The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, October 27, 1918, SECTION FOUR, Image 43

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE SUNDAY OIIEGONIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 27, 1918. SOLID TRUCK TIRES JOBESTfflllZED Many Sizes Eliminated by Or der of War Board. opportunity, and already has learned how to loop the loop, do the Immelman rolL spinning: nose., dive and most o( the other aviation stunts required of ' the expert airman. He says flying beati even motorinir. hile here Lieutenant wsrren visited W. R. DeLay, to whom he sold his in terests in the I. C. Warren Motor Car Company when he entered'the service. Mr. DeLay put a Velie car at his dis posal durin his stay in Portland. Lieutenant Warren waa here so ehort a time that ha was able to see only a few of his many friends. TRUCKS- REPLACE- HORSES NEW SCHEDULE ADOPTED Federal Trucks and Semi-Trailers Haul Lumber Lods Distance. Mules and horses formerly used In tha swamp lands In the Southern lum ber belt have nroveH ton .low In the Statement of Interest to Owners of I work of helping- supply Uncle Sam for ships, cantonments and other wartime construction and their places have been taken by motor trucks, those of the Tracks Issued by the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company. Tire standardisation has not been re tricted to pneumatics. Th lordly truck tire has now been taken down a peg- or two by tha War Industrie Board. tractor type pulling a semi-trailer for finished lumber or bunk trailer for logs being particularly successful. The W. M. Walker Lumber Company s sawmill, in a swamp 14 miles from Fay etteville, N C, uses Federal tractors with four-ton semi-trailers, each outfit hauling- 8125 pounds of 16-foot lumber from the sawmill each trip. This means pull of two miles over swamp trail. Elimination of certain slses in truck! while the remaining 12 milea are over a Government road. Tha truck makes tirea doea not come as a surprise. The vir service committee, composed en tirely of big men of the rubber Indus try, met in July and recommended sizes that could be dispensed with. These recommendations have been accepted by the mar Industries Board. The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, one of tha largest of solid tire manu facturers, makes public the new sched ule, which should be of vast interest to truck owners: Cass A." permanent vtandard 32x3. Sl.Tl-. Kx4. XHxi. 'Mxi. 40xi. itx. 40xti, . JOI1U. tUIIU. tl'Xl. (l4M "B," to be discontinued November. !:-' 34xOH. 33V, 34x4. 34x5. 40x7. . l". to be diacootlnued November, .12x1'. 3'ix.1. 3Mi 34x0. XKxd t'laaa "D." to be di.conUaued .November, I J.M lX.i. 4.XO. iaa "E." to be dlacontlnoed at enee 4x4. JlxT. 33x7. 42x7, 34x3. 31x10. 4-1x10,1 ux i. xa. Permanent standardization in class A la Klven popular sizes of solid tires. Class B conststa of aizea which now used as original equipment manufacturers and will have to be con tinued to take care of trucks now In use or being placed on the market. No vember. 1920. waa set as the date for discontinuing the manufacture of tires in class B. Class C pertains to sizes which in the past have been original equipment sizes and which are still being used by many trucks, including fire apparatus, etc It waa decided to discontinue the manu facture of all tirea in thia class Novem ber. 1919. Class D represents tires which have become almost obsolete and class E stands for sizes which are practically obsolete at present and which all com panies have agreed to atop the mam racture of at once. IGNITION TROUBLE IS NOT HARD TD LOGATE Process Simply One of Elim ination, Says Expert. HOW TO DO IT EXPLAINED Knowledge of Mechanism of Anto Is r Essential to Correcting- Engine When It Misses. "Speaking of Ignition trouble." says William H. Stewart, Jr., president of the Stewart Automobile School, of New York City, "a conversation I overheard Is very Interesting. " 'How is it you always lay your hand right on the trouble every tim you go after it? said my friend to the MOLIXE TRACTOR EASY TO OPERATE. It si I U lit S - ?i 1 1 1- r-'-,'-'s-''-'' W.'.:aaaayS.J It Woman or boy can operate the Mollne, which has two-plow equip ment. Burns gasoline, kerosert or distillate and can be turned in a 16-foot circle. The Mollne Plow Company, Including the tractor and other farming implements, was recently purchased by the Willys-Overland Company, though the Mollne organization, it has been announced, will be kept intact. MITCHELL CUBS HI two trips one day and three the next and the Walker Company has figures to show that in five months' time this out fit has paid for itself in the saving of transportation cost. GOODRICH SUBSCRIBERS MAXY AXOTHER SHIPMENT ALSO EX ROUTE HERE. IS Mitchell, Lewis A Staver Company Selling All Mitchells and I Jordan? It Can Get. One of the first shipments of Mitchell automobiles for some time was received from the factory a week ago by the i Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Company, Mitchell distributors here. Anothei shipment is en route. These cars, which Include both five and seven-passenger models, are be ing snapped up about aa quickly as they arrive, for there has been a dearth of Mitchell cars, owing to war orders which the factory Is filling, for a good while. Mr. Mitchell took the distribution for Oregon of the Jordan Six some time ago in addition to the Mitchell line. He has sold ail the Jordans he could freC This car. which comes in both the popular sport marine and the sub- J urban seven models, is one of the niftiest cars on the market. Its body is of aluminum, and the car comes to the purchaser completely equipped, even to spare tire. Mr. Mitchell is driving a Jordan car himself. Now is a pretty good time to get automobiles, for they will be mighty hard to obtain after the first of the year. In a few weeks, also, an ad ditional war tax will go on all new Company Officials and Employes Take Quota of $2,130,000. Had the same punch and smoothness of organization been behind other campaigns that guided the B. F. Good rich Rubber Company the Nation would not jiave been compelled in the Anal days to struggle so desperately for the 16.000.000,000 set for the fourth loan. Portland Auto Man Wins Aviation Commission. Kaewledge ( afecksmiea Qalckly Caiaa Advaaremeat for D. C TV I, ?rm - -A, A h ; I I Jl j A LITTLE more than four months ago t. C. Warren, president of the D. C Warren Motor Car Company and state distributor for the Velie and Peerless cars. Irft Portland at the bead cif a draft contingent of 400 men sent to Fort McDowell. CaL He returned for a few days' leave last week wearing the gold bar of a second lieutenant in the air service, aeronautics. Lieuten ant Warren won his rapid promotion because of his expert knowledge of gas engine mechanics and his careful atten tion to duty from the time he entered the service. He waa transferred from Fort McDowell to Mather Field aa an airplane mechanic, and early this month received his commission in the engi neering department of the air service, aeronautics. He has been ordered to Riverside, CaL. to take the flying course which is required of all aviation officers, even those in the engineering branch. How ever. Lieutenant Warren while at Ma'her Field went Into the air at every -1 V Photo by Grove.- Employes and onriciais oi tne uooancn Company reached their quota of $3,150,- nn i t .1. , O (.ni.r. Tlii. riiri tint UUU 1H 1CBD 111.11 - include subscriptions from any of the 125 branches maintained by the com pany or the 1500,000 purchase by offi cials of the company in New York. KIDDLXG old battery aloxg How to Get More Amperage When Cells Are Run Dovra. It la possible to get Increased am perage from partly run-down dry cells by crowding down the material near the carbon element with a small piece of wood and a hammer. This loosens the obstructing material from around the carbon and permits free chemical action. The asphaltum on top of the cell may be scaled again by application of a little heat. REPUBLIC MOTOR TRUCKS Built in capacities of "i-Special, 1, iy2, 2, 312, 5-Ton We have each size in stock for immediate delivery. ROBERTS MOTOR CAR CO., INC. Park and Everett Sts. Portland, Oregon Largest Distributors of Motor Trucks in the Northwest. repair man who was working over his car. " 'But I don't always find it imme diately." " "In the majority of cases you do and in the other cases after a few min utes' search. My engine refuses to run at thia instant. I am going to give you 10 minutes to get It started. Judging from what I have seen you do pre viously, that is a liberal allowance. What particular detail are you looking ror now?' " T am trying to get a spark.' " 'But why look for a spark instead of something else? And what other trouble might it be? The trouble man waved his hand majestically. "There are Ave reasons why an en gine should run.' " 'And about 6000 why it shouldn't.' said my friend. The trouble man eyed him approvingly and went on: " The first two are compression and lubrication. I eliminated these two by cranking by hand. The crank shaft moved freely, showing that lubrication was good and there was a good spring back to the compression. The gasoline i put Into the cylinders through the priming cups did not explode showing ignition trouble. If the engine had started and stopped, carburetion trou ble would have been indicated.' " That makes four conditions Igni tion, carburetion, lubrication and com pression. " 'What is the fifth?" " "Cooling but that only comes Into play after the engine has started, so we need not consider it now.' " 'Having satisfied yourself that it is an ignition trouble, how are you going to work to locate it?' " 'By looking for a spark at the dis tributer. I disconnect the distributer end of the cable from coil to distributer and hold It close to some part of the engine so as to ground the spark. A space of about an eighth of an inch is about right. I close the switch and move the spark lever back and forth to Interrupt tho primary current. He did thia while he was speaking. " '.'o spark! If there had been, the trouble would have been in the dis tributer. As there is no spark. I must look at the circuit breaker or inter rupter. By moving the spark lever we can make the points open and close. No sparks jumps across them when they break. While they are open we'll touch them with a screwdriver. Tou see we get a good spark. This shows that both points are alive, but that a current doesn't run while the points are ceased.' " Then the points need cleaning?" " "Exactly! A piece of fine sandpaper will soon remedy that." "But if you had found a good spark at the interrupter points?' " The trouble would have been In the induction coil.' When Cylinder Is Mlaalng. " 'And if there had been no spark at the interrupter points when you touched both of them with a screw driver?" " T should have started at the battery and worked forward to the coll and then to the interrupter. By consider Ing each part in turn I should have found the trouble." 'But supposing your engine ran. al though some cylinders were missing explosions?" " 'If one or more cylinders were miss Ing persistently, I should look at the plugs at the distributer or the wire between. If the miss seemed to run from one cylinder to another it might be weak battery or corroded inter rupter points. Here experience is the best guide." " 'Experience is a good teacher, but a hard master," said my friend. " 'But it becomes a useful servant to the man endowed wjth persistence,' said L 1 1 u niruuio man. New Car Owners in County. Temporary police licenses were Issued in Portland last week to the following buyers of latest model motorcars, send ing arrival of the official state licenses from Salem. This list is compiled by M. O. Wilkins, publisher of the Auto mobile Record: Austin UndtrdahL 809 East Lincoln street. Chevrolet. Mrs. EllzaDetll Scott. S44 East Salmon. Chevrolet. Coast Shipbuilding Company. 914 Lewis Duildlnr, Dodge. David Belllter. 210 East Thirty-third street, Jjodge. u. E. weaverson, 423 .East Fifty-first street. Elgin. - Adolph Peterson, 46T East Everett. Max well. Andrew Rasmussen, 60S Missouri avenue. Maxwell. J. A. Black. 1734 Division, Oldsmoblle. H. W. Sharp. 628 Hamblet avenue. Olds- mobile. Georee P. Schloth. 04 East Thirty- seventh. Dodge. Dr. Leo Rlcen, S16 Journal building:. Ford. Oscar S. Lund, care Dearborn Truck Com. pany. Hupmobiie. F. J. Cobbs. 588 Montgomery drive. False, Alfred N. Du Puis, -49 East Forty-fifth. studebaKer. Mis. A. F. Flegel. 1310 East Eighteenth, Chevrolet. L. O. Thompson, 4012 Seventy-fourth street Southeast. Ford. Lk j. Gibbons, 89 Miles, Ford. J. B. Veon. Yeon building. Franklin. C. Holstrom, 104 East Twenty-fourth JCorth. Velie. C. L.. Matlfeldt. 661 Everett. Dodge. Gevurtx Furniture Company, 185 First street. Ford. McDougall-over. Co., East water and Hawthorne, Ford. J. c Laird. Hanson Jlotel. HDPmoDiia. W. W. fitarkey. 8H5 East Fifteenth North, Maxwell. Harry Chang, 527 Greenwood avenue. Max ell. C. H. Lewis. 40S Lewis building, Paige. Columbia River Shipbuilding Company, foot of Meade street, Pierce-Arrow. Nels Hustad, 843 Greenwood, Chevrolet. Gui Keramldaa, 27 North Fifth, Hudson. W. J. Fullman, Lenox Hotel. Velie. AUTO SERVES USEFUL- PURPOSE Del Wright Asks "What Country Would Do Without Anto. "What would happen if every auto mobile in the world refused to run?" asks Del Wright, local Kissel distributor. How would the farmer who lives many miles from town get his milk. eggs and garden produce to market? 'How would the doctor be able to meet the emergency cases that depend on a saving of time? With the high price of horses, the elimination of the automobile would put a Nation afoot. Without automobiles how much longer would it have taken the liberty bond salesmen to reach buyers? "With five passengers to every one of the 5,000,000 automobiles, what would happen to the railroads if these addi- Seven-Passenger Toursedan The Pble A car of illimitable keatity and accom modations ' 'deluxe. It epitomizes tke most advanced scientific achievements in Aero type engineering. Double the range of performance Half the cost of operation Northwest Auto Co; Alder at Chapman COLE MOTOR CAR COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS. U.S.A. tional 25,000,000 passengers depended on them for transportation each day?" 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Remember this luxurious Sedan body is built over the ever-enduring Ford chassis and propelled by the incomparable Ford motor. THEY ARE GOING FAST AND IF YOU OBTAIN ONE IT MUST BE NOW. , FORD DEALERS AUTHORIZED FRANCIS MOTOR CAR CO. E. Thirteenth and Hawthorne PALACE GARAGE CO. Twelfth at Stark WM. L. HUGHSON CO. Broadway at Davis RUSHLIGHT & PENNEY. E. Third at Broadway TALBOT & CASEY, Inc. E. Ankeny at Grand ROBINSON-SMITH CO. Sixth and Madison THE NEW Scripps-Booth Six EMBODIES FEATURES OF HIGH PRICED CARS WITH THE ECONOM ICAL OPERATION OF A LIGHT CAR. IT IS STRICTLY A HIGH-GRADE PRODUCT OF ONE OF THE LARGEST MOTOR CAR MAKERS THE GEN ERAL MOTORS COMPANY. 5-PASS., 3-PASS. ROADSTER, SEDAN AND COUPE THE Case Six IS EXCEEDING OUR EVERY EXPEC TATION AS TO PERFORMANCE AND DURABILITY. EVERY CASE OWNER IS AN ENTHUSIASTIC BOOSTER. J. H. GRAHAM TENTH AND STARK ftUSSELL MACHINE! 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