THE ' SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND, JUNE 1, 1910.
OF A PIERCE-
5-Ton Truck in 74-Mile Run
Daily for Six Years.
MILEAGE TOTAL 145,000
Old Power Wagon, Only Once Over
hauled, Still on Job and Good
for SeTeral Years Yet.
Permanency as applied, to motor
truck performance is an elastic term
and depends upon a thousand and one
conditions that enter into the manufac
ture of the product in the first place
and a grain upon the care given the ma
ter, when heavy snows -are frequently
encountered the gasoline consumption
is greater. Tires have averaged 16. woo
miles on the front wheels and 12,000
miles on the rear wheels. Some sets
htrve served more than 20,000 miles on
the front wheels. Repair and mainten
ance charges on this machine at the
time of its overhaul were only $1314,
including the overhaul cost of $1116.68.
The original mechanism of the 14S,-000-mile
power wagon Js Intact, includ
ing the worm-gear. This statement ex
cepts a few minor replacements.
The accompanying detailed statement
of costs tells its own story:
Fixed Overhead Expenses.
Interest at 6 per cent t CO 8. 00
Insurance
Fir at 1 'V7 per cent 72.00
Property damage. J1O00 30.OO
Collision at 2 2-5 D.r Mnt fl25 de
ductible) 115.20
Liability - 75.00
Garage at 12 a month 144.00
Driver at X24. a week 1248.00
DIAMONDS USED OH AUTOS
COSTIiY GEMS PART OF. JfASH
MANUFACTURING EQIIPMEXT.
Fixed charges per year $1992.29
Fixed charges per day (1-365) 6.45
Operating Expenses.
Tires 1(5. 0OO miles front at 16. 12.-
OOO miles rear at $503.SO, per mile. .$ .051
Gasoline, d miles per gallon at 27
cents per gallon .045
Motor oil. 250 mllea per gallon at 60
cents per gallon .002
Lubrication allowance 002
Repair and maint-nance -(overhauled
at 78.050 miles for $1,314, Including .
. repair parts) .Olo
Depreciation at 150.000 miles, deduct
ing tire cost .027
Operating; cost per mile .....$ .143
$50,000 Worth Annually Used in
Production of Xash Trucks
and Xasli Cars.
Fifty thousand dollars" worth of dia
monds are used each year in the pro
duction of Nash passenger cars and
trucks. The diamond, regarded gen
erally as a luxury, is not so classified
by the production department of the
Nash Motors company, where it is
looked upon as an essential and as
such is held responsible for some of
the most important machine operations
that go into the various parts, of the
Nash Six.
The jeweler has developed for the
diamond settings that inspire admira
tion; poets have enshrined it with a
lralo of romance, but the automobile
manufacturer, quick to perceive its
more practical possibilities, has literal
ly put the diamond "in overalls" and
set it to work.
Instead of its more familiar back
ground of gold and platinum, the dia
mond as seen in the Nash factory is
EASTERN OREGON MEN TAKE DISTRIBUTING AGENCY FOR ELGIN, WESTCOTT AND HARROUN CARS.
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BfcRE THEY ARE JC5T BEFORE LEAVING PORTLAND FOR PENDLETON, AFTER SIGNING UP. FOR AGENCY.
Four of the mn in the picture are: W. H. Royce, Boyd Lawrence, J. E. Sophy and E. C. Olsen of Pendleton and
Ia Grande. The identity of the fifth must remain a secret to Oregonian readers, as it was not divulged to the automo
bile editor. These live young men will handle the Elgrin, Westcott and Ilarroun in nine eastern Oregon counties, with
ueauquariers at renaieion and sales agencies at l-a urande and valuer.
chine and the strain under which it
fria.H to work. The record of one motor
truck, a five-ton Pierce-Arrow, owned
by J. B. Prescott, milk distributor, of
Concord Center, Mass., furnishes good
evidence of what may be expected of
a, well-built machine, even under the
most straining tests.
This motor truck was placed in op
eration May 27, 1913. Since thn this
power wagon has covered a 74-mile
route almost every day of each year.
Karly in 1919 the 145,000-mark was
passed. During this stretch of years
this motor truck did not miss its daily
trip except during a month's period
when it was given the overhauling due
a.11 machines after a lapse of time. Be
cause of the conscientious care given
it, it required no overhauling until Au
gust, 1916, up to which time it had
traveled 78,050 miles.
It so happens that the Prescott motor
truck has been called upon to do what
no other machine has ever done so far
&s can be learned. Here was a real
test, if there ever was one, of real per
manency. A 100 per cent mark must
be accorded the contestant. Other motor
trucks are older, in point of service,
than this one; others have traveled
farther some having covered more
than 200,000 miles, but none of these
machines, so far as is known, was
called upon to perform a daily task
without halt over an extended period
cf years.
How much longer this veteran is go
ing to maintain this record no one can
tell. Any method of figuring depre
ciation writes the original cost off the
books. Yet this motor truck stands
ready, apparently, to repeat in a large
measure, its record performance.
Today this old power wagon is called
upon to perform a more strenuous daily
task than that performed by a. second
machine purchased by Mr. Prescott.
This second motor truck is required to
travel 50 miles, instead of 74 each day.
Like its mate, it has never missed a
trip. It has been in operation since
Aujrust, 1916, and has covered nearly
0,000 miles without overhauling.
Nothing more than ordinary care has
Ibeen given these motor trucks. Mr.
Prescott s sole requirement of his driv
ers is that they oil the machines thor
oughly and with intelligent care.
Performance details are more In
Rtructive than general facts ever can
be. The life of Prescott motor truck No.
1 may be written as follows: Korty
stops are made - in the morning at
farms in the vicinity of Concord Center,
where about 600 two-gallon cans of
milk are loaded. These cans are car
ried to four or five retail milk dealers
in the suburbs of Boston. Kmpty cans
are picked up and on the return trip
axe delivered to the farmer.
On this work the machine averages
eix miles to a gallon of gasoline; in
summer the average is-higher. In win-
Daily cost at 74 m11s pr day 1.V!2
Cost per gallon fVJOO gallons pr day) .013
LICENSE LI IS ENFORCED
FAirCRE TO PAY FEES 3IAKES
OWNERS LIABLE TO FINES.
Attorney-General Black ot Idaho
Gives Ont Ruling on What Con
stitutes Common Carrier.
BOISE. Idaho, May 29. (Special.)
The state has decided to enforce the
automobile license law and bring: delin
quent auto owners to time. The law
enforcement department will take
charge. Owners operating automobiles
as common carriers, hat is. on regu
lar routes, charging; a passenger fee,
must pay to the public utilities com
mission a stipulated fee. If they fail
to do this they may be convicted of a
misd-emeanor and heavily fined.
Attorney-General Black has ruled
that in his opinion the following can
be classed as "common carriers": Auto
stages, motor vehicles or any other
self-propelled motor vehicle for use in
the business of carrying either passen
gers or freight, or both, whether oper
ated over any particular route or
routes, or between specified terminals
for hire or compensation with the fol
lowing exceptions: Such as run on rails
or tracks, hearses, ambulances, hotel
busses operating solely between hotels
and trains, automobiles or automobile
trucks used for carrying United States
mails on star routes when actually en
gaged in carrying such mail.
"Under the statute, as it is now
amended," says the attorney-general,
"it will be seen that the words "taxi
cab," touring cars or automobiles from
garages from call, which have no spe
cific routes, were omitted from the
exceptions. The law intended to in
clude all motor vehicles whether they
accepted employment to run over cer
tain routes to certain designated places,
or would' go any place within their
territory on call."
, Famous Stevens Still Rides.
Thomas Stevens started in the spring
of 18S3 to ride around the world on a
bicycle. That was in the days of the
old high bicycle with solid tires. Ste
vens successfully performed this re
markable trip and the story of his great
ride was told in a popular magazine of
those days. Mr. Stevens is now a hale
and hearty old man' who still rides a
bicycle.
"set" in a small socket at tbe end of
short and unromantic steel bar. Both
diamond and "setting" are covered
with grease and grime and in this un
sightly but practical garb the job as
signed to the king of gems is the more
or less prosaic though vitaly impor
tant duty of regrinding- the surfaces
of emery wheels.
It is the emery wheel that is depend
ed upon for the high degree of accu
racy demanded in the Nash factory for
bearing surfaces of the crank shaft,
the cam shaft and for pistone. trans
mission sleeves and similar parts that
must be smoothed so that the surface
will not vary as much as a one-thou
sandtb. part of an inch. In the Nash
plant are scores of wheels used for
this purpose and each is manned by
highly skilled operator.
After each operation of the emery
wheel the diamond is brought into play.
Pressed against the spinning wheel, the
diamond is made to rerind its surface
so that subsequent operations of the
wheel on surface of steel parts will
produce accurate results.
The diamonds used for this purpose
by the Nash Motors company vary from
three-quarters of a carat to eight car
ats in size.
CYCLE TAXES ARE EXPLAINED
Motorcycles and Parts Come Under
Xew Schedule.
LOS ANGELES. May 31. The new
war taxes on motorcycles went Into ef
feet May 1. Here la how they are In
terpreted by one of the big distributors
who has studied the provisions of th
new revenue act closely: Tax on motor
cycles, S per cent, an increase of 2 pe
cent compared to the old tax. The
per cent tax also applies to motorcycl
parts, sidecars and sidevans, and all
equipment for same. This is a new tax
which previously did not apply to these
Items under the old revenue act. Motor
wheels and parts thereof are classed i
motorcycles and come under the 5 p
1 ability to discharge road shocks, and endur- Lzj-i '
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ECONOMICAL tires are built by hand for
ability to discharge road shocks', and endur
ance to give maximum mileage. Ordinary
tires- are made by machinery for quantity output
aifd to meet a price.
Economical tires mean long life and increased effi
ciency to your automobile, and low operating cost.
Ordinary tires mean short life and decreased effi
ciency to your automobile, and high operating cost.
The price of Globe Tires (Fabric or Cord) averages
about 10 more than ordinary tires, but they give
you 50 more miles. Globe Tires, built slowly and
surely by hand, for real resiliency and maximum
mileage, are the most economical you can buy-
M- SELLER &
PORTLAND, OREGON
Distributors. for the Northwest
Mide by
GLOBE RUBBER TIRE MFG. CO.
Executive Offices: 1851 Broadway .-NcwA'ctlc Factories Trenton, N J
branches in NEW YORK. CHICAGO. PHILADELPHIA and BOSTON
Dealers in open territory are invited to writ'
for information about our exclusive franchise
Z2
cent tax rullnp. No tax on bicycles or
equipment. The law provides that the
tax be added by the manufacturer to
the cost of the machine when sold from
the factory. Thus it is passed alontr to
the distributor, thence to the dealer,
and latterly to the consumer.
MOHAWK TIRE BROUGHT HERE
Munnell & Sherrill to Handle Tire
of Well-Known Make.
Announcement was made last week
that Munnell & Sherrill of 40 Kirst
street have taken the distributing
agency for Oregon, northern California,
most of Washington and a portion of
Idaho for the well-known Mohawk tire.
This tire, which is manufactured In
both cord and fabric, is a hand-made
product. It has a guarantee of 6000
miles for fabrics and 6500 for the cord.
The deal was arranged through W. J.
Fitzgerald of San Francisco, coast man
ager for the Mohawk.
HUDSON OWNERS LEAVE PORTLAND ON OCEAN-TO-OCEAN TOUR.
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FHOM PORTLAND, OR, TO FORTLAXD, MPi, AT BACK IS THEIR GOAL.
Mr. and Mrsv H. M. Carlock of 318 Sixteenth street and Hudson Super-Six In
which they started last week on cross-country tour to Portland. Me, and re
turn. They left via the central Oregon highway to Los Angeles, whence they
will ta'i the Grand canyon of the Colorado-and drive easotthrougb. Arizona,
Texajv Orleans.
ANNOUNCEMENT
It is with considerable pride
that we announce our good for
tune in having secured the ex
clusive agency for Oregon of
the famous "
GRUSS AIR SPRING
We are now ready to install
this shock absorber on cars or
trucks.
BURNESS & MARTIN
501-503 Alder St.
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