R. Hayter
Collection: Brooker Motor Company Album
Title
R. Hayter
Subject
Automobile dealers--Kansas
Customer testimonials
Hayter, R
Ford Motor Company
Hayter Hardware--Anthony, Kansas
Description
Testimonial letter and photograph of three people standing next to the passenger's side of a car. The man at left is wearing a suit with watch chain, tie and cloth cap. Next to him stands a man wearing a zipped jacket and a woman wearing a fur coat and cloche hat. The car is parked in a driveway next to a two-story frame house with a porch and attached garage.
[written on letterhead of Hayter Hardware, Anthony, Kansas]
March 6, 1931.
Brooker Motor Company, Anthony, Kansas.
Gentlemen
Replying to your inquiry in regard to my Model A car, I am pleased to say that I am the owner of a 1930 Model A Town Sedan, which I purchased from your company.
I have driven this car 26,616 miles, and it has done everything that I could hope for a car to do. It has been very economical on gas and oil consumption, and upkeep.
It is, indeed, a pleasure to drive this automobile, because it handles so easily and rides so comfortably over all kinds of roads. I am also the owner of a larger and more expensive car, and I find that the members of my family drive the Model A in preference to the larger car.
It is nothing unusual to drive the Model A to Wichita in an hour and thirty minutes, a distance of 75 miles. On one particular trip, this Model A Town Sedan was driven from Anthony to Golden, Colorado, a distance of 598 miles, in less than 14 hours actual driving time, making an average of forty-three miles per hour, carrying a load of three persons, three rifles, three shot-guns, a case of shot gun shells, 35 pounds of rifle ammunition, a camp stove and bedding for three. The car was driven on to Stanley, Idaho, on a hunting trip, covering in all 3,172 miles, and it did everything that could be expected for a car to do.
The service rendered by the Brooker Motor Company has been satisfactory as I have found your competent mechanics always ready and willing to give me service, and I believe this to be a real asset to anyone operating a motor car.
It is a pleasure to recommend the Model A.
Very truly yours,
[signed] R. Hayter
Creator
Brooker Motor Company, Anthony, Kansas
Source
Anthony Public Library, Anthony, Kansas
Publisher
Anthony Public Library, Anthony, Kansas
Date
1931
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
Emglish
Type
Albums
Citation
Brooker Motor Company, Anthony, Kansas, “R. Hayter,” Anthony Digital History Collections, accessed January 21, 2026, https://www.anthony.digitalsckls.info/item/39.
Original Format
Photograph inserted into album, on the same page as a testimonial letter.
Title
R. Hayter
Subject
Automobile dealers--Kansas
Customer testimonials
Hayter, R
Ford Motor Company
Hayter Hardware--Anthony, Kansas
Description
Testimonial letter and photograph of three people standing next to the passenger's side of a car. The man at left is wearing a suit with watch chain, tie and cloth cap. Next to him stands a man wearing a zipped jacket and a woman wearing a fur coat and cloche hat. The car is parked in a driveway next to a two-story frame house with a porch and attached garage.
[written on letterhead of Hayter Hardware, Anthony, Kansas]
March 6, 1931.
Brooker Motor Company, Anthony, Kansas.
Gentlemen
Replying to your inquiry in regard to my Model A car, I am pleased to say that I am the owner of a 1930 Model A Town Sedan, which I purchased from your company.
I have driven this car 26,616 miles, and it has done everything that I could hope for a car to do. It has been very economical on gas and oil consumption, and upkeep.
It is, indeed, a pleasure to drive this automobile, because it handles so easily and rides so comfortably over all kinds of roads. I am also the owner of a larger and more expensive car, and I find that the members of my family drive the Model A in preference to the larger car.
It is nothing unusual to drive the Model A to Wichita in an hour and thirty minutes, a distance of 75 miles. On one particular trip, this Model A Town Sedan was driven from Anthony to Golden, Colorado, a distance of 598 miles, in less than 14 hours actual driving time, making an average of forty-three miles per hour, carrying a load of three persons, three rifles, three shot-guns, a case of shot gun shells, 35 pounds of rifle ammunition, a camp stove and bedding for three. The car was driven on to Stanley, Idaho, on a hunting trip, covering in all 3,172 miles, and it did everything that could be expected for a car to do.
The service rendered by the Brooker Motor Company has been satisfactory as I have found your competent mechanics always ready and willing to give me service, and I believe this to be a real asset to anyone operating a motor car.
It is a pleasure to recommend the Model A.
Very truly yours,
[signed] R. Hayter
Creator
Brooker Motor Company, Anthony, Kansas
Source
Anthony Public Library, Anthony, Kansas
Publisher
Anthony Public Library, Anthony, Kansas
Date
1931
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
Emglish
Type
Albums
Citation
Brooker Motor Company, Anthony, Kansas, “R. Hayter,” Anthony Digital History Collections, accessed January 21, 2026, https://www.anthony.digitalsckls.info/item/39.Original Format
Photograph inserted into album, on the same page as a testimonial letter.