The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1921, Page 7

SATURDAY, SE Ford Cars Are $5 Cheaper | Than They Ever Have Been! TEMBER 8, 1921. THE SEATTLE STAR TOMOTYI SECTION VL * 8 &% Ford has hit the line again—and hit it hard! While the makers of the commodities of the world and the dealers thereof are knitting their brows over the possibility of ever again leveling prices to a re- war basis, Ford (Edsel, son of Henry and president ofthe Ford Motor Co.) announces that Ford cars ‘will cheaper in Detroit than they ever were! d still the Ford Motor bankruptcy. Co. is quite safe from , Automobile Prices Are Being Slashed NEW YORK, Sept. 3—The ex: @mple of Henry Ford in slashing au- fomobdile prices has been followed by @ix other manufacturers. Cuts ranging from $100 to $400 are @nnounced today by the Chevrolet, ‘Overland, Oldsmobile, Franklin, Hud fon and Essex Motor Car companies. THE NEW record for an automo Bile run between New York and Chi- €ago is 26 hours and 60 minutes. MUFFLER CUT-OUTS are prohib- | as fted in Buenos Aires, “|$50, 000 Pot Put Up in Salesmen’s Race} A pot of $50,000 is to be distributed | in prizes to salesmen for the Apex | Electrical Distributing Co. of Cleve-| Jand, ©, tn a 12-week contest, begin. | ning September 12, according to an nouncement. Automobiles, diamond irings, Elgin watchds and money wil! be among the stakes in the race. Bonuses will be awarded to a!! sales | men whether they lead or not. | pet «letras oedltte | MOTOR CAR owning per capita \s/ 20 times as great in the United States! in Engiand, and 30 times as great OU be the judge | | where the third annual Pike's Peak | | hill-climbing race is to held Labor) —rather than you of the superior- ity of the 1922 Buick models, we are extending to you a cordial invitation to ride in them 80 you may become better acquainted with the latest model Buicks. LITTLE STEAM CARBURETOR “THE LITTLE GIANT WILL NOT REFUSE ONCE INSTALLED, IT'S ALWAYS USED } SAVES GAS | Bold on a Money ‘anon Made at the Following Garages: Cline Motor Co., 1100 E. 45th St.5 ewan’ 0031 Bend Garage, 115 Prefeontaine Pieces Elltett 3870 | NATIONAL ENGINEERING | & MFG. CO. desta MAIN 7247 | | | - Bennett's by oe 1617 10th | Seuth 209 Pacific Block BRANCH ma 629 Tacoma han im 4519 618 Fidelity ide. Mate 3601 ‘Tacoma RELIABLE REPRESENTATIVES WANTED INCREASES POWER ELIMINATES CARBON PRICE INSTALLED $11.50 Pore i This is a view of the auto highway tell | Day. This section is probably the most difficult part of the 1f.and.one | hare mile grind. In negotiating this zigzag road. way, the drivers are forced to climb a grade that rises one foot in every 10 feet, skid their cars around @ that Motor tourists coming to Seattle from the East often speak in praise of the motor camps at Denver and Boise, Idaho. These two are consid. ered among the most convenient, complete and beautiful camps in the country. Both attract thousands of touriste each year. Denver's camp consists of 160 acres. Boise's ts not so large, but is built to accommodate about 400 cars. Denver's camp has a 3¢room club- house, with a grocery store, meat market, kitchen, lunch counter, barber shop, billiard room, shower baths and laundry. The Bolse camp facfiities are housed tn separate bufldings, but tn- clude about the «ame list. Both parks have a large community hall for meetings and dances. Both parks are well lighted. Denver's accommodations for the motor tourist include a filling station and motor accessory shop at the park entrance. Both cities have taken particular paine to mark all trails and roads GIANT Ave.) East 02) This is one of the new three-wheeled taxicabs re- gently put into service in Paris. It has a siz-horse- power engine, but is able to keep up with its bigger brothers due to lightness of construction. wreath 7. aigyrees, © 398 Colby BS BI R. E. Dill, 4432 Colby Ave. Blue 1271 PARE ARAN r4 i> ; true “hairpin” turn, and immediately ascend another grade almost directly above the other and equally as ateep. From this point on for more than fice miles, the race course is really & narrow shelf cut into the side of the famous mountain, with a granite) wall on one side and a dizzy chasm lon the other The Dizzy Heights the Racers F ollow Where Autos Climb fot Fame Labor Day The insert pictures show Ot Loew che and Al Cline, who took first and second frempectively in the 1920 race, driving Lexington Specials. They will compete this year tn an endeavor to retain the Penrose | Trophy, a solid silver cup valued at $3,500, and the title of “Pike's Peak | Champion” for the Lexington Motor Co., of Conneraville, Ind, ateenianemnetnnensnein Sane Denver Auto Camp a Modern Village within a radius of 200 miles of the | city. Tourists In Denver register at the park gate and are given permits en. titling them to occupy their assigned camp lot for two weeks, No charges are made at Botse’s camp, but many tourists make volun. tary contributions, No “fees are aske@ of Denver's tourieta, either, but concessions are let for the stores which provide tourists with desired truck lines in operation in the United pean evar Abtes tos ico. dn Coe fornia, eee MOTOR CARS bullt tn 1895 were officially called “motorcycles"—not automobiles. Pa Pte ¢ CALCUTTA, INDIA, has atout Hf 000 privately owned motor cars and approximately S00 goatenion, ° APPROXIMATELY 20 per cent of the automobiles in New York state fare owned by farmers. vir: STATE of California has nearly 3,000 licensed automobile dealers. eee IT IS estimated that there will be no less than 12,000,000 motor ve- hicles in the United States in 1921. eee THERE 1S one automobile for al most every family in the state of Iowa. ee NORWAY HAS thirty automobile dealers in Gifferent parts of the country. eee OVER 90 PER CENT of the coun try physicians own passenger auto mobiles. ee A MOTOR vehicle tunnel 6,000 feet longs proposed between Boston and East Boston. eee THERE 18 AN automobile for practically every two families in the United States. eee NEARLY $500,000,000 was invest- ed by American business men for motor trucks in 1919. see NINETY-SIX per cent of the mo- THIS IS THE FAMOUS JOHNSTON PISTON AND RINGS “They Deliver the Goods” A true check valve piston that ts lighter in weight, Increases power, decreases fuel and friction, It facilitates cylinder lubrication / We now have them in stock for the following automobiles: FORD BUICK DODGE CHANDLER GRANT ELGIN VELIE PHONE EAST 0535 CHEVROLET OLDSMOBILE JOHNSTON PISTON & RING AGENCY WINNINGHAM & PAYSSE and prevents overheating. OAKLAND SCRIPPS BOOTH SHERIDAN Maxwell Motor Co. Elects Treasurer B, E. Hutchinson, who has held numerous offices with commercial land political organizations, has been elected treasurer of the Maxwell Mo tor Corp., according to recent an- nouncement articles, ‘The tourtst camp in Bolse te three years old, Im 1918, 715 cars were accommodated; in 1919, 2,321, and in 1920 3,402. Denver's camp, in 1920 accommo- Gated 7,906 cars, an increase of 41 per cent over 1919. Tourist cars av- erage four passengers each. American-made. IN 1901 England wrote for the first time the modern fire, theft and public ability insurance on commer clal vehicles, eee THE UNITED STATES possesses & motor vehicle for every 60 yards of railroad right * way. CUBA, one. My the world’s best markets for motor cars and trucks, has 360 miles of roads. "eee THIRTEEN FREIGHT and seven Paasenger motor lines are operating out of Rochester, N. ¥. eee NEARLY 3 PER CENT of the peo- ple in the United States make their living from the automobile industry eee MORE THAN 42 per cent of the surfaced roads in the United States are gravel. ee FARMERS, DOCTORS and sales men head the list as the most import- ant individual buyers of passenger automobiles. eee THE FIRST pneumatic tire ever put into practical use was made 30 years ago. eee )} FORTY-FIVE hundred different |models of motor cars have been | manufactured since 1905. eee THE MIDDLE Western states lead mobiles per capita. nord GASOLINE WENT up to 75 cents a gallon in Buenos Aires last year. cee THE NUMBER of motor care in the Mexican republic ts 18,000, 614 EAST PIKE STREET JOHNSTON PISTON & RING CO,, Manufactyrors, 1214 to 1220 East Madison Street the nation in the ownership of auto-) les Cents Per 100 Miles, It Cost Him| tamming, of Wichita Falls, eeu has driven his Marmon car | a total of 11,031 miles since the first of the year, The total expended for | Y | ivr was $43.50 and the total for! | parts was $22.10, or an average of 68 cents per 100 miles. The labor item covers everything done on the car, including the time spent in oll-| ing. The only other outlay made by | Ramming In this time was for gaso line and ofl, and he says he could not advise a means of doing away | | with thene. } A Good Time, it Seems Apparent, Was Had by All) ‘The fifth annual employer’ pienic | was held by the Eldridge Buick Co. at Bilver Lake Saturday, The em* ployes ammembled at 8:30 a m. aw the Eldridge Buick Sales Co, stor at Harvard and E. Pike st. and pro ceeded in machines for the pienic grounta. First came the athletic sports, The | children's race, 6 years or under, was | won by Rose Trick. The girls’ 60. yard dash, 75 years or under, was} won by Ruth Van Riper, The chil-| dren's race, 12 years or under, was | won by Archie Glibert, The wheel! barrow race, free-for-all, was won by | Joe and Roy Wheat. The 60-yard! dash, freeforall, was won by G. E. |Kertis, A picked girls’ |the weball game from a picked |men's team for five innings. Immediately following the ball jwame, lunch was served. Tho retail | department won the tug of war from the wholesale department and also took ahe championship ball game. In the water carnival the 75-yard dash was won by G. E. Keftis, George Sansburn coming in a very | close second. The ladies’ 50-yard dash was won by Mra. George Scott; second place went to Mrs. G. C. Hill The high dive honors went to Mrs. | Frank J. Cook and the low dive to George Sansburn, In the single boat race Roy Wheat came in first and Harold Manke second. At 6:30 supper was spread mag- nificently under the supervision of Dan Sutton, A. 8. Eldridge, prest- dent of the company, and J. G. Fen- ton, vice president, talked on the sub. ject “For the Good of the Orde: A baby show was then staged in thi dance hall, Long's orchestra fur. nished music for the dancing, which consumed the rest of the evening. ENGLAND HAS 750,000 motor ve. icles, ——————$ Fer French Pastry look Bolat’s. —A:ivertisement. og |w. Defends Heavy Duty Truck as Necessary “In its place, the heavy-duty truck in as logical as the Mogul engine, which replaced the puny locomotive and demanded heavier rails, Trucks are now carrying half as much freight as the railroads and trucks will continue to increase their ton. nage carrying. 680 the solution of the roads problem must eventually be a serious effort to build roads to support heavy traffio—and perma- nent roads, too.” | This is the comment of President L, Day of the General Motors Truck Co., Pontiac, Mich. on the widespread enactment of laws against the operation of heavy duty trucks on an the Public roads, KANT SKORE PISTONS at Vetet NOT TO SCOR’ Sevzse, SLAP 01 PUMP OIL it weight ” -— cAnny e Ss. HAMMERED mince Lu™! ARING BRON Mets AND WRIST PIN! Ioenes ota t Rainier 7084 EAST PIKE ST. THERE AR¥ 282 planta in Penn.| sylvania for the recovery of gaso- line. License, Insurance and Interest on All Used Automobiles Sold During This Sale TWO BIG SPECIALS Late 1919 Liberty Touring, newly painted, good | tires, exceptionally good mechanical condition $900 Late Model Oldsmobile Touring, Well Worth $1,500 Our Price $900 This car ts fully equipped, including five good tires, two spotlights, wind deflectors, and is almost new. BRING THE FIRST PAYMENT AND DRIVE THE CAR AWAY ‘We have some exceptionally good buys im the cars: Chandler Touring Overland Touring Dispatch Touring Liberty Touring Hudson Touring Stearns-Knight SEATTLE AUTOMOBILE - SALES COMPANY CHAND! 1101 EAST PIKE STREET THE UNIVERSAL CAR Touring Roadster Chassis . Tractor Beacon 532 East 820 1830 Broadway, Corner East 126 Truck, pneumatic tires. Clark-Baker Motor Co. Tenth Avenue and Jackson Street Wilson & Kreitle, Inc. 4763 Ballard Av Central Agency A. F. (BERT) BLANGY, Manager Broadway and Pike Street Alfred G. Ayerst, Inc. NEW PRICES F. 0. B. SEATTLE ALL CARS FULLY EQUIPPED .$587.11 . 555.87 . 738.09 . 805.77 . 515.94 . 572.30 725.35 Wm. L. Hughson Co. 500 East Pike Street East 404 Canal Motor Company Westlake Avenue at Fremont Bridge Queen Anne 74 Hugh Baird Fourth Avenue at James Street Elliott 750 L. M. Cline Motor Co. 1102 East Forty-fifth Stroct eo a © ee a | rey enue Denny Way