Old Missoula

New Automobile Agency In City

Fisher-Kraabel Company To Handle Chevrolets And Oldsmobiles

The Fisher-Kraabel company newly incorporated, will take over the Chevrolet and Oldsmobile agencies in Missoula. Both makes of automobile are products of General Motors.

The Fisher-Kraabel company will open in a new location at 215 East Broadway. Workmen are now remodeling the building, which is opposite the postoffice on Broadway, for the grand opening on the receipt of the first shipment of Chevrolet cars about January 15. The first shipment will be complete with a line of passenger cars and trucks. The new Oldsmobiles, it is announced, should be in display here the last of the month.

Open January 15.

The present plans are to be ready for business by January 15, and it is announced that the company will carry a complete line of genuine Chevrolet and Oldsmobile parts and accessories. The new operators will have the Western Montana which takes in the territory west to the state line, the Bitter Root, north to St. Ignatius and east to Bearmouth.

The Fisher-Kraabel company will take over the agency formerly held by the Nybo-Chevrolet company and at the same time will take on the Oldsmobile agency, new for Missoula.

Experienced.

Both of the men in the new incorporation are men of experience with the Chevrolet business. Ben Fisher formerly lived in Missoula, when his father was connected with Caen-Fisher company here in the mercantile business. He left here 27 years ago. He has arrived in Missoula from Choteau, where he closed out a Chevrolet and wholesale gas business to come to a bigger territory.

Mr. Kraabel came to Missoula from Lima, in the Beaverhead district, south of Dillon, where he had charge of the Lima State bank. He resigned his bank position to come to Missoula to join the new corporation. Previous to his banking affiliations, he was in the Chevrolet business for five years.

In taking over the Chevrolet agency of Missoula the new corporation is also taking over several of the Chevrolet salesman, who were with the former agency.

A number of representatives of the sales organization for the district have been in Missoula several days in connection with the transfer. They include E. J. McConnell, Great Falls, district representative: W. R. Knudsen, Great Falls, zone parts and service manager; H. D. Stevens, Great Falls, service representative, and G. J. Gates, zone manager.

The above article appeared in The Daily Missoulian on January 10, 1933.

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