The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 27, 1923, Page 10

DIM OR GLARE DANGERS SEEN English Fear Turned Off} Lights; Problem Met NEW YORK, Oct. 27—Our repre. | Sentatives meant well when they passed a law regulating headlights. But were they when they re dimmed This apparently untmportant ques: | al vehemen ompan automobile tion returns with es: and real significance, by a new viewpoint on headlights. The new angle comes from F Jand and is occasioned by a unani mous resolution recently passed by the general committee of the Royal Automobile club in that country The resolution |s “That this committee that tho practice of switching off electric headlights when meeting other traffic on the open road is fraught with cons! urges motorists to wag ‘There you are! A complete reve gal of our own iden—backed up by laws in overy state—that glaring headlights are detrimental to night ériving. DIMMING DANGER ARGUED But there is much to be sald fe the English viewpoint. Mem! the same general co! that sudden dimming of lights blinds the oncom| your car. At with dimmed headlig to clear your own wa) @ pitch-dark ro: Either way, dimmed, both approaching motor! find themselves at disadvanta ‘and have to fee! their way past each other. There ts another solution for this @ifficulty—one that has not yet been) tried out to any extent. One inve thas already applied for a patent based on this new idea. GUIDING LIGHT IS RELIEF "That is, the use of an auxiliary light at the left of the automobile, lighting up the left front wheel and tho left side of the road. Thus, when headlights are dimmed, the approaching motorist is guided | by the auxiliary light of the other automobile, and can steer clear of the car. An improvement of this form of Tight would be one that would throw its beams farther out to the left of the road, so that the motorist may see exactly how much clearance he has. For want of this, some sort of dim ming devices are being sold, whic’ cut down the intensity of the glar- ing headlight gradually instead of suddenly. This at least allows the eye to get accustomed to the change gradually. pees eae “GAS $1 PER” During the recent solar eclipse, when approximately 37,000 motorists visited San Diego, a temporary gas- oline famine was created, and by nightfall the price of gasoline had woared to $1 per gallon. Bill Warner Says ° Well:—I've gone a hunting. ‘Turned the “joint” over to the boys. Told ‘em to do as they “darn” well pleased. Trade for any old thing. Give any old kind of terms. Give the “blooming” cars away if they had to. Only to be sure and get rid of a bunch, or elso would get canned when I get back. 80 I WOULDN'T BE A BIT SURPRISED If they did a lot of “price cut- ting” and “wild trading” in the next few days. and they sure have a wonderful assort- ment to work on. It would be a “darn” sight easier to tell you what we haven't got than to tell you everything we have. ROADSTERS TOURING CARS COUPES SEDANS WE HAVE One 1922 Ford Coupe; 1919 Ford Touring; 1918 Ford Road- ster; 1918 Buick Four Tour- ing; 1920 Hudson Coupe; 1921 Hudson Speedster; 1920 Hud- son Touring; 1922 Studebaker Coupe; 1920 Studebaker Spe- celal; 1918 Studebaker Four; 1922 Paige Sport; 1920 Paige Sport; 1920 Paige Sport; 1918 Velie Six; 1921 Stevens Sport, and many others too numer- ous to mention. 50 COME ON FOLKS Help the “boys” make a namo for “theirselves" while Bill Warner” is away. For regard- less of what they do, what Prices they get, or how they trade, “Bill” is “behind it all.” BRING IN YOUR Phonograph, your furniture, your diamonds, your old car; bring in “anything” at all. Only come in and drive a car home. Compare our prices and terms with others, You'll be surprised. OUR SLOGAN (DOING WHAT OTHERS CAN'T) WE ARE Open Evenings and Sundays Bill Warner, Inc. 409 East Pine St. EA st-0255 considers | able danger and | approaching | | ee Nat Indian chic fs and their fami recently of the | | Tne part intere | in its turn has fur shed 1 mu STATE AF eens _HE AD LIG behind the many arrests now} made in this part of the ivers, whose cars carry headlights, 8 continue with slac eal demand for comes strong. All dealers more business than at this time year, however, and last year was a| good year, NEW TRUCK | | IS PLANNED| on has been started at the General Motors ‘Truck company, tiac, Mich., a new truck w high-powered motor to meet tho de-| Produc mands of contractors owners jn mo’ f this truck ts of the} standard two-ton type, but the motor is that usually found in the three: | anda-half-ton GMC t Engineers of the company assert that the operation of trucks in oil | fields, bus work and in mountainous | territories has become such that op erators want high-powered engines to | get great pulling power under bad| rad conditions. For this reason the} chassis has been adopted. | In appearance the truck fs the | same as the standard GMC model it carries a special hood, « higher ol @iator, and can be furnished in any one of four different chassis lengths | at $625 additional list price. Durant Auto Group ‘The bigness of the Durant group ts evidenced by the fact that Durant| products are now manufactured by| 27,000 workers; more than 146,000 persons are stockholders in Durant interests, and 3,000 dealers handle the retail sales of the organization Recent balance sheets show assets of | mors than $62,000,000, while the net profits of the first eighteen months of operation were more than $4,000,-| 000. The Durant Lansing plant will shortly reach capacity production on the new model Star car. It is possi. ble the manufacture of the Durant four will be transferred to Flint. Police Units Get New Motorcycles The Indian Motorcycle Co, an- nounces sales last week of 100 mo- torcycles with side cars to the Penn- sylvania state highway patrol and 64 to the Los Angeles police depart: ment. FLINT SIXES BEGUN Production of “Flint six: been started at tho new Flint plant of Durant Motors. Star plant at Flint will start operations about | January 1. Lansing plants of Dur. ant are operating on a schedule of 200 Stars and 100 Durant cars daily, officials report. BY THOMAS R, BEEMAN King County Engineer WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 27, 192: ALL PAVED ROADS IN GOOD CON- DITION GRAVEL ROADS Kenton-Maple Vatley—Kenton to Maple- wood farm closed, balance in excellent condition. Detour to Maple Valley via} Cedar Grove and Hobart roa: Diamona—Pavement ite 1% m0 0 ail Clty via Kirkland and Redmond or around north end of ington, or old road run- sterly from Iesaq Good condition, Snoqualmie to Snoqualmie Falls bridge cloned on account of grading. De- tour to left of bridge. | | Renton-Issaquah—Pave | Tesaqnea ish) —Good. lamond (via 8008 Creek) fon excellent, Mighway—-Open to Sky+ komiah; good condition, Woodinsiile-Duvall—Good, M xorllent Mighline—Good. to park entrance; th Trunk © pavement exc eri i Bellevue-Redmond—Good. Redmond-Fall City—Good gravel. For further information call MA in-69! local tldridge Buick Co., Shows Big Growth |' |Used Cars Held |r duet Oakandi Gon ee hte aiolentaing we ilies, who are assisting in the E lks’ Charity festival this week in the Arena, were the quests in an automobile trip ab out the parks and boulevards. tribes, and with Seattle Yakima,and Nez Perce ie pees e ie 4 eT we This is the new model ‘Cle veland Six making the Queen Anne couktar alice in high} gear. The counter balance has a 25 per cent grade at the top. Manager W. the Seattle Automobile Sales Co., is at the wheel. 0 Regi regon Registers | .|Factory Drivers S ubject More than 150,000 automobiles now carry the Oregon Mcense tag. Se retary of State Kozer {s Jooking for rd to re ion for the year ,000. ‘Thi 000 over 1 will ex: | “s orig imate for) Is year by 10,( Of the registrations to ap proximately 11,000 mre trucks and /ar more than 144,000 of the total are|eamo gru Day and Night Runs Made Thruout U. S Fleet of New Oaklands weather and road condi. subjected nearly the | ru tsa g tests thru which they | Hill ar motor cars. had been run during the two years| mountains of Pennsylvania. = |ts whieh were being tried out,| were proved out the de mountains eing made} Tho Inst Damage to Trade|,,” thief-proof, proof devices of fond inventors, ‘Tho “rough” includes heating iron | safes red hot and dropping them 30 feet onto a pile of bricks, or| fire-proof or accident-} | subjecting a neat little ignition Jock to the torture of the middie ages.) With the inventor himself it is nec essary often to be gentle and tact- ful in breaking the news that his) idea failed. In many cases, the} inventors are helped to re-design their appliances on sturdier lines. | Notice the test for automobile bumpers. Eight or 10 are tried out) every month, The testing machine) is a roller coaster inclined track,! bearing a 2,000-pound car which has a rounded beak shaped like a} section of telegraph pole. A new] bumper {a attached to a chassis an- chored at the track. A cable pulls the car five feet up the incline, and it Is released. “Bang” it smashes into the bump- er, a gauge methodically recording the dent it produces, Ther fol- lows a bombardment. from 8, 16,|, Testing an auto bumper at the Underwriters’ Laboratory 14 and 18 feet +in Chicago. MORE RAMMING lower end of the Down the roller coaster, just like a Coney i Island joyride, and then bump! A few collisions with the IS TRIED timb Sahat ond hf If the bumper withstands an| timber at the end of the ride prove the worth or worthless- this, it gets a final ramming from| Mess of the auto safety device. 21 feet if it is for a ght car and 23 if for a heavy car. Many| A Manufacturer drives up with the bumps of rond service. ‘They bumpers crumple. like plaster under| his thief-baffling lock on his own|]are. placed on the “shimmy. table” the test. |car. He enters the office and brags| and given a Here is a bumper having an! apout ft, Wiakla fotiEcunines Geer RE spect ft. Behold, a workman tip- Ty Round “CRMC ERe and bn ped off by the engineer has “stol- road ahead is placed “Jimmy,” a|°n" the car, breaking tho » lock, eae i ; ‘ designer. padded dummy with limb of oak ascii’ thes caren ae Mufflers are attached to an. en- and joints of iron, the size and gine exhaust’ pipe, lis xplod NO LOCK HOLDS Yara Reece eayie, exbiaia FOUND you'll get hit." Phere Alas, he doesn't hear. Crash, The| locks,” says a laboratory ongineer. little form crumples. But it is|"The best are merely caught on the fender, and thy} ants We work on them as intelli-| have been examined by damage from the blow was not in-| gent as capable ! creased by a crushing beneath the|ing portable tools, If the lock holds} gi wheels. The test shows the device) 20 minutes it is O. K, Few do is practicable, Now they have to|on the first test.” est tests of safety againts fire, One seo how tho mechanism sustains} Then there are appliances such| manufacturer last yoar spent. $16 the ramming of tho roller coaster’ ax ammetory, fire extinguishers and|000 to rebuild his y machine. gear Jocks“which may looven under systematic shaking, Five minutes iater he|for a day or a week, tho equiyal- ent of thousands of mijo# of driv- ing. If the vivration loosens the Joints, there is more work for the drivit weight of a 12-year-old boy. tep on the s, driver,” Look out, Jimmy, in them. A ripped muffler is a ertile source of automobile fires, aren't any given muffler will hold fast or rip. thief retard-| Seventy makes of automobiles tho ‘labor- thom now ‘are n the rating of “Standard Fire,” indicating the ARS f the high- thieves would, us-|atories, Twonty plant to conform his car to underwriters’ standards, At Woodland park they were | ed in the elephant, pointing it out to ea ch other with many gutteral exclamations, | The party is composed of some of the most distinguishe d members of the their gorgeous costumes and gay trappings they have been a ttracting much attention where they have appeared. i ch for them to marvel at. E. Delfel of| Cars to Vigorous Tests} iss. | . BY plece of magazine copy on bass’ desk) | , from coast to coast, They werelto that ad—Farm Life, nd days on Union Town winter an ng the They Mexico and in y thief-proof} The laboratory soon finds out if a: ertn of] Californ x cara put into test wore | bia © Oaklandjrun 19 car milon, The leant nal Automobile Deale: Travelers that left the factories at| mileage registered by any car wa ion statistics show that fully 68 | Pontiac, Mich. September 8, to all 1,007 miles. per cent of all au les In- | sections of un | One of the cars was driven 620 clude the used cars;| ‘Tho design of the new 6-54 modols| miles in 24 hours, while another was and at least 25 pe of dealer | wah started three ye go. € iven 2 les in seven and one. failures last year aro laid to that. | were tested for montha under every half hours by one driver. BY GEO. BRITT | CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—"Treat ‘em } * : ae i» rough,” 1s the slogan of the Un- Pas itt i derwriters' Laboratories here, when | eesti & (oe ee : {t comes to testing the supponed 1 : \WOULD CHECK | AUTO THEFTS Famous Detective Advises | Registration Laws ft of automobiles can be effect: | ively checked by the passage of title| registration laws by the states iy the opinion expressed } William J. Burns, head of the bureau of investigation of the United Btate department of justice, in reply to a inquiry made of him by the Am can Automobile association. Burns believes that the successful experience of the states which have enacted adequate title regintration and title certificate laws have Ind! 1 this solution of the automobile theft problem. That the passage of such a law b all of tho etates, with the assistance of the Dyer or Nationa! Automobile theft act, which makes Interstate or international traffic in stolen cars a federal offense, will reduce the t of cars to & minimum, was the opin fon expresued by officials of the A A. A. over four years ago, when the governing body of that organization | strongly advocated the passage of the Dyer anti-theft law. | variou. Five Passenter Four Touring Car The Standard of Comparison A Car of Greater Utility Thoroughly representative of the 1924 Buicks, this four-cylinder, five passenger Touring Car is new from end to end. Its new body, frame, fenders and radiator its new Buick valve-in-head engine—its four-wheel brakes, all exemplify Buick’s policy of building into its cars greater utility and satisfaction with each suc- ceeding year. The mitmte attention to those details that make for greater comfort and convenience is well expressed in the new windshield, new ventilator operated by a push lever, wide, low and tilted seats and compactly grouped instruments. This Buick four-cylinder Tour- ing Car worthily maintains the Buick reputation~ Standard of Comparison. Exoninee 27 QMPANY East Pike at Harvard EA st-0842 nich have been ob-| tained by the bureau of inventiga-| tion of tho department of justice under the direction of Burns du the fou ars of its operation j cate the value of the Dyer law, ‘T annual report of the department of justice as to the work done by Burns bureau in this regard is expected to show that during the four years many millions of dollars’ worth of stolen automobiles have been re- | turned to thelr owners, with thou-| sands of convictions, accompanted prison sentences It {= tho first winter that experi ment cars have been on the road| without damage to the cars them-| selves or other cars, or injury pernon. Thus the mtors were more vigor: ously tested than ever before tn the history of the Oakland Mo A spectally chamber of the Ricardo type is wi giving greater power per cuble inch | of piston displacement w knocks or detonation. probably the first company which has |~ built both overhead and L-head me l wats the navy should n due to the new developments in L- fas to the new developments in -) Government Flayed abel that this type of engine gives the| WASHINGTON, greatest power and best. perform |the to any | For greater convenience we will also open on November 1 8 new downtown store at University and Fourth Avenue, Stuart Bidg. nnped When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them Pillai ieee a aa ma isnesi ad atti! Bea ath Hs | “that {¢ war should come and 4 oll the govern- royalty to drill.” could on ading Dohi ar a by former | — COUNTY PAYS SHARE According to Automobile club of lifornia figures, Los An- which has 370,000 of ., {the state's 1,052,000 motor vehicles, s ntana, coger be-| will pay nearly one-third of the state fore the se committee investi | gasol 6 tax. This means it will naval oil leases yesterda: ‘pay approximately $15,000 daily into lease so Pinatas id the state treasury, ACK TIRES NORTHWEST PRODUCT JACK TIRE STATION 1924 ~.Third Ave..~ ~ Seattle~Wash collect contracts of the Interlor Fall and an | | big Tho motor has a bore of 2 13-16 Inches and a stroke of 4 3-4 inches, with a total piston displacement of 177 cuble inches, which is exactly the rame as the previous Oakland gine. There are 124 fewer parts on the new valve mechanism than on its) predecessor. ylinder ts completely sur-} __ with water-Jacketed epace,| es an ¢ven temperature} the engine, Tho cylinder block has a detachable head and the | block crank case aro separate | units, Thia construction makes it! possible to replace a cylinder block without refitting crank shaft or bear- ings and without removing the motor | ecretar: De geles county, Advertising Copy Writer (tossing | —'There’s ono with an unanswerable | argument | The Chief—For heaven's sake} change it. Wo want a lot of answers | Brand New Engine—very latest six-cylinder design. Smoother, quieter, more powerful. Four Wheel Brakes—simple, tried and true, giving added safety under all conditions. Brand New Bodies—seven Fisher-built bodies, finer and smarter with rich blue finish. Centralized Controls—surprisingly convenient arrangement of all controls on steering wheel. Disc Steel Wheels—Now standard on all of the seven new models. Extra wheel included. Be sure that the car you buy incorporates the very latest in automobile design. The brand new Oakland is the last word in fine light-six construction. See it. Northwest Oakland Co. DISTRIBUTORS 1060 Pike St. at Terry Phono EL fot-1233 Some Good Territory Open for Dealers Touring Car - $945 Roadster - + 945 Sedan - ¢ + + $1395 Sport Touring + $1095 Business Coupe - $1195 Sport Roadster - 1095 Coupe for Four - 1345 All prices f. 0. b, Pomatas, Mich. )