The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 21, 1920, Page 7

UTOMOBILE AUTOM BS, TRUCKS, ACCESSORIES Velie ccanaaad| Buys Big Rutenber Motor Co. Plant Max Olsen, 20 MONTHS WRITTE GUARANTEE A BATTERY FOR EVERY CAR THE MOST REMARKABLE STORAGE BATTERY EVER BUILT Motordom! Drive in for free testing and filling of all makes of Batteries. Jie. Sensation The New UNDREDS have seen the new Velie—and have taken their first ride in it. They pronounce it far and away the leader of all light six mod- els for 1920, Its distinctive style is the first at- traction—the symmetrical, harmonious combination of planes that sets a new standard in body art—the new dress that satisfies your idea of what to- day’s car should be. But its style fs matched by its comfort—its longer Take your ride in it and let us have | body—really broad doors—more room your verdict. Seattle Price $2,085 OLSEN-WARREN MOTOR CO. Elliott 180 1109 Pine Street The mark of the new Velie Six—watch for it oa president of the Olsen: , trol practically all of the units which | Warren Motor Co, announces, upon | #° to make up Velle cars | in return from the Bast, that the|, According to Mr. Olsen, the Ruten- ols Shei coisas ee Motine, {Der motor plant tn one of the mont rs corporation, of Moline, | » n plants in the United States, U1, has purchased the Rutenber mo-| having been equipped during the tor plant, at Marton, Ind., for a con-| war with a great deal of new machin: eration of approximately $1,000, | ery Mr, Olsen, after visiting the 000 Velie factory, says it is making prop- This will put the Velie factory, ac-|arations for building, during 1920, cording to Mr, Olsen, another step uble the number of cars turned forward in itn de minau to t during any one yea before. WEIGHT IS |MILLIONS FOR NOT VITAL! MORE ROADS It is definitely conceded among The year 1920 promines to develop sutomobile engineers today that it i#/ a revolution in America’s two prob: not #o much the actual weight of the | porn» —hi jome—highways and tran jon. jour that counts ag it te distribution |i) over ¢) peptic Guat tiseen of the weight in being manifested in better roada “Until recently it waa pretty gen- Jerally supposed that an ‘automobile {S24 proved transportation facitt |ehould weigh a given number of | | pounds before it could be expected to hola the road, ride comfortably and fulfil the other demands made upon it. says Willam Bradshaw, of the | Summit Motor Car Co., loca! distrib. | uters for the Davis Six. “This, how: fever, is shown by engineers to be rroneous. “The distribution of the weight of the rious units which make up the! ompleted car is the determining fac | tor, rather than the actual weight { the car itself, Thus, a relatively Neht weight car, like the Davis, thru \ in its deep tilted seats and soft, plaited upholstery. : And that new motor! Here fs the net result of all that engineering sei- ence has gained in the last four years —an amazing power plant—silent— supple—a perfect performer on lowe grade fuel—the greatest money saver under any hood. Come and see it, Vi STORAGE BATTERY ne coming of the pneumatic-tired motor truck haa given an impetus to the movement for @ national high- way ny! n that Is ing every: thing before it, ven State after state has passed, with- out noticeable opposition, appropria- tiona for millions of dollars to build and improve main market and inter- county highways, What these activities portend can | be visualized in some measure when | it f@ maid that of the 2,000,000 miles | of roads in this country only 200,000 | State Distributors Master Electric Co. Successor to Leone Dual Lighting and Ignition Co, 921 East Pike St. SEATTLE East 187 p ¥¥ & be Fd We Have » Good Proposition for Live Dealers. The letter came from WILL YOUR CAR FIT | Central American YOUR FRONT HALL Por. ve 1° "nin SANDUSKY, 0. Feb. 21—"How | "44 much air space does your car dis-| “Among the complete details it is important to know those of the di place?” and “What are en- | a dimen: | mensions of the cars. } Cushing's tative, panish repr is due to the fact that private per. lo not use garages, but put their cars into the halls of their houses. Therefore it is necessary to know the sizes of the cars, to find |} out whether they could easily enter | tnto these hal “It are too wide for the [halla it would be necessary to rent & garage, which w |eost and reduce the economy.” of cars in Gnatemala, ————__—— & letter recetved here) There are 20 passenger automobile ing of the Maibohm | manufacturers and six truck build # in the state of Indiana. WHO UNDERSTAND THE QUALITIES THAT ARE EMBODIED IN FINE MOTOR CARS, WILL INSTANTLY RECOGNIZE THE SUPERIOR MERITS OF THE LEX- INGTON. THE POSSESSION OF SUCH A BEAUTI- FUL MOTOR CAR IS A TRIBUTE TO YOUR GOOD TASTE, FOR THE LEXING- TON IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF DISCRIMINATING BUYER: Phone East 100 for a Demonstration. Shields-Livengood Motor Co. “The AllAmerican House” Seattle Yakima Spokane “The importance of this question | uld increase the} ©! BUICK PLANS - FOR INCREASE |= #« | HH. MH, Bassett, newly elected presi dent of the Buick Motor company, announces the plans made by his or ganization for the coming year, in | volving the expenditure of ten m lion dollars for new buildings ar | eantpment | The Buick program is a sequence jot forward steps of which Mr | Baanett's promotion to the presidency jis one of the most important. It | representa a series of the most pre entious developments in Buick’s his to SPEND TEN MILLION Discussing the plans of his com. pany, Mr. Barsett sald: “Our plane involve the expenditure during 1 | of approximately ten million doflars, lof which seven and a half million will be Invested in new butldings and equipment at Flint, Mich., and the balance in the erection of a new assembly plant St. Louis, Ma [These improvements and additions will enable the Buick factories to jincrease their production schedule to 760 cara daily. | “The building program. which Is already well under way, inctudes the erection of nine buildings and large | lextensions to three other plants, | Work on these is being pushed rapid. ly. Completion of the task will see tho Flint factories prepared to turn out 550 ears daily | plant at St. Louis will be equipped to assemble 200 cars a day, the | chassis units being shipped to that point for assembling. Bodies for these will be built in St. Louis “Buick proposes to maintain “ne of the world's largest plants for the making of motor cars, if aot the largest. We intend to make it ideal from the standpoint of thy workers aa well as the manageme.* . seeking to surround our employer | with every safeguard, every improve |ment for thelr health and comfort, | ed a prominent part in battering open | good light, good air and perfect sant | tation.” Five pounds of sugar free the purchase of a used Ford, was the offer recently a Cleveland | dealer. At that th some owners |were almost ready to swop thelr Fords for a pound of sugar. Fifty-five per cent of the total im- |ports of motor vehicles in South Africa were supplied by American manufacturers, Car Luxury Big Utmost Economy of Operation In a Light Car Model When a car that drives and rides in the class of the high-priced makes, and has the same essentials of construc- tion, yet sells for a medium price, the Sixes this m demand is always great. Yet we are able to make immediate delivery on a limited number of Saxon jonth, Summit Motor Car Co. 1016 East Pike In addition, the | We are} with | the selentific distribution of weight, ombines riding ease and other fea- tures of the tues of the smaller automobile, such economy of operation ‘The Davis company, thru long ex perience in building motor cara, has succemafully solved this problem of |. clght distribution, and this is one |reason for the popularity of the new | CARBURETOR HAS: ONE ADJUSTMENT}: Dispensing with all nosales, spray jets and eprings the U & J carbur- etor i# @ remarkable achievement in simplicity—a revelation in ite perfect response to every motoring require ment With but one adjustment made, and this one so very easy to |make that the individual require |menta of every motor may be suited to a nicety, the U & J forever ¢ its user from the evils of fre adjustment rendered neces | nary constant variations fn rur | ning conditions, gasoline, tempera- ture, or all of these things combined. net to suit the motor to be nerved, nothing except the deliberate use of a wrench will ever disturb either the exact adjustment or the perfect working of this real carbur. etor achievement Both the volume and velocity of the air required to produce @ pertect mixture for every motor speed and condition is controlled entirely by the movement of the throttle and not by means of unreliable eprings. ‘The U & J carburetor is represent: ed in Seattle and the state of Wash- ington by the U, & J. Sales company, }with headquarters at 401 Pine at. TRUCKS BUCK SNOW Pliasard conditions that paralyzed virtually all trafiic in New York city | during the big storm recently failed) to halt Pierce Arrow trucks, whore reserve power and dependability of) ervice met an emergency that cost owners of other makes of trucks dearty. | Plerce-Arrow trucks, in fact, play- to be ers | quen Onee the snow-bound thorfares. One| group of five-tonners, equipped with |12-foot anow plows worked night and day for the greater part of a week clearing the streets, Operating the entire 24 hours, the only time the mo- tors in these trucks was stopped was during brief periods necessary to re | plenish motor oll. | The dally average output In the \latter part of 1919 for 12 reprgrenta- | | tive automobile makers was 150 per jeent greater than that of the early |months. ‘The demand must have | been about 250 per cent greater. GRAVEL ROADS ‘The main gravel highways tn the Moines—Gooa. -Tacgime Highline Ane ir except at dar Mountain wie Valley-Hlack Diamond. jnville-Duvall—air, pote. UES W-Pall City Patt m ¢ 04. Patr, to preparations wing, this aint ¢% miles from Renton, y from a point & to 6 ton. North Bend—Good, Vie Lake Sammam- Nice seonto ride, Kent-Covington Renton-Renton n-Bellevue anction——Fratr. Poor. 004. (Bast of North Rena) ne to ‘ail up this office or Billott 23 t information, Pleasure driv- attempted above ald not be | _nnow line | MeCletian Pam Highway — (Auburn PP Pnumciaw-Green Water River)—Paved rection fines gravel section beyond Vnumelaw good, Snow may be en countered nbove Mnumelaw, PAVED ROADS faved ronda are in excellent shape ox in a few casos, Repairs are being |made on the Bothell road north of & Jattie, and between Kent and Orti Drivers should exercise care when pass ing there places, especially at night or |auring for Beattle-Renton- inier Vatley—City r traffic between + Beach and county line, Pav- er way near Taylor's mill, Drive retully here. Vashon Island Forry—The ferry from on to Portage has been ree ‘The Seattle-Vashon Heights Harper ferry bas been discontinued pending repairs. For further information regarding King county roads cail Muin 6900, local a6, Via I heavy car with the vir-| tho rough in| miles are improved, | Motor transports work |effielency on good roads, altho the pneumatic truck Ure is rendering Joonspicuous service in transporting j heavy loads over ewampy ground jand the sandy soll of fruit groved, |ENTERPRISE NOW IN NEW LOCATION | | Under the direction of W. R. Bank-| head as manager, the nterprine | tieetrie Works are now in their new jlocation, at 1423 Tenth ave, In the new home the firm im able to give it higheet | drive-in service on electrical and bat- | ery work for all makes of cars, and) | additional equipment is being added to care for the increase in business | that has come as a natural outcome of the firm's progressive methods. SOCIETY WOMAN SUCCUMBS TO LEXINGTON LURE|oenians oe Bast | Enthusiastic over the Lexington |atx which she received from the Shields-LAvengood company last | week, Mrs. Howard W. Parish, of 805 West Blaine st., is proudly f-culation manager of The Star, and viting ali her friends to try out with her the class of her new car. Mrs. Parish is the wife of the cir- it is rumored that the competition for the use of the car sometimes reaches serious proportions, altho no open rupture has as yet been an- nounced. GUNNYSACKS ARE NEW TIRE FILLER What would you do, if you ‘were to blow out your last inner-tube and not have the means to repair it? Run it on the rim? Yes, but if you had any distance to go you know {how that rim would look. | Here's how one motorist tn | Mexico got away with it. He had had a large number of blowouts. Finally the last spare ‘tube went, and his tube-repatr kit was not in the car, He disliked a trip on three wheels and a rim, #0 he headed for the nearest ranch, In New armful of gunnysacks Removing the casing the useless inter-tube, and stuffed the casing with the gunnysacks, be- ing careful to got them in evenly. After the casing had been packed |hard, he replaced it on the wheel and went merrily on his way, certain that he would have no more pune: tures in that wheel at least. Ohio is the center of the automo- bile tire industry a few minutes he returned with an) he took out | |he up and hitched himself to his NO BUS FOR HIM PITTS GROVE, N. J., Feb, 21— Tom Kain of this city would not drive an auto if one were given to him. No airree, rather than that he'd tow his cart himself—if his horee failed him. Kain'’s horse did fafl him. It) died. But Tom bad to get to Elmer for his weekly purchase which was too much for a man to carry. So wagon and drove himdelf to Elmer a back! Tt cost only $127 for an Towa fam- ily of five to cover 9,000 miles in three months with a Ford one-ton jadding 150,000 square | manufacturing activities. truck, 0, Adam didn't do it; it hap- pened last summer. | | | | ! (le Alero- Eicut DOUBLE THE RANGE OF PERFORMANCE HALF THE COST OF OPERATION Eight Exclusive Body Styles ° UNITED MOTORS CO. A. F. HAWKINSON, Mer. Pine at Bellevue DORT TO BUILD CLOSED BODIES To keep pace with the unusual demand created by the four-season sedan and coupe models the Dort Motor Car company, of Flint, has taken over the extensive plant of| the Lull Carriage company, at Kal amazoo, This entails an expenditure of about a half a million dollars on the part of the Dort company. One of the Luli buildings has been turned over and possession of the other will be secured on May 1, the whole feet to Dort In the building now being put in shape will be installed a complete wood working equipment, band sawe, planers, dry kilns and new boilers in the power house, All ma chinery will be of the latest pat-| tern and so arranged that the pro duction of from 150 to 200 sets of body parts will be the daily sche- dule, There were 1.438 automobiles in use in France in 1899. East 9 BIG TIRE P Announcement is made from | Diego that L, 8. Chamberiaiay |mer Pacific Coast sales |has been appointed sales Jot the Spreckles’ “Savage” company. Mr. Chamberlain has ‘: frequent visitor to Seattle i position he formerly occupied, among tire eirelep well known ithe West. ] | W. RB. Bankhead, Announce removal 1423 Tei Drive & for Gi Vhone Bast 666 MR. OAKLAND 0 We give free service on etor tuning, adjusting ‘br justing valve tappets, timing. Filling and testing terles of any make. We Are Always at Your, If in Trouble cail 5 0 518 Westlake North Queen Anne 4071 Money Saving Values IN : Rebuilt Trucks ie GMC pes GMC with 2-ton ay SO with body Reo Speed W: 1919 Dodge Delivery 1918 Buick Delivery Call East 842 or Come and See ELDRIDGE