchandise at the fairest
profit is what you will find in the
ARTHUR STORZ SUPPLY CO.,
Arthur Storz, Pres.
Peerless-Franklin-Hudson
l 7E were proud of our three lines represented at the'show.
Proud because each is the leader in its class and proud
because the visitors invariably realized their merit and suprem
acy. To comment upon the show is unnecessary everyone
knows it's by far the greatest automobile show ever held in the
west ' . '
GUY L. SMITH.
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