The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 12, 1919, Page 18

TRUCK PLAYS BIG PART IN BUILDING ted above is a 3% ton G. M. used by Keenan Bros., a local firm of contractors, building work. In all of isurance Is One of Most Vital Needs for Auto Owner “There is no more important question relating to the ip of a motor car than that of insurance,” accord- + to a well-known automobile authority. he ns of Washington this “motor truck has played an important part and established the record of bein, And then : “There are few subjects on which the ordinary | ner is more abyssmally ignorant. The average car} has little conception of what he should protect if against by means of insurance. He usually leaves iatter to his broker and not infrequently the broker, x to make a rate that will give him the business, Bs not provide the car owner with exactly the insurance ight to have.” article this authority takes in detail the five classifications Which automobile insurance lity, property damage, ion, fire and theft. First place he matter of relative importance ab which protects the car f against claims for damages by injured, or alleged to have by his car, principai question that taking liability insurance is amount of coverage shall be What is generally mas the ‘standard’ policy is 000 and $10,000 coverage. ys $5,000 for one person in- $10,000 for two persons accident, Now, it is not that heavier damages may be awarded in an ‘case; in fact, they have been “recent cases. And so, in on a liability policy, the ‘should remomber that he . amounts of coverage Jess relative cost. - For in- @ lability policy carrying single and $300,000 double damage to his own vehicle, the writ er discusses the $100 deductible and $50 deductible policies. Under these the insured pays the first $100 or first $50 damage in collision, and the company pays the rest. The premi- um is lower than for full coverage, and it is for the individual to de- elde which he really needs. RETURN TO BUICK PLANT Every day, at the Buick Motor compan,'’s plant, at Flint, Mich. finds many new employes, soldiers and sailors, back at work. All ready 1,400 returning fighters have been re-employed, averaging nearly 300 per month, or 15 per day. <A total Of 3,003 employes were in the service, of which nearly 40 per cent are back at their old or new positions, Pro- motions have been frequent among @ large number of returning soldiers and sailors for the pojicy of the com- pany is so broad in this respect that d men are -taken eameof and Placed in positions where their abil- ity is best suited, A personal welcome awaits every soldier and sailor who applies for employment. All employes who are | still in the service in this country or abroad, will be assigned to old or new positions upon their return to Flint, Michigan. Not only is this policy being ap- plied at the Buick factory, but it has been adopted by every Buick branch and distributor thruout the United States. No manufacturing or- ganization ig more proud of their list of fighters than the Buick Motor company, which takes particular con- sideration in seeing that each enlist- ed employe is taken care of in every way. TO MARKET RACERS The cars being built to represent the Chicago speedway during the 1919 racing season, it is announced, will be the first models of a series which will be produced for the reg-| ular market. While they cannot be/ n the tire business, any other, quality, nship satis- ry service result in one thing— t THE SEATTLE STAR-—-SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1919. ILES, TRUCKS, ACCESSORIES, ROADS | we TR the job with the same tenacity of purpose as Keenan Bros. them. ves. THREE REASONS FOR SHORTAGE OF AUTOMOBILES First—Readjustment from war- time to peacetime production, a process that takes time, thus slow: ing up production. Second — Increased purchasing by owners who have kept their old cars in service as a patriotic measure, but who now want new cars. Third—The new automobile market that will absorb hundreds of thousands of cars, consisting of the new class of buyers who worked hard and saved money during the war and are now in a position to satisfy their longing to own automobiles, Every day you drive your car you ing a great chance—unless you are p' BUILD ONLY 2-TON SIZE Traffic Factory Specializes on the 4,000-Pound Truck as Meeting 80 Per Cent of Needs The transportation problem pre sents two outstanding demands—ef ficiency and economy. Strength and | durability are the two qualities nec: | essary in motor trucks for the | strenuous service to which a truck is subjected, and all of these ques tions are furnished and answered by the Tarffic Truck, built by the Traf. fic Motor Truck Corporation, of St. Louis, Mo, | It is a dependable truck fn every | fense—correct in every detail and | simple in construction, It is sturd-| fly built, of durable materiala and on the streets 10 years ago there today? chance? ACT NOW! can a manufacturer produce a i Jb, capacity truck of quality for the | low price of $1,635, delivered Se. | are building upwards of 20! of similar carrying capacity sell for | many hundreds of dollars more?” | This is the answer to this important | price question: The Traffic factory | is the largest exclusive builder of a | 4,000-Ib. capacity truck in the world, and confine the operation of their en-| tire plant to the building of a truck of which design and capacity permit | quality production, resulting in low est cost in manufacturing. They | are building upwards of | trucks per day, at no greater overhead expense than if they were producing only two trucks, and it was found, in carefully investigating the road problem, that a 4,000-Ib. | capacity truck answers 80 per cent | of all hauling needs—carrying four out of every five loads known to AMERICAN INSURANCE AGENCY 1003-4 American Bank Building Phone Main 2028 J. M. E. ATKINSON & SON Burke Bullding Main 7056 FREDERICK-METZGER CO. Mutual Life Building Phone Main 1372 One Speedway Race Equal She comma wo to Two Years in Life of Car Farm Prospects INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., J uly 9.—)Fisher promoted the Indianapolis Mo- | by property damage and Liability Insurance: You are aware that for every motor vehicle Because the possibility of accidents has so greatly increased insurance is each year more necessary than it was the year before. Are you safely insured or are you taking a CARTER, }.ACDONALD & MILLER, Inc. Agents Auto Department; Standard Accident 2086 Columbia Street AILERS AND are tak- rotected the other fellow? Often the careful motorist has are 10 public safety. Careful driving cannot equal insurance gives. Do not trust to luck! corner. Don’t Wait until After the Coll It’s the Insurance in force TODAY that protects you TOMORROW You may be a careful driver—but what of to pay as well as the negligent speeder who swings around corners on 2 wheels regardless of the safety Your accident may be just around the TELEPHONE! WM. H. (Ini Insurance Co., National Union Fire Insurance Society, Elliott 5870 GOTTSTEIN’S, INC. To any one of these agents and find how small is the cost of security and peace of mind. RITTER & CO, corporated) BROADWAY AT PIKE—Phone East 777 109 Columbia Street—Elliott 3240 STUART G. THOMPSON CO. 207 American Bank Building FRANK WA’ Phone Elliott 5568 o Copyright 1919, Edw. S. Jones SIMPLE PLAN FOR ADJUSTING CLUTCH Friction wear in the single plate cluteh may be remedied by throw. ing out the clutch, slacking the ad ‘Use of Trailer BY WARREN B, BULLOCK TERHOUSE & CO. Insurance Department—Elliott 71 Sons Co., Providence, R. I. Increases Earning Value of Truck |justment bolts; tap either of them The problem of using the trailer BUSINESS a little over a h in business, we Ask 100 men where the best mar-| Reports that the next Indianapolis | tor speedway, with James A. Allison,| clockwise in the slot on cover, per- ket is today, and they will tell you|500-mile race in 1920 would be for) Arthur C. Newby and Frank H.|/haps a quarter or half an. inch, that it is the farm. No other gen-|cars of 183 cubic inches piston dis-|Whevier, on which to basten the thus shifting the ring which carries | eral class of men today has more | placement are officially confirmed in| progress of American automobile |the levers and rollers to new seats| money than the farmer, and no one|an announcement issued by General | manufacture, and it has since proved on thicker sections of the thrust [on heavy hauls is a simple mat Corps, A) | of mathematics. ‘The truck hi > haul any number of The problem of increasing the ca-| Power to : city haul of a motor truck has|°T: if it has proper traction. ‘The |resulted in all varieties of experi-|S°Vvernment Class B truck, for in- advertised as such, it is stated that} (Formerly Captain, Motor Transport these cars will be standard models | fo far as the chassis and engine are concerned, that is, the regular pro-| duetion of the factory will be the busy the full day, are steadily adding customers. same in design and manufacture as the cars which will make their de- but on the tracks this summer. is more willing to spend it. The gov-|Manager Theodore E. Myers of the|of incalculable value in refining and | ernment has guaranteed hig income | Indianapolis Motor Speedway com-| perfecting American automobile de for 1919 by setting aside one billion | pany. sign, particularly with respect to eco: | FS ING MUFFL The exhaust and the muffler tube are usually united by a large hex- jagonal nut, which frequently shakes off, due to the vibration incident | jto ordinary road travel, and then follows a series of tremendous barks | |that will call the police of most |municipalities. The best way to avoid the trouble ts to drill both nut land tube with a small hole that ill take a wire nail, which will hold the muffler firmly in place, OLDFIELD AND DODRICH TIRES Our Long Suit You'll be interested in 4 exceptional Tire SEND OUT CHECKS County Treasurer William A Gaines signed warrants paying out | $696,963 Friday. The city received |a check for $540,889.11, the state one |for $143,139.63, towns in King leounty received $9,8 while the |forest fire protection fund got | $119 COMPANY Pine St., corner Melrose, Service Phone—Main 3826, The World’s ,.Most Expensively Built Tire; Hand Made Throughout of Best Materials Guaranteed in Writi Large Sizes—6,000 Miles UNITED MOTORS COMPANY Distributors————A. F. Hawkinson, Mgr. 407 East Pine St. dollars to insure $2.26 wheat. The| “The Indianapolis speedway was |nomical operation and to safety farmer has become the money spend-|pyiit,” says Meyer, “to further the| “An Indianapoliy speedway er of this country. He's cultivating | development of American automotive | tests a car as severely as two years a tavte for something better than | engineering and design, in a manner |Of ordinary usage, Weakness or im- the bare necessities for luxuries and | similar to that accomplished by the | proper design in any vital part is cer- neardluxuries; for bath tubs and bay | french Grand Prix in Europe, It|tain to show up during a race and rum; for Turkish rugs and trading | had its origin in the visit to one of enable its correction before it has stamps; for motion pictures and the early European Gordon Bennett been incorporated in vehicles for pub motor trucks. cup contests of Carl G. Fisher, presi consumption, In the last race it The farmer is the man who knows | dent of the Indianapolis track, in the | developed that wheels were still far a good thing when he sees it. He 48 | primeval days of automobile history. |from perfect, every accident but one the man who merely needs to be| “phe Pope-Toledo delegation, of |resulting from this cause. The ex- | shown that he is making a good in-| which Fisher was a member, prided | perience of the race will hasten. the | Yestment when buying a motor truck | jtself on having achieved unusual|improvement of wheels to a point| |and then it is an easy matter for| success in automobile construction, | where they will be absolutely sound, | you to sell him, if you have a truck | and thought it would show the Eu.| preventing possible loss of life on th | with standardized units that you can | ropeans something in the way of re-|open road and insuring safety in au deliver at the price he expects to jjability and performance, However, tomobile travel. pay. In other words, the farmer is|the contest proved that the Amert.| “The history of the speedway has | going to be the heavy purchaser of | cans were far behind their European | been one of progress, As fast as th heron cme sigy gs i be the | rivals in every respect field of investigation seemed to be easiest prospect, for he knows what | . oy) bchiuntae “aateer te sags |he wants! and he has the money to| Promotes Speedway ire a gc a on l pay for it, “Returning United States, | nounced to stimulate still further de | ‘velopment. Most of the first races, prior to 1911, were for cars of un-| limited piston displacement. In 1911| and 1912 cars were limited to 800 cu-| bic inches displacement, which was |further reduced 450 cuble inches in |1913 and 1914. ‘The standard for 1915, |1916 and 1919 was 300 cubie inches, |and for 1920 will be 183 cubie inches, | | “The constant aim of the speed-| |way management, thru reducing en- | ine sizes, has been to realize greater | economy and lighter weight in auto-| | mobiles, without sacrificing power or perform) The ight weight and| economical, yet roomy and powerful ear of the future will owe its exist ence in large measure to the lessons learned on the Indianapolis speed way, just as existing models owe their rapt improvement to , ontests of the past.” to the ROADS ring, thus compensating for wear, In attempting the! ments on the trailer solution, for many types of work, the trailer to confirm a sus- pended wrist pin knock, place the hand on, the edge of the bearing and connecting rod while some one else rocks the motor slowly by means of the starting crank, the| switch being off. In cases where it is impossible to reach the parts} with the hand, short cireuit the spark plugs one at a time while! the engine is running slowly. This will cause missing and any knock will be instantly audible. Of course, | the one certain way to make the| test is to remove the piston and| connecting rod and make a bench test, but the methods suggested will save time, The problem before the truck user who wants to use the trailer, however, is that of the motor truck operator who declared his truck had sufficient power to pull the moon out of the sky—provided he could get a cable around the moon and traction for his motor vehicle The truck operator who uses the ler has a simpler problem, only that of getting the proper traction The coupling bar solves the cable phase of the puzzle, In other words, the use of the trailer comes back once more to the one most vital study of the prospec- tive operator of motor trucks, the | study of his particular traction prob lem. The use of the trailer, as truck accessory, can only be proper ly begun after a study by an e ponent of the new profession, trans. port engineering, The condition of the roads ov which the trailer is to be used, the ature of the load to be hauled, two of the sample portions of this preliminary study. In general, where the haul is heavy, and the distance is not too great, or traffic too congested, the use of the trailer is well worth study, Many lumber operations are conducted with trucks and trailers in the woods, to get out the saw | logs to the logging railro or to} the mill direct. The use of trailer, however, is likely to prove a STOP THE RATTLE Spring shackle pl between the spr end and the} shackle may give much trouble un- til discovered. Rattling caused by this looseness will be more frequent and distine when the ar is rid ing over fairly rough roads. A good method of taking up the play is to place shims between the spring end d the shackle, or the play may be removed by tightening the bolt.| Watch the shackles and do not al-| low mud to accumulate, as small particles of glass-like substances in| the mud may make their way to the working parts and cause excess: wear. Lubricate the shackle |bolt generously. dangerous factor to the truck THE THIN MIXTURE dustry by the stirring up of opr Popping in the carburetor, if the| tion from other road vehic mixture is too thin, is not caused as it is likely to crowd a road, par- by overlap he speed with which | ticularly if the operator uses a train a mixture of gasoline and air burns|of trailers. Some of the lumber when ignited depends upon the| operators who have taken to trucks, richness, A weak mixture can be| have made up whole trains of trail- ignited by an electric spark, but|ers, up to four and five traile! |will burn very slowly; thus, at the| common use, to the single motor ve- end of the firing stroke, the mix-| hiele used for the power locomotive or looseness ive the | | Small Si izes—7,500 Mil es A trunk road running north and south and another east nd west will be constructed In state jin the Union if the program in dorsed at a recent meeting of the |highway congress is translated into law. The highways would be linked up from state to state in order to give East 9 jture, if very lean, will still . be) Of the train. jalight. .Tt can remain lit thruout| This question of road legislation is the “eahaust! atroke, that when| one, incidentally, which truck own-| the inlet valve opens for the next! ers would be wise to watch carefully, suction there is still burning gas| for the abuse of the privi of the | linside the cylinder. ‘This flame im.|?ead will surely bring retibutive | jmediately flashes back thru the! legislation, costly to all operators. |manifold into the carburetor | The use of the tratler on ordinary roads is almost certain to result, in| the nation a complete highway sys tam built af Jredera) axnense White lies are apt to leave black marks on a man's ranutosiam time, in extra taxation of the ve hiela owners has been found of wonderful value. | of freight e, the so-called Liberty truck, |has a ratio of 51 to 1, with high | power in the engine. If the road is eh that the driving wheels grip!” and do not spin, this truck will move /\_ | 4 tremendous load. It is, theref | of first importance to assure the ex-. |istence of proper road conditions | fore buying trailers for hauls involve. ing weight For lightweight shi ments, involving great bulk, trailer will often be found to cut t cost of the operation of the truck in half, figured on the basis of tons hauled, in ton miles. The element is to be considered also, of the time taken in loading | the trailer. The original cost of the jtrailer is insignificant, considering the haulage possibility, as compared with that of the truck itself, The use of several trailers, one ling | loaded, while another is being driwn to its destination, is comparable in time saving only to the use of the removable body. The time element is that of the way freight of the steam railroad, which drops a t each station as passes, to be unloaded as time pel mits at the point of destination, Thi locomotive is not being held up meanwhile, waiting for freight hand- lers to unload the car of miscellane- ous shipment. The tire problem of the trailer is of interest. It is not necessary to figure on the tire as a saver of en- jergy in the trailer, as it is in the tru In the truck, the tire must é so resilient as to relieve the en+ gine and chassis of vibration. There is no chassis or engine on the trailer to require such consideration, There must be care taken, partic: ularly when loads to be carried are light and bulky, to so purchase your trailer equipment that the trailer is of underslung type, or rather, a type whose weight of load is carried low to avoid any danger of capsizing or skidding when the truck and trailer turn a corner, Don't let the weight rest on a de-ig flated tire, Jack up the wheel or remove the tire, There isn’t a department store on earth large enough to supply every+ thing @ Woman wants.