The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 10, 1920, Page 10

THE SEATTLE ch tbe nda = 1920, UTOMOBILE AUTOMOBILES, TRUCKS, ACCESSORIES SCLEVELAND LINE| tate-Wide Safety First MERCER TAKES “ Compaign Urged by Club “Why not a statewide safety-first jaccommodate this growing traffic | Campaign, limited to one or more expansion, The pabt year, with its| during which not only the alarming toll of accidenta, wrecks | has served to empha. | walker but the inexperienced | and fatalition, ist could be educated to traf: | sixe this condition, and the Auto. Tegulations? mobile club in its 1920 service to This is the plan now being advo-| the motoring public hopes to elimi: | by the Automobile Club of nate these dangers that beset the nm Washington in considera-| streets and public thorofares: of the unprecedented increase | In on, to this proposed safety: | motor cars and population thru: | first « idn, which is destined to promote strict observation of traf | fle regulations, the Automobile club} in waging a determined effort to en Mat the support of every state or ganization in preserving natural timber along established highwayn. | All state organizations are urged to| past resolutions to this effect, | copies of which may be obtained by communicating with headquarters} the state, particularly in the ern district. Such a campaign ow being arranged by the Auto le club in its 1920 program to the conditions of motor Not only in Seattle and Tacoma, “But every smaiier city and com ity is confronted with an ever sing traffic: problem. Automo and people are inereasing injof thé Automobile Club of Western tion, yet™ the streets and| Washington, 406 University st. Se-| Fhways are not being widened to ‘atte RECORD IN HOUR TEST) YORK, Jan, 10.—When Milton catapulted hia rakish | © non-stock Dusenburg racer [new YORK SHOW DIRECTORY OUT, There are listed in the sixth an+ |nual directory of the w York) National Autorhobile show, which | ed Saturday evening, January 3, & total of S21 firms with 3,500 5900 cubic inches piston displace | representatives, their titles and Across the finish line at Sheep* | stopping places in New York. The Bay « few days ago. it had crear host of visitors npy ace | . | farther in one hour than any | commodations in 36 hotels, all of} The Mereer Cycle company has nroke .The bore has been increased | car in the world, regardiess Of) wiich are listed with addresses (SMMounced the acquisition of the Minch over last year's engine, giv-| land telephone numbers, In addi-|Cleveland ightweight motorcycle for|ing additional power. “The fuel con Ing with consummate skill, the this annual feature at the na-|@stribution in Northwest Waahing-| sumption is approximately one gal famous pilot made 113 miles In| tional show, compiled by F. Ed |" and the above photograph | lon of gas to 75 miles of running inutes, shattering all records for) coconer, editor of Automotive |*hOW# Manager F. W. Mercer with The machine weighs only cars in non-competitive) worg of the Detroit Free Progs,)0P* of the new 1920 models which | pounds, which insures eare of hand trials. The daring. driver also) 4.4 originator of the directory,| *Tived in Seattle @ few dayr ago ng in traffic and on the road The new Cleveland has many im provements over the 1919 machines. The gas tank has been « 4 two pressed steel stre ne, ample in up new marks for two hours, continuing his terrific when he found that he had the hour record. At the end! lcarries a list of 31 events listed for | Speed on Hills show week, 24 coming shows and| the names of 34 associations of This new Cleveland has been given many severe tests on Seattle's hills A | Pational importance, with their of- and has carried Mr. Mercer over hours his car had traveled) rcinis There ts also found @ List| #2 and set snug and compast 1 most of them on high Kear, with miles, and at the end of 180 min of 41 daily papers outside New| ithe frame. A new tool box to match plenty of power to spare, Aw @ ma had completed = yore co,| York with the names of their rep- lthe gas tank hhs been insta chine for leht delivery work, where us to, Milton a cen ye "| resentatives at the show and the/*" additional horizontal bar added) tie; @onsumption and upkeep ex greatest number miles ever! names of 22 trade publications beneath the tank which ie pense figures greatly, it is without im an hour was the mark of | © mot by Ralph De Palma in his 300 | inch Packard-Special at Sheeps Ray on November 16, 1917. The strength and beauty to the mach! The forks are of pressed steel eon struction and the tires have been In- creased in size to 26x% with their complete representation: simplicity of the motor yet strongly construct n equal. The and jt# plain ed frame and low saddle posi combined with Ite low selling pric Many London ladies’ maids are ‘a record for two hours was learning to become chauffeurs to 1 or Bore - ss bg i 1} miles, and for three hours 320 | their mistresses, thus performing a) roel . wcatrene, | r most deatrable [ oa 00 | double duty with increased pay, The Cleveland has a two-troke, | nomical transportation medi > a 4 anesotoell 2% horsepower motor, air cooled.|those who do not wish a heavier | with 2h inch bore and 2% Inch | type of motoreyéle 1 FIRST ENTRY IS DURANT’ S| [ROADS ARE Ride a 1920 IN DANGER CLEVELAND INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 10.-Clifford| WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10.—| Durant, millionaire son of W. C.| "Miles of road, whieh have much to Durant, head of the General Motors! do with the high of living, may | company, registered the first entry |for the elghth international 600-mile become untray uniens the tendency lable in many states to divert auto-| |eweepstakes race on the fndianap:| mobile fegistration money to float TO WORK J olis motor speedway Monday, May/ing state bond iasues In quickly ar sist rested," aamerted Chairman George Durant wired his entry from Call fornia, where, in the Chevrolet fac ©. Diehl of the A, A. A. Good Roads | board, who today at A. A. A. national) | Get away from the slow, crowded street cars. Buy your own saga = ve be your own tory at Oakland a special 183. cubic] headquarters discunsed the matter | " inch flier is being built to the new|with highway advocates from| Specifications of the Hoosier contest. | various nections of the country. Durant waa also the first to enter ‘hia in one of the most serious Se the face last year, showing © | matters confronting farsecing advo: | + cided partiality fer the coveted No.| cates of highways progress,” naid| 1 position on the entry list. Like all| we Diehl, who haw been making a! knights of the wheel, Durant has bis survey of 1920 state road programa. | Pet superstition. his particular brand) «4 fundamental in taxation is that] that No, 1 carries Imck for him | Durant ts the direct descendant of ja generation of millionaire racing en |thusieats that formerly boasted such it should be spread according to benefita, and it is ridiculous to may that motoriats receive a which acerue from im: q A simple, economical Motorcycle. Seventy-five niiles te one gallon of gas. It pays for itself in carfare saved. pmeanganied wages worn tg ways, When the motorists consent} win Bergdo einer . 7 to pay & large share of the main-| tate David Bruce Brown and Spencer) tenance charges, that is as far as Vihar. they Id acquiesce in sharin Durant has figured prominently in precio oy wager Al song a la or Arnage soa = id | in mind that the motorist I* also a citizen who pays the general uixes nationally and in che several states. This picking him out for super-taxation in connection with |hin vehicle ownership has reached the mit of acceptance and should be stoutly resisted ~ hort cute Jacking In true eco:| nomic principles are always ferreted | out by the financial expert, and this| abuse of th motorist'’s generonity for that is exactly what it is—is be ing shorn of Sts subterfumes. In his acceptance of a discriminatory tax coant champion by virtue of his vic tories in the 1918 Montamarathon jand Potlatch contests at Tacoma, jane his sweeping triumph in the 1919 {Santa Monica road race, which he won at the highest speed ever re corded for that event, $1.28 m. p. b now exacte the car owner Is entitled to an han mon: th Thia he registration | est run for hin doesn't get when funds are used for construction and | not for maintena a met which Ia not put forward in states | that are willing to play fair in the| premixes O ou After an investigation of road ding activities in certain states are engaged in nsidering | forms of financing their highways buildin®, I am more than er convinced that the original tn As this super light truck has met the demands of more than two hun- Know ‘ ) P extment in the road itself should] dred representative Seattle busi- hide Pa y Pi A foi come ‘trom direct taxation or | i i i i ‘ i or, whert justified, thro the fasulng | ness houses, it will fill your need in i 2. oe cee, fone . any emergency that may arise. builder of the GMC Trucks, the General Motors ‘THOUSANDS VISIT | BIG MOTOR PLANT How is the Pi ‘Ask Any Speed Wagon Owner ree Arrow made? That question is answered to the satisfaction of from £2,000 to 14,000} visitors who register at the factory Nine Reo Speed Wagons in the Municipal Service. Many other Rorporation Fite Passer Mote ou se large fleets operating with absolute The largest motor or- |] users ot Pierce-Arrow cars and trucks. | . : : . * ‘, z é. This fact, says a Pierce ‘ow of satisfaction in this territory. = An’ CHOU, becocpretsn ther’ caateane worl. truck or passenger car user takes | a keen interest in the actual manu facture of these products | “Nothing in more convincing to a motorist or truck owner of the qual ity construction of Pleree-Arrow than That’s why GMC on a Truck is like Distributed by USA ona Bond Loa = of the factory,” said} UNITED MOTORS CO., Inc. Come in today and I'Savhen a visltor seen with hie own | look over our stock [}} tests they are subjected to, the ac: | 407 E. Pine Street Seattle leurncy with which they are ma: chined, the precautions taken to in sure this accuracy, the system of in speetion followed thruout manufac , ture, and the thorones# of final test jing, that visitor gains a clear know! edge of what is meant by Pierce Arrow standards of quality,” | Courteous guides are furnished to |accompany visitors on trips of in |mpection at the Pierce-Arrow factory: \* trip thru the machine shops, as sembling shops, test buildings, body 0 Rebuilt GMC Trucks ELDRIDGE A. F. HAWKINSON, Manager | COMPANY |shopm, chemical laboratories, the power house, inspection departments Seattle ‘akima |} @"4 other parts of the factory teeme |with interest, for the visitor wit |nerses the mont modern methods of ‘automobile manufacture Spokane Walla Walla ithe week, due largely to the fact! - that there were many more strik ingly new models to be seen this year than there w in 1918 and 1919 when wartime conditions re| stricted both mechanical and artistic }lake North, SHOW MOST / SUCCESSFUL Jant night ar decaden came to a close when the curtain dropped passenger car display at the ¢ Central Palace and the motor tr exhibit at the Eighth Const Artiliory Armory, according to word received by W. M. Livengood, vice president | of the Shields Livengood Motor com | on bey ‘ “i jut UNE Vem ay pany ; | Never, in fact, has there been | ——— { |ereater or more sustained interest in| the show that there wha this year, the attendance on the closing days| being just as large as that earlier in| ont | Sfnce a week ago, Father Knicker bocker has gotten an eyeful of more real automobile beauty than he ever | did at previous shows, the American | body designers having equaled, at leant, in thelr cars of 1 the coach. work for which Buropean designers have long been noted. The low, lithe effect, which ts th prevailing style, has conspicuous ex- emplification, for example, in the ew National Sextet, a car in which unusual lowneas hae been attained by @ revolutionary method of body mounting without maerifice of body depth or standard road clearance. Both the passenger cars and motor Seattle Yakima Spokane Chassis $1675 Caen nn Givers oe scheduled on At last! Your opportunity is here—you can save hundreds of dollars in first _ pO ge a gg lg rene cost and in maintenance cost by using the Traffic 4,000-pound capacity Truck. Chicago ew will open in the Col DO YOUR HAULING WITH A TRAFFIC g Dexter Park pavilion STANDARDIZED STANDARD- im, American” Forestry associa BUY YOUR TRAFFIC TRUCK NOW planting. (yore alone the highways . Phone East 100 for Demonstration the highways will not only beautify and shade the| roads; but their roots will strengthen and support the road foundation, Shields-Livengood Motor Co. According to figures recently com. 4 in Washington, only one Ee Annee eee ighth ef the public roads in the SEATTLE YAKIMA SPOKANE United States have been improved. 1024 Kast Pike St. 205 8. Wall St. The total length of these r 478,562 miles, of which 21 miles are improved with some form ot of surfacing Phone East 100 Manufactured by ‘Traffic Meter Track Corporation, St. Louis, Me. LOCAL MEN TO OPERATE GARAGE| aaa | Gas Gossip ‘There is one motor vehicle to every 33 persons in Chicago. Scrubwomen in Clearfield, Pa, go to work in their own motor cars. There was 9.174 motor cars stolen in Philadelphia in 1919. Several lines of motor busses are now operated in Tokyo, Japan. Twenty years ago engineers termed the gasoline engine impractical. The state of New York has 80,000 One-half of all the rubber im to this country goes into autor tres King Alfonso, of Spain, is among the latest buyers of American-made | | motor cars. There tre 7,000 concerns in the United States engaged in making automobile parts. The Illinois Automobile club, of Chicago, has a membership of more than 10,006, In the first year of the production of automobiles, 16 motor cars were turned out, In Californt: automobile lieense miles of public highway. lof any other state is good for three, «- Brooklyn has nearly 40 motor|months. truck lines operating out of the city.| Cuba is repairing many of the old There are no road rules nor speed | military roads, as well as construct limits in Chile outside of the cities. ing new highways. There are a 120,000 kinds, and sell and give service on! pleasure cars and 9,500 trucks in Op. _ | Permalife batteries. In another year |tario, Canada. |@ new building of three stories will| A large oll company, of New Jer- | be rected at their present location,| with headquarters at Newark, oper- |and the two partners are already lay-| ates 346 motor vehicles. jing plans to occupy the greater part Since March, 1918, the Japanese jof it themselves with a modern| government has actively encouraged garage and shop, equipped to handle!the manufacture of motor trucks In Automobile work of any nature. Japan 4 With the idea that there is al-|was a foreman at the Kilbourne ways room for one more good firm | Clarke Co, and for the last two! in the garage business, M. R. French | years he has been master mechanic | and FE. B. Wade, both well known in| at the Washington Oakland company, the automobile industry here, have | which is now called the Austfh-Mose- Joined forces in the operation wf the ley company. Wade was with th Seattle Oakland Garage at 618 West-|same company before entering the and will give their per-| government serv from which he mal attention to the needs of their | received his discharge nine months patrons in the repair and adjustment |ago with the rank of leutenant of all makes of automobiles. The fitm is equipped to handle For a year and a halt Mr French scetytene welding and brazing of all PRICES WILL ADVANCE VERY SOON ON THE 1920 MAXWELL Play safe—place YOUR order now. Installed On Your Car IT—Cleans and keeps your motor free of carbon. IT—Is as essential to the motor as the carburetor. IT—Will give you the pep and power that make driving a real pleasure. IT—Is being used by a large number of jitney and stage lines. “IT” their un- The following concerns have given qualified indorsement: F, S, LANG MANUFACTURING CO, COMMERCIAL IMPORTING CO. ELLIOTT BAY SHIPBUILDING CO. COAST PRINTING CO. SUPERINTENDENT OF COUNTY GARAGE, Henry W. Odom. COUNTY ENGINEER, Samuel J. Humes. And many other enthusiastic users. The price of “IT” is Twelve Dollars and Fifty Cents —Installation Extra. i Have “IT” installed ‘on your car, use “IT” for 30 days, and if you are not satisfied your money will be refunded upon the return of the Decarh« e ‘zer. By phoning Main 5945, Local 807, you %vill bring one of the IT representatives for a practical demon- stration. Boats a Decarbonis Ce. Frank H. Manogue, State Sales Agent 511 Third Avenue Phone Main 5945 You will get immediate delivery, and take ad- vantage of the present prices. SEATTLE AUTOMOBILE SALES CO. H. P. Grant, Manager 1101 East Pike St. East 462