mE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN. PORTLAND. NOVEMBER 9, 1919.
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TRUCK OF QUALITY
IS CHEAPEST
ED
Some Vehicles Are Expensive
at Any Price.
FACTS ON MAINTENANCE
Improper Diagnosis of Trouble One
Hlg Cause of Expenses in
Shop Upkeep.
If the truck Industry were not clut
tered up with so many cheap vehicles
that in some manner get to the oper
ator who can least afford to run them,
there would not be the need for the
elaborate shops that many of these
owners have. The error is made In
the beginning in buying trucks ot
unknown quality, but having invest
ed in such trucks that give trouble,
the next best thing is to learn how
to keep them running avoid unnec
essary delays in the shop.
One of the greatest time wasters Is
improper diagnosing of trouble, re
sulting in a dismantling of too much
of any one unit and a general fussing
around until the faulty part is found.
To avoid this calls for a good fore
man or a well-informed driver if there
is a small shop without a foreman
and the crew does the work.
Take, for example, gear or bearing
trouble in the transmission or the
axle. Often very often In fact the
driver will say that it is transmis
sion trouble, because the grinding or
pounding is right under his feet. As
a matter of fact, a crushed pinion or
ring gear or other axle derangements
of this character may sound so close
to the front compartment as to be
diagnosed as transmission trouble.
The transmission case cover is re
moved and everything is found O. K.;
then the axle is inspected. Time lost
may be a half hour or more.
Competent Me.n Required.
The good mechanic or foreman or
driver should so educate himself on
the particular truck as to be able to
tell exactly where .the trouble is and
just about what is causing it. Thii
education cannot be had in a day,
whlrh shows the vital importance of
getting competent help to operate and
care for the trucks.
One fleet owner who used 12 trucks
of one make discovered that all of the
trucks gave persistent clutch trouble.
This operator did not wait until all
the trucks came in a second time, but
studied the design of the clutch to
determine why there was so much
trouble. As a result he devised a
little addition to the clutch in the
form of a .stronger part which elim
inatfd all the trouble. This was
cheaper than keeping on repairing
the old parts or replacing them only
to have the new parts break in serv
ice. Difficult solutions of troubles are
encountered when the trucks are of
a make no longer manufactured or of
foreign make or a make that has no
service station within a reasonable
distance of the shop. These things
must be taken into consideration
while the trucks are running, for It
must be expected that some time or
other they will come in for repairs.
If you have no shop facilities for
making a certain part or getting it
quickly, you might lose a. whole
week's profit, and then some. It also
should be a lesson to many operators
to avoid cheaply made trucks; trucks
made by fly-by-night concerns:
trucks with no national distribution
and hence no service near at hand;
trucks that are changed so often in
design that the maker hasn't fac
tory room to make spare parts for the
older models.
Must Be Prepared.
The truck operator must anticipate
trouble. The time to learn how to re
move a power plant quickly is not
after the truck comes in for repairs,
but long before the actual work is
necessary. An owner operating two
or three trucks may not have need
for removing the engine more than
once a year; but he should have the
necessary equipment in the shop, just
the eame, or, if not, he must be sure
that the service Btation or a nearby
repair shop can properly take care of
him. This means it must have the
up-to-date equipment to get the en
gine out quickly. It means knowing
the assembly of that particular truck.
Certain trouble may come in classes
of vehicles, such as coal trucks or
sand conveyors or other vehicles,
which may not happen to any other
trucks, and therefore a precedent la
lacking. One coal company found that
the coal dust interfered with the
proper flow of fuel from a rear press
tire tank. The pump became clogged
regularly. Many other fuel feed
troubles were encountered, and so
much of it, in fact, that the whole
system was changed from pressure to
gravity, using a vacuum tank with
the tank properly protected.
The driver as well as the shopmen
and the owner must study the trucks
and work out problems of this sort.
In many cases the truck maker is in
a position to give valuable help, or, if
not, the editors of truck trade jour
nals. This department will gladly
take care of any requests local op
erators may make and help in the so
lution of the more difficult problems.
fAf ndootj weeka d afl shrd shrdlud
loaded first on lighters and in this
manner taken out to the larger ves
sels in which it will travel to the
final destination.
COAST MAY GET VA GLIDDE.N
Famous Tour Could Be Held From
Border to Border.
Ever since it was announced sev
eral months ago that the Glldden
tour would be restored in 1920 there
has been more or less agitation to
have this famous automobile classic
conducted next year on the Pacific
coast. It has been run in practical
ly every part of the country except
west of the Rocky mountains. Ac
cording to reports, Charles J.' Glid
den, donor of the trophy, has author
ized the contest board of the A. A. A.
to put it up for final disposition in
1920.
The Glidden tour always has been
conducted In the interests of auto
mobile manufacturers and it is re
garded as the fairest conducted and
most severe test to which cars have
been subjected. The reputation today
of some of the best-known makes of
automobiles can be attributed to ex
periences gained from competition
in the Glidden tour. . -
The donor of the trophy has asked
that the manufacturers of the coun
try appoint a committee and take up
the subject of the run some time this
BUCK
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OF VALVE-IN-HEAD
This Type of Motor Developed
Greatly in Few Years.
ENGINEERS ALWAYS BUSY
Present Buick lotor Is Evolution
From Marine Engine Type
Used Way Back in '93.
Back in 1893 when Buick was
building marine motors of the valve-in-head
type, internal combustion
motors were being built in very small
quantities, and as there was little in
the way of established precedent to
the cars we are now building are
the best motors we know how to build ;
today. Yet I have no doubt that the '
coming years will bring about other ;
improvements, because the field is i
such an inexhaustible one in which
to work that for years we have found
come means each season of making .
our motors more powerful, durable
and economical.
Development Haa Beeo Steady.
"A good many yeare ago we
thought there would never be any
better type of electric light than the
old carbon filament lamp. But we .
know better now. And we thought ;
the same thing about sewing ma-
chines, and phonographs, and steam
engines, and reapers and a thousand
other manufactured products.
"I think this illustrates the folly i
of claiming that any product is the
last word in design or construction. ,
"The only guide we have we who
live in the present is a just com
parison with similar products now
being marketed.
"Our engineering laboratories are
equipped with every kind of scien
tific apparatus for making accurate
comparisons as far as different types
of motor car units are concerned and
from the results of our tests we are
satisfied that there Is no other motor
built that can equal the Bi:sk valve-in-head
motor In power, economy and
general all-around efficiency.
"It has taken us a long time to de
velop the Buick motor to its present
RESIDENT OF CLAM-EATING COUNTY OF CLATSOP GETS ONE OF FIRST 1920 HUPMOBILES TO
REACH OREGON.
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Model Tl 3 Hup napped tit front of Astoria rewrrolr Immedlntely after A. B. Maalef of the Maalrj Avto company
had driven It over the lower Columbia river highway to make delivery through M annuls Bros., Hup dealers at
Astoria, to Henry Lemljar of Seaside.
month. If it is decided by the manu
facturers to conduct another tour,
dealers and motorists of the Pacific
coast states will exert their united
influence to have the event cover
the states of Washington, Oregon and
California, or border to border.
AUTO LICENSE Gil BIG
62,141 CARS REGISTERED O.N
OREGON BOOKS.
CRUDE RUBBER IS SCARCE
HEWITT TIRE DEALER TELLS
OF DIFFICULTIES.
Army of Girls at Salem Is Address
ing Applications; License
Plates Received.
SALEM, Or.. Nov. 8. (Special.)
There were 82.141 automobiles, 3000
chauffeurs and approximately 2500
motorcycles registered in the office of
the secretary of state at the close of
business Tuesday. During the ajime
period last year there were registered
a total of 63,302 automobiles and a
corresponding number of chauffeurs
and motorcycles.
A small army of girls is now at
work addressing applications for li
censes for the year 1920 and these
will be placed in the mails Saturday
morning. On November 11, the date
upon ich formal registrations be
gin, all applications received prior to
that date will be put into a receptacle
and licenses will be issued in the or
der in which they are drawn.
In sending out the applications the
secretary of state is enclosing copies
of the state automobile laws, sched
ules showing applicants how they
may figure the horsepower of their
respective cars, and a circular issued
by the Oregon public service com
mission asking for the co-operation of
automobile owners in averting acci
dents on public highw-ays.
Besides much valuable information
the circular issued by the public serv
ice commission contains photographs
of the various warning signs, togeth
er with an explanation of each.
Mr. Butler urges that all persons
who own automobiles and fail to re
ceive their applications by November
11 should write to the secretary of
state.
A consignment of license plates,
sufficient to cover all registrations
for the year 1920, has been received
at the secretary of state's office, and
will be sent out as fast as the appli
cations are returned properly signed
and bearing the address of the applicant.
XEWBV IS WITH BETHLEHEM
Veteran in Motor Car Game Joins
Big Truck Organization.
C. R. Newby, veteran of the auto
mobile field, has been appointed field
manner for the Bethlehem Motors
corporation. Mr. Newby was for years
connected with the former E. M. F.
company, the Studebaker and the
Maxwell companies as a district man
ager, branch manager and general
sales executive, and he is known from
one end of the country to the other.
follow, theory dominated practice in
almost every branch of motor en
gineering. In consequence, during th.e years
that followed, the engineers busied
them-selves in experimenting with
different types of design in an effort
to overcome the difficulties that are
always encountered when new and
complicated mechanisms are built for
public use.
A few years later when the possi
bilities of the motor car began to be
dimly realized, and when Buick activi
ties were being directed to the devel
opment of motor cars. Walter L. Marr
cast his lot with Buick.
Unlike many of the designers of
that time, Mr. Marr believed in stick
ing to the one type until he had
really proven to his own satisfaction
that the theories which appeared to
him were either right or wrong.
Val ve-in-Head Efficient.
Mr. Marr was a staunch advocate
of the valve-in-head type, because its
simplicity was backed by all that was
then known of thermal efficiency and
formed a more logical basis for de
velopment work than other types.
After a time he was joined by E. A.
Waters. These two men have been
designing Buick cars for years and
are without question the leading au
thorities on valve-in-head motor con
struction in the automotive engineer
ing fraternity.
Together they have experimented
with practically every known type of
internal combustion motor, and the
mall engineering laboratory in which
they first started to work has now
grown to far greater proportions than
those of the whole Buick factory at
that time.
The development work a still going
on, and the possibilities of the valve-in-head
design have not yet been ex
hausted. In Mr. Marr's opinion there
is no possible means of telling when
perfection in this type "of motor has
been reached.
"The point is," he said, "that each
succeeding year finds a number of
improvements in the Buick valve-in-head
motor. This is because of the
ceaseless research work that we are
carryine: on. The Buick motors in
state of efficiency, and It should be
remembered that through all those
years we have concentrated on the
valve-in-head type. It has not been
a hit-or-miss proposition with us, or
a shifting from one type to another,
but a steady development with a def
inite principle of design as the cen
tral point.
Concurrent with the development
of the car along the lines mentioned I
above by Mr. Marr have been the
steady increase in Buick popularity
among motorists and the equally
steady growth of the factory Itself.
And these two big facts have been
made possible only through the satis
faction that Buick eys have given to
Buick owners. The Buick valve-ln-head
motor has literally performed
Its way into the lasting favor of own
ers la all Darts of the world.
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The Garford Motor Truck Company, Lima, Ohio
Motor Trucks of All Capacities
Distributors and Service Stations in aU principal cities
Announcemen
We beg to announce that we
. have secured the distribut
ing agency for Garford
Motor Trucks in Oregon and
the counties of Clarke,
Klickitat and Skamania in
Washington.
.Wholesale and Retail
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At home and abroad, in peace and war,
the Garford has shown the same rugged
efficiency the same sturdy dependabil
ity which gives it distinction in the
transportation field.
Complete stock of parts and up-to-the-minute
service.
USERS KNOW
HUPMOBILES M COMING
M-VXLEY AUTO CO. AT IjAST
GETTING FEW AUTOS,
One of First of New 19 20 Models
of Uupmoblles Goes to
Astoria Sealer.
Nothing slow about A. B. Manley,
distributor of Hupmobile, Grant, Na
tional and Stearns cars, whose name
appears as the featuie word in ths
sign decorating the automobile es
tablishment which pioneered the new
automobile row in upper Burnside
street.
The four well-known automotive
lines which Mr. Manley represents
have not been delivered in recent
months anywhere near as fast as Mr.
Manley had prayed for; while the sit
uation is improved, there Is still a
waiting list remindful of a, janitor's
sccreboad at one of the popular
Portland apartment houses.
Hups are beginning to come in ones
and two. Kncoura (ring announce-
Garford Oregon
Motor
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3k n i tun
Company
Win. Comfoot, President
T. M. Geoghegan, Vice-President and Manager
E. X. Wheeler, Secretary-Treasurer
J. A. Haley, Sales Manager
Ed C. Hurrle, Service Director
Park and Davis Streets
Portland, Oregon
ments about shipments are also being
received from the other factories.
Whenever a shipment arrives it
doesn't take Mr. Manley long to get
action, as he demonstrated last week
when, he nardly gave a sleek new
model R-3 Hupmobile time to wash
its face before he had it zipping along
tha navert bvwavs of the lower Co
lumbia river road. He had promised
the Maunula brothers of Astoria, re
cently returned from active military
service, that he would give them one
of the first 1920 Hupmobiles to reach
Portland.
Before releasing the new car to
Maunula brothers and seeing it
turned over to Its ultimate owner.
Henry Temijar of Seaside. Mr. Man
ley visited St. Helens. Clatskanle and
Seaside, appointing new agents for
the Hupmobile lin in those to.vns.
He found the lower highway In
good shape. "In their 11 years' effort
as motor car builders," said Mr. Man-l-y,
"the makers of the Hupmobile
have had two primary aims In mind,
to build a good car and to make hat
good car a good-looking car. They
certainly have succeeded."
TRAILER IS MIGHTY USEFUL
Extra Loads Can- Be Handled Eas
ily tT t"e of Equipment.
Many farmers and fruit growers
are finding the trailer and semi
trailer one of the most useful pieces
of farm equipment. The light two
wheel and four-wheel high speed
trailer is used with runabouts and
touring cars for hauling small quan
tities of farm products to market
which otherwise would go to waste
or be fd to Hvoptook.
Too much time would 'ie lost if
these small lots were taken to mar
ket with horse and wagon, but a
round trip to town with the family
car and a trailer loaded with a few
hundred pounds or half a ton can
be made in a couple of hours or les.
T'roduce handled in this way inrluries
milk, butter, eggs, live poultry, fruit,
vegetables and even live pigs, calve
and cows. The car is used at other
times without the trailer for all cus
tomary purposes.
Put whatever alconol you use in the
ra rii a tor.
In Unsettled Periods Makers Have
Xo Small Difficulty iu Get
ting Material.
The wonderful importance of the
rubber producing industry is not ap
preciated thoroughly by. many motor
ists. When a tire is worn out and
a new one is desired, little thought is
given to what is represented by fill
ing the order. -
The automobile is said to owe its
success to the invention of the pneu
matic tire and consumers are accus
tomed to think more about the power
lilant in a car than they are the tires.
Just as much, or probably more, en
ergy and resources are represented
in the tires with which the car is
equipped as are necessary to produce
the entire automobile.
As an example of what difficulties
the tire makers have to overcome,
CJeorge K. Cassidy. of the American
Tire company, distributor for .Hewitt
tires and tubes, cites the difficulties
encountered in obtaining the crude
rubber.
In far eastern countries, where
much of the rubber comes from, there
are no suitable harbors. After the
natives have labored for days, beset
by all sorts of conditions, to get the
rubber to the coast the product yet
is so far removed from seagoing
transport that the rubber must be
PEERLESS
Piston Rings
pay dividends to the
user in every mile of
service. The labor
cost to install a set of
PEERLESS Piston
rings is no more than
on common rings, and
the " actual cost of
PEERLESS Piston
rings over the ordi
nary ring is very Bmall. It is not
the first cost that counts, it is the
service that you get out of the ring
that makes it valuable to you. We
make a specialty of piston rings and
can give you exceptional service on
this line. Rings from 2-in. to 5-
in. in stock.
W. H. BANES
Distributor Ore. and Wash.
44 N. Broadway, Portland. Oregon,
' Phones Broadway 3327..
labor 3000,
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That prime necessity in a motor truck is built right into the
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Hillsboro
Also
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the peer of all light cars the
Splendidly . built, handsomely finished, and
backed by a record of continuous satisfaction
to thousands of owners.
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Distributors for Oregon and Southern Washington
16th and Alder
Phone Bdy. 2492
Some Good Territory Open for Live Dealers