Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1922, Page 47

THE UNIVERSAL CAR Think twice before you pass judg- ment on the other man's car or his handling thereof—and then say noth- ng. The Motor Sundial. Telling time without a watch wherr| traveling over the highways is the simplest thing in the world for they keen observer. The characteristics of road travel vary for each hour of the day, and it is seldom necessary to wonder what time it is if one will only note the cars that pass and the people in them. Take 10 am. in the touring dis- tricts, for instant. Passengers’ faces are oright with the idea of going on to the next place. The driver—it he is the owner—reveals much evidence of being nearly overcome by the size of the hotel biil he has just paid. Cars Invariably run more hestiaatingly at this time of day because each owner is wondering whether the old bank balance will stand for another night away from home. At 11 o'clock cars move faster. Pas- sengers begin throwing off . their wraps. The day is getting warmer. The luggage is beginning to give trouble. There are frequent halts along the roadway to strap the grips more securely to the running board. On the highway 12 o'clock is rec- ognized at once. Cars develop & queer habit of slowing up near spreading elms or where the road gives an entrancing view of the sur- rounding country. A mere sign, “No trespassing” will be sufficient to make the car speed up again. To the keen observer this means that noon is at ihand and that every one is logking ‘for a comfortable place to eat the Iplcnic lunch. One would have to.be totally blind not to be able to read 1 p.m. from the motor sundial. Discarded paper bags It is time to be on} The Busy Man knows that the Ford Coupe is the most prac- tical car for quick transportation at economical cost. Dollars and Sense both say: Buy a Ford—and Bank the Difference. i | ! F.O.B. DETROIT gives it uway. i 3 = - 2 the way again. Electric starting and lighting, demountable rims, Then 2 o'clock—the heat of the! day. Windshields are wide open. | Terms if Desired Authorized Washington Dealers DONOHOE MOTOR COMPANY STEUART'S GARAGE 215 Pennsyivania Ave. S. 141-151 12th St. N.E. extra rim, and non-skid tires all around. Covts come off. Children are rest- less. Frequent stops along the road for drinks—of water, of course. | Three o'clock is a cinch. You| can’t miss it. The car is dust co\'-‘ ered. Punctures and blowouts are frequent. Children are Every one looks tired. sleepy. The scenery ROBEY MOTOR COMPANY UNIVERSAL AURD CONPANY Une) is neglected. The gasoline supply is 1429 L St. N.W. - . 2 watched at regular intervals. The STROBEL MOTOR COMPANY Blue Book is consulted and the mile- HILL & TIBB 1425 Irving St. N.W. age reading is @ matter of great con- 301 14th St. PARKWAY MOTOR COMPANY cern. Presently cars stop for gas—stop- ping at places the owners have re- xolved never io take u chance on. 10631087 W inconsin Ave. HANDLEY MOTOR CO. (Inc.) R. AYLOR COMPANY Georsin Ave. and Quincy St. N.W. i k 0 14th St. N.W. Country mechanics are administering TRIANGLE MOTOR CO. BARTROM WOTOR COMPANY firstonid and greasing neglected uni- N. Y. Ave. at N. Capitol St. 1749 R 1 Ave. VW versal joints. Cars on the move re-| veal squinting drivers. Cars equip- ped with sun visors are viewed with apparent envy. By this time motoring is casting faint ravs on the sundial. but It is just as easy to know what time it s; Without consulting vour Ingersoll. Cars with tanks replenished and tires | satisfied are going like mad. The| speedometer is the main point of in-, terest. It is getting late. In other words, it is 5 p.m. Six o'clock finds slower speeds and all eyes on the landscape. The day drawing to a close and dad is look- ing for some place to stop overnight where they'll at least spare him his shirt and the price of enough gas to get home with. " said Mr. De Tour, as he viewed the road and then the re- mains of his last tire, “surely these are times that try men's rolls!” ANl Dealers Are Equipped to Take Care of Battery and Generator Work These Dealess Can Sell Ford Cars, Tractors, Parts, Etc, Anywhere in the United States. Reasonable Delivery on Touring Cars, Roadsters, Trucks $1375 Conopy p Express £. 0.b. Lansing, Michigan Plus Fedeval Tax Hotel Pnrkm; Facilities. One of the new problems for the modern wide-awage hotelman is that of providing ample parking space for the accommodation of his guest: cars. Some hotel managers are at- tacking the problem and are meet- ing with success; others allow the city to put through ordinances re-{ stricting parking around the hotel y to make it easier to ston off. Where the latter is the case the motorist is | justified in driving on to some other hotel that can offer him the sort of service the tourist of today expects.! | When a hotelman sets aside some | of the land adjoining h bullding { for the exclusive use of guests .sl arking space he deserves to be i patronized. This is also true of the;} { hotel that offers free storage of cars, {in its own garage. There are a num- | iber of cases where such services are offered 1o the motor fourist. - but. g comparatively speaking. they rare. Most hotelmen are trying to ! make it as easy as possible for thel motorist by employing doormen. who | keep the street in front of the hotel, or to the side, reserved for guests. They have a way of doing it very In this connection it would seem' that the least any resident motorist can do is to discourage parking in front of hotels by other than tour- ists. The driver who leaves his car in front of his home town hotel, when he could just as well park it else- where, will live to witness the day when he'll want to stop in front of a hotel. only to find a lot of resident cars in the way. The 0ld Mechanic Says: ! “Ever notice how some of these cars | with semi-floating rear axles give a peculiar_creaking sound when they start off? The noise seems to come from one of the rear wheels, and sounds like' something in need of! grease. When I spoke to one party about the noise his left hind wheel Mmade each time he left in the clutch he | explained that the trouble was due to the left brake band. He said it need- ed cleaning and readjusting. I asked him where he got the fool idea, know-| ing darn well that some service st tion mechanic who used to wash cars before he decided there was more money in pretending to be a mechanic ve him this line of talk. “Well, there’s nothing wrong with the brake bands on these cars and never was. It's simply a loose wheel on the axle. A lot of drivers don't be- ilieve this when I tell 'em, because they unscrew the hub cap, take out the cotter pin and find that the nut on the axle -seems tight enough. But that's just the point. The nut is tight| enough to furnish plenty of pressure | between the wheel and the axle, but, not tight enough to keep the wheel | rigldly attached to the axle. The A Truck That Will Do . Your Work—Carry Your Loads More than 600,000 miles is the record 'so 1f there is any kind of work to which the far of one of the first Reo Speed Wagons. flimsy light, or the excessively heavy trucks, are not fitted, it is the work of the farm. Now nearly eight years in service—and doing the same work daily it has always done—averaging 175 miles a day! That is the kind of truck you need.on the farm—chassis, transmission, clutch, axles and other units, on a par with that match- less motor. Loads vary from a small lot of groceries to an overload of grain, produce or live stock. Stamina and stability are the prime req- uisites. H No light vehicle made for smooth even city streets can negotfate your country roads and carry your loads. For all loads ranging from a quarter-ton This Reo Speed Wagon was designed to a ton-and-a-quarter. expressly to meet your farming needs. Hauling over all manner of roads—city Th 2 e v i hat lightly in the wheel hub! e Sp.eed Wagon has the greatest motor pavements, macadam, dirt roads—and shatt turne slightly in the whoel bl ever built. trails. / same sort of noise you would get by screwing a tapered glass stopper into the neck of & vinegar cruet. Brakes Must Not Fail. 1 Poorly acting brakes have been re- sponsible for more accldents, more roperty damage and more r ety Oother one thing connected with the motor. car or with driving it, and any reasonable amount of money spent on the brakes will earn the blegest kind of dividend in a short and generally unexpected time. | *Tt Snust be remembered that either | service or emergency brake should per- | form its functions thoroughly—one quite | as well as the other, so that {f one happens to fail the other can be used. | Tt will require perhaps ten to fifteen | minutes to go out on @& side street and test the brakes. Roughly, each brake | should prove its ability ‘to stop the lcar correctly under the following At times you must ver-load cruelly— alright: In all such conditions the Speed Wagon will do your work quicker and cheaper. Rugged—built for hard work—all working parts 50 per cent over-size. i Here is a2 motor whose records no other has ever approached. \ Over 75,000 Now In Use THE TREW MOTOR COMPANY ' 14th Street at P - Main 4173 Should stop in 10 teet 35 miles p 40 miles per hour. 50 miles per hour. ‘Each brake should be capable of \up- holding . these figures. and not merely | ‘be somewhere near them. It will re quire two persons to make the test Satisfactorily, one to drive and apply ]thg brakes, the other to watch the speedometer and give the signals when s apply brakes and note where the = - is brought ‘to a complete stop. oo frakes cannot be adjusted THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. The Sunday Motorist | An Abridged Magazine for Car Qwners. EDITED BY WILLIAM ‘ULLMAN are. C., AUGUST 20, 1922—PART 3. _ 1, is also bad every one is annoyed. not thin the grease in which the bear- for tires that have beed weakened |ings are afterwards packed by, underinfiation to be suddenly | - . il gl TALKS TO AUTO MEN. strilned by overinfiation. It is far| Did you ever notice that most of the — better to ‘“educate” the passengers|tire trouble along the road befalls George Carroll Tells How to Sell those. motorists who aren't even equipped with a spare, while those who carry two brand-new spare cords seldom have a puncture? Tt seems 10 be the way with things, and ratner proves that if you are preparcd lgr what may happen you not only mave and the tires to higher pressures by meking several trips to the tire ‘Dump instead of one, thereby. in- creasing the pressures by degrees Sediment in the cooling sysiem, or any foreign matter such as a piece of ‘cork, rubber or rag, is particular- Automobiles. | The financing of an automobile {agency and the proper methods of selling automobiles was discussed by George Curroll of the General Motops ly to be avoided in cars that are|peace of mind but actually less trou- ‘ - equipped with thermostats? If any- | ble. Acceptance Corporation, at a get-to- unless the lining material is kept in :‘3253{,.!::‘3: mort lodges in the ther- = gether luncheon of the locul and near- df 5 it is Mot in that l may not cir- owns' 5 800d cign':lléc:lwllll: It s ot in that | Cilate to the radiator when the e Motor Car Expense. .Hh_.\ Lowns' suiesmen of the Oldsmobile glne reaches the proper temperature,| Ask the man behind the wheel | O™PANY: Thursday, at the Racquet glossy. Whenever you hear screeching brakes make up your mind those brakes need attention, and unless they have it an accident may be the result. { Cub, Michael J. Keane, president of local Oldsmobile Campany. was toast: thus causing the system to overheat, That the adjustment which permits of changing’ the charging rate of the what is the greatest item of expense to keep'a car on the road and he'll promptly answer. “Gas.” Plumb his 'Once in two months the rear wheels | gonerator is sealed so that if you or [ knowledge a trifle deeper and you'll master. Thomas Brahany 1d_sevs ought to be removed entirely so the |an unauthorized repairer breaks i.[find him confident that the next eral humorous stories, and E. W. brake bands may be washed off |the generator manufacturer's guaran- | Breatest item is tires. Black, manager of the local company. thoroughly with kerosene to remove ac- | te is voided? In both of these almost universal | *POke of the best methods of selling cumulated ofl and grit. That the.riding qualities of a car (u‘nlnlrmf' the car owner is wromng. ‘""“ financing. often can be im| Gas. an res are about equal in e Improved by changink |, i cost to the car operator, con- | the air pressure in the tires? Where cars are not evenly balanced, with greater weight in the front, the front tires should carry more air than the rear ones. This simple plan may also be employed as a means of reducing stituting between 10 and 11 per ce |l of the charges he has to pay to keep | his machine running. Repairs cost him 42 per cent, or| about four times as much as do either tires or gas, and yet he never Ferry Bu“t‘—;rouufiom. Merely setting the emergency brake when taking the car across a rlver by ferry Is not sufficient as- surance that the car will stay in} CORD TIRES CHAS. E. MILLER, INC 812 14th St., ¢ doors Derth of B " "ithe tendency to skid. With the rear i %1::: ‘;/ll::: ![lhe ::rll“dolk:l:’;l‘;;uplelu); tires less inflated and making better | S€MS to be aware of this. And the Size 30x3Y; in. & o ont o ore e v i t the dlstance necessary. to cause a |CLiLS carf has less opportunity to skid a queer bird, is the That gasoline, not kerosene, should be used to clean roller bearings? Gasoline dries quickly and thus does ving_car owner. he Ullman Feature slight collision with the car ahead. The safest plan is to apply the serv- ice brake, in addition to the other precautions, just as the boat docks. At this point it 15 wise to remem- ber to keep your eyes on the floor . of the boat rather than on the back . of the car ahead. Unless you flx' Greater Volume; Lower Prices the eyes on some very near object a slight movement of the machine will not be discernible. Cars have been known to roll off the ends of boats because the drivers did not notice that they were moving until it was too late, Curiosity and Safety. The psychology of New York state’s highway warning signs is in- teresting, instead of saying “danger.” “sharp curve ahead “bridge.” etc. these signs simpls | read “Caution.” This jsn't u very exelting warning efther on paper or | on the sign post. but it exercises the { curiosity. The driver doesn’t know whether he Is coming to a washout or a steam roller. And because he doesn't now he is interested. Be- ing interested he is in doubt. The road may develop nothing in pavticu- lar; yet, on the other hand, he may Sp rapidly has the volume of Nash sales risen throughout the country that our get fooled if he tries to defy the - = . ereiyE upon. e oslerator. - Iis business this year has broken all previous obeys the sign without meaning to. Parkin;l’;inten. the other driver records. of more often it is a question of one's | own interests. Thus the man who | tries to leuve ample space for another car when he has parked | isn't an easy mark who is too con- siderate of others, but a wise driver who knows what 'a mess most driv- ers make of parking and how often ! they rip fenders off cars that are too” near the battle ground i Turning the wheels straight ahead | or In toward the curb when parking or when starting awav from the curb can always be simplified by al- lowing the engine to move the car slightly forward or backward while steering. A lot of unnecessary wear is inflicted on the steering assembly The production economies of increased business have enabled us not only to im- prove upon the known quality of the Nash but also toreduce the price of every model in the line. Now is buying time. Bring your check book and drive your car away. by trying to manipulate the front wheels while the car is not in / motion. Did You Know That— Fours ard Sixes There is such a thing as a happy medium_in the matter of tire infla- tion” Since soft tires make easier riding for both passenger and car. | and since tires are a lesser expen: than car depreciation and repairs. it follows that there is no particular | economy in adhering rigidly to the i pressures recommended by those who are interested in tire economy to the exclusion of the car and riding com- | fort. However, if the tires are kept too low the damage caused by crack- ing the casings and overheating them may be a source of many punc- tures and much annoyance. Fift fifty is the answer. Tire inflation ought to be done in installments rather than all at once? Most drivers will admit that the usual procedure is to let the matter slide until the tires look low and then run them way up to 55 for, cords and 70 for fabrics. or perhaps higher. This makesan abrupt change in the car's riding qualities: rattles and_saueaks suddenly appear. and New Reduced Prices Range from $915 to $21901. o. b. factory NASH HURLEY MOTOR COMPANY Telephone North 8463 GUY MeGLINCY w1 1522 14th St. N CREGG-COMPHER LWL BIRVON MOTOR —_— co. | Hamilton, Va. Clarendon, Va Herndo: VILSON-NASH MOTOR CO. Al | I 0 GLASS MAR-VA-NASH MOTOR.CO. 12 Went Mt. Roval o Baltimore, Md. Baltimere, Md. FOR WINDSHIFLDS OR BODIES. stalled While You Wait. Taranto & Wasman 1017 SEW YORK AVE. . ANNOUNCEMENT To the Automobile Publi In response to insistent inquiry of our Los Angeles Office for KORREKT SIG- NALS. and, notwithstanding we are un- able to supply the ‘demand West of the Rockies, we have shipped an introductors order to Washington and hope to supply Eastern territory from our big new fac- tory N at Chicago. after Aygust 30. Owing to the present limited shipment, however, better KORREKT SI class Automobile firat-class cars, mat NAL is & p Protection 895 SobTiede —ongy payments at? distinctive appearance. furnishing absolute Owerl protection, flashing fts warning in electric Thz lfl'ld letters the turn to the RITE or LEFT or Triplex Springs automaticaliy STOP in the same space on one dial, easily read 130 feet by day or 500 feet by night. No movable parts to get out of order. outlasting your car. Recommended by State and City officials everywhere introduced. Overland sales are 173% ahead of last year. This tremendous increase in the demand for Overland Cars, which is far ahead of the average for the industry. is partially explained by the great superiority of this Overland Sedan. It combines comfort. economy and good looks in a truly remarkable way. L] The secret of the re- Korrekt Signal Incorporated Factory Representative:, J. C. Vining, 1800 K Street N.W. Main 8428 after 4 P.M. Salesman with oar wanted A demonstration car fully equipped b Premier Electrical Company. 1405 14th Btreet N Phone Frankiin 3051, will respond to ‘your request for information and demonstration. It costs you nothing to look it over. Models in German Silver, Nickel and Enamel. . Overland, always a good investment, now the greatest automo- bile value in America listea only the e market offers.| o mot handle Eveg Tire a Strictly In Original Factory Wrappers IZE | "o 30x3 $5.90 30x3% 6.90 31x4 10.95 32x4 1193 33%x4 1247 34%4 1293 R. McReynolds & Sons 1423-25 L. Street N.W. Main 7282 Time Payments Associate Dealers Furnishing Genuine Parts and Giving Service John B. Saunders A. P. Payne D. G. Luckett 3214 Prospect Ave. Clarendon, Va. 410 8th St. S.E Fred M. Haas Overland-Wheeler Co. A. L. Shoemaker 2006 R. I. Ave. N.E. 2415 14th St. NW. Hamilton, Va. 904 Walk Up 8 Open Sungay, Luthh ORE L