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...European designs into the U. S. motor car field. Last year his Willys-Knight Great Six, with Knight sleeve valves, extended the fashion. At the turn of this year came his "70" Willys-Knight Six, somewhat lighter, but of the same general design. Then two months ago the Overland "Whippet," smallest of U. S. cars, came on the market. When Henry Ford reduced his prices a month ago, (TIME, June 28) no one of his executives could be induced to admit the obvious facts-that his sales had fallen off, that production schedules were curtailed, that sales must be induced...
...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...
...dealers were going to sell the new Willys-Overland "Whippet," a low-slung coursing car designed to make 55 miles an hour and 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline; a roustabout car that "turns on a dime," stops with a swish of its four-wheel brakes. Out in the yards 885 of these machines waited to be driven away to dealer showrooms in the farthest reaches of the country. Mr. Willys was content. He was the first manufacturer to offer a U. S. equivalent to the diminutive European touring-traffic-and-economy cars like the Bean in England...
Then suddenly came news from the Associated Press at Buenos Aires, and from State Department advices at Washington, that after severe fighting in the streets, in which whippet tanks were employed, the beleagured city fell to the Federals. Most of the rebels were said to have escaped by train into the interior...