The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 22, 1919, Page 7

¥ 11g Ss Opened by Returning Sold One Hundred Thousand Home-Coming Soldier-Chauffeurs Will Put Tre- mendous Impetus Behind the High- way Development Movement ‘This article, by Capt, Bullock, is the first of a series which will Fun weekly in The Star automobile section. Next week his story will deal with the subject, “Dispatching Trucks for Short Hauls.” By WARREN B. BULLOCK Late Captain, Motor Transport Corps, U. S. A. Highway transport is the name of the new epoch in the automotive industry. The motor truck has come into its own, as a result of war, and the greatest single development of the motor try has marked the comparatively few weeks since the War was ended. ,__ And back from the American army of soldiers is com- @ new army of highly trained motor vehicle men, chauf- repair men, executives, a hundred thousand and more Not a single state in the Union will fail to feel the Be New Epoch ier Drivers SIMPLE RULES ON SOLVING YOUR SQUEAKS—THEY’RE VERY ANNOYIN A mqueak ts one of the most which a car is subject. Usually it 1 they just be Jack up the springs, Pry the leaves apart thin blade, as most of the squeal This treatment usually stops the ne annoying and elusive troubles to jovated in the springs, and #0 frame, taking the load off the Apply graphite grease with a come at the Ups of the springs: A device on the market to spre trouble of Jacking up the wheels. T aince it works on the screw and wedge principle leaves as far apart as may be necessary leaves apart saves the process easier, and separates the makes th Of course, the apring clips holding toget must be removed, On some folded around two mo while cult to put oll between them the springs it in red-hot ends of the leaves a plece of al is This makes it diffi A useful trick in to put the graphite grease set It over a hot flame, When meited, the the leaves, expecially the part close to the the axle, in an olf can and ine in injected between site that holds them to But squeaks do not always come fro: ing enough time on them radiator, body and fra force a graphite compound This usually does the work springs, After spend « places of hood and with lgun, and pressure between them KO over mudguards, et under high un THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, MARCH - { | | 4 1919. Seattle Exhibition, as Well as in Other Citles, Gives Impetus Business BY C. H. SHIELDS (President Shields Livengood : Company.) Gone. It was expected that the moter — car business would experience @ fe vival with the coming of the months, but very few of the 4 in it antielpated any de of business as wine by the automobile show, is The business done during and lowing the automobile shows: over the country, has been enal. Reports sent to the factory distributors of the Liberty Car company, indicate @ that established new precedents, indeed would have been o | remarkable by any manufacturer fi the most prosperous former seasons In 14 automobile shows, held @ various points, nine Liberty distr utors reported the sale of every ef in stock. At San Francisco, ule ville and Detroit the dealers sold a the cars they had and rushed to the factory for more, “ in stock sold and prospects to well twice as many more,” 2s | the Newark, N. J., distributor, Ne from other cities, including St, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Cl and Portland, in every case evidence of the same sort of varying big business, a pe yee rill of a new life in its highway development with the re-| n of these disciplined—oftentimes battle-scarred—chauf- oldiers. of suppites, to convoy troops under | port fire along the front of the flighting | Dr armies, and these are the men who | »p are coming back to make highway transport the biggest thing in the American transportation world When America entered the the entire army was only about 100. 000 men, When the war ended, there were nearly twice that number in the motor transport corps alone At first the men for this ¢ taken from garages, from taxi companies, taken wherever system In Amer ke called together educator jalivts in motor transportath 1 prepared for the establishmen’ training schools for officers and men. On the other side, such schools were being ¢ for men al ready with the A wonderful ret ked The show simply made The public began to buy the day of the show, and ts still In the latter part of October, our patrons, a very well-todo Wi an, was asked if she did not to buy another car. She think of it, she said, because seem right to ride around in” urious new car during such the two and a balf|riple period. She had @ A. F. Meyers Was | prance, and she wanted to won the trip and $150) money for other purposes —for # thing that would help the a That woman bought the car lutely without solicitation « show. Her boy was home Other boys were home. One look into the future with some | of what toexpect. The bige the course of events stim to buy, but it was the show 1 actually caused her to sign the @ because it indicated to her that ness had been resumed on @ scale and that it was time “It is great to feel sure of your|to place her order. We took ce. We shall be very glad to see|battery and the U-S-L battery 1s/ right and left. and the buying our friends at 1621 12th ave., and|equal to every demand,” says Rod-| is still running strong—in f later to greet them in our new)ney Prentice of the Sunset Electric| are having the most unusual rooms, wherever we ever had. We have with us today « la photograph, H. P. Grant (lef), A. F. Meyers (center), and T. W. Frost (right), who left Thursday night for a four-week trip to the Chandler and Maxwell factories, President Grant, of the Seattle Automob y. mot together with O, W. Harris, sales manager, some two and a half months ago, and framed @ conter the salesmen, with prizes big enough to make every mother’s son of the sales force itretoh themeelves to the absolute limit ‘The prizes are now being distributed, and Meyers and Frost, duly chaperoned by Grant, are rolling towards | the ef KE to see what makes the wheels go ‘round in the big Maxwell and Chandler establishments at Detroit and eveland, respectively q W. Frost specializes in Maxwells, and turned in a sales report of $40,460 for “1. He won the chief prize of an Bastern factory trip and $200 expenses. neck and neck in the *, but came in a good second, with a report of $35,470. He xpenses to cover incidentals. Mr. Grant makes the trip for the eapectal reason of getting more cars into his territory, and will be accom- panied by Arron Reese, his dealer at Cle Elum. ‘NEW HOME FOR WICKS Rush of Business Necesaltates Larger Quarters for One of the Oldest Dealers motor truck, with its unlimit-|the war has demonstrated the truck ‘Opportunities for short distance |as a carrier for long and short dis | Jong hauls, has been a demon-|tances, in huge fleets, as a rival of success by Uncie Sam on a/the rail transportation, a dangerous never before possible for any|rival for short haul work. Manufacturer, or even any of manufacturers. | Motor transport corps of the States army operated a grand &@ Meet of 75,000, and more, & alone, in groups of thousands, | §m smaller units, and as single vehi- for miscellaneous delivery. _ With the end of the war there is @ Fevolution in the personne! of the industry. The war, with ing down of many phases of | war inducted ddule of education = with a vehicle school at Camp Jos, EB. Johnston, Fila,, and an administrative school at Camp Meigs, Washington, D. C., half a dozen sectional and a there | Chautauqua circuit spread th were men to be found who knew ° wpel of standardized motor trans of ebte he supply of a) Se. — vertation into the cantonmente. trained chauffeurs who ¢ d enter the army was e rt of the standardization of the Amer jean methods with those of the needa. ‘Then the American univers |), [pooat witht tles came into the field. Among the) “ ane page eye apart | worked out h a fleet of about business life. has in the| first was Purdue university at Val-| yotKed ov te Me a | h GRd opened the field to a per-/Manner in which the country was|opened there. Various technical mo-| 110 jines of the French transport never before realized. searched for fit men for motor trans-|tor schools, as at Kansas City and] (ii ..0m Of (ie Bienen tunapert. human and mechanical ele-| port service. The universities, the| Pittsburgh, threw their resources io. ‘then at Verdun, and finality | are both affected by this revo- farms, the oil fields, the cities, alike, into training men for the service.) i. in. great rush which broke the! When the United States|were canvassed for volunteers for|and when the armistice came there/ 1.4 stand of the Germans and caused Into the war, it was with the this service. Rich men's sons were| were nine great centers for prelim : | their abject acceptance of th tie truck as an innovation, hard- educated with the boys of the poor,|!nary training of men for this corps) {/elr abject acceptance of the armim wan we out In the human side of the revolu:| tion, is the return to the industry of men trained in the broad field o! the motor truck as seen in the war & veritable army of trained aute bile experts coming back to ope: trucks, and garages, men who really lnow the machine they drive as no one in ordinary civil life can come| to know the heart ond soul of his! vehicie One of the greatest things in Amer- schools. to ! Franklin line will be housed in a ripaiae' tes, wit we meet 8S CREAT class, and the position it occupies in | TO BE SURE” motordom “Our business has grown to such | an extent that new quarters are an | Free Service on Batteries Is Boon to | absolute necessity, but the prosper) Drivers, and Relleves Many a) ity of Seattle's automobile row} Worry. makes it hard to select the exact location required at a moment's no- | Among the many announcements from auto row comes the news that the Franklin Wicks are giving up their quarters at 1401 company be | compan: beyond the experimental field, and then sent across to drive trucks | ready for establishment west of the @ military standpoint. Today | hundreds of miles with big cargoes j, THE UNIVERSAL CAQ Ford cars are more useful today than ever before; a necessity in village, town, nd the ndred tho’ Iiscionippt alone And the hundred thousand Amer fean trained soldier chauffeurs cém |, Meanwhile, the training progres®-| ing back to enter, thousands of them. ing in some 30 cantonments and ihe new field of highway transport jarmy camps was being standardized | wore thus being welded together in by the motor transport corps head | tne standardized methods of handlin: jauarters at Washington, where Brig.| trucks in great fleets an used by the Gen. Charles B. Drake had been french, British and named as chief of the corps. On| armies. |the other side, Col. Pope, one of the the truck movement in the army learly advocates of extensive motor military transportation, like Gen Drake, was operating the motor feet on the lines of the French trans f 1917 on the Aisne, there were over it ence no delay Joan be said that in the British offen-jin securing the pers How these men were trained ts an-| other story. their share in AMATEURS AND ACIDS the prowperity They are back, to get|the press at present,’” and| Wicks, 12th ave.. and during the period be fore their new permanent location is announced will be at home at 12th ave. where space has been leased from the Bardshar Motor company At the temporary location Frank American| lin owners will find the same serv To appreciate the volume of | ice policy in force, and wilt expert in securing part al attention pklin Wick or which has made the Fr 5,000 trucks in a single forme, | company’s name one to conjure with tion. among automobile owners. “We cannot give out our plans to said W. A president the company HARD ON BATTERIES procress to be found in the motor| “but hope to be able to make a defi Matec-ail talk tea ate bat. |tfuck operation field tery unless you have been advined to do #0 by an experienced battery ["Un# but a single vehicle. |man. If the solution is weak it; (Copyright, 1919, by Warren B. for large feet nite announcement tn from 30 to 60 owners, as well ax for the man who| days Whatever our location may the) be, you can rest assured that they may Bought and Sold at Market Rates The Seattle National Bank Bend Departmeat Second Ave, and Columbia St. at 1507-911 Broadway. “*Power when you need it’ is the |U-8-L slogan. The storage battery is subjected to more abuse than any | factory organization's ability part of the automobile equipment. | sume production on a big scale, The car owner does not concern him-| having been on a war basis, elf about the inner workings of his | the present time we have battery until it refuses to work. to supply cars to our buyers “A storage battery must be at-|ly. But with the constant tended to regularly. Any U-S-L serv-| the demand for this car, there i ice station will add distilled water| certainty that such a happy 68 to your battery and take hydrometer | tion will continue indefinitely, readings of your cells. This service | would certainly be to the in is absolutely free to battery owners.| anyone who proposes to buy a] “The U. 8, Light & Heat Corpora-| erty Six to place an early tion of Niagara Falls, N. Y., are dis tributing, free of charge, upon re. RAYMOND MILL RAYMOND, March quest, a booklet on the care of bat- teries, called the lack Mystery ‘4 Box Explained,’ says Mr. Prentice, |$75.000 and $100,000 damage ~ done by the fire which dest 8. Coats shingle mill here Altho the continuous ine sales has been a severe test Of f URNS and he advises every battery owner to apply for one. city and country; the utility of farmer, | ba Bullock) ‘merchant, “manufacturer, architect, en- Masaas apa the soceny noone staan | _ ie gineer, contraption, bse doctor, al perhaoagiag sulphate the #FULL LINE clergyman; a profitable factor in the life | _ The only reason for nding neta ts OF ROAMERS of the mations, Runabout, $500; aouring ro wD ne tome 9 Feige Car, $525; One-ton Truck Chassis, $550; has been spilled. you may put, in iste teses Gad Ginoell Schl: owe . io = ih, bi ia | nd quantity. Please give us your order at once as first come will get first delivery **The Sensible Six’’ | with distilied water and take the| battery to a service station. Keep a careful watch on the strength of the electrolyte to prevent rts cee or Creat -— nefe | son, manager, Roamer distributors | | figure, as it canmot freeze, but a div | charged battery will freeze a few de. |'" Seattle and adjacent territory, grees below the freezing point of | are now in position to show a full water, as the electrolyte is but little | line of these very attractive auto- stronger than pure water. | mobiles. Word has been received A frequent trouble is corrosion of | trom the Barley Motor Car com the battery terminals, due to acid) jiny, manufacturers, that the Kala-| climbing up the post and attacking | soo plant is prepared to 60 on it. This will soon stop the current) 041) production again, following the flowing, so it must be cleaned | curtailment necessitated by the > Bipethony terminals covered with | creat war. It is hoped to attain : | maximum output inside 30 days’ 1, A slow leak from the battery Jar| ine and then 150 cars & month |is a serious trouble that cannot be | time, and then & ' ous refinements that are certain to ticed do not ry, to. repnde te 89 ¥e '*| appeal to the particular owner, the a Se Roamer line is unchanged. The |wame graceful lines are maintained and the policy of having each car | built to order is still in vogue. | The popularity of the Roamer cars has increased to such an ex tent that the manufacturers have |found it advisable to install a body tment in their plant for the manufacture of special jobs. This department is fully equipped and jeapable of turning out the highest | class work. | The Roamer for 1919 will be turn. lished with either the Deusenberg four-cylinder motor, or the Conti nental “six.” In both instances | they are power plants of the high est type. The Deusenberg is sulta- | ble for any speed from five to 80 miles an hour on high, while the speed of the Continental ranges from two to 60 miles an hour. ‘The equipment is unusually com. plete and satisfying. Wire wheels are used exclusively, five wheels, | with cord tires, being standard | equipment | In addition to the standard four, | six and seven passenger touring models and the roadster, the Roam er can be furnished in any type of closed car desired. There is an ever increasing demand for town cars, touring and standard sedans, coupes, | Mmousines and cabriolets of this make, \ The United Motors company, Pine | st. and Bellevue ave., A. F. Hawkin IS THE TIME TO BUY SS ee a Get your Oakland right away! The fine days will soon be with us, and the week-end trips which you have been planning these last three months are almost a reality. Get a sensible car. That means Oakland to wise motorists. Watch the Oaklands running around Seattle, and notice that they are always RUNNING. There is no other car of equal merit in the Oakland class. The price is right, and is based on quantity production. It is a quality car at a price for sensible people. Come up and look over the Oakland line while you can get an assurance of delivery. By and by will be too late. THE CHOICE OF RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE People are buying now with years ahead in view. They know they can put implicit confidence in Lexington cars and in the policy of the institution behind them. This new Lexington is a fine running, fine looking car of proven value. Omega for Oil ‘Swellings & Rab Omega Oil gently over the place that harts. Then ek . of ‘based with the Oil, lay it on ¢ Bainfal part amd cover with dey fa is simple treatment usually gives quick relief, It is vested with every convenience and comfort, so that it’s complete durability is on a par with its remarkable ability. Shields-Livengood Motor Co.. The All-American House [LIBERTY] [LEXINGTON | Seattle, U. S. A. Phone Ea st 100—101. Yakima, Wash. 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