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...scale puts the Ford, beyond all immediate competition, as the lowest priced car in the U. S. But, although Henry Ford always has one eye cocked a-wind for competitive drifts, he always goes his own way, explains nothing. The current this time is not of necessity pushed by Chevrolet with its daily production of 3,000 cars, nor by the new Overland Whippet, nor yet by the threat of small foreign models. The demand for Fords has abated, although not so much as some journalistic conjecture would have...
...machines will be in three models-a two-door coach and two-seat coupé (both $735 f.o.b. factory) ; a touring car ($645). They have a four-cylinder, small-bore, poppet-valve engine of 15 horsepower on a 4% in. stroke. Their wheelbase is that of the Ford and Chevrolet, 100 in. The overall height is 5 ft., 8 in. with a low centre of gravity due to an 8% in. axle-clearance and the standard 56 in. tread. Tiny balloon tires, smaller even than Ford balloons, have been furnished by Fisk...
...Cadillac, Buick, Chevrolet, Oakland, Pontiac,* Oldsmobile, G.M.C. Truck- General Motors makes them all. Last week this corporation sold its 5,000,000th motor vehicle and simultaneously marked the 1,002,285th car sale during the last twelvemonth. It took them nine years to sell their first 1,000,000, nine years to sell the last...
...Fleischmann 933,085 +429,525 Willys Overland 896,887 + 37,037 Palmolive 895,489 + 37,047 Victor Talking Ma chine Co 864,200 -320,110 Armstrong Cork Co.... 801,700 +378,000 Vacuum Oil 800,100 + 48,100 Dodge Bros 784,078 +142,478 Chevrolet 779,032 +226,967 Pepsodent 750,656 +189,355 Quaker Oats 744,517 +211,937 Swift & Co 710,650 + 53,300 General Electric 695,385 +133,245 Hudson Motor 683,370 +296,100 Pond's Extract 674,530 +229,430 Heinz, H. J. Co 673,304 +145,334 American Tobacco...
...Durant, reared in Michigan although born in Boston, was seemingly a man beaten financially. That year he was forced out of his controlling interests in the General Motors Co. and the Chevrolet Motors Co. The former he had organized in 1908, three years after he had organized the Buick Motor Car Co. Between 1908 and 1909 he bought the Cadillac, Oakland, Oldsmobile and Northway motor companies; in 1915 got control of General Motors and also organized the Chevrolet Co. All these he lost at a swoop in 1920. But the very next year he rebounded by organizing Durant Motors...