Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1921, Page 63

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 23, 1921—PART 3. Coupe &Sedan Iops 257 LOWER THAN LAST-YEAR Anchor is now the lowest priced quality top on the market. It costs a full 25% less than last year. This reduction, in effect since September 15th, brings Anchor back to pre-war level and makes any Anchor top unmistakably the Breatest dollar value on the market today. Everywhere, Anchor is known as the finest top made. Its style, smartness and perfect fit literally transform a touring car or roadster into a handsome, com- fortable sedan or coupe. These tops embody all essential closed car features. Get your order in quickly an® be assured of Anchor Top protection before real winter and bitter cold weather arrive. ia Type Tops—These for “Studebaker Light 5 Touring Car. s are made for Ford Buick Maxwel Studebaker ‘Willya-Knight LY CO., INC. Phone M. 3445 Chevrolet odge Brothers FEDERAL AUTO SUPP 477 Pa. Ave. N.W. Reo i = Nothing But Quality In This Sale of Fine Used Cars We use the “FINE” advisedly, for that best describes this remarkable group of Extra Good Cars. Some have just been repainted; some have Bumpers and other accessories. Every Car is in excellent running condition; some are as good as new; imagine such Quality as this: Nash Sports Model, Dodge Coupe, Buick Roadster, Oldsmobile Open and Closed Cars that have been used as demonstrators and handled by experts. Then there are Buick, Dodge and Ford Touring Cars, all in good repair and fine condition mechanically. This Sale of Used Cars spells “CREAM” all the way. Is your Opportunity to buy just what you want at a price way below the market. ACT AT ONCE IF YOU WANT ONE! $250 Up Terms to Suit Oldsmobile Sales Co. 1016-1018 Connecticut Avenue Open Sundays and Evenings During the Week Telephone Main 7837 87 4 k4 - . \/ in Less ThanYear quality product, longlived, packed with power, eager and able to do a man’s size job for Fords, certain mod- els Chevrolets, Overland, Buick and twenty-seven other cars and trucks. Have you bought yours? Remember, $12.40 Reduction Prest-O-Lite Battery at $23.50 (trade-in price) is $7.65 under the December price of $31.15; $12.40 less than the September price of $35.90; and, yes, it’s even less than 1917 price —a better batte: :k::! il i only $23.50 for this genuine Prest- This $23.50 battery is a strictly O-Lite. POTOMAC BATTERY CO. 1236 12th St. N.W. Formerly 1720 14th St. NW. ABSOCIATE STATIONS Western_Auto AlLGer Battery Service Station 12 0 Bt. N.W. Jow in New Quarters Fred Pelbam 1733 'h:'ll. N.W. Brookland Auts | o~ BATTERY" SERVICE BATTERY START Right with Prest-O:(ite! AUTOMOBILES SAVED BRITAIN FROM RAIL STRIKE PERILS BY CHARLES CLIFTON, President of Vaticual Actemobile Onamber of | sustaining from the short-haul stand- omm erce. ‘Will America fall down where Brit- |of all our great cities there are rich aln succeeded? o ‘Wil the American public be over-;supplies of which can whelmed by a rail strike, when their | handled by car and truck where English cousins met the situation |Recessary. with an automobile equipment but|p..p.¢ by motor vehicle. one-twentieth as large as that of the jtonnage hauled by our 990,000 trucks United States? 1 think not. The experience of Great Britaln in|sengers the railroad strike of October, 1919, sheds an encouraging light on the pending American crisis. We have 8,300,000 passenger cars and 990,000 trucks. England had but 420,000 mo- tor vehicles and yet was able to move goods and persons with sufficient facility to meet the more urgent needs. 250,000 Volunteer Drivers. One of the first acts of the road transport board was to call for vol- unteer drivers, issuing the appeal through the press. Within a few hours a guarter of a million persons had offered their services. The country was divided into twelve transport areas, of which London formed one, and each area was placed in charge of a local commissioner. ‘The public parks in London were con- verted into motor transport depots. ‘The main road running around Hyde Park, for imstance, was divided into sections, each one of which was allo- cated to the convoys responsible for the work usually done by one par- ticular railway. Inside the park was the major repair shop. the minor re- pair shop and the reserve vehicles waiting to be drawn upon. As each vehicle came in from its run it re- ported promptly to the minor shop and after being tested was turned over to the reserve pool. Milk Supply Kept Moving. All over England and Scotland first attention was given to the milk sup- ply. The quantity of milk going to Liverpool on September 30 by motor truck was reported to be greater than the amount ever brought in any one day by the railroad. Fifteen thousand cans of milk were handled at lyde Park depot in one day. Motor trans- port brought 3,000 gallons of milk daily into Plymouth. Supplies were furnished ragularly to the food markets of the large citles. Within a few days of the he- Binning of the strike over 1,000 mo- torists had placed their cars at the disposal of the automobile associa- tion for use in connection wita the work_of the food min‘stry. In onc | |day 20,000 crates of tomatoes were distributed to the markets of London. Tons of fish were shipped from Plv- mouth to London and other citles by motor trucks. Mafl Kept Moving. Mails were kept moving by motor car and motor _truck throughout Great Britain. Owners of private cars were given postal licenses to assist the postal service with the delivery of mail sacks. Several paragraphs from Commer- cial Motor (London) give an indica- tion of the good humor with which the British public was viewing the strike. “One hears: “That the road round Hyde Park was known as the Milky way. “That our food was going Into transports while the strike was on. | “That datural selection in wheel trafic would aim at the survival of the fleetest. “That one of the milk lorries (trucks from Hyde Park) was labeled ‘Pussyfoot’s Food for Babes—No Treating.’ “That_Billingsgate found fts fish| was arriving in a fresher state dur- ing the rallroad strike than it had been before.” Commodities other than food, more- ! over, were able to secure delivery. Motion pictures were distributed uninterruptedly in Scotland. London papers were dellvered to the patrons in automobiles. Passenger Traflle Oared For. Motor cars, motor buses, trucks converted to buses, motor cycles and bicycles, prevented a serious tie-up of passenger traffic. One hundred trucks were put into passenger serv- ice between Bath and London. Long- distance service was instituted be-; tween the southwestern counties and the larger cities. An increase of 52 per cent in the number of motor ve-: hicles going into London was indi- cated by a census on one of the® main roads taken by Motor Traction (London). This increase in the num- ber of vehicles is only a partial in- dex of the actual gain In transporta- tion, because in normal times a mo- tor vehicle is not loaded to capacity. The motor vehicles entering and leaving New York city carry an av- erage load of 2.7 passengers, al- though the average normal capacity would be slightly over 5, with still greater overload possibilities. All reports indicate that there was a tremendous amount of overload- ing of British vehicles during the strike, 8o that the actual passenger traffic by this means was probably many times normal. The vehicular census is given as follows: Edgware Road Hourly Census. Normal. Btrike. No. vehicies. No. vehicles. 202 470 289 346 301 304 323 316 388 4 567 838 ‘Totals. 581 3,820 An additional resource of the coun- try was found in used cars, which had been discarded, but were pressed into service for the crisis. Many vehicles dating as far back as 1902 were brought into use. The figures of British experience seem small to the United States. They have but one automobile to every 110 persons, whereas in this country there is one to every eleven persons. Their territory, however, is compact, which means a great advantage in the utility of the automobile, because almost any trip in England would be a short haul trip in the American viewpoint. In the matter of food supply, how- the Stutz Family— Every Model Is a Car With a Pedigree Bear Cat and Roadster - $3250 F. 0. B. Factory Four-Pass. and Six-Pass. $3350 F. 0. B. Factory Immediate Deliveries Motor Company of Washington 2Uth and M Streets _Telephone West 710 1 i 1 ! H i | i { \ 4,920,000,000—80 our resources are adequate for the demand. The transportation _situation England during the strike, of course, ‘was not completely satisfactory judg- ed by normal standards. The motor vehicle does not attempt to compete with the railroad on long haul busi- ness; and, even If it did, no im- | provised system of automobiles could | immediately function at 100 per cent. That is, within o few miles|Motor transport abroad, however, did protect the public from serious in- convenfence. The more essential services were carried on. In America there are over 8,000,000 car owners, who, with their families, constitute nearly half the nation; and, zhmu;nl B $15.00 DOWN—$15.00 A MONT ‘ONLY 312 MONTHLY. PAYMENTS PAYS FOR THIS GARAGE in . . ever, our country is relatively self- point. farming and dalirying sections the readily be In fact, a vast amount of arm products are now brought into The total their associations, plus the ald of motor vehicle maker and dealer, they possess the ability to see that the whole nation does not suffer severely from any transportation tie-up. ‘What John Bull has done Uncle better. ‘was 1,200,000,000 in 1920. The pas- senger traffic of our motor cars, based on 200 days of use and three pas- per day, amounted to WASHINGTON OFFICE a1 ims ow Bovidsee Bidg. ov. (0 & K ny | | IRON CLAD GARAGE €O, Inc.. wasHINGTON Lrimone PHILADELPHIA —— NEW YORR Sam can do From 5 to 25 miles per hour in - nine seconds flat is marvelously fast acceleration. Try it in a Paige 6-44 and see for yourself. Then figure out —if you can — how it is possible to produce such a remarkably fine motor car for $1635. 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