The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1924, Page 13

»yMt(DAY, OCTOBER rHt a FOMOBII 8 E SECTIQ Auto! _Automotive Manage: 265,000 Motor Cars in |New Buicks MAKE Washington This Year 2oosted in C oast Arena | 7 123 Ney , | : Nat | Auto Tabulation Shows 20 Per Cent A, Kille hy ry | Increase Over 1923 | Dayint W* HINGTON, D. (¢ Oct. 4 Automobiles registered i a 18 tes during the first six months of y d to 15,552,077, an increase of 20 per cent “ ¢ period for last year, according to figures at) ' ms ational headquarters of the American Automobile as ott | These figures are the result of the semi-annual am H ‘ the U.S, bureau of public roads, N / gures he state for the fir ) W r ve Ww ; ~ bed the rans ling » volume fon , ® ! registered in that Angeles is not alone for every 1 ik ‘4 ax Ce $6,480 on if coast city and town ; I e bi TOTAL GROSS RECEIPTS tb t fit YOR WASHINGTON t t Loe ast on as pula: ee: 3 aa * p . r f such Hy . ‘ x ’ « Aug 1 Bepter ( Ind. ea | . : - i ves “How ¢ { tr “A x m “orarTieioF Lint? = f rm. taal o : hus making @ NOW THEY CALL Se nr istration, Heeneee and ear of apy ELLER “PAPA” t Wales Pd ? Se ee cael ice of population) ee oe . j 3 A omen | gy Hh er death rate, Ph) . on. fundn. @ " Lap er , A apply 35,000 to 40,000 i | ag pe * auton: ; s than we would if There were registered during - cael the British death rates prevailed i the first six months of the year = are ge . in this country 13,643,726 passenger cars, 1,831 dt . “ upper picture showe the Flint * touring cor with sealed hood,| % * ; : I] from ace ges x dy to leave Keattle Flint, Mich, H. P. Grant, of th ttle Aute 2) 1,462 cars for hire ap ‘eee te Llai 3 " tomobile a | that before the — h sleamen won the prices in the “world filoht | i the list lumber Uh the Doulas dir efimer “New Orleans” os < and 47 At Lacey, Fix Up Auto Top Before Rains Begin he CE rcrlome { A WIR Ge Soma RUN | ' This new Overland touring car ia shown atnritng on the 100-hour non-stop economy and endurance run from a Standard oil station at Fourth and Stewart last Monday. Har-| ry Hays, manager of the Willys-Overland Pacific Co., was in charge of the test which | ended Friday afternoon at 4:18. -- OVERLAND ENDS AUTO DOLLARS NONSTOP RUN WORTH MORE ing ot waterp ‘ove the appear peel TO BE WIDER = Goes 100 Hours Thru City Streets to Test Motor Worth 101 to 123 Cents in Motoring Purchases Now the 1913 dollar as a possible to get more tomobile + ie money tc than it wes 10 years ago. When the average prices of autom gasoline and « found hese automo- ucts cost lees today than war, even tho the pur r represen- | chasing power of the dollar in gen 1 by the average | ¢ has shrunk considerably nta the av ay one can purchase 111 cents in the of obile, 101 cents car here of ga cents nded a 100-hour | we ft tires with dollar t sin to one ia fact, in the opinion of the time n Tacoma | N Automobiis Chamber of which has compiled fig. n the records of vai ital and pr tonal um in this of the “not so oline mileage \the great metivity ol sure would! buying d had we taken ways and the genéral oline consump wanted to show what in service ere oi r > he hands of the aver yove tarted Monday at r 1 Stewart st, and 1 in most other ‘ he distance covered the current models traffic streets dowr erage uick performance. speed was etter t the lower pric prevailing ny three] The pre-war dollar is worth only men each, edeh shift) 61 cents toduy in the general cost 2 2. Mix hours. Olt wns|of living. It is worth but 61.8 conta of and ion was taken. gasoline | 61.2 cents in rent | Financial World. | | FITZPATRICK SEES TIRE BUYS IN EAST 1, Witgpatrick, of the Triangle Co, at Kastlake ave,, lett hureday for his annual buying trip | in tho Middle-West and Bast Commercial and COMPANY | BA st-0842 CAMPAIGN PLANNED AGAINST GAS TAXES Automobile owners in| Maasachu- | planning campaign sinet gasoline tax at the coming election In November. ‘The act, im:| po ELpripe Kast Pike at Harvard CLIP THIS COUPON Ww are a " ing a tax of twoeents upon gaso-| Ho will visit all the large tire fac- ¢ Buick Co, |line used by motor vehicles, was |torien in Chicago, Kansas City and Wash. 3m pasned by the legislature of 1923, but | Akron, Ohlo, and expects to return mail me detally of your time-payment plan—also Buick |the law was upheld by petition, Car|in about three weeks. The Triangle | % Jand truck ownerg say that this ds un-jcompany makes its purchases in| NAMB scsi ccscccccdascssesoucsysvesbssessevssbenessgdsssscrcevaves |necessary and unfair, and that the! carload lots direct from factories. | © |xtate has all the road money it ean | BERELT, ..cseccccccsesesess OT) PEELS COLLIE LLL ju ¢ BRAKES TESTED | - H + * Sass Atrtomotive engineers of the U. 8. CTE sss eeecsnsseereccsssensaesueesssrnseetesstsscesessnenees sees Il Lined up aix abreast, and running| bureau of standards recently texted #-9-18 Ji only 30 feet apart, the 226,000 pri-|the brakes of automobiles in Wash vate atitomob *s now owned in New| ington, D. C., to obtain data for the York elty would muke a moving mass | foundation of a national brake regu 210 miles long. | ating code. sutomobiles are built, Buick will 1 build ‘them } omobiles are built, When t n better a autom cee with 254 1 . SHERMAN BUSHNELL won firs per day. bs) eae © in the Seattle Auton e citizens Co.'s Id fight sales Munday Vien the auto ended with the arrival of the real at Sand Point. J, B waa second and Allan I | ducement SEALED HOOD RUN ON PRIZE MONE Ys DEATH! It Lurks in Autos; B. Hughes ay tal United i Sherman Bus oty was third. The winners pe SPEEDOMETER WILL uring car for lint, Mich, as m Wednesday mor CONTROL SPEED OF SWEDISH MOTORCAR sl RO i ae 2 J uit bre Metso LET AM RARGING, | Attache Hi the depa 4 with a am Chandler, we ‘Traden disk con by means &@ set of record the i ging from 0 at kilometers per hou . as fon be spent at the factory jaunt will be made by a cle route The wn tdiditise cle is ged to reg FREE PLANE RIDE traveled of 1 with In the ce ic eral register fittings. Two figures indicate the maximum speed of the ar during the last and next to the figure register ouch r was tho in a Columbus, An alternate offer of 10 Ohio, dealer r for the « gallons of aa Me ntreal 3,000 ite is traversed by ked in a con. ould reach miles left stre Don't allow the auto to emit ex ame in the r be ue An, The Youngest and Most Progressive STAR CAR AGENCY In Seattle The Howell-Bonness Star Motor Co. Will Be Located In Their Fine New Home At 404 EAST PINE ST. Today, October 4th This move to larger quarters was made necessary on account of the big volume of business, both in sales and service, acquired by this new firm since its recent open- ing in Seattle. We will have one of the largest and finest salesrooms in the city, Our service department will be equipped with the most modern machinery obtainable, with a service crew that knows Star cars from A to Z. We inite you to call and inspect our new home. HOWELL-BONNESS STAR MOTOR CO. PINE AT BELLEVUE Phone BA st-7800 OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAY