The Sunday Oregonian., February 22, 1920, SECTION EIGHT, Page 4, Image 120

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 22, 1920 - -; r - -
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I NEW KARA VAN TRUCK, MADE IN PORTLAND, WHICH WILL MAKE ETS DEBUT AT THE TRUCK
SHOW, AND OFFICERS OF COMPANY BUILDING IT.
New Power Wagon to Make
Debut at the Truck Show.
VAN DERSAL IS PRESIDENT
tVell-KnoHfi Automobile and Truck
Man Heads Local Concern to
Manufacture Vehicle.
The 10th Year FEDERAL
Out of the west there is to come a
new product in the motor truck field.
Or perhaps it might better be said
that this product has arrived.
It is the Karavan motor truck, con
ceived through the mechanical brain
of Georere H. Peters, a transportation
expert with 13 years' of experience in
til- western field.
The Karavan truck for a few' of
them already have been manufactured
is a Portland product. It is being
built by a Portland corporation,
backed by Portland money. It is to be
made ready for the market ripht here
In the industrial heart of the Rosa
City.
r- U. A an Persal. who !i;is been
pioneering in the automobile and
truck business in Portland for more
than ten years. Ls in a errtat measure
responsible for the advent of the
Karavan truck In the western market
Jt was h who helped to plan the
design fnPthe bir. rushed truck of
oriental name, and as president of
the Karavan Motors company, mauu
facturers of the truck, he is now tak
ins a leadinur part in completing all
necessary details for putting- the
Portland-built truck on the market.
Iron AVrk for Factory.
The Karava n Motors company
now heiiitf formed as an Oregon cor
poration with a paid-up capital of
S.flO.nuO. Its officers include Mr. Van
Dersal, president; .J-'red Hesse, vice-
president and consulting engineer,
Whitney L. Koise. secretary; George
H. pfters, engineer in charge of con
truction.
Final plans for manufacturing- the
Karavan in the plant of the Hesse-
' Martin Iron Works, East Ninth and
Taylor strpts. have been completed
or.d contracts for material and parts,
aggregating $300,000. have been
awarded to eastern manufacturers,
with shipments now on the way to
Portland.
The Hesse-Martin Iron works is
said by the backers of the Karavan
truck to be an ideal place for its man
ufacture. Because of the war work
done by this concern during the re
cent affair with the house of ilohen
rollern. the Hesse-Martin plant un
derwent material enlargements, and
is now ready to take over the manu
facture of a Portland-constructed
auto truck.
One of the features of the Karavan
Is that it will not be given a specific
tonnage rating, as its sponsors sav
that approved modern sliding methods
now call for a closer application ot
the exact specifications, gear 'ratios,
tires, wheelbase and other integral
parts, with the result that greater
economy in operation is obtained in ,
each case. The truck, however, will
be built in nil sizes and to meet all
truck requirements of the western
Country.
Bark era Are 1I Known.
Just a word concerning the men
responsible for the creation of the
Karavan truck:
K. D. Van Persal. president of the
company, introduced the iUudebaker
light delivery to this territory back
in 1111 and was later sales manager
of the Studebaker corporation. He
handled the Federal truck In 1914 and
Introduced the Oakland Sensible Six
as its Oregon distributor from 1915 to
IMS. He was also distributor of the
Oarford truck for Oregon and 'Wash
ington from 1915 to 1919. with offices
at Portland. Spokane and Seattle, and
' at present distributes the F. W. D.
and Riker trucks In this territory.
Fred Hesse, manager of the Hesse-
Martin Iron works and vice-president
of the Kadavan Motors company, has
been in Oregon for the past 30 years,
having been consulting engineer and
manager of a number of large engi
neering plants in Portland prior to
the organization of the Hesse-Martin
company in 191 1. Mr. Hesse was a
consulting engineer in the rebuilding
' of San Francisco after the big fire
During the war his plant constructed
nearly $2.oiM.0t0 of ship machinery
for the United States shipping board.
Whitney L. Boise, secretary, is a
well-known attorney of Portland and
a staunch advocate of all industries
which will lead to the development of
Oregon payrolls. He is keenly inter-
ested in the transportation problem
and for that reason has a firm belief
in the utility of the Karavan truck
as a western product for western
needs. 1
One koravai at Corvali.
The first experimental job in the
Karavan line appeared last fall and
took part in the Are prevention pa
rade at the national convention of
the fire chiefs association. Later the
fir apparatus of the Cor vails- fire
department was installed on a Kara
van chassis and it was piloted about
the state fair by Fire Chief Graham.
Since that time the Karavan has been
subjected to the most rigorous tests
and has shown itself in every way
' equal to Oregon needs.
Two Karavans have already been
Bold and are now in use. One was pur
chased by an Kastern Oregon rancher,
who quickly graspt-d the opportunity
to . purchase an Oregon-made auto
truck. A Washington farmer pur
chased the other because he saw in
the Karavan a truck which would
meet his every requirement.
It will be another month, however,
before the Karavan truck is manu
factured to a point where deliveries
co be made. Shinmems of part ami
units ire now being received and the
output tu the first, month is i it the
process of in eduction. Deliveries can
be made by about March 15.
The Karavan. Motors company is
completing plans for erection of a
Ixrue warehouse and shipping plat
form n the east side, within close
proximity to the manufacturing plant
at Kux Ninth and Taylor streets. A
salesroom and (tarts service station
will be procured along the west side
automobile row. The temporary
salesroom is now located at 354 Burn
aide street.
llUh-t la I nit I e
Xot only is the Karavan truck be
ing built for western needs, but its
backers say that 40 per cent of the
money used in putting out the truck
will remain in the west instead o:
being sent east, as in the case of eastern-built
trucks.
The sales promotion eflfort of the
company, which will be under the di
rection of Mr. Van Dersal, will be
directed to all territory west of th
Rocky mountains, as well as to the
oriental, trade. Although the pro
duction the first year will be nominal,
the backers of the enterprise believe
that the Karavan will come to the
front so quickly that within another
(Tf - . . g2 east
jfta.a-rwi,wi;ttwroi! j CSS. "tr- "'
And nihv at I nut Portland n to have a motor truck factory of Ita own.. K. D. Van Deraal. for the pant ten year
a Iranian and paaaenger car or truck distributor here with Fred Huve of the Heaae-Martln , Iron Works, haa
formed the Karavan Motora company, which haa already built several track and la now In position to beartn
their production on a large ncale at the Heaae-Martln. Iron Worka. The picture shows one of the new Karavan
trucka and I left to right) Mr. Van Dersal, president of the Karavan Motora company; Fred Hesse, vice-president
and Whitney L. Boise secretary. -,
year it will tax the capacity of their
plant to the limit to supply the trade
with a sufficient number of Karavans
The Karavan truck is equipped witn
Buda motor and other high class stan
dard truck units. It. has a worm
drive.
SIX PREDOMINATING TYPE
More Cars Using 6-Cylinder Than
Any Other Motors..
More six-cylinder automobiles are
manufactured in the United States
than the total of all other cars. And
the manufacture of six-cylinder cars
has been increasing while that of
others has been decreasing.
This trend of motor car building
to the six-cylinder erigine is certainly
gratifying to manufacturers who be
gan using this type of engine years
ago." says J. H. Graham of the J. H.
Graham Motor company. local dis-
irinutors lor me .uavis six. to show ric
"The George W. Davis Motor Car LtriS on the
ompany, early cnose the six-cyiinaer
ine because of its flexibility and
power. At that time the six-cylinder
motor although of proved worth was
not used as extensively as now. But
Davis subjected it to many tests and
the result led to the adoption of the
same type encine which is proving
so papular today.
"The same foresight which led to
INDIES TO SEE PICTURES
IXITED STATES SEXDS .SPE
CIAL TRUCK TO SUMATRA.
hemp, scenery qf theN national parks
of the great nations, the Falls of the
Niagara, the grand falls of South
Africa and the great falls of Argentina.
DEAF WORKERS AT FETE
"Little Mother of Mutes" Guest ef
Honor Over Marriage.
The largest deaf-mute colony in
the world, numbering more than 700,
was en fete recently for the marriage
of Miss Nellie Gillespie, "Little
A motion picture projection truck i Mother or tne Mutes, who has charge
of the bureau of commercial eco
nomics at Washington was loaded the
other day on the 'steamship John
Vehicle Equipped With Motion
Picture Projection Outfit and
a Big Lot of Films. -
KETCHIKAS Pl'TS OX AIRS.
KETCHIKAN. Alaska, Feb. 21.
(Special.) Ketchikan has ac
quired its third automobile and
is putting on more city airs than
any other town in Alaska. The
council passed an ordinance
Wednesday night to regulate
parking of autos on the busi
ness streets.
the early adoption of the six-cylinder
engine is working for the constant
betterment of Davis motor car.
"Dependability and even distribu
tion of power have been outstanding
features of the six all these years.
It has more than kept pace with the
automobile industry as attested by
its increased popularity."
PITTING TIRES TOGETHER
Breaker Strip Has a Lot to Do Willi
Wearing Qualities.
The modern automobile tire is com
posed of two parts, the carcass built
up of either fabric or cord construc
tion, and the tread. Between these
two parts is what is known tech
nically as the "breaker strip" and
upon that strip depends a great deal
of the success of the tire.
The right kind of -a breaker strip
has to serve a double purpose. It
must weld the tread and the carcass
of the tire, and with from 70 to 100
pounds of air within is more or less
unyielding to small inequalities of
the road surface. The breaker strip,
therefore, must act as the shock absorber.
Roach at Staten island for the Dutch
East Indies
The truck, a White 2-ton model,
cantains a motion .picture project
or, field phonograph' and" electric
generating plant, and is intended
to show pictures of American indus-
Islaad tot Sumatra, seven
days in the week on the "Merangir
plantations, free to 30,000 employes.
The pictures will deal with industry,
health and agriculture. The truck is
supplied with ten programmes per
month, being changed each month.
This truck was the one that during
the three years of the war displayed
pictures at frequent intervals on the
White Lot" adjoining the White House
for the information of the govern
ment The pictures were seen by the
president, cabinet officers, diplomatic
corps and general staff of the war
and navy departments, members of
congress, departmental heads and em
ployes of all the departments.
The pictures dealt with -every phase
of the war from beginning to end, the
films beins supplied to the bureau
of commercial economics of the Brit
ish. French. Italian and Belgian gov
ernments and in this manner and to
this extent the governmental forces
of this country were kept fully ad
vised of what was transpiring abroad.
At the end of the war this truck en
gaged in the sale of liberty and victory
bonds, and under the direction of
Dean Boggs. a ndvel . idea was em--ployrd.
As each subscriber f-resented
himself to purchase a bond a motion
picture was maie of him actually
making- the purchase and the follow
ing night he and his friends would
visit the truck to see himself on the
screen purchasing the bond.
. The truck left the White House a
few days ai;o over the Lincoln high
way, 250 miles to New York, down
Broadway to- the Battery, over the
ferry to Staten island and on to Clif
ton, where it was hoisted high into
the air by the great cranes of the
new mammoth freight steamer John
Roach, recently completed by the
United States shipbuilding; corpora
tion. It will show pictures dealing with
production of useful articles, whether
made in the United States or in for
eign countries, public health, per
sonal hygiene, aare of the teeth. At
tention of the natives will be called
through pictures to the wheat .fields
of the northwest and Canada and the
cattle ranges of Argentina and Aus
tralia, the silk industry of the United
States, Great Britain, France and
Japan, the raising of cotton, flax and
of the colony of these "silent
workers for the Goodyear Tire &
Rubber company of Akron. . Miss
Gillespie, herself the child of mute
parents, but possessing all her facul
ties, married a deaf mute.
Because the officiating minister
did not know the sign language.
Chester Ton,' who does, interpreted
the marriage service as the minister
spoke it and also told the clergy
man the responses made by - the
couple, it was the-1 most unique mar
riage service ever performed in
Akron. Miss Gillespie will remain
in charge of deaf mute welfare work
lor uoodyear.
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CANADA KEEN FOR R010S
AMERICA'S MAIX STREET"
BE DUPLICATED THERE.
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Plans Under Way for Construction
of Continental Road Like
Lincoln Highway.
, "America's main street," as the Lin
coln highway has been called, will
soon be duplicated In Canada, accord
ing to a report from Ottawa. Def
inite plans have been formulated for
the organization of an association
along the same lines as the Lincoln
Highway association, pledged to con
struction a great transcontinental
road from Halifax to Vancouver.
A. F. Bement, vice-president of the
organization in the United States, has
been invited to address -the Ontario
Motor league in the near future- and
tell the steps taken and the progress
made in the construction of the Lin
coln highway.
The dominion and provincial gov
ernments are all keenly interested in
the movement, and committees have
been formed in both Toronto and
Ottawa for the furtherance of the
project of linking the oceans by road
way. Branches of the organization have
been formed in all of the provinces
that will be traversed. "America's
main street" has struck a responsive
chord among Canadians. Good road
development, which is being aided
and urged by the government in all
parts of the dominion, has already
proved to be the soundest kind of
investment and a modern necessity
alike- in peace and war.
Federal Motor Trucks have a world-wide repu
tation for endurance and economy.
This prestige has been clearly demonstrated
through a decade and on this, the tenth, anniver
sary of its founding, just entering the eleventh
year of exclusive truck production the Federal
realizes its responsibilities.
So it has called Federal Production for 1920' the
10th Year Federal.
Federal Trucks have a standardized construction,
based on the careful findings of the needs of haul
age by its engineering through the past ten years.
Every Federal is known for its sturdiness and
economical operation. Every 10th Year Federal
will amply sustain this reputation.
You should .know all about Federal Trucks
They can be seen at the Motor Truck Show
Come, and compare them With other makes
It will pay you to do this.
See Our Exhibit at Truck Show Armory Building
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GO N. Broadway at Davis Broadway 321
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TRUCKS LIKE THIS WITH DUMP BODY EQUD7MENT ABE USED ON ROAD CONSTRUCTION WORK
IN MANY PARTS OF OREGON.
-ton Speed Wagon
With Pneumatic Tires and
N Electric Lights and Starter
mum f
This was the first of its kind to be built. For seven
years now it has been faithfully and economically
serving" owners in city delivery work and for many
farm purposes. That, while in the meantime many
imitations have appeared, it is in even greater demand
today than ever, bespeaks for its quality.
Northwest Auto
Company
Distributors
ALDER AT EIGHTEENTH STREET
" Portland, Oregon
REO CHASSES are also
equipped with a body
easily convertible into
eight different styles
a body for every
purpose, all .aWx
in one.
The track pictured U a 3 '--.ry. wit kalat aaa 4natp-aoy. -The. Gary track la -haadled for Oresoa, Walk. I
las to a aad laaao from tae Oar caaat aseacjr la I'artiaaa, at Kklck K. Ij..CrambUtt ia auaaser.
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