The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1924, Page 14

PAGE 14 White Detail His d Research in Americz Mechanical Pert BY ROLLIN H. WHITE ear which fit to call t ally plea: ‘and body lines, and provision for easy servicing so that there be the least possible depreciation the car value from year to year of ownership. I might mention ing, which, in addi GAR PU GOOD BUSINESS Rickenbacker Notes Change in Attitude of Banks “Buying an automobile on time ts & perfectly sound and legitimate business proceeding,” asserts Capt E. V. Rickenbacker, vice president and director of sales of the concern) A @f that name. “In fact it is better Business to buy a motor car on time) than to pay all cash. | “Especially 1s this true of the bust. | ess man, who on a year’s turnover ‘of his capital, should mako this| Money earn several! times the inter. est charge on time payments on his/ vicg thru affiliated clubs, the A. A.| “The theory that one sheuld not buy an automobile until Ideas in lew Rollin Motorcar ind Abroad Developed ection Objective r he Rol woe a car that usands of B. C, AUTOISTS. NOW IN A, A. A, | Entire World Linked With “Three-A” Affiliation The Bi © Intest Canadian motoring m to ome actively af. no famous old “Three 000 ts rganizat Hated with America’s 0! toring organization. mission the British Columbia as- 80 © the American Auto mobile asac m family, A. A. A service ts avallaNe thruout Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific, As an tndication of the extent of térritory covered by A. A.A, ser: A. also has active clube fn Honolulu ard the Panama Canal zone In addl- ed States and the affillations in Canada. THE SEAT TLE STAR AUTO SETS ROAD RECORD OVER TRAIL __) CHICAGO SHOW Photograph of trail car taken December 30 at the end of its } long year’s journey, which equaled @ trip around the world. ish Columbia Automobile with a membership of 2,- | in North Dakota, Montana, | the Pacific coast during the st national mo-| @riving 28,300 miles in his official car, “The Master of the Highway.” With the a4-| road nearly every day in the year driving over the 2,000-mile Glacier Trail route, either Minnesota, lowa or Missouri. the duty of advance agent for good roads to stimulate tourist travel thru North Da- | kota and Montana towns on their way to Glacier National park, Yellowstone park, and Glacier Trail has become tourist and trade route from the South into the Northwest, with the result that thou- sands of automobile tourists travel from southern points Montana during their vacation season. summer months, General Manager Bert Fuqua of the Glacier Trail seta 192% National highway record by He the was on This big Paige car performs the logical into North Dakota and f | he had/tion to the 364 automobile clubs in/ | lenough cash in the bank and could| the U WINTER SHIE spare it for his ‘extravagance’ dates | | from that pre-historic period when a} motor caf was not yet known as the| Breatest of all neceasities, but was considered a luxury that coula be dispensed with. Reciprocal arrangements have also been made with the Automobile As- 80 ton of Great Britain, the Tour Ing Club of France and the Interna tional Touring alliance; These lat- “Today all realize that a car DaYS|ter contacts are of special value In ‘for Itself while it 1s being paid fo “Tt not only increases its owner’ efficiency and earning power, but th: “methods at all. that "ments for 1924, that have just been) fgbsence of a car renders him unable to Keep up with modern life and} Even bankers who Used to issu0 Against the practice of buying cars jon time, now advise this course. ‘Their attitude is not entirely unse}- fish now—nor was it then, of course. r, the motor car proved {t- gelf fo desirable and indispensable people not only disregarded the to ‘forego the car and keep money in the savings bank,’ but ‘Proceeded to save until there was ‘enough to buy a car—and then draw ‘put the entire amount!” GARDINER BUSINESS PROMISES INCREASE "Contracts covering car require- ‘concluded with more than 50 Gardner stributors in all the principal trade centers, provide for production dur- 1924 of 18,000 Gardner cars. ‘This represents a substantial tn- | crease over 1923, which has been the ‘are approximately 1,000 dealers—a/ # “biggest year in the history of the Ye Operating under the 50 distributors ‘ales organization that now affords “Rational distribution of the Gardner ar, and national servic to Gardner ‘owners. Five hundred new dealers Ihave been added this year. Always test your brakes when "starting and have them inspected Hy. periodical warnings | ving members of the A. A. A. who estre to ah!p thelr cars abroad for ouring thru European countries, CALIFORNIA TO ADD TO ROADS Must Accommodate One- Tenth of All U. S. Vehicles LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 2.— | Highway construction work in Call- | fornia scheduled for 1924 ts expected |to reach $16,000,000. ‘In addition there will be approximately $7,500,. 000 for maintenance work from the | 2-cents-per-galion gasoline tax, which }is 50 per cent more than the sum javailable during the past year. Figures compiled by the Automo- bile Club of Southern California, in. dicate that the state must provide highways to accommodate one-tenth jof the automobiles in the United States owned by residents and an additional quarter of a million motor vehicles annually brought into the stato by visiting tourists from all parts of the country. New highway construction in Southern California during 1923 to. tion to the uncompleted constract of 1922 and the street paving done by municipalities. In addition to this work $425,767 was spent in building bridges on county and state roads. y It gives you “six”? per- formance at “four” @ cost, é OLDSMOBILE MOTOR CO. 1000 EAST PIKE STREET Phone FA st-0128 | OLDSMOBILE SIX » taled $3,464,596, which was in addt-| LOCAL VENTURE | Radiator Warmth Regulated by Seattle Invention Controlled from the inside of the car, a new “winter shield radiator shutter, invented here and manufac tured by the Hi-Grade Specialty Co: 405 Douglas Bldg,, has been placed on the market. | ‘Tho shutter is controlled from the | Inside of the car at the dashboard where a simple adjustment makes {t | possible to obtain any opening of the} | shutters desired. ‘Tho installation ts simple, as the shutters are modo to fit different types of radiators. All that is nec essary is to put them in place, pass the four supporting bolts thru the honey comb of the radiator, place the nuts on them from the inside and the shutter is mounted. Tho in stallation of the control fs equally simple, occupying only about one inch of the space on the instrument board, ‘The radiator or cooling system of the car is so designed that at @ sum: mer temperature of 90 degrees under | normal running conditions, the en-| gine heat ts brought up to its high: | | eat efficiency, insuring the most eco | nomical use of gas and ol] with the greatest power. When the tempera ture falls to 60 degrees the automo- bile has twice tho radiation required, | making it necessary to adjust the gas Jcontrol by using a heavy mixture, which requires more gasoline, a por- tion of which always remains un burned and passes down past the pls- tons into the crank case and be comes a part of tho lubricating oll, decreasing its lubricating value to a very great extent. All this 1s overcome by a simple adjustment from the dashboard of the car, placing {n the hands of the driver the means by which he can elther increase or decrease the radi ation of the cooling system by shut ter control. Another advantage fs when the river parks or stands his car he can completely close the shutter before leaving tho seat, which in turn tends to keep the heat of the motor con- fined under the hood and prevents the cold alr from entering it from the outside, This insures the oper ator of having a warm motor to start | with after several hours of standing. An additional advantage ts derived from this shutter while driving, due to the fact that when the motor heat is brought up to normal, the heat | passed back into the car, which, in turn, heats it. } ‘Women chauffeurs are becoming | exceedingly popular in Paris, They | are said to not only keep themselves neatly dressed, but their cars are al- ways kept attractive. They are care ful drivers, polite and make no fuss about luggage. | Thoroughness Characterizes our methods every transaction, and our cu tomers are accorded every cou tesy consistent with sound bu. ness judgment. in W Ask Your Neighbor TRADES UNION SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 1215 Fourth Ave. Ellot 0696 Seattle is the home of the side temperature falls and the encountered, newly-invented winter shield | radiator shutter, as shown above. It regulates the tempera- | ture of the automobile motors in winter time when the out- need for a “richer mixture” is For the sixth consecutive year Buick han been awarded first place at both the New Yor and Chicago national automobile shows. This coveted honor means that Buick's tremendous volume of business has again earned first choice of position 4t the nation’s great annua! automo. bile shows. On the basis of actual salem to date and December prospects, it is| estimated that total sales of the vrolet Motor Car Co, for 1923 will exceed 500,000 cars and trucks. | Tentative schedule for 1924 has been set at 800,000 unite. Thene figures compare with sales of 235,000 in 1922, and 68,000 In 192 GASSAWAY MILES GASSAWAY TRIES To DISLODGE A TWO YEAR OLD TIRE -|N TWOHOURSHE HAS SCRAPE‘D THE OFF SEVEN KNUCKLES AND A THUMB-| . THEN THE. BACK SEAT_ CHIRPS UP BY STAN QUTER CASING | advined! jas Star, HUCE AFFAIR Bassett Says Auto Display Exceeds All Others night exe ave been w, and H. & f the Bi aigt Basset tation of Amer and the els, and eled to wee the a Aint in the Bronx arm¢ iew Yor Why, i" Chicago more sl Bec cation tn the heart of it attracts f say it in the the rare com jean the une of its m a very contracts this, the pub buy,” Mr 9 is better pre Bassett cites the fact that fe an added Impetus to oa. fore the show, he aa: about what the m offer, and have over.” The wor ‘thought it buying pow © West, and the ago a8 a city, ferent ways, factors that or, too, of the Mid attractivencas of ( are, in @) contribut |tanoe of | POLK ACQUIRES AUTO LISTING Registration Company Will Be Enlarged This Year The resignation of Martin Tuttle as vice president and sales manager of the Motor List Co., of Des Moines, Iowa, and Detrolt, Mich, is an- nounced, Carl G, Thornburg, form | rly production manager, succeeds him as general manager. | R. l, Polk and company, directory publishers, recently acquired @ con- ng interest in the Motor List mpany, with the idea of expand pg it to keep pace with the tremen fous fnereases in automobile regis th this company endeay- rd. and tabu When the Motor List company was first organized, back In 1906, the an nual production of cars and trucks as about 24,000 vehicles. This company was tho first to undertak the compilation of lists and statistic: relative thereto on a national ‘The task has grown by leaps and| bounds with the 1923 total produo- tion running over 4,000,000 vehicles and the total cars in use approxi. mating 14,500,000, The Production Department of Motor List company, employing 200 people, will continue at Des Moines, but the sales and executive offices are now located at Detroit. FINANCE BODY | FOR DEALERS W. C. Durant has definitely an nounced his plans regarding the for. mation of an acceptance of finance company, according to W. 8. Dub mage, loca] distributor of Durant and Star cars. It {a different from the average finance company in the fact. that $100,000,000 worth of business stands ready for it when the Durant Corp, company is completed and operating. Dealers in the Durant products, such Durant, Flint, Locomobile, Mason Road King and Princeton, will be enabled to get thelr financial ate. SATURDAY SEE FEBRUARY 2. 1924 MR. GALLAGHER THE HOUSE OF INDIVIDUALITY AND CARS THAT COMPEL FRIENDSHIP SELECT USED CARS E. H. GALLAGHER 311 EAST PIKE ST. support from rant group The Dura the dealers in Gen rs products. was 483,4 telegrams are re. Overiar in e¢ of more than Outperforms Any Car in Its Class Picture yourself behind the wheel of this new and finer Gardner car— —a Gardner that leaps ahead from 5 to 25 miles an hour in 7.7 seconds—in high gear! —a Gardiner that goes from 2 to 60 miles an hour in high—with no per- ceptible vibration! —a Gardner that rides from 20 to 25 miles on a gallon of gas! —a Gardner that will climb any hill in high that any other car will take, regardless of its price! “Ask Any Gardner Owner” Smallwood Motor Co. INC. 1024 East Pike St. at 1ith EA st-1069 For Economical Transportation CHEVROLET. 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