Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1915, Page 10

OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 2, 1915. N LA ifll i I | | b 1 AMERICAN CARS IN DEMAND Foreign Orders Pouring in and Lon- don Life Praises Machines Made in This Country. o MACHINES SELL ON MERITS The gmreat development of American motor car trade abroad is epitomised by the automobile expert of London Life, an English publication, He points out that the wonderful utility of the moderate- prided American cars, combined with the fact that practically no cars are being bulit abroad for other than military pur- poses, leaves the entire civilized world an open field for American manufacturers. “As though we had not already plenty to make onr flesh creep, there is another in the technical weeklies,” as- m writer. “A number of otherwise t folk mssert that for a Briton to buy an ‘Ameriean car is for him wrongly 10 subvert his patriotism to his considera- tion for his pocket. They. argue that returned from & trip around the world, | cccldental words. brought back & wonderful story of & tiger hunt, with the sultan of Jahors, to WHich |~ ey, number of surprises. sultan’s head huntsman was announced §i policeman’s size,, He greeted me with a | jungle on a tiger hunt'” BALL PLAYERS INVADE PAIGE-DETROIT PLANT §%'i§ : ‘. 5 i ‘ggi !{i H i “Whereupon he conducted me out to he was driven part way in a Btudebaker | the car owned by rovaity, a Studebaker. automobile. What s more, he brought | You know how pleased ‘you are to meet back pictures to prove it. Although & |anyone from your own country when in " humorist, Mr. Croy found tiger hunting (a forelgn land. Well, that was the wayi | V& Portsmoith, O. no joking matterbut it did afford him & |felt about that Studebaker. I grestea it | rontom. O. Frankfort and Lexington, like & long-lost friend from Detroit. But | X7 “Naturally, I expected a royal elephant | a Studebaker {s never lonesome for its to come for me just lke they do in |kind In the far east. More Studebakers novels. On the day 1 was to start the [are sold there than any other car. While 1 had socen many before and have seen He carried a cotton American umbrelia | many since, I was surprised to find that for a wunshade and wore American shoes, | a Studebaker was to convey me to the PNEUMATIC TRUCK TIRES SELL UNDER A GUARANTEE R. 8 Wilson, manager service depart- ment The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., men all over the country in connec- ith the giant pneumatio tires Beo- K L) - Oldfield Enters German Car in Big Indianapolis Race America’s hopes of capturing the next Indianapolis 50-mile race have been materially strengthensd ns the result of Barney Oldfied’s entry In that contest at the wheel of a Bugatti! Baney was the twenty-third to register, his contract | being deposited by. Charles W. Fuller. } It Olafield can only keep the pace he has been sotting the present season, he looks like a sure enough bX-mile race favorite. His purses to date excel those of any other driver, not even excepting | D. Resta, the Vanderbilt and grand prize winner. Two consecutive tirsts at Venice and Tygson are among his latest achlevements. Barney's car, though new to this coun- try, has aiready satistied the veteran it has the stuff. It ls » German car of placement up to the 300-inch limit pre- scribed by the speedway management. Empty, it tips the scales at 1,80 pounds. With Barney in the seal, of course, it will welgh & ljttle more; however it is sald to have eMough reserve strength to Homer Croy, the humorist, who recently |truly orlental salaam and astonisMingly |carry the entire Oldfield clan, “Sahib,’ he orated, ‘the automebile 1s | BUSTED OHIO STATE LOOP ENTERS RACE ONCE MORE /| The Ohlo Btate league has reorganized, extremely light weight and piston dis-| embracing the territory of Charleston, W. | Chillicothe, O, | NOW IN HIS NINTH YEAR ON AUTOMOBILE ROW. i HENRY NYGAARD, AUTOMOBILE TIRES ARE SCIENTIFICALLY BUILT The rapid strides that have been made |in the automobile during the last few years have been apparent and marveled &t by the entire world. There never has | besn an industry that has progressed in | niagnitnde and probable perfection as "@a 0= materials. We have learned that the tread requires a different kind of rubber than {s used in the carcass—pliable, but toughgned to withstand the greatest pos« sible “wear. It has Been found that the tire giving| the greatest wear and longest mileage with the least trouble is not a tire made | with a tread so large and heavy that it | 00n loosens from the fabric. No mattor how much rubber is put into the tread, if rapidly as the business of manufaoturing | gaiarates from the fabric before it is motor cars. | Tt is not as generally-kKnOWRn, | yworn out the tire is useless. Nowadays however, that there has been an almost | troads are made of the correct body and parallel amazing development in ANy |tnickness to wear as long as the fabrio of the parts and accessories-of equipment. The automobile tire is an excellent {llus- | the grealest possible mileage. underneath and this construction glves It the tration, To all outward appearances it ia | tread is made too heavy it will break the exactly the same in every way as it was |fabric. The tread and the fabrio must years ago. many radical changes have been made In thelr construction. Some very enlightening along this lige is gathéred from the fol- lowing remarks made by H. A. Githens, | oericial information | | two years ago, or five years go, or ten |be perfectly balanced so that neither one As & matter of fact, however, |is too strong ncr too light for the other.” |WILL OBJECT TO CALLING RACE ROADS SPEEDWAYS of the +Indianapolls Motor vice president and sales manager of the | gocaqway will have something to say if, Federal Rubber Manufacturing company, | s recent propoeal to brand as speedways Milwaukee all road racing courses less than elght, “When one considers tho manner in |miles long ever comes befpre the Ameri- which automobile tires are constructed |can Automobile association for official today and the way they were when the | action. A speedway, say the Hooslers, automobile first came into existence, it |can only be a fully enclosed course like is easy to realize why the tire of today |their own. A road is a road, no matter s so perfect. “The first automobile tires were prao- | tically nothing more or less than bicycle tires bullt on a larger scale. Sinoce that time, however, many things have been accomplished that were not then known or understood. Today the tires made by most manufacturers are virtually sclen- tific in the correctness of their design | President of the Omaha Tire Repair Co. | ®nd the quality and proportion of their | AUTO | what you eall it. DRIVE 37 SAVE HALF. fhe COS | ofaNEW | FROM FACTORY TO USER $6.80.$7.70,312.75 U SAVE HALF ON SEAT COVERS T00. WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES TODAY. SPEOALTY PACTORY, 1008 Spriag St ON'TL G Which of these three Motor Car Dollars EH P 3aR48 i and the tread is the same t it 1s thicker, so in i £ f 't ] | »5 H £ care and material and workmanship that enter our tires for *cuun oars, plus a big allowance for the heavier weights to s i1 % (1 be carried and the greater strains to be endured. “Pneumatio truck tires are sold under i 5§ g 2 MGES 9 our regular guarantee. They must have “ mla “Ry reasonable care, of course, to Insure { ars adequato mileage—and proper inflation APOLIS, Apll M—Alert | wint is as important to thels longevity as in winning French @river n | w0 any other type of pneumatic.” the last two Indianapolis 800-mile races. | will one Would Score Ron An castern expert urges tabulating mental errors of ball play- ers and w ing their “brain play” in champlonship gares. b oo RN Weltsel Kills Selt, Jacob L. Weltsel, who has been promi- nent in Tri-State league affairs for a number of years as club backer and man- ager, committed sulcide in Reading. 2 ! i i 'H', - What Is the Life of a Motor? This is the question very frequently asked and we intend to give the people of . Omaha a definite idea of the wear of a Maxwell Car. We know approximately the actual life of this sturdy Maxwell Car. We want you to know it for yourself. Beginning yesterday a 1914 Maxwell mo- tor used in a car owned by the Nebraska Cycle Co., which has been running under all conditions of road and weather for over ten thousand miles will be disassem- = bled in the windows of the Beaton Drug . Co, 15th and Farnam Streets, every day for one week. Come and see for yourself its actual con- - dition. FRANCIS-CULLIS AUTO CO. ~ Maxzwell W 2024 Farnam Street. - b et S i) £ P b It used to be 960 miles from Chicago to New Saving on gasoline and oil may be saving at York. chithfi)n;wm themwmnwtutbm{'rbmhole. . How rapidly we shift—and better—how rapidly Between cars—there few Motor cars have been in turn measured by but parts and repairs cost to beat the band. appearance, design, construction, price, POWer. Good tires are all adjusted to your car and sold Nwflmfihppmmwwdlmw ona mileage basis. h'::emmu g e g b e B i b b r-wise man vy up ‘on coun now measures is st of spheep. without danger or big repair light enough to be reasonably of gas and oil. You can get upkeep cost downto nearly noth- ina—-butnfi‘teitfyouget what you demand from a motor car. . Someone asked Abraham Lincoln how long a man’s legs ought to be. The Chalmers Bne for 1915 consists of 3 “About to reach from his body to “Economical Sixes;” the New Six40 at $1400; the the ground, I should say,” replied Mr. Lincoln. %&x—«&usmmmm&x&n And a motor car needs enough o carry its necessary weight—no more—no Come in and look them over. - STEWART-TOOZER MOTOR COMPANY 2048-52 Farnam Street, Omaha P \