WAUPACA COUNTY POST

September 23, 1920

 

WORKMAN CAN AFFORD A FORD AT NEW PRICES

DROP IN PRICE OF ALL FORD PRODUCTS

WELCOME NEWS TO ALL USERS OF MODERATE PRICED CARS

 

            The Ford Motor Company on Sept. 21 slashed price lists, and Ford cards will sell from now on at prices averaging $142 lower on all models.

            Although the Ford Company has orders for 146,065 cars, it will put the new prices into immediate effect.  Wages will remain at their present level.

            Following is a table of old and new prices:

                                                                                                War prices        Peace (new prices)

Stripped Chassis                                                                        $525                 $360

Runabout                                                                                    550                   395

Runabout with starter                                                                  625                   465

Touring car                                                                                 575                   440

Touring car with starter                                                               650                   510

Truck chassis, including demountable rims and pneumatic tires       640                   545

Coupe, including starting system and demountable rims                  850                   745

Sedan, including starting system and demountable rims                   975                   795

Fordson tractor                                                                            850                   790

            In announcing the cut, Mr. Ford said:

            “Inflated prices always retard progress.  We had to stand it during the war, although it was not right. So the Ford Motor Company will make the prices of its products the same as they were before he war.

            “We must, of course, take a temporary loss because of the stock of materials on hand, bought at inflated prices, and until we use that tock up we will have to submit to a loss, but we take it willingly in order to bring about a going state of business throughout the country.

            “There is a lull in general business; we are touched by the waiting period that always precedes a reaction; people in every walk of life are waiting for prices to become lower.  They realize that it is an unwholesome, unnatural, unrighteous condition of affairs, produced by the war.

            “Our country is rich beyond measure in natural resources, rich in all the material things that go to make a nation great, and yet its progress is being held practically at a standstill because of the greed of the profiteers.

            “Now is the time to call a halt on war methods, war prices, war profiteering and war greed.”