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Promotional sales leaflet for dealers regarding Tropic-Aire hot water car heaters.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 137\1\ scan0074 | |
| Date | 23th September 1930 | |
| $2,000,000.00 IN PROFITS FOR DEALERS IN 1930 TROPIC-AIRE is now the fastest selling car heater on the market. Line up with TROPIC-AIRE and watch your accessory profits increase. A strict policy of selling only through legitimate jobber and dealer trade insures your full participation in this big volume of profitable business. HOT WATER HEATERS TROPIC-AIRE TROPIC-AIRE has revolutionized the car heater business, making heaters once more a big volume, big profit accessory. The public wants its cars hot-water heated. Yet 99% of all cars are not equipped with any type of heater at the factory. Here is a tremendous market waiting to be supplied. Thousands of new cars will be sold in every community this year. Every one needs TROPIC-AIRE. Thousands of old car owners will buy TROPIC-AIRE Heaters. TROPIC-AIRE is a fine car accessory—yet the price is within the reach of every car owner. TROPIC-AIRE engineers built the first fan-equipped hot water heater ever used successfully on an automobile. TROPIC-AIRE Inc., holds the patents on this type of heater. TROPIC-AIRE provides an abundance of clean, pure, warm air — plenty of heat in the coldest weather. TROPIC-AIRE is safe—no fumes, no motor odors, no carbon-monoxide gases, no scorching pipes. TROPIC-AIRE is accepted—demanded—by the car-owning public. More money is spent to advertise TROPIC-AIRE than any other heater on the market. TROPIC-AIRE sells for a substantial price. Every sale is a worth while transaction—yet it is easy to sell. The public wants it. TROPIC-AIRE offers a splendid profit on every sale. TROPIC-AIRE can be sold the year round—as regular equipment with every new car. Stamp: RECEIVED 23 SEP 1930 ANS Distributed by The New Improved TROPIC-AIRE The Fastest Selling HOT WATER HEATER on the Market THERE ARE OTHER « « « BUT ONLY ONE Bar Chart Data: 1927 1928 500% Increase Over 1927 1929 400% Increase Over 1928 1930 Estimated 200% Increase Over 1929 IT'S A HIT Every experienced automobile dealer knows what it means to hold the dealership for a car manufacturer who brings out a “hit.” Invariably such cars command instant public acceptance and a flood of sales that keeps his display floor clean of all models. The same is true of accessories. But for years no accessory has created such a position as that now occupied by Tropic-Aire in its field. For Tropic-Aire is a “hit”—and for three successive years has steadily forged ahead in popularity, sales and profits earned for dealers. The Tropic-Aire “dealership” is available to you—right now. Thousands of these heaters will be sold in your territory during the next few months. Be Sure That You Get Your Share of This Profitable Business Circular Graphic: THOUSANDS OF TROPIC-AIRE HEATERS WILL BE SOLD IN YOUR TERRITORY THIS YEAR Form 111. Printed in U.S.A. | ||