Charles Andrew Coey

“ 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. ”

“ Never buy a car with the weak point, every other car has it, take our course and be able to select the right one.
Motoring is easy and pleasant, if you are its master, but if you are not, you had better stay at home.
Whether you spend most of your time under the car or on the car, depends on whether or not you understand it.
A thousand things can happen to a motor, any one of which is easily remedied if you know where to begin.
A Diploma is valuable when backed by one who is prominent in the automobile world, and with a COEY DIPLOMA at your back, you are independent for life. ”

“ 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.
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. ”

“ The great growth and development of the automobile and its use needs no comment. The compensation of the chauffeur is good and the demand for his services so steady, and the standing of the profession is so high now, that it is more and more attractive to that class of individuals who are able and willing to combine mechanical skill with intellectual effort. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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 without you, so we 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. ”

“ Our course has been taken by many ladies who own or contemplate owning a machine, and they are among those who are most emphatic in praising our method of teaching.
Scene of a bull fight taken by C. A. Coey.
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Remember
It is a nice thing to understand a motor, whether you ever intend to drive one or not.
No one should purchase an automobile without first taking our course.
The man who buys a motor car without first learning one will live to regret the day. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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? ”

“ The object of our School is to prepare young men throughout the country to become expert chauffeurs, repairmen, demonstrators, salesmen, garage managers, etc.
Our president, Mr. C. A. Coey, has been in the automobile business for twelve years, and he is one of the most prominent automobile men in America today.
During this time he has sold thousands of automobiles, and his customers can be found in every state in the Union. ”

“ 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 first taxicab seen in Chicago—C. A. Coey, owner.
He is one of the few who made a success of the automobile livery business, beginning with one car and increasing to fifty. Commencing with practically nothing, he built up not only the largest automobile livery business in the country, but also the largest automobile sales business in America. The companies bearing his name now maintain a large garage and salesroom. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The great number of chauffeurs who enjoy the esteem and confidence of their wealthy employers is well known, and we could enumerate hundreds who have started in business for themselves and who are on the road to wealth through the assistance of their employer. ”

“ 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 operating ANY MACHINE without any trouble, and it will be an advertisement for our School as well as for our machine. ”

“ It is for that class of men this course is intended and it is that class of men, who, by supplementing their natural mechanical genius with a little properly directed mental work, can qualify themselves to secure well paid positions, such as, to the proper persons, are certain to prove stepping stones to greater advancement. ”

“ First, as soon as you have commenced to take our course we give you the right to sell the COEY 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 one ABSOLUTELY 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. ”

“ 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. ”