The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1924, Page 14

Vhour when we were in hot pursuit of | ‘@ drove of wild asses. Ono would| sep aris cael sah PAGE 14 SCIENCE LAUDS DODGE VEHICLE Desert Expedition Found| Auto Valued Adjunct The start discoveries of the Third Asiastio expedition, with their priceless contributions to sclenoe an a! commerce, would have been impos sible without motor cara, That is the blunt, unequivocal | statement of Roy Chapman An. drews, lea: of the expedition, which rot recently from a two. year search of innermost Mongol! with the larg collection of f the United States. Whon the party started from China | Mr, 8 and horses were the only means of transportation known in the inter of the country he was about to pen etrate, To cross the Gobi dosert alone was a foat to test the endur ance of the most rugged car, and had been accomplished but seldom. | To ford the streams and cross the| and most valuable sils ever brought into} Andrews was told that car hilly, roadiess wastes of the unknown} § land beyond the desert, however, was considered an utter impossibility KNEW DESERT WOULD | = GOOD MOTOR Mr, i ners rules prevented ributing their cars to our expedition,” he said, “but I felt that I had to have them, anyhow, even tho numerous other manufac turers had offered to supply me. I had per 1 Mongolia before, and I knew just about what would be re quired of a car. “So I bought three Dodge Brothe ears at full-list price in Pekin, touring car and two %-ton commer clals, I tried every insurance com: pany in China, I believe, in an effort to Insure the cars be starting the trip. They only laughed at me, even when I explained that I cared for mothing except insurance against total destruction. We had our me. chanics and service parts, and knew that we could mrvive any accident eXcept annihilation. But the insur ance companies said no car could get In—much less get out—and so we traveled at our own risk. “What those cars did was a rev- elation to the whole Eastern world. We crossed rivers, plunged in and out of deep ruts and thumped over boulders until we thought everything must shake to pieces. kept going. Territty overloaded, they | did the tmpossible day after day CHASED WILD GAME FROM AUTO CHARIOT | “Bametimes we chased wild animals | feross the roadiess plains at high| speed. I remember once the speed ometer was registering 40 miles an Nevertheless, Andrews had made up “Dodge Bro them from co’ think no, car could survive such| abuse, as the plains were naturally | full of ruts and mounds. But we} drove them back to China, after 10,-| 090 miles’ of this sort of usage, and sold them without difficulty for more | than the price of three new Dodge} Brothers cars in the United States. “The Chinese were eager to get that no other car had ever done. The company that bought ours now has 26 in operation carrying from seven to 15 passengers $00 miles across the desert from Kalgan to Urga. This | trip formerly required 30 tedious} fays. With their Dodge Brothers| tars they do it in 48 hours, and there| are no roads.” Mr. Andrews. added, as n matter of course, that he would again take Dodge Brothers cars on his next ex-| edition, which he plans to start in June, 1924. ‘The expedition which he led into Mongolia. occupied two years. With-/| out motor cars it would have taken 20 or 30 y vars, it is estimated, But those cars | BU [ 3 SHE | bg “Off with the old and on w fourth Buick. “It's the be st c [ “WANNA RIDE, GIRLS?” A Washburn Chevrolet, in the role of a “Good Samaritan” to pedestrians, eee up a party during a recent “Courtesy day” observance, these cars. They had done something | burn, head of the dealers’ agency; F. L. Feist, Miss Mabel Johnson and Miss E. Cutting. YS ith the new,’ is the of all,” she states proudly, USED GAR FIRM MOVES OFFICES |Rowland & ‘Clark See New} “Auto Row” on Westlake Tho fast growing demand of tho| public for reconditioned used cars has been realized by Rowland & used car dealers on “the Row,” ark, who | year” have moved from tholr olf location at 611 EB. Pike st. to a new head quarters on Westlake ave. The new building has excellent salesroom facilities, consisting of 125 feet of window display. H. W. Rowland and C. W. Clark, managers of tis firm, predict that 1924 will be the “largest automobile in history. They have confl- dence In the rapid growth of a busl- nes district on Westlake ave., as the coming automobile center of Seattle | due to the close proximity to the shopping and business district _ 6% $215 Down BALANCH WESTLAKE Open Evenings % DOWN BALANCE IN 24 MONTHS INTEREST BUYS A NEW SUPERIOR CHEVROLET CAR THE WORLD'S LOWEST PRICED, FULLY EQUIPPED CAR ROADSTER $163 Down BALANCE Nothing to Buy but the License COMPANY 118 Westlake Ave. N. TOURING $165 Down BALANCE $23.50 Per Month | $23.75 Per Month SEDAN $255 Down BALANCE $30.14 Per Month | $36.50 Per Month Payments inelude all charges, interest, insurance, gas and oil. Phone EL fot-4501 — r~ = AG ENA oS Scoegs “E PX SE) aN RD) HE Re ‘FOU RTH motor motto of Mrs. Theyare, left.to right, G. |to prove that Chevrol THE SRATTL BUIC K O. L. eT 7. O. Wash- 1; DEALERS GIVE RIDES GRATIS. Chevrolet Courtesy Plan Is Success; Business Good “Every day “Is Courtesy Day “For local buyers “Of Chevrolet.’" Thus warbles G. O. Washburn, | |manager of the Washburn Chevrolet | . following successful completion * of the local agency. The ‘* do more than talk a biles. For one whole | erated a fleet of the new models and | enacted the role of good Samaritan to everyone who desired a It was a successful demo and called forth Washburn's vers libre effusion. Reports from local and King coun ty, dealers indicate that Chevrolet | sales have beon brink, duo in a meas. ure to tho early advent of spring, and. tho increasing popularity of| Chevrolet power, lines And recog-| nized economical operation. The sea son's early prospects give promise of an exceptionally big Chevrolet year, the dealers deciaro, GRAHAM BROTHERS TRUCKS As Dodge Brothers power plants are produced in enormous quantities, costs are naturally much lower than on engines built in limited numbers, This is prominently reflected in the price of Graham Brothers Trucks,on which the Dodge Brothers engine is standard equipment. WLEaton KA at-0313, Pine at Summit. AU TOMOB IL 1D Martin, who “a end all of them have given me fine and satisfactory service. be ‘he 4 in the downstaira of the L, C. Fr. ESTAR )/AUTO INCREASE Outnumber Railway Cz 6 to 1 in America s by Motor vohicles in use thruout the United Mtates outnumber railroad par and freight coaches aid cording of the Automobile Club flouthern California Th estimate is based on & cen 1 rolling stock fi all ates r in the United States at the cle f 1923 | The total number of motor ve- | hicdes In une in the country at pres. | 100,000, The ensus shows that there 09 000 freight Soy Wherever it is displayed the Buick Authorized Service sign assures prompt, efficient service because every Buick service station has met these definite Buick requirements: ives in us beginning ot | 4, or a total of 000 units in| team transportation | in quite a difference in the | itlons of transportation as | 6 greater majority of the steam rolling stock consists of freight cars, | | while by far the greater number of | | motor vehicles. are used for pansen- | or nervice, Accord ‘9 the ate Ker nerv According to the steam | huamaline of Buick railway reports there Is one passen- ger ear to every 42° freight cars, | He is in full accord with the Buick serw ice policy—courtesy and fair dealing. , at Specially trained mechanics Modern, time-saving service equipment b while the motor vehicle regintration indicates about one frieght truck for | every 19 passenger cara -2-15-NP When better automobiles are built are taken to saasataae| reasing importance en in transportat The figur v ‘ "fundamental een mma owen” Buick will build them The automobile has bien In use a little nore than one-third of the ne has just purchased her | that veh aeaas re ee oa sat 6 nited States today there are suffi vehicles to transport one half of the population at one 0 load, al- |HERBSMAN TO TALK |lowing four persons to a car, TO AUTOMOBILE MEN} ciple: (i Sgt ara ro I ELDRIDGE East Pike at Harvard EA st-0842 clty woul ia be 1.420, New Downtown Store—Stuart Bldg. Herbsaman, secretary of tho| tal China club, will be the principal | 00 pproximately 1.29th of ‘i r speaker Monday night at the Febru-|the population of the country. | Fourth Ave. at University Street ary meeting of the King unty di The auton in Southern Call.| fornia alone, approximating 600,000 | would be able to transport at one t} time 2,400,000, or more than two-| Bmith building thirds of the carrying capacity of Morriasey will preside. Consider-|every steam passenger coach in the able Important business is scheduled. | United States ‘The entire development of the au-}room for speculation in what the tomobile has been accomplished in| automobile club statistician may be Jean than a generation. There 1s| figuring on a generation henoe ii! (tht } secenh oO “i i ppesced he. : i hath} : A ‘< a With over 200,000 orders for Ford Cars and Trucks already placed for delivery during the next few months, we are facing a record-breaking spring demand. bd Each successive month this winter has witnessed a growth in sales far surpassing that of any previous winter season. This increase will be even greater during the spring months, always the heaviest buying period. These facts suggest that you ‘place your order early to avoid disappointment in delivery at the time desired, Ford fotor Detroit, Company, It is not necessary to pay cash for your car in order to have your name placed on the preferred delivery list. You can make a small payment down, or you can buy, if you wish, under the convenient terms of the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan, See the Nearest Authorized Ford Dealer Oo t) ee