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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 12 Apr 1929, p. 50

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so WILMETTE LIFE April 12, 1929 EBRAKETEST ARE YOU ;,. 1M IS% or the 8S% .millioa em oa the highway· have their lalta in pxl coaditioo. That meaas that: laa than fifteen~ cent of the twmty-three · over ~bty-6~e percent of the drivers are carelas, for there isn't any emue for bad braka. It tabs just two minutes oa ourJumbo Giant Brake Tester to lcnow aacdy what coadition JOUf brakes are in. A separate puge gives an aa:urate report OD each 6rab., The tat is free. FOR YOURSELF Gil ee All monthly production records in the history of the Chevrolet Motor company were broken in March, when the company produced 147,274 cars and trucks. A factory statement exp1ain.e d that this figure was consider~b1y in exces·s of preliminary production schedtJJes and was made nece'ssary· to more fully accommodate an increasing de. mand for the tJew car, Chevrolet six. This March record compares with 133,657 units for March of last year and with 121,249 for February of this year. It exceeded by nearly 7,000 units the best previous month in the history of the company, which was May, 1928, when output totaled 140,775 units. The March performance enabled the company to exceed all records for the first quarter of the year, with a total o! 354,701 units as compared with 342,184 for the first three months of 1928. The company's sixteen giant factories are speeding toward capacity operation with all haste. Officialts predict that the record activity planned for April will result in another monthly record and for the second consecutive month establish a new mark. Chevrolet Builds 147,274 Nash "400" Series Can and Tnicka in March Sales for 1 Week Establish Record When final reports were received by Nash sales department officials from marketing centers ;n the United States, it was found today that Nash "400" Series car sales in the ten highest sales points during the week ending March 30 were greater than tho'se in any previous week on the records of the Nash Motors company, according to 0. E. Springer of Suburban Nash Sales company of Winnetka. The total number of "400" cars bought in these ten motoring centers ro11ed up an increase of 52.95 percent over the sales made at the same points in the corresponding week of 1928. This significant buying record for Nash was not limited alone to the ten metropolitan markets where sales were largest and which are considered an American merchandising barometer. A further check revealed that the sales of these cars in all distributing cent6rs during the closing week !n March equaled the peak figures of the first week ~11 July last year, wh~n the Nash "400" demand haq re~ched its height following announcement and nationwide introduction of the new type cars. :\lew York led the Nash sales procession through the banner week in total car sales and marked up a 25 percent increase over its records for the week last year. Chicago people bought more than 53 percent more Nashes than they did in the week a year ago. March production anct shipments of Nash Motors company totaled 15,384 cars, a gain of 44 percent over the 10,672 cars produced in the same month last year. Production to date in the fiscal year, which ends November 30, is 43,011 cars, against 29,721 in the same period a year ago. BE CAREFUL OF WIPER In washing the car, especial care should be taken not to move the arm of the electric windshield wiper by hand. 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