MEN WE MEET In The Motor Trade

NZ Truth, Issue 1239, 29 August 1929, Page 19

MEN WE MEET In The Motor Trade

ARTHUR T. BARROW .YOU cannot paint a .landscape on . a •*•' threepenny bit, nor can you sketch the 'career of Arthur Barrow on the. canvas of a newspaper column. • Five years ago he was recognised as the best retail motor-car salesman m New Zealand and had a golf handicap of 6 — B. Two years ago as Cadillac specialist for General Motors, New Zealand, Ltd., his golf handicap was 12 — 14. From Cadillac specialist to sales manager was the next stride—

with the golf handicap going from bad to worse. i To-day — general sales manager and director of the same company, with the golf clubs mere reminders of days of less responsibility. Few there are m the motor business to-day m New Zealand who have not at some time or other been sold a good idea by A.T.B. "The story runs that Barrow at one time sold a Cadillac car to. a particularly hard-headed business man, but was informed that as the buyer was not m his. territory no commission could be paid on the transaction. A.T.B. is credited with inducing the hard-headed business man to shift his residence to within the territory on which he was entitled to commission! Well read, well travelled, for fourteen years working with the tools of a mechanic, Arthur Barrow lias a genu ihe appreciation for the difficulties of :< the men m the ranks — that is the test, of a gentleman.