Motor Age 1923-05-03: Vol 43 Iss 18

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~\ ae eae In This Issue—Wonderful Future WEEKLY AT CHICAGO, FFECTIVE May 15, every K Jordan car which has satis- factorily served a Jordan owner and is offered for resale to the public will bear the Mark of Jordan Service. This is a protected plate, authorized only by the Jordan Company after compliance by the dealer with cer- tain standard regulations. The Mark of Jordan Service, guar- antees to the purchaser that the car on which it appears has been rebuilt in accordance with the national standard Jordan policy, to which every Jordan dealer has subscribed. The Mark of Jordan Service means that you may purchase any Jordan car, offered for resale with the same assurance with which you would purchase a new Jordan. Every rebuilt car bearing the Mark of Jordan Service will be priced and advertised in accordance with the same standard national Jordan policy in every city in which Jordan cars are sold. This national policy will be perma- nent and will be widely advertised. It will protect Jordan owners against imposition and guard the public against deception. It will relieve dealers in other lines of the task of determining what prices should be placed on Jordan cars. Prices on all Jordan models offered for resale in any zone, will be na- tionally announced by the Jordan Motor Car Company at regular intervals. The Jordan car has the highest re- sale valuation of any car in its class. You may buy with confidence. Salim 3B President Cleveland, Ohio in Maintenance Thirty-five Cents a Copy Jordan Motor Car Company

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More than a thousand j i hie 1 es ete $28 Quart ie Dai eng $28 = Six-Inch Electric / Bench Grinder - - $38 : Electric Valve’ Grinder $45 ONLY 5907 ‘What other five items of shop equipment can you get for only $207 which will be as useful and make as much profit for you. | YOUR JOBBER HAS THEM “JHE BLACK & DECKER MFG.CO. , Towson Heights, :: Baltimore, Md., U.S. A. Branch offices and service stations carrying complete stocks of parts and operated by factory trained men located in Boston San Francisco Detroit New York Philadelphia Chicago Atlanta Kansas City Cleveland Canadian Factory, Lyman Tube Bldg., Montreal, P. Q. The Baya eu psenou 46 the Business~ BACKGROUND PATENT PENDING BLACK @ DECKER MFG. CO.

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE F eltbak FcoRK FELTBAK ae 1 Ses teenie Aare Cry Ne, “One Set Will Outweor- C6, |, Sf May Other liad Pasa bat 4 00D Stops Ford Chatter VERY Ford owner wants to get rid of the shivering and shaking that occurs every time he tries to stop his Ford. He doesn’t know that it’ 8 caused by faulty brake lining. He thinks the Ford is “just made that way.’ Improper lubrication—even when special oils and devices are used—causes ordi- nary lining to get hard, flinty and charred. The ordinary lining chatters because oil cannot get to the drums under pressure. Feltbak is designed correctly to overcome the troubles of the Ford transmission. Feltbak applies oil—under pressure—to the drums. The felt backing holds the oil. When pressure is applied oil spouts thru the oil holes onto the drums just when it is needed most to prevent burning and glazing. Ideal for Pleasure Cars Feltbak softens the braking action. Excessive pressure is not needed to stop the car. The Ford starts and stops without jerk or vibration. Feltbak makes the Ford the easiest, most responsive car to handle. Feltbak lasts so long it is far the cheap- est—and it actually prolongs the life of the car. Saves expensive rear axle trouble. Dealers, garages and accessory stores everywhere sell Feltbak or can get it immedi- ately from any wholesale house. ADVANCE AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES CORPORATION Manufacturers 1721 Prairie Avenue Dept. 960 Chicago, Ill. To the Million New Ford Owners F your Ford shivers and shakes when you want to stop, it’s not the car's fault— it’s the brake lining. Your transmission lining is hard and glazed. Improper lubrication caused the a to burn, char and get hard. You need a lining that will lubricate itself under pressure. Don’t blame your Ford—use Feltbak. How Feltbak Works The felt hocking absorbs and holds oil like a wick. When pressure is applied, oil is forced p nee the oil holes onto the surface of the lining. More pressure forces out more oil. "th hus the braking surface gets oil during braking action— right when it is needed to prevent burn- ing and glazing. Feltbak is an improvement over the cork- in-fabric brake lining. Corks are held securely in place. Add to this the felt cushion backing and the automatic lub- rication to prevent burning and you have the correct brake lining for Fords —FELTBAK. ADVANCE: EQUIPMENT is recognized from coast to coast as the finest made. When you buy an article of our manufacture for your automobile, you are sure ore Hy is the — a for the pu which money and manufacturing Cell can produce. WHITE STRIPE ADVANCE CORK @ FELTBAK pam Lubricates itself The Scientifically Correct —softens brake a? ( Timer for Fords. Roller of ord ve, que 100 point carbon tool steel. pond torte Decgned esover Race of bone-hard fibre. come shivering and aaa. Made from genuine asbestos for use on larger cars. Buy it for Better Brakes and Longer Wear. WHITE STRIPE FAN BELT forFORDSand Made for Fords & Larger Cars DUPLEX SH ABSORBE LARGER CARS J oC . Ourwears six ordinary belts. Never needs adjustment. Stretches and “Comes back” side-sway, rebound, vibration, Looks like a part of the car. ADVANCE EQUIPMENT. very Product the Best of its Kind

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. \ J OIL-REGULATING TYPE, $1.00 EACH Up to and including 5 in. diameter COMPRESSION TYPE, 25c and up Indiana Piston Ring Company Din Harkrader & Harkrader: Western Sales Agents, 1603 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago > + - SE earnensanananasahiensiliaia sesamin iaisisiaincisins i. ats apna. mimapiteata satin MOTOR AGE The Demand Is There— And Perfect Circles are Filling It! OBBERS and garagemen who handle PerFect Circie Oil- Regulating Piston Rings are cashing in on the real and wide- spread demand that already exists among motorists for a piston ring that will adually stop oil-pumping! PERFECT CircLE Oil-Regulating Piston Rings fill that demand— and more! For these rings not only stop oil-pumping, but they give an oil-mileage of 1000 to 1500 miles to the gallon. And they provide positive lubrication, always. The superiority of these rings in stopping oil-pumping has been proved by the trials of everyday service—and by the stringent tests imposed by the manufacturers of such motor cars as Stutz, Marmon, Haynes, and Deusenberg, who use PERFECT CIRCLE Oil-Regulating Piston Rings as standard equipment. It is the same unquestioned superiority that was responsible for this statement from one of the leading jobbers of Indiana: “PERFECT CIRCLE Piston Rings are the best repeat- ing line we ever had. We tell our salesmen to sell one set for we know that the orders will start increasing from that time on”’. And the satisfaction they give in service is shown by statements from garagemen that they “have made more satisfied customers than any other ring they have ever installed”. Order a trial set of PERFECT CIRCLE Piston Rings. Install them. Watch the results. Then you'll know that you’ve found the way to fill the demand for a real oil-ring and thereby increase your profits. — PISTON RINGS Marketed through recognized automotive jobbers, only. Hagerstown, Indiana ———

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Vol. XLIII Chicago, May 3, 1923 No. 18 CONTENTS What of the Young Man Who Asks for a Job?......... 9 By B. M. Ikert Some New Enclosed Car Models........00.0..000000.00ccccccccccsseesooms 12 Lineup to Date for Indianapolis Race.............................. 14 Rg a ede a ae ee ieee tes 15

By A. H. Packer Selling Maintenance and New Cars in the a) eT e 18 By H. H. Dunn Jordan Factory Assumes Used Car Responsibility.. 20 Pressure Regulated, Forced Feed Lubrication............ 21 By L. T. Knocke A Particular Service for Particular People By James V. Malone Motor Age’s Picture Pages of Automotive Interest 26 Editorials Gemume Trueme tO Pariers ......... ccc TER, DeIRIIOD TOONO isco ceccctesreincensotinesen eemcontecians 28 Street Cars to Pattern After Automobile Design......... TT TI TTI. eaiveniccccitceticcestastancitcniccinrsinnesebs sssceabssaieaeieocacemarte 29 GI WIN Sikes iiceccsenisccss scdetescessiadibisiteestecncenssacideciabancn 29 Li REE Sree anon Serves eee waite bities 29 News of the Industry April Makes Gains on March Figure ~...00000000.0000.... a Figures Show Magnitude of Industry —......-.02.0...-0....-- 31 Boston Dealers Think April Will Be Their Record Month ...... desriasiinviiain ae Durant Texas Representative ‘evedes: “Mexico; Takes Towns .......... a Heaviest Volume of Sales ‘ee ‘Recorded in Bessie. Dinssaeina 33 Citroen Sales for France; Plans for U. S. Plant Soon.... 34 Scheel Not Superstitious—Takes 13 for Indianapolis........ 35 U. S. Rubber Co. Has New Process for Tire Making...... 36 Portland Looks to April to Be Best Month in History.... 37 Chicago’s Used Car Show to Go Down as Best on Caer anes : ee Concerning Men You ‘Know . dienes Sicha tbaniescins ces actabcat aaa 39 I I lhc nated caer idsucannaegiaceniaatiael In the Retail Field . seillidueasaiipeteiaiiaiea tididdiaaaisaaehidietiadambaonnienaee: ae The Readers’ Sine pe Competitor’s Constant Potential Charging masnned Gets His Business... ee seein Aligning Rods on a Tapered Crank Pin. Building for Sales, Shop and Painting............................

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The deeper meaning of a Goodrich sign When you see a Goodrich sign on a tire dealer’s store it does not simply mean that Goodrich Tires are sold there. It means: “Here is a dealer who thinks so much of what his customers will be saying about him next year that he is insuring their loyalty.” “He is dealing in goods that he knows are of one quality only.” He is selling tires which have built up a name and reputation that is as much of an asset to him as it is to Goodrich. “He knows that the high standing of one quality in materials and one quality in workmanship is converted into a characteristic of his own business.”’ The Goodrich plan of co- operating with the dealer is interesting, because it is suc- cessful. Dealers who want to build permanently are in- vited to write for details.

The B. F. GOODRICH KUBBER CO. Akron, Ohio Goodrich | TIRES “Best in the Long Runt |

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 Climbed to Favor in ’Frisco— The above picture of an Oldsmobile Brougham climbing one of San Francisco’s steepest streets is a familiar sight in the Golden Gate city. | Its amazing hill climbing ability has made Oldsmobile a highly respected car up and down the Pacific Coast, and has enabled J.W. Leavitt & Co., California distributors, to build up an enormous business. Oldsmobile dealers thrive where hills are steepest and the going hardest, for there Oldsmobile best demonstrates the advantages of its Oversize construction. OLDS MOTOR WORKS, LANSING, MICHIGAN Division of General Motors Corporation OLDSMOBILE A PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS Oldsmobile, as a strong permanent division of Genzral Motors Corporation, enjoys unequalled engineering, research and purchasing facilities. Experienced dealers appreciate the numerous advantages attaching to a franchise with a General Motors division.

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MOTOR AGE T —_— H I 19 % 33 The Studebaker dealer in a Pacific Coast city sold 19 Studebaker cars in 30 days. The total number of all motor cars sold in his city during that period was 33. The Studebaker dealer got 57.6 per cent of the total busi- ness, This remarkable showing—like many other similar ones in points throughout the country—was made possible be- cause of the completeness of the Studebaker line and the confidence the public ‘has in cars of Studebaker manu- facture. The Studebaker dealer, selling three chassis models in thirteen body types, each a six—each a Studebaker—and each the outstanding value in its class, has a car of the right size, type and price for every buyer outside of the very lowest priced field. The Studebaker dealer could make a pretty good living if he made only those sales which his competitors have to turn down because they can’t fit the buyer with the car he wants and needs. MODELS AND PRICES—f. o. b. factories LIGHT-SIX SPECIAL-SIX BIG-SIX 5-Pass., 112” W. B., 40 H. P. | 5-Pass., 119” W. B., 50 H. P.| 7-Pass., 126” W. B., 60 H. P. Touring... = DN enone UIE II oiiinsceisdeaec cs vcesdes $1750 Roadster (3-Pass.) ........... 975 | Roadster (2-Pass.) ...........1250 | Speedster (5-Pass.)......__. 1835 Coupe-Roadster (2-Pass.) ...... --.c-ccec-eec20--..1225 | Coupe (5-Pass.) ...............1975 | Coupe (5-Pass.)............... 2550 0 Se eeere SO ee erent: [| A ...2750 South Bend, Indiana ae I Ss A STUDEBAKER THE STUDEBAKER CORPORATION OF AMERICA Y E A R =!

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MOTOR AGE Nash Leads the World in Motor Car Value Take the Case of Weaver of Dover Down in Dover, Ohio, a town of 8100 people, the Weaver Motor Company handles the Nash line. They started in business back in 1917 with another line. But after a while they began to realize that the greatest business-building opportunity for them lay in lining up with C. W. Nash. And so they applied for the Nash contract— and landed it in September, 1919. Since then Weaver of Dover has marketed 477 Nash passenger cars and 7/0 Nash trucks. Of this number 120 passenger cars and 7 trucks have been sold since September Ist of 1922. It's another case of the right men and the right line getting together. There’s a good Nash territory ready for you now if you act quickly. Write us today. THE NASH MOTORS COMPANY KENOSHA, WISCONSIN Nash Leads the World in Motor Car Value

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MOTOR AGE MARMON Go to the Marmon owner to test the Marmon franchise. The facts and figures of owners’ experiences will prove to you, as nothing else could, the growing possibilities of this remarkable car NORDYKE & MARMON COMPANY Established 1851 - INDIANAPOLIS Address Inquiries to Dept. A

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 MAL Zz re I ( - boom KAA iin eo RR ARN ARNE 1 tet 4 mitt. rn, aa ye a fe: \ { .% |) | | |S SS ae \ee Were the Reo franchise to comprise the selling privilege on only the Mighty Speed Wagon its possession would imply an asset of tremendous value. For with twelve standard bodies, the Speed Wagon represents the most important commercial car sales proposition in the World, BUT- The Reo franchise further includes the vital sales eo of a com- plete Passenger Car line (five models), a rapid-selling Taxicab, and a Passenger Bus chassis. Truly a line to tie to. A limited amount of territory is available, and applications from dealers of established integrity will be considered. Write for booklet, “Reasons for Reo.” Reo Motor Car Company, Lansing, Mich. | aa | TITS PE +> Sm |

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The boy just out of high school, in addition to the knowledge he has absorbed of English, mathematics, chemistry and so on, is used to discipline and possesses the necessary poise and social standing which makes him preferable for a job in the shop to the man who does not think beyond the hammer and wrench. A higher standard of shop morale is possible because of his better background What of the Young Man Who Asks for a Job? Need of Today Is for Some System of Training the Unskilled W orker. Hosts of High School Graduates Offer Big Possibilities for Building Up Ex- cellent Personnel in Maintenance Station. Future Will Likely See Big Development of Automotive Maintenance Engineering By B. M. IKERT

NE day a dealer said to us: blacksmith why the automobile owners came to him when “What I want to know is, why is it that a car their cars needed repairing. We asked him bluntly: ” owner would rather go to a blacksmith shop than “What’s the matter with the garage fellows?” a garage, so long as the garage charges a fair price H ‘d: — and seems to have an otherwise good name in the com- e oe.

munity ?” “The trouble with them fellows is, they never learned a We went over to the blacksmith shop and asked the old~ trade.”

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10 | MOTOR Quite an indictment, to cay the least; yet, in the jargon of the streets, what a “n.wuthful.” The old man spoke as one who had been in a certain line of business for many years. He served his years of apprenticeship and then followed a business which had already been pretty well adjusted to the sphere of life. A man became a blacksmith by working in a blacksmith shop under the supervision of a man or men who already had mastered all there was to know about blacksmithing. As the old blacksmith said: “They learned the trade.” Now, it took several generations for the blacksmith trade to adjust itself along with other lines of business. But even- tuaily it became stabilized and a man who went into the black- smith’s business had to go through about the same perform- ances in every case. The equipment of all blacksmith shops was about the same, also. Thus, a man working as a blacksmith, or helper, in one section of the country could fit in in another shop anywhere, because he had mastered the trade and knew all there was to know about it. But it took generations to make this pos- sible, just as it took generations to adjust the carpenter or machinist’s trade. And it will take generations to stabilize the automotive mechanic’s trade. Where Can We Get Mechanics? To add to this, we have the complex situation arising from the fact that our factories are making automotive vehicles much faster than we can supply mechanics for maintenance on these vehicles. We might make several millions of cars a year, but we cannot make several millions of mechanics at the same time. At the rate the industry is growing, the proportionate supply of trained and experienced men dwindles very fast and unless we take steps to educate and train others, it is difficult to see how there will be any but rough sailing in the future for many dealers, In the main, there has not been a recognition of motor ve- hicle repairing as a craft. By far the greater per cent of me- chanics working in automotive shops today are not skilled craftsmen. The vast majority need education. The fault that we are not farther along with the advancement of the craft, lies largely with the dealer and with the large shop in posi- tion to install a proper system of training. In most large automotive shops you will find several men who are top-notchers and whose ability as mechanics cannot be questioned. Yet these same men often are jealous of their knowledge and experience and naturally hate to have an unskilled man placed alongside them. The skilled man feels he has spent much time in learning the trade and naturally he does not feel inclined to pass along any information to a “greenhorn mechanic.” We are content to let our unskilled men go about the shop without any incentive to do good work or better their position in the organization. And when one of the men does get a promotion and the others “kid” him about wearing a white collar now, we say nothing but let the men have their fun, instead of trying to point out to them that they need not work in grease and dirt all the time and that reward awaits those mechanics who put forth effort to better themselves. What we need today is a higher standard with which to gage the men in the shop. We need more white-collared men and boys who are not afraid to shed the white collars and shirts for khaki overalls and jumpers. The inference here is that we must have men and boys who come from the white collar class and who have the right social standing that makes them good workmen. But you say, “Where are the men or boys coming from?” The Best Material for Shop Personnel What about the young man out of high school who asks for a job in the shop? Doesn't he make excellent timber, if he be of the average high school type of student, for shaping into a first class mechanic, trouble shooter, tester and eventually service manager or superintendent? The industry offers vast possibilities to these young men, but they must be shown these possibilities. And, before they can be shown, we who operate AGE May 3, |923 large shops especially must be sure that we have the coi rect perspective, especially as regards the future. We already have said that it will take generations t» get things adjusted in the automotive mechanics’ trade. In other words, we must build now for the future. The immediate prob. lem is to get the right kind of timber from which to mold the finished article. It happens that in other lines of business, men and boys are forsaking the white collar jobs such as bookkeeping, clerking and so on and joining the ranks of the building trades, for example. It is only natural that a young man, perhaps just out of school, should look with envy upon the skilled mechanic of his own age making twice as much money as he does as clerk, stenographer or bookkeeper. The best timber from which a dealer can make up his shop personnel consists of the hosts of young men of good education who like to work with their hands as well as their minds, Such men will make better mechanics, because, for one thing, they will raise the standard of morale of the shop. And the latter is one of the biggest jobs we have confronting us today in most large shops. There is little excuse for a mechanic remaining always just a mechanic. Just because his work often necessitates getting his hands dirty is no reason why they must remain dirty. Take the case of a machinist. He goes to work very often in clothes that permit him to have equal social standing with the banker, lawyer or doctor. He dons a jumper or apron when at work, gets his hands dirty now and then, but he cleans up before going home, or to his lodge. One could never tell his occupation by his appearance when he is off the job. But with most automotive mechanics it is different. They seem to think that white collars have no place in their makeup when the day’s work is done. They laugh at the man who has been promoted to the job of service salesman or in- spector. They poke fun at him because he wears a duster now instead of a pair of overalls. In short, what we need in the shop today is a building up of morale, so mechanics, help- ers, greasehounds and washers will see the advantage of taking pride in their work and the ultimate reward that comes from faithful service. Training System Is Wrong The present system of hiring an unskilled mechanic and placing him alongside an experienced man who has come up through the ranks does not work out very well in most cases. The experienced man is jealous of his knowledge and is not, as a rule, willing to pass along any information which will help the man who is as yet unskilled in the craft. Certainly there should be a means whereby the skilled worker might teach the unskilled. And, we must not overlook the fact that our high school boys, many of them, have an excellent background upon which their future as valued employes, in the dealers’ maintenance depart- ment, or any other department of his business, for that matter, might be built. Our candid opinion, and we believe it is shared by service managers and dealers generally, is that, other things being equal, the young man out of high school, or who has perhaps finished but two years of high school, stands a better chance of making good in the service station or shop than the young fellow who slouches in with a cap pulled over his eye, is care- less about his dress and leaves off his g’s on the words running, writing, testing and so on. The lad from high school has had training in English and mathematics. His mathematics has helped him to think logi- cally. It has made his diction good and heaven knows if there is anything that makes a customer have faith in an OI ganization it is being met and talked to by a man or youth who does not say “dem” and “doze” or “we ain’t got none 0 dem in stock.” In addition to the things mentioned above, the boy from high school has often had training in shop practic: The better class high schools have such courses. This means that the youth who finished the course possesses dexterity ©! hand. He will have a knowledge of welding, forging, brazio$ and soldering. He will know how to shape metal and wood. He understands the difference between precussion tools «14 cut

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eo Ww = + OO hee May 3, 1923 ting tools. He will have had some lathe and drill press work. Drafting and the reading of blueprints will have formed part of his course. On top of all this, we have in him a young man of good social standing who can talk intelligently to people. In short, he has the qualifications that put the stamp of approval upon him as 2 potential factor toward building up a high class shop per- sonnel. How often have we heard a service manager tell of how a promising young fellow in the shop was placed on the service floor, but “fell down” because he could not meet people. He was a good mechanic, knew how to shoot trouble and all that, put he ‘“‘queered” himself when it came to meeting the public. He could not wear the white collar, so to speak. That’s where the young fellow out of high school probably has the edge on him. He may develop into a crackerjack mechanie under the right kind of su- MOTOR AGE 11 neering that has been put into the other ends of the industry, the industry will continue to spin along just as wonderfully as it has in the past. The trouble is now, that it threatens to spin in one spot instead of making any progress, if we do not do something about making the ownership of motor vehicles more agreeable and economical to friend owner. “Why should we not have engineering in the automobile operating field just as much as in railroad operation? Why has it taken automotive engineers so long to appreciate the opportunities for them in the maintenance branch of the busi- ness? Where would our railroads be today if the engineering was confined to the production of their rolling stock? It takes just as good brains and just as much talent in the personnel to maintain roadbed and rolling stock in use as it does to bring out the original equipment or lay the first track. The engi- neer never leaves the picture in railroad transportation and neither should he in motor transpor- pervision and then stands ready for tation. promotion to a job of service sales- man, inspector, foreman or even serv- ] ice manager. A Lesson From “Uncle Sam” The present plan of putting a large number of men into the shop under a single foreman does not work out very well in most cases. We probably have to take a lesson from the army and see if we cannot apply to qur shops some of the practices of Uncle Sam. In the army, the smallest unit of men is a squad under the immediate super- vision of a corporal. Then follows the section under the sergeant, the pla- toon under the lieutenant, the com- pany under the captain, and so on up to the division under the command of the major-general. Now, in case of the automotive shop, instead of having the men all working in one big room, we should put the skilled craftsmen in stalls, and have several unskilled men directly under their supervision. These skilled crafts- men would be in charge of their re- spective squads and all of them re- that is coming. T is not the object of this article to disparage the present day mechanic. This article looks to the future, with the added responsibil- ities that are being placed upon the mainte- nance shop by the changing demands, both from the owner and the factory. T is the opinion of MOTOR AGE that the finest craftsmanship in this country is found today in the maintenance shops, but that is no reason why it should not be better. doing excellent work today are mechanics, and surprisingly good mechanics when the effort to train them is considered. The point is that there has been a considerable lack of apprecia- tion of the job by the leaders. day mechanics have not the background for the larger problems that are looming because the leaders do not see the need of it. same mechanics, working under men properly trained as thinkers, working on a basis of proper fundamentals, will be able to do the big job HERE are thousands of very excellent me- chanics in the shops today and they are doing as good work as the system under which they are working will let them. leaders and the flat rate to change the system, they will cope well with the bigger problems. “From now on, automotive vehicles are going to be designed for more facile and economical upkeep, and the organization in the field, which has the direct contact with the motoring public, is going to work out the prob- lem of doing this work with the least expense to the owner and to his great- est satisfaction. “Now, as to the relative size of this service or maintenance field as com- pared to the production field. Well, here are the latest figures: We are producing at present around two and a half million cars and trucks a year, but there are in use eleven and three- quarter millions—a ratio of about one to five. Inasmuch as the average life of a car is six years, it means that when the dreaded saturation point is reached we will be constantly servic- ing about six times as many cars in a year as we produce in that time. “A great deal will be accomplished when the element of engineering con- scientiousness is injected into serv- ice, for one thing. This is a more or less abstract idea to discuss, but I The men The present These With better sponsible to the foreman or shop superintendent. Here again we would find the military training of our high school boys working to advantage. They have been used to discipline and, therefore, would readily fall into such a plan of shop operation. The right sort of leadership will do the trick. The plan would soon take care of the fellow who proves a liability rather than an asset. He would be weeded out and eventually the personnel would consist of only high class men. There is no limit to how far the automotive mechanic can aspire. A new field, that of automotive maintenance engineer- ing, is as yet in its infancy. There is a vast difference in the building of a product and in its maintenance. If this were not 80, we should not have railway maintenance men, who cer- tainly are of a vastly different type and have altogether dif- ferent duties to perform than the men who design and build railroads and equipment. At a recent meeting of the Washington section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Secretary of Service H. R. Cobleigh, of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, presented a paper entitled “Automotive Maintenance Engineering—a New and Inviting Field.” In this, the author said, among other things: “Engineering is doing anything scientifically and efficiently a contrasted with just doing it. The definition indicates ex- actly the difference between service as we now know it and What it will become when it is dignified to the status of main- tenance: engineering. As long as we delegate the repair and Upkeep of our automotive equipment to hammer-and-wrench mechanics, we will not have efficient nor satisfactory service from the owner point of view. “Ti we apply to maintenance some of the same sort of engi- think you will get what I mean when you consider how important it is for everyone in the automo- bile repair business, from the engineer down to the humblest mechanic, to keep in mind his responsibility for doing every- thing thoroughly. Production Efficiency in Maintenance Work “Suppose, for example, we make a study of the execution of work in the repair shop and contrive ways and means for per- forming it that approach more nearly to the methods ob- taining in the factory. If cars were built as inefficiently as they are overhauled, they would cost about four times as much as they do. Conversely, if they could be overhauled as effi- ciently as they are built, the work could be done for one- quarter its present cost. “While this ideal may not be attainable, certainly much can be done by concentrating the work in fewer large shops so that the volume of work handled would justify the installation of labor-saving machinery. “Education of shop personnel and the rating of mechanics ure subjects well deserving the engineer’s attention, for they are sadly needed. This education means developing them not only in mechanical ability but letting them understand some- thing about the reasons for what they do and why the parts function as they do. “The advantage of higher education for the operative is not alone that he will do a better job because he knows what is expected of the part upon which he is working, but he will ac- tually do a cheaper job also, because he will seek to cut down the time necessary, and will develop tools that will save time and labor. It is therefore in no sense beneath the engineer to be concerned about the personnel in the service station.”

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 TMM MM Mn MMMM NNN DMM TT I mo Some New Enclosed Car Models Mn nm mm MM MM Franklin Demi-Sedan Combines Two Cars in One HE ever-increasing demand for en- closed car protection led Franklin de- signers to evolve the Demi-Sedan, a single unit type which in their opinion approached the ideal of a enclosed model for use in the inclement season and a clear vision open car for the pleasant open-driving season. The frame structure is substantial without being heavy. In place of drop- ping the glass side panels, a series of divided panels, sliding horizontally, was used. In actual test on the road under all weather conditions, the sliding in- stallation was found to have certain dis- tinct advantages in ventilation, conveni- ence and reliability. In producing the Demi-Sedan design, it was deemed essential that the remov- able frames, when in place on the sides of the body, should attach to the doors as firmly and be as rigid in their own construction as they would be if built integral with the door. The Demi-Sedan without being in any way a departure from good coach-making practice, looks, nevertheless, like a new kind of auto- mobile. Jordan 4-door Brougham Displaces Old Model HE new four-door Jordan Brougham will take the place of the old two- door brougham which the company has been making for the past seven years. The Jordan factory now is running 60 per cent of its production on enclosed cars and the four-door brougham is scheduled at the rate of 30 per day. It is built on the standard Jordan chassis with capacity for five passengers, with complete trunk equipment. The price is $2285. The four-door brougham, which seems to be the latest thing in enclosed mod- els, has all the advantages of the com- pact, light weight, intimate car, with all the capacity and comfort of the sedan, it is stated. The lines of the new car are long and low, rounded to relieve the 4 fae SE A og, eye. The doors swing wide and cushions tilt to a position of relaxed ease. The interior fittings are in flat plati- num finish and the trunk has two suit cases built in to harmonize with this new type enclosed car. The great advantage of the four-door brougham, according to Jordan, is that it relieves the passengers in the rear seat of the necessity of crawling over the people in the front seat.

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May 3» 1923 MOTOR AGE Cole Suburban Shipments 13 Under Way ELIVERIES are now being made from the Cole factory on its new Cole Suburban. This car seats four people in the conventional seating arrangement. The color of this car is Lorraine blue. with black upper panels and sheet metal parts. The company states the new model is its finest enclosed car product thus far. The body is made of aluminum and designed to create the short coupled semi-sport appearance and yet afford the room that is demanded in modern en- closed car construction. Seat Comfort Features New Winton Coupe N order that the passengers riding in the rear seat May secure more com- fort, Winton has introduced a rather novel feature in its new five-passenger coupe. By creating a well in the floor which holds the foot rest, considerable additional space has been provided. The foot rest thus formed by the well, when not in use folds down flush with the floor. The coupe seats five passengers. Entrance and exit from either side is made easy by doors 28 inches wide. The right front seat folds down at right angles to the floor. The driver’s seat tilts forward against the steering wheel, allowing one to get into the rear seat from the driver’s side. These seats are 18 inches wide, 19 inches deep, and seats as well as back are built upon a full foundation of coiled springs and curled hair. The rear seat is 47 inches wide and 19 inches deep, the same size as the rear seat of the seven passenger sedan, seat- ing three people with ease. is $4250. The price Dan’s Diary PRIL 28—Here it is Satiday agin and i aint rote nothing in my diary this week yet. Yestiday evening i had a good job teaching a swell dame to drive which had been pretty near skard to deth by Some bird who was out of the servis Stashun where she got the car. Insted of telling her how to drive and Stear backwards and how to step on the break and cluch when she gets in a tight Place he spends all his time explaining the machinry and how if she thros her in reverse when she’s going forward it will cost her $43.25 for a new gear which is the flat rate at his stashun and mabe she'll heed also a new drive shaft which 'S $14.89 and mabe a ring. gear which Would be $57, them all being flat rate Prices, This poor dame was so skard she was afraid to move anything or go any- where for fear she would bust one of them flat rate ar- tikles which she got when she thot she was buying a auto- mobile. I explains this flat rate stuff to her and tells her to forget pn yo ao alt all that this bird has | 2oTwoeerTe2. said to her about bustin things cuz they dont bust very easy anyway except unless she runs into something which she wont if she remem- bers her throtel and break and clutch and goes slow till her feet and hands get run in and operating smooth. PRIL 29-—-I went out with that dame again she sure is getting along fine. Gess i must be some teecher. hope my girl dident see me riding with her me thinking Gee, Heck, that would be feerce. She insists on me taking $10 which is too much but I finally takes $5 which will buy my girl 2 swell earrings and then i gess she wont have nothing to say if she did see me. CORRECTION By error the wheelbase of the Monroe touring and sedan models, illustrated on page 17 of the April 19 issue of Motor AGE, was given as 103 inches. This should have been 115 inches.

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1/2: Lineup to Date for Indianapolis Race CAR COUNTRY 1—Buegatti | ee 2—Bugatti ........................ ND oie 3—Bugatti -............... |. 4—Mercedes ........................ Germany ............ 5—Mereedes .........................Germany ........... 6—Mercedes .......................Germany ............ 7—Durant Spocial.............0. &...... ................ 8—Durant Special.............0. 8....................... 9—Durant Special.............. Be iincisiviminaieliccbde 10—Durant Special..............0. S....................... ? NHE entry list for 1923 is significant from many points of view. This is the first year since 1915 that the big Speedway band will play the “Wacht am Rhine,” which, when it was last played, proved a song of victory for the car being honored. Additional interest is attached to the race this year because the driver who worried De Palma on the 1915 occasion is to be his team mate this year. Everybody who saw the race last year will admit it was a pretty exhibition of speed, but who will ever forget the 1915 Resta Peugeot-DePalma Mercedes affair? You'll remember that the Mercedes won, but the car wasn’t worth much im- mediately after the contest and after De Palma put in new bearings he shelved it in favor of the Packard twin six. Resta’s old Peugeot was fast enough to make it impossible to name the winner until the next to last lap. It wasn’t the swan song for the old blue car, because the following year Resta drove the same bus into first place. That old 300 inch Peugeot crossed the finish line to first place probably more times than any car that has ever been seen at Indianapolis. Its first victory dates back to the rainy day race held on the opening day of the San Francisco Exposition, and on June 26, less than a month after the defeat at Indianapolis, it established a world’s 500-mile record on the Chicago speedway of 97.58 miles per hour. To clinch the argument, if you remember, an invitation race was put on at the same place some weeks afterward, but the _ beautifully built Packard body and carburetor on the re- vived Mercedes wasn’t enough to give it a look in. Resta never had any luck after he gave up the Peugeot and later, took up fancy ice skating for diversion. Recently he has gone out to the west coast which serves as a winter training camp for car and man to prepare them for the annual Hoosier Classic, which brings us to the third significant thing about this race; the three Packard entries. Boyer Comes Back All of the available data regarding the construction of the Packard six cylinder racers was printed in Motor AGE a few weeks ago and the drivers have already been named. Joe Boyer’s name listed as one of the drivers is quite a surprise for it is known that he was forbidden to Pierre de Vizcaya DRIVER CAR Prince De Cystria* Raoul Riganti* Not named Not named Not named James Murphy* Harry Hartz Cliff Durant Edward Hearne* 19—Schmidt Special * Not definite. compete, by certain domestic authorities. Boyer is known to be afflicted with a heavy foot and he has the honor of hav- ing driven the fastest lap in the French Grand Prix, the year that Jim Murphy introduced the name of Duesenberg over there. Last year he was assistant starter at Indianapolis but managed to get to the track early enough before the day of the race to relieve the weight on his right foot, by taking Fetterman’s Due- senberg around a few times. Judging from the performance of the foreign cars during the past year, the Packard crea- tions have no cause for premature fear, as it is doubtful if the Bugatti’s can ap- proach the performance of the American racers. As to the Mercedes jobs it is understood that they are to be factory driven and it is doubtful whether the Lautenschlager, Seiler, Werner trio will have time to acquaint themselves with the style of driving required at Indianap- olis. Mercedes cars have never failed to give a good account of themselves and, like their aviation engines, have always been noted for reliability. Plenty of Rumors It is also rumored that Engineer Gross of Mercedes will bring over an extra car to be held in reserve, and that all four have been especially constructed to meet Indianapolis conditions. The same rumor has it that the cars are equipped with four cylinder engines that deliver their maximum power at 5000 revolutions. Discounting all rumor and judging from past performances it is safe to count the Mercedes entries as the most dangerous among the foreign con- tinent. No one knows just now whether, or not, the famous Fiats will put in their appearance this year. The 122 inch roll- er bearing Fiats have been victorious in every contest entered in Europe, since the 1922 Targa Florio when they were beaten by the amateur Masseti, who han- dled a 300 inch Mercedes. A car built by the Fiat organization was brought over here and campaigned during the latter part of 1921 by Pietro Bordino. It was the first all roller bear- ing job on the Pacific Coast and although the chassis was heavier than the 183 Duesenberg it possessed enough speed to win one distance race at over 110 miles per hour. Bordino playing a lone hand was not equal to the team work of the 11—Scheel Frontenac 12—Scheel Frontenae 13—Scheel Frontenac 14—Scheel Frontenac 15—Packard Special... 16—Packard Special... 17—Packard Special... 18—Miller Special...... COUNTRY DRIVER ——. U. S.......................-Herbert Schee} ee U. S........................Not named = U. S...........--.--.------.N0t named eee U. &u........................06 Bemied conciial U. So......2..-.-.-.--.-.Ralph De Palma ae | eee Dario Resta teniten U. Su....................... Joseph Boyer re U. S........................ Thomas Milton = Franee ...................Jules Goux Duesenberg-Miller combination and re- turned to Italy. Still to be heard from are three, or four cars. being built by Fred Duesen- berg. It is known however, that the en- gines for two of these cars are in process of manufacture in the Duesenberg fac- tory at Indianapolis, and are supposed to be ready for test about the tenth of May. Just as Harry Miller has pinned his faith on the straight eight so will Fred Duesenberg, in his new series of racers. The smaller Duesenberg engine may be equipped with 32 valves instead of the double inlet and single exhaust as used last year. The probability of the new cars being of the four valves per cylinder type is reasonable, because a 32- valve 183-inch Duesenberg was tested on the Indianapolis speedway some weeks after last year’s race. The car was driven by Howard Wilcox and turned one lap at 105 miles per hour, a record for the track. 23 Years Ago is Week In MOTOR AGE (From Motor Ace of May 3, 1900.) The Auto Canal Mule PHILADELPHIA, April 30—On Thurs- day last the first of the electric motors that are to displace horses on the tow- paths of the Delaware & Raritan Canal arrived at Trenton and the following day, the machine was privately tested in ac- tual service. The “mechanical mule” is a ponderous affair, weighing several tons and resembles a “cumbersome farm wagon” as one of the Associated Press correspondents described it. And Look at Them Now WASHINGTON, D. C., April 28—The utility of the. automobile as a means of collecting mail was amply demonstrated to local postal authorities during the past week. ; Opposed Fenders for Automobiles CHICAGO, April 30—-(A reading notice under this date tells of the introduction into the city council by Alderman Blake of a bill requiring all automobiles oper ating on the streets of Chicago to be equipped with fenders.) The ordinance was shelved by the last council! but its father, Alderman Blake, threatens to re introduce it into the new council. It 1s thought, however, this this bil! shall never be a law. lad put Ine mu mo. to | Dar fro) ing tha her gro cha Cap floo Pro

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vows May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE Bill Fixit’s Return Betty Jetline Hangs a Picture, Bill Springs a Battery Selling Stunt and Hutch By A. H. PACKER Brings Home Hts First Order The First Article of This Series Published Feb. 15, 1923; Second Article, March 8, 1923. If yer doan tak keer An jes hab fun De battry dies At de age ub one. If yer watah ut reglar When de watah am due De battry might las’ *Till ahmos two. When deys tree years gone An de battry’s dere Its a case dats ’ceptional Not to say rare. Ya Wal £ vo hs; Ce =: 5 ap EN R. JOHNSON BROWN had R cleaned three reflectors out of * four. “Dat indiscretional litin’ system’s shu ahright,” the porter con- fided to his sponge and cleaning cloths. “Jes keeps a boy humpin right smaht, doe, to keep dem fancy wash bowls clean. Bill shu raise de dickens wif me if ah doan, so ah bettah step along an clean up dat udder one, too, foh he gits here.” Rufus took his sponge and cloth and put his foot where the first step of his ladder should have been. He pawed the air. The ladder was gone. Rufus’ eyes rolled, the whites glared in incipient terror. “Mammy done tole me not buy nuffin fum dat cross eye variety stoh. Laddah mus be bewich, jes walk off when ah not lookin.” Rufus’ rolling eyes scanned the salesroom in a wild hope of seeing the missing ladder. There it was at the other end of the room and perched on the very top was the guilty abductor. Now her bobbed hair shook as her head nodded vigorously, then swayed gently back and forth registering doubt. Betty Jetline was on the job as well as on the ladder. The question requiring right decision was one that even Bill could not have decided. Should the enlarged picture of Lorry Dean, the movie heartbreaker, be put on this wall or that, up near the molding or down a bit. It was a mo- inentous question and Betty knew she must find the answer. To make a little money for working was one thing, but lo get paid for fixing up things for a tea Party was just too much. All the girls from the Sipa Bita T sorority were com- ig down to the showroom to see her that very afternoon and Bill had told her to order what she wanted from the srocery and charge it to him. Of course there would not be enoug chairs for all the girls, but the seating cg of the cars on the showroom Sor was considerable, and there would Probably be a scramble for these. A mo- “Dat indiscretional litin’ system’s shur alright.” toring party on the showroom floor, it would certainly be a scream, and if some of the fellows they knew did not drop in, well, they weren’t human, that’s all. But back of her dancing eyes were thoughts concerned not only with the fun of the afternoon, but with business as well, for Betty as a small girl had had some rough sledding. Carrying milk to the town people, in hot weather and cold, oftentimes barefooted when the morn- ings were frosty, had taught her the value of money, and Bill’s idea had ap- pealed to her business sense as well as her social instincts. What more natural than that the girls sitting in the shiny cars on the show- room floor should want to know about all the buttons and levers. Betty care- fully coached by Bill could tell them, could give a visicn of motoring through fields and woods and finally issue an implied invitation to bring “Dad” down and show him what fine cars they had and what fun they would make possible. “Here, Rufus,” Betty said, on being discovered with the goods on her, or rather under, “hold this picture up here a minute while I take a squint at it then I'll let you have your ladder.’ Rufus complied, held the picture here and there until the queen of the show- room was satisfied with the location. The picture was hung, the last globe cleaned and everything was in readiness for the regular Monday morning con- ference. ef @ SB BHR The men of the shop were there, the Red Head was there, Charlemagne Hutchinson, Bill and last, but not least, Betty was there, ready to record the ideas presented, and giving a zest to each meeting, a reason why each man should unconsciously give the best he had for the good of the ship. Bill opened the meeting. “We are going to take up batteries again and, when the old ones are worn out, we are going to sell new ones to most of the users of Runwell cars, if confidence will sell them. I have not taken the time previously to tell you what all these new glass partitions and that cozy ‘little rest room are for, but it all has to do with batteries in par- ticular and other things in general. So that you will see the idea, we will illus- trate by assuming a customer comes to the maintenance department, complain- ing that his starter does not work, and that the contact man on testing finds the battery is at fault. Keeping the Owner Out of the Shop “You all know how annoying it is to have a car owner hanging around when you are working on a job, and yet the customer has a right to know what is going on for it is his car, not ours. That is why we are trying to effect a com- promise that will keep everybody happy. In most shops the customer does not want to walk around the car and be in the way, but he does want to know what is going on. We can now invite our clients into the rest room, and through the glass they can see practically as well as if they stayed in the shop. “Tn the case of battery trouble the car owner will be told that a few minutes only will be required to take the battery out and test it. He can read a paper or magazine while the battery is being removed. “As soon as the battery is out of the car it will be brought to the window

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ne " I, ey Vip Lb, “Laddah mus be bewich; jes walk off when Ah’s not lookin’.” between the shop and rest room and the high rate discharge tester will be used and the readings of the meters explained. A good battery will also be available so that the difference in its behavior may be shown to the customer. Then when the car owner has been shown that his battery is in some way defective, he will be asked to wait just a few minutes more, while his battery is opened for inspection. “You will note that we have the bat- tery steamer and the drill press both arranged where the customer can see what is going on. Everything in plain sight. No chance for us to slip any- thing over or palm off some other bat- tery in making the tests, and what is more important, no chance for the cus- tomer to think we are doing so. While the steamer is doing its work, the posts will be drilled off, and the education the customer gets will keep making our job easier. “In a few minutes the battery will be ready to have the elements pulled out of the jars and then the condition of the plates and separators can be shown. Sul- phated plates, rotted separators, disin- tegrated positives, all such conditions can be explained. “This is also an opportunity to tell the car owner those things that affect the life of a battery. He should be told the bad effect of allowing the plates to get dry, the ruinous action that takes place when a battery is left in a dis- charged condition, and in winter the dan- ger of having a discharged battery freeze. “Arguments and inharmonious rela- tions with customers are invariably due to misunderstandings, and the more in- struction we can give, the more confi- dence we can create. “Both in the shop and in our selling we must use care to present the fact MOTOR AGE that the battery is a well made mechan- ical device and that the work that it does will be measured by the care it receives. Car owners should be encour- aged to come to us frequently, and espe- cially in the fall and spring. At this season of the year we can reduce the charging rate so as to give the battery as near as possible the right amount of current. “Now,” continued Bill, “I believe Hutch has some good news to tell us.” “Guess I have,” said Hutch. “It was sure good news to me. I had been chas- ing around here and there calling on all the grouches in seven counties more or less, and I was having a hard time to keep smiling. Had been doing that for two or three weeks. Then one day I happened to be going by Fraser’s old place, one of the first places I had called on. Mr. Fraser saw me passing and called out for me to come in. I came, and guess what she wanted. “Said Hiram Billings over on the Stubbs road wanted a Runwell car. She had told him how we fixed them up and had the old car running just like it used to, and he said if Bill was selling Run- well cars and had a bunch like that in the shop, he would take a- chance, too. Pretty good, I thought, from a hard- boiled old crab that no one else had ever been able to approach. “That’s how I came to go over there, and with the old boy feeling right, it wasn’t any harder than selling a can of peas down at the old grocery. Our campaign of selling the old owners first is certainly making itself felt. We must keep up the good work and the shop will sell the cars.” A smile of appreciation went around the group at the conference. Each one knew that the sale belonged to them as well as to Hutch, for the good work of the shop had made it possible. “After the good news,” said Bill, “we will feel a little more like working again, but before we go back to the job I have a few additional pointers to bring out about batteries. One question you may be asked is how long a battery ought to last. It’s a hard question to answer. The best thing we can do is to say that the life depends to a great extent on the treatment that the battery gets. The Battery Should Live Until it Dies “The batteries we sell are made of the best materials obtainable, and in the hands of the average owner will last from one to two.years. Our guarantee will not be based upon a definite time, but on the general reputation we build up and on the “show me” equipment we have for explaining to the customer exactly what the conditions are in his battery and what has caused them. “One thing you boys want to watch out for is to keep impurities out of a bat- tery. Iron, for example, causes trouble, so never make the mistake of sticking a screwdriver in the battery to see how much electrolyte there is in it. Then acetic acid, the kind that’s in vinegar, if May 3, it gets into a battery, will rot away the lead posts and connecting straps in a short time. This acid is found in wood, and that is why we get the best sep- arators we can buy. We do not want to take chances with poor stuff, perhaps poorly treated, and possibly containing traces of this acid. “While we have alternating current and rectifiers in our shop, still I want to say something about charging from direct current, so you boys will know just what is happening when a battery is on charge, either on the bench or when in the car. The discharge of a battery might be compared to the run- ning down of a weight in those old- fashioned clocks that used a weight in- stead of a spring. To wind them up, you have to raise the weight, which is just the reverse of what was happening when the clock was running down. Charging the Battery Is the Discharge Process Reversed “Also in the battery we have to re- verse the process, and while the current came out of the positive terminal on discharge, it must be forced back in at the positive post when on charge. This means that there must be a voltage or electrical pressure greater than that of the battery in order to accomplish this result. “The most common direct current available is known as 110-volt current, and for emergency use or occasional charging, a bank of lamps can be used as a resistance. That naturally brings up the question as to why a resistance in charging from 110 volts is necessary, and to understand that point we have to know how to figure electric currents. The rule, however, is rather simple. “The voltage is the electrical pressure that pushes the current along the wire or other conductor or carrier of elec- Wil Wii) i/ es if / f pau re Kl \ i ™ AN WY; \ \ ! ¥ Betty Jetline was on the job as well as the ladder. 1923

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5 , ~ 5 on May 3, 1923 TO ‘110 VOLTS DIRECT CURRENT [ " LAMP | BANK. ‘d i . : ” nt) VOLTMETER. AMMETER. 2 100658 Fig. 1 Circuits for charging batteries on 110 volts D. C. tricity. The nature of the wire, its size, length, material and temperature affect the resistance or opposition to flow of current, much as the rust and scale in a pipe affect the flow of water. The pres- sure we measure in volts with a volt- meter, and the resistance we measure in ohms. “Any piece of wire will have a definite resistance in ohms just as it has a defi- nite length in feet, or a definite weight, and from wiring tables we can find what the resistance of a certain piece of wire may be. Copper wire, for example, which is about one-tenth of an inch in diameter and 1,000 feet long, has a re- sistance of one ohm. Now we come to the point of figuring from the nature of the circuit and the resistance just how much current will flow. “This is the point where I am inter- ested and you should be if you care much about your job. “If, for example, you do not know anything about estimating the amount of current that will flow, and you connect a good 10-ampere meter in a circuit where the current is to be 300 amperes, the meter is going to go up in smoke, and the smoke is not the only thing that will go up in the air. Red did that little trick when he first came to work for me, and I chased him a block, trying to brain him with a milk bottle; so you see lack of knowledge is dangerous in more ways than one.” Bill's listeners smiled, but at the same time they got the point. “Now we will take a look at a sketch which I have called Fig. 1 and we will figure the nature of the resistance which MOTOR AGE is made up of the four lamps in the lamp bank. Each one of these is an old- fashioned 16-candlepower carbon lamp, not much good for lighting, but all right for wasting current, and that’s exactly what we are using them for. Each one used by itself, right across the 110-volt circuit, would use one-half ampere, so we figure the resistance of each must have been 220 ohms, in order to be able to divide 110 volts by it and get one-half. “Now with four of these lamps side by side we have,four times the chance for the current to get through, so we have one-fourth the opposition or resist- ance to flow. That means that all four lamps considered together and connected side by side have a resistance of 55 ohms, which is one-fourth of 220. “Now if these lamps as a unit were connected across 110 volts, we would have a current flowing of two amperes, for 110 divided by 55 equals 2. Here is the point, however, where the average man gets stuck, he doesn’t know how to figure it when there is a battery being charged as shown in Fig. 1. It is sim- ple, however, like everything else, when you know how. “Instead of taking 110 volts as the voltage with which to figure, you sub- tract from it the battery voltage. That means at the start that we have 104 volts acting, and this electrical pressure, if we hunted for it with a voltmeter, would be found across the lamp bank. That means the lamps will be slightly dim. Then to find the current, we divide 104 by 55 and find it to be about 1.9 amperes instead of 2 amperes. Paying for Current Thrown Away “The worst part of this method of charging batteries is the cost of the cur- rent that is thrown away. The total watts we pay for is found by multiplying the total voltage by the current, so that in this case we pay for 110 times 2, or 220 watts. The watts we use equal 6 volts times 2 amperes or 12, and the watts thrown away in the lamps equal 104 times 2, or 208. Thus we are throw- ing away 208 watts out of every 220. “The only way to beat this condition is to have a string of fourteen batteries instead of one, and of course the 2-am- pere rate we used in the figures is much too low for average charging require- ments. To get a picture of what will happen, I have figured out the currents and other details for a condition where various numbers of batteries are to be fe OF | BATTERY | BATTERY | AMPERES| VOLTS AT LAMPS | RESISTANCE] CURRENT VOLT |v 110 VOLTS MINUS BAT. VOLTS} TO ALLOW | AT FINISH a OLTS AT|VOLTS AT} AT 2 ALO Pee SATTERIES| START | FINISH | START | START | FINISH {AT START [RESISTANCE 1 S 7.5 S 104 |102.5 174 5.9 Le | 30 375 6 80 725 | 183 5.45 10 | 60 75.0 S 50 35, 8.3 4.2 1 Lit | 84 |{1120 S 24 5. 4.3 115 Fig. 2 Resistance needed for charging batteries on 110 volts D. C. 17 charged, and the results are shown in the table given in Fig. 2. “The first column gives the number of 6 volt batteries on charge at the same time. The second column gives the total voltage of these batteries. The third column gives the voltage we will get at the battery when it is fully charged, for a 6 volt battery will show 7.5 or so when fully charged, and the charging current still flowing. We have arbi- trarily assumed that we want a charg- ing current of 6 amperes at the start and AC LINE. a AUTO TRANSFORMER “TUNGAR BULB REGULATOR BATTERY - FUSE — AMMETER — METHOD OF CONTROLLING CHARGE RATE IN TUNGAR RECTIFIER © w0see Fig. 3 General nature of the circuits of a Tungar rectifier used for charging batteries from alternating current have figured what the resistance should be. “In the case where ten 6 volt bat- teries are on at the same time, we sub- tract 60 from 110 volts and find 50 volts acting. Then dividing this voltage by the current of 6 amperes which we wish to have we discover that 8.3 ohms would be the right resistance. Now using lamp bulbs of 220 ohms resistance we would require a great number, in fact, twenty- six or twenty-seven bulbs would be nec- essary and for use with the fourteen -bat- teries an even greater number would be required. “The answer is that for charging in this way, a rheostat is used, and it is adjustable to get any current desired. “When we come to the question of cost, we find that in most cases an 80 ampere hour battery will require at least 50 per cent more charging than would be indicated by its rating. This is due to the fact that the average bat- tery we get is not only discharged but somewhat sulphated so that its efficiency is low. Our 6 ampere charge will then have to be continued for perhaps 20 hours or more. “The cost of charging current will then be determined by multiplying the volts. by amperes and hours to get watt hours. This would be 110 times 6 times 20, or 13,200 watts, or 13.2 kilowatts. “Then if we know what the local elec- tric light company is going to charge us for current, we know that part of our charging cost. At ten cents per K. W. H. we would be paying $1.32 for the cur- (Continued gn page 23)

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\ \ \ ¥ 7 re > ME ae Le ee — om nut it Ce tt HE \ 4 | (2 ae MOTOR AGE LOL OTN AE IT AEE CRIMI IEE: eae Headquarters of the H. O. Harrison Company, Hudson and Essex dealers, in San Francisco, where the service- salesman system described in the accompanying article has been installed with excellent results Selling Maintenance and New Cars in the Service Department A San Francisco Dealer Averages Four New Car Sales a Week, and Greatly In- creased Equipment Business Through Special Salesmen on the Floor line in the service department, but altogether apart from the service men and the repair mechanics, has been given a thorough trial by the H. O. Har- rison Co., at its headquarters in San Francisco, with such good results that the corporation also has put on duty two salesmen for new cars in the repair de- partment. These salesmen are now aver- aging sales of four new cars a week, without ever leaving the service and repair department, and the increase in the sales of equipment, accessories and repairs has been marked, due to the presence in these departments of men who are trained, not so much to make repairs and install equipment, as to sell needed repairs, equipment and new auto- mobiles. G ine maintenance as a regular “Preventive Service Men” The Harrison company maintains, out- side its offices, two men who are con- stantly in touch with the owners of Hud- son and Essex cars, which the company distributes in this territory. This pair, known as “preventive service men,” teach the new buyer how to get the most out of his car, how to drive it, how to care for it, how to keep down maintenance and operation costs, and then tell him when and what repairs he needs. of Repair Department By H. H. DUNN These men are not mechanics; they make no repairs they merely are men who have been mechanics, who know the automobiles in question, and who have been successful salesmen on the floor. They keep the customer satisfied, so that he sends his friends as prospects to the Harrison company; so that, when he needs a new car, he buys it of the Har- rison company; and so that, when re- pairs or overhauling have to be done, it is the Harrison repair shop that gets the job. In a way, this is selling maintenance outside the job. Indirectly, the success of the preventive service men led to the placing in the Harrison service depart- ment of trained salesmen to sell main- tenance to the motorist; to tell him just what he needed, what it would cost, and to endeavor to get him to have such work done as would keep his car in the best of condition, lower his costs of operation, and continue him the satisfied customer he is when the preventive serv- ice men outside get through with him. I should not have said “get through with him,” for the Harrison preventive service never ends so long as the mo- torist has a Hudson or an Essex. These preventive service men are still aiding owners who bought their cars in 1918, 1919, 1920, and on down to the present month, for the service begins immedi- ately the owner drives out of the store. Thus, the first salesman, on the show- room floor, the preventive service man, the service station men, the repair shop mechanics, and the salesmen stationed in the repair shop to sell either mainte- nance, equipment or new cars, are all linked together in an endless chain, drawing steadily into the office of the sales manager a constantly increasing volume of sales of equipment, service and cars. The forging of this chain was not one man’s idea; it is the result of a number of ideas, each developing from something done before. Much of the fundamental plan for preventive service is accredited to B. M. Taylor, assistant general man- ager of the H. O. Harrison Co., but al- most all the heads of departments have had a hand in improving the whole sys tem, which is now operating smoothly and efficiently under the hand of Roy B. Alexander, sales manager. Selling in Every Department “We are making a sales department out of every department in the business, Mr. Alexander explained to me. “There is no reason that cars should not be sold elsewhere than in the showroom; there is nothing to hinder the sale of equip- — so Sale bee;

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di- an, op ned ite- all iin, the ing rice one iber 1ing ntal ‘ited nan- ; al- have sys- ythly yy B. ment ess,” There ) sold there quip- May 3, 1923 ment and maintenance in places other than the repair shop; in fact, there is no handicap to selling service, mainte- nance, equipment, and even new Cars, right on the street, if every man in the force is on the job every minute of his time. Our preventive service men, em- ployed and put on the street in their own cars for the convenience and train- ing of buyers of Hudson and Essex cars, of course sell maintenance. In fact, they sell equipment, they sell repairs, and, sometimes, indirectly, they sell new au- tomobiles. In addition, they bring and send in a tremendous number of new prospects—for the satisfied customer is the best provider of prospects in the business, and he always sends them to the man from whom he bought the car with which he is satisfied. I sometimes think that two-thirds of the automobile dealer’s business depends on the main- tenance of a friendly attitude in the mind of the man who has bought a car from that dealer. It Pays to Get the Best Men “Now the preventive service man sug- gests to the car owner such repairs, over- hauling or equipment as he may need. That owner, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, brings his Hudson or his Essex to our shop to be repaired, overhauled or to have certain equipment installed. We found that here was an opportunity for many sales, provided real salesmen were put in these departments. We picked out three of our best salesmen, men who knew the inside of the cars they sold as well as the outside, and men of good address. We put them in the service and repair departments, with orders to do nothing but sell equipment, maintenance and new cars. “Our service superintendent, by the way, is a high-priced factory man, and let me say here that it pays to get the best-trained man you can buy for the head of your service department. Charge MOTOR AGE for your service all it is worth, but give every customer one hundred cents’ worth of service, time, labor and knowledge for every dollar he gives you. Why Service Department Salesmen? “When the car owner drives into our service station and repair shop he is greeted by a well-dressed salesman—not a mechanic in greasy overalls—who learns what is wanted, calls the super- intendent, also well dressed, and the three go into every detail of the work the owner thinks he wants done. Some- times—and not rarely—the owner needs other work on his car much more than he needs the work which he ordered when he came in. All this is explained to him; he feels that the firm has an interest in him, and more often than not, both jobs are taken on at once. If the owner insists on the first job, nothing more is said to him about it, and exactly what he wants is done. There is such a thing as overselling a man. “While the owner is waiting for his car, the salesman discusses cars, equip- ment, maintenance and service with him. The mechanic could not do this, the head of the service department would not have time to do it; but the salesman does it, and our experience has been that, in about seven out of ten cases, he makes a sale of some kind. This seems to be a high percentage, but it is borne out by the records. In car sales alone, these salesmen in the service department have been averaging four new cars a week for some time. When a man brings in his car for general rebuilding, there is the time to sell him a new car, while he has to wait for a week or ten days for the old car. In many instances the proper kind of selling talk will leave the used car with us and send the former owner of that car out in.a new Hudson or dssex. “In selling maintenance, however, the traveling preventive service men prob- Salesmen * it the repair department “Ask ’Em to Buy” at every opportunity. The result has a a number of sales of new cars from that department, and the gathering together of a 8 number of prospects for cars at a later date. Equipment also is sold in the same way H. O. Harrison, president and general man- ager of the H. O. Harrison Company, Hudson and Essex distributors, San Fran- cisco, California ably are the most productive, since they are with the owner when he most needs equipment and maintenance.” Another thing which Alexander and the other officials of the Harrison com- pany consider very important in this placing of salesmen in the service station is that it has eliminated the rough edges between the repair shop and the sales and showroom. The average man in the service station thinks the salesman is a loafer with nothing to do but dress up and drive a car around town. The aver- age salesman considers the service and repair man merely as a laborer, who does what he is told to do and lets it go at that. The placing of the salesmen there gives both salesman and mechanic a chance to learn the other fellow’s prob- lems and to realize that neither has the soft job the other believed he had. The Flat Rate Makes Sales A thing which is making the sale of maintenance easier for the salesmen in the Harrison company is that a flat rate for service on the Hudson and Essex has been installed, with about 100 operations on both cars. This is a standardized service established by the firm, irrespec- tive of the factory, and it has helped materially in sales, since the buyer now knows, so long as he is in Harrison ter- ritory, just what the upkeep of his car will be. It also has helped in the sale - of equipment and in the selling of main- tenance, since there is a well-known flat rate for every operation, as well as for all equipment. But the Harrison com- pany considers the placing of mainte- nance and new-car calesmen in the serv- ice department one of the most success- ful merchandising steps it has taken in recent years.

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MOTOR AGE Jordan Factory Assumes Used Car Responsibility May 3, 1923 Cleveland Manufacturer Announces Plan to Rebutld and Price Used Cars Nationally in His Own Dealer Organization Jordan Motor Car Co., is answering ) "Sordan S. Jordan on behalf of the The a much discussed question. question is: “Ts the used car a manufacturer’s problem? “Yes” is Jordan’s answer. We are interested in the outcome. Jordan has made his answer in a series of advertisements published in Motor AcE, some other automobile busi- ness papers and a series of advertise- ments that will shortly appear in general mediums. This answer tells how Jordan dealers will sell used Jordan cars. The plan becomes effective May 15 and begin- ning on that date, every used Jordan car in the hands of Jordan dealers will be reconditioned by the dealer according to a standard fixed by the Jordan factory. After the car is reconditioned, a report is made to the factory, a dated metal plate will be issued for that car and it will be priced at the factory. To ac- count for freight charges, six price zones have been erected. A Jordan car with this metal plate, which has been registered, represents a direct obligation of the Jordan dealer and factory, just as clearly as does a new car. This plate guarantees to the purchaser that the car has been rebuilt in accordance with the national Jordan policy to which the Jordan dealers have subscribed. “Four dominant and fundamental facts determined us to inaugurate this policy,” said Jordan, president of the Jordan Company. “The Jordan car has a very high sec- ond hand valuation, and the purchaser of the Jordan which has seen service in the hands of an owner is entitled to re- ceive the same assurance of continued service and the same proof of value as the man who buys a brand new Jordan. “That is the most important thing. “Second, the present owners of Jordans have a right to know what depreciation they may expect to take on their Jordan cars if they keep them in the best possi- ble condition while in their possession. “They also have a right to learn what will be the penalty of abuse in case they do not help maintain the high value of the Jordan through careful attention to the care of the car while in their posses- sion. “Third, the dealer selling the Jordan must be encouraged to protect his own good name by putting every Jordan car, whether new or used, in such condition before resale that it will continue to build up his reputation in the town in which he does business. “Fourth, we believe that the ultimate suecess of every company in this busi- This metal plate will be issued by the Jordan company upon proof by the dealer that he has complied with the standard regu- lations, and it will be attached to the for- ward dash underneath the hood, just above the starting motor ness will depend not upon the number of new cars which the factory ships at random to dealers here, there and every- where, but the number of owners who find in the new and old Jordans that quality of service which gives a man dol- lar for dollar value.” In a further discussion of this plan Jordan says to his dealers: “The Jordan Company realized that your success in selling depends abso- lutely upon the service that the second owner of the Jordan car receives, as well as the first owner. There is only one way this can be assured. That is by the inauguration of a standard national re- building, pricing advertising and service policy.” ' Again in discussing this plan, Jordan says some things that apply to used car policies generally with , considerable directness, although he applies them only to the Jordan cars. This is a part of the discussion: “Good dealers have always stood be- hind used Jordans, but they have not done it in the proper way, and they have never before had the cooperation of the factory through national advertising. “Some dealers have followed the policy of telling the man when he bought the car that they would stand behind it. Then they spent as little money as pos- sible on the car with the idea of selling it at the lowest possible price. “Tf you want to know how this policy might work if we adopted it at the factory in connection with production and sale of new cars, just turn it over in your mind. The Jordan Company would last about twelve months in this business, or _ until the public found out that we were a bunch of fools and crooks. “That idea, which has been adopted by some dealers in our own organization, is so silly and so impossible that if any- one ever suggests it to us again we will feel nothing but pity for his ignorance. “When a car was sold in this way, the foxy dealer thought that by the expendi- ture of a little money he could satisfy the owner. It always costs that dealer more in the end in actual dollars and cents than he could see on his books. But in his utter blindness he could not see the many dollars and the many sales that he lost through deceiving that one owner. “We are making this strong because the policy is entirely wrong and cannot be tolerated in the Jordan organization in the future.” The interesting thing about the Jordan plan is that it makes it a fact that once a Jordan car, always a Jordan car. Heretofore it has seemed that some factories were as anxious as possible to disown as many cars as possible after they were sold. Some dealers apparently are not interested even in the short term guarantee that goes with all cars and certainly a great many dealers tried to forget about the owners. This Jordan plan is calculated to keep the owner in touch with the Jordan or- ganization from first to last. y Among other interesting developments will be the relation of the prices fixed with those now published on the used car guide lists. In ‘this connection, Jordan says in his discussion: “Dealer associations throughout the coufitry have been holding meetings in an effort to fix prices on second hand cars. “They are trying to do an impossible thing. “Prices on merchandise are either fixed by the business man who knows how to run his business, or they are determined entirely by the supply and demand.” Have you any maintenance prob- lems? If not, you are in luck, but the chances are that you have. // s0, 4 letter to The Readers’ Clearing House will help you solve them, But first turn over to pages 42 to 47 and see if some other fellow has not ha! the same sort of trouble. The questions cover a lot of subjects, all the way from constant potential chargins sys tems to balancng connecting r'-

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a we UO? MOTOR AGE Pressure Regulated, Forced Feed Lubrication Variable Conditions of Automobile Engine Operation and the Forced Feed Lubricating System with Pressure Regulated in Proportion to the Load, as Used ina Number of Automobile Engines other prime movers such as elec- tric motors, and steam engines, is required to work under changing con- ditions of temperature, load, and speed that vary over a wide range of values. This situation, together with the matter of crankcase oil dilution makes the problem of providing a completely satis- factory lubricating system, a rather diffi- cult one. The engine must be properly supplied with lubricating oil so that the moving parts do not score, cut, or wear appre- ciably, and so that the work done in overcoming the engine’s friction is a minimum. On the other hand, if too much oil is thrown into the cylinder barrels the formation of carbon, the foul- ing of spark plugs, and other resultant evils will follow quickly. \ N AUTOMOBILE engine, unlike many Load and Speed Conditions A graphic picture of the various con- ditions of load and speed under which an automobile engine may operate is shown in Fig. 1. OA represents a typical brake horsepower curve of an automobile en- gine, peaking at 3,000 R. P. M. The curve is extended to 4,000 R. P. M. It is evident that an engine propelling a car may operate under an infinite number of com- binations of load and speed, as any point 1$00 2000 10 20 30 ao CAP SPEED - MILES PER HovR By L. T. KNOCKE in the area OAB represents one of these combinations. Under average driving conditions, how- ever, the range is considerably reduced and may be thought of as contained in the area 0-2-3-4-1. A point on OA such as 2, 5, and 6 represents wide open throttle or 100 per cent load, while a point on OB such as 1 or 7 represents an idling condition or no load. All points between OA and OB such as 8, 3, or 4 represent fractional loads. The height of the point above the line OB divided by the entire height of the line measured from OB to OA gives the fractional load value of the point. Thus point 8 repre- sents an egine speed of 3,000 R. P. M., a car speed of 60 miles per hour, and an engine load of power output equal to 2/5 or 40 per cent of the maximum power at that speed. Consider points 2 and 4 representing an engine speed of 1,500 R. P. M. and a car speed of 30 miles per hour. At 4 the engine is operating at 20 per cent full power. An automobile traveling along a level concrete road and assisted some- what by a favorable wind would require approximately this percentage of the en- gine’s full power. At point 2 the engine is operating at 100 per cent load or full power. This condition can exist when the car is ascending a rather steep hill. 2500 3000 3500 5a 60 70 80 Fic6.] Graphic presentation of the various conditions of load and speed under which an automobile engine operates. The curve OA shows a typical brake horsepower curve In each of the above cases it is under- stood that the engine is in high gear. An amount of oil thrown from the connecting rods into the cylinder barrels of the engine suitable for operation un- der conditions of point 2, is entirely too much for the conditions corresponding to 4. When the engine is operating at point 4 the average temperature and pressure in the combustion space is low, and during the suction stroke a compar- atively high vacuum exists. These con- ditions cause a correspondingly greater amount of oil to pass by the pistons and rings and enter the combustion space heavy or full loads. In addition, as the combustion space temperature is low the oil instead of being burned is reduced to carbon and adheres to the top of the piston and the walls of the combustion space. Under conditions of point 2 there is less tendency for the oil to enter the combustion chamber, and further, less possibility of what does enter to form carbon. , It appears that with the proper throw- off of oil to the cylinder barrels to suit the conditions of 2, a reduced throw-off is required to satisfy the conditions of 4. The bearing pressures and side thrust of the piston on the cylinder wall are much greater under the conditions of 2 than 4, and consequently more oil pres- sure and throw-off are needed. The throw-off from the connecting rods to the cylinder walls and pistons must increase with the power output of the engine. If the combined inertia and centrifugal forces of the piston and connecting rod acting on the crank pin are plotted for one revolution, see Fig. 2, it will become plain that the line of action of the com- bined forces will lie along the line OC, swinging slightly through the rather small angle D. The connecting rod bushing is thrust against the inner sur- face of the crank pin at all positions and speeds. (While this statement is not true for the first portion of the explosion stroke, it applies to the balance of the cycle, and may be accepted as applying in general.) This direction of thrust of the power end of the connecting rod is further indicated by the fact that worn crank pins are out of round and under- size on the diameter OC. The drawing shows exaggerated clearance on the side opposite to the thrust side. By locating the small radial oil hold in the crank pin in approximately the position shown in Fig. 2, adjacent to the

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MOTOR AGE SECTION A-A Fr6.2 Diagram showing the action of the combined inertia and centrifugal forces of the piston and connecting rod on the crankpin bearing, with respect to the location of the radial oil hole which communicates with the hollow crankshaft side of thrust, sufficient oil will flow into the bearing, and after filling the clearance space, be thrown out at the thrust faces of the bearing to supply the piston, rings, and pin. Changing the location of the hole by rotating it in a counter clockwise direction toward the line OC increases the throw-off. Supplying the bearing with oil under pressure through the oil hole as shown near the area of maximum bearing pres- sure aids materially in maintaining the oil film and permits engine operation at high speeds and loads. Even though slight bearing wear oc- curs in the course of time, the throw- off to the cylinder walls remains constant due to the fact that the rod bushing is pressing on the inner side of the crank pin surface in which the oil hole is located. Big Capacity Pump Needed As oil grooves, shims, and reliefs are absent in this construction, it is neces- sary for the oil emerging from the oil hole, which is located at the center of the bearing in the longitudinal view, to com- pletely cover the bearing surface before it can escape at the thrust flanges. The pressure regulated, forced feed lubricating system in conjunction with the engine consists of a crankshaft drilled completely from end to end so that the oil delivered to it by the pump can flow through it in sufficiently large quantities to effect some cooling of the bearings. An oil pump of liberal capacity is re- quired for a lubricating system of this type. It is advantageous to mount the pump in an accessible position and so that a quantity of oil will be trapped in at times to insure priming and im- mediate operation when starting. The pump can discharge only as much oil as flows into its inlet located at the bot- tom of the oil pan. Consequently any provisions made to assist the oil in flow- ing into the pump inlet, such as the use of a large screen, or placing an air tight housing over the upper portion of the screen, are advisable. This point is par- ticularly significant in starting in cold weather when the oil in the pan is vis- cous, and some little time may be re- quired to establish circulation. The oil from the pump is forced into an annular groove in the rear bearing, a small portion of it serves to lubricate the bearing and the balance passes into the two holes in the crank shaft which register with the groove. Refer to Fig. .3 which shows a sectional view of the rear main bearing, an adjoining con- necting rod, and a portion of the carnk- shaft and cylinder barrel. The pressure May 3, 1923 required to force the oil into the rotat- ing crankshaft will vary from a few pounds at low speeds to about 25 pounds at high speeds, depending, of course. on clearance, oil viscosity and velocity, size of passage, etc. A cross hole indicated by B supplies the rear camshaft bearing with pressure lubrication. After entering the crankshaft, the oi] flows through the hole in the cheek in the cheek in the direction indicated by the arrows and into the large hole in the crank pin. The connecting rod bear- ing is lubricated by means of the small radial hole shown in Fig. 2. The oil thrown from the thrust faces of the con- necting rod bearing, as indicated in Fig, 3, to the cylinder walls and _ piston serves to lubricate these parts including the pin and rings. In some instances the piston pin is supplied with pressure lubrication by means of a tube securely fastened to the web of the I section of the rod. One end of the tube registers with the radial oil hole in the crank pin and the other is opened to the piston pin bearing. The duration of register of the radial hole in the crank pin with the tube is but a few degrees of rotations, but by placing a groove in the bushing in line with the holes the time of oil pressure application to the 'piston pin bearing can be increased and if desired made continuous. It is desirable particularly in six cyl- inder engines to shape the crankshaft cheeks adjoining the main bearings so that oil leaking from the main bearings will not be thrown into the cylinder barrels. Inasmuch as each barrel is sup- plied with oil by its particular connect- ing rod, this occurence would result in an over oiling of cylinders 1, 3, 4, and 6. Referring to Fig. 3, it will be noticed that if the crankshaft cheek were shaped as indicated by the dotted line A, oil OIL FROM PUMP Fie 2 ———— It is desirable especially in six-cylinder engines to shape the crankshaft chee the main bearings so oil will not be thrown from them into the cylinder barrels. ks ad joining The dott line A shows how oil would be thrown into the cylinder if the cheek were thus shape

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would be thrown into the cylinder barrel instead of alongside of it as should be (leaning Oil Centrifugally Referring to Fig. 2, the large hole in pin serves as a centrifugal separator in cleaning the oil, and the construction should be such enclosing means can be readily removed accumulation While with the proper use of oil screens in the oil filler opening and around the oil inlet to the pump in the pan, no extensive deposit of dirt would be expected to form in the large holes in the crank pin, yet when the engine is pulled down for overhauling it is without doubt desirable to inspect and if necessary, clean this space. The oil, flowing through the crank- shaft, provides the remaining connecting cylinder walls, pins, and rings with lubrication in the manner described above. main bearing is, or are if several, oiled by a radial oil hole, in a manner similar to that of the connecting rod bearings. The center camshaft bearing is supplied with oil through a drilled hole communi- cating with the radial hole in the center main bearing, and the oil pressure appli- cation may be continuous or intermittent. The oil, with the exception of the com- paratively small amount thrown from the connecting .rods and main bearings, after passing through the shaft, flows out into the annular groove in the front main bearing as shown in Fig. 4. dil then passes on as indicated ‘by the lubricates the front camshaft bearing through hole A, through the regulator, onto the gears, and down to the oil sump in the pan. The regulator consists of a tapered plunger which by moving downward into the hole as shown restricts the oil pas- sage and causes the pressure lubricating system to plunger is actuated through levers and by the carbureter throttle, equipped with a light piston is controlled by the vacuum in the intake manifold. In either case the pressure is varied in proportion to the power out put of the rod bearings, a : (Continued from page 17) rent without regard to whether we charge one battery or fourteen at a time. You can accordingly see the advantage of charging a full line of batteries at Connecting the Battery Right “When it comes to getting a battery connected, we find methods that can be used. If the termi- nals are marked, it is an easy matter. Ina string of batteries, we always con- ct from positive to negative, so that the voltages add up. When it comes to ‘onnecting this string of batteries to the charging line, we do it the other way, ind connect positive to positive, and neg- ative to hegative. “If the terminals are not marked it is Possible to find the polarity with a volt- When the meter reads the right MOTOR AGE chenieeriany\ a O/L TO SUMP Fig. 4 This shows how the oil travels after it leaves the front main bearing. The plunger at the top of the diagram regulates the pressure and is connected by suitable linkage to the throttle When the engine is idling or running light the regulator is open and the escape of oil from the crankshaft is un- restricted. The oil pressure in the shaft is but a pound or two and the throw-off from the rods is proportionally low. When the engine is operating at full load the regulator is partially closed, the oil pressure in the shaft is high, about 35 pounds, and the oil thrown to the cyl- inder walls is increased, while that flow- ing through the regulator and on the timing gears is reduced. The oil pres- sure at the pump is about 50 pounds, and a safety valve, preferably located near the pump, is set to blow off at a slightly higher figure. In the case of an overheated valve con- struction an oil tube is in some cases used to carry oil to the hollow rocker arm shafts that constitute the rocker arm bearings. In addition, the oil may be led through a passage in the rocker arm to the drilled adjusting ball screw and seat, and thence through the hollow push rod and tappet, leaving the tappet 23 through a hole in the center of its face and pouring on to the rotating cam. The pressure lubrication of all wearing parts of the overhead valve operating mechanism is no doubt very desirable as it materially assists in quieting the sound incidentals to the taking up of clearances as the cam begins to lift, as well as supplying a cushioning effect at the closing of the valve. In addition, the wear of the many contacting surfaces is reduced to a minimum, and with a quiet adjustment once made, it will be maintained for a long period of time. In the case of either an L-head engine or an overhead camshaft engine, the cam- shaft may be drilled lengthwise and con- necting oil holes drilled in the cams to provide lubrication for the cam surface and the valve lifter face. The use of the forced feed lubricating system makes it a simple matter to sup- ply all bearings with pressure lubrica- tion regardless of the location, and thereby eliminate the use of oil cups or other external means of lubrication that are apt to be neglected. In order to maintain an oil film in the bearings and thereby prevent actual metal to metal contact, the surface of the bushings are perfect cylinders as regards the absence of oil grooves and reliefs. No shims are used in the main and connecting rod bearings, and the sur- faces are unbroken with the exception of the annular grooves in the front and rear main bearings, which are required to al- low the oil to enter and leave the crank- shaft. To provide space for the oil film, a clearance on the order of .003 in. on the diameter is allowed in the main and connecting rod bearings. With the cylinder barrel lubrication completely under control, as it is in the pressure regulated forced feei system, and with what might be termed only sufficient oil supplied to the barrels and pistons to meet the particular conditions of load, a clean combustion space and an economical oil consumption should re- sult. The wear of the bearings and other moving parts in general should be com- paratively slight, as it is possible to ap- ply positively and abundance of oil to the bearing and at a point where it will serve the purpose best. way, the terminal connected to the posi- tive post of the meter is positive. An- other way is to connect wires to the bat- tery and immerse the ends in acid or salt water. The negative wire will bub- ble more than the other. “When only one or two batteries are to be charged on 110 volts D. C., they may be connected first one way and then the other and the brightness of the lamps in the lamp bank observed. The right way will be the way the lamps are dim. “Where alternating current only is available, as in our shop, it is necessary to use either a motor generator or a rectifier. With the motor generator, the alternating current is used in the motor to produce mechanical power. Then the mechanical power of the motor drives a generator which produces the direct current we need. “The alternating current cannot be used just as it is for charging batteries, for it is somewhat like a pendulum which keeps swinging but never gets anywhere. In fact the ordinary cur- rent such as we have changes its direc- tion 120 times each second, or has 60 complete cycles through which it goes. That is why we call it 60 cycle current. “The only way it can be used then is in some way to use it only when it is go- ing a certain way and in the rectifiers . we have it is done with the bulb which has the peculiar property of letting the current through one way only. The gen- eral nature of the circuits is given in Fig. 3, but we do not have to concern ourselves with these. Operating such a rectifier is simple, as the control handle is merely turned to give a low charging rate and the rectifier is turned on. Then the control is set to give about 6 amperes.”

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24 MOTOR AGE A Particular Service for Particular People May 3, 1993 That Is What Muller Bros., Hollywood, Calif., Have Developed in Their cater to petted leading ladies and handsome, dashing heroes, we won- der what would happen to a few we know of. If your service station was located in Hollywood, California, lair of the “movie” stars, how long would you last? Could you sell “particular” people the service you now sell? After you have lived in Hollywood for a while, you become accustomed to the atmosphere which is totally unlike any other city in the country. Beautiful homes, huge studios with their thousands of windows, cameramen “shooting” pictures from all angles and the finest collection of motor cars out- side of the great national shows. Often these cars are called upon to play an important part in the making of a pic- ture, either they are there for show or they are tearing madly alongside a racing locomotive to rescue the banker's daughter, or, they officiate when milady of the movies decides to go over and spend the afternoon with a friend. What- ever their duties, they must at all times look and be in the best of condition. “We are right in the center of the studio district,” says Frank Muller of Muller Bros. Service Station, “and about 75 per cent of our business is with the studio people. One can almost see a picture show by standing in our gas station and watching the stars driving in and out. These people all have fine cars and take great pride in keeping them up.” (Just imagine Mary Pick- ford, Richard Barthelmess, Thomas Meighan or Bebe Daniels coming into your place and saying, “Fill it up, please.” Do you do for your customers what you would have to do for them?) Muller Bros. meet these people all day and while there may be one or two chosen friends who come to you and get preferred attention, Muller Bros. are doing that sort of thing all day—they render a particular service and it must always be that way if they are to sur- I: every automotive dealer had to Not that we wish to speak of un- pleasant things, but take a flat tire (cheers and loud applause)—that’s the time to call for Muller Bros.’ Joy Wagon. Talk about service. Phone from wherever she’s gone flat —if you can’t bring ’er in—and we'll dash out and paralyze any puncture. If it’s a blowout we'll loan you a tire while we fix yours up. Carve this phone number right on your dash-board — Hollywood 4313 — and then forget tire troubles. MULLER BROS. Maintenance Business By JAMES V. MALONE This picture gives a pretty good general idea of what Muller Bros. have put into their maintenance establishment. There is a really unusual air of cleanliness and orderliness everywhere. Even in the window display which the picture scarcely shows, there is some- thing different—it is that difference known as good merchandising vive. There is something to this thing of absorbing the atmosphere you work in and making your work respond to it. Muller Bros. cater to the film folk, who, if the reports issuing from Holly- wood are to be believed, are a people who need a lot of “kidding” all the time to keep them in good humor. At least, 5) nn rank Case i Service Cui > =) ses Piste Hollywood 4313 RARE eee Muller Bros. have used the mails to good advantage. Here is a postcard which they have adopted to bring in lubrication busi- ness. There are others, too, used for tires and general repairs this much is known of the movie people: they are a splendid criterion for what the rest of us are because they are so widely imitated and talked of. Every sixteen-year-old boy driving a car has a notion that he could make Wallace Reid look like a blacksmith in some of Reid’s famous automobile pictures and unconsciously that young fellow has acquired Reid’s manner, and, very likely is a good deal harder customer than the famous movie star would have been. Every woman who drives a car into your place does something like her favorite actress and so we have some- thing to learn from Muller Bros. be- cause they are right at the source of all this. How Muller Bros. Advertise “Our lubrication department is an in- teresting part of our business,” Muller further explains. “We always get the customers’ name and address and use our follow-up cards to bring him back.” The follow-up cards are all along the general line which makes Muller Bros.’ advertising stand out—the means they Pardon while we quote from How to Keep Your Wagon Out of the Boneyard. “Lottsa oil and grease —then more oil and grease.” That means Muller Bros. Our greasing men are personally acquainted with the whereabouts of every crease cup that ever spoiled your manicure. We've well lighted pits and every- thing else invented to get «t the hard places—we overlook nothing. Drive in and let’s drain, oii and grease ’er up right as often “*% she deserves. MULLER BEOS. ran ef ak at a m& at oe =e on =— os os Lm J

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Frere aoeoare Oa "sS Ye ee”, May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE Thirty days J y cay ago we gave your be spa Co If you will phone us at Hollywood 4313, we will pleased to reserve a ce for you. Walther Baos rner of Sunset Elvd. and Cahuenga, Hollywood. This is another post card used by Muller Bros. in reminding the car owners of the lubrica- tion service which they offer. In keeping with their policy, the card has its direct appeal with something novel use is humor. This very fact is a part of the way they look at their customers. They have absorbed the care-free atmos- phere which permeates the town. But there is another angle to using humor as a means of getting business. We know of many firms which have tried this and failed because they did not use the right kind. You don’t have to be in Hollywood to find people who like humor —no matter where you are, you will find everyone a ready reader of anything funny. The “trick” lies in getting your stuff across whether it be humorous or other- wise. You will find the man who tries any means, striving to do it right, KEEPING IT WITHIN ITS BOUNDS. And in this, Muller Bros. have succeeded. On these pages are reproduced some of the series which make up Muller Bros.’ card system. They are printed in many colors. One of these shown here is on a blue background with white and black lettering. The same form is used in all the cards. “Drive in for Accessories and Supplies”; “Drive in for Vulcanizing and Tire Service”; “Drive in for Wash- ing and Polishing” are the invitations printed on the other cards. On the reverse side is a place for the Name and address of the prospect or customer and a heading over it, “Post Card and Conveyor of Automotive In- formation.” The “boxes” printed on these pages are the messages used. Ever visit our “Beauty Parlors”? One of our washing and polishing jobs will bring back the bloom of youth to even an old tub. Simoniz- ing by honest-to-goodness experts. Only 45 minutes on a wash job if you must have it quick. We wash em behind the ears and everywhere —overlook nothing. Dry steam for cleaning underneath. No man alive is more particular about a wash and polish job than a new-car dealer, Most of the Hollywood dealers have us do their washing and polishing. How about yours? MULLER BROS. In the lubrication department, the follow-up system is even more exact. Two of the forms used are reprinted here and, according to Muller, they “have in- creased our business 50 per cent.” - Note how the customer is shown the speed- ometer reading at the time of filling and what the reading will be when the car is again in need of filling. Creating Copy To create copy is to write something entirely new. Muller Bros. have done this as have many other dealers. Origi- nality, no matter how crude, will sell more than the high-sounding stereotyped stuff which is machined out with such great regularity by most automotive es- tablishments. Stick tight to facts and do not drift off into things which You won’t find any left-handed monkey wrenches or overhead mud guards at Muller Bros. But you WILL find every sensible accessory and supply. We sell nationally ad- vertised goods—no substitutes. And we stand back of ’em. No trans- action is complete until you are thoroughly satisfied. Come in and let’s fill your needs right—from the moto-meter to the taillight bulb. Corner Cahuenga and Sunset. MULLER BROS. You know what is meant by “stereo- typed” stuff— it is copy that Columbus might have considered good. It tells over and over, the same story that peo- ple have been reading since automoblies first started to toot and scoot around, and it has reached that stage of life when, if it were human, it would have long white whiskers and go tottering around on a cane. And to be new and different, it doesn’t have to be humorous, either. It can sell people, not on fiction but on hard fact, and the sooner the automobile dealer comes to realize this and write it into his copy, the sooner will his advertising appropriation begin to show returns. When you sit down to write some ad- vertising copy, think of two things—sell- ing and originality. Were you to re- write what someone else has already used, you will get in return just what the first user missed which won’t be very much or very satisfactory. Try something unconventional for awhile. Do as Muller Bros. have done—give the people a change and you, too, will ex- perience a change—the kind that has 2 tinkle to it. the car owner will put down as Greek, and above all, “lay off the bunk”— it has ruined many a “good” man. An- other thing to re- member is to sell one thing at a time. Don’t try to sell all your accessory stock to one buyer. Here again, we refer you to Muller Bros. Note how they have “done one thing at a time” and have done it well. IN anytime for any service. f 4 DROP 4 This, too, is typical of Muller Bros., their service and their abil- ity to sell. If you We drained the old oil from the Crank Case of your Shits .. & and re-filled it with new oil. As it joyfully rolled out of our Service Station, the speedometer registered H ow does the fo OW mileage stand now? Better tI ~ drive ‘er in for another draining (Zero) Ss about the time vy the speedometer registers. think this sort of copy doesn’t pay, read what Frank Muller says in ' this article i MULLER BROTHERS 6380 SUNSET BLVD. (Near Cahuenga)

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26 MOTOR AGE May :}, 1923 MOTOR AGE’S PICTURE PAGES > Je » 4 eS isaeecntesin: sian nities aiae name Four , policemen are stationed on the four corners of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City, to control the pedestrian traffic in accordance with signals. Here is shown one of the policemen holding back a particularly heavy jam until the signal to go Left: The Irish Free State troops made good use of auto- mobiles and trucks in quelling recent attacks Below: A display of Winton cars of ancient vintage, show- ing the first car, as well as some later record holders. The famous Winton Bullet, third from the left, was for a long time the foremost American racing car and was driven by Alexander Winton himself

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May », 1923 MOTOR AGE 27 OF AUTOMOTIVE INTEREST a : 7 \ | A Lote = , its," Pedestrian traffic in Chicago must be more refractory than in New York City as the New York method was tried out a few years ago md given up as a bad job. Left turns and uncontrolled pedestrian traffic are making Chicago’s “Loop” a model of bad congestion CAUTION! Be Careful at Crossings THIS TOWN IS FULL OF STUDEBAKERS , Sa dh Ge Fe The striking piece of billboard publicity, at the right, is being used by Studebaker dealers throughout the country. It has attracted much attention because of the originality of the text and the color com- bination of black lettering on a golden yellow background THE 100.0007. cag | BUILT» DURANT MOTOR a: ELIZABETH PLANT MAR. 27° 132 G000 w 2 4 P W THE G * - ,f _" ES er | 8 me 4 <P: Si ie * Nae -- Ca ¢ Walter Hagen, British open golf cham- a plon, was recently presented with an au- tomobile by members of the Westchester Bilimore Country Club, Rye, N. Y., in a ge as eRe ad On March 27, Durant Motors produced its 100,000th car. This total was reached recognition of his services in behalf of American golf in but 16 months after manufacture started, and includes Durant, Star and Loco- mobile cars and Mason Road King trucks

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["\OTOR AGE PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Copyright 1923 by The Class Journal Co. L_ Se Vol. XLII Thursday, May 3, 1923 No. 18 THE CLASS JOURNAL COMPANY Horace M. Swetland, President W. I. Ralph, Vice-President E. M. Corey, Treasurer A. B. Swetland, General Manager David Beecroft, Directing Editor Mallers Building, 59 East Madison Street, Chicago BUSINESS DEPARTMENT E. E. Haight, Manager EDITORIAL Clyde Jennings, Editor B. M. Ikert, Technical Editor WASHINGTON OFFICE 26 Jackson Place, N. W. DETROIT OFFICE J. Edward Schipper BRANCH OFFICES ’ New York City—U. P. C. Bldg., 239 West 39th St., Phone Pennsylvania 0080 Detroit—317 Fort Street, West, Phone Main 1351 Cleveland—536-540 Guardian Bldg., Phone Main 6432 Philadelphia—1420-1422 Widener Bldg., Phone Locust 5189 Indianapolis—1212 Merchants Bank Bldg. Ph. Circle 8426 Boston—-185 Devonshire Street, Phone Congress 4336 Cable Address....... Long Distance Telephone Motage. Chicago Randolph 6960 SUBSCRIPTION RATES United States, Mexico and U. S. Px ions Canada $3.00 per year 5.00 per year All Other Countries in Postal Union 6.00 per year Single Copies 35 cents Subscriptions accepted only from the Automotive Trade Owned by United Publishers Corporation, Address 239 West 39th St., New York; H. M. Swetland, President; Charles G. Phillips, Vice-President; A. C. Pearson, Treasurer; Fritz J. Frank, Secretary. Entered as second-class matter Sept. 19, 1899, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Member of Associated Business Papers, Inc. Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Selling Trucks to Farmers RECENT “Survey of Motor Trucks on Corn Belt Farms,” issued by the Department of Agriculture, says that the “principal sales resistance factors were poor roads and cost of operation.” Which is just a way cf saying the same thing twice. C. M. Eason, of the General Motors Corp., in discussing tractors before the Society of Automotive Engineers and the National Association of Farm Implement Manufac- turers last- week, said, “When we design the kind of tractors that the farmer wants, it will not be a case of selling them to him; it will be a case of manufacturing them fast enough. The farmer will take to these tractors just as he is taking to the motor truck. You all know that nothing will keep a farmer from buying a motor truck when a concrete road is laid past his house.” It is the latter part of this statement that we want to call to your attention. It is the explanation of the sentence quoted from the Department of Agriculture survey. The concrete highway solves the problem of bad roads and cost of operation of the truck. There are today automotive vehicle dealers who think that highways are not their job. The idea that anything that promotes sales like a good highway is not the job of the automotive dealer is more than silly. It shows that MOTOR AGE May °}. 1993 the dealer is hopeless. Every dealer knows what the De- partment of Agriculture men say and also what [‘ason says is true. So why not get behind the good roads move- ment and sell trucks? . You build the highways, and the sale of cars and trucks will take care of themselves. ae # The modern man is impatient. He appreciates quick and efficient service and returns to the place where it i; obtained. KB HK R : The Transportation Store VERY day in every way we are getting stronger in E, the belief that The Transportation Store is the an- swer to the prosperity of the automotive dealer and to the best prosperity of the industry. It is a bit more than strange that so many persons should insist on the automobile owner paying so many overheads while the dealers in practically all automotive lines are leading the merchant mortality list. Every once in awhile some veteran of the industry will arise to say that once the car dealer had all of the lines of automotive merchandise in his grasp and that he let them go, consequently he is a failure. Also, that when he had these various incidentals for sale, he gave them away. Consequently he is a poor merchandiser. More of these same things are said and pointed to with pride by these specialty manufacturers who want to keep their merchan- dise exclusive. These men do not take into consideration the natural changes that come about with time and education. The automotive dealer is not, by any means, a dumbbell. He is as progressive as any other merchant and he learns in time to do many things right. It is true that he at one time gave tires and bumpers away. But in most cases he has learned better. This automotive merchant now knows that there is a ereater after market on each car that he sells than there is in the car itself. He wants to sell this car owner main- tenance and the merchandise that goes with the car. He realizes that he must make a profit on these after sales. He is seeking to get the entire and lasting confidence of the car owner, so that he may sell him all that he needs. In tires and bumpers alone he is making remarkable strides. He has a more definite market, when he stocks these articles, than the specialist. He understands what these articles mean to the complete vehicle better than the specialist. Buying from him saves the motorist time in shopping. We believe that the time is coming, shortly, when a ma- jority of the automotive merchants will run complete Transportation Stores. These merchants will be the pick of the car dealers and specialists of today. Hundreds of windshield wipers can be sold at the gas pump on rainy days. B ER Street Cars to Pattern After Automo- bile Design HILE electric street cars have been in use for 4 VW longer time than have motor cars, it is interesting to note that the design of such cars has not progressed to a great extent. True, the cars are larger and more reliable, but the noise of their passing is such

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mo 2 Ww CO == ng ot er ch May 3, 1923 that conversation must cease. Motor cars, on the other hand, have approached the point where operation can be ractically noiseless. Steps to reduce noise are being taken by the traction interests in Minneapolis, one step in this direction being a reduction in weight of the car from 43,000 pounds to 25,000. This is accompanied by a reduction of unsprung weight of axles, motors and wheels. . Change in brake con- struction from the old shoe type to band brakes as used on automobiles is also included. Reduction in gear noise is accomplished by the use of ball bearings on the armature shaft, which maintains cor- rect alignment of gear teeth and in place of the plain bearings on axles, roller bearings are being tried out. The use of rubber block supports, a comparatively new idea, for the replacement of automobile spring shackles, is be- ing employed on street cars, where the blocks support the weight of the car body and its load. Even the windows are being silenced with rubber and the street car threatens to approach the automobile con- struction with the possible exception of rubber tires, and who knows but what this, too, may come? ' It is interesting to see the traction interests copying the construction of their competitors to give to some extent corresponding riding comfort. ae @ Shop losses grow out of wasted materials, lost tools, wasted time and “come-back” work. BER The Easy Marks ROSPERITY always brings a large crop of easy P money workers and a larger crop of easy money vic- tims. Just now the automotive business is generally believed to be the most prosperous industry in this coun- try and consequently it is the object of the greater number of easy money workers, and we believe that the workers are prospering. At least, such are the reports that are reaching us. Word came the other day that an automobile club, pre- tending to have a national organization, has signed 2500 garages as “official” at $25 per sign. It was a part of the guarantee that this club would send 3000 tourists as possible customers to each one of these garages. This was not one of the established automobile clubs. It was Just a nice private one, a very select affair. There are a number of so-called dealer and garage men’s associations that are thriving on new memberships that have never had an organization meeting and quite often a member of one of these handpicked organizations asks Motor Ace what they are going to get for their money. Recently some efforts have started, and apparently are going on successfully, with a view of enrolling the auto- motive mechanics in an organization at so much per en- tollment. The benefits of such enrollment are to be de- cided later. It is kind of the automotive dealers to support all of ‘hese easy money workers while the earnest association officers, often working without pay, cannot make progress. There is a definite place for the properly organized asso- ‘lation in this industry, but there should be no place for the one-man idea of getting money for himself. It seems rather strange that so many dealers should fall = this stuff. It is strange that they should think to ask Motor Ace what they are going to get after they pay their money and not before. None of these easy money asso- “ations ever get mention in Motor AGE unless it is to ex- — them and the promoters take care that we do not ‘ear of them if they can help it. But we can safely assure MOTOR AGE 29 you that we do mention the worth while associations and that we have information about them. ae #B To make profits, aim to produce your service at the lowest possible cost. B BR Association Work ECENTLY there was printed in Motor Ace the R story of a group of dealers who made a pilgrimage to Saginaw, Mich., to learn first hand of the Sagi- naw plan of selling used cars. These dealers are to be con- gratulated on this effort to learn and it is to- be hoped that in the very near future we will be able to tell the readers of Motor AcE that these men profited greatly by this visit. There is, however, one point regarding this visit that we cannot quite get right in our.minds. And that is, just why these dealers at this day should not have been better acquainted with the Saginaw plan and why they had not heard more of this plan in their own association work, cr why they had not learned more of it through their busi- ness papers. This Sagniaw plan has been quite famous over a con- siderable period and Guy Garber, credited with being the author of the plan, has written and spoken quite freely at association meetings. Much of it has been printed in the automotive papers and a number of associations in various sections of the country have taken up the idea from what the members have read and heard regarding it. We wonder if the dealers who made this trip take their own association seriously enough; if they report to this association the good things that they read and hear be- tween meetings, and if they consider association meetings the place to discuss business difficulties with each other and rely on the age old adage that in the multitude of counsel there is wisdom. The National Automobile Dealers’ Association, the state associations and the local associations are each doing a work for the benefit of the automotive industry, but they will never do their best work until the members of these associations make the association a medium of an ex- change of thought. Most local associations are not doing as much as they should because each member does not feel the responsibility upon himself of attempting to remedy the bad situations. ae # Collect the money your customers owe you. money, not theirs. BER Profit Sources GOOD many dealers are complaining that they can- not get the automobiles they want for customers. Some dealers say that they cannot get enough cars to make their establishments profitable. It is a sad situa- tion—for some. There are other automobile dealers who cannot get enough cars to make their business profitable but who are not above selling motor boats, motorcycles or even trucks. One tractor manufacturer has a dozen automotive dealers in Iowa who are adding considerable to the profit sheet by selling tractors. One motor boat manufacturer has twenty-five automo- bile dealers who are making a nice profit from his mer- chandise and incidentally they are getting some engine overhaul business for the winter months. Have you ever thought about these things? Or do you really want to make money? It is your

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3U MOW1ORK AGE May :;, 1923 April Makes Gains on March Figure Smaller Factories Increase Schedules and Bring Mark Up Shortage of Some Makes of Cars Reported; Farmers Again Enter Car Market NEW YORK, April 30—The first two weeks of April showed an increase in the production of automobiles and motor trucks of three per cent over a similar period in March, due principally to a higher schedule of operations adopted by the smaller producers. The major man- ufacturers continue to follow the level of March programs which established heretofore unequalled production marks. Little variation from the pace set at the beginning has been manifested during the month. A shortage of the popular makes of cars is reported in many distributing centers, notwithstanding some improve- ment in the rail situation, the inaugura- tion of boat service for shipments and a greater number of driveaways by deal- ers. The demand for cars has been so heavy that it has piled up orders with the major manufacturers and, in many cases, made immediate delivery impossi- ble. Parts making facilities are being taxed to make deliveries for truck builders and to keep up with the demand emanating from car producing areas. In the truck branch of the industry there are renewed signs of reawakening of interest with the consequent stepping up of operating schedules. The output of trucks has showed a steady gain since the first of the year. In January, 19,377 of these vehicles were produced; in February, 21,815, and in March, 34,593. These figures are far ahead of those for the same months of 1922 and those for January are more than double the total for the same period in the previous year. For the first quar- ter of 1923 production aggregated 75,785 as against 42,372 for the first three months of last year. This output has been readily absorbed. Agricultural districts are again in the market for motor vehicles and a steady demand is reported from commercial centers. Highway improvements, more extensive building operations and _ in- creased operations in lines of similar activity are proving an impetus to truck sales. Farm sections are carrying out the early predictions that truck interest would take a long swing in their direc- tion during the spring. The present demand and the outlook for motor busses are other encouraging features entering into augmented sched- ules at truck plants. A larger field has been developing for this type of vehicle and new outlets are being opened. Throughout the southeast, in particular, new strong interest is reported, based on the improved road conditions exist- ing in that section and the steady ad- vance being made toward a more exten- sive highway system. Indications are apparent that tire makers have built up a surplus and are lowering their production schedules grad- ually. The companies have been operat- ing on programs that, in instances, mounted to the peak marks of 1920. This has enabled them to obtain a re- serve supply to take care of immediate demand. Earl Has New Sport Phaeton With Several Improvements JACKSON, Mich., May 2—The Earl Motors Mfg. Co. has announced a new sport model to be known as the Earl Sport Phaeton. It is a five-passenger car of ultramarine blue color and trim- mings, black upholstery and disk wheels. Headlights and cowl lights are of barrel type, nickel plated. The sun shade, the top bow sockets, fenders and aprons are of baked black enamel. Nickeled radiator, trunk, nickel-plated front and rear bumpers, stop light, motor light under hood, spare cord tire, spare tube and safety gasoline shut-off valve are standard on this new car. NEW CLYDESDALE BUS CLYDE, Ohio, April 28—A new Clydes- dale bus with four wheel brakes and a six cylinder engine has just started pro- duction at the plant of the Clydesdale Cars Co. The chassis is adaptable to any bus body seating from 15 to 25 persons and it is claimed that it can be operated at a speed as high as 50 m.p.h. The bus is overgeared on the fourth speed and has a flat top frame which is 28 in. from the ground. The engine is a Continental and the other units include Brown-Lipe gearset, multiple disk clutch, overhead worm drive axle, and semi- elliptic springs. The rear wheel drums contain two pairs of brakes each, one pair operated by foot and the other by hand. UNIVERSITY SERVICE COURSE NEW YORK, April 28—Columbia Uni- versity has added a new course to the Automobile Engineering Department, this being known as Automobile Service Management. It is being held at the present time one evening a week and is intended for students who desire to go into service station or garage repairing work. It covers the underlying princi- ples which determine service station practice. The subjects covered include tool practice, time keeping and requisi- tioning of parts, parts department prac- tice, new car deliveries, shop inspection, final testing, shop foreman duties, ser- vice salesmen, estimating and routing, service accounting, service cashiering and the duties of service manager. The fee for the course is $24 plus a Univer- sity fee of $6 for each session or part thereof. : Enter: the Semi-Pullman Bus With All Aids to Comfort Pickwick Stages, Inc., California Bus Operator, Places Order for Night Service Cars LOS ANGELES, April 28—Predictions that the time is not far distant when sleeping berths will be adopted by the operators of motor bus lines are partly borne out by the announcement by Pick- wick Stages, Inc., that within three months it will put on a semi-Pullman bus service between San Francisco and Los Angeles. With this idea in mind, six specially designed bodies are being built for Pierce-Arrow chassis at a cost ranging between $11,000 and _ $12,000 each, which will provide for fourteen heavily upholstered chairs, to be built somewhat on the order of steamer chairs on each bus. The semi-Pullman busses will be pro- vided with every possible convenience. Blankets will be furnished each passen- ger, although, of course, there will be no facilities for disrobing. All chairs will be stationary and ample room will be provided between each chair. At the outset of the new service, the new type of busses will be operated ex- clusively in the night service between Los Angeles and San Francisco, a dis- tance of 455 miles. Busses will leave either city at 6 o’clock each night, ar- riving at their destination at 10 o’clock the next morning. An excess charge of $3 will be made for passage, above the regular rates of $12.85 one way and $20.50 for the round trip. At present 40 are operated by the Pickwick company between the two cities and five complete services are maintained. If this semi-Pullman service proves a success, it is the intention to install the same type of busses between San Fran- cisco and Portland, a distance of 720 miles. Over this route the Pickwick company now operates twelve busses, taking three days for the trip, driving being confined to daylight hours. The rates for the San Francisco-Portland service are $18.50 one way and $35 for the round trip. —__— G. M. S. EXPANDS ALTOONA, Pa., April 28—The General Motor Supply Co., has just added 6,000 square feet of floor space to its build- ing which gives it a floor space of 13,- 000 square feet. The company has added additional salesmen and reports that bus- iness is 40 per cent better than a year ago. Sales in central and western Pennsyl- vania are stated to be better now than they ever have been, and from the pres ent outlook it appears that 123 will prove to be the best year in ‘ie com- pany's five years of business.

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ee OS oT eC CU 4() hy a he n- 20 es, ng ‘he nd for ral 000 ild- 13,- ded us- ear syl- han res- will om- May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE 31 Figures Show Magnitude of Industry Startling Figures in Six Months, Say Ford Officials Weekly Purchase Plan Going Over Good; Factory Working at Top Speed DETROIT, April 28—Dealers’ orders for Ford cars to be delivered in May ap- proximate 300,000 cars, the company re- ports, with a total production possibility of about 160,000. In the face of present and anticipated conditions, the company expects to continue operations at capac- iy for the balance of the year, with an output for the entire year of well over amillion and a half. Sales in the first quarter of the year of 395,962 are reported the highest for any quarter in the company’s history, and an increase of 135 per cent over the same quarter last year. In the last year, the company reports, approximately 1,500,000 new cars and trucks have been placed in owners’ hands. In the face of the oversold condition of the market, the company reports the weekly purchase plan as giving retail salesmen an additional incentive for working along at top speed. With deliv- eries tied up for the present, salesmen are being urged to give all their atten- tion to signing up buyers on the weekly purchase plan. This will give them a steady flow of commissions as possession of cars is taken in the future. To the factory it means a regular run of busi- ness through the year, reducing the ex- treme rush in the early spring months. ANSTED RECEIVERS CONNERSVILLE, Ind., April 26—Ar- thur A. Dixon, vice-president and general manager of the Ansted Engineering Com- pany, and Hyatt L. Frost, member of the board of directors of the Fayette Bank and Trust Co., of Connersville, were appointed coreceivers of the Ansted En- gineering Company this afternoon by Judge E. Ralph Himelick in Fayette Cir- cuit court here, following the hearing of the receivership suit instituted by a group of four creditors last Monday. The re- ceivers gave bond of $100,000, and took Control of the plant late today. The plant will be continued as a going ‘oncern in the manufacture of automo- bile motors, according to Dixon. It is ‘tated that the firm has considerable business in prospect. CHECKER BUYS HANDLEY PLANT KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 30—The Checker Cab Manufacturing Co. of Chi- “ago, has closed a deal for the purchase : Handley Motors plant and the Dort an Body plant here. The ecker company intends to move its en- Cie witha 33. re establishment and general offices to this city, James ] Car Handley of the Handley Mo- tors Corp., said an arrangement prob- ably will be worked out whereby the Checker company will continue the man- ufacture of the Handley car, the sale of which would be directed by Handley. APPERSON BOND ISSUE KOKOMO, Ind., April 28—Apperson Bros. Automobile Co. has strengthened its financial position by successfully put- ting out a bond issue of $700,000 and three year debenture notes for $383,000, making a total of $1,083,000, which has been used in funding the company’s bank loans and materials accounts and to pro- vide a working fund for increased pro- duction. This is the first time the com- pany has interested outside capital. At the same time E. L. Apperson has been advanced to the position of chair- man of the board of directors, in charge of engineering and production, while N. H. Van Sicklen now is president and gen- eral manager, functioning as chief execu- tive. B. C. Buxton, formerly a prominent Chicago dealer, has been named as vice- president in charge of finance, while E. M. Lubeck is general sales manager. S. A. E. DISCUSSES TRANSPORT CLEVELAND, April 28—The vital need for better correlation and more effi- cient operation of transport facilities in the United States was the point stressed most strongly at the first Automotive Transportation Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers held in this city ending today. A detailed discussion of recent rear axle tests was presented by the Bureau of Standards, taxicab body construction was given attention and several other topics were mentioned in- cidentally. But the big thought that the session developed was that of getting bet- ter transportation on a unified basis. The growth of truck transportation was dis- cussed. WILSON HEADS VICTOR ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 28—Guy T. Wil- son who was instrumental in the forma- tion of the Traffic Truck Corporation six years ago has been named the head of the Victor Motors, Inc., a. new organiza- tion in this city. The company is to be incorporated of $3,000,000 and it is ex- pected will employ about 2000 men when completed. The company will specialize in three distinct types of trucks, the heavy duty, the speed truck and the taxicab and it is their aim to place St. Louis made taxicabs in all railway stations of the country. ELGIN ASSETS SOLD CHICAGO, April 30—Tangible assets of the Elgin Motor Car Corp., exclusive of building and real estate, were sold pice- meal at receiver’s sale last week for ap- proximately $75,000. The receiver is en- deavoring to sell the buildings and real estate at private sale. “Facts and Figures” for 1922 Is Ready for Distribution N. A. C. C. Declares Investment in Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Totals $1,456,649,954 NEW YORK, April 30—Facts and Fig- ures, issued annually by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, giv- ing statistics regarding the progress of the industry for 1922, is ready for dis- tribution. As compiled by John C. Long, it shows that 1922 was a record year, with 2,406,- 396 passenger cars and 252,669 trucks, a grand total of 2,659,064 motor vehicles, an increase of 60 per cent over 1921. This total includes vehicles made in Can- ada in plants controlled by United States companies. The net production figure for motive vehicles made in the United States is 2,561,000. The N. A. C. C. estimates that there is $1,456,649,954 capital invested in the mo- tor vehicle manufacturing business; that the various manufacturers bought $1,- 289,614,326 worth of materials; employed 253,105 persons and paid $395,707,531 in wages and salaries. The wholesale value of the complete car and truck output was $1,789,638,365; the value of parts and ac- cessories replacements, $380,503,024 and the value of tire replacements, $388,- 066,000. Tire and fuel figures show that 6,202,- 234,613 gallons of gasoline produced in the United States and 5,382,504,187 gal- lons consumed, of which 80 per cent was used by motor vehicles. It is estimated that 40,930,852 tire casings were manu- factured. Analyzing the truck production, Long finds that of the total of 252,668 manu- factured, 62,194 were % ton or less; 147,- 796 1-ton; 7,134 2-ton; 13,830 114-ton; 13,830 2-ton; 11,247 21%4-ton; 3,319 3%- ton; 5,718 5-ton; 1,430 over 5-ton. In 1921, 147,550 trucks were manufactured. The Chamber reports the registration of 12,239,114 motor vehicles in 1922 as against 10,464,005 in 1921. In the matter of exports the total value of United States automotive ex- ports was $125,642,852, including motor vehicles, parts, engines and tires, giving a ranking of sixth among all United States exports including materials. United States motor vehicles exported numbered 78,549, of which 67,096 were cars and 11,453 trucks. Motor vehicles shipped to United States territories total- ed 3,395 and Canadian motor vehicles ex- ported, the output of branches of United ° States companies, were 37,958. The lead- ing motor car foreign market was Aus- tralia, while Belgium was the best truck customer. The imports of motor vehicles totaled 456. It is estimated that there are 3,500,000 motor vehicles on the farms, of which 300,000 are trucks,

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32 Boston Dealers Think April Will Be Their Record Month Shines From Factories Are Mov- ing Rapidly; Used Car Threatens BOSTON, April 28—Motor car dealers in Boston expect that April will break all records for the sale of cars in this territory. Cars are coming through in better shape now than for several months. One reason for this is that a lot of ship- ments are being sent forward on the open flat cars because the weather is more seasonable. And as cars shipped this way covered only by canvas are easy prey for thieves, the railroads want to get rid of them as soon as possible to save the expense of replacing stolen attachments. From Boston, many cars are being driven over the road to places in Massa- chusetts day after day. The dealers are not bothering with closed salesrooms now on holidays, for on Patriot’s Day, April 19, all the places were open and some business was picked up. One of the noticeable effects on sales seems to be the advertising results. ° Dealers who are behind on orders in all classes reporting increase sales are in the large majority of cases those whose factories are now putting out a lot of good advertising. On the other hand, some of the dealers who complain that sales have slowed up, are found to be in the class that have not done any advertising for some months, whose fac- tories depend upon national advertising for sales, which, as far as Boston is concerned, are not being made. So big a wave of orders are flooding some of the dealers that they expect April and May will be larger than any four or perhaps five or six months of 1922, which was considered a phenom- enal period. Used cars have not been moving fast due to the cold weather. It is believed warmer weather would help sales. If they do not move the used cars soon, and prices go up on new ones, dealers who find the sales of their new models slowing down expect to get into a jam with the coming of Summer. CADILLAC CHANGES DETROIT, April 30—A number of minor changes have been made within the past few months in the Cadillac Type 61 chassis. Some of these are changes in manufacturing operations and others are slight changes in details. Transmis- sion gears are now ground to very fine limits to provide greater smoothness in operation and general quietness. The gear hubs have been increased in size. The cooling system has been improved by a finer adjustment of the thermostatic control of the water pumps. The ther- mostat valve has been changed by re- moving the spring from its top and mak- ing the Sylphon thermostat an integral part of it. The spring leaves are ground ‘across the width and the ends to mini- MOTOR AGE mize wear at the spring ends and pre- vent noise or snapping. The bodies re- main practically unchanged but a tour- ing trunk has been added to the phaeton, sedan and landau. The rear seat of the phaeton is 2 in. wider. A new type of deck chair is fur- nished as special equipment on the road- ster, and on the phaeton the tonneau light has been moved from the center of the back of the front seat to the right side. The interior fittings of the enclosed cars has ben modified slightly for com- fort and convenience. Gasoline Drops Twice in a Week at Boston BOSTON, April 27—The Standard Oil Co: and the Jenney Oil Co. an- nounced that beginning tomorrow there would be a cut of one cent a gallon in the price of gasoline. That was the second drop this week and it is now selling at 25 cents a gallon through the state. Other companies will follow suit, undoubtedly. This brings the wholesale tank wagon price to 224% cents a gallon. It was stated that the cut was due to an oversupply of crude oil from California finding its way to the markets in the East. MURPHY WINS AT FRESNO FRESNO SPEEDWAY, April 28—Tak- ing the lead in the ninth lap and hold- ing it throughout, Jimmy Murphy of San Francisco, driving a Durant Special, won the annual 150 mile Raisin Day race here Thursday. Murphy covered the distance in one hour, 26 minutes and 54 seconds. Eddie Hearne, driving a Durant Special was second and Benny Hill, winner of last Fresno meet was third, driving a McDonald Special. Earl Cooper, driving a Durant Special was fourth. Frank El- liott, driving a Durant Special, was fifth and Joe Thomas with a Duesenberg, sixth. The remaining six cars that start- ed failed to finish. The attendance was 40,000. KENTUCKY DEALERS ELECT LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 28—J. E. Kit- trell, Lexington, succeeded himself as president of the Kentucky Automotive Trade Association when the directorate met in annual session April 25. Other officers chosen were: Vice-presidents, W. A. Thomas, Louisville, and W. T. Stewart, Lexington; secretary, Geo. T. Holmes, Louisville and treasurer, Eugene Cowles, Shelbyville. Stewart succeeded E. A. Diess, Lexington; the others being re-elected. CORRECTION Last week in a news item in Motor AGE mention was made of the automobile manufacturers whose production an- nouncements indicated that they would build more than 100,000 cars this year. A similarity of sound of names caused an error. The firms listed should have read: Ford, Durant, Chevrolet, Over- land, Dodge, Buick, Studebaker. May 3, 1923 Durant Texas Representative Invades Mexico; Takes Towns Business is Much Better Than Last Year; Many Cash Sales Made MONTEREY, Mexico, April 28—RE. f, Bartholomae of the San Antonio Motor Sales Company is making an automobile tour of Mexico, visiting the principal cities, for the purpose of establishing agencies for the Durant and Star auto- mobiles. He is accompanied by F. Mar- tinez, who is familiar with the automo- bile business in this country. It is stated that on the present trip agencies will be established in Monterey, Saltillo, Tor- reon, San Luis Potosi, Durango and Tam- pico. To a certain extent these two trade emissaries are pioneering the routes of automobile travel. While the road from Laredo on the Texas border to Monterey, 150 miles, was found to be fairly good, ox-trails will have to be followed to reach some of the cities that are embraced on their itinerary. According to information received here, the automobile business of Mex- ico generally shows considerable im- provement over what it was a year ago. It is pointed out that the increase of sales is an evidence of the fact that there is still much ready money in the country and that it is being hoarded. Dealers report that their customers pay cash for the cars and that it is seldom that this is done by means of checks upon banks. The Federal Government is slowly perfecting its plans for the construction of a modern highway sys- tem. Some road construction work is now under way, but it may be some time before general improvements of this na- ture are started. MOON BREAKS RECORD ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 30—The Moon Motor Car Company has announced that on Thursday, April 19, it broke all pre- vious shipping records of the company by shipping 63 cars that day. “March sales were the greatest in the company’s history. More cars were shipped during that month than in any previous month in our sixteen years of motor car build- ing,” says Stewart McDonald, president of the Moon company. “WINGFOOT” NAME ON TIRES AKRON, O., April 30—A change in trade name from Cross-Rib to Wingfoot, applying to the Goodyear tire with the cross-rib tread design, placed on the market about ten months ago, has bee? announced by the Goodyear Tire & Rub- ber Co. The symbol “Wingfoot” is known to the tire trade and public get erally in the Goodyear trade mark. DORT DROPS YALE CARS FLINT, Mich., April 30—The Dort Mo tor Car Co. has discontinued the four and six cylinder Yale coupes ana sedans, which were priced at $1020, $1070, and $1195. rm

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at ks yon hat any rch 1y's ing nth ild- lent in ‘oot, the the eel tub- '* gel- four lans, and May 3, 1923 Heaviest Volume of Sales Ever Recorded in Peoria Some Wild Trading and Lots of “Knocking”’ by Salesmen, Are Reported PEORIA, Ill., April 27—A canvass of the vehicle and accessory dealers of this distributing center brings reports of the heaviest volume of business ever record- ed here. At a recent get-to-gether meet- ing those present practically agreed that the business for the first three months had been so heavy that they expected a slump to start in April. However, re- ports for the first half of April show a heavier total sale than the entire month in 1922 and an increase over the same period in March, with no signs of a let- up. The used car demand is very brisk and those who are “buying ’em right” report good profits. But there is considerably wild trading going on despite the excel- lent demand for cars. Predictions are freely made that some dealers here and in the county towns are selling so many cars that their used car allowances will almost certainly break them. Ford dealers in this district report an exceedingly heavy proportion of no trade sales and some of the larger dealers who conduct used car departments are below anormal stock. Coal miners are re- ported to be heavy buyers of Fords. Peoria is a heavy distributing point, some of the distributors here controlling the sales in as many as 30 counties. They report that the sales in the smaller towns are running very high and there can be no question but that the farmer in this section is buying, and buying a high- er priced car than in previous years. A serious factor in the trade in this section has been an outbreak of “knock- ing” among salesmen in the highly com- petitive list of cars. So general has this practice become that wagers on en- durance contests are being arranged. SMART HEADS MEMPHIS DEALERS MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 29—Thomas H. Smart has been elected president of the Memphis Automobile Dealers’ Asso- » ciation to succeed Owen Lilly, of the Lilly Carriage Co., who has held the post with great honor for several years. Other officers elected were: Vice-presi- dent, Jerome P. Parker; secretary, Thos. ) King; treasurer, Steve H. Butler. The | ‘sociation voted to become a division of the Chamber of Commerce, function- » Ng however as an independent unit. HAYNES CO. EXPANDS KOKOMO, Ind., April 27—The Haynes : Automobile Co., during the last seven , Months has added to its retail organiza- p tion, 35 ’ Se new addition are in various parts | “the United States and Canada. dealers and 15 distributors. Ac- 2 ee to Gilbert U. Radoye, director of . *s and advertising, the production of ® Haynes plant will make 1923 the STeatest in its history. MOTOR AGE INCREASES CAPITALIZATION NEW YORK, April 23—An increase in its capitalization from $4,800,000 to $6,- 000,000 has been made by the General Motors Acceptance Corp. in order to pro- vide for its rapidly expanding business. The entire issue is owned by the General Motors Corp. The Acceptance corpora- tion reports that the first quarter’s busi- ness amounted to $54,726,000 compared with $77,500,000 in the entire year of 1921. Stockholders Wrangle Over Fate of Northway Motors NATICK, Mass., April 25—About 1000 stockholders attended the meeting of the Northway Motors Corp., here today to settle the affairs of the company. There was much discussion, some of it in angry tones, as the affairs of the company were debated. This was due to the fact that many stockholders learned for the first time that they really had no legal say in the company’s future. A year ago, it appears, in some way or other they delegated the entire affairs of the company to five trustees appointed for life. When this was brought out many clamored for the trustees to resign, but the latter refused. Then the meet- ing chose a committee of five to obtain the trustees’ resignation, if possible, be- fore the stockholders’ meeting here next week. The trustees, who have complete, un- limited control are Judge Henry C. Mulli- gan, Stephen L. Holmes, Frank V. Noyes and Reginald Heath. Ralph E. North- way, head of the concern, was one but he resigned after April 1. Northway pre- sided at the meeting and had the diffi- cult task of keeping order. SEEK EYE EXAMINATIONS BUFFALO, N. Y., April 28—Compulsory eye examinations for motorists will be sought by optometrists, it was indicated at the session of the Tri-City Optometric society in Buffalo recently. The organi- zation is composed of optometrists in Western and Central New York. Dr. F. E. Cushing, of Niagar Falls, secretary and treasurer of the organiza- tion, read newspaper clipping telling of a motorist who was unable to appear in city court following an automobile ac- cident because he was affected with eye trouble. AUBURN PRICES UP AUBURN, Ind., May 1—The Auburn Automobile Co. has announced an in- crease in the prices of its models, effec- tive today as follows: “Supreme Six” Models Old Price New Price TINO scsi e S iss anit ears $1650 $1725 NING cetisasdlaicccsotmmnianiateuss 1895 1985 I wai cccesticticietticies 1965 2045 SORMNNID ehinussguidanisiniicnruatadatinds 2245 2345 6-483 Models "TOUTING COP nian eee 1095 1165 "FOUPING BOGBIT ccecccicceccecinss 1465 1535 CHICAGO DAYLIGHT SAVING CHICAGO, April 29—Daylight saving, when clocks are advanced one hour, goes into effect here today. 33 Detroit Sales Total 6,895 for March; Twice February Truck Sales Are 641 Compared with 387 for Last Month; Outlook Good DETROIT, May 2—Retail sales of pas- senger cars in Detroit during March to- taled 6,895, more than doubling sales for February which totaled 3,060. There was an almost even division as between open and closed models, the former being slightly in the lead by figures of 3,627 to 3,268. Truck sales for the month were 641 which compared with 387 in Febru- ary. In the doubling of business prac- tically every manufacturer showed a similar accomplishment, Ford’s part of the total was 2,839 as compared with 1,507 in February, and peculiarly for the season, Ford closed business exceeded open by seven cars. Chevrolet jumped from 386 to 1,146; 696 open and 350 closed. Star jumped from 58 to 179 and Overland from 39 to 117. In the middle priced field Buick jumped from 131 to 423. Studebaker from 153 to 387. Hupp from 164 to 316. Dodge 62 to 185. HWudson-Essex contin- ued to lead in proportion of closed to open models, Hudson showing 106 closed to 39 open, and Essex 118 closed to 21 open. Hudson and Essex each sold 51 cars in February. Willys-Knight jumped from 60 to 128 and Jewett from 62 to 138. In the high priced field Cadillac busi- ness increased from 24 to 57; Packard from 17 to 47. Lincoln 3 to 14. Locomobile and Rolls-Royce broke into the sales column for the first time this year, the former having 2 and the latter 1, Reo and Rickenbacker showed in- creases from 7 to 46, and 10 to 42 re- spectively. Oakland and Olds jumped from 37 and 21 respectively to 70 and 62. Of the truck total of 641 Ford had 430; Dodge and Reo had 38 and 22 respective- ly. In the heavy duty field’ Federal had 25, G.M.C. had 21 and Packard had 16. VETOES GAS TAX BILL DES MOINES, Ia., April 27—In spite of all predictions to the contrary, Gover- nor Kendall has vetoed the two-cent gas- oline bill passed by the fortieth general assembly. In giving his reasons for ve- toing the bill, Governor Kendal stated that such a law would be of no benefit to the farmer even though the county and township road levy were remitted. The governor suggested in his veto message that if more revenues were necessary, they be derived from a mod- erate tax on the larger individual and ~ corporation income by uncovering much moneys and credits now undisclosed to the taxing authorities. Automobile men are jubilant over the veto. Although motor trades men favor anything that will lead to better roads in Iowa, most of them feel that even now the automobile owner is too highly taxed.

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34 Citroen Sails for France; Plans for U. S. Plant Soon French Manufacturer Leaves Orders for $2,000,000 Worth of Amer- ican Machinery NEW YORK, April 25—Andre Citroen has gone back to France after three weeks in this country in which time he met prominent financiers and discussed plans for establishing in this country a factory for the manufacture of Citroen cars; visited Detroit, Cleveland and sev- eral other motor centers; met Henry Ford at Detroit; ran down to Washing- ton and discussed the labor situation with Samuel Gompers and finally placed orders for $2,000,000 worth of American machinery for his French factory, taking hack with him an engineer from each of the five companies from which he tought his new machinery. That he will establish an American factory for the manufacture of the full line of Citroen cars scemed an assured fact when he sailed for France today and it seems almost certain that when he returns within ten weeks that his plans will be completed. Thos? settied, he will endeavor to begin operations at once, with the idea of bringing out his first American built Citroens by fall and be ready for 1924. Citroen’s financial negotiations have been with the American International Corp., the $50,000,000 organization of which F. A. Vanderlip is chairman of the board, the executives of which held a banquet in honor of Citroen following his return from Detroit. After that din- ner it was given out that a Citroen fac- tory in this country is a certainty and it was stated that it would be near New York City. This statement makes it seem possible that the plant will be at Camden, N. J., where the New York Shipbui'ding Corp., a subsidiary of the American Interna- tional Corp., is located. It is known that for some time the latter has been work- ing on plans for the building of motor busses in this Camden plant and it is thought that possibly Citroen could be accommodated as well. While here Citroen visited Detroit, Flint, Toledo, Cleveland and Washing- ton and on this swing around the circle he inspected the Ford, Dodge, Buick, Chevrolet, Overland, Hupmobile and Cad- illac plants. He also placed orders for his new machinery to be sent to France with the Erie Foundry Co., the Toledo Machine and Tool Co., Young Bros., the Palmer-Bee company and the Lane Co. This new machinery will be installed by Jan. 1, he expects, which will permit him to jump his production from 125 to 250 cars a day, with the ultimate hope of reaching 500. CHEVROLET PRICE LIST DETROIT, May 2—Chevrolet Motor Co. has issued a price list on all models ‘ which establishes the prices on the cop-

MOTOR AGE per-cooled models on a somewhat lower basis than was anticipated when these models were first announced. The estab- lished price on these is roadster $580, touring $595, utility-coupe $750, sedan- ette $920, sedan $930. Discusses Flat Rate Before Peoria County and City Men PEORIA, IIll., April 25—The Peoria Au- tomobile and Accessory Dealers’ Associa- tion was host to the dealers of Peoria County last night. More than 150 dealers and salesmen were present. Clyde Jen- nings, editor of Motor AGE was the speaker. He discussed the objective and effect of the flat rate system. A. G. Thede, Velie Motor Co.; R. F. Graham, Graham-Selzer Co.; and E. R. Maleham of the Maleham-Franklin Co., were elected directors. In a call for the suggestions for activ- ities of the association for the next year, practically all of the speakers asked that some plan be devised to control the used car situation. H. B. Pinkerton, Howard Kinsey and F. C. Zillman were in charge of the meeting. LIQUIDATE MITCHELL ASSETS RACINE, Wis., April 30—Herbert F. Johnson, president of S. C. Johnson & Sons Co., who was appointed receiver of the Mitchell Motors Co., Inc., is pro- ceeding to liquidate the assets as quick- ly as possible. The plant, which sus- pended operations March 1, will not be placed in production, at least until dis- position of the property has been made in the course of the receivership and new ownership becomes effective. Appraisals are being made and schedules prepared for filing under the involuntary bank- ruptcy proceedings. It is stated that the liabilities approx- imate $4,000,000 and the tangible assets are worth $2,000,000. The effort at dis- position to be made in due time will be to keep the industry intact and avoid piecemeal sales of buildings or equip- ment. FORD FARMER MEETINGS ST. LOUIS, April 30—Farmers’ meet- ings were held by the local branch of the Ford Motor Company throughout this district each day except Sunday for the past 12 weeks with a view to bringing data to the farmers concerning their bus- iness. The meetings were held in thea- ters of each town and the attendance ranged from 400 to 3000. The territory covered included, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. The Ford Company showed the advantages of motorization of farm equipment. WARNS AGAINST ACCIDENTS ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 28—The St. Louis Automobile Dealers’ Assn., through its secretary Robert E. Lee has sent out a letter to members warning them of the danger of giving rides to children and others, pointing out the danger of claims which might be advanced in case of ac- cident. May 3, 1923 Vane at Chicago Tells of Hazards of “Wild Trading” Addresses Chicago Dealers on Used Cars; Warns Against Reckless Sales Tactics CHICAGO, April 28—C. A. Vane, gen- eral manager of the National Automobile Dealers’ Association, was speaker at the first of a series of mass meetings plan- ned by the Chicago Automobile Trade Association. More than 500 were pres- ent, the audience being made up of deal- ers and salesmen. Vane’s discussion was based upon the figures that show the average life of the automobile dealer to be 3 years and two months and the part the salesman might have in contributing to this short life. In speaking of the used car show that opened the same week, Vane referred to the need of a certificate, used for cars exhibited in the show as an evidence that the dealers of the city had not in the past conducted their used car busi- ness in a manner that would win the confidence of the public. He also said that this lack of confidence of the pub- lic in the dealer was well illustrated by the fact that there already had been a sharp demand for cars already certified by this committee. The speaker expressed the opinion that when the automobile dealer made the proper use of the discount extended to him by the factory and built for the proper confidence of the public in his maintenance and used car departments that the average life of the dealer would be much longer than at present. He declared that in his opinion, wild trading for used cars was only a means of price cutting and he predicted that if the present vogue of trading was contin- ued for the next six months, that the heavy sale of motor cars would break more dealers than in any other year. His figures showed that there were fewer failures in lean years than in good years, because there were not so many sales to lose money on by the wild trading. ‘Henry Paulman, president of the Chi- cago association, presided and C. E. Gam- bill was chairman of the meeting com mittee. GOUX IN SCHMIDT-SPECIAL INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 29—Jules Goux, best known of the foreign pilots who will invade America to compete 10 the International 500-mile dash for $50, 000 to be held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Decoration Day, May 30, has cntered a Schmidt-Special in the comins event. Goux was a member of the original French contingent that came to Americi in 1913 to compete for racing s\premac! of the world on the Hoosier oval. » couldn’t understand a single word " English but just to demonsirate that driving a racing automobile is interna- tionally common, he stepped out and took the trophy for the year. Goux® winning average in his Peugeot in 1915 was 76.92 miles an hour.

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ules lots 2 in 55 0,- otor has ning ‘inal rica nacy He dof that rna- and pux’s 1913 May 3, 1923 Scheel Not Superstitious— Takes 13 for Indianapolis Two Drivers in Other Years Wear- ing the “Unlucky Number” Lost Out INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 28—Num- ber 13—considered a hoodoo by many superstitious folks—will appear on one of the cars entered in the 500-mile dash for $50,000 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Wednesday, May 30. The mount, a Scheel-Frontenac, the fourth car of a team being built by Louis Chevrolet, under the sponsorship of the Scheel Motors Corp., St. Louis, Mo., will be piloted by Herbert Scheel, president of the company, and a wealthy sports- man, who has taken to the track to prove his principle of rotary valve motor con- struction. Number 138—always' skipped when numbers are being passed out for the cars at Indianapolis, was requested by Scheel. Last year it was to have been painted on the car the late Wally Reid was Officially entered to drive. Twice before, it was used at the Indianapolis track, but with little or no success. J. F. Gelnow was No. 13 in his Fal car in the 1911 race. George Mason piloted No. 13, a Mason, in the 1914 race, neither finishing within reach of the ten money- grabbing positions. Scheel has driven the dirt tracks for several years and previous to assuming the wheel of racing cars was well known as a speedy motorcycle pilot. He will have a relief driver, Elmer Dempsey, as- sociated with Scheel in business. Dempsey explains that “thirteen” has always been lucky for him. He cites that thirteen car-loads of St. Louis peo- ple will come here to cheer for the Mis- souri city’s entry in the big race. SPRINGFIELD PLANTS BUSY SPRINGFIELD, O., April 28—During the last week the Springfield works of the International Harvester Co. in- creased its production schedule from 25 to 50 motor trucks a day. This is Pointed to as an indication that the de- mand for these light speed trucks is in- treasing. The company is also doing a large amount of shipping. The Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Co. started Monday on a late schedule to meet the demands of the trade. The Dlant is now being operated each night until 9 p.m. Pearl A. Lewis, receiver, Says the company is doing a wonderful business; that it is way beyond his ex- bectations. The company has a general un of orders from various parts of the ‘ountry, and also orders for fleets of trucks. Production has been increased at the Dlant of the Westcott Motor Car Co. The change in weather conditions is expected to Mcrease the demand for cars. Karl ripen) Says the demand for Westcotts Pe mame brisk in the east, and con- ons are improving in the middle-west. MOTOR AGE BACK GOOD ROADS LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 28—A pledge of cooperation in efforts to further a $50,000,000 State Road Bond issue Dill was given by the Louisivlle Automobile Dealers’ Association recently at a meet- ing at headquarters. The association is now composed of thirty-five dealer members, the largest membership in its history. All the eligi- bles in the city, except two, are members, it was said. Some of the dealers in the city have not been in business suffi- ciently Inog under the rules, it was ex- plained, to become members. Tax Law Gets Jolt in the Original Tax Jolt State BOSTON, April 30—The attempt of tax collectors in Massachusetts to make every motorist pay a tax on his motor car regardless of when he bought it, got a rude jolt this week when Attorney General Jay Benton said such a tax would be unconstitutional. The tax col- lectors met some months ago and drew up a bill that was filed with the legis- lature. It got a hearing and the tax gatherers told a tale of how motorists sought to dodge taxes by selling their old cars in March and getting new ones in April. The tax levy goes on April 1, and only property owned on that day is taxable under the law. The tax collectors sought to prevent any cars being registered until the own- ers first paid a property tax to the city or town, and then got a permit from the municipal officials. The questions of the legality of the tax came up, and it was referred to Attorney General Benton for an opinion. He ruled that in order to be constitutional the bill would have to provide that the tax be at the same rate as that applying to other property, or have as the subject of taxation some- thing produced, manufactured, sold or “used in a way as affecting the public interests.” —_— BUS LEGISLATION MASON CITY, Ia., April 28—A Su- preme Court decision handed down this week prevents Iowa municipalities from passing prohibitive or unreasonable ordi- nances regulating operation of motor bus companies on city streets. The court held a Mason City ordinance in- valid when effort was made to bar the Star Transportation trucks from the city streets. The ordinance specified a $300 license fee annually for each passenger bus of more than 10 passengers, and a $50,000 bond on each bus, in addition to forbidding its operation over streets served by electric lines. The Star Transportation operated four 20-passenger busses between Mason City, Garner and Hampton, and contested the Mason City ordinance through injunc- tion proceedings. The lower court held that the city had no power to regulate inter-city traffic and that the ordinance was unreasonable and prohibitive. The Supreme Court sustained the trial court’s opinion. 35 St. Louis Dealers Adopt Code of Ethics for Business ‘Sincerity, Fraternity and Fair Deal- ings” Is Keynote of Code ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 28—St. Louis automobile dealers have adopted a “code of ethics” for the conduct of their busi- ness and will display the code on a poster in their places of business. It was adopted at the annual meeting of the association this month. The code follows: “We, the members of the St. Louis Au- tomobile Dealers’ Association, recogniz- ing in the automotive industry a field for public service, as well as personal endeavor, propose that its foundation shall rest on sincerity, fraternity and fair dealings. We believe that the dig- nity of this service demands those meth- ods of administration and salesmanship which have become standardized in the trade ethics of the older industries. “We, therefore, declare our purpose, in placing before the public the merits of our own goods, to avoid belittling our competitors or disparaging their prod- ucts. “We acknowledge our great responsi- bility as heads of our respective organiz- ations, for the trade tactics of our em- ployes, and our duty to lead the way to the right and honest transaction of our affairs. “We pledge ourselves to test by these principles the daily conduct of our busi- ness.” KELSEY PLANS APPROVED NEWARK, N. J., April 27—Judge Run- yon of the United States District Court has approved the plans for the reorgani- zation of the Kelsey Motor Co. and the officials are losing no time in getting under way. Receiver Stuart A. Young will remain in charge until the reorgani- zation is completed. Production on 100 cars will be started at once, with manu- facturing efforts concentrated on the gear car which lists at $1,150. As planned there will be no change in the name of the company or in the per- sonnel of the executives, Charles W. Kelsey remaining as president. The re- financing consists of incorporating under Delaware laws and issuing 400,000 shares of no par common stock in place of the 400,000 shares of no par common and 200,000 preferred at $10 which the old company carried. DURANT PRODUCTION AIM NEW YORK, April 28—Durant plants, working on a production schedule of. 19,500 cars for April, turned out 9,000 the first half of the month. In May it is planned to manufacture 28,600 and in June 29,950. Aiming at the coveted goal of 1000 cars per day, the Durant plants reached a high water mark of 989 on April 12. The corporation now claims 3000 dealers in the United States and Canada.

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36 U. S. Rubber Co. Has New Processes for Tire Making Informs Stockholders of Newly Pat- ented Principles for Man- ufacture NEW YORK, April 28—C. B. Seger, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Rubber Co., in a letter to his stockholders, tells them of the ac. quisition of “three new and basic for- ward steps in rubber manufacture” which have been patented by the com- pany and which are its property. These three discoveries are sprayed rubber, web cord and a new method of building and vulcanizing cord tires and Chairman Seger believes these develop- ments mean more to the rubber manu- facturer and the user of rubber products of all kinds than anything that has been accomplished in the rubber’ industry since vulcanization was discovered in 1839. Sprayed rubber is a new method of producing crude rubber from the orig- inal latex, spraying the latex into a snow-white mist which drives the water out of the latex when it comes into con- tact with pure super-heated air. As it comes from the spraying chamber, this sprayed rubber is a mass of clinging snow-white flakes and 100 per cent the pure solids from the virgin latex, it is declared. For it is claimed greater strength than the old method, containing, Segar claims, all the natural strength of the rubber from the original latex unim- paired by chemicals or the effect of ma- chine working. Web cord is a rubber-webbed sheet of cotton cords with the filaments of each cord impregnated and surrounded by pure natural rubber, doing away with all cross tie-threads and all resistants to flexure within the fabric. In webb cord each individual cord is first soaked in the natural rubber latex, which perme- ates the cords through and through, no chemical solutions of rubber being used. AJAX ELECTION NEW YORK, April 26—Ajax Rubber Co. directors were reelected at the an- nual meeting at which President Weston declared that expenses were unusually high in 1922 compared with sales because of the low price of tires. These prices, he said, were 55 per cent below those of 1920. At the end of the first quarter this year sales on a basis of the 1920 prices were more than $4,000,000. This was much higher than the sales in the first quarter of 1922, which amounted to five-twelfths of the sales in the whole year of 1922. U. S. RUBBER ELECTS NEW YORK, April 27—All the old directors of the United States Rubber Co. were re-elected at the annual meet- ing which also listened to the report of President Charles B. Steger, who declares no new financing is contemplated and stated that the company is in a sound ‘ financial condition. MOTOR AGE HOLDS SERVICE CLINIC MONTGOMERY, Ala. April 28—A Buick “service clinic’ was held in Mont- . gomery at the home of the Montgomery- Buick company by the Buick Motor Company. Dealers from Alabama and Georgia and their service managers at- tended the meeting. The Buick flat rate system was the main subject of the in- struction. Lincoln Highway and Utah Go to Highest Court DETROIT, April 28—The fight be- tween the Lincoln Highway Associa- tion and the State of Utah is going to the highest court for a decision, with | Secretary of Agriculture Wallace hav- | ing the last say. The vital question is | whether or not the “main street of | the nation” shall be built west of Sait Lake City, making it a_ transconti- nental route, or whether it shall be only a road from New York City to Salt Lake City. Austin F. Bement, secretary of the Lincoln Highway Association, _be- | lieves the fate of the great transconti- nental route depends upon Secretary Wallace’s decision. It is alleged that Utah’s objections to providing a proper Western outlet is “based on the obvious desire. to make Salt Lake City the division point of the vast volume of through traffic headed for Southern California, which, if the Lincoln Highway is abandoned and allowed to become im- passable in Western Utah, must neces- sarily turn south at Salt Lake City, traversing the entire length of the State of Utah and then following through 400 miles of the Mohave Desert, touching but a corner of Ne- vada in its journey to Los Angeles. SELDEN TO REORGANIZE DETROIT, May 1—Selden Truck Corp. will be reorganized with A. S. More as president of Denby Motor Truck Corp. to take over the new connection as soon as his successor at Denby is selected. This he declared would probably be between the first and fifteenth of May. In going with Selden. he said he had not determined upon policies he would institute, but said there was splendid opportunities in the truck field for effi- ciently organized companies and he planned to bring Selden to the front. No one will be appointed to fill the place resigned by R. H. Salmons, More said. H. T. Boulden will continue as vice president in charge of sales, and W. C. Barry, Jr., will continue as vice presi- dent in charge of production. TIMKEN BUSINESS DETROIT, April 26—Timken-Detroit Axle Co. business in the first three months of the year approximated $8,000,- 000 as compared with $3,000,000 in the first quarter a year ago, and $2,000,000 in 1921. General prosperity of. the indus- try and the signing of important new contracts indicate the company will have the best year in its history. May 3. 1928 +/sron Tire Manufacturers Have Large Surplus on Hand Production Slowed Down as Mid- Year Slump Comes Earlier AKRON, Ohio, April 30—That tire com- panies again have overproduced and haye built up an abnormal surplus of tires and that the demand for tires is begin- ning slowly to diminish is indicated by the fact that several of the major tire companies in the Akron district already are beginning to lay off a few men ata time and are gradually and quietly low- ering their daily production tickets. Records of past years show that the tire industry can usually expect a sea- sonal slump in sales about May or June or more often in July and August, but this year the spring customer demand for tires has been so unprecedented that manufacturers have claimed a _ slump period was highly improbable and pro- duction has been pushed to the limit in anticipation of a steady demand for tires throughout the summer months. Just as during the short-lived era of prosperity in the tire industry in early 1920, manufacturers this year have strained their factory forces so as to gain a maximum tire production and _ have built up finished goods inventories to a point where a surplus of tires again exists. Should there be any sharp fall- ing off in tire sales within the next eight weeks, it is stated, several of the larger Akron companies will be forced to pare their factory forces almost in two, for they already have such sur- pluses of tires on hand that the over- supply will last through even a sales slump of some months’ duration. Few Stick to Program A few of the Akron companies at the beginning of the year promised to profit by past lessons and announced that they would attempt to stabilize production and do away with the seasonal produc- tion fluctuations. They intended doing this by producing on more or less of an even keel, keeping production at a steady gait and building enough tires during dull seasons, to take care of heavier sales demands during rush periods. How- ever, few if any of them have stuck to such a program and most of them are pursuing a “hand to mouth” policy, let ting production fluctuate commensurate with actual sales. Within the past six weeks all rubber companies have broket 1920 peak production records, and have manufactured more tires than were be ing sold. With such a situation prevailing, ay diminishing of tire sales is bound 1 cause a serious slump, it is believed bY some. It is just such a situation that added seriousness te the 1920 sump for the tire companies had such a surplus of tires that it took a year to al)sorb the surpluses before production could agall spurt. a a te ot. ee ok ee

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in ll- xt ‘he ed ur- er- les the ofit jon juc- ing an ady ring vier ow- x to are rate six yken have - be- any 1 to d by that » for rplus pb the gail May 3, 1923 Portland Looks to April to Be Best Month in History Many Changes in Dealer Organiza- tions; Sales Increase of 180 Per Cent PORTLAND, Ore., April 28—Oregon is staging a remarkable rejuvenation of the new car automobile business, judg- ing from the reports of sales for the first three months of this year as com- pared with last year. During the last several weeks the market has gone ahead by leaps and. bounds and indications now are that April will be the greatest sales month in the history of the industry, at least so far as Portland and vicinity is concerned. Many of the leading dealers have reported the month of March as the greatest month in their history in point of sales, but expect April to exceed this by a comfortable margin. A report just concluded by the M. O. Wilkins automobile information service here discloses that sale of new passen- ger cars in the state during the months of January, February and March, this year, totalled 7106 cars, as against 2509 cars for the corresponding period of 1922, an increase of about 180 per cent. Together with the heavy business, there has been a considerable shifting around of the line-up of dealers, which has changed the complexion of the auto- mobile row to some extent. The latest arrival in the field here is the Durant- Steves Motors, Inc., which has taken over the Durant distribution from the Pacific Motors Co. The new concern is headed by “Cliff’ Durant and C. M. Steves of Oakland, Cal., and Steves was in Portland to superintend the opening of the branch. S. S. Paxon, formerly of San Francisco, will be in charge. The — will also handle the Peerless ine. Another change is the acquisition by the W. R. Delay Motor Co. of the Gray line. This concern will handle this light car in addition to the Velie. HAGERSTOWN SHOW HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 27—With every inch of available space taken, the first automobile show this city has ever had is being staged this week in the poultry building at the Fair Grounds. Mayor Charles E. Bowman, of Hagers- town, officially opened the affair on Mon- day night. The show has attracted throngs from many miles out of Hagerstown and indi- cations are that the results will be ex- cellent. The dealers’ association planned the show. In the neighborhood of 100 Cars are being displayed and in addition there is an excellent showing of acces- Sories of all kinds. THESE DEALERS ORGANIZE ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 28—Auto- gy accessory dealers, battery, igni- ... sarage and service men have or- Sanized an association with the object of Promoting “more friendly business rela- MOTOR AGE tions, mutual confidence and good will among its members and the establish- ment of the automotive equipment busi- ness on a firm, stable basis.” The new association is known as the Rochester Allied Automotive Associa- tion. At a meeting held last night the members decided to put on a campaign to bring into the association every one of the more than 300 automotive equip- ment dealers in Rochester and vicinity. Ford to Build Another Large Plant at St. Louis for West DETROIT, April 30—Ford Motor Co. is planning a large development of its assembly facilities in the St. Louis dis- trict, but pending the selection of a plant site and completion of preliminary details, the company will make no state- ment as to the extent of its develop- ment. The St. Louis development will rank with the St. Paul project in size and will be the next big activity undertaken. The present plant in St. Louis will be super- seded by the new factory, which will be more modern in construction and de- signed to meet the greatly increased business in that territory. SHOW PLEASES DEALERS PEORIA, Ill., April 27—-The members of the Peoria, Illinois, Automobile and Acessory Association, are well pleased over the known results of the recent show held at the Inglaterra dancing pavilion. No less than thirty-seven cars were actually sold at the show, a record never previously equalled in that city, even in the flush times of the recent war. The dealers also were impressed with the fact that the patrons of the show were not attracted by motives of curiosity or to participate in the dancing, but rather appeared to be animated with a desire to buy a car. More real pros- pects developed during the show and immediately afterwards than was the case at any previous exhibition of the kind by the Peoria dealers and they are confident that a vast amount of new business was secured and spring trade given a noticeable stimulant. ELECTRIC TRUCK SHOW NEW YORK, April 28—The annual New York Electric Truck show will be held during the week of June 4 in the show room of the New York Edison Co., at the same time the National Electric Light Association holds its convention. At the show there will be exhibits by all the manufacturers represented in the metropolitan territory. which will be held at the Hotel Commo- dore will devote one of its sessions to electric truck discussions. TO CARRY ON DETROIT, April 30—The Security Trust Co., receiver for C. H. Wills & Co., has been authorized to carry on the Wills-Sainte Claire business and make all necessary commitments to June 15. There are 500 unfilled orders on hand. The convention Wisconsin April Sales Keep Close to Last Year’s Mark Dealers Report That Sales in Most Instances Are Passing 1922 Figure MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 30—Retail sales of passenger cars in April exceeded those of the corresponding month in 1922 in almost every instance, it is found from a canvass at the close of the period of representatives of standard and estab- lished makes who have a history which makes fairly accurate comparisons pos- sible. Despite the fact that the average temperature of the month was below the normal, and around the middle of the month there was a belated blizzard, de- liveries were above the average of last year. Several dealers say that the actual number of sales made in April were just about equal to those made within this month last year, but deliveries were con- siderably larger, owing to the fact that contracts closed in January, February and March, for April and May delivery, were heavier than in the same months in 1922. In other words, selling was well distributed through months commonly known as dull, while last year contracts made in the first three months were of small volume, the demand starting early in April and running through May and June, then slowing up gradually until the end of the year. May Sales to Exceed April There is a very tangible and definite prospect that sales in May will exceed those of April and represent a material gain over May, 1922. Prospect files, after close analysis and elimination, give rea- son for this confidence. Solicitation dur- ing April revealed that a large number of prospects desire to buy new cars, but have held off because of unsatisfactory allowances on old cars. On the other hand, some sales materialized because of the upward tendency of new car prices, which would not make allowances on the old vehicle higher. The ease with which a buyer is able to get possession of a new car on the ‘pay as you ride” plan is responsible for many sales in the medium-priced car class, not alone in the low-priced class. A good many families are committing themselves to purchases on deferred pay- ment contracts who six months or a year ago were less secure as to steady in- come and ability to pay. This is due to the general employment of all classes of labor, and the tendency toward increased. wages and the stability of jobs. Acceptance companies are doing a rushing business and report that the number of failures which may require re- possessions is the smallest they have yet known, being almost negligible. This is regarded as testimony to the stability of the general situation and sustained buy- ing power and pay-ability.

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38 Chicago’s Used Car Show to Go Down as “Best on Record” Demand for Used Cars Is Brisk. as Show Gets Under Way CHICAGO, May 2—The Chicago Auto- mobile Trades Association’s Sixth An- nual Used Car Show opened April 25 to what was pronounced a record attend- ance. Both afternoon and evening, of the opening day, witnessed many inter- tested spectators and prospects slowly looking over the offerings of the many exhibits. Newspaper advertising, both by the association and the dealers ex- hibiting, has attracted wide attention to this year’s show. Chicagoans, however, are well sold on the annual used car show and look for- ward to it with a view of buying. They know that the association’s inspection plan is a guarantee that means they are going to get their money’s worth and there is little of the old-time suspicion of sypping. A new and improved brand of sales- manship is also being exhibited. Truth is the outstanding part of the salesmen’s talks. Men were heard to be discussing the used car situation quite frankly with interested people. That there has been a real demand for used cars here in the past month and that that demand is gaining daily in strength, cannot be de- nied. An advance showing of certified mod- els such as are on display at the Coli- seum, in the show rooms of the dealers resulted in a decided improvement in used car sales and in gathering pros- pective purchasers. Until May 3 (nine days) the show is scheduled to go on. Cars that are sold will be removed im- mediately to make room for others com- ing in. From $225 to $6000 is the range of prices and all are pronounced “good buys” by those looking at them. It is interesting to note how much public con- fidence the Chicago association has won at these annual shows. People look at the association’s tag and take what is on there for the last word. They listen to what the salesmen say and not one on the floor seems to be of the “looker-on” type. One of Last Year’s Cars Attracts Attention A display that is attracting wide at- tention is that of a car sold at last year’s exhibition. The car, a 1919 model, had been driven 30,000 miles before be- ing entered in the show last April. Since then it has been driven by its new owner 34,000 miles through the south and Mex- ico and back to Chicago. It is still in fair running condition and during the jaunt to the south gave very little trou- ble to its driver. Harry P. Branstetter, chairman of the show committee, says that this year’s show cannot help being counted as the best on record. Thirty-three members ' of the association are exhibiting cars and MOTOR AGE all are well pleased with the early re- turns. Something akin to a _ scarcity threatens if the demand for used cars continues at its present high rate. Peo- ple at the show, as well as in outlying districts, are buying 1922 used cars with little or no hesitation. One dealer who a month ago had a vacant lot filled with used cars now has but three remaining, and these, he de- clares, he would not sell as he is going to rebuild them and put on new bodies. Everyone at the show is “on their toes” and looking out. Salesmen know that people who are there are there to talk business and can be sold a car if the one at their exhibit happens to strike the prospect’s fancy. Columbus and Ohio Sales Run Good, Used Cars Poor COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 28—Distrib- utors and retailers of automobiles in practically every class in Columbus and central Ohio territory report sales of new cars fully up to the records of the past month and in many instances above it. There is not any appreciable falling off in demand in any way with the pos- sible exception of the highest priced which are showing a slight hesitancy. All other lines, including the cheaper cars, the medium priced vehicles and the bet- ter grades of automobiles are moving well. One of the worst features is the fact that used cars are not selling as well as formerly and this may have a tendency to slow up business in new cars to a certain extent. Used cars are accumulating to a cer- tain extent and some sacrifices are be- ing made to dispose of them. Relative to used cars, the closed models are sell- ing the best by far and thus the open car is the glut in the used car market. Cars selling between $800 and $1500 are having the best demand, with the ex- ception of the cheaper lines. Closed cars average about 40 per cent of the sales and open models about 60 per cent. But in certain lines the per- centage is different and more closed models than open models are being sold. There is practically no stocking of cars in this territory, as dealers are having difficulty in getting sufficient cars to take care of the trade. Oountry districts which have not been the best are show- ing up slightly better, as farmers are more prosperous. USED CARS SOLD AT AUCTION BALTIMORE, Md., April 28—Fox Mo- tors, Inc., local distributor for the Cole and associate Hupmobile dealer, recent- ly sold 22 used cars at public auction. This was in the nature of an experiment which according to Louis Fox, president, was entirely satisfactory. Twenty-two cars were sold to a crowd of about 300 bidders. Prices brought by the first two or three cars were rather low, but after that bidding was more spirited. Fox has stated that he will endeavor to have all dealers in the city unite in a huge auc- tion sale of used cars. May 8, 1923 Labor Shortage Is Felt at Wisconsin Automotive Plants Demand for Equipment and Cars Brings Production Up to Rate MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 30—The sit- uation of the automotive industries in 4q]| its ‘phases has settled down to the point where the shortage of labor is a dom- inating factor, for it is discouraging ex- pansion of production fully justified by the insistent demand, particularly for units, parts and equipment. Without a supply of labor to draw from, and no immediate basis for hope of any im- provement in this respect, the strong temptation to enlarge shops to better meet requirements of customers meets strong resistance. So far as passenger car manufacturers in this district are concerned, demands from distributors and dealers are in ex- cess of the ability to make and deliver vehicles. In nearly every case, distrib- utors are asking for more cars than con- tracts specify. Unofficial announcement already has been made by several con- cerns that they will not attempt to go beyond the schedules of production of passenger cars fixed at the beginning of the season or the year, for the 1923 pro- duction period, notwithstanding the fact that sales are running considerably above these limits. This note of caution has been sounded as well in the parts and equipment in- dustries locally. Some of these concerns say they have a demand for anywhere from 25 to 75 per cent more volume than their present facilities and available la- bor supply makes possible. There are two main reasons why there is no dis- position to enlarge shops to provide ad- ditional capacity which current trade would absorb readily. One is that skilled men are not available and common labor is going into outside jobs at premium wages offered by contractors, making it useless to attempt to man increased pro- duction area. The other is that manu- facturers are unwilling to build up 4 relatively vast amount of new capacity which later may become as a white ele- phant on their hands, which was an ex- perience of three years ago. TRACTOR RECEIVES BOOST DES MOINES, Ia., April 30—The trac- tor business has received another boost if figures recently obtained by the extel- sion department of Iowa state college 0 the cost of keeping horses are correct. Investigators found that the total yearly cost of keeping six horses on farms o approximately 160 acres amounted 1 about $600. The net cost per horse was found be $99.21. During the year, each hors worked on an average of 723 hours. Fis: uring on the basis of a ten-hour work day, the average cost was $1.37 per 4a) or 13.7 cents per hour of actual work done. ie se i a te eae = -4

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—«<«£ C. S. Hoben, formerly connected with the Ford Company of Canada, Limited, has been appointed sales manager of Studebaker Corp. of Canada. Hoben succeeds W. G. Palmer, who has re- signed. Harry U. Sharp has been appointed sales man- ager of the Marmon-Philadelphia Co., <distrib- utor of Marmon cars, 847-849 North Broad street, Philadelphia. J. H. Masterson has been promoted to sales manager by Herbert Bros., Chandler and Cleve- land distributors, Philadelphia. James A. Sterling has been appointed retail sales manager. The company has just removed to its new building at Broad and Master streets. George F. Wright has been appointed manager in charge of the wholesale division, by the Kirby-Davis Co., North Broad street, Philadel- phia, distributor of Anderson and Liberty Sixes. Wright formerly was vice-president of the Sea- board Sales & Service Co. Harry Dobles has resigned the position of service manger at the Packard branch in Spring- field, Mass., to accept a similar position with the Packard-Rochester Motors in Rochester, N. Y. The office of president of the Springfield Automotive Service Assn., made vacant by the departure of Dobles, has not been filled. H, F. Fahrenkrog, president of the St. Louis Automobile Dealers’ Assn., recently elected a member of the St. Louis, Mo., School Board, will address the Safety Council of that city on co-operation of public school authorities with the St. Louis Safety Council. Colonel Fred Cardway, formerly vice-president and general manager of the Packard Motors Ex- port Corp., has been appointed director of ex- ports for the Haynes Automobile Co. His headquarters will be at 342 Madison avenue, New York City. Harry B. Marshall, president of the Marshall Electric Company of 3225 Locust street, which recently moved here from Chicago, said he has placed 16 Marshall constant potential battery charging systems in use in St. Louis. Marshall, before engaging in his own business, was for approximately ten years St. Louis manager for a battery concern. Charles B. Shanks, formerly with the Snod- grass-Gayness advertising agency of New York City, has been elected vice-president of the Zim- mer-Keller agency of Detroit, and placed in charge of the Cleveland office and handling the Cleveland Tractor Co. account. Stanwood A. Morrill of Boston has been ap- pointed district sales maanger of the Haynes Automobile Co., his territory taking in St. Louis, Little Rock, Kansas City, Denver and Oklahoma City. Morrill comes from the Toledo Scale Co. and prior to that was district manager for the Tyer Rubber Co., traveling Oklahoma, Texas and California. Thurman W. Holloway, who has been in charge of the school for technical and mechan- ical construction conducted by the Cadillac Mo- tor Car Co. at its factory, has returned to his lormer position as assistant technical manager with Ernest C. Garland. William H. Holmes, whom he relieves, has undertaken special duties Mm assisting Lynn McNaughton, general sales manager, and Jay W. Dunivan, manager of dis- tribution, E. G. Vestal has been appointed western dis- trict manger of Corduroy Tire Co., with head- quarters in San Francisco. He was formerly general western manger for Madison Tire & Rubber Co. and was general representative of Racine for four years. W. P. Loveless has been advanced from sales manager of the William H. Johnston Manufac- turing Co., of Chicago, to the position of assis- tant general manger. He is succeeded as sales manager by C. B. Johnston, who has been east- ern representative of the company for the past year. Frank J. Mooney of Detroit, for the past fifteen years associated with the industry as factory executive and later in the advertising agency business where he handled such important ac- counts as Studebaker, Firestone and Oldsmobile, has formed the Kelsey-Mooney-Stedem agency in San Francisco, taking over the business of the Advertising Service Co. The new company will handle only national and sectional business. Paul P. Martin, formerly of the Green-Fulton- Cunningham agency, has been appointed assis- tant advertising manager of the Michigan State Automobile School of Detroit. Frank Warrington has been appointed sales manager of the Denby Motor Truck Corp. War- rington, several years ago, was assistant sales manager and service manager of the Denby com- pany, going from those positions to affiliation with the Defiance truck, following which he joined the Republic forces. Now he is retiring to his old company. William L. Johnson, president of the Johnson Automobile Company in St. Louis, Mo., dis- tributor for the Ford and Lincoln cars, was elected director of the Grand Avenue Bank of St. Louis. Raymond B. Lawton, former partner in Lawton & Co., Rockford, Ill., grocer, has disposed of his interests to join the sales force of the Auto- motive Sales Corp. He will handle the Maxwell car, according to Ira Bell, the corporation’s head. R. R. Safford, formerly of Fort Wayne, has been appointed manager of the S. F. Bowser & Co., of Texas, with offices in Dallas, to succeed L. P. Murray, who has resigned to enter a dif- ferent line of work. Safford has been connected with the Bowser company for some time and was recently manager of the Minneapolis branch of the concern. R. G. Conklin, salesman, has been appointed manager of the Minneapolis branch to succeed Safford. I. D. Bone of Minneapolis will be Conklin’s assistant. Fred Crosby has been appointed production manager of the Wayne Tank and Pump Com- pany, effective at once. Crosby fills the position made vacant by the resignation of B. Sayles. Charles S. Dahlquist has returned to his former connection with the Timken-Detroit Axle Co. Dahlquist will cover for the Timken company the central territory including Michigan, Ohio, West- ern Pennsylvania, Canada and part of New York state. A. B. Hance, formerly covering the Northwest territory for the Cuno Engineering Co., of Meri- den, Conn., has been appointed general sales and advertising manager for the company, which manufactures the Electric Match and other elec- trical automotive products.

Barley Puts Out Many Taxi Cabs; Is Known as Pennant KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 30—The Barley Motor Car Co. has gone extensive- ly into the manufacture of a taxicab called the Pennant taxicab. A number of these have already been delivered to operators and are in use in some of the larger cities including New York. The ‘ab has been designed entirely for taxi Service and does not resemble in any particular either the Roamer or Barley » SX passenger car. ae the special features are an 8- - frame, boiler plate running boards ) “Nd disk wheels. A number of standard 4 are used, including a Buda 4-cyl- “d engine, 3%x514, Modine radiator, a 3-speed gearset, multiple disk ch, Splitdorf aero type magneto igni- tion, Columbia axles, Blood Bros. uni- versal joints and propeller shaft and a Reed steering gear which has been espe- cially developed for taxicab service. The body is made of kiln dried hard wood which is covered with a compound of creosote before being metalled with 20-gage rivetted sheet steel. The uphol- stery is in brown Spanish leather and the standard equipment includes a dome light and heater. The carbureter is a Zenith with feed from a Stewart vacuum tank and a 16-gal. tank on the rear of the chassis. The wheelbase is 115 in. SALON CALLED OFF NEW YORK, April 28—The Spring Salon scheduled for the Hotel Commo- dore May 13-20 has been called off for this year. It is planned however, to hold the annual Salon in the fall. Rollin H. White Heads New Company to Make Rollin Car Cleveland Tractor Plant to Make Light Weight, Under-$900, Automobile

CLEVELAND, April 24—A new passen- ger car designed by Rollin H. White, for- mer vice-president and chief engineer for the White Motor Co., in this city, and for some years president of the Cleve- land Tractor Co., will be put on the market. It will be manufactured in the plant of the Cleveland Tractor Co. The car will be a four-cylinder and will sell for less than $900 list, and it will be made by the Rollin Motor Co. The $5,000,000 plant of the tractor plant is equipped to swing into produc- tion of the new car at an early date. Directors elected were: Rollin H. White, R. T. Hodgkins, R. T. Sawyer, E. E. Allyne, Fred W. Goakes, R. B. Tewksberg, Warren P. King, E. W. Moore, Joseph H. Champ and E. R. Smead. Stockholders of the Cleveland Tractor Co., at their annual meeting here, di- rected that a contract be entered into with the newly organized Rollin Motor Co., for a lease of the plant of the trac- tor company and as soon as possible to begin quantity production of the new car. The Cleveland Tractor Co. will not lose its identity under the new arrange- ment except that the Cletrac tractor and Rollin car will be made by the Rollin Motor Corp. At the stockholders’ meeting, White and R. T. Hodgkins, vice-president and general manager, stated that the more than 800 Cletrac dealers would readily absorb more of the car product than could possibly be produced. Hodgkins stated that from ten distributors’ terri- tories he already had received dealer ap- plications aggregating orders for 8000 Rollin cars. The Rollin has several interesting fea- tures in design, such as spring construc- tion which makes for a _ three point frame suspension. In tests it took all stunt hills near here on high and at ex- ceptional speed. REPUBLIC RUBBER EARNINGS NEW YORK, April 30—Republic Rub- ber Co., Youngstown, Ohio, reports sales for first quarter 1923 show increase of 54% over first quarter 1922. March, 1923, sales show increase of 52% over February, 1923. This is larg- est month in net sales since October, 1920. Automobile tire department working to capacity—3 eight-hour shifts. Sales new stag truck tire show great need for solid-pneumatic tires in truck business. Demand for mechanical rubber goods unusually heavy, last month company shipped to South Africa one of the larg- est belts ever made for conveyor instal- lation.

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MOTOR AGE BUSINESS NOTES The Royal Palm Rubber Co. has been organ- ized and incorporated at Kelsey City, Fla., with a capital stock of $100,000, and plans the con- struction this spring at that city of a plant for the manufacture of tires. Daily output of the factory at the outset will be about 50 finished tires, according to C, F. Laughlin, of Salisbury, N. C., who heads the company as president and manager. The Kleiber Motor Truck Co., which estal- lished a southern branch plant in Atlanta at Peters street, about two years ago, and whjfch has been operating the plant steadily ever sifice, is preparing to close the branch and will remove the entire equipment to the parent factory at San Francisco, Calif. The Camel Chemical Distributing Company of Dallas, Tex., has been organized for the pur of manufacturing and distributing a battery soly- tion. F. L. Suber has been named general sales manager and The Nash-McLarty Motor Com- pany Dallas distributor. The company will operate in four states. The Canton-Akron Trackless Coach Co., of Canton, O., has been chartered with an author- ized capital of $50,000 by H. A. Staley, Andrew Nickas, Sergey Novoskolsky, Alexander H. Slavin and Eva E. Schuster to buy, sell, lease and rent passenger automobiles. Erd Engineering Co., of Cleveland, has been chartered with an authorized capital of $25,000 by A. J. Blackford, H. S. Erd, Mrs. E. B. Green, Mrs. Louise L. Loller and C. A. Loller to manufacture and deal at wholesale and retail automobile accessories, equipment and parts at 6715 Carnegie avenue. Hillsboro & Cincinnati Bus Co., of Hillsboro, O., has been incorporated with a capital of $4,000 by I. L. DeHaas, B. E. Holladay, A. D. Moorhead, John T. Ridgeway and Pearl H. Miller, to own, maintain and operate an auto bus line. Obenberger Forge Co., Milwaukee, has in- creased its capital stock from $200,000 to $400,- 000 to accommodate the growth of its business. Steps to liquidate the business of the Wiscon- sin Top Co. of Racine, Wis., have been taken by creditors. It is believed that a dividend of at least 10 per cent can be paid on claims. The assets are approximately $350,000 and the liabili- ties $230,000. Milwaukee banks have claims of $80,000 and Racine banks, $20,000. Superior Tool & Die Co. is the name of a new Milwaukee corporation organized with $20,- 000 capital by a group of expert tool and die makers formerly connected with large shops locally, who are establishing a new plant and will specialize in products for the automotive industries. The principals are Casimir Janis- zewski, 881 Fifth avenue; Edward Biskupski and Ben Kosmatka. J. G. Hewitt has opened a tire and tube shop at 2034 Harney street, Omaha, Nebr. D. L. Taylor, of Omaha, Nebr., has purchased the Maggard Battery station and will be known as Taylor’s Battery Station, 1121 North 18th street. A. B. Huddleson and A. Scott, both of Beatrice, have opened an auto paint shop at Fairbury, Nebr. Laurel Hammerback, of Crofton, Nebr., has purchased the Hilfiker Battery Station. The new shop will be known as the Hammerback Tire Shop. George Weiser & Son, of Shelby, Nebr., has purchased the Hartson & Hayhurst, also the Overland business and will run the new shop under the name of George Weiser & Son. . O. Norris and N. B. Teal, Forrest, IIl., have sold their garage and sales agency on Main street, to Emmons Spencer and Samuel Haab. The new owners plan some extensive enlarge- ments. Roy Henderson and H. N. Davis, Decatur, II1., who have been operating the H. & D. garage, have filed a petition in bankruptcy. They listed liabilities at $4869 and assets at $1655. Northern Finance Co. has been organized at Green Bay, Wis., with $100,000 capital to handle the large volume of automobile paper now going into outside banking centers. The principals in the new enterprise are J. H. Tayler, Smith, C. W. Lomas and L. J. Peterson. R. W. Furnas, Brownville, Nebr., has been ap- pointed Durant-Star dealer of his territory. President James H. Foster of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Co., Cleveland, O., has announced “Our directors have decided not to take part in the three-cornered consolidation of Detroit Pressed Steel, Parish and Bingham and Hy- draulic Pressed Steel Co. We have made ar- rangements for necessary financing and will con- tinue to operate alone.” The companies men- tioned have resources of $30,000,000 and make automobile frames. . u (Wis.) Automotive Dealers’ Associa- ti as been reorganized and conducted a show at Rothschild Pavilion on April 27, 28 and 29. There are thirty-one members. Frank Morgan is chairman of the show committee. Northern Transit Co., of Akron, O., has been incorporated with a capital of $10,000 to own, maintain and operate passenger and freight bus lines. Incorporators are William L. Stouffer, Edna E. Hart, Mary I. Stouffer, Lawrence F. Cunningham and C. H. Smith. Washington Motor Co., of Middletown, O., which is now located at Eaton, O., has pur- chased a site here for the erection of a modern plant for the manufacture of Washington cars. Moline Body Corp., of Moline, Ill., makers of automobile bodies, has extended its plant to a full capacity production with 500 employes on a 55-hour week schedule. The plant is com- pleting 65 bodies a day and orders on hand guarantee continuance of this schedule until August 1. A. E.* Hageboeck, manager of the Frank Foundries, Moline, Ill., has announced program of expansion for the factory which will give 14,000 sq. ft. additional floor space and repre- sent an investment of $20,000 in the plant. Capacity of the plant will be increased from 20 to 25 per cent and the working force advanced from 75 to 100. Coreroom, foundryroom, new carpenter shop, fireproof vaults and _ storage houses are included. Ott Rubber Company of Dubuque, Iowa, re- cently organized for the manufacture of inner tubes for tires, has purchased 2.8 acres at Rail- road avenue and Salina street from Dubuque for $10,500. It is announced that work on the factory will be started within a short time. Fichten Traction Lug Co., of Davenport, Ia., has been incorporated to manufacture and sell motor vehicles, tractors, and other devices with a capital stock of $10,000. It will develop pat- ents along mechanical lines and, it is announced, expects to open a factory in this city before the summer. Robert C. Anthony is president and treasurer and Frank M. Fichten, secretary of the organization. Court Avenue Garage at Fourth and Court streets, Memphis, Tenn., is quite active. They are in the very central district of the city, and do a general business of storage, washing, pol- ishing and the handling of oils and gas. Bennett’s Auto Laundry has opened on Mon- roe avenue, Memphis, Tenn., a short distance from Fourth street, and is thoroughly modern. It is owned by a new Memphis corporation of young business men. Pharis Tire & Rubber Co., of Newark, O., has completed the installation of a new Palmer Bee system of curing which has increased the capac- ity of the plant about 1200 casings daily. The company was organized in 1912 and the officers at that time still guide the destinies of the com- pany. Moller Motor Co., of Lewistown, Pa., manu- facturer of automobile bodies, will remove its plant to Hagerstown, Md. The company has purchased ground there, fronting 1000 ft. on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, and the first build- ing will be finished on July 1. The Hastings Body Works of Philadelphia is completing sev- eral different types of bodies for the concern. WHITE HITS GREAT PACE CLEVELAND, April 29— White Motor Co. business for the first quarter of the year showed an increase in orders of 78 per cent and an increase in truck de- liveries of 67 per cent over the first quarter in 1922, according to an an- nouncement made by officials of the com- pany. FORD PLAN FOR TRACTORS CHICAGO, April 30—The Ford five dol- lars a week plan announced recently by the Ford Motor Co. has been extended to cover the purchase of Fordson tractors. Cards issued by dealers on the new plan have been made to read that any model Ford car or the tractor can be paid for under the plan. Milton_ May °;, 1923 “Asks Em to Buy” $22,000 Worth of Tires in Texas ‘Small’? Dealer Proves That He |; Not as Small as He Looks \SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 30—*Ask ‘em to buy.” That is the secret of the phenomenal tire business done by H. C. S. Smith of ray Pao during March. He specializes in Firestone tires. Smith sold $22,164.54 worth of tires in/March. He sold 630 passenger car tires at retail prices and in addition dis. posed of 228 truck tires at regular re- tail figures. During the first fifteen days of April his tire business was greater by a con- siderable amount than it was for the whole month of April in 1922. And Smith was still “asking ’em to buy” and they were buying. In addition to “asking ’em to buy,” per- sonally, Smith asks ’em through the daily newspapers. He asks ’em through per- sonal letters. He asks ’em over the tele- phone. He asks ’em when they visit his place. He asks ’em when he meets them at luncheons. He asks ’em on the street. In fact, he asks ’em wherever he finds them. Smith’s idea is to sell tires. He believes he would sell but few if he did not ask people to buy. Smith backs up his claims for the tires. He makes ’em do what he says they will do. He uses no flashy or in- possible advertisements. He just tells ’em he’s selling tires that wear and when his tires do not wear he makes ’em good. Smith expects to continue “asking ‘em to buy” and he expects his total business this year to reach $250,000. BUSINESS IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, Md., April 29—Unprece- dented business marked the first quarter of 1923 with most of the Baltimore deal- ers. Many of them declare that they did the best business in the history of their firms, not even excepting the peak year’s in industry when large salaries were be ing paid. The improvement is not confined one class of cars but covers the highest and lowest priced ones and practically all in between. The dealers are elated over the business and are pulling hard for it to continue. DURANT BANK PLANS NEW YORK, April 30—In a statemel! to his stockholders W. C. Durant out lines his plans for the launching of b's new bank which is to have 300,000 stock holders. He is not yet ready to 4 nounce the personnel of the bank or its name, but a significant paragraph de clares that no loans will be made to oft cers or directors of the bank or to any companies with which these officers ” directors are connected in any manne This is interpreted to mean that Duratl will not finance any of his automobilé units through the bank.

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nal | of iZ0S ires car dis- pril On- the . to per aily per- ele- his hem ‘eet. inds did the says tells yhen ood. em ness ece- urter leal- r did their ears > be- d to rhest cally lated hard melt out: f his tock- » ale yr its 1 de ) off: » any rs of nnel. uratl sobile J. Bryan_Yetter and Clarence Wright have opened a ‘Motor Inn” at Fountain Green, IIL, and will handle auto supplies and accessories in connection with their garage service. Carol Miller of Macomb has purchased the Wright Motor Co. in Fountain Green and taken pos- session. ‘ Carl Obrecht of the Obrecht Motor Car Co., Fort Madison, Ia., has established the Obrecht Reo Co. in Burlington, Ia., at 115 North Third street. It will be the first Reo agency in this city. Otto J. Behrens has taken over the Federal truck agency in Davenport, Ia., and his company at 1511 Harrison street will be known as the Otto J. Behrens Federal Truck Co. He will conduct a parts and service department. S. & S. Motor Company, Rock Island, IIL, has been incorporated with $10,000 capital stock to deal in automobiles and accessories at 3115 Fourteenth avenue. The incorporators are D. J. Strauch, Frances E. Strauch, Simmons and Kathryne M. Simmons. Edson and Feray have taken over the retail sales agency for the Chevrolet automobile in Houston, Tex., and vicinity. In the new ar- rangement Theodore Bradlow becomes vice- president and manager of the company. Garford Motor Truck Company, of Lima, Ohio, has appointed the Autry Service Garage, of Dallas, Tex., distributors for North Texas. L. K. Autry is proprietor of the concern which will distribute the trucks in North Texas. O. L. Miller is sales agent. Eagle Garage Company in Jamestown, N. Y., has bought the plot of land on Washington and Tenth streets adjoining the repair shop of the garage company, and will erect a two-story tile nts to provide more space for auto repair work, W. M. Armour, district manger for the Re- public Rubber Company, announced that he had closed a contract with the Lafayette Tire Co., of 1625 Lafayette avenue, St. Louis, Mo., to handle the Republic tire agency for that city. Wilson Motor Car Company has leased a new building at 2921-2929 Locust street, which will have a frontage of 110 ft. The Wilson Company is local distributor of the Haynes and Dort cars and it has occupied a portion of the building since 1917, A southern branch office has been opened in the Healey Bldg., Atlanta, by the Durant Cor- poration, with Walter Johnson, formerly of San Francisco, in charge as manager. Carolina Reo Motor Co. has been organized and incorporated at Columbia, S. C., as distrib- utors in the Columbia territory of the Reo car. The capital stock is $20,000. Standmore Watson, of Columbia, in the automotive business for some years, heads the company. _ Franklin Motor Car Co. was organized and incorporated the latter part of April at Mobile, Ala, to act as agents for the Franklin car in the Mobile territory. The capital stock is given at $12,000, and the company is headed by F. H. Cranston. Nash Motor Car Sales Company has been or- ganized at Decatur, IIl., with Joseph Riggs as manager, and has opened a sales agency at 241 South Main street. Constant & Groves, Springfield, Ill, have leased the new building, for ten years, just com- pleted at the corner of Fourth and Jackson Streets and will be distributors of Hupmobile, Chandler, Chevrolet and Franklin cars in the Sangamon county territory. The new structure 1s 60 by 210 ft. and ranks with the finest of the kind in the capital city. The firm has been located for many years at the corner of Fifth and Edwards streets. Armory Garage Company has been organized at Danville, Ill., with J. B. Johnson as man- ager, and will distribute the Stearns-Knight car in the Vermilion county territory. Howard H. Smith, Danville, Ill., has opened a Sarage and sales agency at 120 North Walnut Street, and will distribute the Stutz car in the Vermilion county territory. Myers & Putnam, Danville, Ill, have taken the distribution of the International Harvester Motor truck in the Vermilion county territory He have opened a sales agency at 117 North azel street hav alley Motor Sales Co., of Youngstown, O., oe incorporated with a capital of $25,000 wit uy, sell and deal in auto parts and acces- RM iby George N. Burckhalter, M. L. King, - Maiden, Jr., Arthur Morgan and F. C. Keith. snntron Oakland Co., of Akron, O., has been Corporated with a capital of $10,000 to buy, IN THE RETAIL FIELD MOTOR AGE sell, deal and repair automobiles and motor vehicles by D. W. Alexander, Grace Alexander, A. J. Alexander, Nona A. Reed and M. R. Reed. C. M. Gassner and L. H. Meeker have secured the franchise for the distribution of Apperson cars in central and western Iowa. A service station and salesroom will be maintained at 1419 Locust street, Des Moines, Iowa. Hook & Herriott, agents for Dodge and Hud- son cars at Bedford, Ia., have started the erec- tion of a new building on South Court street, Bedford. The garage will be a one-story build- ing of hollow tile. Cole Westervelt-Wasson Auto Company has been organized to distribute Cole cars in Iowa. The new firm has quarters at 1429 Locust street, Des Moines, Ia. James J. Pender will erect a new garage in Pittsfield, Mass., to accommodate Barritt’s Garage and the Hebert Auto Radiator Works. The building formerly occupied by these con- cerns is to be rebuilt, and in the meantime they will be quartered in Gregory’s Garage. Sherman Auto Co., Cumberland, Wis., dealer in the Studebaker, Durant and Star, has opened a branch in Almena, Wis., in charge of C. S. Johnston. Michel Langenfeld, Marytown, Fond du Lac county, Wis., has been appointed distributor of the Delco-Light, pumps, etc., for most of the county and has opened a sales and service head- quarters at 14 Western avenue, in Fond du Lac. Amundsen & Wahl Garage, Blanchardville, Wis., has been dissolved, Ben Wahl taking over the interest of R. A. Amundsen and continuing the business. Badger Auto Co., Stevens Point, Wis., has been incorporated with $10,000 capital by N. L. Jacobs, J. K. Turzenski and R. A. Jacobs. Charles Klundert, Galesville, Wis., has plans for a public garage and repairshop, 50x95 ft., costing about $12,000. Arthur W. Hass, formerly proprietor of the Little Chute (Wis.) Motor Inn., has filed a bankruptcy petition showing liabilities of $1214 and assets of $935. T. W. Meiklejohn Co., Fond du Lac, Wis., Ford dealer, has opened a complete radio de- partment and has an exclusive Wisconsin dis- tributing franchise for the Mu-Rad line. Frank M. Yordy has been appointed manager of the department. Shadbolt & Boyd Iron Co., 129-131 Sycamore street, Milwaukee, a large distributor and jobber of automotive equipment, will build a new ware- house, 150x225 ft., at Dousman and Lee streets, to replace the building destroyed by fire recently. George Forrand, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., has been appointed Reo dealer. C. Manthus Motor Co. 216 Sheridan Road, Kenosha, Wis., will build a one-story brick and steel garage and repairshop, 60x120 ft. Gill Bros., 214 West Washington avenue, Mad- ison, Wis., have plans for a three-story fireproof garage and service building, T-shaped, 64x264 and 44x132 ft., estimated to cost $80,000 com- plete. Arthur M. Gogin, Red Granite, Wis., con- ducting a garage and service business, is a vol- untary bankrupt with liabilities of $40,127 and assets of $51,155, of which $41,510 represents real estate. Auto Service Sales Co., Clintonville, Wis., is a new $20,000 corporation organized by Robert R., Aaron C. and Franklin B. Haase to deal in new and uséd cars, render service, etc. Finkler Motor Co., 962 Island avenue, Mil- waukee, is having plans made by H. B. Kam- schulte, consulting engineer, for a_ three-story garage and service building, 60x150 ft., at Third and Wright streets, estimated to cost $60,000. John VanderVaart, Sheboygan, Wis., will re- model and enlarge the present Sheboygan Opera house into a four-story garage, service shop and apartment building, 60x120 ft., at a cost of $50,000. Work will begin June 1. Frendle Bros., Medford, Wis., will build a new garage and repairshop costing $22,000. Field Motor Co., Rice Lake, Wis., has incor- porated for $50,000. T. H. Field, Ray C. Peck and Thomas W. Quinn are the incorporators. William F. Bureske, Madison, Wis., has been granted a permit to build a $40,000 public garage and service building at 2808-2810 East Washing- ton avenue. J. H. Lawwill of the Motor Mart Automobile Company, of Springfield, O., has closed a deal by which he has leased a tract of ground in East Main street for a filling station and gas- 41 oline storage tanks. The site is 63 by 210 ft. Tracks will be laid from the Big- Four railroad so that there will be excellent rail facilities. A new company will be organized by Mr. Lawwill to operate the business, he states. Perdue Motor Sales Co., 5308-10 Broadway, Chicago, has been incorporated with a capital of $10,000 to manufacture and deal in automo- biles and motor vehicles, etc. Modern Auto Sales Co., 308 N. 15th street, Herrin, Ill., has been incorporated with a cap- ital of $10,000 to do a general garage business. Handy Accessory Mfg. Co., 105 Main street, Peoria, Ill., has been incorporated with a capital of $2000 to manufacture and sell automobile supplies and accessories. P. A. Bair of New Martinsville, W. Va., has been appointed dealer for the Auburn car. Brook-Wyatt Motor Company has been ap- pointed dealer in Uniontown, Pa., for the Auburn car. F. L. and A. J. Watson have been appointed dealer for the Auburn car in West Monterey, Pa. Victoria Auto Company has been appointed dealer for the Auburn car in Fredericktown, Pa. McClellandtown Auto Co. has been appointed dealer for the Auburn car in McClellandtown, Pa. Brookville Auto Co. has been appointed dealer in Brookville, Pa., for the Auburn car. Clifford Hilkert, of Logansport, Ind., has taken the distributorship for the Auburn car in that territory. National Auto Sales Company, 1324 Broadway, has taken over the distributorship in Denver, Colo., for the Auburn car. Oakland-Lakewood Co., of Lakewood, O., has been incorporated with a capital of $15,000 to buy, sell and deal in automobiles. Colonial Tire Sales Co., of Canton, O., has been incorporated with a capital of $5,000 to buy, sell and deal at wholesale and retail in - tires and tubes. Dixie Motor Sales Co., of Cambridge, O., has been chartered with a capital stock of $50,000 to deal in motor vehicles, accessories and parts. Lima Automobile Tire Dealers’ Association of Lima, O., has been organized here with a_mem- bership of 20. The president is R. A. Conroy of the Lima Tire & Supply Co., and the secre- tary and treasurer is O. L. DeWesse. A resolu- tion was adopted whereby the association will co-operate with newspaper advertising mangers in the preparation of advertisements to prevent the publication of misleading advertising. B. S. Hayes has been appointed dealer for the Auburn car in Fairhaven, Vt. John F. Steel Motor Co., 915 Northampton street, Easton, Pa., has been appointed dealer for the Auburn car. Young & Finney Motor Sales, 11347 Cottage Grove avenue, has been appointed dealer for the Auburn car in Chicago. New Orleans Fashion Show Has Big Attendance; Prizes NEW ORLEANS, April 29—More than 10,000 persons attended the Elks’ Auto- mobile Fashion Show held at the Fair Grounds race track early this month. It was said to be the largest crowd at- tracted to a similar event in this city. The show is an Easter classic of long standing in New Orleans, and it has be- come almost a custom of the city. Lincoln cars entered by the Jarreau Motors Co., won two first prizes out of four classes, and one of these entrants also won the grand prize of the show. A Lincoln touring car won the cup in its class, and the grand prize, while a Lincoln limousine won the cup in the enclosed car class. A Studebaker won the cup in the roadster class, and the sport model class cup was won by a Dodge. More than 100 cars were entered in the show. But few of these, however, were official entries of dealers. Most of the entrants were private, but dealers of these cars were enthusiastic.

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42 HUAN AENEAN a Tiuayyittl « Aligning Rods on a Tapered Crank Pin Q—Explain in detail the best way to line up connecting rods and piston with aligning tool and without. A, claims that the aligning tool is of no use if the crank pin is tapered. B,° claims it will not change it, if the bearing is fitted first on the crankpin then lined up. A, also states that the small end of the rod should be between the piston bosses and not nearer to one side. B, states that it does not make any difference if the rod does not en the boss.—M. D. Vail, Schenectady, The aligning of connecting rod bear- ings should begin with testing of the crankshaft. If the crankshaft crank- pins, are not eccentric and not tapered, it is not necessary to line the rod after it has been aligned in a jig. However, if the bearing has been scraped to a crank- pin that is tapered, there is a possibility that the rod when tested on an aligning jig will show an out of line condition. The correct way then to align any con- necting rod is first to test it on the align- ing jig after the crankshaft has been tested and then to give it a final testing when the rod is installed on the crank- shaft. The test with the rod installed on the crankshaft may be made with an ordi- nary try square mounted on a flat sur- face. “B’s” contention that it does not make any difference if the rod does not touch the piston boss is incorrect, as it is advisable and necessary that the small end of connecting rod have at least .010 clearance between the bosses. The ideal condition is to have the small end midway between each boss, with about the same clearance on each side. The absolute center position between the bosses is not absolutely necessary and as long as the small end does not touch the piston boss at any time during the revolution of the crankshaft, the rod may be called O. K. for alignment. MAGNETIZING FORDSON MAGNETO MAGNETS WHILE IN ENGINE Q—Give method of recharging magnets in a Fordson tractor without taking them out of the engine.—Illinois Subscriber. The terminal of the magneto is located at the left side of the engine, but, due to the iron of the transmission housing, it is practically impossible to get a definite compass reading for the purpose of set- ting the flywheel properly. One of our readers has worked out a method which can be used wifh success if the operator is very careful. This method involves removing the spark plugs so that the engine may be turned over easily by hand. A 6-volt battery is then used with the positive end con- EADERS CLEARING! (Questions E-Answers or Dealers Poblems MOTOR AGE PU The Readers’ | pee department is conducted to assist dealers and maintenance station executives in the solution of their problems. All questions are answered direct by letter, so the name and address should be given in full. This saves waiting for the answer to be published, which sometimes occurs several weeks late, depending upon the space available. Readers’ names will not be pub- lished with articles, if a request to this effect is received with the letter. Inquiries not of general interest will be answered by personal letter only. Emergency questions will be replied to by letter or telegram. Also state whether a permanent file of MOTOR AGE is kept, for many times inquiries of an identical nature have been made and these are answered by reference to previous issues. Addresses of business firms will not be published in this department but will be supplied by letter. Technical questions answered by B. M. Ikert, P. L. Dumas and A. H. Packer; Legal, by Wellington Gustin; Paint, by G. King Franklin; Archi- tectural, by Tom Wilder; Tires, by a Practical Tire Man; General Business questions, by MOTOR AGE organiza tion in conference. Clearing House nected to the magneto terminal. The op- erator now places his ear near the fly- wheel housing and at the same time flashes the negative lead of the battery against the frame of the tractor. While doing this he has a helper turn the en- gine over slowly. When the flywheel is properly set there will be a strong attraction between the magnetic effect of the current and the magnets themselves, so that there will be a noise or hammering sound every time the wire is flashed against the frame of the tractor. When in the wrong position there will be no such sound. When the position is reached where the noise is the loudest it shows that the flywheel is properly set. The battery should then be left connected to the mag- neto terminal and three additional bat- teries connected in series with it. Flash- ing this 24-volt string of batteries to the frame of the tractor some 10 or 15 times will then properly magnetize the mag- nets very strongly May 3, 15923 KOUSE UAT AU Competitor’s Constant Potential Charging Sys. tem Gets His Business Q—We are having a lot of trouble with old batteries that will not take their charge as they should. We have been using a 32 volt generator run with a gas engine and some of these batteries we have charged for 100 hours without any results. After the gravity of the acid came up to a certain point it would rise no higher. Another garage here has one of those constant potential 8 hour charging outfits and we took a couple of these batteries over to them and the next day they brought them over fully charged. Why is it that they will charge the battery so much quicker? We have tried discharg- ing and adding new acid without much result. Hope you can help us out on this problem.—Evart Garage, Evart, Mich. The constant potential method of charging a battery does the work in less time because the battery is permitted to take a very heavy rate of charge, say 40 or 50 amperes at the start, and auto- matically tapers down as the battery be- comes charged. It is quite possible, however, that some of your batteries that will not come up are defective, that is, the active material is washed off of the plates or the sepa- rators are shorted. If you had a high rate discharge tester you would be able to detect such batteries and save the trouble of charging them when they need overhauling. There is no reason what- ever why your continuous charging at low amperage will not bring up the bat- teries in time, assuming there is nothinz wrong with them except that they are discharged. Your statement in regard to dischars- ing a battery and then adding acid, shows that you are not familiar with bat- tery repair work. Acid should never be added except after the battery has been charged to the point where it gases freely for two or three hours. Then if the gravity is tested and found to be low, it is permissible to take out some of the solution and add acid until the gravity is brought up to 1280 or 1300 in all cells. We would recommend your getting 4 good battery book and studying it care- fully. Probably you have noticed “Bill Fixit’s Return,” but did you ever stop to think how many of the very ques- tons put to the Clearing House are | answered by this “juice expert”? If | you will turn to page 15 of this issue | he will give you a lot of information | about charging batteries. —=

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE 43 Building for Sales, Shop and Painting Q—-We are enclosing herewith a sketch for a location of a garage and we would thank you to look it over and make a suggestion for a building. The size of the lot is 125x115 ft. We would like you to send us a plan. We would like to have the following departments: Shop to work eight mechanics, battery charging, paint shop, showroom for four new cars, acces- sory and stockroom and floor space for 100'cars. We would like a plan showing the shop on the second story of the rear of the building and a separate plan show- ing the shop on the main floor.—R. A. Smith, Santa Fe, N. M. A—On account of the odd proportions of this lot it has been very hard to de- sign a building that would be econom- ical of floor space and at the same time well laid out architecturally and efficient. It is practically impossible to arrange for space enough to garage 100 cars unless three-quarters of each floor is given over to that purpose. As laid out there is space for 99 cars when cars in the shop and paint shop are all counted in, 4 to 6 cars on the display floor and 3 receiving quick service, would make a total of 108 altogether. Garage spaces 50 ft. in width are the most economical, but here, dividing in two either way makes the space too wide. For the sake of uniform construction Wwe have placed a row of columns through the center the long way of the building. These columns extend up through and support the roof trusses. The other columns are for the support of the second floor only and are placed to facilitate car movement and storage. In a two story building there is not *nough light on the first floor for shop =e purposes, so we will not consider your request for a plan with first floor shop. Another consideration is that if you use your first floor as shop space it will be necessary to transfer all the storage to the second floor and that will necessi- tate raising every car. Second floor storage is unpopular with the motorist and a first floor dark shop is unpopular with the men and tends toward inferior work. These two reasons offset any ad- vantage that may seem pertinent. The positions of the car display and accessory store might be reversed, but we think it is more advantageous to get the accessories and parts as close as possible to the quick service depart- ment where customers are waiting for adjustments. No one who drives a car can wait around in or near a well equipped store without seeing several things he wants and which he will buy’ if he has the money. ECCENTRIC COMMUTATOR KILLS GENERATOR OUTPUT AT HIGH SPEED Q—We would like to know what causes a Northeast generator on a 1917 Dodge to charge from 5 to 8 amperes when the car is running from 10 to 15 m.p.h. and then charge nothing when the car runs faster than that. We have tried holding the cut- out point together, but this makes no dif- ference. We also have trouble due to the lights flaring up and the bulbs burning out at times.—A Subscriber, Galion, Ohio. If the subscriber would give us his name he would get an answer much quicker than by waiting for an answer in the magazine. The trouble with the gen- erator is doubtless due to the fact that the armature has been turned without 7 - 18 CARS MC AGE k Bee ee an a er a ere eee eee ee ae i) GARAGE AISLE | FOR ROBERT A SMITH GARAGE SANTA FE, NLM. it FEET. 5 10 20 30 49 § = j--~------— —--— ------ —----- aia e---- er ns a I2 CARS 2 CARS ; 4 CARS é supruiks ' 1 i 2 —_ # PRIVATE TTERY © FINISHED CARS ‘a 2 pa i esaRcinc " = PARTS - ‘ MACHINE ee EQUIPMENT [| 4-----~--~~—-—---- s —} =o |r . “OnFiCe ‘ein fr -£& DIMBWAITER met} 4 « x 2£ REPAIR s +S . SHOP oun SHOW ROOM i a ee eee en ee ee ee ge a ee 3 or i | 1 I2 CARS IN REPAIR ! t p [ nsession ies irae ee emanate diel i ! ee | >| a er a a SECOND FLOOR being carefully centered, so that the commutator is eccentric. At high speed this causes the brushes to fly off of the commutator at times so that the machine will not generate. The remedy is to turn the commutator by mounting the arma- ture so that it rotates in its own bear- ings. ; This, of course, is not a simple job and requires a man expert in using 2 lathe. It is also possible that the third brush and even the other brushes may not work freely, or that the springs are a little weak so that any slight eccen- tricity is exaggerated as far as the effect on the charging current is concerned. The cause of the burning out of the lights is in a poor connection between the generator and battery. If the motor generator never gives any trouble as far as starting is con- cerned, it eliminates some of the con- nections. However, if the lights go out when starting button is pressed, it shows poor connection at the battery terminals or at the ground connection. If the starter action, however, is all right, then there may be a connection between the No. 2 terminal on the starter switch and the ammeter. It is also possible that there is a poor connection inside the ammeter. The am- meter and this one wire to the starter switch cover the range of possibilities. You will probably find a loose connec- tion the source of your trouble. This inquiry is dated February 5 and is answered February 6, but may not be published for a month or so, so that the reader is delayed in getting information, due to failing to give his name. —_———— ens . Architectural Service I giving architectural advice, MOTOR AGE — to assist its readers in — problems of station” building and equip ing, maintenance filling ms, garages, dealers’ establi ents, shops, & stations, and, in fact, aay ments, neces- to automotive activity. =. When making request for assistance, please see that we have ali the data necessary to an intelli- gent handling of the job. Among other things, we need such information as follows: Rough pencil sketch showing size and shape of plot and its relation to streets and alleys. What departments are to be operated and how STRATES AS A GRIME ST SERRE: RSPR IRC PAE POSE I large it is expected to be. Number of cars on the sales floor. Number of cars it is expected to garage. Number of men employed in repair shop. How much of an accessory department is anticipated.

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44 Rotating Gap for Synchro- nizing the Sparks Q—I am sending you a rough sketch of a rotating spark gap which I have made. The aluminum ring is insulated and cali- brated in degrees and is stationary. The steel pointer rotates and is grounded. A high tension lead is run from the center of the distributer plates to the aluminum ring. The object of the apparatus is to dteermine if the sparks are synchronized and also to measure the advance and re- tard and lag, if any, at various speeds. In operation, however, I find that the spark jumps the magneto safety gap and occasionally at “A” rather than at “B” unless I hold this gap to 1/32 in. or less. Why is this? I first used a pointed with a sharp edge and beveled the inner per- iphery of the ring to a knife edge. Later I ground the end of the pointer round, which materially increased the distance that the spark would jump. Beyond this point, however, I have been unable to progress. 1— You have shown the ground sign that is three parellel lines each one shorter than the other, on the rotating pointer and also on the magneto. We wonder if you have made a connection between the stand on which the magneto is mounted and the stand on which the rotary gap is mounted. It is necessary that these two grounds be connected together by a wire unless they are on the same metal stand. It is also possible that you are using a leather coupling so that the base of the, magneto is really insulated from the rest of the ground or stand of your rotary spark gap. If this is not the case then we have no explanation to offer except the effect of the high tension lead and the insulated ring to act somewhat as a condenser and absorb a certain amount of the energy in this way tending to prevent a spark at the rotary gap. We believe that in general it will be found that the spark prefers to jumpj at the safety gap or somewhere on the magneto rather than jump a somewhat smaller gap after go- ing through considerable length of cable. You will probably find a similar condi- tion on the car in case you remove a ia PLATE HOLDING CLIP ® \ HIGH MOTOR AGE spark plug wire and hold the terminal near the engine. Bosch B-6 Magneto 9 “ Explain how the rotor of the Bosch B-6 magneto is fastened to the distributer shaft and the function of the small screw in the top of the rotor. Also advise how the rotor is timed with the interrupter. 2—The magneto to which you refer is used on Chandler cars and is a con- ventionel magneto except that the distrib- uter looks like a battery interrupter. The interrupter is of the standard type at the opposite end of the magneto from this vertically mounted distributer. On top of the vertical shaft there is a sort of collar or coupling set and this is held on with a screw to which you refer. The top of this coupling has a ridge in it which meshes with a similar depres- sion inside of the rotor or distributer arm. This fixes the location of the rotor or distributer arm with respect to the shaft. In assembling the magneto it is nec- essary to mesh the spiral gears which drive the distributer shaft so that the distributer arm will be opposite a seg- ment when the interrupter contacts just begin to separate. This is necessary in both the retard and advance position of the interrupter. Accordingly it will be necessary to have the distributer arm just beginning to come in line with the segment when the points open in the advance position and farther along the segment in the retard position. Coil Analysis and Testing 3—Show sketches of various standard coils and proper connections thereof.— Walter N. Patterson, Yellowstone Park, Wyo. 3-—It is much more essential to be able to test out an unknown coil and know how to connect it than it is to have pictures showing the proper connections. Most ignition coils have the terminals marked as to whether a wire should run to battery, switch, interrupter or other ‘connection. On practically any coil you can look at the terminal and tell which ENSION LEAD STEEL POINTER a ALUMINUM RING GAP ATA % CAP AT B KL MAGNETO SAFETY GAP Ve POINTER ROTATES AT ARMATURE SPEED #700963 Reader’s method of checking magneto on rotary gap May 3, 1923 one goes to the center of the distributer, It is usually at the side of the coil or at the center and often is constructed differently being designed to take the rubber insulated wire. The next point to determine is whether the secondary is grounded to the base plate or to the primary winding. This can be done with a 110 volt test line with a lamp in series with one lead, If from the high tension terminal to the base plate you can get a faint spark with the test point it shows that the base plate should be grounded or connected to the engine. Otherwise you will find a faint spark from the high tension terminal to one of the other terminals and this means that the coil is designed for a grounded system. You can then find the primary winding because the 110 volt lamps will light up when the proper terminals are touched. If there is one other terminal which appears to have no connection it is one end of the condenser. You will then find the condenser is from this ter- minal either to the base plate or to one of the primary terminals. The test for this is to use your 110 volt line and while it is connected to the terminals where you think the con- denser is located make a short circuit or contact across these terminals. A sharp snappy spark like the noise of a whip being cracked indicates you have located the condenser. It is well to make a sketch of the coil and as you locate each winding or the condenser draw it in on your sketch. When you have finished you will prob- ably find one terminal which is con- nected to the primary and also to the condenser. This should be connected to the interrupter. The other end of the primary should be connected to _ the ignition switch and the other end of the condenser should connect to ground. If you will follow these rules you will hardly be able to make a mistake in connecting upon ignition coil. The most common mistake on a coil of this type is to reverse the connection of the primary winding. This gives you battery current to the contacts all right but connects up the condenser in the wrong place. The remedy is to reverse the primary connections so at to get the condenser connected across the contacts. TUNGAR RECTIFIER NOT SUITABLE FOR CHARGING FORD MAGNETO Q—We would like to know if it i possible to use a 10 battery type Tungar rectifier for recharging a Ford magneto in the car. If this is possible, please ad- vise the exact method of connecting. we can use the rectifier it wil! suit us much better than using several six-volt batteries.—N., H. Vanstavern, Sinks Grové W. Va. 1—The Tungar rectifier is not suitable for this purpose, as it does not deliver enough current. Four 6-volt batteries will send approximately 50 amperes through the windings of the Ford mag neto, while a rectifier will send but 6 You can accordingly see that the effect would be weak and practically no benefit would result.

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ng ht re al on rill er- 110 to on- uit A fa ave Oil the ch. ob- on- the | to the the the will . in The this the tery but rong the the acts. BLE 0 't is ngar rneto > ad- @ If 2 it us -volt rove, table sliver eries peres mag- ut 6. effect enefit May 3, 1923 Clutch Shifting Collar May Cause Gears to Clash Q—We have trouble with a clutch on a 1919 Hudson Super Six chattering when changing gears. I have replaced the old plates with new ones. Print a cut show- ing the construction of the clutch and order in which the plates are inserted when assembled.—F rank Dierkes, Chicago, Ill. Ciuteh Pedal” usted wo there is 4 inch al an bottom of Toe Plate. Adjust here conjunction with Cluteh Pedal Stop. A If sufficient throw-out cannot be obtained thru the adjustments, an earlier separa tion of Clutch Discs can be ob- tained by placing «3/32 inch wash t bi i ot ray roto} eof eefer This Stop is provided for the t bat pedal does not hit toe plate 1 move farther up thru Toe Plate. Showing Cluteh fully disengaged. +2 Clutch assembly on 1919 Hudson Assuming that the clutch has been properly assembled, clashing gears, in most cases will be found due to trouble at the clutch shifting sleeve or collar. This clutch shifting sleeve acts as the clutch brake as well. A lack of lubrica- tion at this point, or worn thrust wash- ers in this shifting collar are generally the cause. The result will be that when the clutch is released the braking effect is tremendously increased and the clutch Plates will therefore stop revolving im- mediately. The momentum of the car of course keeps the gears revolving and the result is a terrible clash when shifting. We would suggest that you pay particu- lar attenion to this point and see that the grease line is entirely clear. Quite a number of cases have been found where the trouble has been caused bya leak in the grease tubes, and when this condition exists the grease just leaks out of the tube onto the street instead of ong to the shifting sleeve. Assuming that the clutch collar, thrust washers, etc, are in good condition, it is always Well when turning down this grease cup to lift the clutch pedal up by hand, which Will relieve the clutch collar of any pres- Pit and allow the grease to go through teely. The Hudson recommendation on stease is Whitemore’s grease or crude Petrolatum, MOTOR AGE To make this clutch shift quietly, it is also necessary that the stop which is provided for the purpose of limiting the amount of down travel of the clutch pedal should be set properly. The best method of setting this is as follows: First allow the engine to idle slowly, then move the shift lever so that the gears are just touching and the grating sound can- be heard. The shift lever should then be held in this position and the clutch pedal slowly pressed. The exact moment at which the clutch re- leases can then be found, as the slight grating noise ceases at this point. The clutch pedal stop screw should then be set so that the clutch pedal will still have an approximate % in. farther travel downward. The construction of the clutch and the clutch throwout pedal and stop adjustment are shown in the accom- panying sketch. CHARGING OUTFIT MADE FORD GENERATOR Q-—We want a little advice on operation of generator and battery. We are build- ing a little charging plant using a Ford generator which we run with a small gas engine. It works all right charging 6 volt batteries. At what ampere hour should we charge the battery for an hour or so at a time when the battery is around half charged or better? Should we charge more than one battery at once with this outfit? We wish to give the battery as much current as it will stand so we will not have to run the engine any longer than necessary. How much should the rate be when the battery is down to 1150? —Hunter Brothers, Peever, S. D. The speed of the generator should be about 1500 r.p.m. and the third brush should be set so as to charge at about 10 or 12 amp. The charging current will vary somewhat, due to the way the third brush happens to be fitting the commutator and due to changes in tem- perature and variations in conditions of battery charge. The limiting factor is the heating of the generator and for continuous opera- tion this means that 10 or 12 amp. is the greatest charging current you should use. You can charge a 12-volt battery by charging half of it at a time. You can, however, charge two 6-volt batteries by connecting them side by side, both positives being connected together and both negatives. The 10 or 12 amp. out- put of the generator, however, will then be split up, going half to each battery, if they are in similar condition of charge or discharge. The 10 amp. rate may be a little too great for a finish charge and will cause excessive gassing and may overheat the battery. It would, accord- ingly, be well if you have two batteries to charge, to first charge one and then the other up to the gassing point. then put them in parallel and charge them to- gether for the finished run. Your use of the term “ampere hour” is incorrect. The charging rate is meas- ured in amperes. For example, if the meter shows the charging rate to be 8 WITH A 45 amperes and you charge for 7 hours, then you have put 8 times 7 or 56 ampere hours into the battery. STICKING STARTER MAY BE DUE TO REVERSED GEAR ON FLYWHEEL Q—We have been having trouble with a 1920 Ford starter, although everything appears to be in good condition. Once in a while the starter gear will get stuck in mesh with the flywheel and the only way to get it loose is to remove the sheet metal cover over the Bendix and hammer the pinion out of mesh. Advise what,to do to overcome this condition.—James Vos, Zeeland, Mich. We do not recall having. such a com- plaint in regard to the starter on Ford cars. It accordingly occurs to us that possibly some one has had the engine apart and removed the magnets and pos- sibly put the flywheel on backwards so that the chamfered end of the tooth is turned forward instead of to the rear. In the illustration shown the correct location of the ring gear is given. As the start- ing motor begins to operate the pinion turns in a right hand or clockwise direc- tion as seen from the rear of the car and at the same time starts to move in the direction of the flywheel. As it does this there is a faint chance of the end of the tooth striking the end of a tooth on the flywheel but the chance is very slight so that it practically never hap- pens. This is due to the correct chamfer which allows the flat side of a pinion tooth to drive the flat side of a tooth on the flywheel. ——— eee ee ee es ar ENGINE 1 jMOTOR| 1 — rt FLY WHEEL | QUUTTU UU * 10006. Correct chamfer of flywheel teeth on Ford When the Bendix drive was first used the mistake was sometimes made of meshing the gears too close and it was later found that a loose or sloppy fit with possibly 1/32 in. back lash gave best results and prevented the possibility of the teeth binding on end. While we have no recollection of this complaint before on Ford cars it is a possibility that the starting motor meshes too tightly and if there is no trouble with the. flywheel it might be well to see if the starting motor can be raised a trifle. This might require filing out the opening through which the starter shaft is in- serted when the motor is put on. It might also involve filing the four holes in the end bracket so that the starter can be raised a bit and the screws tightened to hold it in that position. 4

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46 Allis Chalmers Electrical System on Seneca Q—We have in our shop a 1920 model Seneca that uses an Allis-Chalmers single- unit starting and lighting system, and on this system we cannot make the generator work. The generator itself seems to be in perfect condition and the starter works all right. The relay also seems to be in good condition, also the connections are “Oo. K. We would like to have a wiring diagram and any suggestions you can give for overcoming the trouble.—Tipton & Tipton Garage, Chadbourn. N. C. As. the starting motor is working it shows that the armature and brushes are probably in good condition. We would accordingly suggest your checking the field circuits and by referring to the diagram you will note that one end of the field winding is connected to the heavy or series winding which in turn is grounded. Checking the other end of the field winding we note that it goes to a terminal marked FLD. and then goes across to another terminal marked FLD. From this point the circuit goes through a pair of contacts on the regu- lator relay, these being the regulating contacts. Across these contacts we then trace to the frame of the regulator and through the fuse back to the right side of the starting switch which is connected to the positive dynamo brushes. The first possible cause of trouble that occurs to us is that the vibrating contacts are burnt and dirty and do not make good contact with each other. You can tell this by inspection and might try running a file between the contacts to clean them up and then adjust the spring tension so that they make contact. Another way to test is to remove the wire from the field post and connect it to positive dynamo. If this small wire is flashed against the dynamo plus term- inal you should get a spark with the machine running. If you do not it is quite likely that the field circuit is open. You can make a temporary test with this field wire permanently connected to dynamo plus. Then if you wish you can MOTOR AGE make a test by running the engine and at the same time holding the cutout contacts in the relay together. If the generator is in fairly good condition this should cause the ammeter to show charge. With the field circuit previously tested failure to show charge would now indicate armature trouble. LEAKY PISTON, LOOSE BEARINGS AND MAGNETO DEAD Q—Rush us your version of how to eliminate following trouble on a Ford roadster: This car stopped while driving along the road and we finally got it firing on one and two. It then went dead and has been dead ever since except when at- tached to a storage battery. We could only get a spark from the magneto to engine block by grounding the magneto wire to the engine when try- ing to crank on magneto. Some of the pistons are leaking badly. The space be- tween magnets and field coil varies, being in some places % of an inch and in some places it drags. There are loose bearings in this engine. Would attaching a stor- age battery to the magneto post of such a car demagnetize the magnets, and how long would it take to do so?—A Texas Subscriber. From your description we would say that the car in question needs rebuild- ing or at least a very thorough over- hauling. The condition of the main bearings will affect the operation of the magneto as the rear main bearing cap holds the crankshaft in its proper loca- tion and maintains the proper air gap between magnets and field poles. You can accordingly see that you can get no satisfactory operation from the magneto as long as the bearings are in bad condition. If the pistons are leak- ing badly you should have the cylinders checked to see if they are out of round or unduly wdrn and if so it might be necessary to have the cylinder block re- ground and new pistons and rings fit- ted. You should also have the main bearings taken up and properly adjusted, preferably by some good Ford service station. Then when you have the bear- ings in good condition and a new rear main bearing cap installed you can ad- DYN + MOTO, GENERATOR STARTING J S om os m | AMMETER & ie § = Ea | {|+— | = ie 5 x | > | t-—p ‘ IGNITION —_—_—* SWITCH LIGHTING SWITCH DAs LAMP @® @ Sl ace RELAY-REGULATOR IGNITION COI es Wiring diagram of 1920 Seneca May 3, 1923 just the air gap between the magnets and the magneto to approximately 1/39, Less gap than this may be used, just so the magnets do no drag on the field poles. Answering your question as to the storage battery would say that there js great possibility of demagnetizing the magnets unless you are very careful. We are sending you by separate letter in- structions for remagnetizing the magnets in the car. After you have put the ep- gine in good condition and remagnetized the magnets, believe you will find the operation O. K. We might also suggest that when you have the engine apart you examine the field coils very carefully to see if the insulation is rubbed off, and, if it is, the coils should be removed and carefully taped up. MAIN BEARINGS ON 1913 BUICK Q—We have a model 30, 1913 Buick roadster and want to take up crankshaft bearings, especially the end bearings. The engine in this car is the same as in the model 31 touring model of the same year. Tell us how to go about this job, also give us sketch or illustration and how to take the crankshaft out.—Leroy Stuckey, Paris, Stark Co., Ohio. We do not believe that a sketch will be necessary to enable you to remove this crankshaft. The first step is to re- move the engine from the frame. After taking down the oil pan, remove the front gear case cover and take off the gears from the crankshaft and camshaft. The front bearing bushing is solid; that is, it is not adjustable, and is pressed into the plate in the front end of the crankcase. The two rear bearings are the conventional split adjustable type. After removal of the gear and the two bearing caps at the rear, you can with- draw the crankshaft toward the rear. It is recommended that these bearings be fitted with a little more clearance than would be given to the ordinary splash lubricated engine, .001 of an inch di- ametral clearance is recommended espe- cially at the front solid bushing. SMOOTHING BODY WORK Q—What is the best method and ma- terial to use in smoothing up a body that has been straightened up after a wreck and shows hammer marks and small in- dentations?—E. R. Stockwell & Son, Me- chanicsburg, O. The usual procedure in smoothing Up a body that has been hammered 0 bumped after repairs is to fill the de- pressions with solder and then file this solder down to the level of the surround ing metal. It will be necessary of course to give the body panel a coat of acid t0 clean it so that the solder will adhere. An indentation deeper than 1/16 of a0 inch is never repaired in this manner. it is always first bumped or straightened so that only slight unevenness results. a 8 #8 Many maintenance men say that the trac: tor, truck and passenger car specification published each week by MOTOR AGE ae alone worth the subscription price. 1% will find them on pages 51 to 56 inclusive.

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ck ft he he ur, sO By, rill ve re- ter the the aft. sed the are pe. Lwo ith- a be han ash di- spe- ma- that reck ine Me- Eup 1 or . de- this und- purse id to here. yf a nner. tened ults. » trac: cation E, are You sive. May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE Balancing Rotating and Reciprocating Weight of Connecting Rods 27 ™hRaeaaeavww = 9 Q—I have a Continental 7W engine and wish to lighten the connecting rods by drilling them to make them lighter in weight. Just how will I get the rods bal- anced right at both ends In the January 18, 1923, issue of Moror Ace you spoke about balancing connecting rods on a knife edge on one end and using a spring balance on the other. Explain exactly how this is done. I wish to weigh the upper or reciprocating end separate from the lower end and, of course, also wish to heve the rotating portion bal- anced.—_North Dakota Reader. 1—The illustration given shows a method of using two spring balances for © checking the weight of connecting rods. It is, of course, possible to use only one ~e at OAS WM 7%? @wa A Heoewrnre 9 © spring balance and support one end on a knife blade_in order to weigh the other. The method with two spring balances, however, would be a little easier and somewhat more accurate. The rods should be checked up so that the large ends are the same within one-quarter ounce and the upper ends should also weigh the same within one-quarter ounce. It would also be well if the total weight of the rods did not vary more than 1% ounce. Material should not be removed by drill- ing but may be removed by filing or mill- ing the web and also the outer portion only to the extent of smoothing up the surface. DIFFERENTIAL ADJUSTMENT ON DURANT Q—How do you get the correct adjust- ment on ring gear and pinion on the Du- rant 4? The outer ends of the shafts are carried on tapered roller bearings which fit tapered ends of shafts with adjustment for end play. Is the thrust of differential carried on these bearings? ‘The adjustment of the ring gear and Pinion on the Durant rear axle is accom- Dlished in exactly the same manner as on any of the conventional type of three- quarter or full-floating axles. The bear- ings at the outer end of the axle hous- ing have nothing whatsoever to do with the adjustment of the differential and are used to carry the axle driveshaft and retain the driveshaft in the differential and axle housing. No thrust of the dif- ferential carrier is taken by these bear- gs, as the inside or inner end of the ae have a splined end which is free 0 move in the differential carrier. “on play shows up every 2000 or re Miles on right side. If we continue 7 ake up on right side won’t that change Ng gear and pinion adjustment? 2—If the left side bearings have not worn or loosened, you will not change the adjustment by adjusting the right- hand bearings. The differential carrier should not require adjustments as fre- quently as you have made them and we would advise that you thoroughly inspect both bearings of the carrier and see that locking devices are in working order and that the bearings themselves are not worn. Also, be sure that when you make an adjustment that the right-hand bear- ing is brought up against the carrier, because in many cases where the gears are meshed very deeply the ring gear may be bearing against the pinion in- stead of against the right-hand bearing. 3—Suppose both outer bearings were removed and put back how would you know where you were at on ring gear and pinion adjustment? 3—-The outer bearings have nothing to do with the ring gear and pinion adjust- ment, and are used to carry the axle shaft and to maintain the axle shaft in the differential carrier. If the outer 47 bearings are removed, it is advisable to measure from the end of the axle hous- ing to the end of the axle shaft on each side and see that each shaft protrudes an equal amount from the housing. Main Bearing Adjustment 4—How is the best way to take up on main bearings without pulling engine? Cross member of frame is directly under rear main cap. 4—Although somewhat unhandy to get at, the rear bearing cap may be removed by removing the rear engine support block which rests on the cross member. In case you are unable to work with this block removed, which will necessitate jacking up the rear of the engine, we would advise that you pull the engine from the chassis. 5—What mechanical changes have been made on this car since put on the mar- ket? 5—A detailed list of these changes would require considerable space in these columns and we would advise that you compare the 1923 four-cylinder cata- log with a catalog pertaining to the year of manufacture of your model. One of the changes that we know of is the substitution of fabric joints for the metallic joints originally used behind the clutch. 6—How can we stop clutch collar and universal from throwing grease? 6—The clutch collar should not be packed with grease, but should be lubri- cated with engine oil. The amount of oil put in should be sufficient to just fill the collar housing. If oil is used, the bearing or clutch throwout will not leak. It is possible that you are using too much grease in the universal, and owinz to centrifugal force, some of this grease must be forced out. Although grease is the proper lubricant for the universal joints in question, it is advisabie to only half fill the housing instead of com- pletely filling it, as you probably have done. 7—What is the correct adjustment on the clutch? These questions pertain to a Durant A22 four-cylinder car No. M. T. 571, engine No. 5607.—Durant, Cincinnati, Ohio. : 7—The Durant clutch is adjusted in much the same manner as the Ford clutch. If the clutch slips or grabs, the spring tension on the pressure ring should be either taken up or released by pulling cotter pins that lock the adjust- ing nuts and pressure ring bolts and turning nut to the right for a slipping clutch and to the left for a grabbinz clutch. These nuts should be given only a quarter turn at a time until the cor- rect adjustment is secured. FITTING NEW PISTONS TO CYLINDERS Q—We are just starting in business and, have no cylinder micrometer; give some idea of how much oversize replacement pistons should be for the different piston clearances. Is .005 of an inch sufficient clearance between the ends of a 3 in. pis- ton ring?—C. D. Kauffman, Bellaire, Mich. Very extensive information concerning your questions will be found in May 18th and May 25th, 1922, issues of Moror Ace. copy of which is being sent you.

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O you still have the names of the people who bought cars from you last year? Have you sold them a tire lately, or a bumper, or a tire lock? Have you sold them any accessories? Accessory buyers are money-makers and if you are passing them up; then you can be sure that they will also pass you up and go to the next man along the line. Improvements in tread, bead and side- wall construction are the chief features of interest in the new Goodyear beveled- edge All-Weather Tread cord tire. The beveled edge cord tire is double molded, insuring better pressure and more uniform cure in manufacturing. A slight change in the tread appearance is the most interesting point about the new tire. The familiar All-Weather Tread with its diamond blocks has not been changed noticeably, but there is a slight bevel on the outside edges of the tread so that it and the sidewall meet in a more gradual union. In addition, the tread on the beveled- edge tire is semi-flat, giving greater con- tact with the road and, as a result, im- proved traction. At the same time, this construction also relieves the strain on the shoulders of the tire because of a reduction in vibration. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, O. The Ideal Equipment Co., Indianapolis is marketing a new hood lock, a cut of which is reproduced on this page. As shown in the picture, the lock is equipped with two large rubber bumpers that come in contact with the hood, eliminating rattles. It is also equipped with a lubricating pad which is forced to the top of the main body. The prices range from 75 cents to $1.75. On this page in the April 19 number of Motor Ace the Duplex Second Spare Tire Carrier and Rim Tool was described. and a cut printed. It has just come to our attention that this. article was ascribed to the wrong manufacturer. That notice should have read: The Duplex Second Spare Tire Carrier and Rim Tool, when used as a tire car- rier, is attached to the spare tire carrier, from which it can easily be removed for use as a rim contractor or expander. Re- tail price is $5. Tripp-Secord & Co., Kerr Building, Detroit, Mich. The Christie Road Light is shown in the cut on this page and its many uses are at once apparent. The control for this light is attached to the steering post where the driver can turn it on or off without taking his hands from the wheel. The light is focused to the road and does not shine on a level with oncoming cars. Christie, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn., is the manufacturer. Wilcox Trux, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., announces the Will’s Solid Tire Adapter for pneumatic tire wheels. These are designed for trucks, are light in weight and, according to the manufacturers, the change from the pneumatic to the solid MOTOR AGE Duplex second spare tire carrier and rim . I too tire by means of the Will’s Adapter makes no difference in the gear ratio, speed and road clearance. The Perfection Ford Extension Pads for Ford cars are shown in a cut on this page. They are manufactured by the Auto Pedal Pad Co., 318 West 52nd street, New York City. They sell at $1.25 a set. The Lorentzen Headlight Kontrol, Inc. 60 Grand street, New York City, has announced the Lorentzen Headlight Kontrol. The cut shows how the attach- ment, fitted to the steering post, brings the headlights under the driver’s control without having him remove his hands from the wheel. It sells for $7.50. (UTE PU Christie road light eats Ideal hood lock New Goodyear tread Okay steering post bracket The Little Wonder Rain Pad is the name of a new accessory recently al- nounced by Valley Sales Co., 314 Wain- right Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. This pad is a felt strip, containing a chemical which, when rubbed across the windshield whet raining, will keep the water running off of the glass so that vision is unob structed. The Okay Steering Post Bracket manufactured by the Okay Manufactur- ing Co., 423 Mt. Elliot avenue, Detroit. The cut shows it attached to the steerins post of a Ford car for which it is de- signed. It is intended to hold ihe post in position. It sells at $1.50. May 3, 1923

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vw. the al- in- | is ich, hen \ob- ; is tur- roit. ring post May °”, 1923 M. P. glass cutting machine SED cars—have you ever stopped to consider just how many used car sales are the result of a well-equipped shop? Not long ago, a dealer in a small town near Chicago told a Motor AcE rep- resentative that whenever he wanted to sell a used car, he took the prospect through his shop and showed him the facilities for putting in order any car that was on his floor. _ The shop he used as a means of clinch- Ing his talk and removing any doubt in the customer’s mind as to whether he Was equipped to make a car worth the money he asked for it. Too, the buyer ofa use) car wants to know what facili-- lies the dealer is provided with to serv- lee that car. They know that they will robably have reason to call on that dealer fur service a little sooner, per- haps, than the new car buyer, and Whether the customer owns a 1923 or a MOTOR AGE Stevens piston aligner 1910 model, he wants to know how and where to get real service. The dealer who has a shop equipped to do the work that will be required of him is the man who will do the most business. Wadell’s Bearing-Fitting-Fixture, shown in the cut on this page is announced by the W-A Mfg. & Sales Co., Bloomfield, N. J. The Pep Mfg. Co., Inc., maker of the water-mixed valve grinding Pep, recent- ly placed a new bearing grinding com- pound on the market. The new com- pound may be mixed with either oil or water. Price, 4-0z. can, $1. Made by Pep Mfg. Co., Inc., 33 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. The Kelly Supply Co., 613 Peoria Life Bldg., Peoria, Ill., announces the Kelly Super Visible Qil Dispenser. There are two parts to the American Spring Compressor, one the spring com- pressor and the other the spring holder. When inserting valve spring the com- pressor first closes up the spring which then fits in the holder and after the valve pin is put in place the holder is released to allow the spring to expand. Extra holders are priced at 50 cents each. American Tool Co., 10 Pleasent street, Pawtucket, R. I. makes this tool for $5.75. ° The Jung post bead roller for use on Prest-O-Lite batteries rolls the sealing band on six posts in four minutes, ac- cording to the Battery Service Station, 567 Pine street, Burlington, Wis. This tool is machined of a high grade steel and is priced at $12.75, including post builder. Stevens Piston Aligner is made by Stevens & Co., 375 Broadway, New York. The “Sea Lion” indicator is shown in the cut with the aligner. The indicator detects twists and bends in the con- necting rod before the piston is as- sembled. The two smaller inserts on the right of the cut show at the top, the indicator checking the rod for bend and at the bottom checking for twist. The center figure shows the assembled piston tilted against the broad machined sur- face for final check. The Manley Hi-Speed Jack is an- nounced by the Manley Mfg. Co.,, York, Pa., and is intended for general use in the shop. It has six distinct operating positions of the handle for raising and lowering cars, it is made of malleable iron and steel. F. C. Phillips, Stoughton, Mass., has placed on the market the M. P. Glass Cutting Machine. The picture printed on this page shows the cutter with table. The uses of this piece of equipment are at once apparent. The Eagle Junior Aligning Fixture was designed to fit the requirements of repair shops and garages specializing on small cars. The new model is not a universal fixture, but will handle align- ing work unusually fast on Fords, Chev- rolets and Overland cars. It will check the wrist pin and connecting rod for either twist or bend in the rod. The main casting is heat treated and hand scraped to micrometer accuracy. The adjustable square is ground to per- fect accuracy. The vice clamp operates in any vise. Eagle Junior Aligning Fix- ture, net price $18.75; height over all, 13 in. Bench space, 6x6 in—Eagle Ma- chine Co., 24 N. Noble St., Indianapolis, Ind. To the line of Fulflo Self Priming Pumps, made by Fulflo Specialties Co., Blanchester, Ohio, has been added the 75-gal. capacity, ball bearing, motor driven pump shown in the cut. The demand for unit systems for pumping liquids, coolant compounds, oils, brines, enamels, etc., has brought forth this latest addition to the Fulflo family.

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50 , MOTOK AGE May 3, 1923

COMING MOTOR EVENTS

AUTOMOBILE SHOWS Red Bank, N. J......... Eighth Annual Show. May 7-12

Green Bay, Wis Annual Automobile Show. Aug. 27-30 Chicago Commercial Vehicle Show .ept. 1-7 Sacramento ....—... Annual Automobile Show. Sept. 3-8 ne Annual Automobile Show Sept. 28-30 Fresno, Calif Aut bile Show Sept. 28-Oct. 5 Little Rock, Ark_._Annual Automobile Show. Oct. 8-13 Dallas, Texas..............Annual Fall Show Oct. 13-18 Washington, D. C.....Annual Fall Automobile Show.......................... Oct. 28-31 Waco, Texas____™|_...Waco Automobile Dealers’ Assn... Oct. 20-Nov. 5 New YWor'lk............ccc.. Salon at the Hotel Astor Nov. 4-10 RACES Indianapolis .............. .Annual 500 Mile International Sweepstakes.....May 30 Tours, France.............. Grand Prix 500 Mile Race July 2

CONVENTIONS

i ene .National Highway Traffic Association, Auto- mobile Club of America May 10 Detroit. Spring Convention of Service Managers’ Divi- sion of National Automobile Chamber of Commerce May 15-16 Spring Lake, N. J...Summer Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers June 19-23 I iavnsicsiistscvsceiincnce National Conference of Trade Association Sec- retaries and Managers under the auspices of the National Automobile Dealers’ Assn......July 23-24 Dixville Notch, N. H.Summer Meeting of the Automotive Equipment

Association June 25-July 1 Olympia, Wash.._.....Convention Washington Automotive Trade Association July Mobile, Alla.................. Semi-Annual Meeting of the Alabama Automo- tive Trades ASBOCIRtION......cc.<i-cccscccececscccsecssoncsces July 23 Chicago Exhibit and Convention of Automotive Equip- ment Association Nov. 12-17

Prize Contest Announcement Squeeks & Rattles announces a novel prize contest this week in that we will give a handsome set of asbestos sleeves for a fancy vest to the guy who tells us what the deuce the name of that car is that they're raising the curtain on these days. Entries must be in before last Saturday. A hint as to what the car’s name is will be found on pages 54 and 56. Biblical Picture Mother—Now, this is a ford at the Jordan. Little Mary—That isn’t a Ford, it’s a camel.

Favorite Agonies Another one of my favorite agonies is the guy who inquires the price of gas and oil, asks about accessories, uses the phone and makes everyone miserable, then kicks because we haven't someone to fill his tires from our curb air hose. —G. Pat.

Pointed *‘How much for the overcoat?” “One hundred and fifty dollars, sir.” “Will you take a horse in exchange?” **A horse? Why, | couldn't use a horse.” “Well, Jesse James Did.” Fable : Once there was a man who came in to trade his old car for a new one, who didn’t tell us that some other dealer had offered him twice as much as the car was originally worth just because he had been the owner of it.

—wW. E. P.

A Howl for Help—No. 3 That’s all. Looking 23 Years Ahead in Motor Age From Utopia comes the report that an engine has been devel- oped which requires no cooling system, therefore neither radiator, nor cylinder fins. This announcement while seem- ingly revolutionary is based on engneering facts. Old type en- gines used in the year 1923 employed a liquid fuel, which was chiefly converted into heat, only a small proportion of the available energy being converted into mechanical work. Accordingly the radiator for dissipating this heat was usually larger than either the transmission or the differential, on which the slight burden of transmitting the power fell. This discovery means that the oil companies are even now trying to find an outlet for their surplus stocks, so slight is the demand for motor fuel with this new type engine.

SQUEEKS ERSTILES If You Know Any, Tell Them to Us Dumbbells I Have Met BARKER McSHINN is still very weak. He put oil on his brakes to take out the squeak. —Jones

Your work is your brain’s gymnasium.

Advertising The hen, we are told, enjoys a higher stand- ing than the duck because she advertises her value to the community more. Likewise, she keeps on scratching, regardless of how much corn there is in sight. Here are two lessons which, now that we are struggling upward to prosperity again, we may well keep in mind.— BARRON COLLIER.

A used car ad appearing in the Chicago Daily News, reads: For Sale—1919 Ford; exc. cond. $100. Rear end, $12. Looks like it might be a way out. Suppose the used car prospect hasn't enough to buy a whole car at once? Sell him the rear end and let him save for the rest of it. Or, Having decided that this used car “‘problem” has gone just about far enough, Squeeks & Rattles proposes this week to show up the guys who have hung onto this number 13 scare all these years. Edward S. Jordan and the Cole company are publish- ing stories and ads to the effect that they have solved the “problem” but our readers know and from past experience can depend on us when we say that we are offering the only real way out of this difficulty. As usual, Squeeks & Rattles fans are given the benefit of @ hard fifteen minutes’ thinking on our part. (Some folks will up and tell us that we couldn't think for fifteen minutes st raight without getting a headache, but they are the ones who know us better than you do.) Anyway, Jordan and Cole and every: one else will agree with us when we say that the duce who breezes into you with a car that was a beauty, ‘23 Years Ago » is the guy who ought to be told by you how much the car 18 worth—not he tell you how much you are going to give hint for it. If you follow our advise, you can't go wrong. (Telegrams and the like, intended to thank Squeeks “ ~~ tles for this bit of advice are not wanted but if you insis!, ma us the cost.

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE 51 Current Motor Truck Specifications (This list comprises trucks distributed on a national basis) ENGINE REAR AXLE TIRES ENGINE REAR AXLE TIRES z s\4 2 s|4 MAKE AND | -\s £ MAKE AND | § s|= £ MODEL 3 2 ait tale 5 MODEL g 2 _ oi1@ 5 e os at 2 os - ” po e os ait 2 os pa ~ $1/2/)43 | s8ia)3/33 1/9) 3 | 3 2/2/4343 |/sf15)3) 23 |f/ § | 3 e |e | FP lan |oSio| fe le | & ] xe | & | Se l/aHe|o}/o}] Se le] & | ew ie... ..30)1144 = [$2550 | Mi-412../354x5 | B-L. .|B-L. . | Ti-6560..| WO. .|34x314k/34x5k eee Ej344—s«[$3500 |Bu...... 414x514|B-L. .|B-L..|Own....|IG.../36x8 |36x8 “Seer 4012-214 | 3100+] Mi-402. ./414x5'4/B-L. .|B-L. ./Ti-6460..|WO..|36x4k |36x7k Ace... . 6043 3700t| Mi-402. ./414x514|B-L. .|B-L. . |'Ti-6560..|WO. .|36x4 [36x8 | errr 100}2 2275¢|Bu-CTU|334x54|Cov..|Cov..|Ru-6000.|IG...|34x4k |34x7k BBs. cccewes 20134-1 |...... 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May 3, 1923

PRICES = ENGINE ELECTRICAL REAR —£/|4 SYSTEM . g AXLE rm E 3 $ & “a - —_-——_. OPEN MODELS CLOSED MODELS| & | = 2 al 8 5 3 ze = ae e & | § | NAME AND MODEL OF Sy i : Ble ae 3 ee ~s ° 3 ” © ie $f" © ne] Lo 5 e © o |.+ é 4 ty 4 4 | 8 = 4 a) b, (Pas c| pres 132 |33x4 | Anderson Series 50 [Cont..| 6-334x414| 27.34|Rayfield.|Remy..|/Remy..|s-p B&B....|Durston.|f Universal. ta Salis. .|4,62 sbesen fea ce ee, CULL eee Apperson.............6 |Falls..| 6-314x444| 23.44/Strom.. .|Remy..|Remy. .|s-p Rockford|Mech. . .|m Thiemer. .|!F Timk.|4'0) sacner 2800 ......| 3625 | 3750 |$3850 | 130 /33x5 Apperson. .......8-23-S JOwn..| 8-3'4x5 | 33.80|Johnson. |Bijur...|Remy..|m-d Own... ./Own....}m Thiemer.,. ioF Own. ./4.25 xeeete 1275 1995n| 1965t] 2245 |......] 121 |32x4 Auburn............6-51 [Cont..| 6-334x414| 27.34|Strom...|Remy../Remy..|s-p B&B....|G-L..... jm Universal. 3¢F Salis. ./4.75 a. BOOB Nisi-ckadowsedsls00ge cl SEOD Isnssc ke ce Auburn............6-43 [Cont..| 6-344x414| 23.44/Strom.../Remy../Remy..|s-p B&B... .|Warner.|m Detroit... . LoP Col...14.60 COs, Re: Re ee (eRe Cee, ae 122 |32x414} Auburn...........6-63 |Weid,.| 6-314x5 | 25.35)/Strom...|/Remy..|Remy..|s-p B&B.... Warner. m Thiemer . . LaF Col... 14.60 seseee 1305 |......] 1495d]...... (3350 cesses] 118 [32x4 J Barley................ [Cont .| 6-346x4}4] 23.44/Strom.. .|Delco. .|Delco. jp B&B ...|luller.. .|f M&I.....|4F Col... 4.58 p 865 | 885 | 725g]...... 1175 {i328 sae 109 |31x4 | Buick. .1923-34-5-6-7-38 |Own..| 4-33¢x434| 18.23|Marvel..|Delco. .|Delco. .|m-d Own....|Own....|m Own...... 34F Own, .|4.66 1175 | 1195 | 975g]...... 1935 1985 puuios 118 |32x4 | Buick.. 1923-41-4-5-47 |Own..| 6-33¢x414| 27.34|Marvel..|Delco. .|Delco. .|m-d Own..../Own....|m Own...... F Own. .|4.10 EL EAE. from ..ee.-] 1895 | 2195 | 124 |33x414] *Buick1923 48-9-50-4-55 J|Own. .| 6-33¢x414| 27.34|Marvel..|Delco. .|Delco. .|m-d Own... ./Own....|m Own....../F Own. .|4.7 c 2885 | 2885 | 2885 |...... 3675¢ (oe (sooo! 132 |33x5 | Cadillac............. 61 JOwn. .| 8-344x5\4| 31.25)/Own....|Delco. .|Delco. .}m-d Own..../Own....]/m Spicer... .|F — Tim...Opt. 1750 | 1790 |......} 230d] 2480'] 2575 |... 122 [20x634) Cose.........0000e, X |Cont..| 6-334x414| 27.34|Rayfield.|Delco. .|Delco. .|m-d Own....|Own....|f Snead ....|!4F Col. ./4.08 RSP EG, SUEPEE- 1950c]......| 2480 | 2975 | 129 [384x414] Case................W [Cont..| 6-35¢x5!4/ 31.54/Rayfield.|Delco. .|Delco. .|m-d Own....JOwn....|f Arvac...../84F Col... ./4.45 1185 | 1185 |.... 1445c} 1595 | 1585 |...... 117° |32x4 Chalmers.......... 1923 JOwn. .| 6-3'4x444| 25.35/Strom...|A-L..../Remy..|m-d Own....|/Own....jm Hardy... .|!4F Adams|5.13 eee ey | Re EE re 095 } 122 |32x4 Chalmers..........1923 JOwn..| 6-314x444] 25.35)Strom.../A-L..../Remy..|m-d Own... .|Own....]m Hardy... .|'4F Adams|5.13 cere (1398 1695c]...... bend {39085 123 |32x4 Chandler...........Six [Own..| 6-344x5 | 29.40|Strom.../Bosch..|Bosch..|s-p B&B....jOwn....|f Own......[F Own. .|4.45 9. 610 | 525 | 425g]...... 680 Ho Pakage 103 |30x314] Chevrolet...... Superior |Own..| 4-3}4x4 | 21.76 i ‘} pee. Remy..jc Own... ./Own m Own...... “OF Own. ./3.77 | eee olley . J |A- 710 | 725 | 625g]...... 880 |/1060 |...... 103 [30x314] Chevrolet............ M |Own. .| 4-314x314| 19.60/Carter..|Remy../Remy..|m-d Own....|Own..../m Mech.....}!¢F Own. .}4.4 1050 1085 | 995 |... (sseaa (12064 [1850 ree 11214|31x4 | Cleveland............ 42 |Own. .| 6-3y4x434] 22.50|Strom...|Bosch..|Bosch..|s-p B&B....|Own....]m Mech..... YF Own. .|4.90 26 9! p S008 f...5.. 1885 | 1885c] 2585 | 28: 4 2685 | 127144 |33x5 Re occu vsntwane 890 |Nort..| 8-345x414] 39.20/Johnson. oe: Delco. . “ny North...|/North...jm Spicer....jF © Col...|4.70 ones 1475 |......]......] 1925¢] 1995 |......] 115 |32x4 | Columbia. ......Big Six [Cont..} 6-33§x414| 27.34|Strom...|A-L..../A-K.../sp B&B... .|Durston.jm Spicer... .|}4F Thv.../4.75 985c ao. 1395d} 12 {is cele 115 |31x4 | Columbia...... Light Six [Cont..| 6-34x414| 23.44/Strom.. . ek. ..tids.. 44 B&B... .|Durston.}m Spicer... .|!¢F Tim...|5.10 1195 | 1235 |.... (seb 1875} {3055 we ce ee ere Falls. | 6-344x414| 23.44/Strom.. .|West.../A-K...|sp B&B....|Muncie..|/f Flexite ... |34F Col...|5.00 J00C sewers 3100 | 3100 |......]......]......] 4500 | 188 |33x414] Crawford... ....23-6-70 [Cont..| 6-35¢x514| 31.54|Zenith...|West.. .|Bosch..}m-d B-L.....|B-L.....}m Spicer... |46F Tim...|.... a ae 3500c}......] 4500 |......] 188 |33x5 | Crawford-Dagmar...6-70 [Cont -354x514 31.54/Zenith . .|West...|Bosch..|m-d B-L.....|B-L.....|m Spicer... .|'el’ Tim...|.... raced 5800 | 6300 |......]......] 7650 |......] 142 [33x5 Cunningham........V4 JOwn 8-334x5 | 45.00/Strom...|Delco. .|Deleo. .|m-d Own....]Own..../£ Snead.....)F Tim.../4.23 4350 | 4350e| 4350 | 4350c} 5300 (F080 { and 132 |33x5 SS 23-38 JOwn. .| 8-314x514| 39.20/Strom...|Delco. .|Delco. .|mm-d Own..../Own....}m Spicer....|F — Tim.../4.23 250} 1 6900§ 1495 | 1295 |......] 1495¢| 1535 | 1795'| 1795c| 115 |31x4 | Davis............0.. 71 [Cont, .| 6-31<x414] 23.44/Strom.. .|Delco. .|Delco. .|s-p B&B... .|Warner../m M&E., . . .|4F Tim...|5.10 1595 | 1595 |.... 1605d| 2095 |......]...... 320 [32x43<4) Davis.........cccoes 63 |Cont..| 6- Baxtig 27.34/Strom...|Delco. .|Delco. .|s-p B&B....|/Warner..}m Peters ...|!2l' Tim...|5.15 32 | See Bee 980 (iiss ‘seesul 114 |32x4 Dodge Brothers. ....... Own. .| 4-374x414| 24.03)/Stewart..|N.E...|N.E.../m-d Own. .../Own..../m Own...... oF Own. .|4.16 ey. 3950 | 3950 | 4150c] 4985] 6800 | 4310 | 132 |33x5 | Dorris.............6-80 JOwn..| 6-4 x5 | 38.40/Strom...|West.../Bosch..|m-d Own. ...|Warner..|m Spicer... .}!F° Tim...|1.23 870 | 885 |.... 995¢ ioe 1350 |...... 7. a eee 23-18 [Lyc...| 4-314x5 | 19.60|Carter... |Bosch..|Conn...|m-d Detlaff..|Own....|m Meeh..... 34F Flint. /+.66 1010 | 1025 |.... 1135¢| 1355 | 1465 |...... Cf. Se 25-20 }Falls.. 6-3¥4x414 23.44|Carter..|Bosch..|/Bosch../m-d Detlaff../Own..../m Meeh..... 34F Flint. |4.66 5750 | 5500 | 5900 | 5750c]...... 7250 | 7500 | 134 |33x5 ions -Busiha 8 Own. .| 8-27@x5 | 26.45/Strom...|Delco. .|Delco. .|*p Own..../Own....jf Climax... .|!l' Own. .|4.49 890 | 890 }.... 1065d| 1365 bred seveea 109 |31x4 PE ctccscesven Cont..| 4-344x414} 24.03/Till..... A-L....JA-L..../se-p Own....|/Warner..|m Spicer, .. |} Adams/4.33 1600 | 1650 |......]...... 2250 | 2400 |...... 12314/32x414] Durant............ B-22 }Anst..| 6-314x414| 25.35)Rayfield.|A-L....|A-L....|sp Ansted..|Warner..|m,f Spicer... |/4F Tim...|5.15 iL 3 ee eae 1395c] 1595 |...... Cf “St ~ See Be 40 JOwn..| 4-37x554] 18.91/Scoe. ...|A-L..../Conn.../s-p B&B..../Own..../f Own...... 160° Own. .|4.87 eee: 965 |.... 1095 |......] 1425 |......] 112 |31x4 Elear..............4-40 |Lyc...| 4-354x5 | 21.03/Strom.. .|Delco. .|Deleo. . s-p B&B....|Warner .|m Peters. . . . |34)° Salis. .|4.50 1395 | 1395 |.... 1595d| 1975t] 1995 |...... 118 |32x4 ee 6-60 |Cont..| 6-334x414] 27.34|Strom...|Delco. .|Delco. .|m-d Warner .|Warner..|m Spicer. . . . |34° Salis. ./4.50 seeen 1045 |......]......] 1145 | 1145 |......] 10849/32x4 Essex............s+++. JOwn..| 4-83@x5 | 18.22/Own....|Bosch..|Bosch..|m-d Own....|Own....lm Spicer. ... 15F Own. ./4.60 ee 1195 |......] 1195 | 1895c}] 1985 ]......] 120 |32x414] Flint.................. [Cont..| 6-33¢x5 | 27.34/Strom...JA-L....JA-L..../@p Own. ...|Warner..|m Spicer... .|34/Adams.|.... 269r} 298s} 235g]...... 53 {os Vsahend ee aaa T JOwn..| 4-334x4 | 22.50 Re — Own... |m-d Own..../Own....|/in Own......|!4F Own. .|3.63 olle 3900 | 3900 |.... .|...... 4900 | 4900 |...... 132 |32x414] Fox...... seecoisunee 7F JOwn..| 6-33¢x5 | 27.34/Zen th West... |Scintillalm-d B-L.....|B-L...../m Spicer... .|!4F Tim...|t % cease ee ce eases Seen §3150d| 115 |32x4 | Franklin.............10 JOwn..| 6-344x4 | 25.35/Own....JA.K...|A-K.../e-p B&B... ./Own..../m Spicer, . . . |!oI° Own. .|4.33 2850. 995 | 995 |......] 1145e} 1145 | 1445 |...... 112 |32x4 | Gardner....... Series 5 |Liyc...| 4-3}4x5 | 21.76|Zenith...|West.. .|West...|sp B&B....|Mech.../m Peters. ...|34F Flint. |4.8 490 | 520 |......]...... 4 | s eeeee BOD TPPRSIG SEG..,..00 crvevecceres Own. .| 4-35x4 | 21.03/Scoe. ...|West...|West...|ssp Own....|Own....|m Meen.....|}F Tim.../3.40 bi) a eee Ree “2850t 2600 |...... 120 32x41} H.C.S.. Series 4 |Weid..| 4-384%514| 22.50/Strom...|Delco. .|Delco. .|m-d B-L..... B-L.....|m Spicer... . {341 Own. .|4.63 cicwae ee ee ee ees le UL Series6 |Midw.| 6-314x5 | 29.40/Strom...|Delco. .|Delco. . |m-d B-L.....|B-L...../m Spicer... .|S4F Own. .|4.36 _ } oe eee 1350d]...... 7 eo 115 |32x414] Handley....,...... 6-40 |Falls..| 6-3x414| 23.44|Strom.. .|/Bosch..|Bosch..|m-d Mech...|Mech...|m Mech..... Tim..|.... RAHAT PR |) eee ee ee eee el! Ul ae UU la re eee ieee Vecsccccferececes[MMasscoces oof M6F Tiaooit-l 1395 | 1395 |.... 1495c]...... 2105 |j...... 121 |32x4 Hanson -66 |Cont. 6-354x414 27.34|Marvel..|Delco. .|Delco..|s-p B&B....|G-L.....}m eeen.. CF Tim... 4.66 beaene 1345 | 1345c]......} 1950 | 1950 ]......] 115 |32 4 | Hatfield. -42 |H-S...} 4-314x5 | 19.60/Zenith..|Dyneto|Conn...|s-p B&B....|G-L.....|m Spicer... .|8<I' Col... 4.66 nee 1775 | 1795 | 1975d| 2175 | 2275 |......] 121. |32x4 | Hatfield., .55 JH-S...| 6- 3x5 25.35/Strom...|Bosch..|Bosch..|s-p B&B....|B-L.....}m Spicer....| I Col... 4.06 ae 2395 2550¢ {3o50t ar Fete 132 [33x5 a 77 Own. .| 6-35¢x5y4| 31.54/Strom.../L-N... |Kingst. |m-d Warner .|Own....|m Universal. |34/° Own... 4.60 2 33 3395 . ixenee 1505 |.... on 2695t fee veseee| 121 [832x414] Haynes.............57 [Own..| 6-334x5 | 29.40/Rayfield.|L-N. . . |Kingst. |m-d Warner .|Own....|m Universal..|!oI" Own... 441 a » ’ Ty 1425 | 1475 |......|......] 1525 | 2095 | 126 |34x414] Hudson. .......S Own. .| 6-314x5__| 29.40|/Own..../Bosch. .|Bosch../m-d Own... .|Own....|m Spicer. .. . 19h Own. 1165 | 1165 |.... {12ere 1445 om TE 112 |32x4 | Hupmobile..... Series R |Own. | 4-3!4x534] 16.90/Strom....|West...|A-K.. .|m-d Own. ...|Own. .. . |m Universal..|°; Own. .|4.8 1065 | 1065 | .....] 1220d (rate fo ey 112 |31x4 WR: 6c veckcnnyed Six |Own..| 6-314x5 | 25.36/Strom.../Remy..|A-K...|m-d Long..../Warner../m Mech..... UP Tim...|4.49 250 p : : ee Beers ee 2485 | 2485 | 2485t/ 120 |32x4 | Jordan... 6-34x434| 26.34|Strom...|Delco. .|Delco. . |m-d Detroit. |Detroit.. |m Thiemer... |!ol’ Tim... 1s Bae: RA) ee ES ARISE, 12414|32x414] Jordan... .| 6- Stex x434} 26.34/Strom.. .|Delco. .|Delco. .|m-d Detroit. |Detroit.. |m Thiemer... |! 9! Tim... rs aaa 1150 |......]......]..-0--| 1450 |......] 112 [832x4 | Kelsey. 4-354x5 | 21.03|Zenith..|Bosch..|Bosch..|s-p B&B... .|Detroit../m Spicer... . .|! 21" Salis.. Hf 1595 | 1595 | 1595¢] 1895c} 2200c} 1995 | 2400 | 120 |32x414} King. . 8-3 x5 | 28.80/Ball&B ./West...|A-K...|s-p Detroit..|Own....|f Universal..| I" Col... nr 1795 | 1795 1995} 2500 | 2295 | 2625 | 124 [32x44 King... 8-3 x5 | 28.80/Ball&B..|West...|A-K.. .|s-p Detroit... |Own....|f —. i Col... 1" vessel 1485 [......1 1685d! 2585t! 2285 |... 121 |82x4 | Kissel............... 6-314x5¥4| 26.34/Strom.. .|Remy..!Remy..|/m-d ........]..-.-.-. m Spicer....|F _‘Tim..!44 MISCELLANEOUS ENGINE CLUTCH STARTING, LIGHTING UNIVERSAL a—2 Passenger d—5 Passenger Anst—Ansted C—Cone IGNITION F—Fabric b—3 Passenger e—6 Passenger Cont—Continental M-D—AMultiple Dise ro aa Li M—Metal c—4 Passenger f—T7 Passenger H-S—Herschell-Spillman S-P—Single Plate A@E—Auto Lite M. & E.—Merchant & Bvans g—Chassis Price n—Tire Size 32x4%4 p—Sport tr—Price nga A merged and demount- rice, ; Star $414, s—Price without starter and demount- Price, complete, Ford Star $4438. t+—On Standard Phaetons able rims. $364 able rims. $398 ; tBrougham §—Limousine Lyec—Lycoming Nort—Northway Walk—wWalker complete, Ford *—Models Weid—Weidely CARBURETOR Ball & B—Ball & Ball Till—Tillotson Strom—Stromberg Y. & T.—Yale & Towne 54 and 55 B. & B.—Borg & Beck B-L—Brown-Lipe North—Northway GEARSET B-L—Brown-Lipe G-L—Grant-Lees Mech—Mechanics North—Northway fitted with 32x414 tires and 4.10 gear ratio

(Continued on page 56) Eisem—LEisemann G-D—Gray & Davis Kingst-. Kingston L-N—Leece Neville N. E.—North East Split—Splitdorf West—Westinghouse Wag-R—Wagner or Remy tt—Starter Auto Li te

Mech— Mechanics REAR AXLE F—PFloating % F—Semi-Floating 34 F—Three-Quarte: Col—Columbia Salis—Salisbury Tim—Timken Floating

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No Compromise Real Coachbuilding : Touring Car ‘ only 4% 15.10 15.00 143 14.23 Bes Sport Touring $1395 \ | Coach $1450 Sedan $1595 | i Nie (Prachbelt Sport Sedan $1745

14.66 P 6 f. o. b. Rock Hill, S. C. ald. 5.15 + {, is ALUMINUM SIX ste 3.8 ce tt —_ ore Y 7, Vere 4 90 i ‘S PECIFICATIONS: Li ds anaes Seay 1.23 — ~ Coachbilt Anderson~Aluminum Cy +} ns nia . Body; Six Cylinder, Red Seal en PN = Sa 1 re Continental Motor; Westinghouse... | a a | hf Si WA 4 Starting, Lighting and Ignitiong><.. | ff ry mis 1 a. fy “te \ Borg and Beck Clutch Cord 2 4 a | (| hye wn Tf li ji“_— - ? S\ Tires; AlemiteLubrication; Moto,— ‘eae =| ile ’ xsi | tetb-b—~]} bang H 1.90 | ‘ LEX, meter; Snubbers; Wind Shiela \ Lh pid ria ff ri. poi » .s ‘ayy Cleaner; ‘patented Foot Dimmer | LY Gd a dia / am oa “Y/y ( / for Headlights Wheelbase Sy), how ote 4.60 ¥ if inches. Averdges I9 oan \pet /) im, A » (i) j \ Re Al i ~ - of gas. } ™ - ‘ he 4 Za JAS PL Fe —S ON “4.81 UES ST C6. SS Se eaaeal Ar 4 ‘ \\ \ \}3 4.4 J ( \ Nx WV ~*~) len Ly Sy * 9 42 YW) \ }} Jf § - 4.0 § ; +—/ 5 f {4.83 Satie ‘5 "M4.66 baie oe «4.40 i ans A car of unmatched value and a direct-with- factory contract at maximum discount. Write ing

y us. Anderson Motor Co., Rock Hill, S. C.

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PRICES “= ve ENGINE ELECTRICAL REAR = 1 - SYSTEM me 8 AXLE = . e e a = OPEN MODELS CLOSED MODELS & = = zg -| ¥ . 8 a = . ~ —— a e | g | NAME AND MODEL OF, = 3) s £3 i- “4 Own. .| 8-314x51/ 33.80 Johnson. |Deico. .|Delco. .}m-d Own. ...J}Own..../m Own...... F Own, .|4.58 1795 Mee feed 2145d (ae ine eS 123 |32x414] Lexington........... 23 jAnst..| 6-3!4x414] 25.35] Rayfield.|G-D. ../Conn...|/m-d Own....|Warner..|f Snead...../F Salis. ./5.10 9 |12195 y $}\26 ; 1575 | 1395 ]...... 1575 on O18 i...<.. 117. |32x4 Liberty............10-D JOwn..| 6-3144x5 | 23.44/Strom...]Wagner|Wagner|s-p B&B... .|Detroit..|m Spicer... .|44T Tim...|4.80 (169 3800 | 3800c] 3800 |...... 4600¢ te ($00 196 130ah © Glia ccs ccesedcenca Own. .| 8-33¢x5 | 36.45|Strom.../Delco. .|Deleo. .|m-d Own... .|Own....|m Spicer...) —'Tim.../4.58 91S 8690 | 9500c] 9600 |..... ]...... Laces feree 142 |35x5 Locomobile..... Series 8 |Own. .| 6-424x514] 48.60/Ball&B..|West.. .|Delco. .|m-d Own... .|Own..../m Own...... 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4.50 _—— on 2 =2 Sus wate = 2ese sea usaenee From the beginning FED- DERS Radiators been standard equipment on quality cars of the best known makes. \ hehaed. vS 4 MOTOR AGE You Can Be Specific in your talk about the Fedders Radiator on the car you're selling HERE is a lot of real interest about it. For while the name and reputation of Fedders Radiators is old as the Industry itself, the special shallow cores that now bear that name are the big- gest advance ever made in radiator practice. They are stronger—lighter—more efficient in heat dissipation per square foot of front surface. The water passages are 36% wider than the average cel- lular core. They are an actual and obvious mechan- ical improvement affecting the entire power plant. Don’t fail to tell your prospect the details about that Fedders Core. It’s one of the best sales fea- tures on your car. If you are not familiar with these details, write us. It will clinch sales for you. FEDDERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Inc. Factory and General Offices: Buffalo, New York

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s8 MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 mechanics! J +, heres your ) This new Starrett Mi- ee &. . q crometer is designed ) ao. “*. specially for the motor EE | servicing trade. A sturdy No. 224 does the work |FRE accurate tool that will of a whole set of ordi- , take measurements from ane 2 inches to 6 inches inclu- sive—at a price much less than you’d pay for the four indi- vidual micrometers needed to do the same work. No. 224 is well balanced and easy to handle. Each anvil has two adjusting nuts to take care of any wear and act as a seat when held in position by the knurled nut. Suitable wrenches are furnished to make any adjustment. Frame is forged. Decimal equivalents are stamped on the thimble. Provided with lock nut. 2, 3, 4 and 5 inch standards furnished if desired. THE L. S. STARRETT CO. The World’s Greatest Toolmakers Manufacturers of Hacksaws Unexcelled ATHOL, MASS. NEW STARRETT MICROMETER CALIPER No. 224 This new Starrett “Mike,” No. 224, range 2 to 6 inches, completely HACK SAWS described, along with some thirty other new Starrett Tools, in the Bay CUT QUICKER Revised Supplement:to Catalog No. 22RB Write for free copy. Sésp Sucs f 5153 =

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MOTOR AGE The World’s The Faith of Ruggles Dealers Now Reaps Reward Many of the present large group of dealers joined us before Ruggles Trucks were in use and before their worth was demonstrated by the tests of actual service that have since taken place. They had faith in the business policies of this company. Theybelieved with us that a high qual- ity truck sold on a quantity production basis, at a price that made it the world’s greatest truck value, MUST win through. This faith is rewarded. Ruggies dealers are dominating their territories. New dealers areseek- ing franchises. Sales are constantly increasing. The business world has welcomed this national system of transportation economy. We do not believe there is a Ruggles dealer today who would willingly surrender his franchise. Ruggles Trucks listing at $795 to $2195(chas- sis) are the greatest value ever offered in the his- tory of the industry. Their price, quality and dependability give them sales possibilities that inevitably mean big income for any aggressive dealer whowill take advantage of the opportunity. Write or wire us for descriptive literature and details of the Ruggles franchise RUGGLES MOTOR TRUCK COMPANY SAGINAW, MICHIGAN Canadian Factory: Ruggles Motor Truck Co., Ltd., London, Ontario RUGGLES TRUCKS Greatest Truck Value

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MOTOR AGE pers “The Best im “Top ‘Moterials — Jap Material She surface-caated material adopted many years ago by cars Whase standards of equipment are determined by quality, rather than by cost. Pantasote is different from all ather top materials, regardless of names and efforts to produce a similar appearance. of the reasons why Pantasote is superiar to ather surface - coated top materials is . that its secret com- position has never been duplicated — though years of experi= ments favre produced many imitations. -TFerdarcte- Top Material (f textile material for tops of custom-made hadies and sport models, Where something chic in appearance is preferred to the mare canventional surface-caated material. Pantnssll isa specially candstructed fabric, the fibres of which are thoroughly impregnated with Pantasate gum. Sextasate is not onty smart looking, but is durable, water- proof, mildew-proof and absolutely impewious to the elements in any climate and at an y temperature. C 11 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY THE PANTASOTE COMPANY Meg Yy

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MOTOR Vulcanize First~and Make it Last Tell ’Em You Sell ’Em! Our national advertising campaign is one of the biggest ever put behind any automotive accessory. We “ask ’em to buy” with full page advertisements. You tell ’em you sell ’em with our posters, window displays, signs, cutouts and cir- culars to mail out. Write for them. Think how many Shaler 5-Minute Vul- canizers and Shaler Patch-&-Heat Units this immense national advertising in the best part of the season will help you sell! Order 5-Minute Vulcanizers from your jobber if your stock is low. C. A. SHALER COMPANY 213 Fourth Street, Waupun, Wisconsin More than 1,500,000 motor- ists now use the Shaler 5- Minute Vulcanizer for making quick, permanent tube re- pairs. Every user is a steady repeat customer for the sale of Shaler Patch-&-Heat Units. —_—_ ‘andard Equipment on a Number of Leading Cars NEW IDEAS To Help You Sell At the gas pump or at the coun- ter—you can make more money selling Shaler Patch-&-Heat Units by asking this easy question: “Got plenty of patches for your 5-Minute Vulcanizer?” It works. Try it! Keystone Rubber Co., Moline, Illinois, writes: “Your ‘Have you plenty of patches?’ idea has been tried and it works. One customer had been looking for just such a thing but didn’t know what to call for, by its name. We are using the idea pretty much in general now. It applies to a lot of different acces- sories and we are going to keep it up.”

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 J ~ The accident usually occurs when the emer- gency brake doesn’t get sufficient grip to stop the car quickly. Look at Fig. 3 and you'll see why. This shows that only a small proportion of the stan- dard brake shoe grips the surface of the Drum. Put a standard Ferd shoe inside a Ford brake Drum—ex- pand it — and note amount of clutch on Drum. Fig. 1 shows Archer Hinged Brake Shoe expanded. Note grip over entire surface of Drum. It contacts the entire surface except at end openings. 100% service. Four times the brake power of any other shoe. Fig. 2 shows Archer Shoe open. Note uni- formity of release. Scientific ‘placing of hinge produces _ this. All Archer Hinged Brake Shoe Features are patented. 100% Archer—4 times the brake power—lasts a_ lifetime—almost_ im- possible to break it. X r Sell power instead of waste When the brake shoe grips with all its surface—when the contact of shoe against Drum is complete over all— then full power is utilized and the maximum result is attained. This is exactly what the 100% ARCHER Hinged BRAKE SHOE for Fords does. Dealers—you can tell the minute you look at the illus- tration why the 100% Archer offers such huge Sales possibilities. You can see how it works—why it works—what it does and why the Ford owner needs it and will buy it. Show it to him and sell it. You know what 100% Grip on the Drum means. You know the real necessity for such a brake shoe. All right then—let’s go. $1.50 a pair with a fine discount. $2.00 a pair West of Mississippi. Ask your jobber today or write direct. Dealers sending for a sample pair will receive a rebate of their commission as soon as received, and literature will be sent with the shoes. Manufactured by SAMUEL B. ARCHER Electrical and Mechanical Engineer Designer and Builder Automobiles, Parts and Accessories, also Automatic Special Machines for Making Any Part of an Automobile SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. ARCHER or pp? FIINGED V2 O O 00% BRAKE SHOE! There’s Profit for You in the extra 75%

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE You Can Cause a Steel Ball of Atlas Accuracy To Register “Off-Size” by Blowing Upon It AISING a half inch Atlas Steel Ball to body temperature by hold- ing it in one’s hand or by blowing one’s breath upon it, is sufficient to cause it to register “off-size” when mixed with others of the same lot held at a room temperature of 70 degrees. Yet the expansion of a half-inch ball when raised from normal room temperature to that of the body is only about eight hundred thousandths of an inch (.00008”). But Atlas Balls must not deviate from true size by more than five hundred thousandths of an inch (.00005”) generally ex- pressed as one half of 1/ 10,000” With the exception of Johannson gauge blocks such accuracy is seldom equalled or even approached in in- dustrial machine elements. So great is the care exercised in the manufacture and gauging of Atlas Balls that after burnishing they are not touched by hand and are gauged in a room held at a constant temperature. It is because of this great accuracy, the mirror-like finish and high re- sistance against fatigue that Atlas Steel Balls have won the enthusiastic en- dorsement of the most exacting ball users. ATLAS BALL COMPANY Glenwood Ave. at Fourth St. Philadelphia Made Under oakF Supervision

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MOTOR AGE Ve r= TA AN oo d 8 b Sy Nash Gets Quietness with Formica ! ASH is another well-known car that has used For- mica non-metallic gear blanks to solve the problem of a quiet front end. Nash engineers appreciate a material that enables them to retain the well-tried and proven gear drive, with its long life and positive timing—and yet secure a degree of quietness that will match any system of drive that is available. The high standards of Nash workmanship make it easy to match these gears with negligible selection, and avoid many of the production troubles that have been asso- ciated with gears. They find Formica exceptionally uni- form. It works well with ordinary tools. Write for literature and full information on Formica gears THE FORMICA INSULATION CO. 4642 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio ORMICA Made from Anhydrous Redmanol Resins SHEETS TUBES RODS

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‘““How Long Have YOU Had STABILATORS? “I thought I was bringing something new into this town when we came back with Stabilators, but now I see them everywhere. “The fellow Ed drives for has ’em and Joe too and Frank and you! And I bet the rest all get ’em.” In every community as soon as even a few cars have been Stabilated, it is almost literally true that everybody starts talking about them. Stabilators are a scientifically correct means of maintaining the stable equilibrium of the car body in spite of all rebound, pitching and STA oni Fetes JOHN WARREN WATSON COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA CHANGE THE WHOLE NATURE OF YOUR CAR

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STABILATORS are compen- sating for any size bump or hole. They check lightly when the recoil force is mild and check heavier and heavier as the recoil force increases. Only STABILATORS give this pro- portionate control to spring recoil. STABILATORS JOHN WARREN WATSON COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA CHANGE THE WHOLE NATURE OF YOUR CAR

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MOTOR AGE The Sight of a Rough Road T’S tough enough on the other passengers, but toughest of all on the driver. For it is he who catches the jerks —right through the wheel, where life is just one vibration after another. No wonder the sight of a rough road fills him with dismay! That is why the C. P. C. Balanced Pressure Steering Gear won such instant and widespread popularity, almost from , its first day on the market. It stops shocks! It banishes $16 50 the tendency of the car to jump out of its tracks and wan- s der from one side of the road to the other. It holds the ; car in its course. A slight pressure of the fingers on the wheel gives the driver absolute control. It can’t lock in any position—it obeys the driver’s slightest touch. Vibra- tion, discomfort and danger are gone forever! Ask any Ford owner how he’d like THAT kind of steering. He’s a prospect immediately. The new comfort appeals to him—and the low price clinches it. Very easy to install. Very profitable to sell. Let us tell you why. Write for dealer and jobber plan today. RECORDING DEVICES Ford Registration CoMPANY - 1922 4,800,000 ~- Cars 12 Norwood Avenue, 750,000-Trucks Dayton, Ohio a. pe Fills 2 universal need for the universal car ——__—__—_____} (1) (2) (3) ae | — pide TWO SPIRAL NUTS, hardened Fg ge ye SHAFT A. —- o! rop forged steel, one and und, turning with main the of the sliding » un right and one left, each poeta aa oa alt wereld the push and pull of which the trunnion with straight tooth rack, . y oo shaft turns. Four teeth in contact, two serve to balance stresses, by splines, cause the sliding . in each rack, give nearly three times the making steering both safe heads to travel in oppdsite direc- contact afforded by the worm and wheel and easy. tions, up and down. type of gear.

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Your INITIAL ORDER AT MANUFACTURING COST—that’s our proposition to you, Mr. Dealer. We need YOU—your selling talks to your customers—to put the ‘‘BINGO”’ over in a big way. That’s why we are offering you this extraordinary opportunity —we want to pay you well in RICH PROFITS for your time and trouble. Only 4 Parts Our display cards and other dealer helps will assist you— bring customers into your store to buy. THE “BINGO” All-Metal Track ad : : i e so © stays repe rders wi The all-metal track and contact points Onc Id the ‘‘BINGO”’ stays sold and repeat orders will are of brass, imbedded in the molded - a. hs : Bakelite distributing head and extending come. For the ‘‘BINGO”’ is an accurate timer—dust-proof, 1/16-inch beyond its surface. The ‘‘raised- ‘ track’’ construction insures long life. waterproof, fool-proof and unqualifiedly guaranteed. The See one separate the “all-metal ‘dans NEW in timer construction. Theie On a recent blocktest, the ‘‘BINGO”’ timer was run 3500 ee 2st 4a ae aan miles continuously. The micrometer showed practically a penimneenamntenienn no wear on the track and only 3-1000 of an inch on the brush. “BINGO” BRUSH AND CASTING Give your customers such a timer and they’ll come back for The brush is of a graphite and copper composition—and therefore _ self-lubri- more. ———_«_, °C Fill out the Coupon TODAY! “BINGO” DISTRIBUTING HEAD Make a REAL PROFIT on your timer sales —of molded Bakelite and therefore water- f—also fool-proof against ‘‘grounds”’ es and “short-circuits™. The Wm. Deddens Manufacturing Co. *“BINGQ” TIMER HOUSING The ring holding the distributing head in 35 East Front Street Cincinnati, Ohio position is of solid brass, nickel-plated. a a real il proposition ~ - TIMER mS 7 § , i yt if ’ ee , aS = se or ag Py e ¢ P 4 => - © * F as ar > —— £ f m4 > 2 A “ - gt Pg Ow PP Ye fs e P r oy > f Po a Ms 2 — SE EK Mw * ; ae a ed » eo” r FIRES EVERY TIME “6° 4%" MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE wavs * 923 Th TUR NE MANUFAC: moo » ques UICAEO ¢ Street * “The First 20” For profit’s sake, follow the example of America’s leading jobbers who include Stone Products among the ‘‘First 20”’ for sales concen- tration. The Stone Carrier is a fast, easy seller, because car-owners know it and need it. It helps you sell more rims and tires. Retails $3.50; Ford size $3. Signs free. Ask your jobber. The Stone Manufacturing Company, 1502 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago 135 Wooster St., New York We also make Stone Interchangeatle Rims and Stone Shock Absorbers. Complete service on rims and wheels—all makes. —another Post ad CABINET F WITH STONE RIM PARTS Stone and Money - makers. Stone play Board—FREE with : orders — will help you ¥ : Cabinet has Removable Index Labels—an _ ex- clusive Stone feature. sell. In last month's Motor Age, Motor World, Automobile Trade Journal and Automotive Mer- chandising appeared miniature reproductions of one of our large advertisements in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Here is another! Others will appear throughout the season. They will build new trade for YOU. REE Rim Lugs, Bolts Nuts are great The Cabinet or Dis- Ask your jobber. a

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 Jenperatire Mester ages That there may be no variation in measure- ment due to expansion and contraction, the temperature of the glass-enclosed and dust- proof room in which STROM Master Gages are kept is most carefully regulated. At regular, frequent intervals the shop gages are brought to this test room and compared with the Master Gages and with a standard comparator checked to .00001 of an inch. No variation from laboratory standards is permitted in the STROM output. Maintaining accuracy of measurement means main- taining minimum of friction. STROM Ball Bearings as nearly approach perfection in measurement as untiring human watchfulness and constant machine precision can make them. Power flows through them with almost no resistance. STROM guaranteed ball bearings deliver the maximum of power from motor to wheels ‘Wherever a Shaft Turns” VU. S. BALL Bearing BEARING - (Conrad Patent Licensee) 4551 Palmer St., Chicago, IIl. “Maney ini iaeegeen * UiiT777 4 - REGSReWESS ees i ae TT re Prt inc rseneaaaaae aan a “aint ae ee eedass He LTTTTTIN id is i at TTT “H “MEE i ne isin a Ns " , #82, 198 An Organization “an Si =e = “3 <i ed Scientific in Principle Built for Precision aaeedlictin and Practice

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It’s Easy to ——BRUNNER—} 2-Stage 1923 Model with 20 Exclusive Features, a few of which are: 2. Extra large Intercooler insures low temperatures for second stage. 4. Improved Belt-Tightener with Hardened and Ground Shafts and Oil-Less Bearings. 5. Ground Bearings, Cylinders, Pistons, Piston Rings, Wrist Pins, and Crankshaft. 6. Removable Cylinders—making repair and replacement cheap and easy. 7. Forked Type Connecting Rods —minimizing the vibration common to most 2-stage com- pressors, 11. Every Part built on Special Tools and Gages, insuring ab- solute interchangeability. 15. Seamless Steel Tank—insures absolute safety. The only com- pressor made using this expen- sive type of tank. 17. Solderless Compression Coup- lings of most efficient type. 18. Brunner Patented No. 73 Safe- ty Valve — Absolutely Air — Tight. MOTOR AGE a ecemaniatias . beta Own a Brunner! Brunner Jobbers Quote Terms to Meet Your Financial Requirements Brunner Compressors are a help to their owners, not a hindrance. Their prices are the lowest in the world for the value delivered. Their cost per year is almost nothing when stretched over the twenty years of perfect service which they render. But—in addition—a Brunner can be obtained on terms of payment that make it almost possible to collect the money for its purchase from the service of the machine itself. Arrangements have been perfected whereby every Brunner Jobber is empowered to offer his custom- ers these terms. Ask your Jobber’s Salesman about this. Your own Jobber almost certainly handles Brun- ner Compressors, and will be glad to make it easy for you to buy one. BRUNNER MFG. CO., Utica, N. Y. Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of Garage Air Compressors in the World. Sales Offices: Cincinnati, Kansas City, San Francisco, and almost every Jobber from Coast to Coast. —! “Good for Twenty Years at =... AIR COMPRESSORS ——

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MOTOK AGE May 3, 1923 Double a High Quality 3 Ford Ignition at Low Cost- Someone in your town is going to sell a lot of Type 600 Bosch Ignition Systems this year— He’s going to make a lot of money selling them—and he’ll make a lot of new friends, too. Beat your competitor to it—get a stock of Type 600 Systems and start a sales drive immediately. You can sell them right over the counter. You'll make a hit with every Ford Owner you sell. He’ll be so delighted ist nuts delist Si sgteaateca tena | With his purchase that he'll tell all is made for battery equipped Fords of 1919 and later. It is remarkably efficient and dependable. Price, $25.00 complete. his friends.

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE 71 our Sales! 23 “WHAT IT DOES. Sales will be a cinch after that—every pur- chaser will be out boosting for you—you'll have the biggest sales force in the country. 1—Makes Easy Starting 2—Keeps Plugs Clean 3—Prevents “bucking” 4—Gives More Power 5—Saves Gas and Repair Bills 6—Stops Timer Troubles 7—Pays for Itself 8—Prevents Short Circuits 9—Cuts Down Vibration 10—Eliminates Spark Lever Now’s the time to get started. Don’t wait till your competitors down the street get a shipment in and start working on your 4 § customers. You can make a clean-up this + § year if you act immediately. Wire the nearest Bosch Branch for new sales plan and a sample fitting C. O. D. American Bosch Magneto Corporation Main Office and Works: Springfield, Mass. New York Chicago Detroit San Francisco

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 Ask Your Jobber for SEE AE A » = J] R w 2 Rack FREE with Your Initial Order for 25 Springs SPRINGS ——— —, JENKINS VULCAN SPRING CO., RICHMOND, IND. Boston Dallas St. Louis San Francisco Portland Seattle

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May 3, 1923 operating ty r work, Three feeds are provided, power, wheel, and lever, with separate lever for quick return of spindle. Actual work diameter, 21%”. Seiadle travel, 12”. Distance from table to base, 48”, ; C-O Universal Connecting Rod and Piston Aligners withstan MOTOR AGE 73 The Greatest Single Improvement Ever Made in Shop Methods! Forty minutes versus forty hours! That is the saving in time made possible by C-O Universal Burning-In Machines, in the all-important operation of fitting engine bearings. Not only is the work performed in a frac- tion of the time required by hand meth- ods, but a 100 per cent improvement in quality results as well. Think what this means in increased serv- ice and satisfaction, in added reputation and good will! The C-O Universal Burning-In Machine is the one machine that provides every facility for a quick and perfect job of burning-in and running-in bearings, re- gardless of the type of engine or its size. Use of the upper or lower spindle, as re- quired, places all bearings in full view during the burning-in operation, an essential requirement for good work. The single table control, another exclusive fea- ture, assures automatic alignment of the engine crankshaft and driving spindle. An oil sump in the table, acting as lower half of the engine crankcase, supplies adequate lubrication to bearings during the running-in operation. Provision also any position desired. CLAN EDN ction clamps permit instant change to The simplest and most flexible stand built. is made for running-in engines under their own power, an invaluable power saving feature. Detection of motor noises is made easy by the silent chain drive . The hand wheel enables the convenient testing of bearings for a perfect fit. No vibration is experienced, due to the rigid mount- ing on the heavy channel base. Here is undoubtedly the greatest advance that has ever been made in shop meth- ods. Hundreds of these machines in use prove conclusively their unequaled ability in time and money saving. Write for catalog, describing and illustrating in de- tail this and other C-O short cuts to big- ger, better profits. Address Dept. A CANEDY-OTTO MFG. COMPANY Manufacturers of Automotive Equipment, Drills, Punches, Shears, Shrinkers, Countershafts, Grind- ers, Buffers, Forges, Blowers, Tuyere Irons and Blast Gates Main Office and Factory—Chicago Heights, Ill. New York Branch—407 Broome St. San Francisco Branch—952 Folsom St,

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CONTAINERS Either five or ten gallon visible con- tainers for other makes of pumps fur- nished complete with full instructions for attaching. hy not 10 Gallons Instead of Five? MOTOR It’s just as easy to sell ten with this 10 Gallon American Visible Pump—and your SALES and PROFITS are both increased. And it SAVES your customer ANOTHER STOP. “Visible CurbPump The 10 gallon pump has all of those desirable features and su- perior qualities that have made the American Visible the leader among visible pumps. Its action is positive and quick— it is hand operated, absolutely safe—no danger from breakage, fire or explosion. All the gaso- line is filtered, and an accurate meter, furnished without extra charge, registers all gasoline pumped into container. Write us for full information and our VERY REASONABLE prices. American Visible Lubricating Outfit Serves clean oil quickly. Pump forces oil into measure —no dripping—no waiting for gravity flow. Holds three grades of oil—mounted on casters to rollin and out of garage. Convenient, attract- iveand more than doubles the sales of oil. The American Oil Pump & Tank Co. 1159 FINDLAY STREET, CINCINNATI, OHIO May 3, 1923

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MOTOR AGE There’s no way. out of it, he has to kneel down in the street—and almost crawl under the car—to get his short handled jack under the axle. Would he pay $4 to $5 for a 34-inch handled jack? You can bet your bot- tom dollar he would. And he would give you his old jack to boot. Who is this man? Isn’t he the fellow who buys his gas and oil from you, who brings his car in to have the carbon cleaned out or some tinkering done? He’s your average customer—the fellow who keeps your business going. He has punctures now and then (they Couldn’t you sell this man a long-handled jack? all do); and when he does, he is bound to cuss at the short handled jack which came with his car. “‘I always wanted a long-handled jack’’ Have you shown him the new Re- liable No. 5-A, the jack with the 34- inch detachable folding handle and a positive screw action working on ball bearings? Show it to him the next time he comes in and tell him the price is less than a “five spot.”’ Watch him twist the handle a few times, give a grunt and tell you “I always wanted a long-handled jack but I thought they cost at least $10.00.” Elite Manufacturing Company Department MA5 Ashland, Ohio . J Northwest Branch—G, A. Ashton Co., St. Paul, Minn, COMPLETE STOCK CARRIED BY: { Southwest Branch—Carroll Company, Dallas, Texas Motor Products Company, 149 Church Street, New York REPRESENTATIVES: r% E. Spencer Company, 704 Stahlman Bldg., ‘Nashville, Tenn, . E. Mohrig, 1454 Pine Street, San Francisco, Cal. Over 5,000,000 Reliable Jacks have already been sold. To get you started making your share of these profits, we will mail you one of these’ jacks and bill you through your jobber. Just write his name on your letter- head and mail it in. RELIABLE JACKS

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or RIE NIE Ne ame FAN BELTS/// Undefeated in performance, Rie Nie Fan Belts have rapidly wedged their way to unrivalled leadership in the fan belt field. While car, truck and tractor driv- ers make ready for summer work and travel, dealers who prize contented cus- tomers and generous profits, are making ready to meet Rie Nie Fan Belt demand. Scientifically constructed, with all excess stretch removed, Rie Nie “Vee Round” and “Flat Type” Fan Belts will not break nor rot. At all times they drive the fan at the necessary speed for most efficient cooling. MOTOR AGE Tie Up With the rowing Demand AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS Rie Nie Fan Belts assure motorists free- dom from overheated engines and result- ant motor damage. Rie Nie Fan Belts assure YOU freedom from unprofitable, cling-to-the-shelf merchandise. Made in standard sizes, they involve but a mini- mum investment for maximum returns. As a big step toward bigger business, stock Rie Nie Automotive Products! If your jobber cannot supply you, send your order direct to us. Catalog and prices upon request. Durkee-Atwood Co. Minneapolis Minnesota

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE What Magic Words does Dealer Benson Use: You’d like Benson. He has the knack of going right to the bottom of things. I think that is the reason for his un- usual success. When I saw him not long ago, I said, “John, I have watched you sell stuff every trip here for two years. You have anything beat I ever saw. You sell ’em twice as much as they came for and make ’em like it. What kind of magic do you talk?” “No hokus-pokus to it,” John an- swered ; “just a rule my old boss used to drill into me. He used to say ‘It’s the extra sales that make the profit. Ask ’em to buy and get next to their human nature.’ “I don’t give a hoot for a salesman that don’t know human nature. Every article that is worth selling has one big point of appeal. On the Rose Tire Pump it’s Easy Pumping. “I like to ask ’em to buy a Rose because Easy Pumping has such a big human nature appeal. It’s a weakness with every car owner. I have sold hundreds of pumps that way.” FRANK ROSE MFG. CO. HASTINGS, NEBR. Salesmanship, after all, is just a matter of appeal- ing to human nature. You'll sell more Rose Tire Pumps by talking Easy Pumping, than any other way. nck ~ — \ a18t merci il ta by bitte “

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 One of the outfits belonging to A. J. SORDONI, Forty Fort, Penna. Trailer is loaded with camp equipment, truck with tools and material for building transmission lines. Troy Trailers in a New Field Mr. Sardoni has found another use for TROY Trailers. This is in connection with Transmission Line work. He has several trailers which are used for different purposes. One is especially equipped for camp cooking, while the others are used for transporting materials to and from the job. He says: “In reference to my experience with TROY Trailers, | find them very satisfactory.” Are you interestéd in increasing your profits? If so write us at once, it might be your territory has not been allotted. THE TROY TRAILER AND WAGON COMPANY Builders of hauling equipment for over thirty-five years — Mulberry Street Troy, Ohio The Transcontinental Oil Co., New York City, N. Y. Note The J. L. & H. Stadler Rendering & Fertilizer Co., Cleveland, the manner in which this company is using their trailer. Ohio. Outfit consists of special length TROY Trailer capacity 5 tons and White Truck.

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE How to Reface Valve Seats for More Accurate Fitting N reaming valve seats mechanics often find difficulty in centering the reamer over an uneven guide hole. When this happens it is necessary to recut the valve seat to get it into alignment with the hole. Then, after reaming a second time, it is usually found that the seat has been reamed so far that it is too wide for a good tight seating of the valve and often with a bearing surface wider on one side than on the other. This difficulty is avoided, and a quicker and more accurate job obtained, by proceeding as follows: Make the first cut at 45° in the ordinary way with the Sioux Valve Seat Reamer. (See Fig. 1.) Then take a 15° Sioux Reamer and bevel off the top of the valve seat as shown in Fig 2. Work down until the lower line of the 15° cut measures a little below the outside diameter of the valve face. Now take your 75° Sioux Reamer and reface the lowest part of the valve seat as shown in Fig. 3. Cut down until the upper line is a little above the inside diameter of the valve face. Your valve seat will now appear as shown in Fig. 4, and in absolute alignment with the guide hole. It is now per- fectly centered and the proper width for most lasting re- sults. The 15° and 75° reamers can be used with the same results on the 30° or 60° valve seats. All possibility of chattering of valve seat is prevented simply by inserting a piece of 50 lb. wrapping paper, large enough to cover valve seat, on the stem against cutting points of reamer. Write for free sample. When ordering 15° and. 75° valve seat reamers the 15° should be the same size as the valve head, and 75° in most vases should be approximately 1/8 inch smaller. Any size 15° and 75° Sioux Reamer may be obtained at the same prices as corresponding sizes of 45° reamers. Write for catalog and valve seat reamer specifications. ALBERTSON & CO., SIOUX CITY, IOWA Your Jobber Sells Them Wx: b> Fig. 4.—Valve seat finished with proper width _for valve. _

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 } é6 e © ? 99 lid—or otepchl 8 an analogy Maximum pressure—tank storage capacity—motor characteristics CURTIS —automatic starting duty—frequency of operation—these are but Style “V” a few of the problems peculiar to air compressors for free air Two-Stage service in garages and filling stations. It is to the purchaser’s own Outfit greatest interest and protection to see that his CURTIS compres- sor outfit is a genuine CURTIS factory built product, factory guar- anteed, supplied and sponsored by a designing, engineering and manufacturing institution with a career of 69 successful years, When you purchase a CURTIS garage compressor outfit, built complete by the CURTIS organization in the CURTIS plant, your protection lies in the following facts— _———_— 1—The proper relation and suitability of component parts. No misfit motors, switches and the like. Speeds, loads and capacities are right, starting loads are eliminated and there is a consequent freedom from trouble and expense which the chances favor in an amateur assembled outfit—a “‘step-child” at best. 2—A complete unit tested as a unit under its own power in addition . to the usual separate test of component parts; a final check-up under A two stage bg OMLPressor 18 only as your actual running conditions duplicated in our shop. good as its intercooler. 3—The CURTIS guarantee covers the entire unit as a whole and the (a) COPPER Intercoolers with thin radiating CURTIS organization stands back of it as-a unit; no divided responsi- fins ridigly attached are original with CUR- bility, no shifting of the blame for possible trouble later on,—‘‘no TIS two-stage compressors. One hundred and passing of the buck.” thirty-five per cent better heat-conducting properties than cast iron, 112 per cent better We manufacture a complete line of both single and two-stage air than steel and 27 per cent better than compressors. A style, size and arrangement to meet your par- oluninum ticular need. Write at once for full details and prices. (b) CURTIS Intercoolers are approximately 50 per cent longer and have about 100 per cent more heat-radiating fins than competing de- CURTIS PNEUMATIC MACHINERY CO. signs. 1527 Kienlen Ave (c) CURTIS Intercoolers are exposed their J ‘ entire length to the cool blast of the fan St. Louis, Mo., U. S. A. flywheel. Branch Office: 530 H, Hudson Terminal Canadian Representative: Joseph St. All the features of the CURTIS Single-Stage, New York City Mars, Winnipeg and Toronto, Canada. plus real two-stage efficiency. €€ ° ame 4 99 ‘An Original Design Style “S” Style “X” Single- Single- Stage Stage Outfit Outfit Belted only. Portable, Belt- Five sizes, % ed or Geared. to 3 H.P. ty Sy orgee. y) \. or oe Style —— atoter. Single-Stage ¢ Outfit 7 Belted only. 4 to 7 Send .P., A.C. or D.C. oO motor. Five sizes. f Coupon 7 Curtis "i Pneumatic ? Machinery Co. 1527 Kienlen Avenue 4 St. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen: Please send me full details on Curtis Air Compressors, your proposition and prices. ee a ee ee rT aes ee ee eee De, eT eee

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May 3, 1923 “Your Bunting Bushings are ready whenever you are.” —Baby Bunting MOTOR AGE Bunting Bushings Give Permanent Value to Service UNTING Piston Pin and Spring bushings squarely meet the growing demand from automotive jobbers and service men for replace- ment lines that are nationally and favorably known. You not only render service when you sell or install Bunting Bushings but you deliver the additional value of known quality and national pres- tige. 3USHING SEARINGS Automotive Distributors — Write for List No. 111 giving descrip- tion and prices of Bunting’s “Ready Made” Spring bolt bushings and List No. 18 showing Bunting Pis- ton Pin bushings for all popular cars, trucks, tractors and motors. Cored and solid bars of Bunting Phosphor Bronze Bearing metal in 31 stock sizes. THE BUNTING BRASS & BRONZE COMPANY TOLEDO OHIO CLEVELAND SAN FRANCISCO 710 St Clair Ave.NE Main $991 es “ The Nationally Advertised Line” 24s West Sandor For years Bunting Bushings have been preferred -by manu- facturers and de- Big space in the greatest vertising medium in the world is telling car owner and dealer the value of re- ushing pistons and springs signers. Enormous with genuine Bunting Bush- quantities are used in ings. original production.

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82 MOTOR AGE sonnnnenet is <T50 WL faceor May 3, 1923

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MOTOR AGE COOOWMOOOWOOOWOOOWOOOWD - O a © A Over five thousand live dealers have already made application for franchise to sell this wonder car. In every community it fills a market never before reached! Are you the dealer that wants to command this open sales market in your community? If so, write at once for details. Next week your city may be closed! Address: “Leading Manufacturer,” Care Dept. 27, MOTOR AGE, 5 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago, II. OOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOE 4

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 FMOTORN GARDNER ~ + ~omomgnemaanonte someon nee SONKSRR NANETTE A NNR Roller Bearings The many engineering refinements that are embodied in the new Gardner are the outcome of the earnest desire of its manufacturers to provide a still greater dependability and economy. Realizing the many advantages that follow the use of Hyatt roller bearings, Gardner engineers specified these bearings in the rear: axle construction. By carrying the gear load at the differential and the car’s weight at the hubs Hyatt roller bearings help to assure for Gardner owners a rugged, quiet, trouble-proof rear axle. HYATT ROLLER BEARING COMPANY Newark Detroit Chicago San Francisco Worcester Milwaukee Huntington, W.Va. Minneapolis Philadelphia Cleveland Pittsburgh Buffalo Indianapolis

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE and your customer this package of satisfaction The straps they see and buy Motorists find it hard to pass by a display of Gilmer Tire and Luggage Straps. The display board stops customers —-plants the idea of buying a strap—sells the Gilmer prod- uct. The dealer profits with- out effort. Invite these easy sales in your store. “It’s a Gilmer Product— you can depend on it” —Happy Van IVE your customer confidence in the long trip, and yourself two sales for every one. Sell him the new Gilmer Super- Service Fan Belt in the twin package. The very appearance of this new belt promises long life. The metallic finish gives it greater resistance to heat, oil and water, those greatest enemies of fan belts. Sell this belt the way it comes—in pairs. One goes on the motor. The spare goes in the tool-box—it is sealed in a glassine en- velope to keep it clean until used. This Gilmer Super-Service Fan Belt will make friends for itself and for you. L. H. GILMER CO., Philadelphia SUPER-SERVICE FAN BELT 85

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 How a Real Bearing Service Cheated the Railroad “NV 7HAT’S that? Don’t call up the railroad! Do you mean you’ll have me out of here tomorrow night in time to make that ap- pointment in Des Moines by Wednesday?” “Just that! We'll have your bus rolling by five o’clock. These ‘Milwaukee’ distributors never failed us yet. They’ll have a new set of Mil- waukee Bearings out here tomorrow in the first mail. ‘Tisn’t the first time we’ve cheated the railroad out of a fare!” * * * * Jerry and Walt scraped ’em in and a mighty surprised and pleased customer pulled away - the next day. That’s what comes of having real nation-wide ; Milwaukee Bearin seein . service—not over a day away ! as broad as the mt Wher- : ° ever you are — there’s a stock You not only get Milwaukee Bearings when pt at! and where you want them—but when you get Our handy besides nine coms, them, they’re right. And how they stand up! trucks and tractors, and giv- ing bearing stock numbers for MILWAUKEE DIE CASTING CO., Milwaukee, Wis eo MILWAUKE. \

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MOTOR AGE You Can’t Do Ail the Selling —So We Do the First Two-Thirds for You The pedestal holding a Monogram cap up in your window makes them come inside to look it over. The Sellengine on your counter puts the Monogram Cap right in their hands, and dazzles them with an array of shields in handsome brass and brilliant enamel. By the time both have got in their work, there’s barely a third of the selling for you to do; and that little bit pays by a quick turn- over and good profit. Ask your Monogram Distributor today for a pedestal and a Sellengine. GENERALAUTOMOTIVE CORPORATION 600 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago. Illinois MonosRay Self Lockin3, Radiator Cap ORIGINAL The Pedestal

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pronounced WIC WICACO SCREW 4801 Stenton Avenue MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 K-A~co —with the Wandering Oil Groove. Number 1354287—U. S. Patent Office—covers the Wandering Oil Groove. And means controlled oil distribution within the cylinder wall. The immediate and invaluable function of the Wandering Oil Groove is to subdue friction. This it accomplishes by carrying oil to heretofore un- reached high points on the cylinder wall. The preservation of the ring is of five-fold importance. It halts the appearance of the usual friction created crevices. It checks compression leakage. It starves carbon. It enables the oil scraping edge to return all excess oil to the crankcase. It definitely postpones ring failure. * *K *K * * *K * K * * Four other features of design—the Twin Cut—the individual cast—the concentric shape—and one piece construction—make for maximum piston ring efficiency. * * * * * * * * *K * Get the complete story of the Wandering Oil Groove from our descriptive data. Also learn about our special Jobbers’ Zone Distribution Plan. It will interest you. So will the discounts. & MACHINE WORKS, Inc. Philadelphia, Pa.

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE 1923 \y.7 i 2>. eo am \| | : | a2-™ ~ GASOLINE “Saw Your Pumpa Block Away —Knew You Had My Kind of Gas” Things you should know ° a Because Gilbert & Barker pumps are Barker Pumps built to SELL gasoline as well as dis- 1, Gilbert & Barker és e ° pumps are made by pense it accurately and safely, it will one of the largest 2 ° ting “Sumps fates pay you to select this equipment for your 2. Their’ positive piston gasoline service. stroke principle of op- penn fag wee See Th 1 £ acd - 1 ae e large space for advertising disp ay po Noga: = Fae can be seen blocks away and their at- 3. Engineering ‘skill has tractive appearance will tempt motor- simplified construction e to the fewest possible ists, who may have passed by before, to parts. There is no intricate or delicate stop. mechanism to get out “4 The Oe ietini mech- "anism of the pump is Once at your curb you have the best completely enclosed and protected from possible opportunity to “ASK ’EM TO dirt, dust, and bad m ie e weather. BUY” tires, bumpers, robes, mirrors, . The quick return of ‘ automatic and. doesn’t tools—anything you know they need. ye to be F ag lown, saves the time d f th > ; Ss That’s how bigger profits are made. The square deal dial and quantity indicator gives visible evidence wa of accurate measure to Ask your oil man today for information and 1, Tae taniae copter prices on Gilbert & Barker equipment. If he poe wh 4 pt cannot supply it, write us mentioning his name tse amnee wae! | and address. and increases profits. GILBERT (ay MANUFACTURING §& : co KER Meh Kiev A221, 7-0 o)/ i el TORAGE EQUIPMENT | SPRINGFIELDMASS.

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MOTOR: AGE May 3, 1923 Sooo, g ~ es! al | i a iy ‘ iS a FW VD ees —= GET THE TOURIST BATTERY SALES TOO! HE Tourist is with us. His long day drives are burning up his battery and before he realizes his trouble the plates are buckled in his battery or the old separators are shaken to pieces. Tourist business is good business because it invariably means new battery sales. There can be no delay in battery! repairs. Quick service and a new battery is the rule. Get ready for tourist business and add that extra profit to your battery busi- ness of 1923. ET the Allen-Bradley Test Chart con- vince the tourist that you are on the square with him. Test his battery with an Allen-Bradley test set and then show him on the test chart the real trouble with his battery. You will be surprised how easily battery sales are made when you have the combination of this high-grade test set and the battery test chart. Order your Allen-Bradley test set and chart from your jobber, today. It will pay for itself in a short time. REMEMBER—The well Allen-Bradley Co. equipped shop gets Electric Controlling Apparatus the business. 231 Greenfield Ave. Milwaukee, Wis. ee Milwaukee, Wu. wigh we ogt 7 , Please ma ail your Fs latest bulletin on bat- a tery testing and ex- Se plain how we can in- crease battery sales and repair work with the Allen- a ka Bradley Test Set. TYPE L-2502 i HIGH-RATE DISCHARGE TEST SET ns ¢

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2 ass, 1928 MOTOR AGE §| Nothing Clamped 1) to Leaf Spring Exclusive Features Exelusive Distributors > : ‘ leas Here is just one of the five big selling points which are making successful Drednaut distributors—nothing is clamping to the leaf spring to modify its full flexibility—Drednauts simply supplement its action. This fea- ture is sufficiently important for the successful sale of Drednauts. There Snubs rebound; 4)—Checks side-sway; _= —Adjusts to car weight. We are daily receiving informa- ¥3 (5 5 y e are four others: (9) —Cushions jolts; 3 tion from successful distributors who have other non-competing lines, also from business men with the vision and capital to successfully repre- DEALERS— With so many sent Drednauts. Territory is becoming more valuable and more difficult points in their favor, r t W : f lib 1 a , oe — Ss be s s coming e leading selier 4 oO secure rite us for our libera proposition toc ay inthe ted anid. . 9 “ — as i Write us on your business AUTO SPECIALTIES MFG. COMPANY, 575 Graves St., St. Joseph, Mich. letterhead for our profit - " . - anes . able proposition to dealers. Canadian Factory---Windsor, Canada.

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MOTOR AGE genuine thrill / Suppose you were to hit the ordinary accel- erator with a hammer. The rigid, metal con- nection to your gs etor would “‘shock”’ open, and your cna would either race, or chokeand buck. That’s what happens when _| bumps and ruts cause your foot to‘‘jiggle’’ the accelerator pedal. But if you struck the pneumatic bulb of the M.P.C. Accelerator, the carburetor would neverknowit. Because the air by which the pressure is transmit- ted, “cushions” shocks and jars. Itis resilient, and yielding. It‘‘gives.”’ Jolting and bouncing can’t cause uneven ac- celeration. Dealers! Here is a really new Ford improve- ment that ‘‘Rings the bell.’’ It is well advertised, attractive displays are supplied, and the product itself is a genuine winner. Write for details. awai ‘s. Ford Drivers who use Compressed Air Control. Now you can have the thrill that comes from smooth, speedy acceleration, and velvety engine flexibility. The new compressed air con- trol makes that sturdy Ford motor operate with wonderful smoothness. Jerky acceleration is impossible. Bumps and ruts can’t make you unintentionally “shock” the carburetor open. The old metal-to-metal contact has been displaced in the new M.P.C. Pneumatic Accelerator by a cushion of air. The gas is fed just as fast as the engine can use it, but no faster—and always smoothly and steadily —something that no other accelerator can assure. You know how often your motor chokes and “bucks” —because you unintentionally give more gas than the engine can use. This is impossible with compressed air control. There is no rigid metal connection to open the carburetor with a jerk. An elastic column of air, controlled by foot pressure instead of by hand, operates the carburetor. The flexibility of the air literally “cushions” the intaking of the gas. The new M. P. C. Pneumatic requires no extra footrest. The accelerator is itself a footrest, soft and restful. It can be moved at any time, to any position that is most convenient for you. You can install it in five minutes, and it requires no screws and no holes in the floorboards. It is made and guaranteed by the Motor Products Corporation, an old, sound concern of the highest repute. It is warmly praised by every driver who has used it. ' And it costs only $3.00—the price of an ordinary accelerator with none of the M. P. C.’s advantages. Your dealer knows about the wonderful new M. P. C. Pneumatic. Ask him! Motor Products Corporation 11805 Mack Ave., Detroit (18) Pneumatic ACCELERATOR May 3, 1923

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23 May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE 2 (p Answer the Writing on the Wall AR-SIGHTED men discern the rising demand of the driving public for longer life in its motor cars. The millions that cannot afford a new car every two or three years must make their present or prospective cars last. New Departures fulfill these more rigid requirements in two ways— by being in themselves longer-lived ; and by that ability, making the vital moving parts they support function properly for a longer period. The finest of high carbon chrome alloy steels, correct design, and exquisite accuracy of each part and its interfitment give New Departure their rugged ' stamina. Their friction-eliminating qualities dispose of wear and consequent need for adjustability, which in turn accounts for the permanent alignment of shafts and correct setting of gears—adding so materially to the life of many important moving parts. THE NEW DEPARTURE MANUFACTURING COMPANY Z, Bristol, Conn. Detroit Chicago 93

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MOTOR AGE Ms Quick Strokes Lift the Car “J Inches fed Devil : Tire Changing Jack This service jack was designed to meet the everyday needs of the busy garage, service station and tire shop. It is a highly efficient piece of equipment for use when changing tires, removing springs, adjusting brakes and other general uses. a) vn i Wer This jack will go under the lowest axle when the tires are flat. Six strokes will lift the car high enough so an inflated tire can be put on. The long handle clears all bumpers, spare tires and gasoline tanks. Specifications Positive cam locked pawls make it impossible to drop the load acci- it as sit iaileee dentally. The handle is 48 inches long and the jack is on wheels so | paoetaumammac: 6 inches it can be rolled into position ready for use. The low broad wheel base— Length of Handle............ 48 inches ‘ i , ‘ Over All Length... 63 inches 13x6 inches—makes it impossible for the jack to topple over. Rack Bar Extension........ 534 inches y i ¥ Equipped with compensating The garage that appreciates the value of highly efficient, time and labor ne np saving equipment will quickly see the advantages of this jack. It is Lifting Toe......7% inches from floor s s y E a 8 : ‘ Over All Height ..........2034 inches undoubtedly one of the most convenient jacks ever built and a worthy | ee ee 36 Ibs. oe “1 1° ° ‘ 8 1500 Ibs. addition to the Red Devil line of automotive equipment. Handled by leading jobbers. MID-WEST MANUFACTURING COMPANY MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Bessie tity sem a» the Dusiness A. Member S. E. May 3, 1923

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE cH nationally known ring _ The same consistent quality which is ham- mered into every American Hammered Piston Ring is hammered into American Hammered advertising—and has been for years. Sales missionary work, sales promotion work, newspaper write-ups, folders, counter cards, lantern slides, sales producing consumer letters, window displays, size charts, window signs, attractive and colorful containers and many other items have made the sales of American Hammered Piston Rings what they are. There is a ready sale for American Hammered Piston Rings—repeat orders prove it. Ask your Serv- ice Station or Jobber to tell you about the American Hammered proposition—and what goes with it. CTeceasst en oe AMERICAN HAMMERED PISTON RING ct Os shay. COMPANY or kere sy Baltimore, Maryland Export Department 461 Eighth Avenue, New York, U. S. A. 2 iinet PI Gin: tec ns alee

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 Jacobs Chuck Standard Equipment What Are You Paying for Holes ? OME holes cost more to make than others—depend- ing on how you make them. A hole produced in U. S. fashion is by far the cheapest for many reasons. With a U. S. Portable Electric Drill you get speed and power that no drill has ever before pos- sessed—together with lightness and perfect balance that enable you to run it all day with- out fatigue. This new Garage Drill has been twenty years in developing, which accounts for its many obvious advantages. All bearings are ball type, and cooling is by air circulation, so the drill does not run hot. Ch npiLLs AN DRIFINDERS Note the combination handle and breast plate —saves changing of parts. And for quick and easy control nothing has yet been devised to match the new U. S. switch for convenience. It’s right under the finger, and a touch starts or stops the motor. Has universal windings, so you can plug it to any lamp socket, whether D. C. or A. C. Ask for details for Type CUD—the new half- inch drill for garage use. ELECTRICAL TOOL CO, . CINCINNATI, OHIO, District Sales Offices and Service Stations oe me Houston New York a. d Kansas City, Mo. Philadelphia Columbus Milwaukee Pittsburgh Detroit Minneapolis St. Louis Complete stocks carried in all service stations FFERS BUFFERS s HIf

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE ore {ham Above: Oakes Wheel Lock for center stud, Right: Lock for off-center stud. OAKES Spare Wheel Locks You can sell an Oakes Spare Wheel Lock on every car with a spare disc or wire wheel. It baffles thieves and beautifies the car. Stan- dard equipment on _ several fine cars. Types to fit either center or off-center locking studs. List price $5.00 and $7.50. Get a sample lock and trade discounts. y, million ire lo needed this year Make an Easy, Extra Profit on Every Car or Spare Tire You Sell VERY motorist who buys a new car or spare tire real- izes his need for protection against tire thieves and he wants a dependable lock—not a mere “makeshift”. Show him an Oakes Spare Tire Lock and he'll buy it. It combines positive protection with distinctive appearance. Does more than prevent tire theft—adds neatness and re- finement to his car, and costs little more than an ugly cable, flimsy padlock or rattling chain. This lock is easy to install; it simply replaces the regular rim wedge on the tire carrier. Has an unbreakable metal housing, and high grade lock unit. Finished in glossy black with nickel-plated face. Does not rattle or chafe tire or cover. Lasts for years. Thousands in use. Standard equipment on 15 makes of cars. Backed by 13 years’ expe- rience. Sells at $5.00 (Ford type $4.00). Liberal discounts. Write or wire our nearest distributor or factory for trade prices. This lock is a real money-maker—act TODAY. THE OAKES COMPANY, ;5%;, Indianapolis, U.S.A. Distributors for Oakes Locks BALTIMORE-—Gatch Supply Company, Inc. BOSTON—Hartford Shock Absorber Agency, 319 Columbus Ave. BUFFALO—D & W Sales Company, 1471 Main Street. CHICAGO—Auto Specialties Company, 23rd and Indiana Ave. DETROIT—Rex Sales Company, 320 Piquette Avenue. LOS ANGELES—Charles L. Mead Company, 1313 Figueroa 8t. NEWARK—Hartford Auto Products Company, 177 Central Ave. NEW YORK-—Hartford Shock Absorber Agency, 106 W. 63rd St. PHILADELPHIA—F. C. Hornbeck, 309 N. 15th Street. PITTSBURGH—Axwell Equipment Co , 240 Second Street. RENO, NEV —M. R. Sloan, P. O. Box 471 ROCHESTER—D & W. Sales Company, 261 Central Avenue SEATTLE- Miller-Lowe Tire Company, 1122 Pine Street. spre LOCK

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 This is one of a series of ads, each featuring one member of the Inland Complete Piston Service Line. A New Process A Better Ring By a wonderful new process, the Inland Products Co. is producing in the low priced, STEP-SET PISTON RING, an even tension which is not obtainable in many rings cost- ing much more. This process does not remove a particle of necessary metal—nor is the inside of the ring hammered, peened or knurled at intermittent points. Instead, a continuous swaging process sets the tension evenly all around—and sets it for keeps... The pressure against the piston walls is right for maintaining a perfect seal without undue friction. You will doubly please your customers by installing Inland Step-Set Rings: First, by giving them a thoroughly satisfactory job— Second, by giving them that good job at a Inland thoroughly satisfactory price. The Inland Complete Piston Service Line TRADE MARK Step-Set ' : Rec. US.Par. Orr Regrinders—Reborers—Repairmen—Consider the — advantage of getting replacement Pistons, Rings Forercn Countries Piston Ring and Pins all from the same source—all accurately fit- ting each other. Talk to an Inland Jobber. If you don’t know his name, ask us. Our new booklet, “The Story With a Ring To It,” tells all about the complete line of Inland Products. Write for it. INLAND PRODUCTS COMPANY, INC. Stocks in Principal Cities St. Louis, U. S. A. Main Office and Factory: Inland Replacement Pistons Inland Spiral Cut Piston Rings Inland Oiless Inland Replacement Piston Pins

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May 3, 1 MOTOR AGE for distributors— LTHOUGH our distributor plan was an- nounced only a few months ago we now have over one hundred distributors who are finding armature service a mighty profitable proposition. These distributors carry stocks of rewound armatures and serve the trade in their respective territories with immediate —S exchange service. The defective armatures Yellow Band taken in are sent to us to be rewound and Every armature rewound hes aoe 8 when returned are put back into stock. yy us carries this band on which is printed our . . . - positive guarantee that We authorize our distributors to issue with the armature will give e,e the same service as a every rewound armature a positive guarantee new one. . . e that it will give the same service as a new armature. The discounts we allow a dis- tributor enable him to sell armature service at the same prices we advertise nationally. The investment required is surprisingly small and is always represented by standard mer- chandise which can be liquidated easily. Un- der this plan there should be a complete turn- over of capital several times a year. This means a healthy margin of profit. As to the market for armature service, we might mention that our output has practically Dealers and Repairmen doubled during the last year. Armature ser- Send your defective armatures to our vice is not only a sound, permanent business nearest distributor or direct to us. : Rewound ones absolutely guaranteed but alsoa growing one. will be shipped from our exchange stock the same day the defective We shall be glad to send complete details of armatures are received. Sée prices - ¥ below. our franchise to men and concerns qualified to act as our territorial distributors. U. S. AUTO SUPPLY CO. ARMATURE SERVICE DIVISION 3845 S. Wabash Ave. — —$rine ARMATURE SI PRICES Ford Armature rewound—Any two unit generator armature rewound— $2.00 $5.00

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To get the most profit out of a crane—it should have all of these features —trussed for strength like a bridge. Removable top extension clearance like a ship’s davit. —easily converted into a portable flcor crane for use in the shop. Any Shop with Manley Garage Eq — an A MADE IN YORK PA. eis the “best equipped Shop.” It gets the business. MOTOR AGE Manley features are exclusive and patented— and this gives to the 5000 Service Stations and Garages who use the Manley Crane a decided advantage from a profit building standpoint. The tilting beam is double trussed for rigidity, its strength is therefore the same in any posi- tion—removable top extension—self contained saddle construction, will not buckle frame of car. Hoist attached directly to beam, takes up 50% less space on car. The four leverages— and many other advantages—make the Manley 2 Ton Crane stand out in bold relief as infi- nitely superior to any other. One man handles the job with a Manley Crane in less time and at less cost to you. Send for the Manley complete Catalog—a book full of money saving and money making suggestions. Drop us a postal today. MANLEY MANUFACTURING CO. York, Pa. By tilting the beam to any angle, every wreck may be handled to advantage. Beam in vertical! position top May 3, 1923 \ extcnsion fre moved. Manley 5-Ton Crane for Heavy Duty The two independently operating chain hoists are plainly shown. The tremendous leverage is obtained by using eight chains to lift the load. This gives a big safety margin. Also provision is made to use the Crane with 4 single chain in the middle for the lighter jobs:

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a ; MOTOR for Economical Transportation AGE LET The Invincible Couple Low price and high quality make an unbeatable com- bination in any line of business. Everybody wants quality, but ordinarily few get it because it is usually high-priced. Quality coupled with a price every possible buyer can well afford to pay, wins first place every time. Chevrolet not only offers quality at a LOW price—our prices are actually the lowest in the end because Chevrolet is ALL THERE AS SOLD. The great 80% market, buy- ing low-priced cars, is turn- ing to Chevrolet so rapidly as to astonish the automobile world. In less than a year, we have advanced from seventh to second place in sales. It pays to go with the tide. Chevrolet Motor Company Division of General Motors Corporation Detroit, Michigan Dealers and Service Stations Everywhere Applications will be considered from high-grade dealers only, for territory not adequately covered. All Prices f. o. 6. Flint, Mich. SUPERIOR Two Passenger Roadster . . $510 SUPERIOR Five Passenger Touring . . . 525 SUPERIOR Two Passenger Utility Coupe . 680 SUPERIOR Four Passenger Sedanette . . 850 SUPERIOR Five Passenger Sedan . . . 860 _ SUPERIOR Commercial Chassis . . . 425 _ $ SUPERIOR Light Delivery . . . . ~ 510 4 Passenger Sedanette 850 £.0.b. Flint, Michigan Utility Express Truck Chassis . . . «+ 575

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923

Build a Better Business With These Better Bearings R. I. V. ball-bearings enable a good mechanic to do a bet- ter job.

V : > ’ That better job means more cash in the till-—and a splendid <a’ advertisement for the quality of service you give your patrons. UVALIT That sort of advertisement is the surest way to keep ’em coming—because nothing else that you can do will make such a hit with a customer as to give him a well-done, (Made in Italy) trouble-free repair job. (Made in Italy) The high quality of R. I. V. ball-bearings costs you no more than an inferior product. And you can have that high quality exactly when you want it. The constantly growing list of R. I. V. distributors, centrally located at the big distribution points makes pos- sible a swift, accurate and courteous service of supply— no matter what the quantity or the type of ball-bearing you require.

1755 Broadway, New York City

SHOW THEM WHAT To BUY UALITY is so apparent in Ohio Radiator Caps, that it takes but one look to convince the motor car owner that he needs one.

BAR TYPE FOR ALL CARS Made in aluminum or bronze nickel-plated. For durability, strength and service it has no equal—not a die cast job, but has machine cut threads that fit the car accurately.

Packed in attractive display 10 DIAMOND TYPE A handsome two-color box contains an , Ohio Radiator Caps—A SURE SALES This type of cap was designed for those car owners that STIMULATOR. desire just a litthe more snap—it’s a real seller. THE OHIO PARTS CO. = = Subsidiary to FORD - STAR - CHEVROLET ° : The Ohio Pattern Works & Foundry Co. Retail Prices 3307 Colerain Ave. Cincinnati, O.

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MOTOR AGE nnee ee ewe, 5 eA * LALO we ROOT 7 z The Fisk Flat- Tread Cord The Super Tire That Commands the Big-Profit Trade Dealers will find in the Fisk Flat-Tread Cord another success as individ- ual as the Red-Top. It is a super tire with remarkable selling points, proved in more than a million miles of service before the Flat-Tread was advertised to the public. The big, deep-cut tread gives a surprising ease of riding, even on the heaviest cars, because its 35 per cent extra road contact gives greater and surer traction under all circumstances, without the ply distortion and sidewall strains big closed cars impose on tires of usual construction. Extra heavy and super strong, it is a positive assurance against skidding, and has created service records almost unbelievable when measured by experience with standard-built cords. It is trouble-free. If sufficient air could possibly be pumped into a Fisk Flat-Tread, the steel rim would flatten long before this remarkable tire approached its bursting point. It will prove up in the hardest service, and once introduced, you will have a tire which will sell itself to the high- class trade. Ask our nearest branch about the Fisk Flat-Tread Cord There’s a Fisk Tire of extravalue for every car, truck or speed wagon THE FISK TIRE COMPANY, Inc. Chicopee Falls, Mass. trate mest ton 8 er 08 Time to Re-tire? y Fiek) ‘Be FLAT TREAD big, CORD TIRES

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AGE MOTOR More for the tools you get your living by, than for those that “get by” with the car owner. More for service on hundreds of cars, than for the care of one car. ALLEN (Bay State) Wrenches with the cold-drawn sockets are for your use first, as a professional mechanic. Maybe later you'll want to sell ““ALLENS’’—but let that wait till you try them. The Bay State booklet tells all about the process pictured above, and shows sets that take the place of as many as 129 single wrenches! Sent gladly if you'll ask. 135 Sheldon Street THE ALLEN MFC. COMPANY... . © uansronp, com. Pacific Coast Branch Office: The Charles A. Dowd Sales Co., 320 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Chicago Distributor: J. V. McDowell, 6230 Ellis Avenue. Southern Distributors: The Johnson Sales Co., 1429 Candler Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. BATTERY PLATES 100% Active The oxides that go into GENERAL plates are ground by a pulverizer that makes every grain ready to respond when in the battery. They are not just mixed together. There are no hidden lumps of inactive material. Because every part is 100% active, GENERAL plates have a high capacity that satisfies your hardest customer. Your Guarantee Will Stand Up OUR 90-DAY PLAN eo GENERAL plates last longer than ordinary plates be- Our Ttay: Gam: eaeiies cause every portion of the plate takes up its share of the you to buy plates as you need them at quantity strain. That is why your repair jobs will run long past your prices without loading guarantee when you use GENERAL plates. your shelves with stock. Ask about it. Our folder “A Shop Talk. on Battery Plates” gives some inter- esting tests that may be new to you. It is yours for the asking. General Storage Battery Co. "Yoni ie May 3, 1923

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VWOTOR AGE iy ! | RE oe tan ( “ t: + . ® fo ; Fours Six Pass. Road $ “ - *$ 865 2 Pass. Road. $1175 Fitte 5 Pass. Tour, . 885 5 Pass. Tour. . 1195 5 Pass. Tour. 3 Pass. Coupe- 1175 Sed 5 Pass ~ ROA 5 Pass. Sedan - 1395 Selling Buicks is a Permanent Business Many Buick dealers have been selling Buicks for more than ten years. This perma- nency is due to the unvarying popularity of Buick and to the way in which Buick helps its dealers to a profitable and lasting business. Why not have your name on file? BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN Division of General Motors Corporation Branches in All Principal Cities VALVE-IN- HEAD Pioneer Builders of Valve-in-Head Motor Cars

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 G. & K. complete line of Fan Belting and Clutch Leathers. Well displayed, easy to han- dle, rapid turnover. Ask your jobber. The Graton & Knight Manufacturing Co. Automotive Division Worcester, Massachusetts Repairmen and Motor Owners Unanimously for the HEALD THE REPAIRMEN choose the Heald for its econ- omy in producing the highest grade of work. The Heald Universal Jig permits quick set-ups and accurate location of the cylinder bloc regardless of size or type. Simplicity of control eliminates lost motion and accurately graduated dials supplant guesswork. Every factor for cutting time from floor to floor is incorporated in the design and the min- utes saved on every bloc show in dollars in the day's profits. THE CAR OWNER demands Heald regrinding be- cause of its efficiency and economy. A _ Heald- ground cylinder is as perfect as mechanical means can make it. 90% of all motor manufacturers finish their cylinders by grinding and use Heald machines exclusively. Naturally the owners will want the same grade of finish when regrinding in — to maintain the high standard of their power plant. tion. Glad to do it. If you are considering this work, visit several regrinding shops, get in touch with the manufacturers themselves, and finally question various motor owners as to what equipment they advise to handle this work so as to bring you ultimate success. Let us send you convincing literature or even give you a personal call. No obliga- The Heald Machine Co. 61 New Bond St. Worcester, Mass.

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MOTOR AGE Seren. ~ ~ / Analysis of / Timken Steelis: \ {| Carbon 1S— .20 \ | Manganese .45— .60 | Phosphorus ! Sulphur 04 | Silicon .15— .20 } Chromium \ ' \ ‘ \ ie What 1.00% tol.20% Chromium in Timken Steel Means Timken laboratory tests, extending over a period of years, have proved that rollers containing a high chromium content have the greatest resistance to wear, and fatigue, and shock that modern knowledge can produce. ee Pe That is why the steel used in the rollers of Timken Tapered Roller Bearings contains from 1.00% to 1.20% of chromium. And that is one reason why records of many hundred thousand miles of service are not uncommon for Timken Bearings. But chemical analysis alone is not the only specification to which Timken steel is made. Timken steel is electric steel— clean, thoroughly deoxidized, electric steel made in the steel mill owned and operated by The Timken Roller Bearing Com- pany.* It is this clean, thoroughly deoxidized, Timken electric steel which makes possible the successful case-carburizing and pack- hardening that gives finished Timken Bearings their glass-hard outer surfaces with tough, elastic, inner cores. It is this clean, thoroughly deoxidized, high chromium, Timken electric steel which is partly responsible for the enviable reputation of durability held by Timken Bearings in more than 400 American and European makes of motor cars, trucks, and tractors. i *Send for booklet. The Timken Roller Bearing Company is the only bearing 1 “Timken Steel” company which makes its own steel and its own seamless tubes, n and rods, in its own electric steel mill, rolling mill, tube and , rod mill. The Timken Roller Bearing Co CANTON, OHIO © 1923, By The T R B Co, Canton, O TIMKEN Tapered ROLLER BEARINGS

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ete tT ~---.. --. ——oo™ POINTS OF PRESSURE ON CYLINDER Urank talks about piston rings NYBODY who has been selling motor cars for 14 years, as I have, has heard considerable conversation about the weak points of piston rings. After listening to com- plaints for ten years, I began to wonder why it was so hard to make a piston ring fit “light tight.” I suppose I was a lot like the book agent who didn’t know books couldn’t be sold —and sold one at every door. I just took the rings out of a notorious old oil pumper, cut a groove inside the ring and fitted a spring behind the ring that brought equal“pressure on eight points around the circle. I ran that old hack 600 miles on four quarts of oil and nary a fouled plug—simple wasn’t it? . The present Osborne ring is a long way ahead of that of course; but there is nothing wonderful about it to me, It’s a simple idea that does the job—noth- ing more. I want every driver in the country to try this better ring and I’m going to send a sample free to every dealer who believes that money can be made selling a ring that he can guarantee and look the customer in the eye while he does it. Address me personally—I read my own mail. Frankly, a THE OSBORNE AY nf PISTON RING pix iN COMPANY 5005 EUCLID AVE i __-“~ comme uv * oe | IT ml CLEVELAND SdOmNEe EQUI-TENSION LIS Ings MOTOR AGE MOTOR TRANSPORT MOTOR TRANSPORT, formerly The Commercial Vehicle, is devoted to the development of the art and science of motor transportation as it applies to the transport of commodities by Motor Truck, the transport of passengers by Motor Bus and the transportation of both by Gasoline Railroad Car. Addressed to the Fleet Owner and those concerned with the operation of fleets— its mission is to analyze all problems which properly come within its scope—- and to assist in the solution of these problems by means of editorial discus- sion. The six major problems which the Fleet Operator has to contend with in the handling of his fleet, and which MOTOR TRANSPORT helps to solve are Cost of Operation Handling Drivers Systems of Operation Maintenance Problems of Organization Legislation Each issue of MOTOR TRANSPORT has articles based upon the factors out- lined above and these articles are writ- ten from first-hand investigations and _ study by our editors in the field. MOTOR TRANSPORT is_ published semi-monthly, on the lst and 15th. The subscription price is $2.00 per year ($2.50 West of the Mississippi). Write for a sample copy MOTOR TRANSPORT (Published by the Class Journal Co.) 239 West 39th St. New York, N. Y. a

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MOTOR AGE “SELF —- OLING ~— Quick Sales! Quick Profits! Quick Turnover! —Because of this exclusive advantage a Look where you will, you'll find no other tire pump with the selling advantage possessed by MONROE Self-Oilers. For no other pump has the patented MONROE Self-Oiling Washer. Ordinary pumps and even pumps claimed to have self-oiling properties, incorporate no adequate means for keeping the valve leather permanently lubricated. As a result the leather has a ten- dency to quickly dry out and crack. When occasion arises to use the pump, compression is gone; the air leaks by the valve into the barrel, rendering the pump useless when needed most. MONROE valve construction successfully overcomes this great drawback, By means of the patented Self-Oiling Washer, the valve leather is constantly kept in a soft, pliable condition. Every stroke of the plunger sends a full barrel of air to the tire. A MONROE Self-Oiler is the practical pump for every motor car. Longer life—unfailing service—fairly priced. A substan- tial profit with every sale—and no dead stock on your shelves. If you want to supply your trade with a really dependable tire pump at an unusually low price, stock up on MONROE Self-Oilers. Thousands of dealers know how fast they sell—how quick and sure are the profits. Write for full particulars and prices MONROE AUTO EQUIPMENT MFG. CO. MONROE MICHIGAN Sales Representative to Jobbers Only The Fulton Company Milwaukee, Wis. The patented MONROE ‘Self-Oiline Washer is located just above the valve leather. Before the pump is assembled, this washer is thoroughly impregnated with a leather preserving oil. On each up-stroke of the plunger the action of the valve spring compresses the washer and releases a very small amount of oil which is absorbed by the valve leather. The leather is thus kept so soft and pliant that it readily spreads on every down motion of the plunger, completely filling the barrel and as- suring maximum compression. This proven principle of construction is an exclusive MONROE feature—no other tire pump has it. Two More Profit Producers! Along with your stock of MONROE Self-Oilers, put in a supply of MONROE Spotlight Brackets and MONROE Brake Shoes for Fords. You'll find a ready call for both these splendid articles. Priced low enough to sell quickly, yet net you a neat margin of profit, Write at once for full particulars and prices. OJ STANDARD EQUIPMENT IN MANY LEADING MOTOR CARS

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Patented 2-15-16 5-23-22 Ze, or Ford Motors The coming of the TURNER JUNIOR TIMER is the most im- bortant development in Ford ignition since the invention of the famous TURNER 2 in 1 TIMER. THE TURNER JUNIOR TIMER, a genuine quality product throughout, is built upon the same practical principle which has already established the TURN- ER 2 in 1 TIMER as the leader in its field. The same painstaking care in construction, the same high standard of material selec- tion, characterize this newest development in the TURNER Line. THE TURNER JUNIOR TIMER will positively do these things for any Ford: Increase power, greatly lessen plug fouling and in many cases stop it entirely; start the motor instantly in all weather; save gasoline; decrease motor “kicking.” It is quickly and easily installed and requires NO OILING. The Famous Turner Timer The TURNER 2 in 1 Timer, known to dealers and motorists everywhere, is furnished complete with all en- closed, short-proof wiring assembly. Here are some of the points of quality that you will recognize instantly : Brush Container of special alloy metal; Contact Brush of phosphor bronze; Contact Wire of high grade piano wire; Stop Pin holding brush in place; Flexible Metal Conduit housing all wires; Genuine Bakelite Timing Disc; Alumi- num Alloy Shell; Connecting Wires in four lengths; Best quality hardened Brass Contacts; Snug Rubber Nipple; Iiub Enclosure for wire protection. Price complete $3.60. Write today for further information concerning the famous TURNER TIMERS—the “2 in 1” with the complete wiring assembly and aluminum alloy shell—the “JUNIOR” with the Bakelite shell. TURNER MFG.CO., DEPT.K. KOKOMO, IND. Also manufacturers of the Turner All Metal Visor, Foot Accelerator and other high ane motor devices. mit RNER MOTOR AGE May 3, 1938 INSTANT SERVICE Give your customer an immediate answer when he asks “How are my batteries?” You don't even have to stop the engine—when using the Weston Heavy Discharge Battery Tester direct current voltmeter having legible, easily read scale mounted on a _ substantial prod; nickel finish. WESTON COMPLETE TESTING EQUIPMENT No. 441 “Fault Finder”’—for utility use and gen- eral testing. No. 443 Battery Voltmeter—for taking E. M. F. of individual cells. No. 354 Dashboard Ammeter—conceded to be su- preme for accuracy and dependability. No. 280 Testing Set—for every known electrical test. If you haven’t Weston testing instruments you cannot render the highest standard of service to car owners. Complete information gladly sent upon request. Write today. Weston Electrical Instrument Company 10 Weston Ave. Newark, N. J. Branch offices in all principal cities. llsers.on ene gona eel sha An Indicatin Diesiow EEC BAL | /astrument for =I]. : oe A Every Individual Need and Indus tral Purpose

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May 3, 1923 MOTOR AGE “Quick — Convenient — | REASON $ and Always Ready” C. Wolfkeil, an old hand of the | * game, says: “It should be in every auto repair shop in the country. uick, convenient and always | ¥ h Id I] th iH It is a matter of seconds | Ou AY Ou SC e only on large or small jobs, as in | auto wiring, it is the most conven- ient material that 1 have come across.” Mr.Wolfkeil hit the nail square on the head. We’ve said the same thing before and as usual we'll prove it. Write us for a sample. . It's thoroughly practical; . Gets its message across instantly; 3. It warns of a proposed stop automatically when- ever the brake is applied; . It warns of the direction of a proposed turn 50 feet, 100 feet or 200 feet before the steering wheel is brought into action; . Mechanically perfect; . Strongly built and fool-proof—nothing to get out of order; . Absolutely dependable — tested 1,000,000 times without a miss. . Economical—acts as tail light and consumes less current than a dashlight in operation; . Uses current only at instant of contact, regard- less of length of time signal is displayed; . The only signal (as far as we know) in which the entire signal face is used for every warning; . One demonstration sells it; . Attractive discount to dealers. . Backed by our broad guarantee— money returned without question if not perfectly satisfied. Mail the coupon today for complete descriptive folder and our agency proposition — it costs nothing to investigate. Attractive exclusive ter- * . . . Sold by live dealers everywhere in one pound coils, ritories still open. in cartons, and on one, five and ten pound spools . Manufacturers THE HECKMAN SIGNAL CO. CHICAGO SOLDER COMPANY 117 Bowen St., St. Louis, Mo. 4203 Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago Direct Factory Representatives: THE FAUCETTE HUSTON CO. Chattanooga, Tenn. LOUIS J. ZIESEL CO. DAVIES-ELY CO. 216 Market St. 66 W. Broadway San Francisco, Cal. New York City KESTER cAcid Gre WIRE SOLDER. tdi RIGHT NOW— IZE YeINCH DIAMETER) : : iam —s Fold and Tear on This Line FLUX IN POCKETS VIRGIN TIN & LEAD Heckman Signal Co., M.A. 5-3-23 117 Bowen St., St. Louis, Mo. . ' Please send us descriptive literature and detals of the Requires OnlyHleat Heckman Signal agency proposition. Firm Name

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They’re At It Now! HIS is road-oiling time—motorists are looking for something to re- move tar and grease from their ma- chines, something effective and harm- less. For four years Pontoklene has proved it will do the job without injury to the finest body finish. Retails at $1.00 a can. Order from your jobber today. THE PONTOKLENE COMPANY 2604 Main Street Norristown, Pennsylvania iz MOTOR AGE May 33, 1923 When operating a large garage, I built up one of the largest grease and oil businesses in the State of Michigan. I then turned that large business into a profitable one by perfecting a grease pump that would pump, without waste of grease or time, direct from the barrel into rear axles and gear boxes. I began making them for the Trade, and if you want to increase your bank deposits and give your customers better service, place a trial order for a Handy Ben Grease Pump and a handy Ben Visible Oil Pump. My grease pump accurately measures one pound per stroke. My Visible Oil Pump gives one quart per stroke. You will never know how much you have needed both until wo iness. Write today! ‘Seances Business Builders Huetter Fly-Wheel Gear Bands A dis- tinctly quality product, made of hard, tough steel, with teeth cham- are regular business builders. fered to specifications recommended by the manufacturer of the Eclipse Bendix Drive. With Huetter silent gears, you can turn out repairs that last—the kind car owners invariably look for, the kind that mean better business for you. Order direct. Our tributor will deliver in a hurry. uetter's Fly-Wheel GearBands Write for New Catalog List! Huetter Machine & Tool Co. 538 Kentucky Ave. nearest dis- Indianapolis you have tried them. Let me help you develop a real grease and oil bus- PRESIDENT BENNETT INJECTOR COMPANY Inventors and Manufacturers of Grease and Oil-Handling Devices MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN BIG PROFITS IN REPAIRING SCORED CYLINDERS No Secret or Mystery with the TORIT Process ae TORIT SCORED CYLINDER TOOLS (Adjustable blade holder magnified) TORIT tools refinish the cylinder to the same bore and surface. No new pistons, no regrinding. Easy work, big pay. Get ‘your outfit now. Price of tools, as shown, with NI citi scbheetiisttliindaicnasinbeel $10.00 Filling-in metal, per pound................... 3.50 ST. PAUL WELDING & MFG. CO. 169 W. Third St., St. Paul, Minn. Mfgrs. TORIT torches, generators, preheaters. Distributors REGO oxy-acetylene equipment. ee —

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MOTOR AGE —— ————. eilicke. at ip ne For the Ford Delivery : and Truck a HE Ford in commercial use is subjected to hard and continuous service, and it must be on the job all the er time. Time spent in the repair shop costs a tremen- er dous amount in the loss of good will and the rendering of u poor service to customers. Put a Ford Faithful Oiling System on your Commercial Fords. It will assume 100% lubrication at all times and ») without which economical transportation is impossible. A “Ford Faithful’ will positively increase the life of the Ford Motor and Transmission 50%. Burnt out bearings, scored T cylinders and clogged oil lines, are a thing of the past. No a frequent trips to repair shops or continual adjusting of trans- me mission bands. Try one out now, at our expense,—if it fails to make good we will refund your money at once. a Ford Faithful Oiling System ' Talk. Carefulness $5.75 : Sell Signals Dealers—Many operators of Ford Delivery Fleets, have, after trial, installed ‘‘Ford Faithfuls” on all their cars. They e oney really do the work and satisfy. You should carry them in stock. Write factory for complete folder and dealer’s propo- When you sell signals you are selling — safety. MEILICKE Signals guaran- tee safety. Should faulty wiring cause W 0 Th Mf C one to fail, due notice is given the . ° ompson g. 0. driver, and he governs himself accord- 330 Mountain View St. ingly. The guarantee covers any fault 3 ‘ ; , PASADENA CALIFORNIA of material or workmanship, offering ‘ WT CY rs “k oc Ford Faithful patents are being up- a new signal or money back, should hold Padesee oll be deanemnad either fail. This guarantee is backed to the full extent of the law. by a long-established reputation for fair dealings. Check-Stop signal combines a. tail- light and a stop-light. The following driver watches the tail-light, and can- not miss the stop signal that glares just above it. Installation is simplic- — rE ity itself. — \ signal system can only be as reliable as its weakest link. That is why we make our own brake switch. There is good money and good will to he gotten from MEILICKE Signals. \ letter to your jobber today starts My vou getting both. ! onrcimas rome “MEILICKE CALCULATOR CO., 944 WRIGHTWOOD AVE.. CHICAGO ILLINOIS RD FAITHI OILING SYSTEM

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MOTOR HARRIS TRADE MARK -REG US PAT OFE OILS GREASES Let your customers have the BEST! When you sell a customer a product that you KNOW will give him utmost satisfac- tion, you are increasing your most valuable asset as a hardware dealer,—CUSTOMER GOOD-WILL. Harris Oils are always of uniformly high quality. Every auto owner whom you con- vert to usmg Harris Oils will come back some day and thank you for what you have done. Let us tell you how you can make money selling Harris Oils “America’s Leading Lubricants” Copyright AWHOCO 1921 A. W. Harris Oil Co. 326 South Water St. Providence, R. I. ADPASCO TREATED GASKET PAPER sie som ceneeal For Paper Gaskets In Automotive Work Where gaskets are not exposed to extreme heat, use Adpasco. No longer necessary to use expensive asbestos sheet here. Adpasco is specially treated so it will not rot out and crack like ordinary paper makeshifts. Pliable, soft, holds its shape. Easily cut with knife or hammer head. Approx. weight 12 oz. Size 36x40 in. Sold by over 400 jobbers. Used daily in thousands of shops. ADVANCE PACKING & SUPPLY CO. 62 East Lake Street Chicago, Hlinois Pacific Coast Distributor: Allied Industries, Inc. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Peck’s Assortment of coil make—no waiting — just reach springs contains about every- into the box and pick out what thing needed in the busy you want. Garage, Service Station and Re- Peck’s Assortment of Coil pair Shop in the shape of Springs comes to you in a well springs. built wooden box, partitioned It is also a ready seller over off into convenient spaces. the Accessory counter. The Handy, efficient, good. Order car owner finds it to be just your box today. what he wants and needs. Jobbers—write us for prices and Always ready—no stopping to discounts. THE PECK SPRING CO. PLAINVILLE CONN. Have Renewable Jaws That Cannot Work Loose Milled to fit and pinned on; not cast or screwed on. Not a mere face jaw, but one that covers the entire top of the vise with steel. —and Swivels That “Grip Like a Grizzly” Not a mere clamping de- vice but a wedge and ring assembly with the strength of solid back jaw. Tightening the wedge expands the ring to a gripping power 360 degrees of the base. Send for Folder No. 9 showing all the seven Parker features. The Charles Parker Co., Master Vise Makers Meriden, Conn,, 4’. S. A. PARKER VISES “Grip Like a Grizzly’’ May 3, 1923

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MOTOR AGE THE MOST PROFIT COMES FROM CYLINDER REAMING AND HONING The F-J piston reamer enables the me- chanic to fit the wrist pins in about one- third the time required with other reamers and he is assured of alignment because both holes can be reamed at the same time. Our reamer catalog is ready to send upon This F-J set will at a small cost enable any service man to pull his way, the most profitable part of the servicing to be done on the large number of cars in his own locality. The F-J Way is the fastest and is practically identical with the factory method. THE F-J PISTON REAMER ACCURATELY SEMI-STEEL YALL REPLACEMENT PISTONS ACCURATELY. Atl For replacement work after a rebore or re-grind job insures your customer as good if not a better job than the original assembly. Dall Pistons are simply GOOD Pistons, made to manufacturer’s specifications, sometimes more refined in design and lighter in weight, but always as carefully made and inspected as though they had to pass the most rigid inspection of a Motor Manufacturer. Dall Pistons are regularly furnished in standard and various oversizes, also semi-finished 1/16 oversize. Write today for price list and delivery schedule on all items. Dis- tributors at various points will take care of your requirements. request. The Foster - Johnson Reamer Co. 1144 Beardsley Ave., Elkhart, Ind. THE DALL MOTOR PARTS COMPANY Post Office Station D, Cleveland, Ohio Southwestern Branch THE CARROLL CO. 2218 S. Harwood St., Dallas, Texas | The Ultimate Way WET INTERNAL GRINDING Wet grinding, as made possible by the Micro Internal Grinder is as far in advance of ordinary dry grinding as the present day automobile is over the old ox team. The Micro is a highly developed type of internal grinder adaptable for either wet or dry grinding, at the option of the operator, permitting highest quality of results. Its automatic action, both as to cut, feed and table travel provides the most accurate work humanly possible in excep- tionally quick time. If you're going to get a grinder, get the kind that will pay you biggest Teturns. Our bulletin gives full information—send for it. MICRO MACHINE COMPANY, Bettendorf, lowa Successor to B. L. Schmidt Co. Where’s Your Profit— in a gas gauge or a measuring stick? The Tasco Gasoline Gauge for Fords shows instantly how the gas stands. Simply screw it in in place of the tank filler cap—and leave it there. The question of “How’s the gas” is answered by one look. Just lift the seat cushion. Quick — accurate — con- venient — simple — and necessary. Ford owners need TASCO. They want it. Show it to them—they’ll buy 1t. The price is only $1.25 but the value is practically in- definite as TASCO will wear for years. There’s a TASCO for every type of Ford car, and there’s a liberal margin of profit for the dealer who handles this necessary and “real demand for” accessory. THE AKRON SELLE CO. AKRON, OHIO

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116 MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 SNM A New High Gadaiinrd of Valve Performance Gaavice men and car owners are accepting the per- formance of Toledo Standardized Valves as the new and higher standard of serviceability. The heads are electrically welded to the stem. All Toledo Standardized Valves are annealed. They are easily “Ground In”, thus forming and retaining a perfect seat in the motor block. You make more money, the car owner pays less, and the motor performs better when you put Toledo Standard- ized Valves in the place of worn and pitted valves. Stock number stamped on every valve. Packed 12 in an attractive carton. It is a valve you will like to sell. HULU UU TU AUUUUUUUUUTTT HNUINVUUUUUTUUUUUUULU UAT Save Your Fly Wheels Sold by leading jobbers everywhere The TOLEDO STEEL PRODUCTS CO. Valves exclusively for nine years HUULUUUUA AULT TOLEDO, OHIO LE When a tooth breaks in your starter gear why buy a new fly wheel. Simply turn off the gear DANNVUITNUVUVLAUOAHU AU LAH UU : — = teeth and fit on a Meachem Steel Ring Gear. It is | = much cheaper and will outlast the car. Ten = thousand in stock. 2 S 2 THE MEACHEM GEAR CORP’N. = = Syracuse, N. Y. ZAULHUUVUALIUUIULUNUUUUULUAIUUTEUUUULLEOUULSUOULUUENUULLULUUUUUUELUUUTUUA EEUU LULU The National Automobile Shows Wonder Sensation The Radiator that UNIVERSAL AUTOMATIC can stand abuse! SPRING OILER for Fords Discovered and invented by Grus Astounding and Unbelievable results GIVES PERMANENT The Perfect Leaf Spring RELIEF FROM SPRING Lubricating Good SQUEAKS sit Discounts Retail Price OILER ns Regular Sizes Complete Set of Four for FORDS $2.50 per set MANUFACTURED UNDER 3 GRUS BASIC PATENTS ces Big Sales Just think of it, no more broken springs; no more rusted springs; The Atlas Radiator is built to i i i : the cooling surface. Becatse of no more squeaky springs; no more inactive springs; no more wasted g stand abuse—It has a heavy steel this construction the Atlas will oil. THE UNIVERSAL AUTOMATIC SPRING OILERS make your car run smoothly, easily, quietly, comfortably, begin immediately to lay a thin film of oil between the spring leaves. over the spring directly back of the spring clip and they are there to stay—-will outlast the car. Just slip the oilers bar across its rear face which is integral with the bracket supports and the Radiator sides. This means a vastly strengthened radia- tor as well as a sturdy reinforce- ment of the frame of the car. not overheat in summer and be- cause its brass honeycomb core is flexible and expands as the wate freezes—it will not burst in winter. Made for all Fords and _ beauti- fully finished—the Atlas offers 4 The Atlas is not only stronger it big replacement opportunity to ‘ cient. It h Accessory Stores, Garages, Department and Hardware Stores. pg Bangg Pg os — If your dealer does not handle them, order direct. It takes two three times the water capacity of The discounts are right. Ask for oilers for each half spring—one for each quarter spring. the tubular type and four times the details. A Few State Distributors Wanted—Write Quick The Universal Spring Oiler Company Dept. E Medinah Bldg., Chicago, Ill. “SEVEN FACTORIES” STEIDLE MFG. CO. Cincinnati, Ohio ATLAS RADIATORS “The Radiator with a Back Bone” ee ES TLR ——

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Fe MOTOR PUNUUQUOUUOOOUOOUOOOUUOUNGOOOO0UNR00000CUE00URGRUCRRUEROOERROOEHOEEE Perfect Ventilation Reduces discomforts of hot weather driving The Phillips “Keep Kool” Ventilator is new— something to make the driver more comfortable and keep him in a happy mood. Ford owners will be glad to know about it. Show it to them. 7 REAL ADVANTAGES 1. Gives more ventilation than a tilted windshield or any other ventilator on the market. 2. Directs cool air on the feet of the driver. 3. Absolutely rain tight when closed — protects the coil box. 4. Made to fit standard Ford windshield frame. . Adjusted in an instant —no screws to make tight or loose. . Can be locked in any position and does not rattle. . Adds to appearance of the car and very easily installed. Jobbers and Dealers. This is a thoroughly tested article guaranteed. Sells readily and at a good profit. Distributors Wanted! Write for your territory new! F. C. PHILLIPS CO., Stoughton, Mass. Manufacturers Screw Machine Products.

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Clamps on windshield frame at any point, or bolts thru hole drilled for that purpose—any kind of car. The only cleaner you'll need in stock—the only kind you'll be satisfied with.

Malco Products Corporation A Necessity

Tested Beyond Capacity Before a Canton Crane is allowed to leave the shops it must pass a test that is carried considerably beyond its rated capacity. of the utmost importance as it as- sures positive protection against in- jury to your men or damage to the work being done. The Canton Crane built to withstand the heaviest service labor it saves. copy. Machine Co. Canton, Ohio 220-224 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah Cie> < al

This is a feature in the average garage or service station. It will give uninterrupted serv- ice for years. One man using it can handle work that would otherwise re- quire from three to six men. It will pay for it- self in less than a sea- son in the time Our booklet describes in detail the various models. Write for a free Canton Foundry & New York Office: 203 E. (5th St.

MASTERPIECE of mechanical perfection —reinforced at every vital point—built to serve long and well. MALCO Universal Windshield Cleaner PRICE $1.50 Ask your jobber’s salesman about the Malco products or write us direct, sending name of jobber. HNUNHIAUU ULL Who Makes the In- sulation of the Spark Plugs You Buy? Consider for a moment the importance of an insulator to a spark plug. If the insula- tor fails, as it often does, the spark plug’s usefulness is ended. So look to the insula- tion when you buy spark plugs. Be certain that the insulator will withstand all sorts of abuse and have that “heating- resisting” efficiency so essential to long- lived spark plugs. If you want to be sure of these qualities— Look for “775” on the insulator. It is scientifically manufactured to resist heat and give great strength. The practical proof for this remarkable goodness lies in the fact that most of the better spark plug cme 99 manufacturers use “775.

FRENCHTOWN PORCELAIN CO. Trenton, New Jersey

“Established in 1910— ye | 5 Busy Ever Since” 100% tested park Plug Porcelain

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Dealers—Jobbers—Send for This FREE Sample of N'NITE Cleaner-Polish Find out for yourself what hundreds of dealers have discovered—that a higher price is no handi- cap when selling a used car cleaned and polished with Ken-Nite. In fact it’s easier to get the high price than the low one. Helps Sell Used Cars Williams and Hastings, Michigan Hupp dis- tributors get more on resale jobs than ever be- fore, since using Ken-Nite. Some dealers report getting from $25 to $50 more for second hand ears cleaned and polished with Ken-Nite. A friend of our president writes: ‘‘I bought a used car last week: It looked a year and a half younger than represented. Later I found it had been cleaned and polished with Ken-Nite. I probably paid $50 for fifteen cents worth of Ken-Nite. I’ll take my hat off to the boys who can put that across.’’ So you see, they not only pay, but LIKE to. Ken-Nite restores the original hard, dry _ bril- liance of the paintshop’s work. It doesn’t cover with a shiny, melting, dust-catching skin. That's why repeat sales are many and frequent. Liberal Jobber Discounts Our sales are getting past the point of distiibu- tion direct to dealers. A concentrated advertis- ing campaign will shortly bring volume up to thousands of gallons weekly. We need SELLING jobbers to handle that business. Write for our unusual terms and sales-help. KEN-NITE COMPANY 4855 Woodward Ave. Detroit, Michigan Just Clear The Cylinder No skilled help is required to resize cylinders with the Auto-Hone it is so simple and ef- fective. It ordinarily takes about four days to com- pletely dismantle a motor—send the bloc out for cylinder resizing — get it back and reas- semble the engine. The modern way is—connect the flexible arm of the Auto-Hone to your electric drill—slip the Auto-Hone into the cylinder—turn on the power—and in fifteen to twenty minutes the four honing stones remove the usual five to seven thousandths out-of-round—all traces of taper —- ring travel — unevenness — leaving a clean, smooth, polished cylinder surface. Every Garage and Service Station can make a big profit. Put aside questions—disputes—-curiosity—and get the facts. Order yours—today. : IND 3 ot ie , . R me AUTO-~HONE co- co) GENERAL OFFICES eS 1587 MAIN STREET “rene? BUFFALO, NW.,U.S.A. MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 Miles ahead of competition. Benzer Windeflectors are made of finest plate glass, Y% inch thick, with a half-inch bevel, and metal parts of nickeled solid brass. This retail price brings a big profit to you and brings it often. This “Silent Salesman’”’ will give Benzer Windeflectors prominence in your store. This stand sent Free with your order for 3 sets. Write your jobber today; he has them. THE BENZER CORPORATION Myrtle, Cooper & Webster Aves., BENZER Brooklyn, N. Y. AUTOMOTIVE GLASSWARE Put a Storm Cylinder Finishing Tool at Work in Your Shop Without adding any extra help or expense and investing as little as $36.25 in a Storm Cylinder Finishing ‘Tool you can now turn out the most profitable shop work in the shortest time—give a cylinder finish never before approached—do it in less time, do it better, and make more money on every job. Used with Electric Drill, Drill Press, or with Storm Automatic Cylinder Finishing Machine. Absolutely self centering. Capacity 2% to 8 inch with unvarying, correct pressure. Write for new book on Modern Cylinder Methods. 4 Y Lda Vn Vk Dept. A 406 Sixth Ave. So., Minneapolis Steady High PERFORMANCE is a certainty with the new Waukesha ; ‘ Bus and Truck Mo- y ee ' tor. Operating costs are a revelation in motor economy. i aes senate Write for complete details. The Waukesha Motor Company Waukesha, Wisconsin BUS 220 TRUCK MOTORS TS ee

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N \ | MOTOR _LOMAR LOMAR. ABSORBERS Just Like Gliding Over the MostAbrupt Rut One demonstration—one ride on Lomar Shock Absorb- ers and they are sold tight. They positively prevent jars and shaking up. They give the car occupants that “Floating through air’’ feeling. Shall we send you our proposition? LOMAR MFG, CO. Middletown, Ohio The most stubborn wheel lets go when the Crane Puller is used. No fear of breakage—the Crane design and Crane materials make these pulling tools more than equal to their job. Arms drop forged from high carbon steel, screw case-hardened with inserted tool steel point. Three models, including the new universal Two- arm, Three-arm Crowfoot model, 4 sizes of each. Real tools for busy mechanics. Our 24-page folder gives you the whole wheel-puller story. Write for it. CRANE PULLER CO. Arlington Mass. AGE SLIDING GEAR TRANSMISSION /or FORD CARS and TRUCKS Here is the BIGGEST PROFIT MAKER IN 1923 Ford truck and passenger car users everywhere want MOHAWK Sliding Gear Transmissions. Produces more power and flexibil- ity. Stops destructive vibration and motor racing. Attaches at rear of old transmission. Can be used with or without the old transmission. When used with you get SIX SPEEDS FOR- WARD and TWO REVERSE SPEEDS. When used without you get THREE SPEEDS FORWARD and ONE REVERSE. Guaranteed for Life of Car or Truck The Mohawk Transmission will outwear the car or truck in which it is installed. It is a complete unit in itself. Gives the Ford a speed for every road or hauling condition. Eliminates planetary troubles and necessity of replacing bands. In Ford truck the MOHAWK will pull three tons anywhere traction is possible. Built with nickel steel gears. Standard ball shift type gear lever and right hand emergency brake. The MOHAWK Transmission equipment can be installed in from five to six hours with an ordinary set of tools. No machine work necessary. Comes ready to install. Write for full description and prices. Dealers: Write quick about open territory MOHAWK MFG. CO. Dept. M, Peoria, Illinois Every “STOP” Light needs this Car owners will buy Elm City No. 50 Switches just as fast as they learn about them. For an Elm City No. 50 will make any “STOP” signal work. Jobbers It has never becn known to fail. Dealers Dealers like to handle it because it is popular and sells fast. cae 7 ba All brass — even the spring. aa hy be Water, dust and rust proof. special trade olin Mechanically perfect. Absolutely —and discounts, guaranteed. Get the details. The C. S. Mersick & Co. 274 State Street, New Haven, Conn.

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 Re-Babbitted Bearing Exchange We Re-babbitt any Automobile, Truck or Tractor Connecting Rod or Main Bearing with HIGHEST GRADE NICKEL BABBITT and finish them regular Factory sizes. All work guaranteed satisfactory or money refunded in full and transportation paid both ways. All RUSH Orders shipped same day order arrives, We shipped over 100,000 Bearings last year. Over 5000 satisfied Dealers and Garages will recommend us. Save one-third to one-half your Bearings costs by sending us your work. Ship Parcels Post or Freight. We sell wholesale only. Fremont Foundry & Bearing Works Oklahoma City—U. S. A. EXPANSION HAND REAMER BLADES CUT AT , DIFFERENT ANGLES Each successive blade cuts AT A DIFFER- ENT ANGLE from the one before it. No CHATTE R, no DIGGING IN~ even in keyed holes. TWICE the expansion of others. All sizes. Money-back guarantee. Ask about the GAMMONS TAPER PIN REAMER—Wonderful Time-saver. THE GAMMONS-HOLMAN CO. Dept. C. Manchester, Conn. ag -* The Bearings Company of America Lancaster. Penna. Angular Contact Radial Bearings—Angular Contact Thrust Bearings —Thrust Ball Bearings—‘STAR” Ball Retainers for Thrust, Mag- neto, and Cup and Cone Bearings. weir Your inquiries are solicited Western Sales Office, . 1012 Ford Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Get This ‘‘Pioneer’’ Garage Special Electric Drill i) ies and Valve Grinder Greatest time and money saver, as well as money maker, for your shop— “It Will Do The Work” Louisville Electric Mfg. Co. Incorporated Louisville, Ky., U. S. A. C. E. Willey, Pres. J. B. McFerran, Secy.-Treas. Ford, Buick, White and Other Foremost Auto Manufacturers Use — init COMBINATION For All Metals SOLDERING AND TINNING FLUX A complete substitute for dangerous acids, commonly used as a Flux. Ruby Fluid is quick acting, anti-rusting and always ready for instant use. Ruby users include the foremost industries of the country. NON-EXPLOSIVE, NON-CORROSIVE, NON-INJURIOUS. THE RUBY CHEMICAL CO. 68-70 McDowell St. Columbus, O. SHNSGN No. 7 Hand Torch mongeess: ~ Sg ee EY Requires No Forced Air Blast The most efficient Torch for any pre-heating, soldering or repair work, Fitted with one Powerful Johnson Burner with shut-off valve and pilot light. Will produce a flame temperature of 2250 deg. Fahr. Is light, weighs 1% lbs., and only consumes 10 cu. ft. of gas per hour. Write for descriptive circular of Gas Appliances. Air-Tight Steel Tank Co. PITTSBURGH, PA. TANKS Tanks—High Pressure and Storage—Regular and Spe- cial to Order—Brazed or Welded—Gasoline Storage Tanks and Pumps—Structural and Machine Work. Send us your inquiries or specifications. AKRON- U The Standard Vulcanizer Equipment for Repair Shop Use A complete line, coverin ment of the trade. —Vulcanizers, Netreaders, Steam Boilers,. Tools, etc. Write today for descriptive li g every require- Tube Plates terature. & RUBBER MOLD THE AKRON WINE CO. er Ave., Akron, Ohio 919 Sweiltz ERMOL TIRE REPAIR EQUIPMENT

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MOTOR Easier to Sell! Motorists will buy the Hykon Luggage Car- rier because it’s the most practical carrier they have ever seen—and so inexpensive. Placed under the running board, Holds lug- gage secure. Durable and easy to-use. List $1.50. Ask your Jobber. THE HYKON MFG. CO., Alliance, Ohio vixen LUGGAGE CARRIER Just What the Trade Wants— A HAT RACK for any Car Here is an article on which there is bound to be a quick turnover. It is an accessory which car owners have long wanted but could never d find. tects the hat, Enclose $1.00 for Saves hat cleaning bills. Dealers! $1 considering its SAND’S . Fastens to the top where it holds and pro- completely out sample. OO A Price Which Makes "Em Buy An insignificant price, especially apparent utility. AUTOMOBILE HAT RACK of the way. Get our proposition Racine Iron & Wire Works °8* Racine, Wis. ALUMINUM ALLOY NON EXPANDING- How to Eliminate Piston Slap Piston Slap is a common and vexatious cause of engine trouble which in the past has bothered most car owners. But it can now be eliminated. With the E. C. L. Aluminum Alloy Non-Expand- ing Piston. E. C. L. Pistons may be fitted with a closer degree of clearance than cast iron pis- tons. They reduce the consumption of gas and oil — increase power and speed and eliminate spark knocks. Let us tell you more about this remarkable piston. Write for the details today. E. C. LONG Main Office and Factory 4834 Beaubein Street — Detroit, Mich. MR. RADIATOR REPAIRMAN Make your own radiator cores and save 20% to 50% of their cost, give your customers quick service and a better core for less money. stocks of cores, in shipping. ume of business. trated booklet radiator No need to carry large and no damage Increase your vol- Send for illus- describing our core equipment. We supply small shops with formed core stock and the small fixtures to build cores complete. Write for information to Radiator Engineering Co. 626 Nesslewood Ave. Toledo, Ohio PARANITE CABLR Best for Automotive Work We carry at ail times a complete stock of every kind of cable used for automotive work. Many years of spe- cialization have brought PARANITE Cables to the high- est state of perfection. The finest grades of rubber eee cotton and flexible enamel varnish are used. FOR 33 YEARS THE STANDARD IF IT’S PARANITE It’s RIGHT Quality jobbers handle quality cable— that’s PARANITE. Indiana Rubber & Insulated Wire Co. 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago Factory and General Offices—Jonesboro, Ind. These strain. locked Cramer Reinforced Plates for Battery Makers reinforced plates are constructed with sufficient brace to with- stand the most severe The active material is into the plates— preventing buckling or splitting. - Cramer Reinforced Plates are specially built for hard service. Send for full particulars. CRAMER BATTERY COMPANY 515-17 Wyoming Ave. Scranton, Pa. | Do You ——— Two-Pluz Ignition— the system that ignites the gas at two opposed points at _ once? This burns the mixture completely and almost instantly; imereases power and gasoline mileage; saves fuel and lessens carbon accumulation and spark manipu- lation, SU-DIG Series Spark Plugs added to the plugs now in your engine give Two Plug Ignition. A Wonderful Improvement in the running of your car. No change in present equipment required. Write for free booklet, “How to get More Power.’’ Please mention car. = Superior Motor Power Co.,75A Spring St., New York more & steadily Because one or more Units of Basco Automotive Elec- trical Equipment or Body Hardware appear on the majority of American cars and trucks, the Basco Serv- ice Franchise is becomin pular. A strong, more profitable and po} responsible organization—a leader for 12 years—stands behind the Basco dealer. BASCO PROD gy ignition Switches; Generator Body Hardware. Write for NEW catalog. pratt Wisconsin lighting and uts; Horns; gs

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The KESS gop VALVE GRINDER A new valve Grinding device— Cuts Costs—Costs Little A TREMENDOUS BOOSTER for High Speed Drill Sales Liberal terms to Distributors and Jobbers Get the Details KESS MANUFACTURING CO. 809 HARRISON BLDG., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

AS G 0 The Original Spring Lubricant CURES RUSTY SQUEAKY SPRINGS Prevents Carbon, Cleans Spark Plugs, Loosens Sticky

Valves and has hundreds of uses on the car and in the garage. POLYGON PRODUCTS CO. 141 Milk St. Boston, Mass.

WEIDENHOFF PRODUCTS Electrical Testing Equipment Universal Test Benches, Growlers, Magnetizers, ete. Write today for Bulletin M-18. 4358 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, Ill., U.S.A.

SAPIHL VALVE GRINDER No Chatter Merks, Vibration or End Play TEN DAYS FREE TRIAL Besides grinding valves it will make money for you grinding pistons, contact points, bushings, reamers, etc. Built in two units and can be attached to lathe for internal and external grind- ing. Does the work of higher priced machines. Write for Illustrated circular and prices General Tool & Equipment Co. Distributors 70 W. Monroe St.

Chicago

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The “UNEEK” and “OTIS” Hose Clamps are in a class by themselves OTIS-FLAGG CORPORATION Main Office and Factory YORK, PENNA.

s _& Specify “R. S. P. VALVES” R P Special Alloy or Chrome Nickel Send for list Standard and Oversize—Forged in one piece RICH STEEL PRODUCTS CO. Los Angeles, Cal. Battle Creek, Mich.

CYLINDER HONES Can be operated without removing engine from vehicles. An abso- lutely true hole. Small first cost. Large profits. Have efficiency of large, expensive grinders.

F-40 For Fords and Chevrolets. A thrust bearing for the differential. Makes ’em push easier, climb better, dodge axle trouble.

S tev See Ky, J (.) “ + fab ©? fase bie Vy \' Vie A < . S ‘f is3 nS 4 Bantam Ball Bearing Co., Bantam, Conn,

The Aristocrats of Motordom 7 Models-Open and Closed

Distributors in principal

cities. Open territory now heing closed. Kissel Motor Car Co. Hartford, Wis,

Manufacturers are invited to get in touch with us regarding their ignition requirements. Robert Bosch Magneto Co., Inc. The Genuine, Original Bosch Otto Heins, Pres., 123 West 64th St., New York

THE GREEN LINE FOOT ACCELERATOR Quickly installed, no bolts to remove. Action is easy and positive. Works free from hand throttle. Floor boards can be removed without disturbing Acceler-

ator. Write for full particulars. 3 $1.25 Green Manufacturing Co. 506 Second an Milwaukee, &.

Let your customers hear the Sparton speak!

THE HYDRAULIC CONTROL More than a Shock Absorber because it fluid-cushions all move- ments between the body and the chassis—gives a new experience in riding comfort. Good distribution territory is still to be allotted. For information write to AUTO SPRING CONTROL CO. Jamestown, N. Y

Special display board given free with initial order for six. Write for complete particulars. The Sparks-Withington Co., Jackson, Michigan Less Oil and Gas—from - » 9 = OL ee ae eal “contd CONTROL feature is guaranteed to stop oil pumping, pre- PISTON RINGS 2f0%.05 and reduce carbon for- mation. Write for interesting circular on oil pumping and details about this fast Selling piston ring. THE WELEVER PISTON RING CO. 1713-15 Canton St. Toledo, Ohio

STEVENS TOOLS AX te. \ UL SHORT CUTS IN NEW CA OG T-105 ASK FOR IT STE VA aN ES £2 COMPANY NAY, NEW YORK

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 JACOBS CHUCKS INSURE ACCURATE DRILLING “A Jacobs Chuck Write for circular, for Every Purpose.” THE JACOBS MANUFACTURING CO. Hartford, Conn. we, we to handle the WYNONA FENDER BRACE A patented, permanent, adjustable brace for Ford car fen- ders. More than 15,000 sold in March. Fastest selling fender brace on the market. Write for details. Wynona Fender Brace Co. 1217 Southwest Blv’d GET ACQUAINTED WITH GASKO CEMENT It’s Better Than Shellac for Motor Gaskets Send 25c in stamps for Trial Tube—Today. VAN SICKLE MFG. CO., Lincoln, Nebr. ——____ Kansas City, Kas. CARTER OIL GAUGES For Ford, Chevrolet and Dodge—Only $3.75 Buick, Oakland and Chandler—$5.00 ACCURATE—EASY TO INSTALL—GUARANTEED Screw gauge to dash or instrument board; connect copper tube with elbow in place of lower petcock. No oil passes thru tube or gauge. No moving parts, floats or plungers. Easy to sell; easy to install. Big money-makers. Order from your jobber or write for discounts. Carter Motor Accessories, Inc., 388 Pearl St.. Buffalo, N. Y. ache Powerful Battery— Powerful Seller The Dragon is full of power and endurance. That’s why it pleases the user. Make it your business to please your custom- ers. Find out about the Dragon franchise. f ——eee Sees Ki or >48 8 Write or Wire K-D Parallel Jaw Valve Spring Lifters Does Your Jobber ¢ LATS K-D No. 100 Cut-Out Pedal VOUDEUEERAGGECEUTTTEETE Dealers Write NOW ENGLERT MANUFACTURING CO. Pittsburgh, Pa. COMPA K-D MANUFACTURING CO., Carry K-D Specialties? Sending Jobber’s Name Lancaster, Penna. {ARV Rim & Wheel Co., Inc. 25 _E. Jewett Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. WARNER GEAR COMPANY MUNCIE,INDIANA @ CLUTCHES, TRANSMISSIONS, CONTROLS, There is a Harvey Steel Disc Wheel in the various _ styles which we make for each size of car at interesting prices. DIFFERENTIALS See the Beveled Edge and Oil Groove of the Universal One-Piece Piston Ring Forced Lubrication Prevents Foul Plugs. The beveled top edge and central groove keeps oil from the com- bustion chamber—reduces carbon. Dealers—Write for the details UNIVERSAL MACHINE COMPANY Baltimore, Maryland 1412 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. Auxiliary firing-chamber gives it the explosive a howitzer. jJusted LEANER imme- diately. Overcomes oil, self-cleaning. Distributors wanted. NgT SPARK PLUG With the Explosive Spark THE T. N. T. SPARK PLUG CO, Cleveland, Ohlo H. G. Paro, ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A REAL BARGAIN? Watch the classified advertising columns of MOTOR AGE and you'll see many of them. Often a man has goods for quick disposal and he announces the fact here. Whether or not you are in the market right now for certain things you will find it pays to look over the classified ads every time you receive your copy of the paper. It’s a good habit to get into and some day you'll be mighty glad of it, = Get the Habit— READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS IN MOTOR AGE DISTRIBUTION PLAN Pmpire visti Tires and Tubes these and tubes [mpire fire & Rubber Corp PRENTON SAY “W. & C.” and Your Jobber Will Give You the Most Successful Time-Tried Shock Absorber for Fords ~ WW. & C. Shock Absorbers Sell P. H. WEBBER COMPANY Hoopeston Illinois i THE NEW EMPIRE Yor information about the Durant and Star Car selling franchises write DURANT MOTORS, Inc. 560 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, N. Y. make extra profits on well Known super-standard casings “Wear Longest” NEW JERSEY

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 One Dealer Sells 125 in One Month Similar reports about the Optoshield ing in con- stantly from all parts of the country. “This accessory has taken its place among the most popular sellers in recent a THE OPTOSHIELD Fits any windshield. Made of sapphire blue scientifically made optical glass. Driver looks through it and is relieved of all eye strain from oncoming head lights, sun glare, snow glare and road glare. Price $3.50. Territorial distributors, dealers and agents wanted. Detro Sales Service Co., 1647 Penobscot -Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Crank Shaft Grinder | (Patented) T R PRICE $75.00 does perfect job without taking motor down. Rebabbitting un- necessary. Fits all sizes of crankshafts. No skill required. Send for circulars on this, also Peters Universal Bearing Reamer, Connect- ing Rod Bearing Reamer, Metallic Filler, Aluminum Brazing Solder. PETERS ENGINEERING CO. 33rd Street and Woodland Ave. Phila., Pa. ir Com sors; Gasoline and Oil ™ e Sys- pd a Meta! S e Tanks; . ecaine Systems, Furnaces and A— on Filtration Systems; Water Softening Systems. WAYNE TANK & PUMP COMPANY, Fort Wayne, Ind. TWO BIG ‘FEATURES The Hatfield Tire Car rier. » a F Re moves tire and rim. da . Write today. No. 2. Feature. The Hatfield & Trunk Equipment. SenK CANS De ba ter Features. The Bradley Motor Products Co., Fostoria, Ohio Put a G A N I Giant to I Work on Your SHOCK ABSORBERS DODGE Built exclusively for Dodge Brothers Cars. The Shock Absorber with the remarkable guarantee. Write at once for full partic- ulars. RED GIANT TOOL CORP., Lynchburg, Va. LATHES for Garages and Repair Shops Be sure to get our Special Prices. Carroll- Jamieson Machine Tool Co., Batavia, Ohio Single and wide face Tailor made high grade bumpers The Bellevue Manufacturing Company Bellevue, Ohio ATWATER KENT The World’s Highest Grade Ignition, Starting & Lighting. 4957 STENTON AVENUE PHILADELPHIA, PA. Welco Products Are Quick Sellers All-Size Step Plate fits all running boards by simply moving toe plate forward. Welco Ford Accelerator works independently of hand throttle; very easy installation. Welco Blanket Holder keeps blanket securely on radiator against strongest wind. Write for trade proposition. WELKER MANUFACTURING CO., Middletown, Conn. WELCO Products KING QUALIT y PISTON PINS Automotive Division KING SEWING MACHINE CO. Buffalo, N. Y. Bridgeburg, Ont., Can. Taps, Dies, Cutters, Drills, Reamers — Send for Catalog ALVORD REAMER & TOOL COMPANY Millersburg, Pa. UNIVERSAL 3&0, | Adjustable. Two oo will clamp any hose of any diameter. Made from cold rolled steel out of wire. No rough edges to cut hose. Put on in less than a minute. LEverlastingly leak-proof. Order . Universal Hose Clamps. Trademark on every clamp and carton. Get them from your jobber—or write us. UNIVERSAL INDUSTRIAL CORP. Hackensack, N. J. ee ALVORD QUALITY TOOLS TRADE MARK OILING SYSTEM c & FOR FORDS 4 Off. JOBBERS are offered an opportunity to cash in on a strong advertising and sales campaign on a neces- sity Ford owners are glad to buy. Ask for particulars. ROLAND & KOCH 4it So. Malin St. 2715 N. Broad St. Philadelphia, Pa. s*COURIER® Nine body types, from $1,195 to $2,165 THE COURIER MOTORS COMPANY SANDUSKY, OHIO — OV 211918 Seals both the cylinder wall and the piston groove —the double sealing fea- ture that has made this ring famous. Write for our dealer proposition— it’s a mighty good one. DOUBLE SEAL RING COMPANY General Sales Office: 2335 S. Michigan Avenue, CHICAGO ‘ Dhirb) selon , BRANCHES 4 AHLBERG BEARING COMPANY 521 EAST TWENTY NINTH STREET, CHICAGO ILLINOIS

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iL ee May °, 1923 DOUBL oO ALES Install one or more units of the Correct Measure Motor Oil Display Pump on your curb. ‘‘Make him think of oil.”” This pump is hand- some in design, sturdy, holds 12 gallons. Empty weight 65 Ibs. Low center of gravity. Can be rolled to curb in morning and back indoors at night. Delivers % gal. in 12 seconds. Price $45 per unit. Write for details, ORRECT MEASURE PLAY P Rochester, Pa. Correct Measure Co., Inc. MOTOR AGE | bo wn Like a Pocket in a Shirt Has many uses. Drain crankcases, test tubes, scrub parts, carry tools, — parts, throw scrap in it. One piece of heavy gauge galvanized Won’t tip over. List of Rockies steel. HAN DI-PAN ® "= Sales Dept. Standard Motor Parts Co., 1464 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois ee. hee? Mfg. Co. 5401 S. Western Ave., Chicago, Hl. LINENDOLL, 2222 | Warms any car, open or closed. No odor, smoke, dust or noise, Easily installed, operated and cleaned. Sells quickly. Write for our attractive trade fo agp THE NORWALK _ a ae COMPANY Norw: PROMPT SERVICE we will give you on LosIER PISTONS for almost any make of CAR, TRUCK and TRACTOR FOSTER-JOHNSON REAMER CO. 1054 Beardsley Ave., Elkhart, Ind. GRINDING MACHINES BORING MACHINES LANDIS| LANDIS TOOL COMPANY WAYNESBORO, PA. NEW YORK OFFICB: 51 Chambers St. IT’S EASY TO SELL “The only oil ring with a mileage guarantee” “Sav-Oll” Is stamped on bottom of every ring The Sav-Oil Ring Mfg. Co. 1037 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles —> “CONNEAUT” Plastic Metallic Packing Patented June 18, 1918 Stops the leaks in automobile water pumps. Mold it with your fingers. Makes a smooth, metal bearing—adjustable and practically frictionless, At your Jobber—Get it today. It does the trick. Put up in 1 Ib. cans. The Conneaut Packing Company Conneaut, Ohio | Side Wall Model. Dash Insert THE FARGO ASH RECEPTACLE sat It Does Sell for Two-fifty. Get Some! THE FARGO CO., Inc. 303 Watson St., Ripon, Wis. THE RAYBESTOS COMPANY Factories Bridgeport, Conn. Peterborough, Ont., Canada. Branches: Detroit, 2631 Woodward Ave.; Chicago, 1603 South Michigan Ave.; San _ Francisco, "835 Post St. It's all right-this Ford is th Rush Adjustable Emergency Brake Shoes W. S. Rush & Co., Mfrs., 112 N. Daly St., Los Angeles, Calif. S. S. McClelland Co., Eastern Distributor, 1926 Broadway, N. Y. City Equip Your Shop HOYT Electrical Testing Instruments Burton-Rogers Co., Boston, Mass. ReV Knight Ss “EVERLASTING PERFORMANCE” Engine Sealed and Guaranteed for 2 Years R & V MOTOR COMPANY East Moline, Ill. \ ) il Johnson SPARE TIRE LOCK Made by JOHNSON AUTOMOBILE LOCK CQ. DEPT. B, ST. LOUIS, U. 8. A, SOCKETS WILL NOT BREAK This new socket wrench is something every mechanic has long wanted. Made from selected stock, specially heat-treated and hardened. No other sockets are quite so strong, no other ratchet quite so well made, no other universal quite the same. Care and quality is evident in every unit. Exceptional facilities allows marketing at an attractive price. Write for guarantee. THE EASTERN MACHINE SCREW CORPORATION 10-20 Barclay St., New Haven, Conn. MANFACTURING COMPAN W LISBON ,QHIa HIGH BY af = 2 8) ACCURATE MEASURING PUMPS S. F. Bowser & Co., Inc. Home Plant, Fort Wayne, Indiana

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MOTOR AG May 3 “Silence is golden.” So is the Cloyes Timing STOPS GUESSING Gear. a definitely direction driver For it assures a silent, smooth running motor to =. ainenale as both ae ‘ ear Of Open permanently. And this pays. : or closed cars. Meets re ; quirements of all State CLOYES GEAR WORKS 7: laws. Attractive — Dur- 1614 Collamer Ave. Cleveland, Ohio — _— we “ , ealers - Jobbers, write SALES REPRESENTATIVES ‘ for detalls and territory. UNITED AUTOWARE CO, The Motor Products Co, Fisk Bidg., N. Y. C. pele Fevtem : THE DOUBLE CONTACT TIMER S ae a ») Combines the “‘wipe’ and unfailing. A won- 4 and “‘roll’ contact derful dealer proposi- » principles. Gives full, tion. / perfectly Satine wallet We. MOTOR TRUCKS for low-cost hauling Models range from the 2,000-lb. Speed Truck to the 10,000-Ib. truck. Some territory is still open for dealers. International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated) Chicago, U. S. A REID AIR PRINGS Can be installed by dealer FLOAT THE. SCAR ONAIR who sells them. Big oppor- AXLES, Keys, Nuts, SPRINGS tunity for distributors and Most Mehl. develeped y move Write. WE MANUFACTURE replacements for all makes iad fetes delaed dle THE of cars and sell to jobbers all over the world. Spring. No side swsY REID AIR SPRING CO. BUTLER AUTOMOTIVE STEEL CO. or tipping at turns. New Haven Conn. Factory: 101 K Street, Easton, Pa. PISTONS WEIGH LIGHTEST - FIT TIGHTEST Regrinders, Repair Men, Dealers ° P Wane tee nadie price list and liberal Oversizes , Standards a Specials proposition. Prompt service and delivery Prompt shipment, highest grade materials, precision accuracy to on all standard and special oversizes up closest dimensions and unexcelled workmanship. Send for specifi- to .065. Over 600 models. cation and price lists—they make pin and valve buying simple. THE KANT-SKORE PISTON CO., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Kansas City THE TRINDL CO., 2917 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Kant-Skore Piston Pins INDL and Valves THE GRAND PRIX CAR DUESENBERG Original Straight Eight Motor Wheel Corporation, Lansing, Michigan Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Co., Inc., Indianapolis ———$ we sd ae 39 TESTING EQUIPMENT Py. 9" al, A Send FOR Attached or removed without tools, no installation cost, no time wasted, sale is complete over the coun- ter. .DOES A $10 JOB R $5. fi or Ss E Bye :" - ae m N ty ~~ Hhy- tine rea cant chate—Doce me J appearance of a .car—Does a 100% job as a rim Catalog P. J. DURHAM CO. = ie ae tee ee toe 244 W. 49th St. New York City 608 Kerr Bide, Deot a, An Detroit, Mich. GUAY CLUTCH DISC & PLATE Models for wen ray gh ty shortly. Ex- BURRLEY _ traordinary flexibility and durability are gained by pass- ing every thread of asbestos over and under the steel fingers at a given length of % inch. Thus all strings are under the same measured spring tension. Steel and asbestos only — a elk Pee vl yon uneven wear. rice of complete set, 00. 00 8- counts to trade. Write for complete details. Quicker—Sater—More Profitable JOHN C. HOOF & COMPANY THE BURNLEY BATTERY & MANUFACTURING CO. Mfg. Division 159 W. Illinois St., Chicago Northeast, Pa. Kokomo Long Life tires and tubes make money for deal- PERFECTION SILENT ers who handle them. GEAR pas RAB ase eniri — COMPANY . / " rm omo Two-Gr s Kokomo Everlaster Red Tubes 1475 Si ent Timing WwoRLDe, Kokomo Standard Gray Tubes Michigan Ave. : EP »LACE- KOKOMO RUBBER CO., Kokomo, Indiana | | CHICAGO — 131 South Main St.

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4} iT ut i tt |} {I ae tD "oe @2 MOTOR | andshielid Challenge WIPER. DRIVEN _LIKE Distinctive in Appearance. Most powerful in action. Most durable in operation. Sells on sight. Berill & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. $ 50 AGE TAKE THE ENDPLAY OUT! —WITHOUT PULLING THE MOTOR THE C. A. ADJUSTABLE CENTER BEARING CAP corrects Ford crankshaft wr & and sets magneto for price $3.75. Ask your jobber or ADJUSTABLE BEARING CO., Inc. Dept. M. Braz il, Indiana Should Be On Every Car You Sell purchase price. Cars. The Spencer Spencer The Spencer Lock Tilting Steering Wheel first adds comfort in the driver’s seat— then protects the car from theft. And the insurance it saves pays back the Ask your jobber for details. Made for Ford, Dodge, Overland, Chevrolet 490 and Superior, Maxwell, Star and Gray Mfg. Co., Ohio and FRONTY-FORDS Designed and built by the famous race drivers and engineers. Arthur and Louis Chevrolet. Write for FREE Illustrated Catalog. Book on ‘‘How to Build a Fronty-Ford,” $2. Given free with orders of $50 or more. CHEVROLET BROS. MFG. CO. 410 W. 10th St. Indianapolis, U. S. A. DIAMOND Automatic Automobile SAFETY SIGNAL Dealers Wanted—Send for Folder AUTOMOTIVE DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION 703 Finance Building Philadelphia CABLES of Quality , Wee [pe hata. Standard since the beginning of the industry. Gu . WARREN, edie Comfany OHIO nickel. radio fans are prospects for BIG PROFITS. 122 West 3rd St. Automobile and Radio batteries charged for a Ten million car owners and five million WRITE NOW. The Automatic Electrical Devices Co. Cincinnati, Ohio . DIAL GAUGES When you find Ames dial gauges in the finest automotive shops, on close limit work —_ there’s a reason. Let us tell you why. Write TODAY. 2 B. C. AMES COMPANY Waltham, Mass, Cyclo Manifold Co., High & Chestnut, Cyclo “Dynamic” Hot-Spot For Fords 25 to 30 miles per gallon is the rule rather than the exception among CYCLO users. VACUUM HEAT-CONTROL insures plenty of power under all conditions. Ask about our “Rapid Transit” selling plan Akron, Ohio THE VALUE of TODAY EARL MOTORS, INC.. MOTOR CAR Jackson, Michigan Wedge-Rite piston rings are 3-piece rings following the best engineering practice. the against oil and compression leakage. Rings are made from the WedgeRite wear, keeping the groove and The patented wedge takes up cylinder wall tight Wedge-Rite Piston best individual castings. = P lattsburgh, N. Y. - AUTOQUIP MFG. CO., JOBBERS Do not overlook these live selling and profit- able items. The metal is brass, heavy nickel plated and will not rust. Four styles—one for every car. No. 21503 with the Hump Base. No. 504 E}with Ell Base. No. 505 Plain Lock- Type. No. 506 Swivel Lock-Type. Packed fifty to carton; five display ecards of ten each. company that took the rattle out of _ Anti-Rattlers Inc., 495 St. Paul St., Rochester, N. Y. = 7 The FITS ALL CARS OPEN & CLOSED ra Mist wa). that a 16h to MADE IN TWO SIZES ASK YOUR JOBBER MFG. BY Y PHAL& BITTER MH. Co.TOLEDO.O. Monogram Light Distributors Standard Equipment on 30 of America’s Foremost Cars Write for Prices. MONOGRAM LENS CORP., 1834 Broadway, New York i: ‘i AMERICAN AUTOPARTS (COMPANY = MODEL AMERICAN SPRINGS | DETROIT MICHIGAN ANY YEAR Relio, an electric-drive wet grinder for pis- tons, pins, valves, bushings, $475.00. Valvo, an electric- drive bench grinder for valves, valve-seat ream- ers $175. See page ads this paper. Van Norman Machine Tool Co. Springfield, Mass. a ae . VALVO

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MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 a | GENERAL ASBESTOS & RUBBER COMPANY ASBESTOS PRODUCTS Branches New York Chicago Pittsburgh Main Office and Factories: Charieston, 8. C. — A & B PLATFORM SPRINGS FOR DODGE CARS Luxurious Riding Comforts. Saves Tires and Springs. A Full Bumper Protection. A & B SPRING MFG. CO. Oklahoma City, Okla. PATENT APPLIED FOR BiG PROFITS CHARGING BATTERIES Small Cash Investment -Big Monthly Earnings Be the first to offer HB 8 hour charging service. Eliminate competitors with old systems taking 2 or 3 days. Get your HB Constant Potential outfit now on 30-day free trial with money-back guarantee. Small cash payment, long easy terms on balance. Write for information to HOBART BROS. CO., Box AR 402, Troy, Ohio. WAYNE VALVE-FACER Works like a pencil sharpener. No chatter-marks; a finish equal to any lathe job—in a few minutes. Does a real job. Built by TOOL- MAKERS. Circular. WAYNE TOOL MFG. CO. Waynesboro, Pa. GATES VULCO Fan Belts and Radiator Hose Made By The World’s Largest Makers of Fan Belts Williams Accelerator for FORD CARS Comfortable to operate. The pedal may be swung to any position desired. WILLIAMS BROS. AIRCRAFT CORP, San Francisco ! ARVIN HEATERS DE LUXE | DE LUXE —for winter comfort \ DE LUXE VENTILATORS Products —for summer comfort ~~ — DE LUXE TIRE PUMPS —_— A, For the Motorist’s Comfort —for year-round comfort INDIANAPOLIS PUMP & TUBE CO. 1053 Drover Street INDIANAPOLIS NO-LEAK-O PISTON RINGS Won’t Leak Because They’re Sealed With Oil No-Leak-O Piston Rings are making money for dealers everywhere. Their ‘‘oilSEALing’’ groove— found only in No-Leak-O—packs an oil film in between piston and cylinder walls like ‘‘packing”’ in a pump. Oil and gas stay where they belong. National advertising is helping the dealer sell No- Leak-O by teaching the motorist the lesson of more mileage on less oil and gas. It wik pay you to stock No-Leak-O at once. ce 50c and up. rrr alin! | ONRING A” ‘seas Pri |_No-rEAK.o PISTON RING CO., Dept. T-57, Muskegon, Mich. Be the local Logan install Logan Ring Man — Let us show Gears. you how easy and Kauffman Metal Products Co. how profitable it is to Bellefontaine, Ohio LOGAN ite: RING GEARS 51-6/10 MILES ON A GALLON OF GAS It is the official world’s record-breaking test with Ford Touring car. The new 1922 Stromberg Carburetor and Hot Spot did it— made this marvelous mileage possible. Tens of thousands of Ford owners are now obtaining more miles on a gallon—quicker getaway—easier starting—increased power and speed—all because of having their cars so equipped. Live dealers are requested to write for facts pertaining to territory. Stromberg Motor Devices Co. 64 E, Twenty-Fifth St. Dept. 27 Chicago, Il. THE CLEARING HOUSE OF THE MOTOR INDUSTRY FOR PARTS, ACCESSORIES, TIRES, MACHINERY REBUILDING, REPAIRING, WELDING AND USED CARS. ALSO HELP AND SITUATIONS WANTED AND MISCELLANEOUS CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Parts and Repairs Steeteeecceeceeecceecece Parts and Repairs Parts and Repairs !WRITE US FIRST! We carry a complete line of auto parts, Transmissions of all kinds, cylinder blocks, drive shafts, all kinds of new gears, all kinds second hand gears, all makes magne- tos, carburetors, starters, rear ends. 400 motors of all kinds in stock. Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention. BENNETT BROTHERS Largest Auto Wreckage in the Country Grant & Water Sts. Pittsburgh, Pa. Chicago ll PITTI eIIIIIIIIIII iid New AMERICAN HAMMERED PISTON GEARS & SHAFTS TRANSMISSION AND AXLE SILENT TIMING GEARS FLY-WHEEL STARTER GEARS All Shipments Made Same Day GUARANTEED GEAR SERVICE COMPANY 1714 S. Michigan Ave., RINGS, SIZE 2 13/16 x 3/16. STAN- DARD AND OVER SIZES $80.00 per thousand. E. A. BOWMAN, INC. 41 Harper Ave, Detroit, Mich. REACHING YOUR MARKET If you have stocks of parts, accessories, oF supplies for immediate disposal, the logical place to get in touch with your buyers is this Classified Advertising Section. MOTOR AGE Chicago, Illinois Classified Advertising Department 208 Wells St. Milwaukee, Wis.

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IN er ch. ical | is FORD SPEED SPECIALTIES May 3, 1923 * Parts and Repairs | Rebuilding and Repairing ALUMINITE PISTONS and Connecting rods for all make cars Special ALUMINITE racing pistons for Ford motor (12 oz.) HIGH SPEED CAMSHAFTS POWER-PLUS cylinder head for Ford cars IRON REPLACEMENT PISTONS Green Engineering Co. DAYTON, OHIO GENUINE NEW DAMS XLE PARTS FOR ALLEN, ANDERSON AUBURN, CLIMBER, HARROUN, ELGIN, ELCAR, NORWALK, : MONITOR, PAN, PIEDMONT, ECONOMY- : VOGUE, SENECA AND SUN :HARRY P. ANDERSON CO. : 5952 2ND BLVD., DETROIT EXCLUSIVE AUTHORIZED SERVICE OF THE ADAMS AXLE Co. WITTITIIITTT Le MOTOR AGE Parts and Repairs ires Rebuilding and Repairing teccenue 129 Rebuilding and Repairing Patents and Patent Attorneys Miscellaneous PARTS SHIPPED QUICKLY Immediate attention given : all new and used parts orders. Saving 50 to 90%. Axles, Bearings, Springs, Magnetos and all other parts. Tell us your wants today. Isaac A. Welner, 111 Edgewood Ave., New Haven, Conn. AUTO too Soaeis PARTS NEW AND USED GBARS, AXLES, BEARINGS, SPRINGS, MAGNETOS, GENERATORS, BTC. JOB- IN BANKRUPT AUTO SUPPLIBS. BRIGHTMAN AUTO EXCHANGE : Gears, 321 Windsor Ave. HARTFORD, CONN. NEW PARTS FOR ALL CARS Axle Shafts, Bearings, Gears, Universal Joints, Starting Motors. Lighting Generators, Coils, Magnetos, , Rims, Springs, etc. Dealers Write for Svecial Bulletin Are You Interested in Regrinding Cylinders? The Heald Machine Company build a machine expressly for this work. Simple, self-contained, large capacity, and sold at a moderate price. Regrinding is ideal for small machine shops, auto repair shops and welding concerns. Let us send you a survey of what others are doing in this business. The Heald Machine Company 61 New Bond St. PURIT El Lg co. Worcester, Maas. YP T Ser d f or Cat gue A pre. pee service for a A manu f e . o - = ANY CAR Cincinnati Auto Parts = : Simmer Prima’ Jafmsement investigations and & NEW & Wrecking Co. spondence solicited. 712-714 Walnut St. MILO B. STEVENS & CO., Patent Attorneys ay 338A Monadnock Block, Chicago, Ill. UND Pests cer aidéle seme oe Ose Siisaee hee ESTABLISHED 1864 USED PARTS Auto Bone Yard PATENTS BOOKLET FREE HIGHEST REFERENCES PROMPTNESS ASSURED BEST RESULTS Send wing or model for examination and report as to patentability PARTS NEW AND USED for all makes of can QUICK SERVICE AND RIGHT PRICES WRITE—WIRE—OR COME T@ FRANKLIN SALES COMPANY 200-202-204 North First Street, East CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA SEND FOR PARTS BOOK Washington lowa WaT cae ke eee Ee New Patents Procured and Trade- : PARTS & Save 25 to 75% AUTO SALVAGE & PARTS CO. Oklahoma City, Okla., U. 8S. A. Used Marks Registered Advice and Terms Upon Request ROBB, ROBB & HILL 1407 Hanna Bidg. 946 McLachien Bidg., Cleveland, Ohio Washington, D. C. WICHITA AUTO WRECKING CO. “The Old Reliable’ Offers you quick service, quality parts and absolute satisfaction,—and our prices are a little lower. We are an old reliable house and all that implies. Our stock of parts is one of the largest in the country— from a 1907 one cyl. Reo to a 1921 Overland Four. Attorney-at-Law and Solicitor of Patents C. L. PARKER Formerly Member Examining Corps., United States Patent Office American and foreign Patents secured. Searches mad to determine patentability and validity. Patent suits conducted. Pamphlet of instruction sent upon request. Wichita @!IVE US YOUR NEXT ORDER Kansas McGill Building, WASHINGTON, D. C. WE’VE GOT EVERYTHING —In the line of New and Used Auto Parts, Accessories and Supplies, for all makes and models of cars. Engines; Transmissions; Clutches; Axles; Wheels; Rims; Tires; Radiators; Gears; Axle Shafts; Bearings; Magnetos; Starters; Gen- erators; Coils; Batteries; etc., etc. Ours is the largest stock of its kind in the world. ou will save time and money by getting in touch with us first whenever you are in need of anything in this line. WARSHAWSKY & COMPANY World’s Largest Car Wreckers and Replacement Parts House. 1915-31 So. State St., Chicago, Ill. No Branches Ph. Calumet 7316 No Branches A Y To, 3,000,000 auto Ppa R T 5 Why buy new parts, when we can SAVE YOU 50% to 75% off list? Parts for all models, Maxwell, Overland, Stude- baker, from 1910 to 1920, and others. EUREKA AUTO PARTS & TIRE COMPANY 334 N. Capitol Ave. and 503 N. Illinois St. Indianapolis Indiana Wanted Racing Car. Car complete or motor alone. Must be in good shape and be capable of doing 100 miles on straightaway. Give complete details and lowest : price first letter. Will T. Scott > 222 E. Travis St. San Antonio, Texas DEALERS Get our rock bottom prices and our exclusive territorial rights on ATCO TIRES AND TUBES THE ARMSTRONG TIRE CO. 1300 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, Ill. SCCCORCEGOERORRGRERERRAReeteetEe Automobile Agency and Garage for Sale Up-to-date fire-proof garage, show room, accessory room, and shop with good tools and machinery, with Storage next door. Agency for Chevrolet line fine sales. Located in county seat of the best agricultural section in Ohio, on two trans-continental highways. A going concern with good returns. Owner wishes to retire from business. Address— Box E-6061- care MOTOR AGE, 5 8S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. All Phones: West 4918 LAMMERT & MANN CO. ESTABLISHED 1894 EXPERT CYLINDER AND CRANKSHAFT RE-GRINDING 215-21 N. Wood St. CHICAGO ———— SPECIAL LIGHT WEIGHT CAST IRON PISTONS BILL Iiity PISTONS—RINGS—WRIST PINS SCORED CYLINDERS REPAIRED Ceeceeeeecaceceges Wanted Coupe Body Four or three passenger body. Prefer new body from salvage company. Can use any nearly new body not priced too high. Must have modern lines. State model and year and condition; give price crated F. 0. B. in your first letter. WILL T. SCOTT 222 E. 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130 MOTOR “Always ready for service” The CRESCENT KIT—8-inch wrench, 6-inch thin straight nose pliers, and T- type screw-driver, all in a compact, handy outfit. Retail price........$2.35 Try this with a CRESCENT KIT PREAD it out in an easy, natural position on your counter or show case where the man who comes in to pay a repair bill or look at a new tire can’t help seeing it. Notice how many customers stop to exam- ine it closely. The attractive finish of these fine Crescent Tools is an “Ask ’em to buy” suggestion stronger than spoken words. And the all around usefulness of the CRESCENT KIT gives a car-owner all the excuse he needs. He’ll soon find the CRESCENT KIT as in- dispensable in his car as the famous Crescent Wrench is in garage or repair shop. Nationally Advertised Crescent Tool Company, Jamestown, N. Y. “The Crescent Wrench People” NOURME PRECISIYVN BALL BEARINGS Internationally recognized as the standard bearings for ignition apparatus and lighting generators THE NYRMA CVUMPANY VF AMERICA Anable Avenue Long Island City New York BALL, ROLLER AND THRUST BEARINGS May 3, 1523 index to the ye The Advertisers’ Index is published as a convenience and not as a part of the advertising contract. Every care will be taken to index correctly. No allow- ance will be made for errors or failure to insert. Ahlberg Bearing Co........................ Air-Tight Steel Tank Co Akron Rubber Mold & Mach. UII - .casicnsenaiscilaostsciniag cs tlaantieacaseSindielenniceed 120 DTI GO, en nicscccccscsisicnesievcsiene 115 DI EE a iisicicsesiicsscecsnccostienss 79 DTRITIRRG GO. cceccscicercccneisscsscse 90 pe : Alvord Reamer & Tool Co.... American Autoparts Co American Hammered SS a eee 95 American Oil Pump & Tank Ss. ecasicitekctcaicaibtiaabialidbisedacstaiatasackiciladtice pT a, ee Anderson Motor Co........................ 55 Archer, Samuel B..............0000..2000+++0 62 Atlas Ball Co ; 63 Atwater-Kent Mfg. Co.................... 124 pe | Auto Spring Control Co.............. 122 Automatic Elec. Devices Co........ 127 Automotive Distributing Corp.....127 Auto Specialties Mfg. Co.............. 91 Bibeln WEG. Ci ivccseccsssscsaceccscveseess 127 Bantam Ball Bearing Co..............122 Bearings Co. of America..............120 Bellevue Mfg. Co.................-...00---. 124 Bennett Injector Co........................ 112 Benzer Corp. = 118 Berill & Company..............0.......s..... 127 Black & Decker Mfg. Co....2nd Cov. Bosch Magneto Corp., American 70 & Rn NN ne ON GET eR 71 Bosch, Robert, Magneto Co.......... 122 Bowser, S. F., & Co., Ince............125 Bradley Motor Prod. Co................ 124 Briggs & Stratton Co...................... 121 Bren WEE. CO icncnccincccsssecscvccccesss 69 ES a | Bunting Brass & Bronze Co........ 81 Burnley Battery & Mfg. Co........ 126 Burton-Rogers Co.........................--- 125 Butler Automotive Steel Co........ 126 Canedy-Otto Mfg. Co.................... 73 Canton Foundry & Mach. Co......117 Carroll Jamieson Mach. Tool Ts -inssiachastecteaenecbeRisasauhapatembedsssecal 124 Carter Motor Accessories, Inc...... 123 Chevrolet Bros. Mfg. Co................ 127 Chevrolet Motor Co.......................... 101 Chicago Solder Co.... aissiesaise ee Clearing House ........................128-129 Cloyes Gear Works.......................... Colonial Gear & Mfg. Co Conneaut Packing Co., The.......... 125 Correct Measure Co., Ince.............. 125 Courier Motors Co......2....:c..::....c0.. 124 Cramer Battery Co.....2.00000 0000... 121 Crane Puller Co..............00........cc.0119 Cromenmt: Tek Ce. ..ccccs ne scccsce 130 Curtis Pneumatic Mach. Co........ 80 Cyclo Manifold Co.............000.0.0..... 127 Dall Motor Parts Co.....02000000000015 Deddens, Wm., Mfg. Co................ 66 Detro Sales Service Co..2.00000.1%4 Double Seal Ring Co.....0000000.1%4 Duesenberg Auto & Motors Co..126 Durant Motors, Ine....20000000000000....128 ae Ae 2 ee Durkee-Atwood Co. 200.0... 16 Earl Motors, Imne.................0.... 127 Eastern Mach. Screw Corp.......... 125 Re I ic icinsiscicnedecensesasoans Empire Tire & Rubber Co.. 4 Bagtert Mfg. Ce...............-.cccsism ID ih. Pi isicirsccncneeccicccccal 125 a Fisk Tire Co., Inc., The................108 Formica Insulation Co., The...... 64 Foster-Johnson Reamer Co..115, 125 Fremont Foundry & Bearing MI ai cticeansclitnatciaitarenen staid 120 Frenchtown Porcelain Co.............. 117 Gammons-Holman Co., 120 Gates Rubber Co.....................0:0000128 General Asbestos & Rubber Co..128 General Automotive Corp.............. 87 General Storage Battery Co..........ll4 General Tool & Equip. Co............12 Gilbert & Barker Mfg. Co............ 89 Ns i aaiccctacicvecnatesnciconced Bk. Cov. Giaier,. Es. Ty Gti... nO Goodrich, B. F., Rubber Co........ 3 Graton & Knight Mfg. Co......--..106 Groen Mig. C0...ccucn...-0-senveol Harris, A. W., Oil Co......-....0-1H Harvey Rim & Wheel Co dase Heald Machine Co......-.....---:«--~l06 Heckman Signal Co..............--- ill Hobart Bros. Co.............--:.--~l% Hodge, E. D., Tool & Mfg. Co....12% Hoof, John C., & CO..........--0 126 Huetter Mach. & Tool Co.......-1l? Hyatt Roller Bearing Co.....----~ a Hykon Mfg. Co............-- —— 6 Indiana Piston Ring Co ....-----~ Indiana Rubber & insulated |, _ 2: it Indianapolis Pump & Tube Co....128 Inland Products Co., Inc... ® International Harvester C0... Jacol Jenk Jewe John John Jord: Kant Kauf Ken-! Kess King Kisse Koko Land Loms Long Louis Male Manl Meac Meili Mers Mier Mid-' Milw Moha Mono Monr Co. Moto Moto: Motor Nash New | No-Ls Nord; Norm Norw Oakes Ohio Olds Osbor Otis-F Packa Panta Parke Peck Pep } Perfes Peters Philli Polyg, Ponto! R.& Racing Radiat

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Kokomo Rubber Co............. iesliacineiliae 126 SL OS i ene ene 125 RR ID, CR icccncictinnsasinnndnaain 119 BE I Ciescsnencsdnennnnavienunnsiontea 121 Louisville Elec. Mfg. Co................ 120 Malco Products Corp.................... 117 i vivccctacaceneicosatcsminnniiel 100 Meachem Gear Corp..............-.-...---- 116 Meilicke Calculator Co.................. 113 0 ee lly Micro Machine Co.............. ..20....-+

Mid-West Mfg. Co... castle Milwaukee Die Cuties Co. Mohawk Mfg. Co............. Monogram Lens Corp —s Auto peered hanes 0. . Motor Sesfests Co. ” ‘The. batsieiiigiaihded 126 Motor Products Corp.................... 92 Motor Wheel Corp...............-..-----.----126 eee 6 New Departure Mfg. Co................ 93 No-Leak-O Piston Ring Co.......... 128 Nordyke & Marmon Co.............-.- 7 Norma Co. of America..............-. 130 Norwalk Auto Parts Co., The....125

a are 97 Scat, 102 Olds Motor Works.......-.ccceccecc00. 4 Osborne Piston Ring Co.... Otis-Flagg Corpe.........sccssccoseccoeeeooee Packard Elec, C0....ccccc:-ccssecseeecses- 127 Pantasote Co., The Parker, Chas., CO......c.cccccsssssscccsesss Peck Spring i: ees 114 Pep Mfg. Co., Ume.cccccecccccccssssssccooe 131 Perfection Gear eee 126 Peters Engineering Co...........124 Phillips, F, k,n Sennen aE 117 Polygon Products Co...... Pontoklene RS Ghaacsies " BV. Motor CO. coccccccccccccccccccsoees 125 ea 102 Racine Iron & Wire Works Radiator Os Ci

Pa Ee are 125 Recording Devices Co.................... 65 Red Giant Tool Co..........................124 Reid Air Spring Co., The............ 126 Reo Motor Car Co................... 8 Rich Steel Products Co.................. 122 Robertson Bros. Mfg. Co..............125 pe en 124 Rese, Frank, Mfg. Ce.................... 77 Ruby Chemical Co 120 Ruggles Motor Truck Co................ 59 a ey ek | eee 125 St. Paul Welding & Mfg. Co....112 Sav-Oil Ring Mfg. Co.................... a, a ee eee Sparks-Withington Co. ................ Spencer Mfg. Co., The.................... Starrett, L. S., Co., The... Steidle Mfg. Co., The.......... Stephens Motor Car Co... wal SN i iicicrncccciaiieninicsoiiniansnccaicaie I. Te ii iainccticctcttscnctccenctetiinds SD Fi CR cdaisccisnticicsitcthiaids Stromberg Motor Devices Co...... 128

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pone Ww Do MOTOR AGE May 3, 1923 LrCr en en en enlenlMlen CR COMM R ORC YECN GROEN DDYADAAAADAAWAY SALABILITY-V Stephens Sales Climb Rapidly in New York’s Exacting Market In the New York Metropolitan district —the most criti- cal market in America — Stephens climbed close to the top of its price class in cars sold in March and early April. Eight times as many Stephens cars were delivered as in the same month last year—convincing evidence that the new Stephens models have faultless appearance as well as performance to recommend them. The first three weeks of April showed even greater in- creases over 1922, according to R.S. Cole, New York Stephens Distributor. In fact,Stephens sa/adi/ity is break- ing registration records throughout the whole country. The seven distinctive Stephens body types have caught the fancy of the buying public. The responsive and flexible power of the Stephens-built six-cylinder motor complete the conquest at the first demonstration. SSeS DS DE WY VE VEWy WS GVW QV QQ VS VB WOW WD DE WI WW There are open territories, direct factory connections ana cars for a few more dealers of. Stephens caliber. Write Moline today for full particulars, specifications and cata- logue showing the full Stephens line in actual colors. STEPHENS MOTOR CAR COMPANY, Inc., Moline, Ill. STEPHENS hiner Motor Cars FY At Lower Prices SSS SSN PAR EREA CAPAC A CA GREAER GRE RARE RGAGDGR ER CDGR CD GRER ER ER GER EXON ROR CRE ROR GOEREMN | QPAERCACAGRERC Send for full-color catalogue.and contract terms to dealers today QS DEW VE VE VOWOWSVSO ee CPSP CP CPEPEP CP CPSP CP CP EP CPSP EPRESOCS III ICON A g

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In building a reputation for expert, careful work, your choice of piston rings is all-important. Bearings may fit ever so snugly, shafts may run true, but what finally counts is piston rings that do hold compression and keep out excess oil. That is why expert repairmen everywhere so strongly pre- fer one of the three types—Gill, Special, or Servus rings. All three rings are made of the tough, special grey iron composition that tirelessly resists wear, holding indefi- nitely its shape, springiness and tension. All three rings are lathe turned for quick setting. Servus Gill Interlocking-Joint rings 75c, Special Oil-Wiper 50c, Servus Step-Cut 30c—each is an over-value in every way. Quick service on 11,000 sizes and oversizes from leading jobbers, backed by 36 factory branches. _— and service that help build reputation! Gi_LL MANUFACTURING COMPANY 8300 South Chicago Avenue, Chicago Canadian Factory—415 King St. W. (Brown Engineering Co.), Toronto Sole Canadian Distributor—Canadian General Electric Company, Limited Export— American Steel Export Co., Woolworth Building, New York City