The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 22, 1921, Page 5

Se9G2,458 722572255 £227957 Uo a ats sakeas ake ae DU STAR TOMOTT SECTION 0 DEPRESSION SAYS CLIFTON pierce-Arrow Uses Extra Help to Get Out Cars Production and activity along all fee of the Plerce-Arrow Car Co. accelerated gradually during the last three months until a sched ge approaching normal has been according to Col. Charles Gition, chairman of the board of directors: | The factory ts now ‘running on full time with a force of 4,230 work qm and is getting more than a jonate share of business, says. The prospects are ex- My good for additional help required shortly Caims of various auto heads that the industry is on a firmer footing are corroborated by Clifton, who fates, “The ofders we have on| fand now will keep the factory fumping at a capacity clip until December, at the le “These orders are not the result & sudden flare up of business, | represent a healthy, day-by- Increase which shows no sign of up. Indeed, we are confident! y with orders enough to “keep us running for 60 to 90 days ahead. © “The truck business shows a simi stimulation. We shipped double mumber of trucks during Sep- tember than during any Month of the year.” i George M. Graham, ites the business revival to fact that the public has had OPerated by Seattle capital, and the a it time in which to find ap- ‘proval for the new Dual-valve prin- embodied in late creations el factory. ‘2 — Straight-Side Tire Is Better _ Trouble Saver When tire manufacturers decided to standardize the sizes of their | products, during the war, they also | hit upon an improvement which is fast spreading in popularity. ‘That is the sub- | stitution of the straight side tire | for the clincher type on all but the very light cars and motor cycles. The production | of these new forms of tires, ? which has oo going on in the United States for the last two spain al spreading it Ei nd a nce. me. Sat advantage of the t side tire lies in the fact it can be mounted on the rim the use of tire trons or The clincher type is kept in defiated Clincher side tire, on the other hand, firmly to the rim. It is kept “position by the fit of the tire on the rim, backed up by the used to reinforce the head. It be rim cut as easily as the | Another season for the growing ity of the straight side tire sits capacity to hold more alr than “the clincher. That means greater apg | | Uke | A small spring-steel article, e shown, may be used to keep the ‘Mood mightily raised while the auto- TMobile is being driven. It can easily Be made of stout wire. A bend at the ‘Bettom grips the angle iron of the ‘Massis and keeps the holder in place. k (JHE OCEAN SHORE railroad in} rns has abandoned its lines use of motor competition oiler ae Makes an Oil Pumping ‘Mgine Better Than New ‘Wat January ist, 1922 will find the| That ts the watchword of Alfred G Jagencies in the United States right ‘here in Seattle previous culating and“working ste; vice-president, | S4¥8, in commenting jour largest Keep Money Circulating, Ayerst, who has been a resident of this city for $1 years, was former “We keep your money in Seattle’ Ayerst, who largest and of the Ford operates one teak Ghtnped ly connected with the main Ford fac tory in Detroit as salesmanager and assistant m er of the assembly plant. In the last three and a half years, during which he has been di rect agency deMler; Ayerst has sold “Local merchants should keep the People’s money at home, keep it cir lily where it will do the most good,” Ayerst | 10,000 Fords ou the huge! It seems to be a characteristic of Ayerst plant, which is owned and | Ayerst that all precedents must be ignored where he goes, This, | cording to his assistants, is shown in profits invested in Seattle. -|or not our honext efforts are meet.) very much on the incr VE ‘Seattle’s Ford Shop Is One of Largest\BUYS 3 CARS | sep vail “= IN 3 MONTHS Liberty Six Meets Demands! Says Ayerst of Mexican Ranchers When Juan Acosta, mining man of Chih d at the sa rty Six distribut os, for his third Lit ny months, the n ustoninhed. Aconta had driven his first Liberty |nearly 91,000 miles before he made | the trip to California again and took | home another Liberty |his large ranch property. |months later Acos in app jand bought a for his son who works in th tle country | Acosta expected to be in Chihuahua within three days after leaving Lon prosperous hua, Mexico, us of the » in Low rty car in | Angeles, Hard driving, over rough |and rugged country, would be neces sary to accomplish this, but Acosta {had no hesitaney. He had made the |trip twice before, and considered an } 18-hour stretch at the wheel a part of the day's work, He did ‘it ‘0 give thoro satisfaction ip | Mexico, a car must be free from the the invasion of Seattle by Ayerst's| Petty difficulties and ineff plant which originally cost fend soe pil st oan Dee the $250,000; pair shops are few and of little use } lervice,” Ayerst says, “is the big-| We have to © for our own ma chines, and t must be built well. gest word we know, It is a flexible word and may mean anything. I have tried to make it mean every jthing to Seattle motorists, and it'a|OWn experte ‘The fitness of the Liberty for this wofk has been well proven by my |posmible I am succeeding, The| Acosta stated that business in Mex Ayerst plant invites everyone who | !co Was on a better scile, and Amer is Interested to call and see whether | ican motor trucks nuly were ing with success.” —— America Builds First Steam Car in $1,000 Class The first low priced steam car) George G. Rowland, president. ever manufactured for general use| Engineers who have studied the has just been perfected in the| development of gas and steam cars United States. These cars will make) for the past two decades, declare their appearance the middie of Oc-| that the advent of a low’ priced tober. They are now being built by! simply operated steam car for gen. @ company known as the Coats|qpal use may revolutionize the auto- Steamers, Inc. of Indlanapolis,' mobile industry, U.S. NATION ON AUTO WHEELs Soo TALE Pee Scandinavian countries, Sieberling Says Country * Needs Co-operation A TRANS-CANADIAN highway from coast to coast is being plan- America is . ned. now a nation on - —_— wheels, says Alton G. Selberling,| CUBA HAS one motor vehicle to vice president of the Haynes Auto! every 94 persons Co. To prove this statement, . ——— erting refers to the auto gegistration , 5 AY: ‘ figures abewing the total. number|, WL RAILWAYS in France of autos in use during the last year in keep to the left, vehicles keep to the right. as 9,257,575. These figures show a =, SS aa ES ve remarkable increase over the faureket the Uievides vans WHILE $1,103 new homes were An easy 4 BID cosh i 920, 93,121 new rages According to Seiberling, these fig-| pul he iw ee a to lift @ cylinder urgs are to prove the neceasity of ei Fite head from its dad’ distributor, Tf the bunker hax| ,,"MOTOR FOOT” is a new ailment position Is to use the good of the community which of motorists, from pressure on ac e two old spark he serves, at heart, the tanker|/°*T*tr | plug shells, fitted should work together with the dis: ” me 5 mae | like the one tributor. It has been clearly dem-| IN THE last 25 years, 11,775,000 iy hae 0: onstrated that the most prosperous} ®utomobiles have been made in . AR communities are more thoroly mo | America bss one-half-inch | torized. _ ~ _ rod can be} It was Mr. FE. C. Stokes, former} MOTORCYCLE HANDLEBARS shaped like a governor of New Jersey, who is| Se installed on ght automobiles in small handle and now president of the Mechanics’ Na-|PT@PC@ | threaded #0 that tional Bank, at Trenton, who first : it wih a |called the banking fraternities’ at-|| TWO MILLION automobiles have if phere: tention to the importance of. the | been put out of use since the begin. the top of each} auto, not only 9s a transportation | "!nK,of the auto industry. F plug. IFENDERSMENDED(_USEFEET _) WHILE YOU WAIT; Stewart Station Starts New System in City Inauguration of a new system of service for bumpers—the part of an |auto that gets the most bump» |been begun by the Stewart Products | Service station at 1515 Broadway, In an interview with Mr. Hansen Sat lurday, he stated that the dealer and consumer alike has increasingly felt the need of a bumper on which he is Another advance toward ease and safety in driving i# made with the design of a foot control for the head. Ughts. Instead of reaching over to the dash, all that the driver needs do is press the dimmer button at the toe board. This enables the motor ist to keep his eyes on the road and both bands on the steering wheel at all times, has Kin, WEEK FE | «rave, We | Maple Vatiey on ie i rr oy) N En New cons t ‘arking in probibited in bridge over Green river go! by order of county commimdioner Auburn-Black Diamond road two miles beyc gravel beyond Sunset” High Read in K dition Naches Pas | Highway? silver | i or further lopal 38 | six sides, | plugs. THE U 1,000 firms spoken of turers a» the “cure.” BY THOMAS KR. BEEMAN Kent-Des Moines Des Moines-Tacom: anager Was | Renton-Maple rth in Kent ville-Duvall Red: Redmond balance good. Newport-Ineuquah Kentoa-New port —Closed Ianaguad road is rough Richmond Beach USE A wrench that bears on all tires annually VULCAN KIGHTY PER NT of the ma | jals that go into a tire are of 4 nature, and therefore per MICHIGAN AUTO factories pro- duced more than 200 automobiles in July t vegetable | shable. | NEW OIL should be applied to the THE FEDERAL government «| transmission and differential gears spending $12,000,000 on roads in| at every 4,000 miles of driving. western national forests, | ‘ — - | TAXICABS, WHICH work hard- GIBRALTAR, DESI ite linit-|er than the average private car, ed area, has nearly 100 motor show an average life of 300,000 miles c County Enginece ING OCTOBER 22, 1921 WRAVEL ROADS Dd. Hightine—Pair Valley — Tough. joudbed not firm, -Hlack Diamond. Valley —Cloned New Good. Use detour | to Inglewood, rough, Good Use detour via Your Foot on a Buick Brake Gets Results New © Auburn. ine county imxetione er") Buick brakes, like Buick cars, don’t fail. Easy to operate, easy to adjust, positive in. their action—Buick brakes provide that ! factor of safety so necessary today. Buick invites comparison. Clelian Pass Due to loose in places, but ix three miles beyond » point mile pave «l beyond. Rough VED ROADS IN CONDITION Koad — ew Goop pavement information to avoid breaking spark ITED States has nearly manufacturing 35,000,000 | SEATTLE ZATION 18. generally among rubber manufac WHEN BETTER ‘AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT ¢ BUICK WILL BUILD THEM assured prompt and intelligent serv ice in case of breakage of any part in a@ collision. Hansen points out that the prin ciple back East” for broken parts is more theoretical than practical in the matter of “service, because several weeks are often re-| quired to replace the broken part | and not infrequently the wrong | part Is sent, to say nothing of having to dismantle the bumper while await ing shipment of the part, “Users of the Stewart bumper are assured of immediate service, re gardiess of what part has been dam aged—in the same sense of security he applies to the Stewart speed. | ometer, the searchlight and = the vacuum tank. “The Stewart bumper offers every | type and finish, the latest models | being of the double or parallel type. | | ENA \ { AUTO TOOL of “sending unit, but as a contributor to one of industries and a public vromoter of happiness and morals BOSTON SPENT $209,000 for auto service last year, exclusive of po- lice, fire and health departments. DANIEL WEBSTER defended the first vulcanization patent case. | AN AUTOMOBILE for motor camping is awaiting a designer. 30x3 - 30x3: - Including Guaranteed ‘There in nothing HANDSOMER or STURE STEWART PRODUCTS SERVICE STATION 818 Unio 1515 Broadway, Seattle New Phone—fast 1100 => OCTOBER 2ist to 3ist ONLY< All Firsts—No Seconds. PERFECTION TIRE AND RUBBER CO. anys “GET - $9.85 - $10.85 War Tax 6,000 Miles n Stree AYERST 0720 Extends to you acordial invitation to visit and inspect its new $300,000 sales and service station at Third Ave. =| and Stewart St. IT THIRD AT STEWART PHONE ELLIOTT 4824 ‘ AGENCY THE UNIVERSAL CAR ERVICE is the biggest word in the commercial language today—and the most flexible. It may mean little or it may mean much. In order to make it mean everything to the Ford own- er we have brought our new and enlarged organiza- tion right into the very heart. of the city of Seattle, where thorough, dependable and prompt service can be most quickly and easily obtained, You are invited to call and inspect our great new build- ing and the nature of the service we are now able to give. WHERE