Motors for Commercial Travellers.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 7, 1 May 1906, Page 179

Motors for Commercial Travellers.

Automobiles are being used in the United States for commercial travellers to a considerable extent. It is said that many towns can be reached which have no railway connections, and that m travelling from one town to another stores are discovered that otherwise would never be heard of The great advantage of carrying samples from merchant to merchant, instead of going to a special showroom, the saving of buggy hire, the dignity given to a traveller by his arrival in a motor car, the advertisement it is for the name of the goods, the independence of trains, the saving of time in this and other ways, the value of the motors for travelling salesmen with agricultural implements are all dealt with. One shoe traveller covered 120 towns in 32 days, and made 98 sales, all to new customers. He found that the moment he drove up to a store he was given a hearing. The recent reliability trials in Australia have shown that the automobile has reached a development which ensures its permanent utility, and enterprising manufacturers and merchants will feel that they must take it into their consideration.