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14 AUTOMOTIVE NEWS. JULY 8, 1940 l/*pdWr*-S££^££ Consistent Followup System Boosts Sales of Parts Indianapolis Firm Keeps Packard Sets Close Contact with Customers New Prices on INDIANAPOLIS. Religiously Meridian has the largest supply Its 1910 Modelij following certain essentials, which of Pontiac parts in the city and DETROIT. Following are thj experience has proved are vital, is that they feature prompt, free prices for the Eighteenth Serie the foundation of the success of delivery on any size order. 1940 Packard 110, Packard 12 Meridian Pontiac, Inc., here. Overman says that experience Packard 120 deluxe, Packard Sup* According to J. E. Overman, has shown that one of the best Eight 160 and Packard Custo: parts manager, letters or postcards means of getting garagemen to Super Eight 180, effective July l are mailed out every 30 days to all call for,, parts is knowing the These are the advertised deliv independent garages and other car prices of every item and calling ered prices at Detroit and incluo dealers. The letters point out that them off as the garageman reads federal excise tax. To determb his list. the local delivered price it will b Special discount offers have necessary to add transportatic proved valuable and have resulted charges from Detroit to destinatiot Defense in greatly increased business from state and local taxes, if any, a independent garages MERIDIAN PONTIAC, INC., Indianapolis, maintains this attractive parts point of sale and charges for acce | (Continued from Page 1) and other car department. The company finds that it is valuable in keeping and increasing dealers. business, so as sories. who to aviation work. AAA and is constantly improving displays and general appearunce turn A special meeting for to keep the department tlie most attractive in the city. Packard 110 Model 18(H) reports CCC present time independ- that at ent garagemen held recently. (122-lneh Wheelbase) has not fully formulated its plans was They were given parts catalogs Advertiwj but has two types of training in Delivered PrW and shop manuals and served re- view. One of these would be a full Body Type at Detroj freshments. V Bus. Coupe $ 867 course and require two years but ‘ Pontiac monthly order system Coupe might squeezed one has Sparks Sinsabaugh Club 946 which be into proved an method of year, while the other is a short efficient Conv. Coupe 1104 keeping an ample supply of parts 2-dr. Tour. Sedan 964 course of about three months. on hand, Overman declares. (Continued from Page 1) Further in its program AAA has 4-dr. Tour. Sedan 966 A fully modern parts depart- body building Wagon offered the facilities of its driver- who have made automobile history the owner of the Station 1200 ment, attractive in design, an- cannot worked, training organization to assist in is and this conductor resist plant where they and Chassis 677 other important factor in Meridi- filching boss told One-Twenty training drivers for non-combat a few of them, with the asked for a $5 raise. The Packard Model 180! an’s continually growing parts permission enough (127-Inch Wheelbase) military service. Under this pro- kind of course of the him $25 a week was for business, and Overman says "we Saturday Evening Post. him. Then Charles declared he Bus. Coupe $1036 gram 2,200 high school teachers * * * find this necessary to keep business quit go Nor- Coupe already trained driver would and back to Club 1111 have been in and sell more merchandise after ONE OF first of for father instruction and probably many of THE these walk to work his and Conv. Coupe 1277 we get customers coming to us. my eye Fields, get he these could be depended upon to to catch credits Joe also married. Fred said 4-dr. Club Sedan 1236 We constantly try to improve our now a vice-president of the Chrys- would go too. Hugh Chalmers, then Conv. Sedan 1572 train new drivers. display and try to keep Corp., furnishing of Chalmers-Detroit, Leaders of the AAA have decided it the ler with the president who 2-dr. Tour. Sedan 11351 most attractive in the city." spark to Charley Kettering got from Wilson was 1166 offer no opposition new car which his bodies 4-dr. Tour. Sedan to to resulted in the development of disturbed, for master workmen of this time when the reve- Station Wagon 1404! taxes at Ket’s electric self-starter. At that the Fisher type were few and far nue needed for defense costs. Conv. Victoria 3816; is was National Cash in Detroit, so when the an will time Ket with between Chassis 846 [ On the other hand, effort AIRCRAFT NEWS Register liking to went to made seek support for and Joe took a two Fishers him with the Packard One-Twenty be to Bingay writes, Fields told proposition that they go into busi- changes and improvements in our him. As Deluxe Model 1801 Of to Industry register ness themselves, Chalmers of- (127-ineh Wheelbase) highway system to make Interest the Automobile Ket that the cash would for present be a mass sales success until fered to get them financed in a it more suitable for military pur- never Club Coupe $116; someone could invent something small way. Which he did and this Conv. Coupe poses. ANNOUNCEMENT 1316 made last that would eliminate the long was the start of what today is the Club Sedan by S. Knudsen, 4-dr. 1311 week William pro- heavy arm that had to be pulled powerful Fisher Body Corp. 4-dr. Tour. Sedan 124* duction Na- * * * Safety Promoted co-ordinator of the down to open the drawer. Ket Packard Super Eight tional Defense Commission, that conceived the idea of a little elec- TIED UP WITH this tale is One-Sixty 1803 RICHMOND, Va.—(UTPS).—In Its Packard Model efforts to promote safety in Richmond has agreed to build 3,000 tric motor that went into action Walter O. Briggs, now a formid- (127-inch Wheelbase) state, Rolls-Royce airplane motors for and the the local Junior Board at the touch of a key and the able rival of the Fishers as a Bus. Coupe $1521 of Trade is distributing 10,000 copies the United States government as was the high- job done. body builder. Charles Fisher got Club Coupe 1611 of a handbill to explain new well as the 6,000 for Great Britain, way marking system to motorists. The "That was when the idea of the married as he had planned and set Conv. Coupe 179' handbill, headed “You Shall Not Pass," is regarded by observers as an- self-starter was born,’’ Bing de- up housekeeping in a small apart- 4-dr. Club Sedan 174 is example versatility illustrated. other of the of clares. “Ket came to Detroit and ment in Detroit. Across the hall Conv. Sedan .' 207: the automobile industry. Not only sought out Henry M. Leland, then from them there moved in another 4-dr. Tour. Sedan 1655 can it build cars and trucks, but president of Cadillac. Leland agreed young married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chassis 1275 seemingly it has production ca- that the motor car should have Walter O. Briggs. Briggs had Packard Super Eight pacity sufficient to take care of some contraption to turn over the started as a Michigan Central One-Sixty Model 1804 rWANT ADSn Uncle Sam’s wants in the way of motor. Young Ket applied the same switchman and had been advanced (138-inch Wheelbase) airships and other armament principle he had evolved for the to yard foreman of a cement com- $19161 and while he was 4-dr. Sedan a Man? needed for war purposes. cash register; pany. There he became acquainted Chassis 1345 Want * * * developed igni- about it, also the with the colorful Walter Flanders, Super Eight Metzger Packard Want a Job? The airplane industry itself is also tion-and-lighting system.” Bill and Barney Everitt, One-Sixty * * * Model 1805 gearing up for the big war or- later the E-M-F combination. Ever- (148-inch Wheelbase) itt had been operating a body Want to Buy? ders that are in sight. The Wall IN ANOTHER place, Bing gives Limousine $2179 Street Journal, making a survey his version of why Henry Ford and painting shop but wanted to get Tour. Sedan 2051 Want to Sell? parting of the industry, estimates that Bill Knudsen came to the into the automobile business with Chassis 1419 ways. quotes re- Flanders and Metzger, so he turned YOU can make YOUR WANTS the backlog of orders already of the He the Packard Custom Super Eight cheaply his business Walter Briggs, known quickly and to amounts to half a billion dollars ported remark of Ford that “I over to One-Eighty Model 1806 12,000 Automobile Healers, Jobbers, one of the who thus got his start, the present Industry! for the Pacific Coast plants alone. consider Bill Knudsen (127-inch Wheelbase) Manufacturers—the whole production men Briggs Mfg. Co. being the final Forms close Friday noon at Detroit. The seven major plants on the greatest in the 4-dr. Club Sedan $2243 Cash In advance TEN CENTS West Coast will expand their business.’’ result. WORD PER INSERTION. supposed There was a Conv. Victoria 4593 PER present manufacturing space Whereupon, he was to romance too about Packard Custom Super Eight Twenty-five cents per word for been asked: "If you think the Fisher-Briggs friendship that three Insertions. Count each Initial, from 4,800,000 square feet to 8,- have One-Eighty Model 1807 or why get away developed during the early days group of numbers abbreviation 200,000.