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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1919)
10 TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 3, 1910. is L REQUIRES E ID ATTENTION Faulty Lubrication Is Often Cause of Trouble. PART IS SADLY NEGLECTED Housing or Joint Sliould Be Itc niovril Periodically and Packed With I'resh Grease. Here is on of Hie hardest working parts of the motor car's mechanism and yet many car owners are unaware of the existence of anch a thing as a uni versal Joint. The most universal run most of the time without lubrication. In spite of the fart that the univer sale will continue to function for a long time even when they are consistently reflected, the running of the car will be Improved If these parts are main tained as they should be. Most drivers have noticed a tendency on the part of the car to Jerk, when it is running slowly In high gear. This may be caused in the main .by a badly-worn universal Joint and the wear is probably due to faulty lubrication. While, as we have noted, the uni versal Joint is a remarkably efficien bit of mechanism, in fact some makes are claimed to be 9S per cent efficient, t Is a fact that lubrication of the part is difficult at best. From the character of its movement, the universal develops a tendency to throw off the lubricant to the side. This Is due to the centrifugal force that Is present. Also the lubrt cant Is likely to be squeezed out from between the rubbing surraces. By rea son of the twist or torque on the' joint. In the design of the modern car there Is a propeller shaft, which carries the drive to the rear axle. This is imea with one or two universal Joints, so that it may conform with the move ments of the rear axle. If the propel ler shaft were not so fitted. It would snap off the first time the rear axle bounced up and down with the action of the springs. The unlversals compen sate for this movement of the axle. It doesn't take any great amount of Imagination that a part charged with a functionor rather functions, of this sort, oushl to have a certain amount of care and attention. For such continuous movement as here tskes rlace. the only alleviating condition is i'odIous and consistent lubrication. Do the universals get this kind treatment at the hands ot the average owner? They do not. The original unlversals consisted simply of a cross-shaped piece, the ends of this acting as bearings ror u-snapea parts. With two of these, one moving up and down and the other sideways, universal action was obtained. These primeval unlversals practically always ran exposed. After Ion? experiment and Improve ment, the engineers hit upon the ball type of universal. This type embodies a ball which rests in a socket, thus producing the universal movement that is needed for the propeller shaft. Some of the present designs of unlversals provide not only for up and down and eidewaa movement, but for forward and back thrust an well. While this eliding Joint Idea has found consider able favor, most engineers prefer to provide for this front and back move ment in other parts of the mechanism. Strange as it mav seem, universal Joints are not always made of metal. Within the past tew years there have been introduced a number of fabric joints, leather Joints and combinations of the two. The great advantage of this non-metal type Is that it can do without lubrication. Further, noise is practically eliminated from the oper ation of the part. In fact, the only rare the fabric and leather Joints re quire is an Inspection once a month or so and a tightening up of the re taining members as they happen to seed it. The non-metal or flexibl universal Joint cannot be emplojed with all con structions of mechanism, its. avail ability depending largely on the angle of operation of the propeller shaft. In construction where the shaft i. nearly level, the flexible joint is movt desir able, and is warmly advocated by some designers. When the shaft is placed at a great angle, the metal joint is neces sary because it has a greater radius of action. Flexible unlversals are used mainly where the transmission Is lo cated amidships and separate from the clutch and engine. The universal is then placed between clutch and trans mission. Some of these fabric joints are made of a single piece of leather, while others embody a number of leather parts fastened together. There is a universal on the market today made Up of several lier of a close- woven cotton fabric, placed one on tip of the other and ea h at a different angle, so as to emp n.ate for the puli at any given polut and thus give uni form strength. There Is littlo that the car owner is called upon to do to keep the uni versal Joints In the best possible shape. Once a month or oftener if experience shows it to be necessary, the housing of the Joint should be removed. Some times the housing is of metal and again it takes the form of a leather K-ol. At any rate it should be taken off periodically, and after the Joint has been flushed out thoroughly with kerosene, it should be repacked with fresh grease, graphite or one of the non-flutd lubricants sold for the pur pose. Oil would be the best lubricant lot this part, but unfortunately the tendency of the Joint to throw the lu bricant to the side, makes it necessary to use the non-fluid substance. How ever, b- giving this hard-working part the slight attention It requires, it will be kept working without complaint for very much longer than the nature of its service mouM seem to promise. confirmed by a cablegram received from W. F. Bradley, Paris, France, who is the foreign representative of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, stating that two Fiat cars and three Sunbeams are available Immediately for racing, and negotiations are being started to secure entries of these cars to be piloted by noted drivers, for the 500- mlle race. The Sunbeams are well known to the patrons of the Indianapolis track, hav ing appeared first in the 600-mile race on May 30. 1313, the car being driven by Albert Guyot, he bringing with him an Englishman named Croasman, as a mechanician. Guyot drovo the entire soo milea without relief and finished fourth in this race. The next appear ance of the Sunbeams sent by the Eng lish factory was in 1914, when two cars were entered and driven by Van Raalte, an Englishman, and Porporato. an Ital ian. The most noted performance of this team was Porporato's finish in sec ond place in the opening 500-mile race at the Chicago Speedway in June of 1914. Of these drivers, Guyot is a Frenchman, he joined his colors at the beginning of the war in 1914 and for quite some time was a driver for Gen eral Joffre and later was engaged In special work in connection with the motor service of the French army. Crossman also went to the front with the English army, but was captured by the Germans in the early months of the fighting and no late information has been received regarding him. Porporato PIERCE-ARROW HUM ER E CHANGES MM E Charles C. Fagan Company, Inc., Now Distributors. BIG TERRITORY OBTAINED Four-Passenger Touring Car and Four-Passenger Roadster, Just In, Are Smart Models. Reorganization of the Portland firm distributing Pierce-Arrow automobiles and trucks has resulted in a change in name from the Pierce-Arrow Pacific Sales Company. Inc.. to the Chas. C. BRAND NEW ROLE. I HERE'S THE VERSATILE FORD CAR IN A ' 'w-r- ' . - - ' . . - fc'' sV . ! Nxjl Fords Of tern Hani Hay, Fruit, Cabbages and Almost Kverrf hlns; Kin Trader the San. But This Ford Goes 'Em All One Better Hauling Bibles. KIDDLE. Or., Dec. zs. (Special.) ?ow comes the versatile Ford car In a new role. Everybody has seen, torus employed to carry hay, fruit, cabbages. livestock and all , kinds of things, but never before until the Kev. G. L. Hall came on the scene had anyone here seen a Ford used to carry Bibles. Mr. Hall, who Is a colporteur for the American Baptist Publication Society, and former pastor of the First Baptist Church at Medford, Or., toured Oregon to bring Uibles to the small communities. He has traveled hundreds of miles and has placed many a Bible en route where it will do the most good. While crossing the state line between California and Oregon shortly before he reached Riddle, a skeptical official insisted on inspecting Mr. Hall's Bibles to make sure they were Bibles and not booze. , is an officer in the Italian army and has served this country with distinc tion. . After the announcement of the 500- mile race for May 30, 1917, the Fiat factory, at Turin, Italy, cabled its en tries for two cars to be driven by Jack Scales, an engineer in the Fiat factor)', and an Italian driver named Fagnano. who participated in a number of European events with marked suc cess. On account of difficulties in shipping from Italian ports because of the submarine menace, the Fiat of ficials were sending their race cars by trucks to Bordeaux and were half way between Turin and Bordeaux when they were notified by cable of the can cellation ot the Indianapolis event on account of America's entry into the hostilities. The cars were immediately recalled, shipping arrangements for the Fagan Company. Inc., of which Charles C. Fagan is the head. The change took effect January 1. Headquarters of the company will continue to be at Twenty-third and Washington streets. The Chas. C. Fagan Company, Inc., will distribute Pierce-Arrow automo biles and trucks in Oregon, the Co lumbia River Washington counties and also Walla Walla, Franklin, Columbia, Garfield and Whitman counties. Xo sub-agencies will be established", it is announced, all the business being han dled direct from Portland. Charles C. Fa-pan, the head of the new company, has been with Pierce- Arrow organizations for the last eight years. He has been In Portland for more than three years and previous to that was with the Pierce-Arrow Pacific tales Company Inc., at Seattle. Mr. Fagan and Frank B. Thompson, who is cars and reservations for the drivers ! in charge of the truck, sales department canceled and. it Is believed that these cars have been held in the factory since hat date and are the ones that are available at this time. VOWS PROVE SHOOT-HIED WALT MASOX ADVISES ALL TO CUT OCT WASTE. Writer Ieelures Xew Year's Resolu tions I.u-1 Just liong Enough to Break. AUTO RACE DATE CHANGED 1IBEKTV SWEEPSTAKES UK STAGED MAY 31. WILL Event of 300 Miles on Indianapolis Speedway Will lie Interna tional Contest. INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. Zt. The Lib erty Sweepstakes race for a distance of 500 miles and a cash purse of 950. !. will be run on the Indianapolis Motor speedway on Saturday, May SI, instead of May 3V. as originally an nounced. Popular demand by the pa trons of the big plant and because of a feeling that Memorial day will have a new meaning to the entire country influenced the Speedway owners, who are spending the Winter in Miami, Florida, to make this change. The name "Allied Liberty Sweep stakes" might well be applied to the great auto classic, scheduled for May -1. 1919, because there will be con tenders of both cars and drivers rep National Association Formed, With Chicago Man at Head. To promote and improve service on the electrical equipment of automotive vehicles In the United States" the Na tional Automotive Electric Service as sociation was formed last week at the Chicago Automobile Club at a meeting of the executives of various concerns which maintain electric service sta tions. Membership is to be by firms rather than by individuals, each firm to have two representatives with one vote for each representative, Arthur Jones, of the Arthur Jones Electric relenting .England. France. Italy. Bel-, Company. Chicago, was elected presi dium anil the United lalea. This is! dent uf the organization. , Walt Mason has written the follow ing on "The New Year" for the Haynes Automobile Company: On New Year's day we vow our vows, and put new hulos on our brows. We swear off habits punk and vain, and say we'll all be safe and sane, and set examples shining briit: we'll be the smoothest things In sight. We throw our pipes upon the lawn. and break the good old demijohn, and give our corkscrews to the poor; we'll be a lot of aneels, sure. Well all no wcet and saintly men; we'll never rip or cuss again, or tell a falsehood vile to see, or chop down father's cherry tree. We'll be such pure and lovely things you'll hear the rustle of our wings. A lot of vows we reubens make will last Just long enough to break. We try our natures to renew, and bite off more than we can chew. Hut there are many, many ways in which a reformation pays. For instance, if we cut out waste, we'll find that scheme in splendid taste. The most of us are driving cars, and will be till we reach the stars. We save when we are buying meat, when buying caskets for our feet, when buying bon nets for our wives, when buying clothes and butcher knives. We watch the leaks with anxious eyes, we struggle to economize. And then we take our wasteful cars, and let down all the spendthrift bars. We burn up gasoline as though we dipped it from the river's flow. We use up oil. whose price is high, as though , iir.. u . . hliintiilnp f :i k I w,. often ' pause and cry. "Dod-gasl!" The coin it costs to go a verst would buy the children weinerwurst. About a million men or less will buy new cars this year, I guess. Then why not make a New Year pledge from which you will not need to hedge? Vhy not resolve to get a car that will not give your purse a Jar? hy not exert your store of brains, and buy yourself a nice, new Haynes? Then you can take your-wife and aunt, and o'er the coun try gallivant, and have the blamedest finest time nor will your gas bill be a crime. Extravagance gives wise men pains be thrifty, then, and own a Haynes. ELECTRIC CONCERNS ORGANIZE for Oregon, are directors of the new company.' "The Pierce-Arrow business has grown so rapidly that I decided to take it over," said Mr. Fagan. "We intend to make Oregon a Pierce-Arrow state. Our service facilities will be improved and we will provide for owners one of the finest service stations on the Pa cific Coast." Two new Pierce-Arrow cars, a four passenger roadster and a four-passenger touring car, which have just been received here are being greatly admired by Portland motorists. The touring car is blue, with a hair-line white stripe and presents a very smart appearance. It was sold immediately upon its arrival. The roadster, which is French gray throughout, also has a hair-line white stripe decoration. Unlike most chummy roadsters it has both front and rear doors and individual seats in front. The car has individual overstuffed cush ions. Upholstered hassocks serve as footresta. A luggage carrier at the rear of the car is a feature of the equipment. The roadster has a 142 inch wheelbase and 10-inch clearance. TRUCK PRODUCTION INCREASES Output of Autos in 1918 Is 710,000 Less Than in 191". According to statistics prepared by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce there were produced in 1917 some 1.718,000 passenger automobiles and 160.000 commercial vehicles, where as under the war restrictions this year the total output of passenger cars will be slightly under 1,000,000 or 740,000 fewer than In 1917. There was no enforced limitation of truck production until August, except that many assemblers were unable to obtain deliveries of engines, transmis sions and axles. Trucks produced and sold for civil Ian use only last year totaled 109,000, while this year they will reach 183,000 an increase of 67 per cent. "Might Not Be Bad Idea,' Admits Prospect. (Wood Iolnt Made la nialogrue o Antomoblle Hew. GREATEST OF ALL SIXES e lD)Bl(Cif. to S1795 That's It's the word on the street today. good news to the car-using public. With this $300 Reduction Chandler leads in price, now as always, because it is a basic policy of the Chandler Company to build a really fine car and price it as closely as it can be priced. The great Chandler plant, the millions of capital employed in Chandler production, are back of that statement. They exist because of that policy. CLandler is the greatest of sixes. Cars come and go. Types of motors, too. Chandler lives and grows, and eyery season multiplies its friends. On the splendid Chandler chassis, famous for its marvelous motor, are mounted most attractive styles of body, distinguished in design, lux uriously comfortable, handsomely finished and upholstered. Touring Car The big, roomy Chandler Touring Car, seating seven in perfect comfort, leads the line. In grace and beauty of design, it holds pre-eminence. Fotir-Passenger Roadster The Chandler Roadster, seating four, continues to hold its favor with a big public. Chandler design has solved the problem of the close coupled seating arrangement with out the sacrifice of beauty of body lines. Dispatch Car The Chandler Dispatch Car, seat ing four, is all that its name implies. A car to "go get there" in. Snappy, fast with just a touch of raciness in its make-up. Convertible Sedan and Coupe In the four-door Convertible Sedan; seating seven, and the four-passenger Convertible Coupe, Chandler offers the very finest development of the all-season type of car. Beautifully built cars, both of them. With win dows closed they offer snug protection against snow or rain or cold. With windows lowered or removed, they are quite as open to the sunshine and soft warm air of pleasant days as is any other type of car. Thou sands are buying Chandler sedans and coupes now, and enjoying their delightful riding comfort. And Chandler is Back to $1795 In choosing your new car you will consider the Chandler. Let us show you now why Chandler is the greatest of sixes. Come, decide for yourself. SIX SPLENDID BODY TYPES Seven-Passenger Touring Car, $1795 Four-Passenger Roadster, SI 795 Four-Passenger Dispatch Car, SI 875 Convertible Sedan, S2495 Convertible Coupe, S2395 Limousine, S3095 Alt prices f. o. b. Cleveland Twin States Motor Car Co. 514 Alder Street, Corner Sixteenth, Portland, Oregon Phone Broadway 494 CHANDLER MOTOR CAR COMPANY, CLEVELAND, OHIO (Prices as listed above effective on and after January 6, 1919.) FURTHER CUTS FAR AWAY CHEVROLET NOW SELLING PRE-WAR PRICE. AT Industry Must Become More Stabil ized Before Another Reduction Is Possible. TJKOSPECT -I don't know why I JL should bother about a new motor car. My old one Is good enough." Salesman "How long have you had it?" Prospect "Well. I've had it going on three years, and it's always done good service. A coat of paint, and it'll be as good as new." Salesman "You don't mean to say it won t have to be overhauled?" Prospect "Well, yes; of course, it'll nave 10 De overhauled a bit." Salesman "Why don't you compare the cost of that with the cost of a new car at the prices now announced?" Prospect "Eh?" Salesman "Just what I said. Figure the price you can obtain for your car and then subtract it from the price you would have to pay for a new one. I'll bet the difference would be very little more than the cost of overhauling." Prospect Eh? Eh? Salesman "You heard me." Prospect "Do you know I think I'll go home and think that over." Salesman "Well. I'll have the car you were looking at ready for you." prospect "it might not be a bad Idea, after all." Don't fall to inspect the level of liquid in the storage battery every two weeks. Xo further reductions in the prices of motor cars can come for many months according to an analysis of the nriifnt Rltnatinn made bv Le Roy Fields, of Regner & Fields. Chevrolet distributors. This price of this car in common with others put out by the larger motor car corporations dropped to the before-the-war price, but it is Mr. Field's opinion as well as the con sensus of opinion of the other motor car dealers of the city that there can be no further drop in prices until the automobile industry becomes more sta bilized and the manufacturers return to a capacity production. Mr. Fields points out that low prices in machines are made possible through quantity production. Then materials can be bought in larger quantities and many items of cost cut to -the minimum. For one thing the cost of materials is still high and will remain so until the steel people catch up. Labor is high and these both affect not only the cost of the chassis alone, but every acces sory which goes into a completed auto mobile, such as the Chevrolet. There are starters, batteries, tires, rims, speedometers and the entire elec trical equipment to be taken into con sideration. The manufacturing costs on all of these have mounted and he predicts that it will be some time be fore the manufacturers will be able to reduce prices. In the low-priced car field any reduction will be small, when it does come, possibly a year from now, he declares. Avoid high speed. The average car Is most economical at la to 25 miles an iour, SPECIAL OFFER! To Be Discontinued in a Few Days. At present a Keaton Heavy Red Tube will be given with out charge with every Keaton Non-skid and Ribbed Type Tire. This applies to exchanges for old tires as well as straight sales. Order your Winter equipment before this liberal offer expires, as it is subject to with drawal without notice. Keaton Non-skids are guaran teed to stop your skidding. KEATON TIRE & RUBBER CO. Portland Sixth and Main Streets. Main 3210