The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1924, Page 7

<= SECOND SECTION W TOMOBI HARRY W. BANGER, LE SECTI Automotive Manager SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1924 PAGES 9 TO 16 SEATTLE GETS LARGEST CHEVROLET AGENCY IN N. W. | USHER IN OAKLANDS W ITH -“SEALED ORDERS” RY Mars Here are two models of the 1925 line of Oaklands. Abo -— a tat 1 IKE the naval squadrons dis-| patched In time of war under sealed orders to be opened hundreds of miles out at sea, the whole army of Oakland dealers scattered over the | length and breaiith of the land will! maneuver under sealed orders from the factory at Pontiac, Mich., during the week of August 18th to 23rd. “What the Instructions will be, we do not Know,” says Harry D. Austin, manager of the Northwest Oakland Co. “Six numbered orders will be mailed to us just previous to this week, with instructions to open one each day, in numerical order, and to follow the instructions for that par ticular day. | The geal of each order will be broken each day in our showroom and then displayed in the ‘When the seal is broken we wi ceed to carry out the inst contained therein.” This thruout the land, from the smallest hamlet to the largest cit Oakland dealers will demonstrate car on the same day In the same wa The outcome of this Sealed Order week is being watched with interest, because it is probably the first time that a tremendous nation-wide or ganization of dealers has been or dered to move as a unit day by bay, | without knowing from one day to t next what the commands will be for | the following day. | ‘Try the “rapping test” when perl ing a new car. It is a wise plan to| rap the lamps and fenders of the car | under consideration. The results are | surprising. Some fenders ere tinny, while others sound heavy and dur- able. ‘The same with lamps, tho they | 1 may look to be sound. A buyer would be no more justified in select. | ——_——________________— ing his car on appearance alone than] is a little more generous in wheel to choose a car primarily because it base. r Cc, J. CASSUTT owner of the SEATTLE MUSIC HOUSE 1216 Third Ave. d SAYS: I have owned automobiles for twenty years, including many hig priced cars, and I am firmly convinced that my Flint Sedan rep- resents more automobile for the money than any I have ever owned. I am 100% satisfied. Seattle Automobile Co. Established 1903 1424 Eleventh East 0462 Open Sundays and Bvenings - eceetemenen 9 gs “ONSOLIDATION of the Washburn and Westlake ¢ let co: 1 the st week, with a $400,000 capi tion, ‘ ttle the largest Chevrolet automobil in the Nortt st | Announcement of the unlooked-for union was made | A. Davie 10 rounds out 11 years in the autor ness here president of the conso It wi the ntral Chevrolet, Inc. The Central Chevrolet com pany will be housed in a new $ building wt 1518-20 Broadway and | 1517-23 Tenth ave, thus running | thru the entire block, G, W Thompson, president of — the Devi Westlake company will be vice ‘ : president of the new organize tlon. ort t on tha hae rs The new compan have more than t 5 fe t All levelopmenta in oi ah: ve, the-landau coupe, and below, the special touring car. | | | | fi Ten Million, son of E. C. Million, formerly with the Wil-| liam O. McKay Ford agency, meets his- famous name-sake, |Ten Millionth Ford, thru the medium of a handshake with Frank Kulick, famous race driver, who piloted the Ford touring car into Seattle last Thursday on its transcontinental run. —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star Sfaff Photographer | OASTING the longest lineage In factory officials declare that the tires automobile history, Ford car No. 10,000,000 arrived in Seattle Thurs. ray forenoon to meet some of its 9,999,999 ancestors and cousins and kinfolk for a few hours at the farth- est West point on its swing around the United States, Incidentally, Ten-Millionth of De- |troit, Mich, was intrduced to Ten | Million, of Seattle. Wash.—the form. er the nationally famous automobile and the latter, the son of ©. C. Million, formerly’ connected with the William 0, McKay company here, Mayor Edwin J. Brown, Police Chief W. B. Severyns and other citl- zens turned out to greet the touring car and {ts driver, Frank Kulick, and to ride in the parade which ushered the muchly-traveled vehicle into Seattle. DEALERS STAGE BIG RECEPTION The local committee of d | Kent. | fornia aboird a steamship. ars In polnting out the magnitude of the accumplishment which its com: pletion marks, local Ford branch alone, required for 10,000,000 would form a column of rubber 2.000 miles high if pied on top of each other, would havo to find parking space despite the fact that it is 5 miles |from New York to San Francisco on that famous road, CALIFORNIA LEADING IN AUTOS PER CAPITA Washington and Oregon High Up on List, But Below Towa SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 16.- There 1s ono motor car to every -| three and two-tenths persons in Call- jeluded W. 8. McNamara, fornia, according to an announce Hale, A. F, Blangy, Martin Ik, Me-/ment made recently by the Cali-| |Kay and H, J. Lawerence and they |fornia state motor vehicle dopart staged a display and reception for | ment, |the car at varlou dealers’ agencies) ‘phis percentage places California jand on downtown atreets. in the lead over all other states in ‘vhe ten-millionth |this country, and all other countries, |the state last Thuredsy at Toledo and|in the number of automobiles per Chehalis with a night stop at Cen-|capita, lows, with one machine to} tralia, Twelve Seattle dealers metjevery four and three-tenthy resi the car in Ti na and escorted it|/dents, ranks second in America, it thru Sumner, Puyallup, Auburn and | is said, Oregon and Washington are high It left Thursday night for Call-}on tho list Alabama at tho only one car to every 18.4 persons. Seven and two-tenths persons to u car ig the average in the United States bottom with cars Lined up six abreast, some stat!- | clan has figured, the cars might be | run onto the Lincoln highway, end to-end, and there would be 1,150,000 cars out of the 10,000,000 which | tral Company, Inc., Here ordered for the — { ) Davies and Thompson to How’s the Road Head Consolidated Firms «= $400,000 Capitalization for New Cen- SEALED ORDER DEMONSTRATION >OINT TO CHANGES IN 1925 OAKLANDS NEW DEVELOPMENTS nee of CHASSIS els" rs on r tie. brake 1 type of BODY EQUIPMENT fender 1 wiper t board 1 cushion air uphol- and 4-passenger dash on -all this week! IS week, all over America, the True Blue Oakland will obey Sealed Orders —sealed at the Oakland factory. Invisible orders to give new visibility to Oakland’s True Blue character! Eye-facts to demonstrate Oakland’s year-ahead ability and desirability. Six Sealed Orders are in our window. Every day one seal will be broken—and the Oak- land duty for the day revealed to you—and to us. Watch our window! We do not know what these tests are to be —but we do know what they will reveal. A powerful, athletic engine under Oakland’s shapely hood. A body finish that stands abuse. A stouthearted gameness of the kind that wins championships and keeps automobiles out of repair shops after hard days on the road. Oakland is built for hard days! A car with a traffic sense — with four-wheel brakes tried and proved for more than a year. See why the Oakland Sixis a year in advance of its field A car as modern as next year in driving comforts and utilities, NE year ago the combined resources of Oakland and General Motors created a new kind of motor car quality and per- formance—at a very low price. The True Blue Oakland set the pace! Features that Oakland owners have enjoyed exclu- sively—through twelve pages of the calendar —are featured on other cars for the first time this year. But thecapacity of the True Blue Oakland to deliver a better kind of service has been tried ou¥ on every road in America—with unanimous owner approval! And refinements have been added from time to time to keep the True Blue Oakland still a yearin advance of its field. Oakland Sealed Order Week offers you a tremendous opportunity to learn a great deal about the motor cars of today—and of the future! You will be able to judge motor cars as you never judged them before. Drop in and see Oakland deliver according to Sealed Orders! NORTHWEST OAKLAND CO. 1000 Pike Street cE BLUE ge Oakl EL iot-1233 i i