Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Extra trains ran to Manhattan for the 28th National Automobile Show. The motor makers had spoken well, well in advance. President W. S. Knudsen of Chevrolet Motor Co. presented the new line of Chevrolets; Chairman Roy Dike-man Chapin* of Hudson-Essex had made the first offer of a 6-cylinder four-door sedan to sell in the $800 class?the Essex at $795. President Edward G. Wilmer of Dodge Bros, spent more than $67,000 to hire Will Rogers, Fred & Dorothy Stone and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra to entertain over the radio and incidentally to announce Dodge Bros...
...worth offered by the various manufacturers. There was no common divisor for all of the 300 cars shown. Body type was no modulus, nor price, nor size as measured by wheelbase. Yet price considered with size, as arranged in the following tables, might give some clue. Because every motor manufacturer produces a four-door sedan or a model very like one, the data pertains to that type...
Chevrolet Motor Co., with Hudson-Essex and a few other manufacturers of motor cars, last week found opportunity to display their new models before the National Automobile Show opened in Manhattan...
...description by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., G.M.C. president, fixed the values. Said President Sloan: "The most striking advance, however, is an entirely new line of Fisher bodies, which, together with a new radiator and hood treatment, results in an artistic development which has never been equaled before in motor cars in the Chevrolet price class. The new bodies provide not only great luxury of appointment but added comfort and convenience as well as considerably more room. Four-wheel brakes have also been included to effect a more positive control. The wheelbase has also been lengthened...
Chevrolet Intentions. Said Chevrolet's own President W. S. Knudson: "We of the Chevrolet Motor Co. are preparing for our biggest year. Plans already in motion for the year contemplate the production of more than 1,000,000 units, several thousand in excess of the 1927 record...