The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 7, 1922, Page 7

‘SAFETY DEVICES REAL NECESSITY Numerous Late Devices Re- | | —-THE—— | duce Accidents ENVELOPE @ TELLS THE TRUTH The advertising =man ager of this section of The Star told us that one seveninch ad in his paper would sell all the Used Cars we had. Missourt t# our Dirth- place, so here goes for a trial. We're going to be mighty fair to The Star, and expect them to sell only one car. We're going to put the price so low that if only one of its 3,000,000 reader more or less, soe this ad, we'll say it's sold. THIS I8 THE CAR 1920 PAIGE Roadster; has five good tires, some extras, Overhauled completely, and just out of the paint shop. Paint- ed a beautiful maroon. WM seat three com- While a great many motorists bave formed the opinion that the various and sundry “safety” acces [sorties now on the market are, in a jarge measure, unnecessary, this is Teally Dot the case, according to Hal Baker, of Western Auto Supply Co. While some of them may not be eon | sidered as absolutely easential, never. theless, they all play thelr part in both the safety of the automobile and its driver, Sorhe of them are #0 necssary, in | fot, that they are required by law Among these are the safety lege for the headlights and the warnin) nal, That safety len sary goes without sayl toriat who has ever driven his car At night realizes the advantages of @ headlight that, while thoroly light. ing the road, does not blind the oriv ers of approaching cars A good warning signal, one that is reliable and can be depended upon jto give a clear, unmistakable warn jing at all times could not, even if | the law permitted. be dispensed with fortably. The price is |The motor driven horn or the whistle $895.00, on terms —-if ‘signal are the most reliable warning you want ‘em. ‘ | signals that can be secured x ae | With these two accessories the car a eas lean be driven in compliance with the Buicks }iaw, but what of the other mfety accessories that are so necessary as ——Studedakers—— Sands Motors | reliable bumper that front and rear of the car against | collision ts a safeguard so well known Company |that the insurance compantes recog. [nize it to the extent that cars so EAST 0091 [equipped are Insured at a lower rate 1016-18 EB. Pike Street j*han others. ‘The fire extinguisher also ty | recommended by the insurance people jand plays ite part in the insurance [Problems. Tire chaing are a neces sity when driving in wet weather, as PEERLESS CLAIM):sanscrs Possibly one of the necessary and considerate safety appliances te the | stop signal that works automatically hand leta the fellow behind know jwhen you are going to slow down or stop. The windshield visor is also Tail Lamp “Complies With |n mignty conventent articte of equip. All State Laws | ment to have, removing as it doce |the menace of giaring headlights jand brilliant sunlight that has been With Massachusetts already hav- | responsible for so many accidents tng enacted special legisiation with | Any maneeet who drives at night appreciates the convenience and ad. Feference to the type and design Of | 411/504) margin of safety occasioned Gutomobiie talllamps, and octher/), 9 spotlight that picke out the @tates indicating that similar laws sign posts, ditches and bad epote in wig | may soon be adopted—all to the end) that night accidents may be d+ ereased in number—unusual atten- tion is being directed toward the spe | etal Peerless rear lamp on the ai) models. | ‘The Peeriess taillight, which is) said to be entirely of Peerless de- ‘eign, serves at least four important | Fequirements, according to the offi cials of that company. | First, and obviously, with the in-} corporation of an improved type of) stop signal as an integral part of the | lamp, it provides ample warning for | the vehicle approaching from the rear. The stop signal works auto- Matically, and it is claimed that it is @a immune from mechanical! trouble @s expert engineers can make it | Beneath the etop signal, the light ing effect is so arranged that the Yays not only illuminate the gauge on the gasoline tank and spread down over the leense plate, but also throw a wide range of light on the ground around the rear of the car— an advantage which all experienced Motorists appreciate when attempt-! \alighting from car. Baker | west-north central states |any other section of the country, the read, A factor of safety that prevents many accidents are the step plates that attach to the running beard and prevent slipping when entering or ing to back into parking space, and 0 on, Lastly, the substantial construc. tion of the lamp permite it to act as & safe bracket for the license plate, thereby bringing the plate into clos- est proximity to the light From all that can be learned, in the opinion of the Peerlean engineers, the new Peerless construction coin. cides entirely with the requirements Of the most advanced legisiation along j this line. More motor trucks are used tn the than in according to bureau of census fig ures. Employment tn tne automobile tn dustry in June increased 6.5 per cent over that of May. BALANCE 1 $28.25 per month. ance, gas and oll. Will buy a NEW SO7c0 CAR THE UNIVERSAL CAR NEW MODEL FORD TOURING $544.72 FULLY EQUIPPED—$114 down, balance Terms include interest, insur- CENTRAL AGERCY, Ino. PHONE EAST 0820 BROADWAY AT PIKE 8 MONTHS { | the sho | Woodworth, Tacoma. The Fordson Industrial Tractor! | exposition, the huge Ford showing! ot Tractor power pplied to indus: trial as well as agricultural require fa coming to Seattle and will | men | fopen on Oct. * at Fourth and| | Blanchard sts. and continue until Oct. Zist. This big power show comes here after a tour which has taken In many of the larger cities of the coun. try. Over 10 exhibite of an indastrial| and agricultural nature, all using the Fordson tractor as the motive power, make up the exposition, which will be! housed in a huge tent, 240 feet by 90 feet, and, in addition to the power showing, there will be a ape | celal motion picture tent where the latest Ford releases of agricultural, historical and geographical films will exhibits will be many applications of Fordaen power to in- dustrial Work which have never been seen on the Pucific coast, but which have been carried on by this modern power plant in many sections of the country for some time. A locomotive, formed by equipping the tractor with locometive drive wheels, will haul loaded care on standard railroad tracks @ use to which the tractor is now being put jin lumber campa, mines and in large industrial planta. A huge centrifugal pump, tractor | operated, will demonstrate how the | Fordson can be used for irrigation | projects as well as for other work requiring the moving of large quan tities of water Biectric lighting for the exposi }tion tent will be furnished from « large dynamo, tractor operated and *®n opportunity to see how power, properly governed, can take care of power requirementa | calling. for an even application of | power. 4 There will be a huge bucket hoist operating in a tower and the power to move this will come from a winch installed on the tractor. Other industrial equipment will tn- clude saw mils, loading machinery, scoop shovela, etc., designed to short- en the time required to do certain forma of work and to cut the operat ing costs which must be faced by in dustrial concerns. A complete showing of road build ing machinery will include tractor operated graders, ditchers, road main. tainers and scrapers. Many of these Back row—. ). S. Hudler, Hudler Motor Co., Ever Ford officials and dealers, who will conduct industrial show, |row, they are: C. B. Ballard, sales manager for the Ford Motor Co., general manager of | ; W. J. Coyle, Coyle & Woodruff, Inc., chairman of the executive committee; W. |O. McKay, William L. Hughson Co.; A. F. Blangy, Central Agency; H. R. Manley, Manley- secretary and treasurer; . A. Said, v ett; H, W. Diehl, Diehl Motor Co., Bellingham, and ‘ord Motor Co. W. T. Burke, Canal Motor Co, ——— cee THE PROCESSION! By Berton Braley HIRTY thousand cars @ day! Where we gonna drive ‘m, hey? If this sort of thing keeps on All the roads we drive upon Will be full and overflowing As the oar parade keeps growing; We can license ‘em ané mark ‘em, But there won't be apace to park ‘em. IRTY thousand cars a day, Touring, runabout, coupe, Témousine and truck and Mivver, Flowing by us like « river; * Horns of Packards and Rolls Royces Will drown out all human volces, And, Instead of ozone keen, We shall oli breathe gasoline. WIRTY thousand care a day! Ford Dealers Plan Huge Tractor Show GR Exhibit Will Revolve Around Fordson From left to right, front (Automobile production has reached thirty thousand cre a day) EAT LOSS IN WASTE OF GAS Evaporation Takes Huge Toll, Survey Shows Enough gasolipe is being wasted annually in the United Statens, through preventable evaporation in storage tanks, to run a Ford car 1,440,000,000 miles, the equivalent of more than seven round trips between the earth and the sun, according to an extensive rurvey on conservation made by engineers of John: ville, Ino, and the United st mines The excessive loases by evapore- tion of the more volatile gasolines stored in uninsulated tanks were demonatrated, tt was naid, by a series | of mpecial tests on caninghead guso- | line conducted at Bigheart and Drumright, Okla. The testa proved | |that the greater part of these loves Aro preventable through the use of | suitable insulation It was further computed that the 775 uninsulated storage tanks in the | United States holding gasoline and crude oll, each with @ capacity of {56,000 barrels, are losing by evap: loration more than 6,000,000 gallons | of gasoline per month, and that |these losses are largely controtiable |by the application of proper insula. tion| aa = oo kt | BY THOMAS R. BEEMAN King County engineer WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 1, 1999 ALL PAVED ROADS IN GOOD CON- DITION GRAVEL ROADS Me ae Valley—Gravel in fair con- nthe Keat-Biack Diemend—-Pavement for 1% miles out of Kent, balance @vod gravel. Maple Valley-Biack Diamene — Good Raemelaw-Freakiia—-dood Ouneet Highway—Open. Gition in King cousty. Heonquah-Fall City—-Bxcetient. Fall City-Nerth Bend—Exceilent. Reoten- Paved Racetient con- Vesequan. (vie Toke Sommem- teh)—-Redmond to Inglewood fair, bal- ance . Lseaquah-N ewport—Cood. Aabura-Biork Diemend—Grave! section Mevews Fase Highway—Open to a point Kent-Dee Motnes--In good condition. | Beattio-Kent — (West side valley road, | While each city In hie Mat will harbor three. How we gonna put away Thirty thousand cars a day? ET "em come; Buch a record gives us pride. Every car means more of fun, a } More of healthy alr and sun, | More of pleasant comradeship | Which gives life | Keep ‘em rolling / Thirty Thousand How we gonna keep ‘em, may? Every town and country dweller Will have five cars in his cellar, (Copyright, 1932, Beattie Star) top paveme: ton Junetton Rough tn plac Open i park entrance. dition te King count oo upper ead in condition. man, may be, Bivd.—New pavement from city Lake Forest Park officialiy ber 1. Nol for, jokes aside, one-quarter mi Forest Park-Nerth Trask Connec- then—One mile pavement excellent, Balance good gravel. ite seat and sip; on their way, Cars « Day! lare entirely new to this part of the country, having been developed by the largest manufacturers of road jduilding equipment to meet the | steady call on the part of contrac | tors for machinery to work with the | Fordson. Sarees Seeger (WIRE USE] | i. F. D. Harman, Cedar Fatia, Wash., jae invented a device that | the driver when a tire is defiated. Telephones have been inetalled on | Pennsylvania highways for the use of motorists along the road. Automatic bumper, on striking an object. cuts off the ignition and sets the emergency brake, wacna| conniderabie help in repiacing| | | screws and other «mail parte where lthe fingers cannot reach, In case lof a screw, for instance, wind the wire about the shank, place into position, screw in end when the work js started the wire can be pulled off with ease, OUT OUR WAY THE RIGHT OF WAY F.0.B. DETROIT Enat 0320 Kenwood 0031 Glendale 0550 1001 Jackson St. Beacon 0533 4763 Ballard Ave. Bunsot 4633 AUTHORIZED FORD and LINCOLN CAR DEALERS The World’s Greatest Motor Car Values CENTRAL AGENCY, Inc. Broadway and East Pike COYLE & WOODRUFF, Inc. 1100 B. 45th Street HART & HART, Inc, 4200 Stanley Ave., Georgetown RAINIER MOTORS CO., Inc. WILSON & KREITLE, Inc. The Standard of Compartoon Closed Car Luxury Unsurpassed The 1923 Six Cylinder Seven Passenger Sedan—$2,495 A dignified beauty and richness unexcelled by any closed car mark the new Buick seven passenger sedan. Lengthening the body, lowering the top and raising hood and radiator have improved the streamline appearance made possible by the long wheel base and added attractiveness has been given by the handsome nickeled drum-type head and cow! lamps. ! The roomy Fisher built body is furnished in rich plosh. Deep cushioned seats for five with two comfortable folding chairs accommodate seven grown persons with ample room for everyone. The chassis has been improved materially end its easy riding qualities heightened by a new reer spring suse pension. In the famous Buick Valve-in-Head engine, changes also have been made to increase dependable performance. In every detail of body, chassis and power plant, this Sedan hae no superiors among closed cars of even greater price. PACIFIC COAST DELIVERED PRICES 1933 MODELS rouRs os Three-pass. Coupe | Aen Five-pass. Sedan . . ame Five-pass. Tour. Sedan. sites Seven-pase. Touring .. Be Bedan BUIC 4} piariage Busch Sales G s08°r. Pike. Beavtie.” Coupon for Pivage “aend Sng compile cataloged § of 1923 Buick models, 1923 Buick Catalogue I Name .... D Address .....+4 Betlevue-Redmend-—Fatr. Motor bus in Detroit hag a aa pacity of 135 passengers and is made so that the body can be sep- arated from the engine. Redmené-Fall City—Good, New gravel In places, For further Jocal 28. formation call Main 6990, New water pump for Fords is driven by an extra belt placed over the fan belt from the driving pulley. States and nation are pin the construction of 180,000 ‘alle: highways In the next 15 or 20 Buy a “o7ed- and Spend the difference > 134. SUtre/ ~ Hundreds of Thousands’ of users in practically every line of business are cutting haulage and delivery costs with Ford One-ton Trucks. Let us show you why and how. No obliga- tion.. Terms if desired. WEST SIDE AGENCY, Inc. 4203 West Alaska St. West 1474 WM. L. HUGHSON CO., Inc. Third Ave. and Stewart St. Elltote 0073 LAMPING-McDONALD MOTOR CO., INC. 12th and East Pike HUGH BAIRD 601 Fourth Ave. Elliott 0750 CANAL MOTOR CO, 315 Nickerson 8t, Garfield 0074 East 7776