The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1922, Page 5

New Ford model, with slanting windshield and one-man top, which has reached Seattle and is being exhibited by Ford dealers here, The seats have been slightly uptilted, giving more leg room, the wiring in the car has been improved, and the extra tire rack has been made stronger. A new carburetor, which increases gasoline efficiency, has been installed. SALESMEN LIKE | Accidents to Bike UTILITY COUPE) Riders Are Fewer HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 26.—)clatlon has rd as dest New Chevrolet Model Wins |..0A" ir an impression in the pubiie| ine to cooperate with motor vehicle Many Friends mind that there is a large number| departments of the various states In} of accidents to users of bicycles on| minimizing and avoiding accidents! Factory executives of the Chevro- Yet Motor company state that the the streets and highways of the na-|on the highways to bicycle riders,! response to the announcement of tion, and these statistics show that few their “utility coupe,” which is a car ‘NEW RIVETING | figuration A recent Investigation of the atate) accidents occur to riders between of Connecticut, however, would|the ages of 10 and 18 In fact seem to disprove this theory. There| records show only three In one year, Perhaps are as many bicycles inj The Bicycle Manufacturers’ asso Duilt especialty for business MEA! Connecticut as in any other area of|clation, in furtherance of its desire! d salesmen, has been so great With the Connecticut) to reduce accidents to the mintmum, | as to amply justify thelr opinion @ banis, therefore, it will| has recommendod to all dealers that, | that business men and salesmen be shown that there are fewer acc!-|when a sale of a bicycle is made ‘would appreciate a car built expe- Gially for thetr use. While this latest addition to the Chevrolet Hine has been available dents to bicyclists than to any other|they tnstruct the purchaser as to group of vehicle drivers, based upon! the laws of the highways and also! the analysis of accidents per thou-|has recommended that each manu sand vehicles. facturer insert in its catalogues and) ‘The figures comptied by the mo-'all printed matter the following: | in all sections of the country for)tor vehicle department of Connecti; The bicycle is a vehicle and there only a few weeks, yet estimated/cut show @ total registration of; fore entiled to the same rights and production schedules had to be} 124,000 motor vehicles and the num-| privileges on the highways enjoyed ber of bicycles ridden is estimated) by horse-drawn vehicles or automo-| at 60,000. According to official sta-| biles | tistics the ratio of the number of! Observe the laws governing the use of highways. Dicycles per one fatality to operator | Never ride on the wrong side 4 | changed several times. “In designing the utility coupe,” states one of the officials, “we felt that the motor car was used to such & great extent nowadays, purely as @ utility for commercial purposes, that a car should be built especially to meet these requirements. This car, of course, should give all weather protection and otherwise be built with a durability sufficient to withstand hard usage every day » Yegardiess of weather It should also possess appearance fully tn keeping with of high grade .irms. officia: of a con- number of cars demonstrated ja: Bicycles, one in 6,000; motor ve- the reed. hicles, passenger cara, one in 6, De not “hitch on’? to a vehicia motor vehicles, commercial care, in 6903, Ratio per number of vehicles per| Eaufp your bicycle with @ bell or one fatality to occupants, operators,| other warning device. | passengers, one tn 1,485. Use lamps at night for your own) The Bicycle Manufacturers’ easo-! protection. | Courtesy Watchword =v=s| of H ighway Patrol & motor; OLYMPIA, Wash., ug. 26.—~ guaranteed by thelr local legion post because eo age be “Don't intimidate the people—edu-|as well as by local peace officers. towns a day | “te them.’? “We are not after the technical) made from one| Those are the instructions that/ violators of the highway law,” de: it gives these men an| members of the Washington state/clared Mr. Leidy. “Nearly every- 1 gia highway patrol receive when they | One who drives a car in liable at one . time or another, to some violation, in place | SF selected to enter the service.) wut we are after the habitual speed. ler, the drunken and drug-ridden | drivers.” | Postoffice Shows | Business Growth) Postoffice business during August showed an increase of 15 per cent| lover the same month last year, ac-| | cording to a report prepared by Post master Edgar Rattle. Stamp sales tn August amounted | 0,383, agninet $113,748 in 1921. | / ear money orders were during August in the sum of $282,-| 510, compared with a record last year | of $259,314. Money orders paid tn creased from $669,867 last August to| $760,577 this August : i ie il H | Ef A cle | " fil re and every one of the 31 regular pore can men employed in’ traffic regulation work on the state highways is ex-| pected to measure up to the re quirements, according to I. D, Me-| Ardie, director of efficiency and head | PORTLAND, Ore.—Entire ownings | of the state highway patrol Leldy, inspector tn direct charge of the work. “We have hundreds of plications from men eager to en-! ter the service and we believe from |now on the state highway patrol insignia will be a badge of honor.” All of the regular men, with the exception of two, are ex-service men, WARNER SAYS: Strikes ma: 4 “strikers” i go, but e owner of « “WARNER” re- built “AUTOMOBILE” doce not have to worry. Ho knows” he has bis TRANSPORTATION SECURED So, says “BUI why not Soin the happy family? You HURRY UP AN GET rt nee WwW Se eases toa OUR AUTO AWAY ous, You t “SURPRISED” FROM AT FIRE PLUG! WE Age. SuinS, ° and tnauss- dui the remain- der of this month, and If ‘ou _ever intend to “CAR,” now is the ti wr. “shirt.” Your TRADE for your F a ghotgun. ‘our sure about sixty of them). You have some- thing you don't need. Bring it in and DRIVE A C. HOME ‘What kind of a car do you want? No matter—we have too. all prices, WE ANF OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS WARN’ R AUTO CC MPA IY Last Pine St. East 0255 | Auditor D. 1. Ferguson. TOOL INVENTED Metal Not Injured While | Work Is Done PORTLAND, Ore unique riveting tool, can be fastened solidly tr f cylinders, sph and the like when it is Impoastble to get at| the inside to work against the back | of the rivet has been perfected by two Portland men, J, H, Steet and C. H. Lane, who have seeured pat ents upon the device from Washing ton, ‘The tools will be made in Portland it has been decided, and maufac Aug. 26—A whereby rivets m the out of them will start in the near future, It im expected that the tool will meet a wide demand, as it not only enables riveting where it ts imponst ble to reach the back side of the er ticle to be riveted, but allows the work to be done without pounding or injuring the metal to be riveted tn any way, One of the most import ant uses for the new tool, ae planned by the Inventors, is to fasten mono grams upon the doors and elsewhere on automobiles. It will be possible, KK, C/ it te declared, for the automobile owner to have his own monogram LAR made in brass or some other metal a and riv to the car door Instead 4 of being painted on, as has usually been done in the past, Thus when | the car is wold a painted monogram will not have to be removed, Instead the metal monogram will be removed | and the owner can peas it on to his next car, while small rivets placed in the holes where the old rivets had gone in holding the monogram tn place will successfully erase any dir the car by the old monogram | ‘The tool works on the rerew prin. ciple, with a hollow rivet which a small plece of metal shaped | Ony of i! 1 is drawn In DELIVERED PRICES Te ee cle ie aeinea| | START-A RAINSTORM DoEs va te24 MODES operation a small hole is drilled 1 a eens through the metal to be riveted. The Chasse. hollow rivet with the “nail within Tw ft in then Inserted, the head of the “nail” being tnel ‘The tool then kets a grip on the outside end of the! ROLS “nail” and by means of a screw draws it outward. An the head of/ the “nall" is drawn out it pressew against and expands the end of the } hollow rivet in a way ne tol make the rivet as solid as if it were | pounded from the Inside with a ham: | mer, The outside end of the rivet t# then cut off whenever desired and the Job is completed. Human Element | Determines, Is Opinion What ts the shortest distance re quired to stop your car going at a certain speed in an emergency? ‘The answer to this, in the opinton of EH. W. Weaver, Cleveland engt- neer, depends on two things: SAY TIRE SALES BREAK RECORDS Western Giant Cord Called Popular by Dealers ‘The Western Giant Cord, a tire manufactured according to the spec- ification» of the Western Auto Sup- ply Co., making a record for pop- ularity, according to ite sponsors in thie city. “The demand for this prodidct,"? George Pepperdine, president of the concern, declares, “is only another proof of the fact that an article of excellent quality is always appre clated by the public above a lower. priced and also lower grade prod- uct “Only the highest type of tire-| makers are employed in our fac-| tories and the fact tells in the tires) produced, “The Giant Cord han delivered such exceptional mileage that the/ guaranteed 12,000 miles is often! the minimum obtained.” Auto License F a Now Cut in Half Beginning Sept. 1, auto licenses for the remainder of the calendar year will be insued for one-half the regu: | lar fee, it is announced by County Chart showing acale of dis- tances required to stop an automobile, dependent on speed and conditimm of road and brakes. | First—Condition of brakes and the | road surface Second—Time required for the ying the braken Of these conditions the second is| most important, says Weaver. Teste! ALL PAVED ATTLE-KENT, GOOD CONDITION, GRAVEL ROADS Renton-Maple Valley — Gravel tn fair) condition Renton-Bellewne—nenton Newport-Rellevue—N the elreuit 4 mak: on paved roads. i the Kent-Binck Diamogd—vavement for 1% miles out of Kent, balance good gravel. | —New pavement open. Diamond — God ranklin-—Good. Good condition y—Excellent, Rend — Excellent. Aabarn-Biack Diamend—Gravel section R00 Stevens Pass Highway—-Open to a point three miles beyond Skykomish, Fair tion of 1,000 feet RETLETTT WATE mh Renton Junction east. t Des Moines-Tacoma Highline—in good condition, Rough in plaves ‘1 to patk entrance, tion in King eounty, and nm upper end in Pierce Hothell Road——Closed, due te con- struction of Victory way. To reach brick pavement at Lake Forest Park, road to road r mile north tlon—One pavement gxcellent, balance xravel. Bell mond--Frir, Kedmond-Fall City--Good, New gravel in places, Bridi ‘ona Snoquaimt To Tolt, detoui ‘Woodinvitle-Duvan, For further information oali Main 6! local 38, t Toit closed ia Fall City or > the ho eric (GASSAWAY MILES AFTER HOURS OF WORK CLEANING THE OLD BUS-— HIS ARMS AS HEAVY ASA PAIR OF Tar] | SEA GOING ANCHORS — THE GARAGE DOOR —THE MOTOR WONT | Si pared. dependent on the car's speed Just Right for Two! The 1923 Four Cylinder Roadster | ‘Smart, sturdy — you won't find another two-passenger four cyl- inder roadster that compares with this new Buick in quality or in price. i Inspect It from any angle—snug, beautifully tailored top; long, low body lines; heavy one-piece crown fenders; lots of room for two people and two compartments for their luggage. A big steering wheel that comes up to you, a shifting lever that operates with- out bending forward, a transmission lock and improvements which give 1923 Buicks a Class “A” insurance rating. } And, below the surface, the famous Buick Valve-in-Head motor and chassis with refinements throughout which set @ new stand- ard of quality and performance in automobiles. These are just a few of the many distinctive features that make this new roadster a car without an equal in its class. DELIVERED PRICE Model 23-4-34 Two-pass. Roadster TWENTY FEET FROM for stopping, based on knowledge of | 24-4 brakes and road surfaces, in relation | 3 to the various speeds of the motor | : fixed as t minimum distance re- 3 quired to stop & car with good A East 0842 rx brakes, going 30 miles an hour on a When better automobiles are built, Buick will build chem dry ,level road. With poor brakes on | East Pike at Harvard MAIL THIS COUPON FOR 1923 BUICK CATALOGUE & slippery road the distance is 258 feet. But the human element must also be considered, sys Weaver. He fig-| ures it takes one-half a second for| an experienced driver to sense on| emergency before he begins to apply |{ ELDRIDGE BUICK SALES CO.,"802 East Pike Sj., Seattle the brakes, In this one-half second | of time, at © speed of 30 miles an} hour, the car will have gone 22 feet. | Therefore, in stopping an automo i] - mile from a speed of 30 miles an|! N&IM© precerer++ecepnevenensias see hour, for example, the total distance | required would be 108 feet, with good | brakes and a dry, level road; 280 feet, with r brakes and a silppery jan Pi cal Peery! A sutwaukee power concern bas| SMALL, INVESTORS of Seattle Other distances can be judged with |15 motor buses feeding its car lines. | Who have been patronizing the the aid of the chart Weaver has pre- tal savings bank are hd their money and investing it Never turn oft the ignition on &/treasury savings certificates, hill or the car will drag the ongine. | office officials declared Saturday. [ 1922, Please send me complete catalogue of 1923 Buick models. and the driver's own alertness sensing the emergency. in and Spend the difference NIU. Sorcl~ The Ford Runabout—the Salesman's greatest economizer of time and money. His most dependable means of trans- portation. His greatest asset in his drive for business. F.0.B. = us show you how.a Ford Runabout Vn phy will actually increase your earnings. DETROIT Terms if desired. . 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