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

ry SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1924 ss GEAMAN ROADS USING TRUCKS Rail Companies Putting Them in Operation For Economy. NEW YORK, March 22.—While German railroad officials have for some years considered the motor truck a competitor which should be destroyed, it has been the preva- lent feeling recently that the two agencies of transportation must co- operate, according té Dr. Albert Sommer of Dresden, Germany, in an address today before the motor truck members of the National Au- tomobile Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Sommer is executive manager of a large German truckfng corporation similar to the United States Trucking Corporation of New York City, ‘and is in this country to familiarize him- self with the American automotive industry. American manufacturers have nothing to fear from competition from Germany in the making of motor trucks at present, Dr. Som- mer believes. “The cheapest new truck in Germany costs at least $5,000 and then one must wait months for the factory to fill the order,” he says. . “About one year ago the use of trucks by railroads in the City of Berlin began and today can be pro- nounced a thorough success,” asserts Dr. Sommer. Trucks are used to avold trap car service between freight stations in various parts of Berlin. Each individual truck unit consists of a 6 ton truck and two trailers, all closed like freight cars, operated and guarded by the truck corporation's mien who for this bus- iness are under the orders of the railway management, wearing the railway uniform. The truck Cor- poration actg as joint carriers with the railroad and recelves a tariff proportionate to the prevailing rail- road tariff. Through this. use of trucks about 40 railroad cars are saved for long haul purposes in Berlin alone. C. WEST EXPECTS G000 SEASON ON MERITS OF CAR AND SALES WORK By C. WEST. Studebaker. Of course you knew all about it, Our unusual sales success during 1923 established the machine firmly in Casper. Our task is now to keep it there as long as the motor car is manufactured. We believe that we can do it. I will not make predictions regarding the Studebaker Sales and Service com- pany. They mean nothing and sometimes get us into cohsiderable trouble when we find ourselves unable to live up to what we have predicted. Iwill simply say that I believe the merits of the car we represent coupled with the sales energy which this company has al- ways displayed since its organiza- tion will be more than enough to carry us over the top of 1924 with the leaders in Casper automobile circles. Regarding the show. It can’t help but be a wonderful ‘spectacle. Never before have the local dealers displayed such real “pep” in putting a proposition over as has been dis- played in the planning of the ap- proacking cuto exposition. Attend at least one night out of the four and replenish your knowledge of the movements of your colony of automobile dealers and motor cars. pednivs btn shes WARNE AND GROSBY CO. HOLOS ONE OF LEADING PLAGES IN REPAIR LINE By CLAUDE CROSBY. Just for the sake of saving time, I'll make this short, sharp and to the point. The Warne and Crosby Motor company, during 1923 exper- jenced the greatest year in its his- tory, which has been short in point of time, but ong in important events that have been packed into it. Some time ago, we moved into our new and thoroughly modern quarters, where we have installed the most Modern automombile repairing ma- chinery. We feel that this fact, coupled with the size of our new establishment is sufficient reason to expect much of the repair work of the city of Casper. ‘We have taken for our. slogan. “The best equipped shop gets the business.” We have always made it our policy to turn out a guaran- teed job each time one of our me- chanics picks up his tools and goes to work. We have made hundreds of friends among Casper autoists. Our filled repair shop shows it. We Will have nothing to exhibit in the show. as we have almost nothing but efficient service to sell. How- ever, we wish the third annual Automobile show every success and wish to assure the dealers that we are for them every time, in any- thing they undertake which will better the automobile game in Cas- per, _ oo A Sporting Note. At a speed of 30 miles an hour, the LaFayette valve tappets lift 675 times during a minute, which is 11 times more than punching Would be hit if a good boxer like Benny Leonard or Jack Dempsey were punishing it. What a din 11 Punching bags would create travel- ing at such top speed. Casper Sunday Cribune GIANT TU LS. UNDER HUDSON |PHGE COMPINY TAKES PRIDE IN BEAUTY OF GAR FOR JERSEY-MANHATTAN CARS SMIRTNESS AND DEPENDABILITY APPEAL TO ALL Tube Linings to Con- tain 115,000 Tons Iron and Steel. newest marvels of tun: 4 the new vehicular tubes bene the Hudson river, which will allow motorists to go from Jersey directly into the ork heart of New York City, are now progressing rapidly. When finished the tunnels will ew Jersey and New York with two huge tubes, twenty-nine and a half feet each tn diameter, each accommodating two lines of traffic and each hay ng an area three times that of the old “Hud. son River Tunnels.” Spaces are reserved at top and bottom for ventilation. The tubes will contain @ compartment for fire apparatus and other safety devices. . The tubes are built of ring sec- tions composed of fourteen cast iron plates or segments, each soma 2,800 pounds. 6 Bethlehem Steel corporation is fabricating for the tunnel 107,000 tons of iron segments and 7,000 tons of steel segments. One hun- red and five thousand tons of these have been completed and ‘shipped or made ready for shipment from the Bethlehem shops. The bore for the tunnels from the New York side is through rock, and progresses a ring a day. The Jersey side is river silt and work moves ahead at the rate of six rings a day. Three giant steel caissons were floated up the bay from Staten Island. One double shaft is located on the New York side and two single shafts on the New Jersey side. These will be the river ventilation shafts and the tubes will pass through them like threads. through a needle. The tubes, In fact, have already pierced the north caisson on the Jersey side and so accurate is the work of boring that there was only one half an inch deviation when the bore reached the cement work. When passing through the silt, the progress is sometimes “made Solely by the power of giant 44.inch, 220-ton steel jacks which drive the shield forward relentlessly, The total length of the Proposed tunnels will be about 9,250 feet, and their cost, according to the latest estimates will run to $42,- 000,000, The ventilation and fire control ‘systems are adapted to every conceivahle condition. In case a fire should break out, it would be handled the same as and with no more danger than a fire on an open street. Traffic will be strictly regulated with fast and slow lines of vehicles. Just what effect the’new tunnels will have on New York's already tremendous traffic congestion is im- possible to predict, but it is believed that the eastern entrance .to the LM TERE TAT i 29% foot Rings Which Will Line New Tunnels, Showing Size Tunncla, ee” of First Hudson metropolis from the mainland may allow a reduction in the wholesale prices of some commodities. “At present there are no means other than ferries for the passage of vehicular traffic across the Hudson river south of Albany. Booth and Flinn of New York are the con- teactors of the tunnel which is be- ing built under the joint supervision of the tunnel commissions of New York and New Jersey. pal lel dk a SES WAR ON BILLBOARDS 15 OPENED BY MOTORISTS DENVER, COLO., March 2. (Unit- ed Press.)}—Denver ‘motorists and nature students have decided on a concerted action to remove bill- boards from all main highways in this part of the state, Committee. from several organ- izations interested in tourist traffic will unite to devise a plan whereby billboards may be entirely remov- ed from scenic routes, thus leaving interest of the traveler exclusively centered on natural attractions of the region. This action will be in compliance. with similar activities throughout California, and a movement suc- cessfully under way in El Paso county under direction of the Col- orado Springs Automobilé club. Frequent opposition to the bill- boards has developed in the past, but up to this time there has been no concerted action to do away with them. In California the Standard Oi! company CASPER BATTERY CO. BATTERIES CHARGED AND AIRED REP. We Sell and Service Vesta Batteries Gabriel Snubbers Eisemann Magnetos K. W. Magnetos North East Electric Systems North East Speedometers aca reerre a] Largest Stock of Repair Parts for Automobile Electrical Equipment in Wyoming 119 East Fifth Street Phone 907 First Door West of Coliseum Motor Co. Spring Is Almost Here! Now Is the Time to Have Your Car Put In Shape for Summer Use Whether It Is Only a Small Adjustment or a Complete Overhaul We Can Do It Right United Auto Service 221 West Yellowstone SERVICE FIRST 5 . ment by voluntarily removing their billboards from all but commercial points. ——_—_—__ » About Advancing Standards. , Studebaker has been consistent in advancing the standards of auto. mobile design, quality and value. ‘The first six cylinder motor cast en bloc was made by Studebaker, and cord tires as standard equipment Were first adopted on Studebaker cars. : pa AER Periodic brake inspection means fewer automobile accidents. How did you come to use this slogan, “The Most Beautiful Car in America?” is a frequent question asked of Palge dealers and factory men. The first car to bear the Paige name, a roadster with a three cylinder two-cycle motor, showed small promise of warranting that slogan. Even tn {ts day it was a small car, and though its lines were an improvement on the “buggy” styles of the late 90's, it had little pretentions toward beauty above the ordinary. Perhaps worked a its lack of smartness against the ready accept- ¢ of this first Paige by the pub- le. Perhaps the two-cycle prin- ciple or the lack of strong financial backing stood on its light. Perha @ stronger sales effort might h: helped it to succeed. At any rate thig first Palge was well on the road to a silent grave when H. M. Jewett with the nucleus of his present manufacturing and sales organiza- tion took over the management in 1911. Immediately the three-cycle design of the early years was sup- planted by a car with four-cylinder, four-cycle motor. “At last we had a car we knew could be depended upon to run,” says Mr. Jewett looking back over the company's early days. “I made up my mind it must be as good to look at as it was to drive. We worked and worried and contrived for many a day before we succeeded in evolving the smart looking chal- lenger model. . But when it came out the public liked the looks of it as well as the way it ran. We built 10,000 of this model with but few hanges in >the three following rs and got/on our feet in good shape. Owners Loud In Praise. “After that first experience I made up my mind that I'd never put my O. K. on a car that didn't look as good ‘or better than the best in the industry. Body en gineers found us pretty fussy peo- ple to work for. We finished them as well as we built ‘em and people at the early shows got to calling the Paige booth to get a line on the newest developments in body de- sign. “We had been in business quite @ number of years before we de- cided to advertise in a big way, and had built up quite a dealer organiza- tion, When we finally decided to use full pages to tell about our product we sent: a questionnaire to our dealers asking what qualities thelr owners most appreciated in the Paiges which they bought. “Beauty, good looks—smart ap- Pearance—nice lines,’ something lixe this while not always first in the list of replies invariably ap- peared near the top of every one.” past 2362 ak eg Ras Seventy Miles In “Second” In 3-Hour Trip Seventy, miles in second gear tn an hour over mountainous country three hours and five minutes—an average of approximately 23 miles This is another Dort Six record which was established in a run from Fresno, Cal., to Hyntington f the speed of PAGE NINE Johnson, the tiriver ot the Dort Six which made this record was im- the motor shows that {t yas turn- ing over fast enough to drive the car at a speed of 50 miles per hour | Pressed with the idea that if the car ag was kept in the s ar on such in high. In making this trip the] o trip better tin be skeen Dort not only proved itself to be a + Before the start, gea ed in second so that shifting could be made. This record is the second which Johnson has blished with a Dort Six. The first was the America Speed record for a stock car of less than 200 cubic inch displacement. von Seay The wire used tn a single year in the cushions and upholstered backs were seal- Wonderfu) car, but proved itself to have marvelous . endurance and Power, for no trip could be planned that would tax the durability: ana stamina of a car more than the trip to Huntington Lake. Those familiar with this country know the stiff grades and perilous slopes encountered. Usually in mak- ing a mountain trip the driver of a car will. go as far as possible in| of motorcars made at Willys-Over- high, then shift to second and if] land factory at Toledo, would reach necessary go in low. These many from Alaska to Cape Horn, or would be sufficient for a two-wire tele- phone line from New York to San gear shifts necessarily retard the speed of the car and a very poor average mileage Is made. Ernest Ny => QUICK SERVICE of the Casper Tire and Radiator Co, EXPERT RADIATOR REPAIRING TIRE SERVICE RADIATOR PARTS WELDING Casper Tire and Radiator Co, 228 S. David Street Phone 685-J ™NEW MODEL SINGLE SIX Still Finer, With No Change in Fundamentals The new Packard SingleSix remains unchanged in fundamentals of engineering and manufacture. We agree with its-more than 30,000 enthusiastic owners, that basically the Single-Six cannot be greatly improved. We recognize, however, in four-wheel brakes, an important advance in motor car design. In fact, Packard the first prominent American car to carry four-wheel brakes as regular equipment. From this time, all Packard cars will with four-wheel brakes, and two additional brakes on rear wheels, a total of six. To insure greater durability, and long life the new Single-Six is provided with a heavier transmission. It is exceptionally quiet and smooth in operation. Artillery type-wheels of be equipped ig StraightEight was Five Refinements in Regular Equipment There are also several important refinements in regular equipment includi Gasoline gauge on the instrument The use of adjustable window regulators on the rear wit of Sedans and Sedan-Limousines; ‘The adoption of an efficient stop light for all types; Larger steering wheel; A more beautiful instrument board, with walnut finish; cleaner; An interior tonneau light for all open models; é Toilette cases, smoking sets for #2585 Jouring Car at Detroit ‘ped Tem other beardiful models, open and enclovat. heavier construction contribute enhanced appearance, Greater steering ease is wheel is used. To make the battery more accessible, it has been located on the running board, as in the-Straight-Eight, and enclosed in a theft-proof box. The brilliant beauty of design and color, which have made the Single-Six the most notable—and themost imitated— car on the market, remain unchanged. With these important improvements, the Packard Single-Six is, in our opin- ion, an even more outstanding value than in the past. Let us show, and demonstrate, this new model Single-Six, without any obligation ~a your part. Let us explain why this car is a far more saving investment, in the final” analysis, than cars costing a thousand dollars less. Come in, or telephone. JOE E. MANSFIELD, Inc. 328 South David Street Phone 346 CKARD