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ay : PAGE 10 THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1919. /Army Transport Expert Urges Better's ubrication Methods for Auto Trucks j kK Problem of Keeping Trucks in Regular’ (ory ier poe pil Service Faces Every Operator, and! ee Oils and Grease Play Important Role in Keeping Them Out of Repair Shop i 300,000 Persons Who Value a Dollar Drive a Maxwell sual Next Week Captain Bullock Takes Up One of the Moxt tures in the Ope ‘ Topic clency Bonuses to Motor BY WARREN 8. BULLOCK (Formerly Captain, Me Pransport Corps, 0.8. A) rhe Star) NE reason—and the main one—why persons change from one car to another after a year’s use is this: the cost is too much to keep it running. peter nord A Maxwell possesses the prized virtue of staying out of the repair shop and running and running and running. is why: es ache 0 mile Other of commercial vehick hould be cleaned at ingle truck is operated |for the owner to keep lone personal supervision work of the driver, but wh nible To lowe a truck frorr | , and the manufa book 1 give the needed ndations on this ut 1 of 1,000 mites, fill the | th ofl, a partially fluid ra not grease, and every Raw materials are purchased in large quantities and for cash Economy No. 1. There are no engineering knic’-knacks in a Maxwell. Economy No. 2, une of repair work m of cold ¢ If a truck a day in returns, every 4 000 oF 6,000 miles, asx recommended he shop means just th t afi aie : The road engineer who spends 12 months a year testing Maxwell © own a doren tr . e “ rer, clean the fo ie crane, 2 & ferential thoroly cars for weaknesses, and who has driven a motor car further than any Pthe songs of the returning company has arranged 4 tles on city streets or country roads. | in the fleet, and one is in t ‘and the glorious spring sun-| instruction to be given in r show There are many Buick owners who | ove ay, the cost Of oper At the end of every 250 miles, | Ea living man, finds the “mistakes” before they get into production ana ie, Gomes that call of the “Open | rooms at Pike st, and Hu have driven their cars f five and | the fleet becomes tremendously high, “CTeW UP all Krease cups, Be sure | i ere therefore not passed on to you. Economy No. 3, 4 That longing. dormant dur-| For one month, beginning April 15, | six thousand and many of them over | yet thin is by no mea \ e grease ie actually being inter months, to cast off the| from 4 to 5 p. m. on Tuesdays and | 10,000 miles with practically no 6x: | high average lone of ti . 2 he bearing. If the chan Maxwell cars are built on the original chassis plan laid down 5 lof the busy workaday world, | Thursdays, and from § to 9 p.m. OD | pense outside df soline and oil There are yeveral methods e nave efbnpeyeae years ago. 300,000 have been built to date. Doing one thing always live again in the t out | Wednesday, Mr. Paul Cone will ¢x*| Some of them have eve ade & FeO | ing repal do 7 ~ 7 * grease can met into rs ve even made a r ng repair bille dow : : Ty results in doing it well. Economy No. 4, is bound to rise in the veins | plain in detail the operation and/ord of 20,000 miles without serious | ing a truck to the shop ¢ fy city dweller, ‘To jump into | care of a motor car, Everyone, te | repair work. This is due to a know! | has come to auch a condition that ' 2 this is ! Pa iq Seat and to leave behind the | gardices of the car he drives, ts com ledge of the mechanical secrets of can not be ao ‘farther , ‘" do: her “ligt wh All temperament” is taken out of the car by the engineering de- city, with its clatter andj dially invited to attend one's car. saamk\” aaa cenbial an truck was inspected, the rtment so that it is well nigh impossible to find a Maxwell with an | driver wan required to xerew down bs, “uneven disposition” Economy No. 5. 4 fand fill each week-end full) The cutaway Buick sin, which | To give the owner a greater know! | course, will not exist where any real the grease cups into a collar of clear owing with healthy action | has been specially ¢ u at ledge and keener appreciation of bis | «upervision ucke is maintained. x F such : pervision of trucks is maintained | white grease worked out from the There are 25 others. These fortify you against after- & friendly sky. will make life | considerable expense automobile that he may reap bigker |) A method used by m: operators pf tiving. | educational purposes, be the | dividends from his investment, and | big fleets ie to rotate all trucks of the P™ATIM. to make sure that the grease | 1m trouble in a Maxwell. That is why you can be doubly sure direction in the North-| center of atiraction. It in cut away |help to make him master of all en-| feet into the shops for @ clone me *™ actually penetrating the moving 2 ; . hak thew relent ve gall le me parte on a Maxwell if you value highly a thrifty dollar. Most ire’s charms beckon one to so as to reveal » the « , the - gine difficulties that may arise, the | chanical inapection, If a truck fleet At ‘ In roads, with the cool | ner workings of the car paved G18 | Wietiee Muick Gomeany has af | however, ef a Benen vente oy hey ate hin, at times, seemed like a waste persons ast Of the evergreen forests, | its secrets. The system of lubrict-| ranged this course ae biebromeen. |i tax oho Breyer 20 ‘edie od green, bat it meade certain that 80 do, and 300,000 of them drive Maxwells. ‘countless lakes, large and smail, | tion, one of the most Important fund Al who wish to take advantage o a basta of inspection every two | Dart of the vehicle was to suffer from in the sun, rushing | amental principles, in both interest: | this splendid opportunity weeks. it le necessary to maintain a| VOC" bearings, and trucks thus har re and. talking streams, with | ing and well worth knowing. Thin Is share in this course of Instructt thirteenth machine, or reserve track lied were in the shops a far lene per Mr deep and silent pools that in- essential to know if o wants 4/ welcome, eaten Macalnen be o tnapecte fie the angler. They call to the |smoothly-running engine. From the ‘This is one more atepiin line with | truck, in addition to any truckn kept |“ eee to enjoy to the fullest life | water circulation in the radiator, to| ther alm to give “Hetter Service.” |in reserve for rae A The British army, with four years TM the open and to reap the benefits the rear axle, this educational The best cure for shop expense, /Of WAF. proved the efficiency of thin method of handling motor trucks, or ont investment. chassis is an open book. He who/ ¢¢ ” however, is 1 ation, §=Thin in § do thia, a motorist must be | runs may read SH —BRIBERY eludes not only rotating inapec. |!0rties, as they termed them, for Of the automobile he drives) With the clearer understanding tion, but also the closest sort of care | TUCK# Operated four years wer still have a better knowledge of and greater knowledge of his automo ON THE ROW Of the truck when it is In operation in service, brightly polished, clean, .n secrets of hie motor | bile, the owner will have a greater The « lucavoten bea and operating without knocks or rat "The joy and appreciation of his appreciation of his car, He will parte re t damage bec trips will naturally fotlow.| know how to obtain the best results Autos Getting Scarce and Saleamen |... The other method for many more thousands of miles of to give Seattle owners a/ with the least possible expense. He Bid Real Money to Get Cars for noc car in the ve of the fect understanding of the|will learn to understand the why and Delivery to Purchasers inten A aaa oe cial life, the problem is drive, the Eldridge Buick | wherefore of all the squeaks and rat- —_-- hd netericnumper’ ebtpa, fo © attention of the driver — ——— ne Perhaps you think Seattle i# the | erating its thousanda of trucks, prov. |t bis vebicle, In the military truck only place whe ix hard to getleq the efficacy of the prevention ets this was done by disctpline. In delivery of that car you ordered a| method by increasing its use of off CO™Merctal life it must be by various |month or more ago. But not ,\and grease, and thereby cutting {Ts of bonuses gentle motorist. There are places! gown to an unbelievably tow point, (Copyright, 1919, by Warren B. f [Rot so many. thousand’ mailon ‘away | (ue ofan pais on erick Tatockh SEATTLE AUTOMOBILE COMPANY, INC. sone for gp aye heb: ncaa | Unele Sam's ficures are not open DISTRIBUTORS Hoa oul. thave places I | tor publication, but it can be said. | iam, roughly, that with all-the wear and ———a | (Seatéle’s Pioneer Automobile Dealer) BP thong essere a tear on trucks in France, with tracks 7 1101 EAST PIKE STREET pany. operated under pressure until they . [week neighbor Sims recetved word | could hardly be maile to roll, the care reeves) e9 |from Sales Manager Harris of the | of the machinery by the drivers was @t.ts E sag ig ny leg = ouahy particularly thru lubrication, \lslwteaSerhet sete am entene a0. —ty carload of | that the repair billx were cut to a fig Chandlers that by the grace of the | ure far, far below thone of any com See we Soe o. Bamee Milwaukee railroad (government-op- | mercial truck-operating concern, : seeShay 4 lerated), had rolled into Seattle, he! oven if feured on the basin of civil nym Bevel could have one ingle, lone automo: |i repair cont, Even including | “atte ae ltrucks# put out of comminsion by Seattle-Tacoma Migh Line Read—Thro The dust flew madty, and the next | hostile attack, the repair bille were | Des Moines —in condition ore: — - 3 | doene in laid at the Seattle Automo-| below thore of commercial truck cay thy ein agg > paleo ae GREASE IT | - . fine to Tacoma is vie, tho rough jhéle company’s salesroeme on ®, | fiesta. | Wolly wooded Teal rough. TRY THIS ONE-- A little graphite and Pike st Sims proudly takes posses | The army method wae productive, travel road on east pes . ame ay = pelea oe IT MAY WORK |to the consistency of a sion of Chandler, after certain minor | therefore, of real economy. The army | used KRISTOFERSON’S eno coarse rah mar erworso fa ee Tn wear at et |, ate el see. JT MAY WORK | smi ed, and prepares to drive to his/eiai truck operators, and muccassful- Achurn-Enamelaw—New pavement open Kirkiand-Falle City—Good over Yellow automobile soap and rubbed on DAIRY home city. lly, Sometimes, in order to produce| for five miles out of Auburn. Take old | | stone tral the glars of the windshield | hs ™ t a pave o rT ene. “4 od and Out rusher a certain Chandler | results, there in a bonus aystem em:| jrviocac’ plenic arounds tn fine Uae caution om tures || allowed to dry will prevent fog salesman, with order book bulging, ployed to spur the drivers to keep ¥ Vin Lake fammam- | or rain from obscuring the and a whispered bribe of $50 if | thelr trucks in fine condition, but in Koade generally > vision thru the glass, Kerosene has operated GMC Trucks for over ff sim would tet him detiver the car |every came where tried, the ue of ‘ Newport is sometines used. for this pur- but It does not last as long to a favored customer. Proudly the | plenty of lubricant has produced in- w roo: ¢ pose. six years. Now they have a fleet of | Pride of Hoquiam shook his head. stant results in keeping the car out 1: a Seattle Renton fas the above, and glycerine is ‘ except : are of the shop. A heated bearing is Out rushes another purveyor of J from Rainier Beach to city timite, wenn 12, which proves that GMC’s have | Chandiers. One hundred dollars in |¢@*¥ (0 prevent, but when burnt out oat; from S-mile post to 14-mile post, | pretty rough. the myntic offer this time. Again a\\* costly to replace, not only in time | passable: from If-mile post to Green : . 3 given them satisfactory service. haughty refusal, and urgent prepa-| lost. But in Uheactusl cost of the) Water river, soft and snow: not ad: pe eats Hg AS od than those jess carefully lubri tes at the end of the war, and ready Senttle-Tecome Paved Valley Row | rations for a quick getaway. work. ‘This Cost increases to poswiblY Rentan-Maple Valley—Watr " : | double the loss thru inactivity of the Maple Valley-Bleck 0 Good Twice more the secret word I trucy Huneet Highway ton to North Bond. whispered into Sims’ unwilling enr.|" Tiere age @ few pila ‘eu Se : can Seare, catwo hundred bonus or $2,000 | "#ete Of 60 to 100 vehicles: — ; ented not to bonus, they are all the same to me. | I'm going tack to Hoquiam with this car, and I'm going right mow. | cs Get away from this machine or) === a SPOKANE run you down.” | And the last seen of the Hoquiam distributor was a vanishing streak, | J an a brand new Chandler took a — ——— = mae?’ down Pike st. at a speed that may a ‘he legal in other parts of the good / he New LIGHT-FOUR ARE You INTERESTED m old state of Washington, but is greatly frowned upon by the boys in 1 blue of Seattic, who now walk to Beautiful in Design USED TRUCKS work, or fork up a jitney, ine as ole THE UNIVERSAL CAR “ALL OVER i | PIERCE-ARROW THE WORLD” baker CTE FOUR wlan ‘08 as erooay THINK OF THE Nl over the world itn three . years,” ts thé slogan adopted tor This new Studebaker is a light-weight, econom- Tenth Ave. and E. 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Pus opmpanse meee peee AUTHORIZED DEALERS Pac 3-to: ve ve cle : ; 1917 Garford, 12-ton. Hoth these orders were released aa ry 1916 Lippard-Stewart, 13-ton. Seyiass Seine aaael sean May 15th—in Our NEW LOCATION — 1917 Service, 2-ton. oe cama setae: tO ta Be | ails isi te tide goenp bo sealy toe the A Sree een twee Broadway and East Pike road. je already have hydraulic hoist bodies. Went Indies, The Roamer is very Some are chassis. All are worth looking over. popular in Australia and New Zea- 4 fi land, Everything indicates that we Come in or write for detailed description of Ok skport: title one-third of our 3 Also Tenth and Seneca a truck that will meet your requirements. output for this year. W. A. WALLACE, Mgr. nin gph dpsoramla anand ag ce % en sacs ser bater ot ere