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' In the final analysis, the superiority
f motor-truck transportation over
, 'other types is its greater speed. Take
' a motor-truck and a horse-drawn
- vehicle of precisely the same capacity,
"place them in operation under pre
- cisely similar conditions and the
" motor-truck will do several times the
- amount of work accomplished by its
"rival; if conditions are specially de-
vised for the motor vehicle's convenl
' ence it will turn in four times as
!. much work as the horse-drawn truck.
However, the principal thing to bear
' in mind at the moment is that the
'-motor-truck's superiority lies in its
peed.
... , Now, granting this, it is almost a
truism that delays of any kind wltn
ithe motor-truck are more costly pro
portionately than with the horae
crawn vehicle. If the user is to reap
the full benefit of the motor-truck's
" ureatest asset every species of delay
. must be eliminated or at least be cut
'down to the unavoidabje minimum.
'.'" . .. Delays on the road in motor-truck
operation fall readily into several
classes, some due to mechanical fail
"i ures. some to operating mistakes,
' some to road conditions. By taking
. ..due thought the truck owner can
eliminate practically all these and in
the fight to accomplish this end the
. fallible human factor, as represented
ty the driver, must always be borne
yfti mind.
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If - ' The motor-truck, from its very na
ture, must be out from under the
. supervision of the owner during a
considerable part of the day. The
driver of the truck is, so to speak,
"on his own" most of the time. Many
. drivers are conscientious and plug
..-Along consistently, turning in an
' honest day's work at night. Other
drivers are distinctly dishonest and
- manage to spend a good part of their
.", time in ice cream parlors and similar
Institutions. Many a motor-truck
transportation system has failed to
make good simply because the drivers
out from under supervision wasted so
' much of their working time that the
efficiency of the trucks was cut down
""" below a paying basis.
The only way in which this condi
tion can be remedied and the move
. merits of drivers be made a matter
' of positive record instead of dubious
".' surmise is by the use of recording de-
vices, of which there, are a number of
'. excellent types on the market, with
- improvements being made all the
time By the use of modern equip
itnent of this kind the truck owner can
have placed in his hands every night
" ' complete record of the vehicle's
movements during every moment of
the day. Well worth while, you will
ay. and Indeed it is. We shall de
" scribe the various equipment avail
able for this purpose.
Many truck operators check up their
.' 'drivers by means of speedometer
readings, which are taken in the
morning before the vehicles go out
-nd at night after they return to the
"" parage. This serves well enough if
..'.'the instrument used is intended for
"truck operation.
Odometer Tamper Proof.
An ordinary speedometer is so deli-
cately constructed that the excessive
. . vibration in a truck very soon puts
It out of order. Again, the speedom-
eter drive must be sealed so that the
' driver cannot tamper with it. as it is
a simple matter for a skillful me
chanic to disconnect the drive and
claim that It has shaken loose in
operation. It is better to have the
speedometer drive connected with a
moving part of the transmission than
with the wheel in the ordinary way.
In truck fleets where the bonus sys
tem Is used it is Important, in Justice
to the drivers, that there shall be no
failure of the speedometer.
In this connection a useful addition
to the recording equipment of the
truck is the odometer, which keeps a
record of mileage only, paying no at
tention to speed. This little instru
ment is usually placed in the hub cap,
and one of its great advantages is
that it can be locked in place, making
tampering practically impossible.
' But neither speedometer nor odom
eter quite meets all the conditions of
this particular case. Something more
JV-'.l" needed to supply the necessary
I '.', check on motor-truck drivers, and, as
I v is always inevitable, the manufac
turers have supplied it.
One of the popular types of record
Ing devices is fitted with paper disks
lined off clockwise. The instrument
has a clock movement and also
marking device which travels around
the face of the disc, indicating stops
by black dashes, varying in length as
-the stops vary and showing the
' minute and hour when the truck was
standing. In this way the driver can
be held to account for every move
: merit of the vehicle in his clrarge,
from the time he leaves the garage
until he returns to it at night.
, Aid Here's Pendulum Device.
' Another type of recording instru
. ment embodies a sort of pendulum
with a pencil at the end. The
" pendulum Is so placed that when the
- truck Is in motion the vibration causes
it to make an Irregular line on
record sheet. When the truck Is no
'-moving the line ceases. This device
Is extremely simple, almost foolproo
' and serves its purpose very effec
, tively.
All told, there are about 10 or 1
.r of these recording devices on the
market. The basic idea is the same
- in all. to give a complete record o
the truck movements during its work
rng hours. With one of the device
v on the truck the owner has practi-
eally a watchman on the vehicle all
""the time.
In addition to the recording equip
ment on the truck it Is desirable to
; have a record sheet of some sort in
. the garaare to which may be trans-
ferred afl the records from the dies
or sheet in the instruments. The
record sheet will embody the time of
. start In the morning, the stops, dura-
tion and reason for each, any work
'. performed on the truck by the driver.
the amount of fuI taken on, the
.'mileage and route traversed. Obvious.
y different operators will have dif
ferent data which they will want tm
bodied on the sheet, but the basic
"principle is always the same: A
. complete record of truck movements.
Without this it Is hard to see how
'; any operator can expect maximum
efficiency.
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I'he picture ahows'one of the -very latent Oldsmoblle eleht Inclosed mr, the new sedan. It la luxuriously
finished in plush vrlnar, with many special fentures, suck as heater and dome llgrhts. The ear la as hand
some from the ontslde as from the Inside. It Is flnlxhed in dark maroon. At the vrheel of the sedan in the
picture is Arnold Cohen of the Oldsmobile company of Oregon.
The new pavement is of concrete. 20
feet wide and with the exception of
a very short detour at Newman creek
is continuous from Elma to Satsop.
At Newman creek the present con
crete structure is being widened to
conform to the other paving.
JORDAN STILL IS EXPANDING
Another Factory Added to Big
Plant at Cleveland.
Striking evidence of the continued
success of the Jordan Motor Car com
pany. Inc., of Cleveland, O., is the an
nouncement Just made by this com
pany that it has completed negotia
tions for purchasing the property of
the Metal Parts Manufacturing com
pany. This factory, with its equip
ment, adjoins the Jordan plant in
Cleveland. It will be used as a Jor
dan production unit.
Acquisition of this factory, which
will be adapted for Jordan produc
tion, is the more notable in that it
follows the recent completion of large
additions to the original Jordan plant.
These additions include a new assem
bly plant, office building, motor test
building, japanning plant and power
plant.
The continued expansion of Jordan
production facilities with the new
factory units barely in operation
proves the Jordan company to be one
of the jnost successful in the auto
mobile field.
The latest acquisition to the prop
erty will increase by one-third the
ground area occupied by the Jordan
plant. It will, at the same time, make
possible an increase-of more than 30,-
000 square feet in floor space used for
production.
The production of Jordan motor
cars In the second quarter or this
year exceeded that of the first quar-
er by 100 per cent. The production
during the third quarter in turn ex
ceeded that of the second by 60 per
cent. In the last quarter the Jordan
plant will be producing four times as
many cars as in the first three months
of 1919.
Other resent evidence of the notable
success of the Jordan company was
the declaration of a 50 per cent stock
dividend to all preferred and common
stockholders a few months ago, with
the announcement that the capital of
the company had been doubled. This
was followed by the distribution of
125,000 in bonuses among the em
ployes at the main offices and plant
at Cleveland.
VAPORIZER ON NEW PAIGE
DEVICE BREAKS TJP GASOLINE
INTO PARTICXES.
Efficiency of Motor Is Greatly In
creased by ' Invention of
Paige Engineers.
GASOIilNE
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SCARCE
Coos Bay Pleasure Cars "Without
Fuel for Several Days.
MARSHFIEL.D, Or., Aug. 21. (Spe
cial.) Another gasoline shortage is
in effect on Coos Bay and pleasure
cars were not considered in the dis
tribution for several days. The famine
was relieved for a time, but the sup
plies brought in by the two whole
sale companies and the private gar
age owners soon disappeared. Tjntil
recently there had never been any
shortage to commercial autos, trucks
and deliveries, but for a day and
half this supply ran short.
The Standard Oil company is said
to be allotted but 30,000 gallons for
August and private parties are again
starting to ship. Prices went up here
from 27 and 28 cents a gallon to 30
cents and 33 cents. Gasoline shipped
here by private parties sold at vari
oua prices, some as high as 55 cents
for case goods. The next private
supply is advertised for 45 cents.
Oyster Shells for Roads.
Two great oyster reefs in the Gulf
of Mexico, one at Sabine, Texas, the
other at the mouth of the Atchafal
aya river, on Point au Fer, La., are
to be used for surfacing good roads.
The two reefs are valued at $65,000,
000. A Galveston man has been
awarded a contract to remove 1,000,
000 cubic feet of shells from the Point
au Fer reef for use on the roads in
that section of Lluislna.
A recognized factor in the opera
tion of gasoline driven engines is the
fact that fuel must be as completely
vaporized as possible. The finer the
particles of fuel the more complete
and efficient the process of combus
tion necessary to motivate the cylin
ders, Much progress has been made to
this and but the problem has been
complicated somewhat by the pres
ence on the market of low-grade fuel.
How one group of engineers met this
situation is well illustrated in certain
features of the power plant of the
new Paige light six chassis.
"After three years of intensive
work the Paige engineers developed
a new power plant with many features
that mark a measurable advance,"
says Harry M. Jewett, president of
the Paige-Detroit Motor-Car com
pany, "and not the least important of
these is the design and arrangement
of the intake and exhaust manifolds
that greatly increases the degree of
vaporization of gasoline.
"When gasoline enters the intake
manifold from the carburetor it is
mixed with air and broken up into
particles. Entering in a chilled state
these particles are not sufficiently fine
to result in as high a degree of vapor-
zatlon as is desirable. In the new
Paige engine the Intake and the ex-
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the intake rests on it.
"With flaming gases passing con
stantly through the exhaust it be
comes very hot and thus heats the
lower side of the intake above it.
With every section of the floor of the
intake thus heated the incoming fuel
from the carburetor comes in contact
with hot metal up and down the en
tire chamber, because, being in heavy
particles, it falls from force of gravi
ty. The result is that these particles
of fuel are broken up and a much
dryer gas and a much higher degree
of vaporization, are attained than
would otherwise be possible.
This not only makes a more com
plete combustion in the separate cy
linders, but minimizes the fouling of
spark plugs and Increases the all
round efficiency of the engine."
most of whom scattered to other
plants when the plant was moved
from Detroit to Lansing in 1906.
"When the Columbia Motors com
pany was organized in 1914 many of
this group of pioneers gravitated
back into the new organization.
"The Olds Motor wokrs has been
called the training school for auto
mobile men, as graduates of this
school have become prominent in
every phase of the industry.
"Probably no one company, hoi
ever, has more of these graduates ac
tively engaged at the present time
than the Columbia Motors company.
"We find these men who were exec
utives in the old pioneer organization
J. G. Bayerline, now president of
the Columbia Motors company; A. T.
O'Conner. secretary and treasurer;
William E. Metzger, vice-president;
W. A. Bollinger, vice-president and
factory manager; J. S. Morhardt, gen
eral superintendent.
"Associated ,with them In the Co
lumbia organization are such men as
F. L. Smith, former vice-president and
general manager of the Olds motor
works, and later president of the na
tional automobile chamber of com
merce; also W. G. Morley, former pur
chasing agent of the Olds motor; An
gus Smith, secretary of the company,
and James J. Brady, who is now col
lector of internal revenue in Detroit,
and Charles D. Hastings, now presi
dent of the Hupp Motor Car company.
"These men could write an inter
esting and authoritative history of I
the velopment of this great in
dustry from the days of the little old
'one lunger" to the handsome, com
fortable Columbia of the present day
with its newest achievement in motor
car construction the thermostatical
ly controlled radiator shutters.
"While the Columbia is but a 'four-
year old' a youngster compared with
some of the old-timers it comes
from the pioneer stock of the in
dustry."
FREE
COLTJ3IBIA ANCESTRY GOOD
"New" Car Product of Distin
guished Car Manufacturers.
At a dinner which the Columbia
Motors company, manufacturers of
the Columbia Six, recently gave to
officials of prominent parts building
concerns In and around Detroit, at
the company's summer home. A- T.
O'Connor, secretary and treasurer of
the company, related this interesting
bit of motor car history.
"At the rear of the present Colum
bia plant stands the same old power
plant which was a part of the Olds
Motor works plant from 1892 to 1905
"The same boilers with the name
of the original company cast in the
frames are now furnishing power to
build the Columbia Six which built
the little, curved dash Olds 18 years
ago.
"The Olds Motor works was Detroit's-
first motor car plant the
foundation for the business which
later made this city the automobile
center of the world.
"In fact, in the plant occupying the
site of the present Columbia plant
automobiles were first produced in
quantities on what might be termed
a "commercial basis." In this pioneer
organization were a group of men.
LONG, RAKISH LINES IN NEW CHALMERS SPEEDSTER.
Four Miles of Paving Nearly Done,
ABERDEEN", Wash., Aug. 21
'. (Special.) The four miles of paving
between Satsop and Elma will be
-opened August 29 to light traffic.
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QTJITK A SHIPMEST OP THESE HANDSOME CARS ARRIVED HERE RE.
CEJiTLY FOR THE C. I- DOSS AUTOMOBILE COMPAN Y.
The new Chalmers speedster Is a great advance in body lines over for
mer Chalmers models, though the engine remains the same famous "hot
spot" motor as before. The hotspot and ramshorn manifold are the out
standing features of this motor, which led the way in the adaptation of
the automobile engine to use present-day low-grade gasoline. In the car is
Ted Herlihy, territory man for the C. L Boss Automobile company, who
for several years was with the Maxwell-Chalmers factory.
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on Request.
We hear a lot about the ills the
body is heir to," said the Michelin j
repair man, "but I forget them when
I consider the ills that are forced on
automobile tires by careless or indif
ferent owners.
"You cught to hear the tires- tell
their troubles when they are brought I
in here with all kinds of things the
matter with them. Their appearance
tells the story all right. And when I
have a busy day 'the tires' lanjent'
is the very saddest of choruses to
me. There isn't much harmony, but I
there is a lot of pathos in it all.
" 'He 'overloaded me,' cries one.
" 'He underinf lated me,' moans an
other.
"Then I got a long-drawn-out wail
or:
" 'He ran me on the car tracks and
against the curbing."
'"'He stopped me suddenly and
kidded around corners.'
jtie Kept me going when I was
flat.'
"'He left gasoline and grease on
me.'
" 'He used me on a wheel that was
out of line.'
"I have been In the tire business
for many years, but I cannot get used
to tire abuse. It's all so unnecessary
and expensive for the owner."
. The Michelin Tire company. Mill
town, N. J., and Michelin dealers, too.
send to anyone asking for it a very
useful book on the care of tires. This
book is called "The Tire Users' Hand
book." -
Those asking for this book assume
no obligation of any kind. The book
Is simply mailed free.
PNEUMATICS SAVING TRUCKS
Development Declared Xow to Be
Past Experimental Stage.
That there is no longer any doubt
that a satisfactory pneumatic tire haa
been developed is the belief of many
large firms in Ifew York City who
have had experience with the big
Nobby cords of the United States Tire
company. These tires give big mileage,
even under the most trying condi
tions. The International Motor company
In a recent letter, stated that on one
of Its trucks geared to 28 mile an
hour one rear tire ran 14,000 miles
and the other 18,000 miles. One front
tire gave 22.000 miles and the other
almost 24,000 miles.
"We may say," says the letter, "that
the truck rides with exceptional ease
and no doubt due to this fact the cost
of repair of the truck has been very
slight."
Worm Drive Popular.
The popularity of the worm drive,
which is used in the Maxwell truck,
is evidenced by the fact that approx
imately 70 per cent of the trucks of
3000 pounds capacity employ this type
of drive. It is an advertised feature
of $5000 trucks where it has proved
that it can stand more abuse and do
more work than any other type of
drive.
oA Name and Brand
to Trust
THE NAME of Goodrich,
branded on automobile tires, is
itself a certification of the very
utmost in tire satisfaction.
Stamped upon millions of tires,
it has stood and today stands
responsible for their superior
quality and service.
Goodrich keeps faith with every
buyer of "its tires. Frankly, openly,
it states the least that a Goodrich
Tire, with proper usage, will
deliver.
8000 Miles for Silverto wn Cords, .
6000 Miles for FabricTires ! It is
an adjustment basis maintained
only by virtue of persistent high
quality reflected in the big mileage
which Goodrich Tires deliver.
"Goodricla Tires
cAdjustment cBasis:
Silvertown Cords, 8000 Miles
FabricTires, 6000 Mile
to the city and with additional time
the trucks increase the production
value of the farm to the farmer.
FITTING CORDS ON TRUCKS
not catch In the locking groove, spruce and other supplies, as follows: , Lord Inverforth, minister of mui
During this operation a valve cup I Liberty motor. 1 18.672. MR SO ! tiona of war for Great Britain.
should be put on .the stem to protect
the threads. The later types of rims
are made with valve stem slots to
facilitate application of the tire.
Care Must Be Taken to Avoid In-.BRITISH PAYING FOR MOTORS
jury to Valve Stems.
In the application of cord truck
tires the tire should be allowed to
drop down evenly until the valve
stem is reached, when the valve stem
is pressed down- sideways and to
ward the end of the flap. The stem
Is held in this position, taking care
that when the tire slips down the
rest of the way the valve stem does
Closing Up Aviation Accounts With
This Country.
The British government haa com
pleted its payments, to the United
States for aviation supplies furnished
during the war. Final payments to
taled 35,176. 12J. 10, and the payments
were for liberty engines, airplane
Trucks Release JCabor.
Farmers are beginning to realize
that Maxwell trucks release farm la
bor from much of the time spent on
the road between farm and market,
giving them more time for actual
farm production work, asserts T. J.
Toner, director of sales of the Max
well Motor company. These 114 -ton
trucks bring the farm much closer
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DoesyourlmerXency
JBmke Spell Safety ?
There are many mountain trips your family
would enjoy, but you are afraid of the grades
afraid of your brakes slipping.
Get rid of the fear and enjoy the trips away
from the maddening crowd by installing thelnv
proved KOREX Grease Retainer on your Ford
rear axle.
The Korex is a scientific, practical device of
metal and felt that fits in the brake drum and
seals the oil from leaking into the brake housing.
It protects your tires from splattering grease,
which rots the rubber.
If you can handle the Ford wrench, you can
install the Korex in a few minutes. Full direc
tions with every set.
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Grease JReioiner
Bay Kmx ax $1.50 per wheel front rotrr dealer or wttta
KOREX MFG. CO.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
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Nitrocellulose powder e.BiMKOOO.OO j The California highway commission
Cotton llnters pool 651, 500.00 I has authorized the construction of
Negotiations for payment were con- I 200 feet of guard rail on the worsi
Renting the secretary of war, a
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FEDERAL.
TENTH YEAR REASON
Every demand that business has made
of motor trucks has been fulfilled by
FEDERALS for more than ten years.
Full knowledge of Federal Service is so
important in these times of motor
transportation that you should get the
facts today.
DURABLE POWERFUL
ECONOMICAL
Authorized Soles and Service - Since? J903-
60 N. Broadway at Davis St.
Phone Broadway 321.
Oldest Motor Car Organization on the
Pacific Coast.
San Francisco,
Oakland, Los An
geles, San Diego,
Seattle, Portland.
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