Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1922, Page 47

THE SUNDAY_ STAR, WASHINGTON, TIRE COSTS KEPT DOWN. An analysis of the tire situation throughont the United States just completed by service men of the Mil- ler Rubber Company shows that the arning to Motorists Don’t Be Misled by the Just-as-Gaod Kind part in keeping tire costs st & low level, The warranty has meant the % almost complete elimination of wun- warranted and policy replacements. It safe to estimate that it has re- duced replacements 65 per cent. To- day more than 99 per cent of the tires manufactured in ghis country For Transmissions and Differentials — Flows into EVERY MOVING PART are made under the warranty, which and stays there; lubricates better and has become a symbol of quality and longer. TAKE NO OTHERS. BoNeAtEmANufAGtIEe —_— T. C. Powell, vice president of the = Erie railroad, address that relieved of the unprofitable haul and terminal traffic and they look to the motor truck, including the farm motor truck, to bring this about.” : -— A national éxposition of power and mechanical engineering is to be held in New York city next December. Sold in five and twenty-five pound cans by garages, gasoline stations and acces- sory dealers. BAYERSON OIL WORKS facturers, Erfe, Pa. mia Petroleum Products AUTOCRAT MOTOR OILS Pennayl MAKERS OF The ever widening circle of good Maxwell admirers is a tribute both to its superb beauty and its reliable, economical performance. The conviction is rapidly spread- ing that only in this car can there be found such sound value. Cord tires, non-skid front and rear; disc steel wheels, demount- atle at rim and a hub; drum type lamps; Alemite lubri- Prices F. O. B. Detroit, revenue tax to be added: Tour ing Car, $885; Roadster, $885; Coupe, $1385; Sedan, $1485 ; H. B. LEARY, Jr. 1321-23 14th Street s Telephone Main 4105 ‘QhexGoodj Never before has therebeen produced, at so low a price, a car so serviceable, so trustworthy and so economical of maintenance as the Ford Touring Car. Millions of owners say so. Buy your Ford today. Terms if desired. 348 o F.O.B. DETROIT AUTHORIZED FORD and LINCOLN CAR DEALERS The World’s Greatest Motor Car Values Authorized Washington Ford Dealers STEUART’S GARAGE 141-151 12tk St. N.E. HANDLEY MOTOR CO. (Ime.) Georgia Ave. and Quincy St. N. TRIANGLE MOTOR CO. N. Y. Ave. at N. Capitol St. PARKWAY MOTOR COMPANY 1065-1067 Wiseonsin Ave. R. L. TAYLOR COMPANY HILL & TIBBITT! 1840 14th" St. N.W. 301 14th St. N.W.! All Dealers Are Equipped to Take Care of Battery and Generator Work These Dealers Can Sell Ford Cars, Tractors, Parts, Etc, Anywhere in the United States. Reasonable Delivery on Touring Cars, Roadsters, Trucks UNIVERSAL AUTO COMPANY (Ine.) 1520-31 M St. N.W. DONOHOE MOTOR COMPANY 215 Pennmsylvania Ave. S.E. ROBEY MOTOR COMPANY 1429 L St. N.W. STROBEL MOTOR COMPANY 1435 Irving St. N.W. Oncet You have mastered the art of small talk, you do not need an suto- mobile te run down your neghbors, ** % What Kind of Camper Are You? Thiz is the season when the shadow- ed byways have their greatest lute for the motorist camper. Cholce apots mear purling streams— the sequestered woodland nooks—are |y, occupled by picnickers. Spread upom the ground {s the snowy cloth. Nearby there is the bulging lunch basket with its hounty of_delicacles. Laughter and merry-making— pickles and sandwiches—cake and candy-—the jarred salads—a treasure trove of youth. The time filles. The least romantic member of the party consults his watch. Heavens! It's late. The party hastens to leave. There is a hasty but careful gath- ering up of picnic equipment and the remains of the luncheon. Things for future use are packed away. Others are burned or buried in a proper place. Another party, also preparing to return homeward, picks up hurriediy the things for tonight's use. But tue picnic_ground it leaves behind. Cardbeard pla pickle and salad es are left where last used. Tie glazed tissue paper in which the cakes were wrapped Is blown about by weil eaning breezes. Bits of sandwiches e everywhere. le cores ond bot- tles and empty sardine cans are on all sides. The party leaves for home. Home! Well ordered, Inviting home. And in place of the delightful wood.- land spot. that once charming and plcturesque picnic ground. the pit- nickers leave bchind a garbage and refuse strewn grove, attractive omly to the flies. ‘Which kind of a motorist camper are you? k% x High-Gear Hill Climbiag. The high-gear hill climber is first cousin to the scorcher and both are bound to become wiser as time goes on. These statements are made with the full understanding that the modern automoblle is made to climb almost anything but trees. But to climb a ep hill on the high gear imposes the hardest kind of work, not only on the engine but also on every other part of the car. The lower-gear ratios are provideg for hill climbiig and they should be used for it. Consider the amount of work per- formed by an automobile climbing 2 gradlent on, say, a gear ratio of three to one. A ratio of three to one means that one revolution of the rear wheels is produced by three revolutions of the engine shaft. With the lower- gear ratlo, the intermediate and the low, the number of engine revolutions becomes still greater as compared to the number of road-wheel revolu- tions. It is not so difficult to compute With exactness the distance which a car is propelled by one explosion in the engine cylinder and the power consumed in hill climbing. The circumference of a Irty-two-inch wheel is ap- proximately 100 inches, and in cover- ing one mile the wheels revolve 633 times. With the motor turning over three times as fust as the road wheels it will require 1.8 olutions of the gear shaft to propel the car one mile. Thus, if such a car should proceed at the rate of thirty miles per hour, approximately 950 engine revo- lutions per minute are required. With two power strokes at every revolu- tion, there are 1,900 revolutions per mile, and each explosion propels the car one foot and four and a half inches. The Sunday Motorist An Abridged Magasine for Car Owners. Edited by WILLIAM ULLMAN This estimate assumes that the car be propelled over level ground. To mount a hill simply means that grade resistance is added to the various frictional and other stresses. An automobile weighing 2,000 pounds climbing a hill 200 feet high (meas- ured vertically) simply performs the task of overcoming the action of gravity, or lifting, and the caloulation of the po required to do this must involve the factors from which the horsepower unit is derived. To lirt 2,000 pounds 200 feet high in one minute is the same thing as lifting 2,000+200=400,000 pounds one _foot high-.in one minute. Theoretically <hen, the lifting of 2.000 pounds 20! feet high requires 0,000 -+ 33,000 1212 horsepower, and the losses through friction, air reeistance, etc. consume the remainder of the theo- retical horsepower output. From all this it must become ap- parent that rushing up a steep hill on the high gear must subject any Car to enormous stresses, which are likely to affect the life and service of the car to & considerable degree. * k% x Varying Odometers. Now and then tourists who closely watch their odometers when the: travel find fault with the mileage glven in_the touring data they are using. They frequently claim (e mileages are wrong because the same do mot agree with the Instrument on their own machine. It rarely seems to occur to them that it may be the other way about, nor do they take into account that their tire inflation has a material influence on their mile- age. As a matter of fact, those who collate touring routes and informa- tlon make it a point to watch the tire inflation because of its influence on the progressive mileage of the day's work. More than this, the instruments used on the pathfinding cars are carefully tested as to accuracy with a variation allowance of percentage. There is another factor that applies to any instrument and on the same car golng over the same route. There is a possibility of a two-thirds varfa- tion from these causes. When the trip dlal is set for the beginning it may be overset just a little so that it will run out of the first tenth be- fore that distance has been covered, and at the end of the journey the final tenth may either underrun or overrun. This latter condition, how- ever, is not the one,that makes the erial difference Sometimes com- plained of: The real factor is the cross-area in- flation of the tire. A four-inch tire is slated for eighty pounds. This same basis of twenty pounds to the MUST enables us to BUY RIGHT—together with our low EXPENSE to SELL RIGHT FROM FACTORY TO YOU Every Tire a First—In Original Factory SUPREME FABRIC Non-Skid Tires Guaranteed 6,000 Miles Special 30x34 Cord, Non-Skid, $10.95 CORD TIRE SALES CO. 904 14th Street N.W. OPEN SUNDAY UNTIL 1 P.M. cross-section inch would mean that it is reduced to ounds If the tire tion of only slxty- Ang it will be found that ti are being run at about sixteen poun: per cross-inch _measurement often than at the scheduled twenty pounds per cro nch measurement. * % ¥ ¥ If time is a5 immensely valuable as 1d proverb producers would have us believe, there are a lot of milllo aires hanging around every fuel sta- tion and garage. * *x k Kk Jefferson Highway. Fa ighted statesman though he was, Thomas Jefferson could hardly have foreseen that within a little more than one hundred years after the Loulsiana purchase there would be a great, broad highway running the breadth of the United States and ery heart of the mag- that he obtained trom France. The Jefferson highway is rightly hout that of the Lincoln highway. The At- lantic and the Paclific are joined by one: the land or wheat and the land of cotton by the er. One links the rock-ribbed hills of proud New Engiand with the sunny slopes of California; the other joins England's choicest province with the historic capital of the French interest in_tne new world. From Winnipeg to New Orleans is a trip that may well appeal to the motor enthusiast. It is a_ pecullar characteristic of American highways that they run east and west. The bullders have felt that they wanted to span the Missis- aippi_valley from the Alleghanies to the Rockles. They have dome this, and today automobile travel from such a city as Buffalo or Pittsburgh to Denver is a simple matter. The possibilities of a north and south route are now being realized. Tourists in search of diversion.natu- rally want to reach a different cli- mate, where strange crops are raised, where new sights are presented. where customs and language have a charming novelty. One of the striking and command- ing features of the Jefferson highway is that it offers this diversity of cli- mate and production. The secker for novelty will find it in this highway that follows the trail of the wild geese from the lakes of Manitoba to the rice lands of Louisiana. He will find a delight in the Mississippi that starts as & modest stream In the northern woods and develops into a mile-wide current as it hastens to join the sparkling waters of the gulf- i * ok ok x Legnl Light. Q. An insurance pollcy upon a barn forbids the keeping of gasoline upon the premises. Is the keeping of an automobile In this barn with the usual amount of gaseline in the tank 2 violation of this clause? A. There is not much authority upon this point. But in a recent Kansas case the court held the keeping of an automobile, as described above, to be 2 violation of the insurance policy that would prevent rec8very. Pru- dence would scem to indicate the ob- taining of permission or a waiver from the insurance company before using in this manner a building thus Insured. 0 Q. A car owner loaned his car to a neighbor and the latter negligently collided with a_pedestrian, causing serfous injury. Who is legaily liable. as between the car owmer and the borrower, for the resulting damages? A. Assuming the borrower of the car was in no manner engaged in the service of the owner, he (the bor- rower) is liable and not the owner. The general rule being that a car owner is not liable for the negligent —_— DryasBone! Common Sense Auto Polish—-the greaseless cleanser—that's the name to remember ! Itleaves a clear surface, smooth as glass, DRY AS BONE—-s0 dry that you can sprinkle dust over the freshly Mfiw«, and then “‘flick off ™" every le with a silk handkerchief! ---the ONE preparation you have ever seen that will pass this test. The first application of Common Sense will addat least $150.00 to the appearance of your car! But it will cost you only $1.00! Your nearest Druggist or Accessory Dealer has it, or can get it for you, promptly. And of course, always, if necessary, you may send direct to the Labora- tory. 50c, 1.00; or testing sample, 12¢ postage. [y THE GREASELFSS CLESER COMMON _SENSE MANPG CO. 4183 Olive, Saint Louls. Wrappers SUPREME CORD Non-Skid Tires Guaranteed 8,000 Miles 30x3 ........ $615 30x31,....... $IL75 30:314. . 690 3144, 1695 31xd4 . 1095 32x4 . 1275 324 18.50 33x4 ........ 1325 33x4 ... 1895 | ., 34x4 .........1395 34x4 ....... 19.50 f 3. or eareless acts of a borrow rule bas, however, been changed in number of states by statutes (Mich gan for one), which place the lia bility for negiigent driving upon th oar owner, regardiess of who is in control, so long as the control has been lawfully obtalne Q. A maqtorist invited company him upon a pleasure drive and duriag the drive met with an ac- cldent, wrecking his car and injurliz his guest. May the gucst hold the motorist llable in damages for the injuries sustained? A. The mere fact that the injured person was a guest will not excuse the motorist. If the injuries sus- tained were caused by the negligence of the motorist the guest may hold friend to ac- him liable, provided the guest was naot gulity of contributory negligence. Broadly speaking, one who invite: another to ride with him as a guest bound to exercise reasonable care in the operation of his car, and if he falls to o this and injury resylts to the guest the latter may hold him Hable. ( * ok ok The firefly is a careful cuss; He never need be fined For foy-riding after dark With no tail light behind. E Washing the Car. While the commonly hose s perhaps the best method of cleaning the lower portions of the car, such as wheels, running gear and mud guards. it is positively injurious when used on the body and highly finished surfaeds. The force with which the stream of water tmpinges on the surface causes the sand and dirt adhering to the body to be driven into the varnish, destroying its bril- liancy, and no and rubbing w! luster. The body should be washed with luke-warm soap water and immedi- ately dried with a soft chamois. Many owners use a mixture of cylin- der oil and kerosene which they ap- ply on the body, rubbing it dry after. wards. Another scheme is to use & mixture of boiled linsced oil and tur- pentine. applied sparingly and rubbed | absolutely dry. The use of this polish will restore even an old car to a de- SPOT LIGHTS £3. 4. +5. dies mentioned in gree of splendor that will please the user. In addition to the homespun reme- the foregoing, there are u number aof preparations— exc automobile bos used rubber! mount of polishing; restore its former | Tires vs. Price H you are looking for cheap tires, we don’t have them; if it's the best far less, see prices below. .« It's quality you want after all. OXFORD 34x4 32x43 . 33x41 : 34x4% : 35x4% . 33x5 3 35x5 . Fabrie $7.30 8.95 12.22 13.63 15.95 16.79 17.14 Cord $11.95 16.57 19.10 21.05 21.70 22.25 27.22 27.84 s 28.53 29.37 33.89 35.58 quite a few of them listed in our vertising columns—which give mos lente results. in refinishing and preserving the polished surfaces of dies, ’ Heavy Tubes $1.50 1.80 2.05 2. 2.50 2.60 2.75 3.15 3.25 3.30 3.35 3.90 4.05 Mail and Phone Orders Given Prompt Attention Special—Luggage Carriers, $1.95 Authorized Boyce Motor Meter Service Station Henry S. Wood, Inc. Quality First 1502 14th St. NW. | Franklin 2332 ~Usual Discount ‘To the Trade ~ TYPE LA Apartanis To Ax Ely e CHASSIS PRICE 8 Better Features That Make Overland theGreatest Commercial Car Value in America 1. The chassis has been especially designed for commercial purposes and is Dot a passen- ger car makeshift. 2. The rear axle has been built to stand the strain of heavy loads and the shaft is quickly removable. 3. The frame extends clear under the entire body, reinforcing it and supporting the load. 4. The patented Overland Triplex Spring Sus- ¥ FORD 8. Thmimnrpcrflumpaw‘armt Its absence provides maximum carryiag space. 6. The transmission is of the most advanced three-speed type. 7. The consistently high gasoline mileage for which cars are famous is equally a feature of the commercial car. 8. And while on the subject of economy, do not overlook the price—the Overland at $450 is lower in price than any other fully equipped commercial car chassis. COMMERCIAL CAR R. McReynolds & Sons 1423-25-27 L Street N.W. Main 7228 JOHN B. SAUNDERS Associate Dealers Furnishing Genuine Parts and Giving Service 3214 Prospect Ave. A. P. PAYNE 2 Clarendon, Va. 2415 14th St. NW. D. G. LUCKETT .410 8th St. S. WILLIAMS SERVICE CO, 105 N: Patrick St., Alexandria, Va. OVERLAND-WHEELER CO. eceived TIRES Cord and Fabric—Std. Mfg. Guarantee