The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 14, 1923, Page 6

Roads in Good Shape for Spring Motorists| ational Survey Shows More Paving on Trunk Lines This Year; Roads Snowhound ) The spring touring season ts open: | with automobile highways tiru the country generally in better @ition than usual, according to a by the United Press, | Dispatches from many cities show it While miles of roads are sttil| now in the North, most of | Ines are in good shape, Roads in tho western part of the Bountry will be in excellent cond! | Phe thru trunk routes are in good | and hundreds of miles of new | ays have been opened or ready for use. are the reports: eS EAST | @ In New York, paved roads are tn’ qondition, except in the north- | tern part {n the vicinity of the where there is still snow and New England ts still largely; bound, Maryland paved} are in good condition, State | ink highways in Pennsylvania are | ly good with only two do-| ‘An unusual number of “frost taps? have appeared on the mao / ; A due to the hard winter. : repair work is in progress. SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST SConstructtion is being pushed thru: | the tidewater section of Virginia <p aC a 4 i Several detours are necessary. | higher sense of responsibility behind | genera! condition of roads in this is unusually good and even the) are in good shape. The Dixie thru Georgia is excellent. A ,000 program is under way. the Motor League of Louisiana re- that Jefferson highway and old| h trails 90 per cent complete, | it for damage caused by recent rains. There is now a clear outlet to Texas and thru Mis- to Tennessee. General con- in Oklahoma are good. ‘Old National trail open thru. De. ours paved and good. County roads cadam in most cases. GAN wel routes aro Dotroft In condition; other highways in shape except for winter wear. program planned when yund thaws. CONSIN for most part tmpassable fo recent rains, snows and oe oIs: d conditions only fair, due to to the Iowa state line open. U road conditions; dirt roads d and there is comparatively are open. rt still aw aces. Roads in the northern jeep with snow in many OREQON Road good. WASHINGTON Roads in the mountain section are snowed under, but the lowland roads wndition. conditions are uniformly are in good CALIVORNIA ANl roads in excellent shape, except in ¢ scattered localitiea. Much than last year At this fre, NEBRASKA Hard surface and gravel roads in good condition, 1eWA Roads in this state are generally poor, Lincoln highway good tn spots only, WOULD LICENSE EVERY DRIVER clubs thruout the Safo drivers’ ‘STUDE SPECIAL WINS CLASSIC American Stock Car Takes South American Honors Studebaker makers are proud of pord of w Studebaker Special wi Burke, of am =T. Premio | Bix, driven by | |which won the Gran | Argentine South A most} important race of the y against | a fiel& which Included some of the | world’s highest-priced cars | ‘Thin is the second year In succes Jalon that Studebaker a raced to victory in the Gran Premio. The dists was from Aires to Rosario at 470 miles—and the |houre 45 minutes | Twenty-six cars were entered tn the race, tr }lowing makes: baker, Packard, | | Lincoln, Hispan- Suiza, ~dtudson,! | Buick, Lancia, Chandler and Paige | Bocause of bad roads, only 10 of the 26 entrants finished, four of which Studebakers. | driven by Pedro Mal-| second, Bue: 4 return—abo inner’s time 26 seconds, 10 wore i, A Btude by Paris Giannt, time 10 United States are trying to effect the | > the Icensing of every automobile driver in the country. Thus, they maintain, would be gleaned from the wheat, a the steering whee] would be felt and automobile accidenta in general would be diminished. Fifteen of the 48 states already have automobile drivery’ license laws, but even these laws are con sidered inadequate. Five of these 15 staton place no limit on the age of the driver, while In other states the minimum driving age varies from 14 to 18. Only 11 of the states require mental and physica} exam! nations of the candidate for a license. | Motor Convention Plan Is Spreading ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 14—In de veloping plans for district conven- tions for 1923, the tional Auto- mobile Dealers’ association has en-| countered an unusual demand and rivalry between territories, says C. A. Vane, general manager, In & bulletin to members matied this week. The national convention tn Chicago in January was hailed by the industry as ‘the most construc tive and valuable program ever staged in the industry, Dealers thruout the country urged that the association should arrange to repro duce a part of this convention in various districts. Tho association executive began to lay plans for these district meetings and tenta- tively scheduled one for California and one for the Pacific Northwest. Others have been temporartly dated for New York city and the Atlantic southeast. For the central states one may be developed in St. Louis Made Possible the Wonderful Record of 159 Chevrolet Cars Delivered in Seattle f in One Day The public demands a moderate-priced motor car. _ Power—economy—speed—good looks—permanency. No Other Car in or Near Its Price Has ), The Power ———— Gyerhead valves Try to pass one on a hilll The Comfort ———— High seat backs _ Long, strong sprines Spark and throttly icvers on steering column The Appearance Long, low, graceful lines Drum-type headlights Heavy crowned fenders ‘The Resale Value Always a ready market for @ used Chevrolet The Equipment Speedometer; built-tn cur- tains, opening with doors; oll gauge; ammeter; foot ac- celerator, etc. No extra charge Economy Ask any owner Your neighbor drives one The Permanency Volt by the General Motora Company The Service Facilities pon ei Rees den bine 10,000 dealers uA service stations ——of Chevrolet $ 663 642 1,065 DELIVERED Touring Roadster Sedan Otlity Coupe Sedanette Sport IN SEATTLE $ 877 1,055 950 NO EXTRAS TO BUY THE | Stuart Building FRED S. HAINES CO. Twelfth and East Madison Georgetown Open Sunday for Inspection Only—Evenings to 9 Used Car Department Twelfth Avenue at East Madison Street the chaft|§ yStar Th: | passage of laws which would require} e race view of the victory 1922 and the rivalry that had de \OLDS PEOPLE ATQ aI OPTIMISTIC) While the Olds Motor Works of Lansing, Mich. has been producing passenger cars for nearly 26 yoara, |last month was the biggest March the company has ever hed in point| of passenger car ship s. Records of the company show| that the demand has been unprece:| dented for this time of the year and exceeded even 1920, when all fac | tories were working overtime to pro. | duce every car possible | |_ The shipments show that It ts a significant fact that while 1992 was tho biggest year the automobile tn-| éustry has known, the demand did| [mot warrant capacity production until much later than thin year, | A comparison of the figures of |January, February and March of |thia year with those of last show |per cent above that of a year ago. A significant fact in that this de mand is not from any one section 49 cannot “spotty” this year, as dis tributors from all sections of the country have been coming {nto the factory to arrange for deliveries of cars, It has been found that ape} celal arrangements are necessary this year due to the railroad situation and the fact that cars will have to be driven away in larger numbers. | FORD FOREIGN | TRADE GROWS DETROIT, Mich., April 14.—Fo eign sales of the Ford Motor com |pany for the last two months ex- | ceeded by more than 100 per cent! the sales for the same period a year | |®g0. This increase not only reflects improved conditions in South Ameri can markets as well as in certain | ropean couritries, but also shows {that the Increased demand for Ford Ford foreign sales for February | jand March, 1923, totaled 9,262 cars| | while sales duriig the| corresponding months of this year established a record by exceeding | }10,000 cars and trucks each month, | |the total for the two months being 21,113. Ford sales abroad last year! |amounted to $7,015 cars and trucks, & portion of which were assembled in Ford foreign plants, A recent! report shows the total exports of cars and trucks from the United | States as 78,235 for the year 1922 These figures, however, include 21 639 Ford cars and trucks, so that Ford sales exceeded the total of all other makes exported from the United States last year by 29,819. These figures do not include the exports of the Ford Motor company | of Canada, which does an extensive business with the British colonies, MARCH PROVED, RECORD MONTH The greatest month In the history of the automobile industry has just been passed. This {s estabilshed tn the report to the directors of the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Com. merce, that production of passengor automobiles and trucks in March totaled 246,000! The output for the first quarter of this year reached 867,000, the great est ever, and more than twice that of last year's first quarter, From this report, directors believe, this year will see the record produc: tion of 3,000,000 motor vehicles, mak- ing the number on the highways mount beyond 15,000,000—or about one car to every seven persons in the country, Limited supply of closed bodies might retard the production, but there are no signs of this as yet. --GASOLINE ALLEYS— 2 BIG SPECIAL! STANDARD MAIC CORD TIRES ° 30x3% GASOLINE ALLEYS 1628 FIFTH AVE, 1909 FIFTH AVE, —GASOLINE ALLEYS— OPPORTUNITY Want Ads ey SAXTTV_ANITO Woe ee ase Y | Real Sport Model Tractor} At last! The sport model idea has invaded the tractor field, and here we have the latest Fordson tractor, all dollid |up with the latest in fenders, b'gosh! The model reproduced lhere is one of a recent shipment received at Seattle head-| quarters. “The factory is planning to produce the fenders on urday. \French to Stage ng those of the fol-|a quantity basis,” W.S. MeNamara, local manager, said Sat- yone Henechal and one Phrixus. the light four-seater class, In Economy Contest |risi:um weight 1,984 pounds and PARIS, April 16 “Twenty «ix cars me 10 hours, |PAY® been entered tn the three classes provided for the French Grand Prix fuel consumption road race, to be run at Toure on July 00-mile Hight tw lim{t of 771 pounds and fuel allow: | Pougote ance at the rate of 89.8 miles to the | only one man aboard, but with bal-| American gallon, 1, In the the entrants are preceding the| cublo-tnch race. ater clans, with a weight|as competitors an Aries and three }fuel allowance at the rate of 3 miles per gallon, the contestants are three Artes and three Peuget cars The big car class, with a minimum welght of 3,086 pounds and fuel al, |}owance 15.7 miles to the gallon, has | The race will be run with last representing elther one or three x Artes, four Salmaon, threo Mathia, | passengers, according to the class LL eEenests$ESEEREEEEEIIEGGEESSEEEEESEEIOT ATLL LSE ELSA TT ESET STL TST ESAT TEE ETS a fl : |that production ts several hundred J 601 Fou 15,000,000 BUY | FORDS IN YEAR | Tremendous Sales Proof of Motor World Stability DETROIT, Mich, April 14 More than 1,600,000 new car buyers have joined the great Ford family in the United Statesin the last year ‘This Is shown by retail sales reo- ords of the Ford Motor company During April last year more than 100,000 ¥drd cars and trucks were delivered to retail customers in the United States, record has maintained and this unbroken every Easter this year completes full year in which Fords have been going into use at the rate of moro than 100, | 000 a month, bringing the total well Jover 1,600,000 for the | month period, Ford mgtor No, 7,000,000 was turned out January 17 of this year Since then more than a quarter mil lion more have been produced, and so great ts the demand or Ford cars and trucks that at present deal ers’ stocks throughout the country are practically exhausted. Nearly 6,000,000. Ford trucks are in use in the States at the present time. been month since that time. one twelve United cars and! ¢ TURDAY, APRIL 14, 1vzn. William O. McKay Co. WAS FORCED TO MOVE TO LARGER QUARTERS THEY ARE NOW LOCATED AT 404 E. Pine St. CORNER OF BELLEVUE THIS MOVE WAS MADE NECESSARY ON ACCOUNT OF THE LARGE VOLUME OF BUSINESS AND RAPID GROWTH ENJOYED BY THIS FIRM DURING THE SHORT TIME THEY HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESS. “AFTER WE SELL, WE SERVE” v4 Majority of Auto Models Are Sixes re Six cylinder cars are gaininng ! popularity This, in spite of the fact that of ven toda ing r cylinder cent are of the type. But based on the number of Sora ANNOUNCEMENT LIONS of FAMILIES of Interest to “I will build a car for the multitude” Said Henry Ford in 1903——Read how the fulfillment of that prophecy is now made possible through the Weekly Firrchase Plan For many years it has been Henry Ford’s personal ambition to “al les in the Un According the number of auto manufactu: reased from 123 106 at the end of last year roduced also dimir ed, altho as greatly—trom 156. has dec make the Ford the universal family car—to put it within the reach of the millions of people who have never been privileged to enjoy the benefits of motor car ownership. During the past fifteen years over 7,500,000 Ford cars have been placed in the hands of retail customers—more than a million and a half of them within the past twelve months—and yet there are still millions of families who are hopefully looking forward to the day when they can own a Ford. And now the way is open. Under the terms of this plan you can select your Ford Car, set aside a small amount each week and you will be surprised how soon you will own it. In the meantime your money will be safe- ly deposited to your credit in one of the local banks where it will draw interest. Think it over. Five dollars will start an account. The whole family can participate in it— father, mother, brothers and sisters each doing a little. Why not start today? Stop in and talk it over with your local Ford dealer. He will be glad to fully explain the details of the plan and help you to get started toward the ownership of a Ford car. Sires feter'bompany,. Detroit, Michigan —SEATTLE——_ HUGH rth Avenue CANAL MOTORS CO. 315 Nickerson Street CENTRAL AGENCY, INC. Broadway and Pike Rainler C.F M. sssesseasssssaetesssttsssesesstasstseasastsastassttttsstst sats tttstatsstsa sets ta tetas ttsRsttsttaa ts tt eatttt tt Estate rate tte rtet test . ss aeettstttss tts ssee: COLUMBIA and Ferdinand Co. 1923 BAIRD Elliott 0750 Garfield 0074 Kast 0820 MOTOR CO. Rainier 0425 1001 Jackson Street 1102 East Forty-fifth Street 6200 Stanley Avenue Third and Stewart + 4168 Ballard Avenue COYLE & WOODRUFF, INC. HART & HART, INC, WM. L. HUGHSON CO. RAINIER MOTOR CO. WILSON & KREITLE Kenwood 0081 Glendale 0650 Elliott 0076 Beacon 0532 Sunset 4633 4203 West Alaska Street LAMPING & Twelfth and East Pike WILLIAM 0, 404 East Pine Street 6613 Hillman Place QUEEN CITY MOTOR co. WEST SIDE AGENCY, INC. West 3837 McDONALD MOTOR CO., INC. Kast 7776 McKAY CO, East 0501 Green Lake Station Kenwood 2106 to this surve in 1921 to Mode in not # : | 7 :