Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1924, Page 16

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= 2 oe PAGE TWO MOTORISTS CALLED UPON T000 MISSIONARY WORK IN TOURING. Uniformity of Traffic Regulations and Better | Motoring Laws Sought by Automobile Association Through Its Members. Motor tourists will have a new @uty to perform as they travel to and fro across the land from now Tee seen | has a unique opportunity to get an| entirely new viewpoint on the whole subject. When he returns from a THROUGH 10,000 MILES OF SNOW IN BUICK CAR Che Casper Sundap Cribune SEES GLORIOUS FUTURE HERE Ready to Grow With City of Casper. Just a word in time. Most of Cas- Per’s people are firm believers in the DEALER URGES By JOE E. MANSFIELD. The oft repeated slogan, “Ask the Man Who Owns One,” is worthy of serious consideration by everyone. It is used in reference to the Pack- ard automobile, a car not new to the Casper people, but one that will always live and survive in the mind of the public as a leader tn its par- ticular field, As Packard repre- sentative in Casper, I can only say that the machine has thoroughly established itself locally and is cer- tain of continuing during the cur PACKARD STANDS ON RECORD; SHOW SUPPORT am naturally vitally interested in the success of the organizations lat- est undertaking. From advance in- dications it should prove one of the Sreatest displays of its kind ever conducted in this city. To be a suc- cess, the Arkeon must be crowded every evening, and I feel certain that the general public of Casper is interested sufficiently in what its automobile dealers have to offer, that {t will turn out en masse for the third annual Automobile show. May I invite you to visit the Pack- WHISENHUNT {g AN OPTIMIST Auto Show Will Ste Ball Rolling for Another Year: By JOHN M. WHISENHUNT. I can sum up the situation at the John M. Whisenhunt company in a few words, This company has, dur- ing the last year, prospe! on if they are willing to aid a plan| trip on which he has discovered im future of their little city and believe| rent year, especially in view of the| ard at the show and remain all eve-| TE Lit, Met wear. Drosin wed Adnan evolved by the American Automo-| portint improvements in traffic that its natural geographical loca-| fact that the Packard Single Eight| "ing if you so desire. of the Chandler car has made of the bile association to promote uniform-| regulation, he should report the tion in relation to the distribution of] bas become one of the most populag TOE dc ark Re AR: East Side garage a truly remarkable ity of traffic regulations and pro-| facts to his local automobile club merchandise, manufactured © pro-| Cars of the finer type in America. The sateen 't lor Btx tors} automobile agency. I believe that vide better motoring laws generally. | immediately. The information ducts, and natural materials is going} Just a word regarding the automo- e any ried Lepiesed the batts m| 1 represent two of the finest motor It appears that a main difficulty| would then be tabulated and for- to make of Casper a true city, and bile show which will be launched to- pry iy fs a pees eaiee one, cars manufactured in the United ¥. in the way of effective uniformity| warded to A. A. A headquarters in not a town or a village. We heart- morrow evening. As president of | % Shh oe Sala tint seek deaa.} States, which 1s, éuln 6 WaGt Ge. he of trafic regulations and motor ve-| Washington. i fly believe that Casper in compari-|the local~automotive association, I bie ean none gente hae: éertion ‘tor an automeltia Wages" uM hicle laws is the unamiliarity of one} “I am of the opinion that useless son with Denver, Omaha, Kansas pores pg eg Fatpertecs, Loketunaaesies The future of the company {s un- et section of the country with condi-| or even dangerous laws and regula- City, St. Louis, Chicago ‘and Salt! use a bit of slang, “They Se Dee taction. : coammameieiis | ae ais: aster X. ballevar Cae be tions prevailing in another, and it is| tions exist in many parts of the oe E Lake cannot escape the destiny of|rinish what they’ start” sper facturing. obstacle have kept en.| tif annual. Automobile sbow will ~ the opinion of A. A. A. officials that| country without the local public’ Bee Se ea eee thess metropolitan centers, for it 1s| ike this 1g encouraging and until | SCrarins Cbstacles have Kept en | ee ee tee ae te 4 uniformity would be several steps} being fully aware of it, and that! pn the Garber-Bulck company| On the very day that the car | geographically located far more fa-| this sort of citizenry forsakes Cas- ter P. Chrysler's ingenuity for un-| Tolling for the year 1924, and we are £ nearer a reality if automobilists| sane ideas which should ‘be stan-'of saginaw, Mich., decided to prove | started, however, there fell one of] vorably than they were and is sit-| per, the city will continue to grow raveling severe manufacturing prob-|#!! set for a banner year. The Hup- t would familiarize themseives with} dardized have not been brought tO\ the power and stamina of the Buick | the heaviest snows in the history of | uated in the midst of a great sec-} and to prosper and to advance to-| jems, however, 1s said to be Tespon-| Mobile has always been firmly esta- a the conditions under which other/ the fore. Four by running one ten-thousand | eastern Michigan. For several days | tion filled to the brim with raw ma-| ward its rightful place as the in-| sible for the obviously perfect valve| biished in the minds of those inclim th folks operate their cars, “With the opening of the travel mites in thirty days, the weather |it continued, piling up drifts that| terial for every kind of manutac- dustrial center of the west. poco ce Aw gh aby aera Athy ed toward the automobile in Casper. Pe According to President Thomas P.| season it is hoped that automo-/was just of the ordinary winter | cut off many of the highways. turing. Be a booster for the city In which The Chandler will prove itself to be Henry of the A. A. A., heads of traf-| bile tourists will assist the A. A. A.’ prand. In spite of these difficulties the| We believe that the wide-awake| you live. The Liberty garage and local folks within a’ short time\I fic bureaus in many prominent|!n the work of ‘clearing’ these facts sturdy Buick Four has steadily | inhabjtants of this city shall speed| Liberty Garage Annex are being op-| An ofl filter on the Chrysler Six,| know, for it has the qualities of P cities aro now studying conditions| by studying traffic conditions as plodded its way, maintaining for|this Work and that before _many|erated not as money making ma-| removes all dirt from the engine.|true motor aristocrat. It is my dev b in other cities with a view to deter-| they find them and b; aking up. twenty-one days an average of 338] years have passed we shall see the| chines, bu institutions which will] This device, together with air clean-| sire that you make every possible mining whether or not they them PRT es a jtailes per day, with a gasoline | fulfillment of our dreams and the| benefit Casper. We are trying to|er which remoyes dirt from the air| effort to attend the auto show, and p selves are on the right track. If record of 17 9-10 miles per gallon. | materialization of our prophecies.|grow with the community in which|entering the carburetor, means|that while there you spend a good p motor tourists would make a similar repairs or replacements what- | Casper's citizens never allow aworth| we live. We are glad to report that| smoother performance, less carbon| long time with the representatives q effort to study conditions as they ABSORBER AND oP ING ver have been necessary. while public enterprise to fail. To|we are succeeding. and longer motor life, it 1s claimed. of the Hupmobile and Chandler. . find them in various parts of the | ec for improvements accordingly, the } Mr. Henry points out, would be ORDERS ARE PILING {|p | eliminated. “With respect to uniformity,” says Mr. Henry, “the country | ts faced with a problem of first elim- inating the sort of situation which makes the people of one city ignor- ent of the motor regulations in force in another. When we have removed this feature it should be a simple matter to do away with the unneces. Bary regulations because everybody in every séction of the country will know what regulations are neces- wary. = “As matters stand, uniformity 1s virtually blocked by reason of the fact that the motorist from Call- fornia thinks his regulations are the best that can be provided for him. ee the man 2 ake York. | 1 pik pr ts) Leena’ i 14, [ieee Minaaligliterine are sda Neither may suspect that some- e best part of the plan, aside’ ..- vied Motors, That to insure perfect balance, Where in between thetr respective | from the quality which we can and Warne and Crosby Motor org A A Great Business Story Engineering—$500,000 minimum vibration. States there may be methods or/ will maintain, is the fact that we 7s re regulation superior to those in the| have a place for every car as soon as) ™@Uire about the Grey Goose ab- All Studebaker models are west or the east. “But how are the bulk of the na- tion's motorists to know what is go- ing on in other sections of the land unless the tourists themselves who have intimate touch with the sub- Ject make their observations known? Traffic official Jct trolled production bast: basi tising in the future. pee ba pieateery nena a Ww ploy inspectors, F No Stin Cost “Traffic officials are making some | trolled production basis—a is on a ree irs. How it own grown, fe em} 1, so that important discoveries in their tours| which we can work steadily through- until $50,000,000 is invested in plants to Studebaker cars ee 30,000 inspections in ie Eat of investigation, but the motor tour-| out the year, and ship steadily, Parking lights on the open models ist could do even more for the na- tion's motoring. “The motorist {s the party who knows whether the laws are work- ing properly, and when he tours he | By F. WILLIFORD. We orders for 6,000 cars, and! We are new in Casper, but have Production steadily increasing, the! siready met with marked success in Maite in cee ee Pel establishing the Grey Goose shock March and is looking forward to a| absorber for Ford cars and the record year, not merely in output Master spring, for larger machines but in quality of output, according in the mirds and cars of many. Cas- to an announcement made by 8. E.| per motorists. We have obtained Burke, general sales manager. \the distribution office for the entire We have been working hard to-| state of Wyoming and are now bus- ward this standard since before the j1y engaged in establishing branch first of the year," says Mr. Burke./ agencies in other cities throughout “Men, materials and plant facilities the state. have been so co-ordinated that we| msc "Grey Gooed défled te Adcabad should average 40 fine cars a day ; early in March and that 1s close to! ®t 249 South David street, and is it is ready for shipment." sorber at either of the above named “The advance orders for 6,000 cars| *t#tions. are naturally not all for immediate’) The springs and absorbers are shipment. They represent definite ™nufactured by the Jenkins-Vulcan requirements of our present dealers Spring company at Richmond, Ind. throughout the balance of 1924." | Watch the Tribune automobile seoc- “This puts the factory on a con-| tions closely for Grey Goose adver- “We can thus work efficiently of the Chrysler Six are mounted on keeping workmen busy all the year the center panel of the body. By around—our dealers and the motor- this positioning, light may also be ist get the most value in each car, thrown on the running boards when because of steady production.” ‘passengers are entering or leaving: Here is one of the greatest business Stories ever told. How Studebaker became the sensation of Motordom. The leader in quality cars. Zhe lara builders of quality cars in the ‘wor! i build Studebaker Sixes. Until the capacity is 150,000 fine cars yearly. Yet the demand for some models has never been met, It is a recitation of some new-day busi- ness methods, You'll be interested in it. We established an Engineering D. ment which costs $500,000 per year. means with us but $3.33 per car. There are 125 skilled men in our d ment of Research and Experiment. make 500,000 tests per year. To maintain er standards. Studebaker their progress through our plants. Such facilities are impossible on a limited with Timken There rae bearings. ere are Nant No Studebaker only lon to cost is restricted. Our engineers and design- Here Are 112 Reasons ' _ Why Studebaker Sixes Won Top Place in Fine Cars Why 145,167 People Last Year Paid $201,000,000 for Them An Honored Name For 72 years the name Studebaker has stood for quality and class, for dealing, for superlative values. America over, in country and in city, this is an honored name, The carly pioneers drove Studebaker covered wagons. Farmers of two genera- tions got matchless service from Stude- baker farm wagons. Studebaker carriages reigned in the car- riage days. They were used at the White House in the days of Grant and Harrison. They were bought by the people of Learn Why 145,167 Bought Studebakers in 1923 Studebakers hold top place in the fine car field today In 1919, the public paid $80,000,000 for 39,356 Stude- baker cars, In 1920, the public paid $100,000,000 for 51,474 Stude- baker cars, an increase of 31% over 1919, In 1921, the public paid $120,000,000 for 66,643 Stude- baker cars, an increase of 29% Mark the results of these policies, The demand for Studebakers has trebled in three years, Last In 1922, the public paid $155,000,000 for 110,269 Stude- baker cars, an increase of 66% over 1921, In 1923, the pubic paid $201,000,000 for 145,167 Stude- baker cars, an increase of 32% over 1922, In 1924 business has opened with Studebaker as never be- Note another result, One Studebaker Big-Six has completed 475,000 miles of service. Most of it was spent in 400 miles daily in delivering Los newspapers to Santa Barbara. fashion. (i So Studebaker, always leader in its fiel had to lead in quality cars when it turn to this line alone. We who today have that name in our keeping simply had -to maintain its supremacy. Studebaker traditions formed our chief over 1920, fore. for a motor car. It breaks all we incentive, e, for motor car endurance, Learn why all these buyers preferred Studebakers n x Know Before You Buy ioe tesa aie - . The Studebaker assets are $90,000,000, We made a canvass of people who VOID exccesiv alia of a cold motor. As soon asit takes i er had meee tote eee Output, The cost would be too much per . ers is to build the best they know. Some bought rival cars. We found that the Fe ghee er ottle down and retard the spark for a few minutes. We have $50,000,000 invested in modern car, of our costs seem extra But their isiority ie) without knowing waat ‘This gives the oil a chance to reach the bearing surfaces before plants and equipment. $38,000,000 of this is Studebaker offers, they become overheated from friction. amount has been invested in the past five Think what folly. Studebaker ‘The best lubricating oil ever made is useless as a lubricant until years. dealer can show scores of advantages over any other car in its class. He can offer extra values which are resistless to all who find them out. Why not learn what Studebaker offers? ‘Phere are three models in So the plants are modern and efficient, ‘They are adapted to quality cars, and to the six-type only. “ The 500 departments of those plants contain 12,500 up-to-date machines. They it reaches the frictional surfaces. And no matter how high in quality, any oil will be more or less sluggish in cold weather. Use a good oil of correct body and give it a chance to do its work. : Excessive “racing” brings destructive friction—a mighty expensive In every part we use the steel best adapted to its je. We use 35 differ- ent formulas, In open models we use real leather pe pecret raed and wide. We could cut fixed by our depart- willing types. rices from ‘way to warm up your motor. are built for exactness. ment of Methods and Standards. use imitation leather. oe ate ia $2,685, peer vital Sond the ae i Five points to be sure of $8,000,000 in drop forge plants, to build On some of these steels we pay a bonus No closed car could be more luxurious. similar, 2 : vital parts as we want them. $10,000,000 of 15% to the makers, That to get every We upholster our closed models in the In every model scores of things For maximum power and mileage economy, motor gasoline should in body plants, to maintain the Studebaker pound exact. Mohair, Cotton or ordinary which no rival car can offer In the larger mect these requirements: apse Sa eS Rone We analyze bar of steel We test Snahle on to eareination of both, would models you get extras which would cost 1 Tt should have a complete, orderly _ly vaporize at normal operating heat boa, Pe every vital part, Mistakes or Haws cannot 150 But we wocld dom sioe.t9 you heavily to buy. chain of boiling point fractions; just of modern motors. ‘Thus we build complete cars without °FeeP in under Studebaker methods. oe ee ee: iit ant Peseta Go see the Studebakers before you buy Sine pe ee 3. It should be from sedi- middlemen’s profits. And thus we build | We machine scary ccrrece of ourcrank- — We were, by the way, the first to use from Siege or over. In every model— diate at hiher points me the devel Dag inteis sie eres cass a ears to our standards, shafts as was done in the Liberty Airplane cord tires as rival can mates 7 Sind = ment 4 mile. = In other ‘ , it should be carburetor can “stay put” and give pa best results. 5. It should be easy to get, wherever 2. Its range of volatility should be you go—available within easy driving such that every fraction willcomplete- distance. Does the gasoline you use meet those requirements? CONOCO does. THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY Marketing a complete ine of high-erade New Mexigo, Utah, ‘Idaho and Montane |Use Conoco Coupon Books. ‘They are convenient and save [tithe and trouble moaking change, Good atal Contien tent Bertie Stations accepted by dealers generally LIGHT-SIX — 5-Pass., 112-in. W. B., 40 H. P. S-Pass., 119-in, W. SOH.P. id Touring. + = = i 3 Roadster (2-Pass.) Coupe (5-Pass.) « Sedan SPECIAL-SIX BIG-SIX 7-Pass., 126-in. W-B., 60 H. 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