THE SUXDATT OREGOXIAN,- PORTXAyP, NOVEMBER 16, 1919.
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AND NOW COMES THE NEW 1920 STANLEY STEAMER, THE HANDSOMEST STANLEY MODEL
. EVER TURNED OUT.
This Is Worst Bugaboo of Be
ginning Motorist.
One car
smashed
EASY WHEN YOU LEARN IT
10
in every ten ft yjf X j'
la Shifting- to tower Gear, It's Im
portant to Remember Motor
Should Be Speeded Up.
Changing gears seems to be little
understood by a good many automo
bile drivers, and a' few remarks on
the subject may be of interest to
those who like to do as little grind
ing as possible.
To make things clear, start your
motor and remove floor boards. Get
on the driver's seat and throw out
clutch. You can observe the clutch
shaft slow up and come to a stop.
Whether it stops slowly or quickly
will denend on the state of lubrlca
tion of the bearings and also the
thickness of the oil in the gear case.
The thicker it is the more quikly the
clutch will stop. From the foregoing
it is evident that if you attempt to
put in the gear immediately after
throwing out the clutch, there will
be a frightful grinding so frequently
heard. Therefore, the proper method
in starting is to wait a few seconds
before ensaging In gear so that the
clutch shaft and gears will be at rest
or nearly so.
In making shifts upward, a certain
interval must elapse after the clutch
in out before making the shift, to let
the gear shafts assume their proper
relative speeds. It you nave a quicn
lv .tannine- clutch the interval should
be short; a slow-stopping clutch, the
interval should be longer.
AfaVine- shiftB downward Is more
difficult. A great mistake so often
made is releasing the accelerator,
thus Blowing down the motor. In
the lower gear the motor must go
ftr than it did just before the
change, so the obvious thing is to
keeo the throttle open (the habit of
releasing the accelerator when the
clutch is thrown out Is hard to break
or, a irnnH t1h is to open the throt
4iA r.n the wheel a little way)
Tk. slower the gear lever is moved
the more momentum the clutch shaft
will lose. Therefore, shitt as quicKiy
nnBuihi. On come cars this meth
od will work well. On others it will
not, and the best practice to follow
i ,h9t the English call aouoie
clutching that is, the clutch is just
touched to release torque on trans
mission, so that gear can be thrown
nut. and momentarily ciuicn .is n
gaged again, throttle remaining open
all the time.
The engine speeds up and with it
clutch shaft and gear, so that when
the clutch is again touched the gears
are approximately the proper speeds
for them to slip in noiselessly. All
this is done very quickly. It is, how
ever, difficult to do right and re
quires practice.
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SIZES FOB FARM TRUCKS
AREA OF FARM AND DISTANCE
TO TOWN ARE FACTORS.
1MEH MfflCE SJLE
" HER SAYSO OFTEN FINAL ONE
IN PURCHASE OF CAR.
But Nowadays the Woman Buyer
Is More Interested in Car's Per
formance Than Before.
"Woman is rapidly coming to the
front in the purchasing of motor cars
and it is literally true that com-
..iiv.i f motorcar sales are now
made in which a woman does not have
considerable influence, says 1
w Tii yv tna.na.irer of the Howard
An r.omnany. Buick distributors
hare.
"Tii van recoenized years ago, as
veteran motorcar dealers know, but
at that time woman's Interest In cars
seemed to be centered chiefly in the
r H p ! And when ehe did ex
press her opinion concerning one of
the open models, it was usually along
H lines of appearance, finish and
refinements.
"Vnr thi reason, there was a gen
eral impression in the industry that
Tonmon were inclined to take the me-
.k.niii -at ii rps of a motorcar for
granted and the first move of the
lmin was to place the woman
buver in the tonneau, invite her to be
seated and call her attention to the
i-nmfort. roominess and luxury there,
"But since that time, women have
loomed to drive not merely a few
and there, but in great numbers.
Marv women have Buick cars for
their own exclusive use. Others share
a car with one or more other members
of the family. And as a result of their
N driving, women have been drawn more
lntimatelv in touch with the myste
rious forces and mechanism that give
life and action to the motorcar ana
today their interest in the mechanical
side of the automobile is great.
"True, women are still very much
taken up with beauty, convenience,
and comfort. For that matter, so are
the male motorist. These are features
that the motor-car purchaser of today
has a right to expect, particularly
among the better makes of cars. But
the salesman can no longer expect to
sell a motorcar to a woman driver
without first satisfying her as to the
performance and operation of the
various mechanical units.
'The change is logical when ana
lysed. For after all. the woman driv
i er in many cases has had sufficient
experience to know that motoring en
joyment depends to a great extent
upon the right kind of mechanical
equipment and she also knows that
Buick design and manufacture have
a great deal to do with maintenance
cost.
"Gasoline being the biggest in
dividual item of expense, the woman
has been led to inquire why it is that
Buick cars give big gasoline mileage,
while others of about the same eize
and weight simply devour fuel. And
she has found the answer in the de
sign and construction of the most im
portant mechanism of all the Buick
valve-in-head motor."
ONE WAV TO WRECK TIRES
Service Truck Company Prepares
a Table That Is Full of Use
ful Information.
Answering the question as to what
size farm can use a motor truck
profitably, the Service Motor Truck
company has prepared a table of 12
specific instances where the proprie
tors of the farms utilized motor
transportation with considerable suc
cess. Regarding this table as being one
of particular interest to farmers in
this region, the Service Truck Sales
company of Portland is directing at
tention of local ranchers to it with
the hopes that it will help them in
the solution of their own transporta
tion problems.
The table embraces farmers who
operate within a distance of 2 to 30
miles; that is, they live that far from
their nearest towns. The farms noted
embrace from 40 to 450 acres. The
table follows:
A Lives 6 miles from town, farms
65 acres; raises berries principally.
B Lives 20 miles from town, farms
120 acres; principal products, wheat,
milk and cream.
C Lives 20 miles from town, farms
100 acres; principal products, fruit.
milk and cream.
D Lives 2V4 miles from town;
farms 90 acres, principal products;
wheat and milk.
E Lives 5 miles from town; runs
0 bee farms located 6 to 23 miles
from his home. Products, bees and
honey.
F Lives 20 miles from town, farms
240 acres; produces apples, potatoes,
hay and grain.
G Lives 5 miles from town; farms
115 acres; dairy products.
H Lives 16 miles from town: farms
360 acres; produces hay, grain and
garden fruit.
I Lives 22 miles from town; farms
76 acres; produces fruit.
J Lives 18 miles from town; farms
50 acres, produces pork and beef.
K Lives 4JA miles from town;
farms 450 acres; produces peas, sweet
corn and wheat.
Lives 30 miles from town, farms
22 acres; produces apples.
From the foregoing it is pointed
out, one can see that the size of the
farm and the diBtance from town
have little to do with the -profitable
use of a truck. Big farms, little farms,
farms close to town or at a consider
able distance are using motor trucks
successfully and profitably. Irrespec
tive of the distance it can be covered
a third or a half of the time re
quired with horses and a bigger load
can be hauled. If it takes a day to go
to town and back with team one can
make the trip in half a day with a
truck and have the other half day to
work in the field. If it takes one an
hour to cover the trip with a team
one can do it in 30 minutes or less
with a motor truck.
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THE LINES OK THIS HAVE BEE CHANGED AND THBI
POINTED RADIATOR: REPLACED "WITH A STRAIGHT ONE.
Every now and then some change is made in the lines of a car that vastly
enhances its appearance In every way. This is what has happened in the!
case of the 1920 Stanley steamer. The new model is exceptionally handsome I
end it performs up to its looks. Here is one of a carload of the 1920 Stan
leys just received by the W. H. Wallingford company, its distributor in this
territory. The other cars in the carload were sold immediately, leaving only
one for a demonstrator. The upper photo shows the broadside of the new
car, with F. E. (Duke) Manchester, Stanley steamer salesman for the Wal
lingford company, and Robert P. (Bob) strong, manager of the company
and former navy gob. The lower, picture shows the front view. As will
be noted, the old pointed radiator is no more. There are several other I
refinements in the car.
TRIM HELP TO FARMER
AUTO FREIGHT IiIK TO RUN
OUT OF PORTLAND.
Chehalls Men Have Scheme
Operate as Far North as the
British Columbia Line.
to
the inside of each law near the end
and then 1 educe the diameter of the
jaws until they will just slip into the
holes in the ends of the split washer.
With this weapon it is easy to remove
the washer. Simply hook the ends of
the pliers into the holes, close the pli
ers to contract the washer so that it
may be drawn out of the groove,
when it is easy to slip it out by run
ning a screwdriver point around the
edge.
AUTO BUILDERS IX UNION
VELIE TRUCKS POPULAR
ITS
OWNERS ARE ITS
ADVERTISERS.
BEST
Demand for These Trucks So Great
in Past Few Years, Factory
Is Still Behind.
Running in Car Tracks Certain to
Reduce Tire Life.
Injuries resulting from running
truck tires in car tracks are serious
and readily apparent. Their construe
tion does not permit of ready distrlbU'
tion of a part of the load to the low
er flange of the rail, so the major
part of the load is carried upon the
upper section of the car rail. This
throws the entire load on one-half of
the tire tread, with the result that it
is rapidly worn or broken away on
that sid. jeventually leaving the tire.
Fifty years ago a motor truck was
about as remote a possibility as a
commercial airplane.
Little did the men who established
the small factory for the manufacture
of plows and farming Implements and
which later developed an interna
tional name and reputation the John
Deere Plow company foresee that
their BO years of experience would
some day help in the solving of the
gigantic problem of highway trans
portation.
But when the gas engine came to
displace the horse, the men who were
behind the great manufacturing con
cern diverted a considerable portion
of their attention, skill and energy to
the creation of a motor truck which
would do justice to their reputation.
The V elie truck was the result.
Due largely to war requirements
and the consequent stimulated con
dition of business throughout the
east and middle west, the demand for
these trucks has been so great for
several years past that the factory
has been unable to keep up with it.
"Recently, however, the manufac
turers have increased the capacity of
the plant by the construction of three
additional factory buildings at Moline
111., says W. R. DeLay of the T. C
Warren Motor Car company, Velie
passenger car and truck distributor.
This will enable it to keep pace with
the demand, and I feel no hesitancy
offering Velie trucks.
"The new models are equipped with
Continental motors. Timken bearings
throughout, extra strong brakes and
removable tube radiators. The per
formance of Velie trucks was highly
commended by the officers of the
transportation department of the
French .xmy."
Exhaust Pipe Paint.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Nov. 15. (Spe
cial.) Seattle and Everett auto truck
trasportatlon men who plan to - hook
up a through auto truck freighting
line between Portland and British Co
lumbia boundary incident to the com
pletion of the paving of the Pacific
highway across western Washington,
have just purchased a large tract of
and at the corner of Division and
National streets in Chehalls for a de
pot for their business.
With the securing of additional
landas near their holdings, the firm
plans to have garage room, storage
and other conveniences where 40 to
50 auto trucks can be comfortably
housed, with a repair shop in connec
tion, where their regular work may be
conveniently handled.
The location of the site Tor their
business is the most convenient and
accessible in Chehalis, being within
block of the Union passenger sta
tion, on the Pacific highway and close
to the main business center. It is fig
ured by those interested that with the
completion of the paving of the Pa
ciflc highway the bulk of the less
than carload lot freighting between
Portland and Seattle and other points
to the north will be done direct from
the jobber to his consumer by auto
mobile truck.
Already this is true to a -very great
extent of all business between points
on the sound where hard paved roads
connect, and the experiment has even
been most successfully tried between
Tacoma and Chehalis during favorable
summer road conditions. Inasmuch as
Chehalis is also at the Junction of the
Pacific highway and the National
highway, there are wonderful truck
freighting possibilities both east and
west of this city, along the same line.
The state highway paving pro
gramme contemplates the paving of
the National Park highway extending
through eastern Lewis county from
Chehalls and connecting with the
mountain highway leading from Ta
coma at Elbe. Also the western por
tion of this same highway, which was
changed to the Ocean Beach highway
at the last session of the legislature
will ultimately be paved to connect
Chehalls with the Wlllapa harbor cit
ies of Raymond and South Bend
thence to Long Beach points and II
waco.
This portion would put auto freight
into all the local points between Che
halis and those places. Connection of
Chehalls by a paved road and an auto
truck freight system between this city
and eastern Lewis county, which Is a
possibility of the next six or eight
years, ten at the outside, will prove of
wonderful advantage not only to Che
halis but from a development stand
point will do wonderful things for the
great section of Lewis county to the
east of here, which Is today must sus
ceptible of development of any por
tion of western Washington.
French, British and Italian Join
United States Manufacturers.
The trade groups of automobile
manufacturers of Belgium, United
States, France. Great Britain and
Italy have formed a permanent asso
ciatlon known as the bureau perma
nent lnterallie des constructeurs
d'automobiles, with headquarters in
Paris.
The national automobile chamber
of commerce is the American assiliant.
The purposes are to study jointly
questions concerning the development
and prospects of the automobile in
dustry In general, to determine to this
end what plans should be followed
by the trade groups in the bureau and
to represent the member groups in
all questions where joint action la
necessary.
PAY HIGH FOR ENGLISH FARMS
Tenants Are Strongest Bidders at
British Auction Sales.
At the estate sale of E. P. Hales
at Crewe recently, in almost every
case the tenants were the highest
bidders for the farms. A dairy farm
of 55 acres was sold to the tenant for
TIRES
Factory Firsts
SPECIAL PRICES
Full Guarantee
Vs'OFF LIST PRICE
Faulty brakes
cause damage
and loss of life
OFFICIAL statistics show that
10 per cent, of all cars meet
with acdidents every year.
Some person is killed or injured
in four out of five of these accidents.
Records kept by state officials
further show that "0 per cent, of all
automobile accidents could be abso
lutely prevented if the brakes had
been efficient and properly handled.
.Make sure of trie brakes
on YOUR car
It is easy to assume that your
brakes are efficient. They are out
of sight, and you seldom think of
them until you really need them.
Make sure that your automobile
is safe for riding. Have your garage
man inspect the brakes. When the
big emergency comes, you can feel
certain that they will not fail. Brake
inspection does not necessarily mean
new-brake lining.
Why Thermoid Brake lining is
safest and wears longest
In each square inch of
Thermoid Brake Lining
there is 40 more ma
terial than in ordinary
woven lining. This ad-
Ordinary woven lining
Notice the loosely woven texture.
Wears down quickly and unevenly,
hoses its gripping power as it wears.
SPEED
PER HOUR
Will your car do this ?
15 milt
9.2 fr;
fja-
57 ft. ifela
i
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"58 frr
"83.3 fir
ttmitefa.
113 IK
148 fl-7
"231 frr
This chart has been worked out by leading automobile engineers.
It shows how quickly an automobile going at various speed
should be able to stop, providing the brakes are efficient.
ditional body gives a closer texture, which
is made tight and compact by hydraulic
compression under 2,000 pounds pres
sure. In addition to this, Thermoid is
Grapnalized, an exclusive process in
manufacture which enables it to resist
moisture, oil and gasoline.
The engineers and manufacturers of 50
of the leading passenger cars and trucks
have standardized on Thermoid Hydraulic
Compressed Brake Lining.
Have your brakes inspected today. Re
member that every foot of Thermoid is
backed by Our Guarantee: Thermoid will
make good or WE WILL.
M !!, rial!
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Chicago San Frmndes
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Boatoa Cleveland
Paris Turin
CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORS!
The Canadian Fairbanka-Morae Co., Limited.
Montreal.
Brmxtihm in Mil principal Cmnmdian cijt5
Thermoid Hydraulie Com.
pressed Brake Lining
Notice the compact texture. Wears
down slo-wly. Gives uniform grip
ping surface until worn wafer thin.
fhierrEioTcl Brake Lin.incj
Hydraulic Compressed
Makers of 'Thermoid Hardy Universal Joints" and "Tliermoid Crolide Compound Tires':
4100 t$20.500). Another dairy farm,
84 acres, went to the tenant for 4800
(124,000), while Btill another dairy
farm, 75 acres, went to the tenant for
3876 ($19,375). Small dairy farms
and holdings 'realized up to 100
($500) an acre, says the Manchester
Guardian.
There was some sharp bidding: at
the sale of lands and other properties
at OUerton. near Chelford. A small
farm of one and one-half acres was
sold for 470 ($2350). A freehold lot,
including house buildings and three
quarters of an acre, realized 1600
fSSOOO). A small cottage sold for 350
($1750). A field of one acre two
roods 34 perches, changed hands at
250 ($12543). while 260 ($1300) was
eriven for two old cottages.
Tubes
Non-Skid $10.95 $2.95
. Ion-Skid 11.35
To paint the exhaust pipe requires
a compound capable of resisting: a
high degree of heat.. Use two parts
of black oxide of manganese, three
parts of graphite and nine parts of
fuller's earth, thoroughly mixed and
added to which s tea parts of sodium
reduced by one-half, to carry the full silicate, one part of glucose and four
load. It is obvious that a tire will I parts of water, until it is of the con
prematurely fall under these con- I sistency that enables it to be applied
ditions. 1 with a, brush
28x3
30x3
30x312 Non-Skid" 13.75
32x3io Non-Skid 16.95
34x312 Non-Skid 31.75
31x4 Non-Skid 19.85
32x4 Non-Skid 23.00
33x4 Non-Skid 24.25
34x4 Non-Skid 24.75
32x4V2 Non-Skid 27.80
33x412 Non-Skid 27.50
34x412 Non-Skid 31.65
35x412 Non-Skid 33.00
36x412 Non-Skid 33.50
37x412 Non-Skid 37.50
37x5 Non-Skid 41.00
Removing Wheel Hub Washer.
The lob of removing the wheel hub
washer of the front wheel is often. an
almost impossible one, but it can be
made easy by the use of a simple tool
that can be made by any car owner.
Take a pair of round-jawed pliers five
or six Inches long. File a notch on
AUTO SPPV1CXCU
TOWING
'SOAP SEBKlCt.
DAY
2.15
2.50
2.75
2.75
3.15
3.35
3.50
3.60
4.25
4.35
4.50
4.60
4.85
4.95
5.50
We have a large assortment of
STANDARD MAKES
Goods Shipped C. O. D., Express
or Parcel Post
Money Refunded on Goods Re
turned Intact Within 10 Days
MALCOM
TIRE CO.
Corner Broadway and Everett
Portland, Oregon
. One of 40 Branches
The Garford Motor Truck Company, Lima, Ohio
Motor Trucks of all Capacities
distributors and Service Stations in all principal cities
Service to Garford Owners
With an adequate stock of
parts.
Users Know
Garford Oregon Motor Sales Co.
Eighth and Davis Sts. Portland
State Distributors Wholesale and Retail
!
Personal Equation
determines the confidence and mu
tual good will between purchaser and
distributor of automobiles.
We want the motoring public and
especially owners of cars in which
we are interested to know that our
purpose is to supply Parts and Serv
ice to the Nth degree. Gall and get
acquainted.
United Motors Company
Distributors
529-31 Washington Street
Phone Bdwy. 2393 Portland, Or.
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