3 HHOUSANDS DF CARS LOCAL AUTO ROW WELCOMES NEW DORT SIX-CYLINDER CAR. KED ANNUALLY Large Business Done in Wrecking Machines. PARTS ARE SORTED OUT lEvcrythiiig but Honk 19 Salvaged In Tearing Down of Worn out Machines. - HIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 12, 1923 7 I What becomes of the old, worn- out automobiles? They are sturdy pieces ot mectian ism. built for many years of serv ice, but to all the time finally ar rives -when their days of usefulness are over. They do not, like the deacon s famous "one-hoss shay," disinte grate, but there must be some end to them, for none or tnem last forever. Some hundreds are wrecked every year when careless drivers try to beat trains to grade crossings. Thousands are destroyed by fire. as statistics of Insurance companies show. Other thousands are wantonly destroyed by running them into old stone quarries, lakes or even the ocean, in ordear to collect insurance on them. Many are dismantled slowly by rural owners who display 'much ingenuity in utilizing the parts. But after all these, there remain tens of thousands to be accounted for. 10,000,000 Car in l There are nearly 10,000,000 cars In use in this country today and the annual output in the United States is more than 1,750,000. This means that the number of cars "passing out" every year must be larger than can be accounted for in any of the- above enumerated ways. The truth is that a great ma jority of decrepit, worn-out motor cars pass into the hands of motor undertakers, known under the trade name of "parts dealers,' and by them are scrapped and almost every thing but the sound of the honk be comes a source of salvage. There are hundreds of companies in this country doing an extensive business in buying and junking old and obselete models, and their yards are in truth motor car cemeteries. These automobile junk men buy old cars which roil to their yards under their own power sometimes, and there they are taken apart by skilled hands. A visit to onif of these motor car plants will disclose high piles of assorted parts. In one corner will be a pile of radiators as high as a bungalow; in another will be a vast heap of axles. Scattered around are large piles of springs and motor blocks. In large' bins are piles of brass. copper and aluminum fittings, and during the war these items were among the largest sources of reve nue from strapped cars. In those days scrap copper sold for as high as 40 cents a pound; brass brought as much as 25 cents a pound, and aluminum sold readily at 30 cents a pound. J unit Man Leaves Little. Even the old frayed tires yield profit. In fact there is little left after the motor junk man gets through dismantling old cars and removing from them such parts as he can dispose of. Most of the old cars that find their way into the motor car ceme teries are purchased from city own ers. In tho country, farmers find many ways of using their old cars long after they have ceased func tioning as vehicles. The rubber and small metal parts are sold to traveling junk men. but a farmer can attach the motor of his car to the windmill; he can use the seats for swings, suspended by chains on his front porch; and the wheels he can find use for in mak ing improvised trailers for use on the farm or for hauling his boat to and from his favorite fiabintr iir When he is finally through with his car, all that remains Is the metal carcass, which is left to rust away. Some of the large dealers in worn-out cars frequently handle and dismantle several hundreds of machines every year. In their yards may be found remnants of cars ot every make and of every vintage, dating from 20 years ago. REFERENCE BOOK HEUE NEW DYKE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA COSIES FROM THE PRESS. Book Has Over 1200 Pag'ea and May Be Considered Last Word in Auto Reference. Of much interest to the entire automobile world, and that may be taken to mean everyone from the automobile manufacturer down, or up, to the automobile owner, and to the email boy who wishes he had one, is the announcement that the 13th edition of Dyke's Automobile and Gas Engine encyclopedia has recently come from the press. The new book is already on sale at the local book stores. Dyke's encyclopedia may be re garded as the "last word" on infor mation regarding the automobile, and it has long been the textbook by which many automobile me chanics have been trained, as well as a book of reference for thou sands of owners. The new volume appears in re written form, considerably enlarged over the previous volumes and con taining a large quantity of addi tional information bearing on re cent developments in the industry. The volume contains over 1200 pages, but is so compactly bound and is printed with such thin paper that the volume is not unduly bulky. It is profusely illustrated with dia grams and sketches, .several on every page. One of the unique features of the book is its index, with over 14,000 captions. Every subject treated in the book and thre is probably no subject connected with the auto mobile that is not treated is in dexed in three ways: (1) in its re lation to parts; (2) in its relation to the operation of the car; (3) in connection with the make of car. Thus there is no phase of any sub ject that cannot instantly be found through the index. RORT SIX d ARRIVES KS jj . vii?.. i FIRST NEW MODEL IS UN LOADED BY N. W. AUTO CO. Interest Keen in New Car, Which Marks Change From Four to Six Cylinders. The new six-cylinder Dort car ar rived in Portland last week and was unloaded by the Northwest Auto company, local Dort distributors, much to the interest o,f a large number of motor fans who had been looking forward to the arrival of this latest product of the Dort fac tory. The Dort company has for a long time back put out a four-cylinder car, and so when it was announced by the factory recently that it was turning its attention to six-cylinder production, in place of four, interest was at once keen regarding the new car. The Portland organzation was able to obtain one of the first ship ments of the new Dorts to come west, and the unloading of the car load last week was the result. In general appearance the new Dort is not greatly changed from the former model, although beauti ful and refined. The hood has been lengthened and the car enlarged in keeping with the six-cylinder power plant. The new car has full molded crown fenders, nickeled radiator and nickeled outside door handles and other fittings. The adoption of the nickeled radiator is probably the greatest change in exterior appear ance. Unusual spring suspension is provided by cantilever rear-springs and semi - eliptical front springs, giving a .total length of seven feet on each side. AH spring ends and shackle brackets, are bronzed and bushed. The new six-cylinder motor is an overhead valve type, cast en bloc, of 24 brake horsepower. The cylinders are three and one-eighth inches bore and four and a quarter inches stroke, and the displacement is 195.6 cubic inches. Lubrication is direct under pressure, and the igni tion is Bosch. Other mechanical fea tures are thermo - syphon cooling, multiple-disc clutch, 12-inch brake drums, with exterior contracting service brakes and interior ex panding emergency. Cord tires. 21x1. are standard. Handsome new Dort sedan (above) and new Dort five-passenger touring oar (below), first of the new Dort sixes to arrive in Portland. The ears were delivered last week to the Northwest Auto company, local distributors. As will be noted, the greneral Dort lines have not been changed. The hood has been lengthened to provide for the six-cylinder motor, however, and the car enlarged in a number of other ways. A nickeled radiator replaces the former painted shell. NEW STUTZ CARS HERE 1923 MODELS BEING SHOWN BY LOCAJi DISTRIBUTOR. OCTOBER OUTPUT IS HEAVY Last Month Biggest in History of Auto Industry, Is Report. NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Production of motor vehicles for October has run 20 per cent above September, it was reported to the directors' meet ing of the National Automobile chamber of commerce in New York today. Tjhe total output for the en tire industry for October, based on statements ot shipments, is estimat ed at 244,400 cars and trucks. The best provious October record was 200,000 in 1919. Increased availability of coal, R'hich wag relatively scarce in Sep tember, largely accounts for the un usual October increase. The pro duction of the latter month met a number of unfilled orders, as well as supplying October sales, which were about 25 per cent under Sep tember in most sections of the coun try. The fall montihs, though sea sonally less than the summer, are expected to register the best autumn trade on record- Star Production Heavy. LANSING, Mich., Nov. ll.--Pro-duotion df ' Star cars at the Durant plant in Lansing has reached 50 a day, according to H. M. Alger, vice president of the Duran.t Motor com pany of . Michigan. It is expected that within another week this pro duction will be doubled. Only tour ing cars are being built at this time but sedan bodies are to be added this month and the full line of open and closed jobs will be instilled at the Lansing plant before the end of the year. i Cars First Put Out Since Charles M. Schwab Took Control; Left-Hand Drive Adopted. 'The first shipment of the new Stutz cars' to be received here since the Autorest Motor Sales company again took the distribution and since Charles M. Schwab, steel mag nate and industrial leader, took charge of the destinies of the Stutz company, was unloaded in Portland last week. In the shipment were three cars of the 1923 "D-H" models, a special "speedway" roadster, a sport four-passenger touring model and a seven-passenger touring car. All cars were at once placed on display at the company's salesrooms at the corner of Tenth and Salmon streets, where they attracted wide attention from, auto fans. The cars will continue on display this week, it has been announced. One of the most attractive of the new models is the speedway roadster, a distinctive two-passenger sport car replete with refine ments and equipment tended to adapt the tar equally well both to touring and to motoring around town. The car has an unusual fea ture in a large circular trunk which fits into a specially designed well in the rear of the car. This is of sub stantial basswood covered with duck and bound at the sides and ends with heavy leather. Inside it holds two good-sized suit cases. On all the new Stutz models dis tinctive barrel-type headlights and spotlight are standard equipment, but on the speedway roadster small cowl lights and a parking light are added. Two extra wheels with tires fasten at the rear. Other features of the Stutz are bumper, plate-glass side wings, adjustable cowl ven tilator and Individual scuff and step plates. TVia f ritlt"-T a aeon irai mn.l 4 r-m (known as the Stutz "sportster." On this model, too, are the special equipment of the sport type car, and at the rear is a specially designed folding luggage rack. The car is finished in royal blue color with blue Spanish leather upholstery. While in general appearance and in its sturdy mechanical features the new Stutz does not differ fun damentally from the former car, there are a number of important changes. The first apt to be noted by the motorist is the change to the left-hand drive system. This is in effect on all models, although it is announced that right-hand drive is optional and may be ob tained upon request. The motor, which remains of the four-cylinder type, has been improved by a con siderable number 'of refinements tending to increase its efficiency, it is declared. The result is declared to be a motor with an increase of 65 per cent in power over the former Stutz and an increase of some 20 per cent in economy of operation. Open house for the new cars will be held this week by C. W. Osborne and C. D. McPhail of the Autorest Motor Sales company, it has been announced, for the showing of the new cars at the show room at the Autorest garage; PLANT SOUNDS LIKE PLANE Visitors at Home of Wills Sainte Claire Often Are Fooled. MARYSVILLE, Mich., Nov. 11. One of the "outdoor sports" of Marysville, the. home of C. H. Wills & Co., is watching visitors to the town suddenly prick up their ears, stop in the middle ot the street, and excitedly scan the skies for air planes. Usually the newcomers' cu riosity prompts them to ask some resident where the planes are, to which the customary retort is: "That's not a bombing squadron you hear, it's the Wills Sainte Claire fac tory." The explanation is simple. The unmuffled exhaust 6f the eight-cylinder Wills Sainte Claire motor run ning at high speed sounds 'quite like an airplane motor. In the motor testing department at the factory, the exhaust from all the motors is led into a long pipe and is carried up above the roof of the plant, so that the fumes of the gas will pass off harmlessly into the air. As a consequence, when a number of motors are being tested at high speed, the noise of the exhaust com ing from so high in the air sounds almost exactly like a squadron of planes. MOTOR GIVEN UNUSUAL TEST "Vibrationless" Car Balances' Glass of Water on Radiator. NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 11. Every now and then a bright automobile salesman invents a test which shows his product to be the best in the world. The latest and one of the most extraordinary ever shown, here has created unusual comment. A glass of water filled to t'he brim was placed on the radiator of a Rickenbacher six touring car. The engine was then raced to an approxi mate speed of 40 miles an hour. Not a drop was spilled. "There's your vibrationless mo tor," was the verdict at the conclu sion of the test. The lack of vibra tion in the Rickenbacher is said to be due to a crankshaft with a double flywheel. FIRST OF HANDSOME NEW STUTZ MODELS REACHES PORTLAND. Where t.he pressure falls below normal the motorist actually pays for the abuse in real money. .To ob tain full service it is necessary to maintain the recommended inflation. 1 i frag?? 1 . , . . yyfipjf PASSENCEK CAR SALES IN SOUTHERN I CALIFORNIA IN 1920. 1921 AND IS tSV I fart o. Hz: maf I - Bio.. , J -tV. I Cir 1J20 1921 " 1921. 101 ' Ac .2 13 CUf f Allen 1 . , , .2 it f - American , 14 12 'J J Anderson , If 15 v I AppenoQ . 7 4 31 I . I Auburn , -155 50 42 V 1 Bour-Davim .... '7 I Briscoe , 207 92 ! I iBuick a 308 JM 3266 IT Cadillac 6JI 562 Ul -wl Case U. 60 19 15 J Chalmers S5i .22 275 3J Chandler , I. 947 525 575 ff Chevrolet ', , 4575 5319 J0,19 J Cleveland . 42S 49S 496 4 Coki 207 100 45 ' Columbia , ,. 192 W JO Comet : ,, .4 49 CommonvrealtA . 27 '4 1 Crovr-Elkhirt 109 45 A Cunningham , '15 It $ l Daniels IS li . kl Davis ; If -IV 4 Detroit Electric . S I J If Diiie Flyer 65 15 Dodce 5012 5616 SJ64 71 I Dorria 30 ,25 ' ' Jf I Dort : . 47 34 365 f Duesenberc - , , . 9 J I DuPont : !? " 7 '.. f V -Durant '. . 77 3132 f Ea.1 ; .... 2" Z I Elcar , 19 ( ... I Elpn" . 231 152" 15 Essex 2 564 765 J Ford lo,767 24,845 .19,220 f Franklin 34S 290 219 f Cardner 320 Is 225 I Grant ! 52 I H. C S. : 26- 47 17 I . Haynea - 79 17 232 1 ( . Holmes 19 5 .... I Hudson - 624 475 83 I Hupmobile . 437 (01 941 ' Jackson : 17 "21 JeweU .... . . . 340 I Jordan 166 102 175 I Kin. 92 27 2 Kissel 73 41, 44 La Fi-ctte .. 42 10 1 , Leach : : 37 49 13 1 Leaington 75 139 191 Libert- 121 66 56 A Lincoln , 40 16 220 U Locomobihi 36 26' 11 7 I Mubohm V 37 M 6 bl iMarroon s I 225 146 154 1 Ma-well , -I 1042 (56 1775 V? licFarlan ! 2 14 - 7 if Mercer 1 U II i Mets : 45 64 11 Milbura Electric . It 4 2 I Mitchell i 247 77 - K Monitor . . I 13 . 1 Monroe U, , - 47 33 3 "II Moon ...- 125 53 3 I Nun ...... , . 120 944 103 ! Nstionsf-...l , - D 3. 33 I Nelson L..i...J,.. - 37 -3 . .. M14 Oakland .L...Z- i4 710 6J 1 OldsmobiH -J 4J- 1121 69 On Overland ...: 20r 1323. H3 Cat Owen Majnttid. - .... 12 ,'l . Packard - 17 254 342 is Paie r 413 221 254 tJ Peterson . 24 r 1 if Peerless - 23 164 112 I Pierce-Arrow , 93 3 27 , Pilot 40 ' 16 2 I Premier 23 9 1 I R ft V Knljht 27 10 I Rao 170 212 300 I ReVere , 14 7 S. Rickcn backer .- ... 219 Roamer' ... 36 46 26 l Rolls-Royce . . . 4 9 1 I Saawn . 49 51 t c4 I Sayera ft ScoviH- 10 - 1 II I Scrlppt-Booth Jl 14 51 Shaw 30 37 20 Sheridan ' 3 15 3 1 Skelton 14 J3 1 , XtI- t m Slander 7J 26 3 "rf f This is file most convincing Ivamtwt m - h V evidence that Studebaker v ", " 361 m Ui R V .. V Studebaker . 2130 ,4IM 216 J A V cars are sold on merit. I stun i o n ,, X. Templar 07 41 21 ar TuUa 3 13 in Sw Valie - 344 34' V I J W f Westcort -. . . 0 67 yf I Wills Saint Clair 66 lit A WtUys-)Cnllht . 225 5l 04 I I 3iacsllaa' l 1 67 W I J I I Total .. - 7,341 IsliT M,l? I f Studebaker Elected Motoring public expresses strong preference for six-cylinder per formance and economy of Stude baker Motor Cars. The People's Choice Discriminating buyers in Cali fornia and throughout the United States as well select the Stude baker. Increasing Sales Note Studebaker's constantly growing sales and compare with other cars. Studebaker Dealers Albany Garage .......Albany, Or. C. Rowan Motor Co Astoria, Or. . Pioneer Garage, Inc Bend, Or. M. A. Rickard Corvallis, Or. Sweet Drain Auto Co. ....... . Eugene, Or. J. F. Burke Grants Pass, Or. ' , Peferson Bros Hillsboro, Or. ' Dunham Auto Co. Klamath Falls, Or. '. Watkins & Mitchell McMinnville, Or. " Marshfield Auto Co Marshfield, Or. Hittson Motors , Medford, Or. Risley Motor Oregon City, Or. Central Garage .Roseburg, Or. Reprint Motor News Nov. 1, 1922 m,m ,!nri Marion Auto Co. The Dalles Garage . . . Williams & Williams . . ... George N. Crosfield. . . ... Lineham Motor Co. ... Wallace Bros. Ross & Brown John K. Leander Co . .... i.i . Salem, Or. . . The Dalles, Or. ... .Tillamook, Or. ...Wasco, Or. . . .Vancouver, Wash. ... .Pendleton, Or. .....Walla Walla, Wash. ... .Portland, Or. World's Largest Producers of Six-Cylinder Cars AUTO STAGE MAX SUCCEEDS P. T. RANDALL. More Than 15 Stage lanes Now Operating Out of Park and TamhilX Terminal. J. L. S. Snead, secretary of the Oregon Auto Stage Terminal com pany, and one of the organizers of Portland's stage depot enterprise, Is now its manager. Mr. Snead took over his new duties a few days ago, replacing P. T. Randall, who re signed. ' The Portland stage depot, an at tractive building at Park and Yam hill streets, was opened December 15, 1921. More than 15 lines operr ate out of this terminal, with the daily passenger turnover exceeding 1000 people. Mr. Snead has been active in com mercial motor transportation or ganization work since its inception. He is president of the Irvington Ga rage & Auto company, which oper ates a garage at Fifteenth and East Broadway, and a repair shop at East Fourteenth and Broadway and is the owner of the Reliance-Mount Hood stages. Thirty-seven per ient lost tire service on 32x4 cord tires, which cost J42, means $24 loss per tire on 6000 ton-miles of service. In the first iifstance tire service per ton mile costs the motorist $.007 per ton-mile. In the second instance with 3750 ton-miles service costs more than half again as much, that is, $.011. New Stuts "Speeday" road.ter, .one of three ot the new Stutz models received last week by the Autore.t motor Sale, company, stnta distributor., and now on display at the company', abowrooma. The Sign of Quality ' The Superfine Small Car Economy and Smartness Finest Material F i n e s t Workmanship Performance Minute attention to the little details of motor car dress that determine a car's social caste all of which can be proven. Won't ypu drop in and have a ride? McCarley Motor Company Distributor Oregon and Washington 62 Cornell Street - Main 3061 Free Battery Service Our New Location ? f f JV,?w o o FOR STARTER-GENERATOR AND BATTERY WORK AT W.R. MILLER & SON, Inc. Northwest Corner Eleventh and Burnside Streets All work guaranteed. 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