The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1924, Page 14

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924, THE “AUTOMOBILE. SECTI HARRY W. BANGERT _ Automotive Manager FON SH State Automotive Law Confab Is Called for Next Week | Revamped Motor Law “NEW CAR” DEALER SEES WORTH IN “USED AUTOMOBILE” Debated Here Thursday Ought to Pension Motor License, Signaling and and Gas Taxation ‘Buick P Pl nt 0 t sh li mill wel ener any pee es elton 15 Years Old, but Works Provisions Already Okehed IFTEEN years old and still running at the rate of 250 miles a day. That's the record of old Buick engine No. 248, a 1909 model which for the past| the same purpose—and still has \five years has been used as| ‘he original valves, spark plugs and carburetor, if you take the motive power for Bert) jqurst's word for it. ATTLE STAR PAGE 13 fy HE Automotive Legislative conference, composed of rep- resentatives of the Automotive Trades association, Western Washington Motor Freight association, Automobile ‘ c lab of Washington, Truck Owners’ Association of Seattle, ‘ a hington State Good Roads ‘ociation, Auto Freight , Washington Auto Transportation association, Union Oil company, Eldridge Buick company, department of public works and sta ate highway patrol, will hold a two- day | session in room 231, Pioneer building, Seattle, September | 25 a at which the work of the conference in drafting |Hurst’s little sawmill, on the) tHe ground one valve last summer a re@sion of the Washington motor. vehicle laws will be |Sound, near Shelton. and replaced agoonnecting rod bear- completed. | fees t of the excel.(!"& the only real overhauling it has had lve ye s during Sections of the propo: . Aa 0: WEED, DS et ethick 1 to turn out per new motor ve le act ver-| or * a in . will give ce geet of Tie ing matters on which the! fur apeod ana ~ purebas Jim Fentor rk up trie conference has agreed at pre-/dence of v unde kay é and wa to the planer, vious sessions, will be pre- e pr , lean avery 7 ere e mate sented at next wee meet-| 2 r ee rae | tions ¢, gear " Alrunning to the. sawyer’a Tae 4 ing by H. H. Cleland, former} That + give proper signals trot of the speed. assistant attorney general, | sha ! a ft of not 5, Yerfton declares. x ss © more th » fe tho the bod: nd chas- who is drafting the bill. long since in the discard. etting a good used car is a wise purchase.” of not n of operator's ense for 60 days, or both, upon se nce ug provisions: [ond conviction That the license shall follow at all lighting or ‘the car. shall be a subdivisions of ited from impos: cease to be Among the import the used car business. | upon by uspens “Eldridge used cars” are a in the Eldridge niza- | sacri tion. BUSY NEW YORK Hurst cast about five years ago ffic into and out of Manhat- for an eng mili. George the heart of New York city, has Miller sold him No! 248 for around per cent since 1920. a 100 hicles were counted Simon Jump among the), 1 25 outlived three oth- < or leaving that isle logs floating in the out-| er auto engines purchased fo day. stretched “finger” of it) —— | tignal devices | proved by the director of | © for hi | recently ente jand in a in nee Sound, on which the Hurat irae cont ia oars ol gplemiaei Hundreds See Duplex Stude- sawmill (above) and its hat ‘vehicles on main traveled! — DAkKer Models Sunday bs Buick power plant is located. highways, to be de ated by th ” r. shell “have BY P. E. SANDS i] It is near Shelton, Wash, | | TRANSMISSION Below is the used Buick AUXILIARY touring car which is giving SIX SPEEDS good service to R. C. Adams,) Timkin Bearings Thruout street railway employe,| pS | Touring Type - - $98.00 shown beside the car he pur-| chased from the Eldridge Truck Type -- $122.00 » Buick Co. Warford Extensions That fines of not less than $50 nor more than $100, and jail sentences of not less than 10 od days nor more than three id months be imposed on any per son operating a motor vehicle after August 1, 1925, without having an operator’s license. - —— ss ae | FOR FORD TRUCKS tae Hl } ‘That after August 1, 1995 . a . | ‘ 4 iy TWO MILES A DAY Itinch, Installed ....++++++++-830.00 Tess 1 tificates required by the ock the 'D t M k Hi Thi d | » I it he carried on the car tn a container | people waiting to jam the uran akes ls lf Fast Africa takes the prize for the ||| Gives 186-Inch wheel base ed fi to be furnished by the director of |room, and this same condition con e S Os moweil inennw of travel. ‘During st Boinch, Installed....-.+-+++¢+-880,00 Lp | licenses. tinued all day long until at 9 p. m. we closed the doors. ‘Gasoline Cost aaron Sire Cut to 10 Cents Assault on Wall Street #1" ceee 00. | sie Full Line Bennett Brakes || Jl Kurz Goes Over to Westlake Chev- rolet Co. to & an ordinary cart two miles. | = ‘ c For Ford Trucks and Cars i HEAVY AUTO DUTIES | - NORTHWEST DISTRIBUTORS Austria is considering raising the | : W rf d E t ie Hi ot title we aan on arford Equipment Go. | — We were only able to show the three new Duplex body models the phaeton type. Studebekers’ hav Auto Financier Hits Stride Once | More | this model hav ithe Duplex ph Duplex | tisk 3th biles from about $200 to $1,400, and | z 2036 Westlake Ave. EL iot-6758 ae | | body in a unit top and body, of one hanks Sb:cdlear eas about $100 on motorcycles. - ——____— Baits} | but most! = f Hi lebaker model are pe the auto kine | t | po rgie etait Then, in 1920 the ® ee ip] t the general | | 14 | public could see, ne © the beauti t he Me | }ful lines of the three models, was | nts and the Morgar i the quick, operation and action of | bison nt {the enclosing curtains in the Duplex | etna = re ony ; ia | i j boa Ror cee ys ‘ i 0, crumbled. He was con. } NEW WINDSHE j idered broke i Wanted! « windshiel | Wall Street smiled a selfsatiatied | : 9 es smile. These upstarts must be kept 1 His Ages * easy to operate as any sedan car ich will be built up whererer| Window. This is the next improve ment suggested to auto manufac f your name and sldress ip |turers. A windshield that could be * and get thele |AdJusted easy while driving would rtisement. |be a boon to motoring. in their places! Four years have passed. Durant} seemingly passed out of the picture. He was almost unheard of. But quietly he was mapping his cam paign. Recently he considered him self res Then he came out In the} LIST PRICES OF DODGE BROTHERS — sch detest amas and anit ay ny onpanen te Darn SPECIAL TYPE CARS REDUCED . i 1 up $10,000,000, Dort Carriage company with a capi | tal of $2,000. In 1904 he organized the Buick Motor Company. He built 3 Again fear crept into the marrow | OMly 16 cars the first year. A 2 { of Wall Street's bones. It was not until 1908 that Wall e ff, th | Again Wail Street 1s watching him | Street heard of W. C. Durant. Just Economies effected in the : | cautiously, For the rumor is thas) before the panic had spent its course Lees ae a ee ee avery eet purchase of special equip- : | | ment on Dodge Brothers | ah oe | Durant has ‘come back" three |company, the Cadillac (for which he £ times. He is 63 and is consid. | Paid $5,000,000 cash), the Oldsmobile, | if H. KURZ, formerly with the| ered a wizard in high finance. |Oakland and several others. \ t | | Zeal Dodes Boolian’ ansncr | CELEWEN bard Ini Boston's eivibay he | CuLSWall Bliaets saw: Hla: Siespasiy ecial type cars, due to sub- ‘ (or @iG years on oblen manager, ja |was nide:he moved with his perents| “developing fast. I¢ was alascious sp ’ | |now with tne Westlake Chevrolet | to I troit, which was to become the} melon and they longed to sink . ? : bile center’ of the: grorid., Al sila tectliie it stthey id, stantially increased volume, | PB ance! | He took the post Ser 5. | few years later he established his! within two yoars he lost control . * f f ‘The Westlake Che Co. 4 one | heme in Piint, Mich. where he began | o¢ General Motors when ho’ was make it possibie ror Dodge ial . = |of the Seattle agencies which v { £17 he Sab atitl act star re forced to sell five-year notes In the Py ; It is surprising how quickly": soe ey wth which [a aara organising Sty te ott. mente sacl aa Brothers to reduce the list r a Buick owner accepts,as a 3," mn only one itn to eee prices on these types, effect- —_, ne | P unced this past week | But he maintained Is stock In- A | matter of course, the dependability at th le saa ‘ tie w nae | SANDS T0 SHOW .::: daa whieh the notes areal ive Se tember 15 4 i y § f his Hi thi ks no more of 1 t Co. will be enlarged. He | att he a etd re-elected chicf Pp ° ; f | |contemplates several other Improve- executive of the company : } p : rs) car fi 1n. ledte | CARS SUNDAY His fortune accumulated. He was ° f all t d d ; | setting off fc or a thousand-mile | FORDSON BRINGS OUT fies Cie: roxals Wil fouls Gare ct Prices © standard types : | jaunt than he does of eit TRACKLESS ENGINES oc i Seay endal js bettie tak remain unchanged, ; | : 15 years ee, ee eee at i aa Baa asa Ti a etten cea eat raat Su taetins Eolas ee Dooce BrRotHers > | road at Lewiston 16 exhibit. Jt will open the doors | trict. Years ago, these two locomotives |#t 9 o'clock Sunday morning and RAAT RES Le rye ald dower for them, ana |for-the first time, "1 AUTOS HAVEN'T YET ANY Greharde reservoir, where water ta|the first time in six years that|! DRIVEN OLD DOBBIN a] MP, stored for the extensive fruit lands, |Studebakers have — made funy INTO “RETIREMENT” third rte BE harder than at the Lewiston] Mr. Sands says that while this ts] lrhe rails were thet taken up and, as | Tadic changes, there have : Rs BE i » |the only way the locomotives could|changes thruout the whole line, D F} the increase of autos 7 East Pike at Harvard EA st-0842 ie moved was under théir own pow-|both ‘In body design and’ mechan nd trucks, the demand for they have rested for 15 years|ically, He stated that all rumors of || horses porsists, CLIP THIS COUPON siting for removal |many questionable innovations that Saddlo horses and truck horses | Seventeen days were required to|some might call improvements aro|| are especially in demand. Heavy Eldridge Buick Co. | get them from Lewiston to the reser.) Without foundation horse-drawn trucking continues Seattle, Wash. |voir, while the Fordson and trailer | nds stated that the line would!| tn the larger cities, and the ii Please mail me details of your time-payment plan—also Bulek || only needed 10 hours to have both|consist of threo sizes of six-cylinder || gearch for more hordes for this atalog. at Lewiston and loaded on fiat cars |/automobiies—tthe Standard-Six, the |] purpose is sald to have increased. FG RE IRE i Ee Bl dea a th Se eg cccsorsesrsees, | {for transfer to Portland |Special-Six and the Big-Six. Tho At the adnie: tine, breeders are eee poset 7 > Bey ve ceh ye ee ee bee £4 The city council at Lewiston gave | whole line of cara will be equipped |! getting high prices for 1 stRver permission to have them hauled thru! with full balloon tires horses, especially hunter ha LAE Garrats arrow renew iter ee AAS A Ae the city streets en route to the de-| Notwithstanding the fact that the In Vermont the government's . OTT, ; Licgspseaseasiciseheonstoegteats Pipisieresuiiieh iene pot, and Fred Joffreys, dealer at| prices on these cars were not re-|| aforgan horse farm has a call for sresereres ” ang Lewiston, created considerable ex-|celved by Sands until yesterday ap every ned horse it can pro- duce ained thorobre: from $1,000 to $1,500 bell from the engineer's cab thru the] atready heen booked during the past a guar hy rihging the locomotive] proximately 100 retail orders have 4 When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them | (1) ‘i(reo1s, {few months for these cars,