The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, July 11, 1920, SECTION SIX, Image 73

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. JULY 11, 1920 3ESSEX CARS KEEP ON B REAKNG RECORD 5 M- -. V , ;Many More Marks Smashed !; During Essex Week. U :VEN DO IT IN ENGLAND it of Telegrams GUe Details J- of Various Feats Achieved by i y j; Strictly Stock Cars. I,; If there remiin any road records, Initl climbincr records, endurance ter-ords, speed records or any other ikiml of records in the whole United plates that weren't broken a week ,ico by Ksse$ cars, the holder or per gallon, no adjustments time out or motor stop on entire trip. Cus tomer's car used that had (r'.ne 14.000 miles without overhauling. Four pas sengers carried. Twenty-three miles to ga'lon. 68 miles in one hour, driving from stand ing start to 40 miles per hour in 3 1-5 seconds from standing: start to i miles per hour in 34 4-5 seconds; all these tests made, by . Tampa (l-"la.) dealer with standard stock ' Kssex touring car with windshield closed and top down. Trinidad, Colo., dealer puts Essex on top of Simpson rest. 7000 feet elevation, last 600 feet only a wagon trail ahandoned 30 years ago. Last -00 feet straight up rocks, wonderful achievement. Essex in high gear goes 692 miles over mountain roads throuerh 132 miles of heavy fogs from Pittsburg to Cumberland, Baltimore, .Wilming ton. Philadelphia and back to Pitts burg in 17 hour 42 minutes running time, averaging 33 3-10 miles per hour, 17.4 miles per gallon. El'EXOS AIRES. Essex defeats ail competitors in class in flying mile rur. at Buenos Aires. Essex all round ability demon strated In Cleveland when car of 12,700 miles' service- obtained epeed 68 miles, and from standing etart goes over steepest and longest hill at 45 miles per hour. Gasoline aver- MM BUIGKS SOLD HERE TOTAIi OP 735 DELIVERED S1XCE FEBRUARY 1. Cars- Arrive Here In Solid Train load, Five . Mont lis Business Being Double All in 1915. A remarkable record In obtaining shipments of Buiok cars from the factory and delivering them to pur chasers in fulfillment of orders has been made since February 1 by the. Portland branch of the Howard Au tomobile company, of which Cieorge W. I'ean is manager. Since that date'this branch has re ceived here and delivered no fewer than 735 Buick cars, less 15 cars being held here now for retail de livery. These 735 cars arrived in Portland from the Buick factory at Flint, Mich., in three solid train loads of Buicks. The Buicks were delivered at the rate of 1S2 in 'Feb ruary, 211 in March, and 100 in April, making a ' total of 492 for those months. Then came embargoes on shipments in parts of the east and a shortage of freight cars so acute that the- factory was unable to obtain VAUDEVILLE STAR BORROWS A MITCHELL WHEN HIS OWN IS FAR AWAY. 2 -1 J t s- 4 9 it Hi v . 5 " II- 'AHUhiii SUtn, ni thr vheol. ho played t the Hippodrome rerently In 111 nketrh. "The Italia Count," own a , 'MUrh4tll touring rnr, hut naturally can't tote it nround the country with him. He borrowed thin one from ' the- llUhe1, lniM fc Maver company and iave some of hla fellow actors and actresses a little sightseeing: trip nltout Portland. ..holders thereof had better, hide them ..while the hiding is good. For from (rtil parts of the country reports con . tinue to come in of feats achieved by ' Kssex .cars during the competitive texts of Essex week, June 28 to July 3. As told hist week in The Oregonian, ...the C L. Boss Automobile company, in view of the gasoline shortage, did not go after' any speed records here abouts with an Essex, hut held a gasoline mileage economy test in stead. The car used, an Essex road ster owned by E. F. Sonnell of Port land, with Stanley Werschkul as offi cial observer and George V. Adams driving, without being previously tuned up made 26.3 miles on one measured gallon of gasoline. But nt-other parts of the country, road records, track records, hill climbing' Vecords and such went crashing hbavtly when Essex cars went after t"hrm. A . few telegrams recounting nv "records hung up by Essex cars were published last week. But here are a whole flock more of them, as received last week from the Essex factory by Mr. Boss, not all of them from the United States, at that, as this one from England testifies: LONDON". Essex stock chassis dark horse. .starting at scratch, winner on famous Brooklands speedway, Eng land, against field of foreign cars, averaging 73.25 miles per hour with one lp at 7a miles per hour. Here is one telling of two records made with hood and high gear sealed, in California: Two. wonderful Essex records in California. San Francisco makes Los Angeles and return with sealed hood in 33' hours. 'Eight hundred forty three miles, averaging better than 23 miles per gallon. Oil consumed three quarts, no water; at same time Los Atigel.es made Ka n Francisco anil re turn .over another route 878 miles with hiiih gear sealed also hood and radiator, averaging 22-"4 miles per gallon. And .many others,, of which . the fol lowing are all typical: Essex climbing 'Ull famous hills of nation this week. Lookout mountain on high. Main street hill, longest, roughest, steepest j-i Knoxville, on high; famous North HU1, Akron, at 45 per hour; Fort Ancient hill, Day ton, on high; Belknap hill, San An tonio, Texas, over top 46 miles per; Mill mountain, .Roanoke, Virginia, first car over road in eight years; Sycamore street hill, Cincinnati, on high: over Abbott and Tioga i"ass in Sierra Nevadas; Short hill, Bridge port, 60 miles per hour; first car to reach top famous Fort Negly at Nash ville. EssVx owner's car that had pre viously covered 12,000 miles just com pleted 24 hours on Dallas, Texas, dirt track at n'J't miles per hour for 1261 miles. This heats all previous records for stock and non-stock cars. Essex phaeton goes from Buffalo to "Rochester to .New York City and back to "ftochest cr; , 857 miles, witnin 24 hours. Crasolihe average 17'. miles age 20 miles to gallon, all records made same day. Detroit. Essex week great suc cess everywhere. New records ar riving from all sections of country. Impossible to wire all details. Here are flashes of a few of today's, all new records: Spokane to Seattle, St. Louis to Kansas City. Toronto to Ni agara Falls, over rocky mountains In high in Montana; Atlanta, Ga.. to Tal lahassee, Fla.. high gear all the way; 257 miles in southern Illinois, 40 miles per hour, and 17 1-10 miles per gallon: Milwaukee to Madison with car that had gone 38.000 miles, and Boston to Fort Kent, Me. Essex beat train time Green Bay to Milwaukee. 127 miles, at 43H miles per hour, last 11 miles in 12 minutes; Albany to Montreal, 2215 miles, through Adirondacks, beating best train time one hour, nine minutes. Twelve Essex cars starting from 12 points in Indiana, ranging in distance from one to 159 miles from Indian apolis, beat all railroad schedules into Indianapolis from 12 to 53 min utes. South Bend, winning with 159 miles in three hours 7 miputes against railroad time of four hours. Best pre vious automobile time, five hours fifty minutes. Essex beats north coast limited time by one hour 44 minutes Yakima to Seattle, ISO miles, over Cascade mountains at 36Vj miles per hour. Sets new road record Decatur to Springfield. 111., 42 Vi miles at 51 7-10 miles per hour. Essex is first and second in famous Iluddersfield hill climb, Yorkshire, England. "Wife of United States Senator Dett rich and party drove Essex phaeton over good and bad roads. from Lin coln to Hastings, Neb.. 103 miles, averaging better than 2S miles to gallon. Wlirn the Starter Fails. When pressure on the starter pedal fails to start the engine, one of the following causes is at the bottom of the trouble: Weak battery, poor con tact of the cables with the battery, a short circuit caused by cable insula tion being worn through, switch trou ble or trouble in the starting motor. A battery test will determine the con dition of that unit. If the battery is up to charge the cables should be ex amined and the terminals be cleaned and tightened. The starting motor brushes being worn often cause trou ble and in much-used starters the commutator may be worn. The starter switch may stick or make such poor contact as to deliver little current. If in pressing the starter pedal there is a whirring sound but no cranking, the spjring of the starter shaft may be broken. Don't edge to the left except when you are passing. Track the vehicle in front of you. HERE IS ONE WAY OF BEATING THE HIGH COST OF RAILWAY EQUIPMENT 1 coast: I'hr I'alatlne, Lake Zurich & Wanronda railroad, la Illinois, in uning this three-ton F". W. 11. truck, raulpprd Trltu flanged wheels and passenger body, on Ita 1(1 milea of track. The truck ban capacity for 80 paaaengera aid hauls a trailer loaded with freight and baggage weighing; five tons. When not pulllns- a trailer the round trip of 3- milea Is made on si Rat ions of gasoline. More railroads ail over the country are putting on truck cr motor cat equipment on similar short lia.ul, freight cars in which to make fur ther shipments west. At this juncture. General Manager Thompson of the Howard Automobile company in San Francisco made a special trip to the factory, the up shot of which was that 68 old side door box cars were gathered from somewhere. aThese cars were so small that the largest of them w'ould hold only three Buicks. and some of them only two. However, another train load of Buicks was shipped west in these cars. In the last five months, according to Mr. Dean, the Howard Automobile company has eold and delivered in Oregon twice as many Buicks as were sold in the entire 1915 season here. Despite this fact, many who wanted Buicks haven't yet been suppplied. MACK PRESIDENT VISITS R. K. TlhTOX INSPECTS MACK COAST BRANCHES. Chief of Big Truck Company Be gan In Business as Engineer and Became Expert Salesman. R. E. Fulton of New TorJc city, president of the International Motor company, manufacturers of Mack trucks, was in Tacoma Wednesday for half a day. Mr. Fulton as head of the production and sales depart ment of the Mack people, is in ac tive charge of one v of the largest automotive manufacturing establish ments in the nation. He was accompanied by J. A. Stone, vice-president; J. E. Savacoal, con troller, and J. H. Fletcher, coal audi tor. They visited here with F. C. At well, manager of the Mack-lnterna-tional company. "The use of trucks has scarcely begun." Mr. Fulton paid. "As sood roads are extended the demand for trucks will increase many fold and in ten years there should be 5,000,000 trucks moving the freight of the na tion on short hauls. At present only 500.000 trucks are in use." Mr. Fulton began his connection with the automobile business as a young engineer. Just out of college. He first learned, the practical details of construction and later entered the sales department with the'Mack peo ple. He soon became known as an expert salesman and because of his all-round ability he was selected to direct the entire business of the cor poration. Mr. Fulton is on a business trip to the coast and he .is taking occasion to visit various Mack agencies. INDIAN WAS GREAT JOKER But Chevrolet Driver Saw to It the Joke AVasn't on Him. KEWPORT. Or.. July 3. (Special.) The pipe of peace gave way to lemon extract the other day when a. 'siletz Indian visited Newport. Not all Siletz Indians are like this one, who likes to play Jokes on his friends. Earl Aupperle, who drives a Chev rolet automobile for hire, was en gaged .by the visiting gentleman to take him back to his home at Siletz. En route the Indian partook of a mixture of lemon extract, tobacco and Worcestershire sauce; and when Si- " rass "',1"is1siTajaajM,a Porous rubber i taani premature blowouts "What's back of all this tire trouble? " How millions of urSeen pores in-ordinary rubber cause 1 premature wear and heavy tire bills Ordinary rub- Crtliitt Com- 1 ftS. htrit"parout."- pound is "mon- , 1 A elaisof wattr p irons." It ' 1 lUr jk Xlfe mm throutk in rtmaint water- JZ.' l1 f nl V tint: tight indefinitely. yrjSgl IVflllj' V J s kTRANDED on the roadside! Have you h ad more than your share of punctures and blow outs? Is it your fault or the tire maker's? What's back of all this tire .trouble? To find a concrete answer to this question, we studirtl the tires of nine great manufacturers. - We located the trouble. We found out why ordinary tires wear out prematurely. Ordinary tires are made of porous rubber. The millions of unseen pores absorb moisture, grit, grease andother' injurious substances which hejp to break down the tread and eventually the inner fabric Your- weakened tire js then more liable to develop bruises,' blisters, tread separation w punctures. The stone bruise of "to- day means a blowout to-morrow. Porous rubber, is thus the cause of premature tire, trouble. Due to the .discovery of a remark able compound, these common, trou bles can now be. greatly reduced. Crolide Compound first produced in 1917, makes tires non-porous. It seals the. millions of tiny pores. It Jnakes rubber practically irjpervious to moisture, oil and grit. .1 preventa. rapid disintegration. Crolide Compound Tires now available Made of Crolide Compound, this hew rubber is 50 tq 100 tougher than ordinary, rubber, and yet resilient. A one-inch strip stretches to. 7J4 inches. Because they are made with this re markable compound, Thermoid Tires eliminate the premature trouble you experience with ordinary tires. Either the Cord or Fabric type gives maxi mum mileage under all road and weather conditions. You are invited to call and see these new tire9 also the famous Crolide Compound tubes. - Let us tell you in teresting detailed facts.experiencesand tests that show why Thermoid tires and -tubes end premature .trouble" and ite better mileage. Write or ask us for' namf --and ad dress of .the Thermoid daaler who wQl supply-you.. R. A. Boggess, 1648 E. Thirteenth Street Dapp & Neubauer, 783 Front Street Hansen Tire & Service Station, Twenty-fourth and Thurman Streets Laurelwood Filling Station, 6419 Foster Road Multnomah Auto Repair, 333 Fargo Street ALLEN & HEBARD CO., State Distributors 64 Broadway ' Phone Broadway 3223 Dealers: National Vulcanizing Works, St. Johns Pioneer Paint Co., 186 First Street Peoples Auto Repair Co., 5529 Foster Road Square 'Deal' Garage, 1111 Hawthorne Avenue City Garage, 106 E. Seventh Street, Vancouver, Wash. Co&rttt h'fd 1930. Tharmoid Rubbar Company, Tronton. Pf. J. Crolide nonporous rubber gives extra wear letz was reached he was in his prime. "Where do you live?" inquired Aup perle. "Drive in there." answered the In dian, pointing; to a house. When the car pulled up in front of the house, instead of getting out the Indian ordered Aupperle to drive out again very fast. Somewhat puzzled. Aupperle asked the Indian what he was doing;, and in reply was told to drive in every lane and in front of every house and toot the horn so that the other Indians would see their comrade in a new car and think he had purchased it. "You let her out on a gallop," com manded the patron. , "I'll pay you double time it you speed up. To morrow, when the Indians come around to see by new car and get a ride, they will find out that I don't own any and the joke will bo on them." Aupperle drove up to the Siletz jail and the joke was ended. Turn corners carefully. ij.'(ju.tujuuai " y vu-vs4 j VTA-- 3SKf warn f Jj 107.5v p lhai drip drip drippinggrease onyourJ&rcl wiih Jne Improved mease Jtetamer The greasy, smeary tires on your rear axle, the wasted grease, burnt-out bearings, and the chance of an accident when your brakes slip will be a thing of the past when you equip your Ford with the Improved KOREX Grease Retainer. If you can handle the Ford wrench, you . can install the Kcrex in a few minutes. It is difficult to keep oil in its place, but Korex is a scientific and practical success, and with it on your Ford the oil lubricates the bear ings and cannot leak into the brake drums. Korex sells for $1.50 per wheel. Ford Deal ers, Authorized Agents, Garages, Machine Shops and Accessory Stores have them. Full directions for installing with every set. If your dealer cannot supply you, write to KOREX MFG. CO. 422 Larkin St. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. BRUTE STRENGTH Complete Lin II2 -ton 22-ton 3Vi-ton 5- ton 6- ton Only Truck Built With 3 Final Drives Tiraken Worm Internal Gear Doable Reduction . Notice to Dealers: Write, your territory may be open. W. G. Gar be,. Inc. Formerly Oregon Motor Car Co DISTRIBUTORS BROADWAY AT BURNS IDE Phone Broadway 616 PORTLAND SEATTLE PENDLETON