Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 111

'I‘TTT SUNDAY STAR. WASHWINGTON, D. C, | the more 1 ing that mtljm repair work is less of a menace to the « t who are in demand ards This year's show £ lent illustration of tb in const d design, motorist w : plays with t ertain to return Conduct of Nation’s Biggest Business Merits Public Confidence. automobile industry in this is visioned Ly 1. J. Reuter, t of the Olds Motor Works, as propor- ely m{u eyer before in " s " Px y by, ki J 5 R . Hns Stutz 5-passenger Brougham with safety chassls. Locomobile “90” Suburban i-passenger Sedan. s ,,,“'f’:‘;i‘,‘ffi‘.,PE FECT AUTO ARRIVES fare found on the higner-priced cars. | cannot he relied upon to nt in 50 com lemetncy e vices yhitie other makesiot jlaayices hzppen to offer efliciency with i ted o . T A QL 5 [ T8 ve : \S hVLRY Ab I‘L lb Conveniently Located however, have (Ix"}' are en on 10\\ B0 vears' i on Fourteenth Street while it is true that a large majority Such cars are bullt for the owner who | pletely with the servi Sitar lonhy it = is willing to co-operate with the s cactaln’ Improvements imust be | ment. Als cleuners, MET |ice stations in the interests of keep- ated, for they would be actual | presented an exception to the rule and s high priced ca ing the high-grade equipmeni in first [ hirdrances under the circumstance typical of the sort of improve. | Visitors to this ow will find closs order. On the other h-nd, if the | This explains why the year finds |ment that tends to become general | antomatic chassis lubrication, oll rec car is to be built for ownership that ars using motor and chassis |because of a double wpp hese | tifiers and other el 1333-37 14th St. Main 5780 t has been held in the high exard by the publ sulation of co its, und kin a rap been ) ! m- solidly favors the automobtle and has gi Lhearted confidenc those r this idition undouht hoth temotive in- nd the publ the for the o r manner. m, but with du to the publi " it broad vision in | n recognizinz r success E ~onfidence ntary when olesale value of o In indust Huge Amount Invested. “Approximately one and three-quar- 1 e invested in the \cturing business, \nd salary bud- ililon dollars. sons directly in the busi- Bisent gapy Denve New Or- o and Pittsburgh, reaching these stunendous | at for s. both private have been made. One st private fortunes in the world 1= the d result of the auto- motive industry. It is doubtful if an equally wealthy Individual ever has occupled a similar place in m: proval, and it is likely that one »r this condition is the exceptionally h standing the industry always held spirit of co-operation has the motor vehicle manufac- r ness from its inception More than a quarter of a century ago sbiles were considered the idle rich, the manu- a > of improving ¢ automobile fac- for _inspection. has_been taken we of tHe manufac- there bave been no therefore, no resulting fll inuficturers have always close relation to costs. & economy has Leen reflected in - retall charge. Tiven Q o perio when it} was impass! Lur? enough automobiles to \ demand, thgre was no move to take advantag I these conditic tive indus- raisin “With such 10 question rej contribution of t wdvancement of th (Continued from I | tion that one type of wheel, or brake, or engine, would suit everybody. It <0 happens that a majority of the | models thix year will be equipped with | wood wheels, but this should not be trued as an indication of the pass- of the disc wheel. Nor should | motorists agree with u manufac | ¢ refers snsable. The truly indispensable feature in all car design is nized now as indi- | viduality. When cars cease to be in- | dividual’ they will cease to please ody. Then {t will be folly to about the perfect car. | With this thought in view, it is with @ much easier mind that the | motorist Inspects the new models for | H not feel puzzled be i c: shown with cantilever springs while a majority have s of the semi-elliptic type. He t try to figure out whether he { should fa 1 modern ids { not seem to have the misinformed modern. He studies the various trends, and winds up by buying the car that best meets his particular re- quirements for today as well as for several years to come. That is the perfect ci far as it is humanly ible to achieve it. Many trends that look to be ultra- modern _today may not be popular at all in the future. They will not be discarded _altogether because experi- Iways is room feature that | s some one. The straigh ight ‘ngine is an extremely popular de- because there happens to be » percentage of motorists who eight-cylinder performance with simplicity The V-eight has lost ground in point of number of makes, there being fiv cars so powered as nowered by straight-eight engines, but | ‘t has not lost ground with the people who want V-eight performance. The ame applies to the relutionship now ‘xisting between sixes and fours with he exception that the four is selected ee of economy and simplicity. Because there is a tendency to for- | get that automobiles zned and built for individuals, 1 i stock model of car o -nds are | exaggerated and much imitation de- velops. It is now generally under- stood by those close to the industry that there are already (00 many | straight-eights and too many. s Too much imitation carries a risk, for what is good for the ather fellow is 00d for him, they are temnted ta buy s that do not meet their own in- | dividual demands. Cars thus acquired |are the ones that fall short of per- fection, regardless of whether they have valves in the head, valves in the side. sleeve valves or rotary valves. Because the matter of individuality !is not clearly understood car trends seem to run in cycles. The impres- sion s held that old-fas sign becomes popular n after bLeing carded, whereas in truth the manu facturers must return to those things | which their own following demands. ns why one manufacturer eights and s vear offering @ four-cyli well. Two prominent nmmxfuun«n fhave discontinued their fours, and LeBaron . not so much because of ts in-| ainst fourteen | S| Of 8 if motorists are led to believe that! of their following now prefer sixes and_eights, those who still prefer medium size fours were left without an adequate supply. If these people coull not buy a zood four cylinder automobile, the modern motor car would still be for from perfection in their estimation. 1t would not surprise any one to see the balloon tire s numerous on cars at some future automobile show. At present, it looks like a landslide in favor of the low pressure tire, but it is well to remember that the aver- age motorist includes this type of tir in his specifications for the perfect car largely because of the prevalence of light cars and the rough condition of so large a percentage of the paved milea What would happen if a ¢ were found to keep good roads oth? Already several cars are equipped with rubber shackles which do some of the work now left to the tires cords. The indic 1 is one of gr recog nition for the fact that perfect cars must be cars that meet individual re. quirements. One of the biggest and finest does not use balloons because it rides well enough without them. Just beca e six-ply tires happen to be on a majority of cars does not mean that the four-ply is doomed. Many will | prefer the latter because it can pro- vide the greatest mmount of cushion- |ing with the least strain. It is also well to remember thut the perfect |automobile to a large number of | peoj is still the _car cquipped with | nar: width cords eeing the v from a broad pgle one is not likely to be confused by the shifts in wheel bases this year, well as in the in engine zes. Observe who ever are on the ert for evidences of the present-day mples of tomorrow’s trends were | certain that the 1926 show would re- | veal a large group of midget cars with ler engines than r before. ere was just such a trend last year, t many overlooked the fact that while there is a definite place for the car with the small but highly nt engine there can be no per- s the man who desires a {larger car can find what he is seeking. Just at present, it is possible that the wing back to r cars is a bit too rupt and somewhat out of line with | the needs of the times, | Wide Variation Shown. jodels of Amefican cars, mnting only chassis modéls, there ¢ 46 with wheel bases of 120 inches |and over. Wheel bases of 130 inches or over are found on 16. The racing engines now being designed for the future racing will be limited to a pis- Iwn displacement of only 911; inches, vet 63 out of 85 engines of American cars have displucements of 200 cubic inches or over. There are 12 engines ith displacements of 300 and over, while 4 have displacements of 400 cubic inches or over. It is not confusion that marks such 'dmmem‘\\ in construction, but variety. s variety is based upon demand. his, cours the automotive { enzinee ven rather free rein be- | cause, whil vn niotorist knows what s {he wants, he is not in a position to | specify the correct ingredients. This ‘l.\]lldl[l\ why some of the most intri- :ate and delicate d gns or equipments Stearns-Knight, model “95” New Sport Sedan. Motor cars have done many remark- able things, but no motor car and no driver ever approached the record recently established by L. B. Miller, San Francisco business man, driving his own Wills Sainte Claire Six Roadster. Miller dashed from New York to San Francisco—3423 miles in exactly 102 hours and 45 minutes. Note particularly—this was the total clapsed time for the entire trip, and not merely running time on which other widely heralded transcontinen- tal trips have been figured. It breaks all other records for total elapsed time over the same distance by 7 hours, 44 minutes. Fastest time ever made by a man in an automobile across the American Continent! And it was not a factory demonstration or driven by a racing driver but made by a business man driving his own car. He crossed the continent within 6 hours of the fastest train schedule! And the amazing fact is this: Not a single, solitary mechanical adjustment of any kind during the entire trip! Mud, mountains, ruts, rocks, hot desert sand—all encountered and conquered at this tremendous speed! Engine under full power, night and day, for four and a quarter days! That is dependability! That is power and speed and everything else thata great motor car should have! And all so beautifully made, so rak- ishly designed and smartlyappointed! See these remarkable new Sixes at the Automobile Show—and ask for a copy of “The Flight of the Gray Goose,” a complete and thrilling account of the trip by the maa who owned and drove the car. Space 23 at the Show WARRINGTON MOTOR CAR COMPANY Established 1912 1727 Connecticut Avenue North 9860 Branch, Richmond, Va. WILLS SAINTE CLAIRE