Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 1, 1916, Page 52

i S L SR e e e TIRES QUICKLY -Dovers for Extra Tubes Save the Resiliency of the Rubber. LEAVE CASINGS ON SHOE Sunlight is one of the wrost ene- mies of rubber. It rots and destroys tires very quickly, and yet very little atténtion is paid to it by the ordi- nary motorist. A spare tire that has béen carried unprotected on the rear the car for some time will often W out in the course of a few hun- miles, although it may have been w and never used before, he owner of the car will be indig- natit and blame the tire manufacturer -when it is really his fault because he has failed to take the precautions that he should. | Two or three dollars spent for a tire cover will earn that much in a " few months by saving the resiliency of the rubber. There is a great amount of importance in the handling of spare tires, and the subject is worth the study of every one who THE OMAHA _ SUNDAY BEE: O Maxwell Sedan for Comfort owns a motor car and who is anxious |, to operate it at the lowest possible You may have wondered at times the tire companies so carefully wrap the casing in many layers of wound paper. It is a niusance to re- this paper in case a tire has to a changed in a hurry, and very pos- sibly you have felt a shade of annoy- 4nce that you had to hunt around for # knife in order to cut the windings of paper off the tire. Done for a Purpose. ‘cl a matter of fact, that paper has been placed upon the £ x: in order to deliver to you a better ‘ e with more life and with- . oft spots due to rot. manufacturers have made quite jtudy of the best way to carry a 1 It is an odd part that does to belong the the car proper : ore, every effort has been e to ate the extra shoe .the lines of the body. _ At one time it was customary both i country and abroad to cmx éxtra tire on the running board. 'his is the exception now, rather 3 '"ru in this ciountry.u:l'hde Y : _car is maintaine r if th ta?hrmnme rear, this is now almost universal with n-made cars. ~ The foreign her ‘hand, largely ad- the * board position “the tire, and very often there is a in the running board into which tires fit, ~In the rear position it is particularly that the extra tire-carrier . It is very interesting to this' ~uality of rigidity has attained vy the different manu- rs. In some cases the support- ember is almost an integral part e frame, and i8 so solid that the ole car could be lifted by the tire- r without straining it. . fi ‘racing cars, when the 1 h' worked out, it ¢ into consideration the center /of gravity is some- re near the center. of the car, then tires are quite a distance A fl: and exert a .}-utg lev- : e entire car, urn- “¢o at high speed tic dif- née in steering the car is particu- B BROADENS THE US " OF ENCLOSED CAR Light Weight is Solution— Franklin Oar, Marks Great Development in This Line, ALL ITS MODELS ARE LIGHT The great limitation to the use of enclosed cars has always been their weight. It has been generally recog- nized that, were weight of enclosed card to be cut down to a point where expense of operation and the effort of control wére on a basis compara- ble to open cars, their utility would be.so dncreased as to add much to their populatity. . ’ Not more than five years ago the great mll;ority of enclosed cars weighed etween 5000 and pounds. Aniyone would have ¢ ered it purely visionary at this time to have predicted the possibility of the required luxury and convenience being produced in enclosed cars weighing under 3,000 pounds. Even now the heavy weight of the early days is not uncommon, thgugh most engineers have regarded 3.500 pounds as a minimum on which to base en- closed car design, All Cars Light. When the Franklin Automobile company recently made known the weight of its grwu Series 9 types, the fact came out that every one of its enclosed cars weighs under 2,700 pounds, 800" pounds less than what has generally been considered the limit of enclosed car weight; in fact, two of the five types come very close to the 2,500-pound mark.. » This development presages a wider use( for ‘general purposes, such as ‘open country driving and all service, instead of the more ed ci or which) enclos have“come to be rexlrhed. With re- duced weight, it can be expected that gasoline and r&dexgeme will be ac- cordingly ‘less and the pleastre of in- dlvidwa driving improved. ved| Auto Made Good A ) lflflc t. At forty miles \ lgd the effect of the es marked, and hence must be watched in the de- sig room in laying out the bal. One of the mistakes that car own- vyv‘lll‘l make fmuenut{yhilldtol believe ‘the ¢ will hold its pres- 1 ln&mi?ely because it is not in It must be remembered that is porous. If it could be seen der a that would mag- the surface 2,000 times, the ol would be surprised to note that s full of minute holes. These holes o small that the air leaks through slowly. Nevertheless, the leak- is sure, and after a while the e has dropped considerably, e car and gauging es the spare shoes should re- , the same consideration as those h are doing actual service on the wheels. It is not possible to kick the spae c‘hoe. :ond beuul’e“ 'ttlh'eh hard the foot, to assume t| t is pump- | o full pressure. The tire's pres- It l!wufi‘ measured with a ¢. It should also be kept up to mended pressure. There is ing tendency among all car to lower the pressure in thei under the belief that by dolng hey are obtaining more mllelY could be further from tl | n this. iave frequently seen people with - shoes using uxt& pounds pres- in the front and sixty-five pounds rear tires and believing that were doln1 the best possible to obtain long mileage. As a of fact the pressure should eighty in the rear and the front shoes. gign Demand for Chandler Increases demand for Chandler auto- s has increased so greatly dur- last season, says Gus Bolton ‘Omaha Chandler company, that 5. M. Mead, vice president of the company, in charge of ex- " has it necessary to re- oy e il e | & Roads Necessary “Nothing, perhap much .to do with the bexinnin' and the subsequent widespread growth of the good roads movement as the &nenmmc automobile tire,” said F, C. udisell; branch manager o‘f: the Fire- ar plnx. ’ “A decade or more ago country rounds (and remember there was lit- tle if any pavement in the country districts - at that time) continually traveled over by steel-shod wagons and horses were badly cut up into ruts and holes. And during rain has had stone. Tire and Rubber com- 80 horse is really not to be regretted, for who will deny that the rubbet- tired vehicle is far less harmful to road surfaces than the heavy, horse- drawn, steel-shod wagon?” Bee Want A PRISONERS HEAR OVERLAND LECTURE Representative of the Willys- Knight Company Talks at North Dakota Pen. GOVERNOR GIVES CONSENT The inmates of the state peniten- tiary at Bismarck, N. D., are intense 1y interested in the Knight motor as used in Willys-Knight cars. Litera- ture on the motor has been placed in, the prison library and the inmates are now on the official mailing list of the Willys-Overland company. Recently a representative of the Willys-Overland company was sched- uled to address the dedlers and pros- pective buyers in the Bismarck terri- tory on the Knight motor and explain to them its efficiency, economy and durability. Warden Talcott, head of the state penitentiary, has in his charge several inmates who are of a mechanical turn of mind. When he fhieard of the forth€oming Knight mo- tor lecture, he immediately conceived the idea of giving his inmates a new form of entertainment, or, as he ex- pressed it, a “mechanical treat.” After securing the consent of the Qverland representatives to lecture to ;he inmates, the warden took the af- air up with Governor Hanna and permission for giving the address in the state institution was immediately forthcoming. So far as known, it was the first time that an official repre- sentative of an automobile manufac- turing concern had been invited to lec- turé on the merits of his product in a public institution of that nature. CTOBER 1, '1916. Allen Car Wins Big Beauty Contest at Ohio County Fair It has been very unusual for a car under $1,000 to be given first place in the opinion of a large gathering when a general field of cars have been com- pared for beauty of line and fmub.l fair cars were entered in competition for the fayor of the thousands attending the At the Delaware county (Ohioz last week over twenty makes o fair. passed the grandstand. An Allen “Classic,” the product of the Allen Motor company, was award- ed first place. Practically every well known make of car, priced under $1,000, was entered. The Allen “Classic” is a specially finished model, mechanically the same as the standard Allen “37” at $795. The “Classic” is available in three at- tractive and different shades, which have been given the names of “Classic brown,” “Classic blue” and “Classic gray.” Pennsylvania .Tirés Cut Their Prices Today ctions in the prices Cup, Bar Circle and Ebony Tread automg?le tires are announced Substantial re of Vacuum by effective on October 1. - These reductions are in keeping with the company’s policy of giving consumers the benefit of the saving effected by unprecedented demand and increased manufacturing facilities. The announcement states emphati- cally that these new prices will in no way change the known high quality of the tires named. The cars were dirven slowly alonig the race course and, were judged for general appearance, as well as beauty of body design and finish, as they the Peansylvania Rubber company, Saxon Has School For Inspectors Classes for. the inspectors in the various departments of the Saxon Mo- tor Car corporation have been started to make certain that every one of the seventy men who ‘are employed. to check up on the other workmen under- stands a Saxon motor car down to e last nut and lock pin. The first class was held last Sun- day morning in the service départment and was presided over by R. O. Gill, roduction manager, and R. E. Davis, ? ctory superintendent. A Six and 2203 Farnam St. Four chassis were turned on their sides, exposing the innermost parts, and Mr. Davis and Mr, Gill then went over each machine, pointing out every art in them and explaining care- ully the particular business of each. All of the inspectors took notes during the meeting and discussed 'dll_- ferent points of the cars’ constructior. More meetings will be held in the future, the idea being to make the in- spectors so familiar with the car that the percentage of errors in asse_mbly. which is now only a minute figure, shall be reduced to zero. —_— Persistent Advertising is the Road to Success. There are a lot of * things you ought to know about the elec- trical system on your . motor car. We'll give > you a booklet full of valuable suggestions. Nebraska Storage Battery Co., Omaha. Phone D. 5102. Free inwpection of any battery af any time Omaha Auto Supply Co. WE CARRY ALL THE LATEST AND | BEST AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES weather road conditions were mncfi d ! passage over the highways was possible onl by means of great effort and conse- quent irritation on- the part of the traveler, “With the coming of the automo- bile and its peumatic tires, however, the question of better roads immed- iately ‘asserted itself. Pleasure being the chief asset required of the auto- mobile, the owner _ thereof demanded \good roads over which to travel in his new ‘“horseless carriage.” Almost immediately. road conditions began to improve, little by little, with the re- sult that in a few years’ time the 0od roads movement was launched n nearly every state. “Payements of brick or asphalt and macadamized highways were built in proporition as the number of auto- mobiles increased. As soon as auto- mobiles were introduced into a com- munity the residents began the im- provement of road conditions as a matter of course. “The threatened extinction of the [ FOR AUTCMOBIES oN Panhard Oil is the only oil that will not carbonize in the cylinders, R Panhard Ol in the only oll that ricating qualities at all_temperatures. Lat us discuss this oll question wit u d Erad Doit (bed o, ROWELL SUPPLY COMPANY OMAHA Safety First Rives Adjustable Never Slip Pedal Pads . For All Cars, $1.00 Per Set. 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