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50 WINNETKA TALK December 22, 1928 Dollar Buys More Auto Today Than One Year Ago A dollar spent in the purchase of a new automobile at the present time is worth 16.7 cents more than it was in December, 1927, according to re- ports of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to the American Motorists Association. In December, 1927, the motorist's dollar, based upon the aver- age purchasing power of a dollar for all wholesale commodities, would buy but 9 cents worth, compared with 108.7 cents worth of machinery at the present time. SURVEY CHANDLER PLANT The Chandler-Cleveland plants in Cleveland which have passed to con- trol of Hupp Motor Car Company in- terests are closed temporarily to per- mit Hupp officials to survey their facilities. Auto Briefs Automobiles, trucks and parts ranked third in railroad shipments for 1927, according to the Chicago Motor Club. Over 60 per cent of automobiles sold in 1927 were on the installment basis, and $574 was the amount of the aver- age note given, The average life of motor vehicles is seven years, More than 82 per cent of all cars manufactured in 1927 were closed cars as compared to 43 per cent in 1924. Ninety-two percent of all stolen cars are recovered. REPAIRING 915 LINDEN AVE. The Battery Shop OGDEN HOMMA Now---have your radio battery fully charged for the holiday programs RECHARGING Drive-In-Service HUBBARD WOODS RENTALS WINNETKA 8 Why Not Give a Reconditioned Car for Christmas? All these Cars are thoroughly tested and guaranteed. Hupmobile Brougham Hupmobile 8 Sedan Hudson Brougham Cadillac Victoria Studebaker Touring Flint Touring Gould C. Davis, Inc. 548 LINCOLN AVENUE Phone Winnetka 3090 Predicts 7,000,000 Cars Will Be Built in U.S. Next Year A prediction that the combined pro- duction of American Automobile build- ers will reach 7,000,000 cars in 1929 is made by Col Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland. Such a production would shatter every production record in American automobile history, The market is a "little over 4,000,000" automobiles. Col. Ayres says: this prediction: "It seems probable that new con: cepts of competition will develop in the automobile industry in 1929. "With existing markets taking about 4,000,000 cars annually, the automobile companies showed by their output in the early part of this year that they could easily produce over 350,000 cars; and over 50,000 trucks a month, without any important help from the Ford plants. "But now the Ford Company is rapidly pushing up production to- ward the rate of 2,000,000 cars a year, and is having no trouble in selling them." BOND ISSUE HELPS IOWA When Iowa adopted the $100,000,000 bond issue program at the November election, motorists of that state were saved ten years of travel over incom- plete primary highways. Road author- ities point out that this plan will al- low completion of the present system within six years. Battery Service All Makes Recharging Rentals ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS REPAIRED Pennsylvania Gas--Oils Lubricating JONES Service Station EDDIE JONES Linden at Scott Tel. Winn. 1848 HUBBARD WOODS COST FOR DRIVING A CAR ONE MILE IS TEN CENTS Chicago Motor Club Gives Fig- ures Showing Operating Expenses --After Making a Survey The cost of operating the average automobile is ten cents per mile, ac- cording to the Chicago Motor Club, which reports the result of a nation- wide survey on the subject made by the American Automobile Association. The A. A. A. figures show that while the range of operation costs is from 7.05 cents per mile for a light four- cylinder touring car to 11.73 cents per mile for a light six-cylinder coach, the average is ten cents per mile. Improve- ment in car design, development of good roads and standardization of motoring services have done much to lower the operating costs, it is stated. Costs $229 for Year The automobile association figures show that the average motorist spent $229 in 1927 for operation and main- tenance, excluding depreciation and garaging charges. This as divided into four principal items as follows: Re- placement parts and supplies, $41; tires for replacement, $40: fuels and lub- ricants, $101, and labor, $47. The association points out that the average cost of operation for 1927 was lower than for 1919, when the aver- age cost was $281. Averages for other years were: 1921, $221; 1923, $222; 1925, $217, and 1926, $219. During the fiscal year ending June 30 the federal government expended a total of $88,056,984 toward the com- pletion of initial improvements on 8,184 miles of federal-aid roads and the com- pletion of advanced improvements on 2,014 miles. Government Gives In the same period the government extended financial assistance toward in- itial improvements in progress on 9, 494 miles and advanced improvements on 1,285 miles. The entire cost of the finished project was $205,043,784 of which the government's share was 43 per cent. The various states paid the remainder. Illinois received $9,280,164, which was the largest disbursement. Iowa, Kansas, New York, Pennsyl- vania and Texas received the next larg- est amounts, each having been paid more than $3,000,000. : These statements were taken by the Chicago Motor Club from fiscal re- port of Thomas H. McDonald, chief of the federal bureau of public roads. FIRST CONCRETE IN OHIO During 1892 the first concrete pave- ment was laid in the United States at Bellefontaine, Ohio. 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