The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1919, Page 18

——— eee? _ GRAMM- -BERNSTEIN TH: AT I AUTOMO ILES, TRUCKS, ACCESSORIES UTOMOBILE- TAS ye Lf SERV 2D WELL TR — 3%-Ton Truck Hauling Milk Into Kent, Wash, Coast Milk sed this three and a half AMM-Hernstein truck fo havling milk from dairy ranches into Kent Tt has a record of freedom Pepairs that has resulted | company the ‘rucks Hauled 350 ‘Million Tons Farm Products in 1918: it BY WARREN ormerly Captain Motor p past year has demon truck industry as a Hill only in its infancy. of many of thi south of Se sale more jobs in the territory Salo Cascade Motor com distribute the ne in this territory in the last Gramm have two pany, who Bernstein put out ucks B. BULLOCK Transport Corps A.) strated beyond a et that highway traffic problem solver Highway transport by motor has proved itself the past year as never before, ‘the beginning is only jus’ 1918 it is estimated that farme 00,000 tons of produce year of 1919 will probat t here. 4 of America hauled to market by motor truck oly show this figure mountir astounding total of nearly one billion tons. tx of the awex of the Diggest developme ome in two phe the rural express for | ry of purchases from city § to the country purchaser, and | 183 per cent more round trips tha an | trip with small shipments far more important develop the wholesale shipping of of all sorts by the in their own trucks. farmers this year have oper one-third of alt the motor ‘in use. The United States) rt of agriculture has shown | [of 78,789 motor trucks In use ax compared with 65,298 | | Used. by manufacturers, and by retall merchants for ‘This means a total of per cent of all the motor freight S transport the better systematizing tes by retail and wholesale with the application of tion engineering to their This phase will be| | now spending much time on the road | important ffom the operat it, the use of cost sys \ omegpargen 2 and the gen- on of efficiency meth-| industry. ‘The motor truck begun its transition from @ rough drayman to an applying the highest tech- of transportation en- the year coming to 2 close the approach of the time weather will cut down to the extensive shipments h marked the fair weather of it is possible to begin statistics showing the work | trucks during the year ford, Md., a co-operative | company secured 3 to 5 ¢ '@ dozen more for the eggs of | because of the quick de- E CHAINS ARE VIFAL EQUIPMENT it is usual for the Ameri- ufacturer to equip his car|pend for lubrication on the hand |4@rful run of 2 hours, 27 minutes, ‘everything that is needed to car run,,there are cer-|ing lever, every joint in the brake | Pet hour for the race, he covered the very important accessories | Most of our cars do not when they arrive in o hands. Some new Wait until the time comes about the real need for it, Wise buyer will at with the essential things. among these come tire| for driving in rainy weather | id On slippery streets. Some cars| ly equipped with these. Saad are few. Before the ca away from the dealer's ooms there should be a set € skid chains in the tool compart- livery of the guar dl frenh to the Baltimore retailer. A department of agricu showed that one motor truck made an} the wagon haul, carried about 50 per cent more produce and, at a cost of Jonly 27 to 60 per cent of the wagon haul A recent survey of 70,000 dairy farms showed an average production of 10,000 gallony of milk hauled an average of three and one-half miles, or seven miles for a round trip, Of these farmers, 60 per cent made the round trip daily, at an average of two and one-half hours for the round trip. A motor truck could combine the deliveries of 30 or more pro ducers and miake the trip in one-half hour, saving 70,000 hours. Placed at a cost of 25 cents an hour for @ man and 10 cents for a horse, this saving means $23,000,000 a year. A Michigan rural express brought two loads of huckleberries to the Detroit market, paid the transporta- .|tlon and sold the berries at a price of $1 @ bushel below the prevailing market price, and still made the same profit that was made by the dealers who shipped’ by rail. The motor truck maintains men and horses on the farms who are to market, and diversity of farming jis encouraged by the wider market | possible thru truck deliveries. | ‘Two trucks over a new dirt road In Iowa and Minnesota carried three | tons in the rain 42 miles, and re turned in less than seven hours, at & cost of $24.90, figuring overhead, depreciation and interest, while the cost of ordinary haulage would have been $41.40. These are given as instances of the development of the truck, and a | hint as to the direction of expansion |for 1920. The nation’s truck manu- facturers are atl preparing for ex tensive sales next year, and will pro- | duce to the Umit of their capac Give IT ATTENTION | The brake mechanism seldom gets the lubrication it deserves. Oil} is required on the pins supporting the brake shoes and upon the bear- | ing polfits of the cams or toggle mechanism which actuates the jbrakes. These parts usually de- otf can. Beginning at the operat- rod needs oceasional |the bearings of the | shaft. + | HIDE STOLEN AUTOS IN LAKE | PITTSBURG, Kas, Oct 25.— oiling, as do} compensating once | Sinking stolen cars in the middie|™ember of the board of directors, jof a pond as a means of hiding them from the police or their own- ers is the latest wrinkle,in certain |circles here. Recently an auto- |mobile was ‘stolen. Several boys later swimming in a pond discov- jered part of a car. They reported it to the police and it was taken |from the pond and proved to |the stolen car. be a Specially that are wort Buick, 5-passenger 1918 Chevrolet 1918 Chevrolet Elgin Six Overland Bug Reo Six, 7 passe nger Stearns Knight, 5 Reo 4, 5-passenger . Reo 4, 5passenger . Dort touring, 5-passen Dort touring, 5- Chevrolet touring, Overland Six Stearns Keo Reo Reo Reo Reo 2-ton truck. Ford worm drive, 1-t Republic 1-ton truck. speed wagon che UNITED MOTORS CO. Distributors for COLE—ROAMER—REO—DORT Pine and Bellevue senger speed wagon chassis. . speed wagon complete speed wagon eamptels priced cars h looking over. sed Car Sale nger passenger sels. on ‘truck. East 9 and has for the Vand Sales Manager Carl well or | months Lipsky can IW company Portland | lating to his sales force further sales promotion Hit, president of the the week in veutigating conditions re the truck industry BRISCOE ON LONG JAUNT past Ida was bad und excelent service stations at Mis Mont.; Madison, Wis; Chicago and Indianapolis, I kept account of gasoline and oll, and will give you the figures | MP to 3737 miles after our first real » in Southern Indiana. We used 110% galle f gas, or miles per gallon. Total cont of ganoline, $31.75; average cost per gallon, conta, We used 19 quarts ‘of oll, or 144 miles per quart. Off cost was $5.40, mak- ing an average cost per quart of 28% cents per quart. I don't think that record can be beat with any other car made, considering the overload we car- ried and the roads we had to Negotiate, We took some ple- tures, but at thin time we have not taken time to have any of them developed. Would have written you soon- er, but have kept forging ahead, and have taken no time for any- thing. If this letter will be of any use to you in helping to sell Briscoe cars, you are welcome to une It Wishing you continued success in the ule of the Briscoe cars, T am, as ever, your friend and well wisher, CHAS. &. _WEITCOMB. Canyon. rat road sure ho, was found |. een ° to Briscoe soula. | \BOYER WINS CINCY RACE) After two disappointing postpone- ments on account of inclement | weather, the big 250-mile dutomobtle | race was run on the Cincinnati! |speedway October 12, 1919, Fifteen cars lined up for the starters fag. | land were sent away with a flying) start on the long grind. |. Joe Boyer, driving the same car| |that won the inaugural race at the| | opening of the Cincinnati speedway |threS years ago, proved the master | driver of the afternoon, for in a won-| 19.29 seconds, averaging 101.83 miles terrific grind of 250 miles with only | one stop—which he made with*ut jlosing his position in the race. Boyer, who is the son of the mil- Honaire president of a Detroit adding machine company, and himself a | verified his own prediction of vic- tory in winning the Cincinnati classic. Just before the start of the race he confidently announced to his rivals that he would win the race and then set out to make good his prophecy. Boyer won by Wtering his usual racing style, In previous races he has always been noted for his furions driving, whieh not” infre- | quently caused his car to “break up,”| eliminating him from the race, But at Cincinnati he set a slower pace, and by maintaining it steadily thru- out the contest, finished an easy | winner. | Three minutes behind the million- aire driver came Art Kline in a Peugeot. finishing a good second, with plenty of distance between him and Kurt Hitke, who finished third, | Boyer and Kline, in taking first and |second in this classic, also scored another victory for Goodyear cord tires, making the twelfth triumph of present racing season for these every important racing event |of the year having been won by cars | wearing them Despite the fast time of nearly 102 miles an hour, no accident occurred to mar the afternoon's program, the | feature of the race being the wonder | fully @eady and consistent driving of [the winner, Joe Boyer. Except for picking up @ splinter, necessitating a [single tire change, his car never so | much as, hesitated With the next race on the con- crete speedway at Providence, R. 1, | the 1919 racing season will end. This final speedway event of the season will be run on October 26, with frac- tically all of the big drivers contend- ing for honors. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25.—Two | brothers took charge of Mrs. Semyah Levin, 22 years old, who arrived from | Russia, a stowaway in the steamer Mazama, She came in search of her husband, only to find that he was with the Jewish legion of the British army in Palestine, NOW ON DISPLAY FOR THE FIRST TIME A The Automobile of Distinctive Design— Built by Seattle Men With Seattle Money for the People of Seattle DRAGON MOTOR 611 EAST PIKE STREET TELEPHONE EAST 35 EASY RULES IN TESTING motorlats know that it 1s necessary to a hydrometer to test a storage battery, but they do not always ‘know just how to use it, It is not hard to learn and it is really worth while if a man would savé himself from battery Many use syringe a courtesy of R. F. 8. Harper, Inc,, local Willard ¢ we are able to pub- lish the instructions on the use of a hydrometer as sent out by the Willard Storage Battery compan: The hydrometer has a le graduation, in the upper part of the tube ranging from 1,150 to 1,900 with .005 graduations and reads correctly at 70 degrees fahrenheit. A fully charged should read about 1.280 and a completely dis- charged cell should read about 1.150 specific gravity, both of which are marked by a red line on the scale. The Meg- Be hydrometer test should be made before distilled water is added, If distilled water is added and then the test is made, the read- ing Will not be correct Make the test as fo! * 1. Remove vent plug from top of celly 2. Force the alr out of the hydro- ° | possible to keep up with sales u ACME. COMPANY TO ENLARGE PLANT The Acme Motor Truck company, Cadillac, Mich., began the construc Uon on October 3 of the first of the four unite made necessary be cause of the ever-increasing volume of business coming to the Acme com pany. The first unit to will be 144 by will be followed by at t three other units, until the present ca- pacity of the plant is doubled The body building department also is rapidly expanding, and for sev eral months past orders have been ahead of production. Finding it im ler present production, the management decided some time ago to double the capacity of the present plant The construction is of pressed brick, uniform in appearance to the other Acme construction. be constructed f and this meter syringe rubber bulb, 3. Insert rubber tube thru. the vent plug hole into the electriyte, or battery solution 4, Release the bulb and draw up sufficient electrolyte Into the glass tube to float the hydrometer 5. See that the hydrometer floats freely, touching neither top, bot- tom or sides by squeezing the BRISCOE ON. LONG JAUNT A proof of pudding that made “Eddie” Shenberg, sales man- ager of the Mitchell Motor & Serv- ice Co, full of good cheer for at least a day and a half, was the let- jter received by Briscoe Salesman Emanuela from Chas, 8. Whit- comb, a Seattle who bought a Briscoe and proceeded to drive toward the effete Bast, The letter is reproduced for the information it may give to prospective Briscoe promised. the HANDY TIRE TOOL A very handy tmplement to make easy the examination of the Inside of a casing when looking for punc- tures, fabric breaks or weak spots lis a wedge made of a substartial stick of wood three-quarters of an inch thick and three to five inches long, depending on the size of the tire. ‘This wedge may be slipped between the beads and pulled around the entire circumference of the casing with one’ hand, leaving the other free to hold the tire, other name would be as sweet, may find out giving her yours, Don't think that a “gtr by any You your mistake after RUBBER IMPORTS INCREASE Crude rubber amounting to 17,- 965 tons was imported in July this |year, which is an increase of 873 ltons over July, 1918, and an in- Jerease of 1,646 tons over June of jthis year Altho June imports dropped to 16,319 tons from 24,124 |tons last year, the 1918 figures were unusually high, the average import for June being nearer this year's figures. LICENSE FOR GAS PUMPS Gasoline pumps in Connecticut |must, according to‘the new state law, be registered. A small licerise plate similar to that used on cars is issued by the commissioner of motor vehicles at a cost of $2. The plate bears the license number and the year, PREVENTING SHORT CIRCUITS There is frequently danger of short circuits in the battery pe- cause of the fact that one of the terminals is located near the metal |handle used for lifting the battery. To obviate this danger it is only necessary to slip a short length of rubber tubing over the wire at the point where the contact might be made. To do this the tubing should |be slit lengthwise, slipped over the wire and taped firmly in place, It is a good plan to follow this prac- tice wherever there is danger of \the wires rubbing off their insula- tion and so establishing a short cireult, Let's go buy Boldt’s French pas- try. Uptown, 1414 3d ave.; down- town, 913 2d Ave. a 2125 Fourth Avenue What Is the Next Big Letter? 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