The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 11, 1919, Page 16

THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, hs ete 11, wall UTOMOBILE. [)EPARTMENT AUTOMOBILES, TRUCKS, ACCESSORIES $10 Weekly Driving Truck— peesas | (Oz = Ge INDEPENDENT TOURISTS 2125 Fourth Avenue Phone Elliott 2402 Now under the personal ownership and management of H. H. PAXTON and E. P. KLAUS Twenty-four Hour Service Cars Washed and Polished Efficient Automotive Mechanics Daily, Weekly and Monthly Storage ‘Satisfactory Service’ HOW TO PACK TUBES The tube should be rolled flat with soft cloth between the layers; OIL FOR SMALL PARTS ‘The drake mechanism seldom | fets the lubrication it deserves. O1) Tequired on the pins support- the brake shoes, and upon the points of the cams, or tog-|cioth bag with the stem protrud- mechanism which actuates the | ing and the mouth of the bag be| These parts usually de-| tied around the stem. It is a good! pend for librication upon the hand pian to put talcum powder in the can. Beginning at the operating | hag, ; every joint in the brake| needs occasional offing, as do bearings of the compensating with the tube is excellent. The roll LOOSE BEARING TEST To test a wheel for loose bearings. Don't Ran in Rats, Car Tracks or|in opposite directions Against Curbing ness is shown in this way, ‘The side walls of a tire are much than the tread and will not this kind of usage. direction, bearings must be taken up. | should then be placed in a thick} But This Was 12 Years Ago jack it up and take hold of top and/ Hence it ts hi | bottom spokes, pulling and pushing | more attention to the effect of the If no loose | various road surfaces on the motor | ¢ try lifting |vehicie instead of considering on: the hub to see if there is play in that |the damage b If any play is shown, the! the road,” m |—a fairly Logan (Gramm Bernstein) Away back in 1907 B. A was president and leading spirit in the Logan Construction Company of Chillicothe, This the manufacture of cars and a 2%-ton Gramm Ohio. firm then specialized in Nght delivery truck Today Mr. Gramm ts rated an one of the biggest men in the truck bullding field, and directs the dest! of the Gramm Bernstein Motor Truck Company of Lima, Ohio J. W. Vanderbilt, president of the Cascade Motor Sales Company, w distribute the Gramm Bernstein line in Washington, supplies the follow ing clipping from the Logan Bulletin of May, 1907, This was one of the first truck factory publications ts sued, and confined Itesif to news of the Logan line of trucks and light cars. be amused at the estimates for op on that this laundryman 1 © gave in the year of our Lord ‘Several months ago, In the middie of winter, the V Laundry Company of Chillic: Ohio, purchased a Logan* light delivery wagon, painted white to represent the name, with red running gears, After having the wagon in constant use for four months a representative of the Bulletin asked the General manager, Robert M. MeVicker, what he thought of Logan auto delivery. “Well,” replied Mr. MeVicker, “to use the oo mae the expression of Pres ‘Effect of Roads on Tires Is Point to Light Delivery Model, The truck operator of today will 1907 A. D~ | dent Roosevelt, ‘I am delighted.’ It is not only saving us about $13 a week, but the auto has en Our 25 on the attribute icity per cent since we auto delivery, and this Increase to the and prestige thiy up-t livery has given “Before we purchased the or delivery we used two one horse wagons, These two wag ons have been dixplaced by the one motor delivery and we figure out the difference as follows, the figures being based on a month's run: Horse Detivery Board of 2 horses, 1 wk, $ 6.00 Cont of 2 drivers, 1 wk 00 Logan Auto Delivery Gasoline, oll and repairs average for one week. .$ 3.25 One driver, one week,... 10.00 | Total for one week... .$ 13. Net saving for one wk.$ 12.75 Saving In 52 weeks... .$663,00 *(Now Gramm-Bernstein,) “The car,” continued Mr. Me Vickers, “is kept at the laundry and is looked after by the man who takes care of our other ma- chinery, It is always ready to go anywhere on short notice and ts no expense when not running. It more than takes the place of the two wagons we had before am! has never caused us the least delay.” Be Considered WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—“Twenty-eight million tires are now yearly necessary to equip the passenger automobiles }and motor trucks in use in the United States. To this should a@ strip of cotton flannel rolled up} be added not less than twelve million more tires, for many vehicles accumulate mileage to such an extent that a second) set of shoes is necessary, to say nothing of the thousands of inner tubes. “Forty million tires and their tn ner tubes at an average cost of $25 gives a total tire bill of $1,000,000,000 tidy annual expenditure for road travel and transportation gh time to pay @ little vehicle to ldridge, al rector of American y, Gramm-Bernstein Motor Trucks Pioneers Since 1901—Builders of the First Liberty Truck There isn’t any guesswork about what you get in a Gramm-Bernstein. Twenty years of pioneering the way in motor truck manufacture, the longest experience in America devoted to the ideal of highest grade truck making, together with unexcelled manufacturing facilities, enables us to serve you in an exceptional manner. We believe we can say truthfully, and without fear of successful contra- diction, that more ton miles are built into G-B trucks than any others manufactured. The line is complete, embracing 14, 2, 21%4 31% and 5-ton capacities. We on ps them with all varieties of practical bodies s, including combi- a nation p your business requires, All G-B worm driven trucks are equipped with the wonderful G- ent, trouble-proof transmission. tform, elevating and tilting dumps, and, in fact, any type B pat- We shall be glad to discuss your requirements with you without obli- gating you in any way. Cascade Motor Sales Company DISTRIBUTORS GRAMM-BERNSTEIN TRUCKS PHONE MAIN 6513 2106-2116 SECOND AVE., [Automobile Association. “You can scarcely pick up a paper without see. ing In it something about how and/ why the fast moving passenger car | and the loaded motor truck damage the road, and, as you read on you how the writer proposes to de a highway to withstand these *, and how speed and weights 1 be limited, and how the cost burden at 1 be distributed pare Surfaces who discuss trans: portation ive thought to the fact tt our en million motor uire annually twenty ‘es, exclusive of re a problem: namely, | ene tires wear out on! surface? Compare © amooth resilience of with the rough, gritty surfaces #0 often en ntry roads, and try | what a tidy sum in tire | saved if we could all surfaces, The sav- alone would pay the nstruction cost in “Few of eon the road surface ws that road sur from 300 The or the ent season, mooth hard surfaced records tn shduld be|One of the authoritat er the and car an a change In type or a cation of the conception th the v al consideration LE XINGTON WINS RACES Automobile racing is the latest Americanized sport to gain popular ity in Australia enty thousand nessed a race mee ney, Australia, according to news | |paper reports from that he events were held over a new| |clnder oval measuring nine furlongs, | or one and ghth miles can-built ¢ 1 four events in tion with seve: prominent n ma ats, however, and m 0 we can tell whet tires and gas 1 and icle is the prin persons wit t recently at Syd. fi the company of Co: A carried away the principal stoc Driven by A the American entry ® initial heat of a 20Jap winning margin, accord. ing to the Sydney Sunday Sun, was 60 yards, which evidently is the Aus- jtralian way of figuring margins. In the final bh the Lexington | obtained the lead at the start and held its position thruout, winning from its nearest competitor by 2 yards, ‘The time for the initial was 28 minu 2 and 4-5 second | Ithat for the final heat, 27 minutes, | seconds, xington », Ind, honors | ® ents of the | Turner, nnersvi n the Kirkland stone trail, biggest reas iravel road good. Kent and Auburn for paving.) THE UNIVERSAL CAR The Ford Coupe is one of the most popular members of the Ford Family. car, with sliding plate glass windows—-an open car with plenty of shade. enclosed and cozy, dust-proof and rain-proof. Tt is a permanently enclosed Then in inclement weather, Big deep seat liberally upholstered. Just the car for travel- ing salesmen, physicians, architects, contractors, builders, and a regular family car fortwo. Equipped with electric starting and lighting system. Demountable rims with 3% -inch tires all around. Tire carrier. A car of comfort, winter and summer, spring and autumn, with all the Ford economy in operation and main- tenance. The demand is big. Leave your order with any of the dealers listed below, East 320 CENTRAL AGENCY, INC., Broadway and Pike St. L. M. CLINE MOTOR CO., 1102 BE. 45th. Kenwood 31 CLARK-BAKER CO., 3806 Ferdinand. Rainier 56 ALFRED G. MYERS & BAIRD, 601 Fourth Ave. HIGGINS & MATTHEWS, 315 Nickerson St. AYERST, INC., 1830 Broadway. East 126 Elliott 750 Queen Anne 74 truck line has been| success is shown ar faces of R. M Turner, C. W. Bennett, 0, W einsdorff and B, A are shown above, where the mas, ©.| of th and performar Strawbridge ‘Go 8 for this OVERHEATING Many car owners store hicles in cold garages and water into the water s ur hot | n in the morning If this operation ft air locks are mobile There experience, up the too. 1 have re famous ar will run 8 water gets hot eno! lock, and the reduced of water left bolls. | me f lecording to Mr. just to a real (Cloxed | DAN’ CHANGING BATTERY mmit Motor equipped with rs operators retimes Davis Sixes The U batteries way > have ven entire| Mine volts instead of six, T ts a | “where concrete | mistak the motor will not stand | stop, up under a higher voltage than the one it was a for refill their aceeiad intend signal tribute ve-passenger driven by M. A seaquah—Via Lake Sammamish | O'VSH PY poth | a Indiana, Sales Manager Wm. has put the s an intense them over fic thet .- «| THIS IS he REAL CLIMB Have you ever drt Un ure motorists n ompany, says ny mo their engines coo! ¢ to the system th Dav SALESMEN WHO ARE SETTING TRAFFIC RECORDS Five of the Shields-Livengood Motor Company force who specialize on the Traffic truck line. ‘Traffic one of the sensations of the pres: | fa and has esta 4 new! M M rivalry and of wide Hartford | 90d Motor com rit of pep into men to such an extent that between your auto. own hill? who say that until ached the top of this four and a half mile east of Uniontown, vania, you have never put efficiency test, ac- chkin, sy) our auto: of the distributors town hill has Hotehkin, rists are radiators and let it was a efficient Davis eylinder But six touring ot Indian: | the a half. glad to entire without stop or hesitation— Jot perfect coc “The climb “rs th one in Davis performance trip which Mr. n| was only lor's nt south of Bryn | Mile and the motome ter rewiatered a story » Uniontown hill of splendid uring from the heart of Indiana |state of t ton, D, C., over "|and return over the He averaged 16 miles to the and at the start the car had only been | way gallon of gasoline, of the tour driven 500 miler | mile arding King jeounty roads, call Main 6 local 38, Davis car. a 1,700 Daltozer made the home to Washing e National road Lincoln high. GOODYEAR CITED ~—s_— BY GOVERNMEN! The official citation of the Ui States war ail navy depa: has been received by the Goody Tire & Rubber company of A! Ohio, in recognition of that pany’s attitude in rehiring the n who left its employ to enter service of their country. The el tion carries with it permission display on the Goodyear service s the shield of the United States asa | symbol that all obligations to men that left their work to the fense of their country, will be f filled. Let's go buy Boldt’s French p | try. Uptown, 1414 3d ave; | town, ais vi Money Saving | Values can be found in our Rebuilt Trucks 2-ton GMC 1\4-ton GMC Two %-ton GMC’S 5-ton Alco Dodge Delivery Eldridge at Company |# 802 East Pike St.