MEN WE MEET

NZ Truth, Issue 1216, 21 March 1929, Page 19

MEN WE MEET

In The Motor Trade r~* fOHN BURNS AN executive member of any big automobile organisation requires more than the average ability to control and direct the sales 'staff under him. ■■■■■'••. J. Burns, the popular sales manager forV Todd Motors

m Wellington is fortunate m- that he stepped m on the ground floor so far as cars are concerned. He's been handling them and followed with interest the advancing strides made by manufacturers for years. With something of a mechanical turn of mind himself he is keenly interested m the

always improving engine designs of cars. ' A subsidiary company of Todd's— the N.Z. Motor Co. — created for the purpose of handling De Soto cars, will, m the future, occupy all the time of J.B. He will control its selling side m the Wellington district. ' % A courteous and unassuming chap, Burns was for years sales manager of Magnus Motors, L<td., but left there owards the middle, of last season to :rip across to the United States on msiness. While there, he spent, the major por:ion of his time m Detroit nosing into Lhe motor works of big organisations, yOn his return m November last he linked' up with his- present company, md has long since settled down into ictive business again. i