THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. JULY 14, 1918.
EUROPE HAS
KELLY-SPRIXGFIELD TRUCK HAULING HUGE STEAM SHOVEL FROM TROUTDALE TO PORTLAND.
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Army Motor Tire Equipment Is
fMuch Different From That
of American Forces.
CLINCHER TYPE FAVORED
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Examined through war spectacles, the
ttre and -wheel problems of the Ameri
can Army abroad are many and diver
sified. Europe has customs and stand
ards decidedly its own and It has
Mended everything In the way of auto
rnobile manufacture and road construc
tion to suit those tastes and patterns
all quite different from American
forms.
'Therefore, says an expert investi
gator of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber
Company, a comparison of conditions,
of problems and of types is interesting;
at this time when American assistance
IS no vital.
-Fundamentally drastic differences
may be attributed to philosophical and
psychological elements. Autoists of
lSurope constitute a "class" that Is,
the European, no matter whether he
can afford it, simply must have a chaf
feur. He drives his own car rarely.
The American Is 1iiHt thn rtnrtit.
lie invariably drives his own car and
ell manufacture of cars and tires has
been along lines aimed to give him un
troubled service, comfort, convenience
and easy repairs In case of accident!
Noteworthy, then, is the sharp con
trast in rims. The European uses the
clincher type to the total exclu
Bltm of the straight-side; the Amer
ican favors the latter type. If the
American gets a puncture, he yanks
off the tire, puts on another, pumps It
up and Is off again.
r Worlc for the Chauffeur.
J Not so with the European. He car
ries a spare wheel with tire inflated
and affixed. If he gets a puncture, the
chauffeur removes the wheel applies
tre spare wheel and goes on. This is
fine for the motorist but hard on the
driver. When the chauffeur returns to
the garage he must pass an hour or so
prying off his clincher and making the
necessary change. The Europeans,
niowever, maintain that the chauffeur
edlists for work and not to loll at the
steering wheel.
This Is simply one of the conditions
toe first Americans to cross found con
fronting them. Consequently they
have gone ahead, independent of Eu
ropean methods and forms, bringing all
their own wheel and tire equipment.
But the fact can, never be overlooked
that In the event of a severe reverse of
military fortunes an occasion might
arise when we might want to draw on
Kuropean supplies. In consequence,
theAmerican Army has been buying a
rood many clincher tires.
Another Item is the roads. European
roads are par-excellence. They are
virtually solid blocks of concrete and
the sustained speed possible on them is
euch as has never been known in this
country. It was with surprise that
Americans found all allied motor cars
on steel studded tires. The Americans
luck religiously to safety treads.
No Chains In France.
Tfia French smilingly admit the eru
jerbrity of the safety tread for
American roads and the steel studded
for French roads. In Northern France
the 'Winters are damp and wet. The
roads become grease-coated and ateel
etudded tires are not only desirable
but absolutely essential.
The American Is going to use chains.
The-French will use chains only when
It shows. Frankly, they don't like
chains. They say they cut the roads
and'the British won't permit them at
ell. i Besides, the hard, unyielding sur
face of the roads wears out chains
much more rapidly than In this coun
try. Another astonishing thing to Ameri
cans is the wide usage of dual pneu
matics. Such usage is possible In
Eurepe because Europe Is so far ahead
of Us in road construction. Here
stones would wedge themselves be
tween the tires and mutilate the side
walls.
In Europe one never sees stones on
a road. The European prefers dual
pneumatics to the large single pneu
matic because he has a decided aver
sion'; for many tire sizes. A five-Inch
section in front snd a seven-inch sec
tion.', in back meets his requirements
nicely.
-1ur1 Pneumatics Save Delay.
The chief advantage of dual pneu
mattes to the European is that if one
blows out the automobile can still pro
ceed without attention to the damaged
tire. So much does he hate delay that
many of the heavy touring cars are
mounted on dual pneumatics.
The contention of the Goodrich com
pany that truck tires of the pressed-
on type are more adaptable to rough
tioing and also more economical, in
that, they conserve gasoline by reliev
lug the truck of weight, has been com
pletely borne out in the war front.
American officers at first were loyal
to the demountable type, but after this
pattern had been in usage for some
time- they were eager to adopt the
pressed-on type, universal In Europe.
They found that many of the bolts
rusted and as powerful a press was
necessary to take them off as was re
quired to put on the fixed type.
CUSHION TIRES GIVE SERVICE
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Morfctand Trucks on California Bus
Work Goodyear Equipped.
in service wnere medium loads are
carrted, demanding more cushioning
thany. a solid tire can furnish and yet
loss IHpeed than pneumatics are capable
of delivering, "cushion" tires are find
ing a rapidly expanding field. In quick
tieliTery and passenger bus service they
are particularly adapted, as their riding
qualities more closely approach those of
a pneumatic tire than any other non
pneumatic tire that has yet appeared.
The' Goodyear cushion tire resembles
a. regular solid tire in appearance, bu
is much more resilient, spreading out.
In service, over a much larger surface
thait a solid rubber tire of the same
size.-
A Thus line In California la operating
lour aioreiand trucks between liOs An
pel ps and Ontario, 40 miles, each- truck
traveling about 200 miles daily. The
Sirs set of Goodyear cushion tires
placed on one of these cars has now
leer In service 225 days, having run
60,000 miles, during which time the
ttreshave worn down but a quarter of
an Inch. The other three trucks have
sine been equipped with tires of this
same type.
A sonvenient addition to the tool box
Is a small packet of wire nails of dif
ferent sizes. These nails may be used
to replace lost cotter plus and for many
A. LITTLE MATTER LIKE Pl'LLlXG THIS 20-TOV LOAD WAS EAST FOR TUB 3V4-TOW KELLY-SPRIXGFIELD.
The steam shovel shown In the photograph was being used by the C. J. Cook Company on a Job near Troutdale. The
work finished, the shovel was needed in Portland. E. C. Habel, sales manager for the Manley Auto Company, distribu
tors for the Kelly-Springfield, had a 3 -ton truck of that mike which he volunteered to send out to haul in the steam
shovel, just to show what It could do. The truck made good easily. The steam shovel and equipment was said by Mr
Cook to weigh a total of 20 tons, the big derrick boom alone weighing five tons. Incidentally, the feat demonstrated
how much truck efficiency is ordinarily permitted to go to waste by failure to use trailers, for It is a fact well known
to engineers that a vastly heavier load can be pulled than carried. Troutdale is about 14 miles from Portland, but, all
told, the truck hauled the steam shovel nearly 20 miles.
SCIENTIFIC TESTS MADE
Improvements in Manifold and Ad
dition of Hot-Spot Add. Sluch
to Power and Mileage of
New Model Just Out.
GAS ECONOMY AIM
New Studebaker Efficient
Low-Grade Fuel.
on
bound to result In economy, and
smooth, even flow of power.
'Flow-meter tests, conducted at varl
ous times while the cars were perform
ing their wonderful run of 30,000 miles
on the Chicago speedway during the
coldest and stormiest Winter of half a
century, showed that the new Stude
baker cars were getting every atom of
power from the fuel used and deliver
ing a really remarkable mileage for
each gallon."
'Practically everything that Is new
in automobiles this year tends towards
greater economy of operation, says F.
M. Zoder, chief engineer of the Stude
baker Corporation and father of the
now famous 40,000-mile Studebaker en
durance test.
'This Is particularly true In regard
to carburetlon. Practically every man
ufacturer In the past year has rede
signed his manifolds. Inserted some
form of a "hot-spot" or experimented
in some way or other to see how he
could Increase the efficiency of the
present-day low-grade of gasoline, and
also to make this same low-grade gaso
line go a tew more miles per gallon.
"In designing the new series 19 Stude
baker cars we went Into this matter
very thoroughly. Working In conjunc
tion with our own engineering staff, we
have had the benefit of the experience
and expert advice of some of the fore
most specialists In carburetlon, and
some of their discoveries have been
really successful.
'Successive experiments proved that
the large manifold is very wasteful of
gasoline at low speeds. Tests showed
that the average carburetor, which In
the past has been thought satisfactory.
is more than Inefficient. The develop
ment of the hot-spot was a natural
evolution oi our laboratory and ex
perimental tests.
'After a great deal of experimenting
with manifolds made of glass, so that
tne action of the gasses passing
through them at both low and high
speeds could be observed. It developed
that at low speed the large manifold al
lowed the heavier gas and particles of
gas to lie dormant in the bottom. In
other words, the travel of air through
the manifold was so light as not to
completely fill the manifold, but sim
ply to rise to the top.
"This action naturally allowed the
heavier gas to fall to the bottom, and
at the time the throttle was opened
and the motor speeded it threw this ex
tremely rich mixture into the cylinders
which explains the slow get-away of
some cars, and, too. It has a great deal
to do with the miles per gallon of gaso
line.
"We next found that the gas travel
ng direct from the carburetor moved
through the center of the manifold to
the point at which It branches the
heavier molecules of gasoline going
right on up and hitting the point at
which the manifold branches.
"On the manifold that does not use
a 'hot-spot' at this point this gaso
line falls back into the manifold and
carburetor, gradually to be absorbed in
the overrich mixture.
"As a result of these experiments and
observations we decreased the size of
the manifold on each new model and
put our 'hot-spot' at the point directly
over the carburetor. It was obvious
that this was the only point the heated
manifold would be maximum effective.
Heat applied at other points made
practically no Improvement, in fact it
was simply wasteful.
"Hot-spotting the manifold as we
have done it means quick, easy start
ing In all temperatures; utilization of
all gas. and ability of the engine to
burn low-grade fuels. All this Is
BURLAP CONSERVATION ASKED
Requirements for Sandbags at the
Front Cause Shortage.
An unusual drain on the country's
supply of burlap has been caused by
the heavy demand for this material for
packing shipments of food and war
commodities and in trench warfare.
And production has not kept up with
this enormous demand. As a result
the Government Is recommending the
conservative use of burlap for all do
mestic purposes. The Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Company, of Akron, O.,
wherever possible has substituted the
use of waterproof paper-lined cotton
and similar wrapping materials that
come under the same freight classification.
PIER TO HOUSE SHOW
-VELIE FACTORY IS BUSY
F. II.
BIG TRUCK AND TRACTOR EVENT
TO BE HELD IN CHICAGO.
September 14 to 31 Dates for Rational
Exposition SkowlDf Antomo.
bile War Progress.
Chicago's municipal pier was built
out over Lake Michigan with a peace
ful purpose In view the recreation of
Chicago residents and visitors, and the
entertainment of conventions.
But this great peace-time improve
ment was finished just in time to play
a very Important part in prosecuting
the war. It was thrown open during
the terrible heat wave of 1916, and no
doubt saved many lives by the relief
it offered. And last year It was draft
ed Into emergency service as headquar
ters for United States Army engineer
Ing contingents getting ready for
France.
Next it became the headquarters of
a Naval training school, and from it
have gone hundreds of fine young men,
most of them college graduates, who
are now serving as ensigns and quar
termasters on transports, merchant
ships, sub-chasers, destroyers and coast
patrol ships. The station on the pier
has been made a permanent part of the
Naval training system and will, with
out doubt, continue an Important faotor
to the close of the war.
Now, in addition to turning out men
for whipping the Hun on the seas, the
pier Is going to shelter a big gathering
of trucks, tractors, and automotive ac
cessories a fleet of mighty land en
gineers which will help win the war
by increasing food production for the
Allies and by solving America's vital
problem of transportation. This pat
riotic demonstration of what America
can do and is doing In the way of beat
ing Germany at the truck and tractor
game will be held on the pier the week
of September 14 to 21.
COIXMBIA GORGE CLEAR AGAIN
Territory Man for D. C. Warren Motor
Car Company Says Wise Dealer
Will Stock Up n Antos.
F. H. Nash, territory man for the
D. C. Warren Motor Car Company, re
turned to Portland last week after a
month In the East, during which he
spent a couple of weeks at tha Velie
factory at Mollne, 111. He brought back
word that this territory Is certain to
get a good allotment of Velles, though
not as many as it could handle by any
means.
There will not be any stoppage In
the manufacture of passenger cars, that
much is certain," said Mr. Nash. "It Is
true there will be a considerable cur
tailment, due to the material situation.
Government coal requirements and
other factors. But passenger cars will
continue to be made, and I was assured
that the D. C. Warren Motor Car Com
pany will receive shipments.
The wise automobile dealer In this
territory is the man who stocks up now
on cars, for they will be much more
scarce in the next few months than at
present. This applies to dealers In the
smaller towns, as well as to the dis
tributors. The dealer with the fore
sight and courage to lay In a good
stock of cars now will surely gain
by It."
Mr. Nash was interested to And that
the Velie factory is so busy making
woenjr trucks tor the Government that
It has been unable to turn out many
Velie trucks. This Is one reason for
tne present shortage In these trucks.
Another reason is the fact that euch
parts as wheels for trucks are very
hard to obtain, owing to Government
requirements. The Velie truck used
u-incn wneei. and 40-lnch wheels are
being taken by the Government. While
Mr. Aash was at the factory, a small
shipment of 40-lnch wheels came In.
Trucks were equipped and sent out as
far as the wheel shipment lasted. After
that, no more trucks could be shipped
until more could be obtained, a most
uncertain situation. However, this and
other shortages will be eliminated In
the near future.
Rain Washes
Away Smoke
Many Forest Fires.
From
WHITE SALMON. Wash., July 13.
(Special.) Clear skies again prevail In
the mld-Columbla district, after sev
eral weeks of dense smoke from forest
fires. Notwithstanding the Columbia
River Highway Is temporarily closed
for through traffic, more foreign cars
than ever before are routing this way.
in the past few days cars from Canada,
Pennsylvania, Virginia and Minnesota,
with several from Montana and Idaho,
have passed through en route for Port
land.
"Always ready."
"It never falters."
"Goes anywhere, any time, with any
thing." These and other such things axe what one hears
about the
REPUBLIC
TRUCK
They are proven facts and it has made
of the Republic a popular leader. '
"Every 3d truck in Oregon is a Republic"
Priced in Portland at $1270 to $4950.
ROBERTS &TOR
Parfi and Everett Streets, Portland, Or.
NASH LEARNS ABOUT
CAR SITUATION.
THE
Brake-Lining Illnt.
The use of split rivets Instead of the
solid type makes the operation of re-
llnlng the brakes very much simpler.
The rivets are Inserted so that the
heads are against the metal bands. The
split end is opened out and skins Into
the lining. A round steel bar inserted
in the Jaws of the vise makes an Ideal
tool for spreading tha split rivets in
place.
Careful With the Flaps.
It sometimes happens that a tube
flap hurriedly Inserted, folds and ex
tends out under the bead. The bead Is
strained and the side wall breaks,
giving the accident every appearance
of a rim cut. Also a flap that is
creased or folded in ths casing will
produce a pinched or cut Inner tube.
S3
The Body is All Aluminum
A long, low body, beautifully
beveled and fashioned entirely
from aluminum gives the Jordan
Sport Marine its final perfection.
The aluminum is entirely free
from rumbles, ripples and rust. It
takes that beautiful velvety finish.
Custom made and straight as an
arrow. Doors are square. And the
whole car is fifty pounds lighter.
A snappy sport windshield,
smartly tailored top, five wire
wheels with Silvertown cord tires
make the rakish effect of the
Sport Marine complete.
You have your choice of two
distinctive colors BriarclifF green
and Liberty blue both good.
Equipment includes Macbeth
green visor lenses, traffic bumper, '
motometer, rim wind sport clock,
tonneau light, curtains that open
with the doors, special speed gear
ratio, 75-mile speedometer.
JORDAN
Sport Marine
Mitchell, Lewis & Staver
340 East Morrison St, Portland, Or. Phone East 7272
JORDAN MOTOR CAR COMPANY. CLEVELAND, OHIO
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TAKES GATES' HALE-SOLE
TIRES AND LEAVES CAR.
Alex Rontledge, at Pertlaa Oyster
Company, Victim ot Peculiar
Braad at Robber.
A new kind of automobile thief made
his appearance In Portland last week.
His first victim was Alex Routledge, of
the Portland Oyster Company.
Mr. Routledge drives a Ford car like
many another good citizen. He has
been hearing a lot about the tire sav
ing that can be effected by equipping
tires having worn treads with Gates'
Half-Bole Tires, the principle 'of which
Is the ssme s half-soling a pair of
shoes, and he bought a couplo of the
half-sole tires.
Apparently the thief had the same
hunch as Mr. Routledge In regard to
getting extra mileage out of old tires,
for he stole the Gates' Half-Sole Tire
equipment and left everything else,
including the Ford.
J. S. Hutchinson, of Hutchinson &
Rogers, Gates dealers here, was natur
ally pleased to learn of the popularity
of Gates' Half-Sole Tires, even with
the automobile thieves, but he agrees
with Mr. Routledge that the most club
like and safest way to get them is to
purchase them In the regular way. and
not go around robbing honest motor
ists of their sets.
A campflre la not a campflre when It
Is left burning. It then becomes a men
ace to life and property.
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HERE'S the practical one-man tractor for Northwestern farmers.
Easy to control, stop or reverse all with one lever. So simple
that a boy can do your plowing. Cheaper to operate, too. The
HEIDER burns kerosene and saves gasoline for our Army.
One owner writes that he has plowed hundreds of acres with his
HEIDER, using three f ourteen-lnch plow bottoms, and In one year
has only had 40 cents' worth of repairs.
The HEIDER Is unlike other tractors In construction, and.
unlike them in the extra economical service It gives you. Built
with special friction transmission which means no gears to strip
fewer parts, less trouble, less chance of breakage, and lower
upkeep cost. The HEIDER Is the ideal tractor suited to the
soil conditions of the Northwest.
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