Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1924, Page 20

A “PAGE TWO. recin: Ev cod Ih istric recin Mi Ise. Me imer’ istric recin Bu Live News of Motordom in This Section Se ah AA RO WS HCD OE CHEVROLET RESPONDS TO HARD |BELLY BRIAN-CARTER SALESMAN/ ~ TEST ON MOUNTAIN ROAD HERE By SPARK PLUC (This is the second of a series of articles by parky in which he out- lines the outstanding features of one of the automobiles represented in Casper after having driven the car under discussion and giving it a thorough test under every sort of condition. This week, Sparky took the Chevrotet four- passenger coupe for a little spin, and folks, here's the straight dope.) Oh, boy. What power, She rounds even the big ones on the heavy grades. Power, and plenty of it, is the first feature of the new Chevrolet cars, fo impress one who is driving the little car for the first time. Last Tuesday found Sparky easing swiftly and quietly out of the salesroom of the Nolan Chevrolet company with his hands gripping the wheel of a brand new Chevrolet four-pas- senger coupe. No Fifth Chevie. Sparky. the litIte coupe a out, and pointed her nose toward the towering peaks of the Casper range. Up the first heavy grade just outside the city Mmits on the mountain toad, she flashed in high gear, without a shadow of hesita- tion or jerkines: It was not necessary to put the Chevie in inter- mediate until the long grade above Garden Creek falls was reached, where she fell back upon her second gear with a knowledge of work well done. On up the mountain went the little street hill for the decided to give thorough work- car. Now and then she rounded cars larger than herself struggling with the “straight up” pull, and threatening to give. up the ship within the next few feet. Now and then she passed other machines stopped dead along the roadside, with engines steaming. Not so, tl Chevie. Though her motormeter showed a little more red than usual, she never overheated, and her motor action was steady and unbroken to the very summit without a single stop. Let us consider the construction of the body of the particular model which was given such a thorough test by Sparky. Doors are wide and sturdily built. They open and lose noiselessly. In the entire af- ternoon of testing, Sparky failed to detect the slightest body noise, or disagreeable squeak which might reflect in any way upon the con- struction of ihe latest Chevrolet model. The driver has ample leg room and the interior affords com- fortable riding space for four people. The upholstering is of the highest quality, and the entire job is indeed a miniature of the coupe models of some of world’s highest priced cars. At handling easily in heavy traffic, the Chevie proved herself to be one of the leaders in the field. The little coupe throttled down easily to four or five miles per hour in high with out the slighest complaint from the motor. Her gears are easily shifted, and are now almost noiseless, a fault with which the earlier cars of the same make were cursed. That she is a steady puller under thoroughly adverse conditions was satisfactorily demonstrated when Sparky took her through the sandy bed of Casper Creek over a new trail, with every bit of ease that might be desired in a car of the Chevrolet's class. The four-passen- ger coupe and almost every other Chevrolet model is on display right now at the Nolan Chevrolet com- pany, and don’t think that “Jack"’ Nolan will not be delighted to have everyone in Casper just drop in and “Loo ‘em over.” “Next week Sparky will tell you all about his drive in every model of the Studebaker. It ought to be good, so watch for it U. $. CARS ARE FAVORED IN NEW ZEALAND A tabulation showing the number of automobiles of different makes that visited Muriwal, New Zealand, during a recent race meeting, as compiled by a newspaper of Auck- land, reveals that American cars just about dominate the field in that country. More than 72 makes were repre- sented at the meeting, making a to- tal of 802 cars, The leading makes were as follows, the first British car appearing twelfth on the lst: Ford Buick Dodge Studebaker Hupmobile Daimler 15 ee EIGHT HYDROELEGTRI PLANTS. BUILT OR NOW BUILDING BY FORD DETROIT, Aug. 16.—The Ford Motor company now has eight hydro- electric plants in course of construc: tion or in operation. These are the Menominee river plant of 9,600 horse- power, the Twin Cities plant, 24,200 horsepower; Green Island, N. 9,650 horsepower; Hamilton, 5,050 horsepower; oO. Flat Rock, Mich., 540 thorsepower; Nankin Mills, Michi- gan, 80 horsepower; Phoerix, Mfch., 80 horsepower; Plymouth, Mich., 40 horsepower. (aa PS Expert watch Ing. a. Jewelry repair Cusper Jewelry Co.. 0-8 Bldg. Our Used Car Sale Was a GREAT SUCCESS BUT A FEW OF OUR HIGH CLASS USED CARS ARE STILL LINGERING We Must Sell Them This Week and Are Making Still Greater Reductions John M. Whisenhunt & Co. First and. Park, Phone 79 By SPARK PLUG. Dear Friend Art: It mite seem funy to you Art that I am writing you so soon without I got an anser back from my last let- ter, but I havent got nothing much to do tonite, and I mite as well be spending my time telling you about what all I done at the carnive last nite as going around with seme jane here in’ Wichita, where I am stay- ing rite now, until I get my ekspense acount answer wich awght~ to be prety soon as it has been several days now sence I rote the boss about my needing some more of the forth estate. Their is a carnivel set up down on the banks of the litle Arkansaw river and I was down their last nite fooling around with a fella what sells violin strings, and you no Art I didn’t waist much time on the rides but was all for investigating in the concussions, I went along from good to wurse and didn’t win only a cuple of Cuple dolls, wich I gives rite away to a cuple of girls that was standing around henting that maybe they wood like to have one of my dolls. You know its a funy thing Art but their was a stand their what had a strong resistance for me and I goes over their to where a bloke has got 3 shells and he is trying to get the croud to gess under wich shell the little ball Hes, and thejr was one guy thelr what won a cuple of ,times and the guy pade him in cold hard cash, and that coin looked pretty g00d,to me, so I jest ambles a little closer and Art it was so dam eusy, why you could see rite where he was putting the-little ball, s9 I beta him 60c that it was under the middle shell, and I was rite of course, and he pays me two $ for the bet wich Is pretty good odds so I bets him again that its under the rite hand side shell wich is Just where I saw him put it, and Art I was rite again and got pade 8 bucks that time. I was beginning to think that mabe I woodn’t have to wate till the boss sends my eckspense account. I had about twenty-five simollons on me Art and I puts this eight bucks with that layout, and undertakes to place it all on the neckst bet. I wood of won about $150 on that gess but I mustn't have looked very close or something because I said it was under the midie shell, and when* he picks up the midle shell there wasn't no ball under it, and then he. shows it to me under the rite hand shell and I feels cheep as the devil but doesn't say nothing just walks away, because us salesmen travel around so much Ave get galoused to the ways of the world and dont mind litle set- backs like that none. Their is a bird hear what wants me to undertake golf, but I'm leery of that game Art, because it is said that once you get the bug their aint nothing can keep you from Playing not even your business ‘and I am afraid if thats the case that maybe I'd beter fite shy of the game because'I am on the thin ice that keeps me on the job now ‘and any litle unatention to business wood be fatil to my future and I can’t afford that, But Art you can never tell just what I'll do and I mite even set so loony that I'd undertake the game of chase the ball around the pasture, but candily speeking I dont think so, but you mite spect to see me get off the panama limited on the I, C. in Chi som day with a big golf bag on my sholder and a masher in one hand and-a bunker in the other. : Theirs nothing like driving al day to whet my apetite so I'm going to renig on this leter now and get a hamburger down at one of Walt Andersons cement castles where NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Major Elihu Church, Transportation Engi- neer of the New York Port Author- ity, predicts in the August issue of Shipper and Carrier the building. of new types of highways for motor cars. These will be, the major says, trunk-line highways extending over the country just as we now have trunk line railroads. There will be separate roads for trucks and for passenger. cars. He foresees “trains” of tractors and trailers on the high- ways and says the trailers will be " TRUNK-LINE HIGHWAYS TO BE OUTGROWTH OF ROAD BUILDING controlled by air brakes just as the railroad cars are. The Interstate Commerce Commission will fix, de- tails of rates and service, E It is asserted that “a grade cross- ing on an intensively used highway is moré dangerois than any rail- road grade crossings,” and that highways will be especially Mghted at night, equipped with telephones and will have repair trucks: ready to help any one in trouble. Trucks will be dispatched over the highways just as a train dispatcher handles his trains. x eck- | -_ they only cost a jit, and got a real old time aroma and flavor that it a thing of beauty and a-joy for good and always. Hoping you are the same— BILL BRIAN. WEAK VALVE SPRINGS SQURGE OF TROUBLE TO THE AUTO. OWNER Weak valve springs, which have become weakened due to the loss of temper of the wire will also éause sluggish action, as they can mot hold the valve to its seat. Weak valve springs can be located when the engine is running by inserting @ screw driver between a pair of coils and giving it a slight twist so as to increase the tension of the spring. If the engine picks up in speed it is a sure sign that the spring is weak. The exhaust valve springs will give the most trouble, as they lose their temper, owing to the heat they are subjected to, and when they become weak they should be replaced with new ones. A Httle study of the spring will disclose that the tension is dependent upon the deflection of the cotlq that form the spring and it is readily evident that a spring which has lost its temper will not stand the deflection thet one which is properly tempered will. oss PEE S ES 2 SPARE TIRE CARRIER Preparedness should be the watch- word of the motorist who contem- plates.a long trip as tlre trouble will greatly lessen the amount of pleas- ure derived. Most cars are equipped with a spare tire carrier, but fre- quently more than one spare !s de- sired. Not only is it difficult to strap one spare to tho other, but it permits them to rub together, e- times causing injury to both With a couple of pieces of fron, bent to fit one spare tire, the second spare tire is supported firmly nnd the two can net rub.—Automobile Digest. is aa as EFFICIENT COOLING It*should ‘be borne in mind that to-secure efficient cooling it is nec- essary that the water be kept cir- culating freely through the cool- ing system, and that the air be kept flowing through the radiator znce this is relleq upon to absorb, the hegt from the cooling water.— Automobile * Digest. car. front wheels are toed in three- sixteenths to three-eighths: of an inch to take care of their spread un- der power. In the opinion of tire men, fallure to_properly align the wheels is re- spensible for the premuture scrap. ping of tens of thousands of tires, Wheels of new, cars require less toe. ing-in that the wheels of ‘cars al- ready limbered ~ up. —Automobile Digest. # DAD BALLOON TIRE FOR MOTORCYCLES Is PLACED ON MARKET Akron, O., Aug. 16—Production of the first cord balloon tire for motoreycles Is announced by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., in a Charged Bone-Dry —-your dollars buy more battery life For every dollar you ‘invest in a statement giving full details on a < Willard Threaded Rubber Battery SZ 26x3 bale tat aig Shere apts aS you can take out 100 cents of bat- While the amount of inflation nec- essary for the new time will -vary somewhat ith the weight of the machines, Goodyear says that the new balloon casing in general cam be run at 20 pounds presure for the front wheel and 25 ands for the rear tire when the fhachine is equipped with a sidecar. Twenty pounds pressure for the sidecar tire. Probably the most important fea- ture about this new tire is the de- velopment of a_ special improved clincher bead. Tests with this bead _ tery life. “Willard Charged Bone-Dry Batteries ‘Bay it with eervice’,” says Little Ampere, ‘Auto Electrical Co. 136 East Midwest Phone 968-3 have proved that at efghty miles on the straightaways and in several tests at 78 miles on curves, the tires could not be thrown. The Starting Motor Circuit of the Car * The starting motor circuit is from the battery to the starter switch, thence through the switch and to the starting motor, from which the current returns to the battery. The path of.current through the motor will of course depend upon the num- ber of field poles and the type of winding used. If the external circuit consists of two wires, one of these will conyey the current*through the switch to the motor and the other will form the return leai from the motor to the battery. In the single wire sys- tem the current passes through the wire in one direction and through the ground in the opposite direc- tion. When the switch is closed, the motor {s automatically engaged with the engine and drives it until Have You Been Foolish Enough TO SPEND THE SUMMER INDOORS WHEN YOU CAN ALWAYS RENT - A- NEW - FORD AT THE said commences in the engine e = uote ae sete §=® Auto Service Co. starting switch is open, the start- a ing motor is automatically dis- e “Car Washing and Greasing” engaged from the engine. 3 Sa eae 135 N. WOLCOTT ST. PHONE 2370 WHEEL ALIGNMENT We Thank You Many motorists completely wear out the front tires on their cars before they find that the wheels do not_run_ parallel. In the ofdinary gasoline.”’ ing change, erchan “TT HAVE used Conoco in my own car most of the time for years—it is so handy to get. But I did not realize what I was missing by not using it all the time until we made a test of several kinds of gasoline in our delivery cars. This test showed that, everything considered, Conoco gasoline is the most satisfactory and the most economical gasoline for pas- senger as well as for business cars. It convinced all of us of another thing—that so-called much when applied to gasoline. “Judging by results since we standardized on Conoco, we are not only reducing our gasoline bills, but we will also be able to save considerably on upkeep and we will get more use of our cars because fewer layups for overhauling and repairs will be 4 necessary. Literally speaking, any firm that will make a test like the one we made will, I am sure, prove that Conoco ‘de: livers the goods’ cheaper. No one who has made such a test will ever go back to the old haphazard method of buying Marketin, Colorado, Use Conoce Coupon Booke. They are nien| Good at all Continental Service Stations and a » CON the Bal: USES (A Colorado Corporation) fa complete line of high-grade petroleum “Wyoming, New Mexico Utahy Idaho Conoco gravity does not mean very Users get satisfaction and economy out of Conoco” because’ these good qualities are refined into it. It is carefully formulated and carefully made to an exacting quality standard. Conoco is the balanced gasoline. It con- tains the light fractions to assure quick, positive ignition, the heavier frac- tions to provide maximum power, and the medium fractions required to -make up a uniform unbroken power chain. Conoco vaporizes readily under normal engine heat, It all goes into power and that means high mileage. THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY ucts in Montana it and save time and trouble mak- copver says you tine nas CO Gasoline A% cL Discount On All Brake Lining Jobs Next: Ten Days AT — UNN'S GARAG PAIR SHOP “BOB” ELLIOT, MGR. INDUSTRIAL AND ELM STS. PHONE 2824