The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1919, Page 12

PAGE 12 DEC. 20, 1919. EPARTMENT TRAILERS AND CTORS THE SEATTLE STAR--SATURDAY, UTOMOBILE | AUTOMOBILES, TRUCKS, ACCESSORIES, {i} HOME OF BIG DI ‘ING HOUSE ON AUTO ROW STANDARD The ZENITH Carburetor is accepted by the U. S. government and the lead- ers in the automobile industry as stand- ard. On your car it will deliver the same unfailing power and pep that it is delivering to thousands of other mo- torists. Most Miles - Per Gallon or Most Miles CHRISTMAS On Tires Real Present for the Entire Family # Make arrangements for the delivery of your Maxwell now Drive in for Service Maser ectric Ca Broadway, bet. Pike and Pine , East 160 Seattle * Portland ariats go tar notte French ome! TIGHT LOADS | town, 910 Second aves WIN FAVOR. THE learry their average load rather than ¢ bik enough for their maxim @ e s load is the conclusion of A. F. Hawkinson, manager of the United | Motors company | By DR. EDWIN J, BROWN | “There was a time not so long | Wewateh ge Hieeifiee | ago when the average buyer figured | Irrigated Apple, and at| up the biggest load that he wou Se ace ge ites sae National Shows to Disclose Stall No. 59, in the) ever want to haul and then tried to are een Zoe buy a truck big enough to carry it.” | °* en gs than = any other type - >. « wi t ne bear- } r land that Reo made almost as many Bing in isi | sae amnion. ine te wees oPlens Sateen nes. Refinements in Body Design . a, nesinning, Tuesday enced user has come to realize that It is ready for you Threesiory Buscmg of the Dice Lavengood Motor Co, whieh is the ¢ and Traffic Truck activities. “er of National, Liberty, Lexington “The fact that more trucks of| ther, shows, I think, the trend of > eicure fe, ae'| there te nothing eo expeneive. as | Setter, shows, T think. the trend « BY H. A. TARANTOUS DISTRIBUTORS j truck carrying half a load unless) iiss pius reliability have won this Managing Editor of Motor H. P. GRANT, Mana : oe he trbek with to: 00 Slow FBAE | ia direnty While it is a little too early to expect the automotive en- x saiage , pial it wastes the time of an expensive) yp, A ° “A a o1 a hur ying — A Fn raged ae bert the. | Sineering world to have recovered from the shock of war, East 462 1101 E. Pike St. over schedules requiring them . “Pew users have loads which can|to buatete Joade Of & ton toa tan, Which called for production rather than design, the New ; age SRN »| not be split up into units of 2.000/and a half at points twenty-five} York and Chicago automobile shows nevertheless will give that every app the | to 3.000 pounds. When they have | mites distant within an hour. And/us a ly good conception of what has been done to make |———— truck which will ha ton with they keep their schedules. I know ou 2 a P Pp 7 , rt eed r passenger automobile better. Briefly, the greatest at- 08 erantees ny pe| maximum economy they have thel of one Speed Wagon that has de I s r y, the g ta from 25 cents to 59| most economical truck. If the truck | tjvered six tona of coal from car to| teNtion has been given to body design, to engines and to cents lees the} has real speed it will make two| dwelling house basement in an hour,| Chassis detail, while clutches, transmissions, steering and} trips while a heavy truck is making and that in pinches has delivered| axles, already highly refined, have received practically no! ne and handle the same tonnage in! titty tone of coal in a day. That is attention. There are certain movements apparent with re-| n hour. Of course it has lower, what real speed in a real truck t t versal ts and to wheels, but de f hese | irst cost, and lower cost of opera! makes possible spect to universal joints and to wheels, but aside from these | tion and maintengnce. Its bigwest| “A high-powered motor plus pnew-| the underneath parts of the car are as they were. This is eo savings over the heavy truck are on) matic tires makes it possible for! not to say they will not be bettered in a year or so, but that! | at the same old 4. 8 hen the twotonner | this truck to venture where another/there has not been the time to permit engineers to get to DI ED u vel with half a load, would fail.” 9 A every part of the car. On every hand the cost of keeping] There are conaiderably more over ® car is spoken of more than the cost | head-valve engines and those that ples before you buy - jes, nuts and other fruit will be son as the TRAFFIC TRUCKS SOLD, IN TWENTY MINUTES, AMOUNTING TO OVER $ TWENTY-TWO MILLIONS $ GREATEST TRUCK SALE EVER MADE of buying. I look forward to seeing |are not new have been improved, es & great many «mall elght cars, | pecially so far as lubr is con-| ean afford | cerned. Power output is greater on to buy and above all to operate, Eu-| the average engines, tho displace rope has over forty of these makes, | ment has not varied much. The fuel which if p: such as the average r juced in quantity here! problem has brought about a vast would be the cheapest sort of care.| number of changes in manifolding Many Kefinements and practically every engine has} some means of heating the mixture. In looking over the new produce. tions one is impressed with the great New Ideas Seen | attention to the smaller items of Some wonderful examples of ad equipment, to such things as doors| vanced engineering will appear at and door handles, cow! boards, in-| the shows. I refer to such new prac struments and fe ing. Changes | tices as bearings without shims, and This enormous amount of trucks was sold in twenty minutes at the Pease wenn bed enally thas ni foe gpd Bh perl hl sod traffic truck dealer convention, which was held at St. Louis from De- » ween | Sve die. In the ons: roar on Hae cember 11 to December 12, inclusive. During a meeting of the con- wad. -4apevionde,. anh -one tll. ft vention which was attended by Wm. M. Hartford, general sales man- ren tittae aie tien oe coe ager for Shields-Livengood Motor Co, this most wonderful sale of work on en vr head. ignitior x and e not} Traffic trucks was consummated within the short period of 20 minutes and represents the traffic trucks actually bought by the dealers at- tending the convention. louvres, windshield support more substantial and shiel much in evidence and a few conc have taken the There’s a Reason » small bulltdr pleces attached to thew d.| fabric unive TRAFFIC The Traffic 4,000-Ib. capacity TRAFFIC Ba bacionect Sa cee Nn Oe metal joint. for TRUCK rage: Han ee ee: eee oe with metal whee tho wood is still} els and the re nb athe averke "| the standard for regular luction. models will constitute ele gt Manet healt er sare ; f the models and in pro Mee eed A 4,000-lb. capacity trick built of the best of units with . to 40 per cent. The Avo ,000-lb. capacity true built o: e best of units with a superabundance of The coal shortage is becoming more most Dunular Gf the iamiiar aeel GANIMCE Daa ow (MT power hd ‘Saved: Hel Gant Continental motor, Russel internal gear drive, mul- serious every day, and the demand and brougham or town car leads| WASHI 20.—Beere. | tiple dise clutch, Timken bearings, heavy six-inch frame. DELIVERY TO YOU for wood is becoming greater. tary of the Navy Daniels FOR $1,655.00. was in progress at Mare Island INVEST TODAY navy yard eH A TRAFFIC TRUCK WILL PAY FOR ITSELF AND SUPPORT A FAMILY AT THE SAME TIME ; MR. TRUCK USER, THINK THIS OVER in a used GMC Truck—3-4 to 2-ton capacity—and go after the wood business. 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