The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 19, 1924, Page 14

SATURDAY Va MAKE ’ER IN HIGH New Discovery for Lubricating Motors! NUARY 19, 1924 Traffic in Cities Not Bad as Painted National Figures Show Autos Reached Se aturation Point Yet “SHEY.” a KENNEDY GETS A mp Pee dae Haven't IRAFFIC in cities, and. on fine | bi days on the high has be ome so congested that many believe | dollar as the basis, there can be no room for more. jcents worth of automobile, 101 cents Well, figures just compiled by the|in gasoline and 123 cents in t | National Automobile Ch | Yet, in most other commoditics, the Commerce s 8 1913 dollar buys only about 60 cents had as all worth of goods, Breater congestion, The average retail! price of automo: ‘extent of saturation biles has gone down to $811 In 1923. The Increase of new automobiles} The law of supply ahd demand has Produced in 1923 has been only 50| worked true to theory at least In this per cent above that of the year be | fore. Which isn't as great a de} Other figures showing the import) Bree of Increase as the 60 per cent}ance and popularity of the automo Fise in 1922 production over that of | bile tn this country are these; Registration of automobiles In the| here's the anomaly es is approximated at 14. . While the per cent increase of | 500,000—85 per cent of the total regia: | 9923 production over that of 1 tration thruout the world! Iamounted to 1,354,996 autos and| Tire production In 1923, 45,000,000; @rucks, the 60 per cent increase of | 1 production, 40,931,000. | G22 over 1921 was much less—987,-/ | wholesale value of parts and ou. | acc {es, exclusive of tires, $1, *) What queer tricks figures do play! | $10,000. | }) Dake the production of closed cars,| Gasoline consumed by motor ve | cent o hicles in 1923, 6,404,184,000 gallons, ; _ SQ 1033 Saasan about 1,000,000,60° more oan 1923 | Of the Batt Se pn bea at, “the University of W liber hee Paige rece iglosed. Thirty per cent of the 1922} consumption. c shev prolet sedan from the We stlake Chev rolet Co., 118 W: estlake ave. Mew cars, which amounted to 2,65 ———— oman 1H, were enclosed. Yet this appar-| vent increase of only & per cent in pro-| Portion, was an actual increase in senclosed cars of from 715,028 in 1922) Hb 1,235,000 in 1923 }) That's only an introduction to the Fegeed facts brought out by the . A. C. C. figures. These go into WMinances connected with automotive Aroduction, registration of motor ‘ears, the auto's relation to other tn. — and many other related sub- + For instance, conclusions of the N 1A. ©. ©. statisticians show that the | ‘standard dollar buys more than its | Sporth only in the case of automo- MAY TRADE IN OLD ARMATURE les and its closely allied products gasoline and tires, T 1918 it now buys 111 hways, ing neré has been but not to the} Is your car an oil pumper? Is she choked with carbon? Are the valves sticking? Is she noisy? However, Does the motor run too hot? 2 |OO GIVE HER A DRINK OF OTOR-ELIXIR Fountain of Youth for Motor Cars WHAT IT DOES Not an ordinary carbon remover, bu a wonderful overhead lubricant com- posed of pure vegetable and mineral Lubricates upper cylinder walls. Increases compression and power. oils that all cars should have. Con- tains no acids, alkali or injurious Keeps out the carbon deposits. Keeps valve stems clean. substances, Keeps motor cool. Use a Can NOW—$1.50 Stops carbon knocks. Treats 160 gals. Gas Makes motor work smodth. Sold on Money-Back Guarantee Saves repair and gas bills. For Sale by An overhead lubricant is as essen- SPELGER & HURLBUT, INC. tial as under-lubrication, WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY CO. MAKES OLD CARS YOUNGER. By using the new Overhead Lubricant you avoid all combus- Makes it unnecessary to remove motor tion chamber troubles. BUICK 10 ADD TO EQUIPMENT Additions Will Cost More| Than $11,000,000, Claim In order to bring tts production capacity to 1,200 cars a day, the Buick Motor company will expend $11,000,000 in new bulldings, addi tions and equipment for its main plant at Flint, Mich, and {ts subs! Giary plant at Detroit, | The above news, the most atgnitt cant to break in automobile circles | in some time, was authorized this! week by President 1H. H. Bassett. In| making public the details of this notable expansion Mr. Baasett said “Altho wo built more than 200,000 | automobiles during the calendar year “Rewinding Methods Found | % of 23, we found thia record rea! Unsatisfactory, Here He aasihes laaattlaigat to reaete the - demand for Buick cars. That do-/ \ The Sunset Electric company, of mand continues and to meet it, we! 2 ; : +») |are considerably extend nell. | angie ne eee | A quarter century of Oldsmobile development is shown above. “The horseless carriage” |e ne OF fact | \is a thing of the past. The auto of 1924 is a development little dreamed of in 1899. The tures. They will authorize exchange | jot included tn the $11,000,000 ap-| ‘Of old armatures for a new factory|new models of this make of car are on display now at the Oldsmobile Motor Co., 1000 E.|propriation t the vast amount of Pike st. | @rmature at practically the same |money expended and to still be ex-| head, eliminating much expense. For agencies, territory and information, Address ‘@0st of the inferior re-wound arma- ture: ‘This system will do away with the se and general dissatisfaction of ) Makeshift re-winding, and in order “40 protect their users the following Manufacturers, whose products are Wistributed by the Sunset Electric ‘@ompany, have authorized the ex- ‘change plan: Delco, Remy, Wagner, 7 Westinghouse and Auto-Lite. ~ § Gordon Prentice, manager of the unset Electric company, commented the plan as follows: “Ample protection of the armature ser must be considered, and where p re-wind jobs are accepted, tn- service invariably results. | is why we recommend our new exchange plan and, as has been the policy of this organ- we are basing our recom- tions entirely upon future Rood service to our customers.” In a score of countries in every shorn. part of the world Reo passenger cara|OWNers also use speed wagons for und speed wagons are performing |C@%rying the clip to markets hun- tasks that seem unique to American | reds of miles distant. motorists, according to a statement| Parts of Australia remote from just released by the export depart-|mail service are served by speed |ment of the Reo Motor Car Co, of} wagons carrying the mal! regularly, | Lansing. under contract. In some instance: In Australia speed wagons are used | "Peed wagons have replaced contly for the “Shearers’ Express," carry-|@ight-cylindered chassis for this jing banda of wool shearers thru the | Work, particularly where roads are wook-producing sections when the| bad. seasonal clip is ready. ‘These move| In the Argentine Reo has an alert | from station to station until the| dealer body, and the Reo passenger | sheep that have grazed over thou-|cars are popular in the Interlor. In sands of square miles have ' been| Buenos Aires speed wagon passenger Over 90% of OnE MILLION STILL IN SERVICE Since delivering their first car, early in De- cember, 1914, Dodge Brothers have manu- factured and sold one million motor vehicles. Over 90% of all these cars are still in active service, This striking fact stands alone—a unique and overwhelming tribute to the principles and meth- ods responsible for a product of such enduring worth. PLNE AT SUMMIT WL.Eaton EA st-0313 | blo but busy city. Reo distributors have been appointed jat San Juan, Porto Fico, American Motors Perform Tasks in Strange and Out-of-Way Place In many cases the station | buses afford American visitors a re- minder of thelr home conveniences in transportation, REOS ASC D NORWAY MOUNTAINS In Southern Norway Teo has won| an enviable reputation for Its ability to climb the mountain roads, Both the passenger models and the speed | Wagon are found in all three Scandt- |navian countries, Tho oldest car on the atreets of Barranquilla, Colombia, is a 1910 Reo, Some of the buses on the speed wagon cassis have been driv en over 200,000 miles in and around Barranquilla. Traveling for two weeks by river boat, train and road into Colombia from the coast, the visitor finds Reo passenger cars and speed wagons are well known dellin, an inaccesst During the year and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Many Reos are used by the Dominican gov- ernment, and a large fleet of apeed wagons Is operated by the U. 8. marines stationed at San Domingo. In the Dutch East Indies, particu. larly on the island of Celebes, where there are large rubber plantations, speed wagons aro in general uso. They carry raw materials and em- ployes to and from the plantations. Speed wagons are becoming well known in many parts of the United Kingdom. They aro found at diversi fied points in charabano service as open buses carrying from 16 to 18 passengers, COCOA HANDLED BY MOTOR Cocoa, grown in Gold Coast colony, Africa, isa valuable product, which must be handled promptly. Hun- dreds of speed wagons are used on the cocoa plantations, operating be- tween” plantations and raflroads or port towns, In Nigeria ‘speed wagons are large- ly used for transporting palm oils and other local products. In Portuguese East Africa, Ugan- da, and Portuguese West Africa, as well as thru the Union of South Africa, speed wagons are numerous, In Johannesburg speed wagons, known as “Bluebirds,” have plo- neered city bus transportation, Ashipment of speed wagon chasses recently started for Hong Kong, where the speed wagons will go into bus service, For handling sugar in the Ha- wallan islands speed wagons are widely used. In some sections they are found almost exclusively. Mail service at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and at various points In Central America is expedited by both Reo passenger cars and speed wagons. HINDUS GET MALL BY AUTO Government mail in India {s also carried by speed wagons over a route running 200 miles up into the Hima- laya mountains, from Rawalpindi to Srinagar. A dozen other American and English makes have been tried, but the government contractors have standardized on speed wagons. American travelers in tho Near East are familiar with tho cross. country taxi service thruout the Eastern Mediterranean territory, which is made possible by Reo pas- senger car stability. A large number of the cars are used there. Reo service from Belrut to Jerusalem is particularly well known. Reos are found in many more out- of-the-way places such as the Canary islands, off tho. western coast of Africa, at Tahiti in the South Pa- cific, at New Britain, off the coast of New Guinea, and at Angora, the cAp- ital of Turkish nationalist govern- ment, pended tn providing additional tacilt- | tes for Buick branches in. various| parts of the country. Notable among | these are entirely now service build-( Ings in Greater New York, Indian- | apotts, Pittsburg and Jacksonville, | Florida. The erection of a commodi | ous bullding at the latter point prob- lably best Illustrates the importance | with which service is regurded by | Buick. This branch butiding ts designed, primarily, to serve tourists to Flor- ida who drive Buick cars, thus fording those away from home the jname prompt and intimate factory atte mas that enjoyed in the! larger cities, CHRYSLER CAR MAKES DEBUT New Line Embraces Results | of Maxwell Man’s Work Walter P. Chrysler's widely her-| alded new automobile, the Chrysler | Six, representing what he believes the public has long desired in a med. | ium-sized motor car, was announced | at tho Now York Automobile show | last week. Advices from that city | say that in {t is embodied an entirely | new conception of an automobile. It| is one of the few automobiles not | represented by a Seattle agency this| season. Chrysler ts generally accepted by the industry as one of its two great. est figures and for the last three| years he has been chairman of the| board of directors of the Maxwell Motor crporation. The Chrysler line embraces siz| body styles, of a distinctive appear. | ance heretofore associated with only the finer European styles, Thero will bo two touring cars, roadster, | brougham and two sedans, Tho major results of his = ments, pointed out by Chrysler. en- gineers, are: Elimination of practically all fric-| tion at the junction of moving parts. | Rapid, efficient and full power do- | velopment thru thermo.dynamtcs (the | science of heat distribution in rela. | tion to power development)—a tre- mendously important engineering | achievement, Absolutely vibrationless power at any speed. Achievement of 68 horse power and | & maximum speed of more than 70| miles an hour from an engine of only 201 cubleinch displacement. WASHINGTON SETS MARK Washington in 1923 established a new record in registration gain with| an Increase of 48,802 in licenses Is-| sued. The bpst previous gain was | 42,565 mado In 1920 over 1919. Total registrations in 1923. totaled 269,759 as compared with 220,957 in @ gain of 22% per cent over the preceding year. Registrations tn previous years, which showed big 1918, 131,369; 1920, 173, FLINT SIX OBSERVES ITS FIRST BIRTHDAY | This month witnesses the first an-| niversary of the Flint Six, which made its bow to the public at the big auto shows In the Bast at the beginning of 1923. The year saw the commencement of production in Juno in the Long Island clty plant and the completion of the great Flint, Mich., plant and the start of production there in Oc tober, Tho capacity for Flint production at the present time is 90,000 cars a year, “ 1 MAKES NEW CARS NEWER. SHURFIX PRODUCTS CO. 1632 Seventh Ave. SEATTLE ARGENTINA FAVORS AMERICAN VEHICLES |: ‘There is no great middle clans in the republic of Argentina to provide a motorcycle market in proportion} to the country’s population, but. the growing enthusiasm of the younger element for sports and the outdoor life is a factor that is Increasing sales from year to year, says Asnist- ant Trade Commissioner C. C. Brooks in a report to the commerce depart- ment. Merchants and industrial en- terprines also show a desire to pur- chase parcel cars for messenger and delivery ver Ninety per cont of the machines in circulation are used for pleasure purposes, but in the fleld of commerce, the motorcycle is al- |by demonstrated superiority over an- |{mal-drawn vehicles or the bicycle. ‘The number of motorcycles now in use is estimated at slightly more than 00 of which 602 were registered in wenos Aires, From 1910 to 1913, during which period 2,450 machines were imported, the European makes dominated the market, but by 1920, j after war conditions on the continent had facilitated American entrance In- to the field, 87 per cent of the total imports came from the United States. At present, competition {s almost ready creating a demand for Itself |®™tirely among American makes, and jprices range from 1,000 to 1,750 pesos. Tho competition given by a low-priced American automobile which can be had for 1,595 pesos, af fects the sale of the more expensive makes, If an engine ts subject to consid- eruble vibration, there is danger of the bolts coming loose at the base. Old- Stile Gas ‘Once More You've heard old-time motorists say many times: “Tf it wasn’t for better carbure- tors a car wouldn’t run on the kind of gas we get now. If only we could get the old-fashioned gas—! And now you can! General Gas- oline, made by an imp roved proc- ess, retains all those elements that gave the old gas its pep. 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