THE SUNDAY ORECOXIAX, PORTLAND, ' SEPTE3IBER 21, 1919.
MAXWELL
CHALMERS
MERGER
ISAHG
ED
Details in Big Motor Combina
tion Announced.
NEWS FROM AUTO CENTER
Rational Automobile ' Chamber
Commerce Behind Move to
Solve Theft Problem.
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DETROIT, Sept. 20. Detail of the
plan for mergrlngr the Maxwell Motor
company and the Chalmers Motor cor
poration Into the Maxwell-Chalmers
Motor corporation are being submitted
to stockholders of the companies.
The new corporation is to have au-
lnal sentence or from suspending: sen
tence. - Working with the new com
mittee Is the National Automobile
Dealers' association; the Motor and
Accessory Manufacturers' association,
the A. A. A. and the Trailers Manufac
turers' association.
Directors of the chamber Indorsed
the Volstead bill, now In congress, relating-
to the seizure of cars carrying
liquor. This bill, a prohibition meas
ure, gives the owner, or part owner, of
seized car, if he be innocent of wrong;
doing-, a right to put in his claim for
the return of the, car. Many dealers
have suffered recently by reason of the
seizure of cars which they' had just
sold on time payments. ,
The chamber decided to hold a fac
tory service managers' convention in a
western city during the week begin
ning October 27. .Managers of distribu
tors service departments will be asked
to attend and take part In a national
movement for betterment of service to
car owners.
The tariff committee reported on
shipments of cars for July and esti
mated August shipments.' During July
last the car manufacturers shipped 24.
837 carload lots as against 18,741 In
July, 1918. The August shipments are
estimated at 21,000 carload lots as
against 13,868 for August, 1918:'
Many cars are being driven away
from the factories at this time and
hundreds are being shipped by water.
These shipments cannot be estimated
accurately.
The motor transport corps will offer
for sale at public auctions to be held
OURUNT KEEPS HIS NERVE
CHEVROLET PILOT TO KEEP OX
AT RACIXG GAME.
Accident at Elgin Doesn't Feaze Him
in Least, and lie Plans to Go '
. Easter . Than ETer.
OAKLAND", CaL. Sept. 20. With his
well-known enthusiasm for speed en
tirely undlmmed by his spectacular ac
cident In the recent Elgin road race.
Cliff Durant, millionaire speed cham
pion and motor car manufacturer, re
turned to Los Angeles last week to at
tend a directors' meeting of the new
Los Angeles Speedway association,
coming from there to San Francisco.
"It sur6 was a mighty narrow1 es
cape," was Durant'a reply to a query
regarding Elgin. The customary Du
rant smile was slightly askew because
of strips of adhesive tape holding his
right ear in place, but . otherwise the
wealthy driver-aviator bore only faint
marks to show that he had knocked
down four husky telegraph poles and
turned three complete somersaults In
his latest quest for racing laurels.
The Durant accident at Elgin was,
according to both Cliff and Fred Co
mer, his mechanician, the result of too
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PORTLAND.
For a long time A. C. Stevens, Winton and Haynes distributor here, has been awaiting the new WInton model. The first
shipment arrived last week, and the photograph shows the handsome lines of the car. The body, which is of aluminum,
has airplane lines throughout and beveled edges. There is nothing extreme about it, yet the Rolls-Royce hood design
has been pretty closely followed. This car, which is the new model 24-48 Winton, also has the new motor developed by
the Winton company during the war. R. R. Coster, Winton salesman, at the wheel.
thorized capital etock comprising 800,
000 shares of common stock of no par
Value and $3,150,000 of preferred stock.
Holders of the Maxwell present first
preferred stock are to receive 120 per
cent in new common etock and $7 'a
share in cash. Holders of the Maxwell
second -preferred stock receive 66 per
cent In new stock and owners of the
present Maxwell common stock re
ceive 70 per cent in new stock. Owners
of the present Chalmers preferred stock
are to receive 105 per cent in new
stock and the owners of Chalmers com
mon get 15 per cent in new etock.
The Chalmers Motor corporation's
outstanding 6 per cent notes can be ex
changed on a 100 per cent basis for the
new 7 per cent preferred stock to the
amount of $3,150,000, which will com
prise the entire preferred stock out
standing. Inne of ID-Tear Notes.
The merger plan contemplates an
Issue of $10,000,000 of ten-year 1 7 per
cent sinking fund, convertible gold
notes, which carry the privilege of
conversion into 15 shares of new stock
for each $1000 note, within the first 90
days after- the notes are issued and at
the rate of 12 shares for each $1000
note thereafter:
Should the consolidation plan be
approved, the issue of notes will be
underwritten by the Central . Union
Trust company and the Chase Secur
ities corporation of New York. The
committee which arranged the plan
comprises Harry Bronner, chairman;
James C. Brady, J. R. Morton, Elton
Parks, Jules S. Bache, Hugh Chalmers
and J. Horace Harding.
At the September meeting of the di
dectors of the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, held In New
Lork Wednesday last, many, matters
of Importance to the automobile Indus
try were taken up. Among them was
the matter of car thefts. The legisla
tive conference committee, a new com
mittee of the chamber, outlined to thi
directors Its plan for a nation-wide
campaign for elimination of this men
ace to the industry.
ino committee has prepared some
constructive legislation which is- to
be presented to state legislatures. The
committee indorsed the Dyer bill in
troduced recently in congress by L. C.
Dyer, congressman from St. Louis,
which makes it a crime punishable by
lu years imprisonment to steal a car
and take it across the border of the
etate in which it is stolen. ' '
Mr. Dyer will be asked to amend the
bill to make the minimum punishment
two years, in order to prevent the pos
eibility of any judge imposing a nom
In the Immediate future at army camps J much speed. In practice Los
and storage yards, a total of 1243 used i gele's' favorite driver and his aid
passenger cars, truck ambulances
motorcycles side cars and -bicycles.
These vehicles In their present condi
tion are unserviceable for army use but
a number of them can be . made per
fectly useable by proper repairing.
The war department has no new serv
iceable passenger" automobiles for sale
at present and it is not anticipated that
it will have any new passenger cars
available for sale to the general public
On September 18 the- motor transport
officer at Camp Holabird near Balti
more began the- sale of 295 un
serviceable motor vehicles taken from
the total mentioned above. Embraced
in this will be 56 passenger cars, in
cluding Studebakers, "Hupmobiles. Over
lands, Libertys, Fords, Packards and
Chevrolets; 5 light delivery trucks,
principally Fords; 93 two-ton trucks of
various makes; 8 motorcycles and 5
Excelsior, solo and side cars.
On. September 19 and. Septejnber 20
auctions were held at the. army sup
ply base at Norfolk, Va., and at Camp
Hill and Camp Stuart near Newport
News, Va. The sale at Norfolk in
cluded Reo, Kisselkar, ' Studebaker,
Paige and .Ford passenger cars; 33
trucks of various sizes and types.
among which were Pierce-Arrows,
Maxwells, Studebakers, Nash, Reos and
Fords and two motorcycles.
To Announce Other -Sale Dates.
The sales at Camp Hill and Camp
Stuart included -25 (Passenger cars,
consisting of Chalmers and Fords; 74
trucks running from light deliveries to
five-ton types and consisting of Olds
mobiles, Nash, Pierce-Arrows, Buicks,
Republics and Fords. . . '
On ' September" 24 the motor trans
port officer at Philadelphia w-ill offer
for sale 18-passen&er cars consisting
of -Fords and heavier types; 98 trucks
ranging from light delivery vehicles
to five-ton types and three motor
cycles. '
Inquiries for the dates at which
auctions will be -held at other camps
and -storage depots and ' for informa
tion concerning the equipment to be
offered at each should be addressed
to the motor, transport officers detailed-to
these points. The motor
transport corps will announce through
the press further offerings on unserv
iceable motor equipment in the near
future at other locations. -
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had
figured out Just how fast they could
send the Chevrolet racing creation
around the dangerous course and still
stay upon four wheels. But the zest of
battle overcame Cliff on the very first
swing of the course, and in passing
another car he was forced off the high
crowned road and into the adjacent
soft field.
Durant carried first-hand Informa
tion to the eastern racing fraternity
concerning the new Los Angeles speed
way, and he declares that the pros
pect of the new California track
aroused keen enthusiasm. He predicts
that the opening race on Washington's
birthday will draw the fastest field
ever seen in the west. -
Far from being nerve shaken from
the close call he experienced at Elgin,
Durant is already planning to enter
races at Fresno and Hanford, Cal., in
the near future, and is also going right
ahead in his engineering work on a
new-Chevrolet for' next May's big In
dianapolis classic. The model he is now
working on calls for a motor of 181
cubic Inches piston displacement and is
expected to be capable of a speed of
lie miles, an hour.
One of Durant's first moves on reach
ing home was to purchase another air
plane to add to his stable of two sky
machines he secured before leaving on
his eastern racing invasion. The motor
magnate's plans now call for one of his
flying buses to be in Los Angeles at
all times, another at the new aviation
field he is constructing in Oakland,
while the third will be used for "tour
ing" to whatever point his fancy dictates.
YOU would be amazed if you
knew in how short a time the
average sale of a Liberty is closed.
As a rule, prospective buyers come
to us strongly attracted by the
beauty of the car, and the high favor
in which it is held by the owners.
With that preference to go on, we .
leave them largely to their own de
vices merely asking that they ob
serve, for themselves, the beautiful
steadiness of Liberty performance.
The first delightful ten minutes in
which the superior difference in .
the way the Liberty rides and
drives reveals itself is enough to
clinch the matter.
Won't you let us - show you how
true are the kindly things you con
stantly hear said of the Liberty?
Liberty Sedan and Coupe now being delivered,
W. H. Wallingford Co.
522 Alder St Portland
Branch 707 Washington St., Vancouver, Wash.
LIBERTJ SIX
GUARANTEE ill DISCARD
TIRE PERFORMANCE SUBJECT
TO VARYING CONDITIONS.
Loose Rivets. ,
Few owners examine the frame for
loose rivets, yet these often shake loose
and fall out. A car owner recently
found that two rivets which had held
a cross member of the frame in place
had slipped out and the side rail had
cracked a little as a result.
Shoes Not Guaranteed for Mileage
and No More Should Tires, As
serts Savage Tire Company.
"Improvements of the last few years
In the construction of tires has made
the old-time mileage guarantee, to all
Intents and purposes, a thing of the
past," declares George Tl. Whaley, man
ager of the Portland Tire company.
"The tendency today is to Judge a tire
by its actual performance considering
the conditions under which it is run.
In the old days of the 'Merry Olismo
bile' and kindred cars, with their maxi
mum speed of 20 miles per hour, the
tire inductry as applied to automobiles
was, of course, newer than the automo
bile itself. It was quite in order then
that the tire manufacturer should evi
dence his good faith in his product by
guaranteeing it to go a certain dis
tance. If he didn't have faith in his
product, who would?
"With the automobile confined to its
then very limited use and the roads in
practically the same condition every
where, the stress on tires was slight
compared to the heavy use they are put
to today. Under thc;se conditions a
manufacturer could readily guarantee a
given mileage.
"Now, however, conditions have so
changed that It is unnecessary, as well
as impossible, to state with any degree
of accuracy the distance in miles a per
fect tire will run. It is unnecessary
because tires mado by reputable manu
facturers are so constructed today that
with proper treatment they will with
stand rough usage far exceeding tiie
demands of the former mileage guar
antee. That it Is impossible to guaran
tee a perfect tire will run a given num
ber of miles is true, because the life of
the tire is dependable not on its own
merits so much as on the conditions
under which and how it is run.
"The utility of the present day auto
mobile and the correspondingly greater
demand on tires, has made it impousloie
to say how many miles a tire should
run. Just as it is impossible to prede
termine how many walking miles your
next pRlr of shoes will give. No mile-' Jon.
age guarantee accompanies a new pair
of shoes or any other article dependent
on wearing conditions for its life. Un
der ordinary conditions a pair of phoes
will last a reasonable time, but their
use and appearance is greatly impaired
under changed conditions, and the tame
is true of tires. Under adverse condi
tions 3000 miles might be a remarkable
showing for a tire, whereas the same
tire would run 20,000 miles under more
favorable conditions.
"The Savage Tire company guaran
tees its tires to be free from imperfec
tions in material and workmanship.
That guarantee is unconditional, ir
respective of the mileage obtained. If a
tire is found defective in any way It Is
unequivocally replaced. For this pur
pose a standard of 4500 miles for regu
lar tires and 6500 for D type has been
established as a basis on which to work.
"Not content with making ordinary
tires, the last two years have been de
voted to producing a tire that will ex
cel anything on the market. Reports
from all sections where Savage tires
have been in use under every road con
dition on the cars of users, give evi
dence of its object having been attained.
Such an ideal cannot be realized with
out giving time, effort and expense and
these were given unsparingly. The
results prove that.
' "The company is working on a policy
that requires not only that last year,
this year or next year be marked as
particularly successful, but that each
succeeding year must bring with it con
sistent and persistent development as
applied to the products of the Savage
Tire company. 'Built to excel' means
Just what It is intended to Imply.
"Much interest is manifested by mo
torists in the big super-size D type cas
ing now being produced by the Savage
people. Comparative tests under severe
conditions have demonstrated this new
departure in tire construction is in a
class by Itself. In rough usage on
heavy machines and stages it has met
with signal success."
Weak Starting.
When the starting motor for any rea
son lacks power to turn over the crank
shaft it may be strengthened by coup
ling on another storage battery, con
necting it in multiple so as not to in
crease the voltage. If the conducting
wires are- of sufficient size from the
battery to the motor there will be a
considerable gain in power output.
Do rot neglect to change the' oil in
the crankoase because it Is a "dirty
1 When .it is absolutely necessary to
run on a flat tire keep the tire In soft
dirt If possible. If the trouble occurs
on city streets run on the trolley track
rather than on cobblestones.
MEN WELL KNOWN IN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY ANNOUNCE PLANS
FOR MANUFACTURE OF NEW CAR.
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71 DIXIE FLYERS
SOLD AND DELIVERED
SINCE JUNE 24, 1919
36 MORE TO ARRIVE
THIS MONTH
24 ACTUALLY SOLD
WHY?
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DETROIT. Sept. 20. -Indianapoll" lias been announced as the location of
the automobile organization of D. McCall White and E. C. Howard, who are
preparing to build a Daw highrgrade car. Within a few days the new company,
whose mi i,as not been announced, will begin operations in a new plant,
which will have 100000 square feet of floor space immediately available. Mr.
White designed the Napier, Daimler and eight-cylinder Cadillac. Mr. Howard
recently resigned as general sales manager of the Cadillac company. -
The C. H. S. Co.
65 NORTH TWENTY-THIRD STREET
TOURING JjJ 1 S5 ROADSTER
PORTLAND
The Sturdy Car .
Nwbfr), Or, F". M. ShncU Auto Co.
4 orvallla. Or, A. O. Held c C.
Rosrburs;. Or, Vmpqua Motor Sales Co.
lloori Rlvvr. Or, Ollbert Motor t ar Co.
North YakJma, WmIl, Central Auto Co.
Pendleton, Or, Motor Inn (iinut,
Eugene, Or, Kremncl 4k Franxna.
Salem, Or, I.yon A Wooley.
Maranfleld. or. Coos Bay Motor Co.
Hrppnrr, Or, I'roplr'a Hardware Co.
Cnrhalla, Wash, A. S. Track Sales Co.
Arllnaton, Or, Halnlnarer'a tiarasje.
Itilnlrr, Or, K. I . Cate 4b Co.
Carlton. Or, Carlton tiarage.
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Safety Tread Fabrics
DeLuxe Solid Truck Tires
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Our-
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NOTE
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shortage of popu
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so have a fresh
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Sixth, Pine and Ankeny.
Phone Broadway 2490.