The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 10, 1921, Page 8

i ia 8 g ? z Th ect *s z ! bez I j 2 1 z& é i i } i i t : z ti tf f i st 2 i CAN PARK NEW AUTO IN HALL C. J. Gildden to Make Small Aluminum Car Charles J. Giidden—of Glidden enetroling the globe, and driving the in 39 countries and colo- outs. He was the donor |partty in the etreet. It can be | garaged in a hallway or on the roof of an apartment building. It can be curtamed in, so that the passengers | are ae well protected from all weath- | er conditions ae in a limousine “The materials of which {t is made com from %0c to $2.00 a pound, be | fore they are machined. The price of finished cag will be about $500." |Reckless Autoists . in Great Britain LONDON, Bept. 16-—-Reports of | rpekless motoring on country roads Mave become so numerous that the | govennment has begun an invertiga- | don, ——_——_ THERE WERE 1,433 automobdiies jin ‘uw in France in 1899, 1255 Weatlahe N. THAN ALUMINUM) Engineers Find Magnesium Alloy Worth Price Magnestum alloy pistons are looked forward to by automotive engineers to produce greater durability in the automobile engine and help reduce | the weight of the car, Engineers have deciied on this form of piston after finding that the so-called aluminum piatons were not wholly atiafactory. In the alumi num pistons There is a percentage of copper which is intended to reduce | the rate of expansion. But the cop- per pieke up tmpurtties, with the re sult that magnesium is being substi tuted for the copper. ‘Tents are now belng made with pistons having es much as 90 per cent magnesium in thetr construc tion. Altho this form has very low expansion, it heats up quickly. At the present time, also, the com of magnesium is about twice that of aluminum. But lighter weight, greater tough- jRene and strength, and increased durability will compensate for the price of the metal, say engineers, A.A.A. Activities Greatly Increased WASHINGTON, Bop 10—In- creased activities of the American Automobile Association include free towing, free legal advice, special membership theft protection, and re- newed and closer cooperation with police departments and traffic squads jn the handling of traffic and reckless operators, and all persons the elimination of speed maniacs, whose driving is a menace to other users of the streets and highways. Wheels should respond to the turn ing of the steering whee) with but | iette lost motion. Autometive Mectricians Garfield €303. Western Electric Company Distribetere—Whelessle Only i (ttt. epairing — Painting— Radiators — Batteries === Tops —Electricians —Tires th : A. D. SCOTT, Mer. AN Makes of Cars Sqanet , By Men Whe Know How 1009. 1011 E. oy ST. SHOCK PREVENTER =e PREVENTS REBOUND Eliminates side Sway LIN @254 Automotive Electricians Stromberg Cerburetor 900 E. Pine St. Phone Kast 0683. WICK W. SWARTZ CRANKSHAFT GRINDING Bacco Pf ag bandie the famous NPRENGASE rinor ‘The Stronges' Jobe ¥. Mi jedune, t 612 E. Pike st. These Hast 1s TERMINAL GARAGE MAIN R.R. Ave. 0934 ALWAYS OPEN Exclusively. LINING— Wholesale and Retail t Work ppointmen Hoel’s Brake Service FIRST IN AMERICA. Phone Kast 478. 1006-2608 Belyston Av., near Pine SALES SERVICE J. A. Robblee & Co. Distributors for Washington Phone Vast 1417 1431-33 BROADWAY Don’t Get wera Every Time It Rains See Ue About a Kew Top PICKARD & TRAILL 1125 Pine st. Main 3401. BETTER, FOR LESS SPEEDOMETERS BUMPERS SEARCHLIGHTS HAND HORNS ELECTRIC HORNS SERVICE AND REPAIRS Stewart Products Service Station 1513 te 1517 Broadway AUTO PARTS Nickel Plated Reflectors SILVER PLATED Phone Main 4687 Yeattie mechanical aod Electroplating Co. 1311 Fifth Ave TIRE SHOP N. DeYouns, 2134 Westiake You Cam Build It Yourself ter Everything needed to complete tt RELL LOMB 2108 Weatinke Kiltett e140 LEAVE iT TO AUTO EXPERTS Dog’t sas bm or ol or Seen a ui SEEK US FIRST. Romano Auto Repair Co. E J, ROMANO. 101 Broadway N. C: 342. TTLE RADIATOR & FENDER WORKS || ADOLPR BOM tig Harvard Aves wast sose, | Ghost “Pond Raising an auto from the ghost pond and (inset) divers) who are doing the work, BY ROY GIBBONS SUMMIT, 11, Sept 10.—Night and day divers continue to fish In the “ghost pond” here—for automo- | bles, Under tts 80 feet of brackish wa ter 100 stolen cars valued at $250, 000 Ue buried. With the ald of giant derricks the are working to bring the ma jes to the surface, A score of police representatives from many cities and several na tional tsurance inspectors are su pervising the rescue. It is their belief that the “ghost pend”—itn reality an abandoned quarry——has been used as a cache by auto thieves who Giepose of cara to collect the insurance BY THOMAS &. BEEMAN Rlng Coanty Yagtnase WEEK ENDING gt yy — ya 10, 1983 GRATEL tat-De En sa Ss age Dew Meince Tacoma Highline -Rowgh Sapte Renton Junstive— ow open vis jetour. —e dice Kew gravel. Maple Valley. inch Dinmend—Pair Valley—Cioeed, Use detour to north ae sarin ia Kent DecanFent chy dees Redmené-Fell City —<jood Redmend- Hollywood — Excetient. Retetend-Getioves joo, but narrew, Conmention Pacifie Highway to Semnquah ity Ne fond deed. Fall City-North Bend—-Good. lemaquah-Redmead—Via lake Sammam- yg em) 0 Inglewood, rough; balance good Freakin New ‘two miles from Enumclaw, Good grave! beyond. Parking is prohibited on Franklin bridge @er Green River Gorse, by order ot Wounty commission- Aubara-Diack Damond ~ New concrete read. twe miles beyond Auburn. Good gravel beyond; also via Boos creek. Sunset highway Sooquaimie pass open Toad in King county In excellent con dition. New concrete pavedement, 6% mile, trom Renton to, Coalfield, open Gravel section closed for pain tour Vis F984 Fensing sont ef ond. o| pavement for five miles, thence north to Issaquah. Neches Pass (Fermerty MM: Highway) —Pxcellent condition. to Rainier national park. miles rough (Enumelaw-Green Water | river). Ail roads around Enumclaw Highway—Portion in King county above Index fatr, Due to loose gravel, road is rough in places, but is Paasable to point three miles beyond Skykomish. | Black Diamend-Frankiin—Patr. Betege Across Snoqualmie Kiver Near Load limit five tona. Lake Forest Park-Nerth Trank Qonnes- tee-—One mile excellent. Loore gravel beyond, ALL PAVED ROADS IN GOOD CONDITION Richmend Beach Read —New pavement crete pavement open for travel. tinuous concrete road from Renton to via Kent aod Auburn d—New pavement open. f information call Main 69¢¢, 78 UNIUIpwO eT SV ("8aIM porvine “1 £q) ummupro eur 0 peyoeut0D posd joo w puv Sus wus v6 qorUM Jo pue exo 38 ‘por mnyurpwo B JO sisyHUOO 4] quaumaut 81d “ays sy oF £103 4¥q eBu0Is op 30 woNpUCD en 0) #8 peuti0zuy Mmsojom —edaoy 3Bq A 08#e0 oy injdjeq ¥ traets only negative current, it will attract any that ts In the battery so- | should be allowed on PISTON LIGHTER Fishing Up ‘Sunken Autos Yields Value | The divers’ discoveries have a pelled & wuperstitious legend that the! quarry was haunted. Yor two years in the dead of night | people have been aceurtomed to bear | ing automobiles racing down the one | way road leading to the quarry. And the cars never came back “Ghosts!” the neighbors said. Then one night the last car went by. ‘Thome who drove ft ower the precip ftous cliff was not aware that the | pond was filled to overflowing—with stolen auton It went im but so many others were resting underneath that next morn ing its tonneau stood out of the wa ler with the chaawis resting on a solid foundation of 30 other cars. | Then the divers got to work. It tn heed of a light and without @ match, here ts a substitute: Tie & piece of waste dampened with gaso- Une to a screw driver. Remove the cable to a spark plug and place it pear enough to make a spark jump across. By inserting the cloth be tween the two, the «park will ignite the gasoline, WARNS TO KEEP WHEELS ALIGNED Spreckles “Savage” Tire Co. Gives Tips “Watch your wheels,” {s an ad monition given to motorists by the leervice department of the Spreckles “Savage” Tire company. Careful at | tention should be given to wheel alignment. Many miflee of tire service are lost when the wheels are “out of true.” | This non parallelism or faulty align. ment of the wheels may have been caused by an accident, improper ad Justment of steering apparatus, or by hitting the curbstone diagonally “Tires used on wheels tn this condi- tion do not revolve straight forward as they should, but rather slide over the ground diagonally, the sidewise motion thus continually grinding off rubber from the tread. The effect is the same as tho the tire were held against an emery wheel and slowly turned se as to grind down the tread on the entire surface, A toein of a quarter of an tnch the front wheels. This is to neutralize their tendency to spread while in motion. Falls Under Train; Foot Badly Mangled Patrick Lebby, 35, received a barly mangled right foot Friday morning, when ho fell beneath the wheels of a Northern Pacific freight train in the N. P. yards at Seattle, He was found lying on the tracks by the train crew and rushed to City hospital, His foot is so badly injured, it will probably be ampu tated, doctors state. The train crew said Lebby was ridihg on the brake rods and fell off. Refusess to Quash ° ry . Mine Injunction Motion to quash a restraining order issued to the Pacific Coast Coal company was denied Friday by Superior Judgo Austin E. Griffiths. The restraining order was obtained to prevent striking coal miners from lution, Placed there, with tho steol prod against a positive terminal, the light will not burn brightly unless the current jp fully charged, interfering with the mines. CHEHALIS.—J. 3. 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