There is, perhaps, no place in this wide world where the student can get such thorough training as at our factory. We are the only ones in this country who have a factory where up-to-date automobiles are actually built by students.
A few of our students getting actual experience.
A few of our students getting actual experience.
Each student works alone—showing the separate apartments.
Each student works alone—showing the separate apartments.
The average practical automobile school, and we might say every last one of them, instruct their students on old, worn-out, out-of-date machines, which are ready for the junk pile, and what they learn on those old relics will do them no good, in fact, they might better have taken no schooling at all, as such work only tends to confuse and mislead them. For if a person once learns to do a thing the wrong way, he usually keeps on doing it and it is hard to get out of the habit. And that is the reason why our students have been successful in filling fine, easy, and well paying positions, because they are instructed on up-to-date machines in an up-to-date manner.
A view of our lecture room.
A view of our lecture room.
A corner in our machine shop.
A corner in our machine shop.
In our factory we teach a student the art of automobile building, and teach him to drive the machine he himself has helped to build.
A few of our students out driving in a car they helped to build.
A few of our students out driving in a car they helped to build.
He takes it from the ground up, under the very best trained and skilled mechanics and instructors in America, and when he has finished he can command big wages.
One of our cars which students are instructed to operate.
One of our cars which students are instructed to operate.
It requires from three to eight weeks to go through our factory, all depending on the aptness of the student. We try to get our students through as quickly as possible, but we will not issue a Diploma until in our estimation he is qualified to fill any position in connection with an automobile.
A Chauffeur's picnic with C. A. Coey's colored mascot in the foreground.
A Chauffeur's picnic with C. A. Coey's colored mascot in the foreground.
Since you have decided to take up the automobile business, the question naturally arises, "Where can I learn it the best? and after I have learned it, which school is in better shape to help me to get a good paying position?"
Any school will tell you they will assist you, but what does that mean? It means simply nothing at all because there is nothing behind it. Assistance will do you no good unless you get the position.
The President of the United States could give you any kind of a position you could ask for, because he has the influence, so could the Governor of your state—influence is what counts. You stand a far better chance of getting a good paying position through our School—yes, ten to one, better than in any other school in the world.
Anyone with ordinary intelligence can write a book on automobile instruction—anyone can run an advertisement in the paper and get replies, and send out glowing literature, and get letters from prominent automobile men and dealers and manufacturers, but when it comes to getting you a position that is where they are weak.
A view of Mr. Coey's automobile salesroom, where students get actual experience selling new cars.
A view of Mr. Coey's automobile salesroom, where students get actual experience selling new cars.
C. A. Coey in his private office, the finest on "Automobile Row."
C. A. Coey in his private office, the finest on "Automobile Row."
We could name one auto school owner in the middle West and one in the East, who were never in the automobile business, and who do not even now own one. They send out glowing advertisements and secure letters from auto manufacturers and dealers to help them get started, but if you can find where a single person has ever secured a position through these letters or through their influence, excepting a few whom they have paid themselves in order to get some recommendations, we will send you our course free.
Do you know that Mr. Coey is the only one of any importance in the automobile world whatsoever who is connected with an automobile school? Do you know that he is the only one who is engaged in handling high grade motor cars? And last but not least, not another person in the world running an automobile school has any connection with an automobile factory. So what does it mean?
Just this—that instead of a few ex-chauffeurs or ex-clerks banding together and calling themselves an auto school, we have as our head areal automobile man, one with vast interests and prominently connected in many branches of the business, and one who can secure you a position.
Send your application in today and commence at once.
Yours for success,
C. A. COEY'S SCHOOL OF MOTORING,
There is no better recommendation for anyone than a Diploma fromC. A. COEY'S SCHOOL OF MOTORING, which stands the country over forSUCCESS.
It is one thing to learn the automobile business, but quite another to get profitable employment. Forty diplomas will not help you unless the School is backed by someone well-known in the automobile world.
It is not our policy to get your money and then rush you through. We are interested in you from the time you start until long after you have finished. We cannot conduct our business throughout the country withoutyou, sowe must train you right.
The thousands of automobiles which Mr. Coey sold during the past ten years all need drivers, and our customers and agents in every territory look to us to keep them supplied.
This is the thing that will insure you a job at any time and at any place.
This is the thing that will insure you a job at any time and at any place.
This department is maintained for the exclusive use of our studentsfree of charge. We supply first class help for positions as:
Chauffeurs,
Racers,
Auto Salesmen,
Demonstrators,
Garage Managers,
Assemblers for factories,
And all branches of the automobile business.
One of Mr. Coey's drivers on one of his taxicabs, who made $105.55 in one week.
One of Mr. Coey's drivers on one of his taxicabs, who made $105.55 in one week.
While our course is the most complete and thorough, yet our rates have been kept as low as possible. As we figure we might better have students in all walks of life, we have placed the price within reach of all. It is, however, subject to a raise without notice.
(For rates see our Application Blank)
After you have spent your time in an Auto School then comes the city examination, which, if you do not pass, you might as well not have wasted your time. Do you know that over one-half who, after they have secured their diploma, are not able to pass the examinations for a City License? Well, it is true.But not a single one of OUR students has ever failed to pass the examinations and secure a chauffeur's license.
The City Mechanician of Chicago, Mr. H. L. Hudson, who decides whether or not you are entitled to a license, commenced with Mr. Coey in the automobile business in 1900. He was Mr. Coey's private mechanician on his racing cars. Mr. Hudson is an automobile expert and that is the reason he holds a fine city position. He recently inspected our School, and this is what he said:
"I wish to compliment you on the method you employ in your School of Motoring. The many years I spent as mechanician on your private racing cars certainly furnished us both information of a definite character, which is necessary for a man holding such an important position as Automobile School Instructor and Examiner of the Board of Public Motor Vehicle Register of the City of Chicago.You seem to have the proper system and your vast experience with chauffeurs in the ten years past fits you, as no one else is fitted, for a competent instructor. I believe you are on the right track and wish you success.Yours very truly,(Signed) H. L. HUDSON,City Mechanician."
"I wish to compliment you on the method you employ in your School of Motoring. The many years I spent as mechanician on your private racing cars certainly furnished us both information of a definite character, which is necessary for a man holding such an important position as Automobile School Instructor and Examiner of the Board of Public Motor Vehicle Register of the City of Chicago.
You seem to have the proper system and your vast experience with chauffeurs in the ten years past fits you, as no one else is fitted, for a competent instructor. I believe you are on the right track and wish you success.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) H. L. HUDSON,
City Mechanician."
The following is what the Chicago Examiner has to say about our School. (This article appeared without our knowledge and shows our standing in the City of Chicago, which assures you of a square deal.)
"SCHOOL IS OPENED TO INSTRUCT AUTO DRIVERS.""A motoring school for the purpose of instructing persons in the running of automobiles has just been opened by C. A. Coey. This school will be of national scope and owing to the fact that Chicago is centrally located and the great railroad and mail distributing center, it will enable persons desirous of availing themselves of the benefits of institutions of this sort, to be in direct communication with instructors. Mr. Coey is nationally recognized as one of America's pioneer motorists and he realizes, as do the manufacturers, that the failure of so many automobiles to perform their proper functions and the occurrence of so great a number of accidents are due to the inefficiency of persons handling them."
"SCHOOL IS OPENED TO INSTRUCT AUTO DRIVERS."
"A motoring school for the purpose of instructing persons in the running of automobiles has just been opened by C. A. Coey. This school will be of national scope and owing to the fact that Chicago is centrally located and the great railroad and mail distributing center, it will enable persons desirous of availing themselves of the benefits of institutions of this sort, to be in direct communication with instructors. Mr. Coey is nationally recognized as one of America's pioneer motorists and he realizes, as do the manufacturers, that the failure of so many automobiles to perform their proper functions and the occurrence of so great a number of accidents are due to the inefficiency of persons handling them."
A clipping from the Chicago Journal reads as follows:
"Charles A. Coey is one of the pioneer automobile men of Chicago. He entered the business in 1900 and conducted a motor livery until 1902, when he became Chicago agent for the Thomas Flyer. He handled the Thomas line from 1902 until 1909, when he gave up the selling end to devote all his attention to his taxicab business. Last year he became Chicago agent for the American car, which he is handling under a ten-year contract. He is president of a company which is manufacturing the Coey Flyer in Chicago. Mr. Coey is well-known as an automobile racing driver and aeronaut. He won the Chicago Automobile Club's twenty-four-hour race at Harlem several years ago. He has made many long-distance flights in balloons."
"Charles A. Coey is one of the pioneer automobile men of Chicago. He entered the business in 1900 and conducted a motor livery until 1902, when he became Chicago agent for the Thomas Flyer. He handled the Thomas line from 1902 until 1909, when he gave up the selling end to devote all his attention to his taxicab business. Last year he became Chicago agent for the American car, which he is handling under a ten-year contract. He is president of a company which is manufacturing the Coey Flyer in Chicago. Mr. Coey is well-known as an automobile racing driver and aeronaut. He won the Chicago Automobile Club's twenty-four-hour race at Harlem several years ago. He has made many long-distance flights in balloons."
And the Live Stock Magazine has this to say:
"Perhaps the oldest and most prominent person in the automobile business in Chicago is C. A. Coey, the pioneer automobile dealer. Mr. Coey started an automobile school in 1901 at 5311 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, and it was there that the first building ever erected for an Automobile Livery was built. While Mr. Coey did not at that time advertise his School of Motoring, yet he started on an extensive business in this line, and it was said that over one thousand are now holding good, steady, well-paying jobs, and drawing salaries up to $75 a week. Mr. Coey's system is different from the rest, as he believes that a student can learn the foundation principles in the quiet of his home, and then after he has mastered the principles he is given a practical road course. We recommend this School as a reliable institution."
"Perhaps the oldest and most prominent person in the automobile business in Chicago is C. A. Coey, the pioneer automobile dealer. Mr. Coey started an automobile school in 1901 at 5311 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, and it was there that the first building ever erected for an Automobile Livery was built. While Mr. Coey did not at that time advertise his School of Motoring, yet he started on an extensive business in this line, and it was said that over one thousand are now holding good, steady, well-paying jobs, and drawing salaries up to $75 a week. Mr. Coey's system is different from the rest, as he believes that a student can learn the foundation principles in the quiet of his home, and then after he has mastered the principles he is given a practical road course. We recommend this School as a reliable institution."
As we told you in another part of this book—WE ARE BUILDING AUTOMOBILES—a machine of the highest quality and the very latest design, the specifications of which can be found on the last page of this book.
We desire agents in every county in the United States and to those who take our course, either the correspondence or the practical course, we make this offer:
First, as soon as you have commenced to take our course we give you the right to sell theCOEY FLYER, and for every one you sell, we will send you $200.00 in gold, and then after you have sold ten machines, we will send you oneABSOLUTELY FREE, and prepay the freight on same to any part of the United States, so that it is delivered to you free from all cost.
We will extend this offer to no one who has not taken a course in our School of Motoring, for we know that after you have taken this course, you are capable of operatingANY MACHINEwithout any trouble, and it will be an advertisement for our School as well as for our machine.
Second, as soon as you have commenced to take our course, we will send you a quantity of circulars and a large poster which you can hang in some conspicuous place, with your name in bold type at the bottom, showing you as our agent.
The Automobile business has come to stay and there will be many machines sold in the next few months to people that you already know, and if you let them know that you are our agent, they will be glad to buy from you, as they will readily see that you can be of great help to them when they commence to learn to run their machine, and they can buy from you as cheaply as if they had come to Chicago and bought direct from us.
We would suggest that in order to get a Coey Flyer in your locality at once, that you go to someone whom you know is going to buy a machine and tell him that if he will allow you to use his automobile occasionally you will give him your commission, and if he knows that he can save $200, he will be glad to do it.
Three-quarter view of the Coey Flyer.
Three-quarter view of the Coey Flyer.
Rear view of the Coey Flyer.
Rear view of the Coey Flyer.
Front view of the Coey Flyer.
Front view of the Coey Flyer.
Front view of the Coey Flyer.
This is the grandest offer ever made by anyone, and those who take advantage of it will thank us a thousand times. Just think—a chance to get rich for only $15.00. Have you ever had such an offer?
Now, in conclusion, Mr. Reader—above all, do not hesitate but starttoday.
If not with us, then with some other School, for with them you can learn something about this mammoth rapid-growing, health-giving business.
Now is the time to act—send us your application today.
Yours for success,
C. A. COEY'S SCHOOL OF MOTORING,
HAMMOND PRESSW. B. CONKEY COMPANYCHICAGO
Transcriber's Notes:Obvious printing mistakes have been corrected.Page 24, "recommnedations" changed to "recommendations."
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