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

PAGE 14 Only Milk Drinkers [ Work in Battery Factory Avoid Lead Can Poisoning; Gorman Com- pany Makes Seattle Power Units BY LEI ANI 12 Dearborr isn’t as you i tues of the fluid as a ¢ with the dairy trust. TRUCK FACTORY MAN HERE Thomas H. White, vice president of the White com- pany, of Cleveland, was a Se-| attle visitor the past week. He represents the third gen-| eration of his family actively engaged in building White trucks. ‘ E truck industry has never been on a sounder basis,” says Thomas H. White, vice president of the White company, of Cleveland, @n Seattle the past week on his fir: lefficial visit to the Pacific coast. “I look for a steady expansion of bus! hess in the commercial motor branch Of the industry as new outlets to the bus and local freight field opened.” Im an address before the Seattle @istrict organization of the company, he how the company is planning to (are for the new business; the latest step being to purch: 4 and buildings of the W = Ma ‘chine company. ‘This acquisition, with the new en Sineering buildings, Spproximately 1,500,000 square feet. The buildings of the White Sew- Img Machine company are adapted Zor the housing of the parts, service | and repair departments. ‘The $300,000 engineering br:ilding, now being constructed, will bring together all the experimental work) are | White |! pointed this week to} * r space totaling}, ) FANN M i founder ttery facto on the vir ated ma diet associ. Ho simply doesn't care to de clare holidays for “last rides” of his employes out to Washelli and Mountain View as victims of lead poisoning ntimonial lead t they have been facto esidence. y was estab rear of a ble o s out 3 mont outpu nounce: 00 batteries & Last month's Smyth eh ) HERE BY RN AUTO SUPPLY nan's factory pu at two brands of batteries, the Gorman and| the Wizard, the latter sold solely in the Northwest by the Western Auto| Supply Co., and the Gorman, handled | by dealers thruout the Northwest Last month, the Western Auto people sold more than 1,000 Wizards and Wizard Specials (this latter Ford water, | wal assembled articles, they of antim Pr nufactured: ford cedar, pin cells and cas And from the time that the lead jerids, with an fr cking bar to | prevent the shedding off of t arge or oxide filler, intil the mechanic cases th jdattery in a sp }is just about t The lead {s melted and poured ! grid molds. Then the cooled product is stamped out « | ing table where } is moulded into the mesh and passed | |thru a mangle roller to bind it in| | tightly, | | 4 taken to the past o read lead litharge GET ACID BATH f FOR 48 HOURS Upon leaving the pasting tables, the grids are placed !mmediately in lead |lined forming tanks where they are charged and discharged three times in 48 hours, the sulphuric acid bath leaving them ready to take the final | | charge of electriclty. | Then they are inspected and cut by the workmen who drink so much| milk. This ts accomplished on a little saw-table and the sawyers are pro- | tected by nose and mouth masks and] hile other workmen have} been molding out leaden posts and ads which are burned to the grid ps. Loose posta are unknown in Gorman and Wizard batteries, the | factory officials claim. | The negative and positive plates | are separated by Port Orford cedar | separators, all again Inspected by a the groups are placed In Hood rubber jars and placed on the/ les where y receive the final “shot” of current Each ts cycled} (charged and discharged) three times and shows a voltmeter test of 2 2 10} | per cell when the final sealing is | | mi made. The jars are then put fn fresh cases and boxed to prevent tipping over, and are then ready for ship ment. | Gorman cla! of the company, as well as some of er gled | the physical and chemical testing ap-| Purity of materials and the method Paratus now used in the piant-con-|of manufacture make the locally trol laboratories. made batteries “soft,” capable of tak- | Put this question to your automobile engine: “Can you do better work at smaller cost on General Gasoline?” One full tank will enable your engine to answer. Thousands of Seattle en- gines have said “Yes!” with emphasis in the past few months. Why not see how yours feels about it—today? Coupon Books for sale by all our dealers, or phone EL iot-6602. Look for the Green and White Sign | at Independent Dealers | _ GENERAL | GASOLINE and Lubricants “Fill Up and Let Your Engine Decide!” |bore engine when he drove his Cham. | | pion THE SEATTLE STAR WHERE SEATTLE-MADE BATTERIES COM E FROM s Turning out Seattle-made Gorman plant, 1410 Dearborn walk thru this part of the f t have lungs. are given initial Upper right: Assembled bat “shot” t, with the wo vat by the action of the robust young Seattle cast-iron their of current, breu of the ing @ capacity load of electricity Bat soon a ade, out, but locally used much more quickly af facture so are much stronger the puret gets them. Railway rneys cause the lith-| arge in the grids to sh nd sea water Injures thos with which it n brought by shipped from the East with the plates dry sulphace 4 are inferior when acid ts p he also points batteries manu when are comes in contact w Battertes storage t}as well BOP IC re: We sh hac tad tind AA HD batteries at the R. J. st. Upper left: If you can factory without coughing you This is where the battery-grids charging in sulphuric acid baths. pore teries, being given the final iter being bubbled a la home- electricity. Lower: A view HEHO factory. ROAD COSTS HIGH spent more than $1,400,000 above the fees it recelved Connecticut from auto owners in 1923, for high- way construction and maintenance. And contracts ure on for further tm provements. ‘MOTOTERIA” STORE A Detrolt chain grocery store firm has established one of its chain stores on wheels. It ts called « “Mototerta’ and is manned by a ne clerk, who is cashier and driver It is the first store to go to the housewife. ME le is, This is the interior of the new Dodge Brothers’ “BR sedan, artioped with a “Pullman bed.” The cushions are arran factory job and is a feature to W. L. Eaton, local dealer, nged so that they may be let down to make a bed. It is a which the tourist auto owner can profitably use, according Champ Racers Use Champion Plugs in 1924 ® When Jimmy Murphy flashed over the wire a winner in the July 4 Kan- sas City race, he supplied the climax | to a year of racing success for Cham: pion spark plugs. In every big race since the fall of 1923 Champion have been equipment on all the winning cars. In nearly every event new track and world's records have been established. Harlan Fengler, the youthful rac. ing wizard, started this record when he set a new track mark of 113 miles an hour in the 250-mile Kansas City race, October 19, , using Cham. | pions. Thanksgiving day at Beverly Hills, Calif, Bennett Hill finished nd every car,among the first vas Champion equipped, Again erly Hills February 24, 1924, Fengler, using the same plugs, set a new world’s record for 250 miles, averaging the tremendous speed of 116.6 miles an hour. Shortly after Tommy Milton, on} the dry lake bed at Lake Muroe, | Callf., made the fastest mile ever cov. | ered by a human beeing with a small equipped Miller Special 161 miles an hour, | It remained for the world's speed | classic—the 500-mile Indianapolis | to add one*of the finishing} touches to the wonderful record, | | Every car that was running at the! finish of the race last Memorial day | was Champlon-equipped. In the 12 cars actually to complete the entire 500 miles, 95 of the 96 original Cham. | pions with which they started were firing perfectly when the race, in| which Joe Boyer and 1. 1. Corum hung up the new record average of | 98.24 miles an hour, was terminated | It was later found that the removal of the 96th plug was an error, as it was in perfect condition | Following their showing at In dlanapolis, Champlons were used in every car that started at June 14, in which race Jimmy Mur phy established another new track record of 114 miles an hour, At Kan sas City he covered the 160 mileu at 114.49 miles an hour without w stop, Altoona (GASSAWAY MILES TROUSERS MORTGAGED farmhand of Galesburg, l..| Instead of a xpecial hand crank for ged hhs trousers, shoes, cap|every make of car, we may soon ch recently in trying to com: | have only two or three standard sizes plete a purchase for a used car, Used | for all cars. 8. E. Evelyn of tho en cara are rep 1 to be selling as low | gine division, Society of Automotive as $5 down with tho rest {n mort-| Engineers, is at work devising stan ‘dard sizes for cranks. BY STAN STANDARD CRANKS " GASSAWAY * MILES) MOTORIST, ~. ~ HAS ARRIVED —, MR MILES WASHED UP. . ‘AND TOOK ON SOME MUCH NEEDED FOoD- AS HE FINISHED TUCKING THE NAPKIN AND / SILVERWARE IN HIS POCKET HE SAID~\ “\ THINK 1M GOING TO LIKE “THIS TOWN” FIRM TO MOVE | Northern Electric Co. to Get New Home September 1 | The Northern Electric Co., gene ral automotive electricians and Exide, | Bosch and Gray & Davis representa tives, will move into new quarters | about September 1, according to an | nouncement of F. G. Guenther, pres ident of the firm. A larger and more modern buildl. now being streted at the torner of Third and Blanchard, will be the new downtown home of the firm. “Business has expanded to such have for many months recognized the urgent necessity of larger and more modern quarters to take care of the Jever widening scope of our service, |which includes battery, ignition, ficial headlight adJlsting Guenther said. service,” Motorists, and pedest: both refrain from taking ac tho they may have the ~|rolet Motor Co, of [the gold-line n proportions In the past year that we | starting and lighting systems, and of. | GETS INTEREST WITH PATTEN G. 0. Washburn Rounds Out 20 Years in Auto World BEGAN WITH THE ROYAL Originator of Gold - Lined “Chev” Mark Sells Out of the best kno auto men in 8 attle’s ‘Auto ste, th Joined the forces G. Washburn of the Maxwell-Briscoe company where he remained for four years Washburn later was with the im ported Berliot, and from 1909 to/ 11913 was associated with the fac tory sales organization of the Cor- bin Motor Co. |GAINED EXP ee E IN MANY LI He also spent one year with the| |Stevens-Duryea, and for two years, 1916-16, was the Southern sales representative of the Studebaker factory. The following year he |went to the Koehler Truck corp. Another year was spent with the wholesale organization of the Saxon |Co., in New York, city, as manager, Jand then Washburn joined the fac tory sales organization of the Chev- New York Shortly afterward he was sent to Seattle to establish a factory retail | sales store, which was under his| e es until Fred 8. Haines took | ‘ARTILA LERYMAN IN WORLD WAR | During the war years, Washburn saw service with the field artille After his dischargo Seattle and was sc manager and later ass m he returne nh made sale: stant general | he Fred 8. 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