THE OREGON "SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY. MORNING, MARCH 24, ' 1918.
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F. W. D. TRUCKS
Farmers Will Get Share of the
Output, Despite Fact Govern
ment Has Taken Over Factory;
DRIVE TRUCKS ARE POPULAR
Powerful Machines Great Aid in
Wheat Growing Districts of
the Pacific Northwest.
The Oregon Motor Car company has
been appointed distributor for the
Four Wheel Drive truck! according
to an announcement made last week
by F. Leeaton-Smith. manager of the
concern and. together with the W. O.
Garbe Motors company of Spokane, will
handle the distribution of thin well
known truck in the state of Oregon,
Ka litem Washington and Northern
. Idaho.
.At the present time the Oregon Mo-'
tor Car company and the W. C. Garbe
company are distributors for Stude
baker cars. Denby trucks and Lally
Llght. The successful Introduction of
the Denby truck into the farming and
grain districts of Central and Eastern
Oregon and Eastern Washington has
done much to familiarize these dis
tributors with exintlpg conditions and
In a number of Instances the need
of four wheel drive trucks haa been
demonstrated. ,
Government Takes Ontpnt
Recently Mr. Garbe, who is the head
of both concerns, visited the different
automobile factories in the east and
made -an Inspection of the F. . W. D.
trucks and the plant at Clintonville.
Wis. In making arrangements with
the F. W. D. company through Mr.
Hewett. general sales manager,. Mr.
Garbe was informed that the govern
ment, had taken the entire output of
their factory and had also Issued
orders for 12.000 trucks. As the ca
pacity of the factory is only 20 per
day, their output would be restricted
for some time to come.
"Mr. Garbe's main Idea in acquir
ing the F. W. D.. line." says Mr.
Smith, "was to introduce it in the
grain districts of the Northwest, where,
on account of the steep hills In and
out of the fields with loaded trucks of
grain food products. It Is necessary to
have power to negotiate the difficult
places.
"Although the government has taken
the entire output. Mr. Garbe argued
that L'ncle Bam could not win the war
without food and to those familiar
with the grain districts in Eastern Ore
gon and Washington, it can be appre
ciated that in some fields the hills are
so steep that to an observer the farm
machinery Is about to turn over, and
consequently under these conditions a
rear two wheel drive cannot negotiate
under load conditions. If the wheat
and grain Is allowed to remain in the
field or banked until the harvest is
over, the weather invariably' catches
the rancher hauling It Into the ware
house as late as December, to-say
nothing of the shrinkage. . f
Farmers to &et Snpplles'
"Before leaving Cllntonvllle Mr. Garbe
had arranged with the F. W. D, .com-.
pany for the distribution ahd delivery
of trucks where . bona-fide evidence
supported by affidavits from Individuals
In the wheat raising districts .gave
assurance to the government that the
irucKs wouia do usea . lor rood pro-
auctton purposes."
Dan Gllke will have charge of the
trucks In the territory while D. S,
Bachelor, manager of the truck depart
ment for the Oregon Motor Car com
pany, will have charge in Portland. The
F. W. D. truck, with the exception of the
power plant, which is a, Wisconsin mo
tor and the carbuertor and ingition, is
manufactured complete at Cllntonvllle.
The first shipment of trucks was re
ceived last week.
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Transportation Centers of Coun
try Will Soon Be Served by
Fleets of Powerful Motors.
TRANSPORTATION VITAL NEED
Trunk Lines With Tributary Lines
Serving Districts Away From
Main Roads Are Operating,
Truck for flinch Oregon Motor Car Co. has been made distributor in this territory
One Auto Company
Plays in Big Luck
Howard People Have Received Two
Tralaloads of Bolrks During Past
.Month; Opj Lot Came on Coal Cars.
Freight congestion has done much to
confuse automobile dealers during the
past few months in getting their regular
allotments '"from their respective fac
tories and every now and then some en
terprising automobile man makes a
scoop.
The Howard Automobile company,
Buick distributors have been fortunate
In receiving two trainloads of cars dur
ing the past month, which they attribute
to the fact that a traffic representative
for the Howard company branches on
the Pacffic coast has been established
at Chicago. .
One hundred and forty-seven carloads
of Buick cars with an average of four
to- six automobiles to the car have been
received In Portland during the past
month. Of this number. 36 carloads were
diverted to San Francisco and 26 car
loads were diverted direct to Oregon
dealers. The balance, 85 in number.
have been warehoused here In Portland.
Manager Dean says 69 carloads con
taining 291 automobiles were unloaded
last week between Friday and Monday
noon. In addition to this number word
was received last week that another 25
carloads were on the way from the fac
tory. One tralnload was made up of 49
gondolas, the first of its kind In a solid
tralnload of automobiles to arrive in
Portland. These cars were practically
new coal cars and were said to have
served their original purpose in relieving
the coal shortage in the East and were
then released to the Buick factory at
Flint. The train was in charge of B.
M. Lutz, special train representative
from the Buick factory, who accom
panies the trains to see that they are
not broken up at junction points or un
necessary delayed. The cars came
through in fine shape according to Mr.
Dean and were in better condition than
a great many cars received in box cars.
Shackle Bolt Is
Easy to Remove
If the shackle bolt refuses to come
out during the operation of dismounting,
a jack placed underneath the spring
to reduce the load will help. Then,
if the bolt is turned by means of a
wrench, while being driven out, no
great trouble will 'be experienced. As
the shackle bolt wears in the course
of service, shoulders form, which pre
vent easy removal. When worn as bad
ly as that, such bolts shouM be replaced
by new ones.
Tractor Real Help
In Defying U-Boats
Power Plow to Work Pay and Xlght
In England; Good Results Shown la
Great Amoiit of Food Prodaetloa.
England led the way for the adoption
of the farm tractor as a war machine.
Threatened by isolation from the food
producing countries of the western
hemisphere by the submarine, she took
heroic measures to protect herself from
famine.
The minister of agriculture organized
an army of farm tractors, placed head
lights on them, and plowed day and
night for weeks and weeks in the spring
of the year.
When the harvest was gathered and
England found she had enough food to ,
withstand any blockade of submarines
for another year, credit was given the t
tractor as the most effective weapon of
warfare yet discovered.
France had the same experience. The
government subsidized the manufac
turer of tractors and organized schools
for their operation.
The United States, the last great pow
er to enter the conflict, is finding that
the farrn tractor is a necessity of war.
"Within the very near future, prob
ably during 1918, a system of motor
truck lines will connect the most im
portant transportation centers of the
country, with fleets of trucks running
on regular acneouiea and making con
nectlons at Important intersecting points
with branch lines extending out into
tributary territory," prophesies W. L.
Hughson of the KlaselKar.
"while everyone knows that the
transportation problem is one of the
most serious of the many for which this
country must find the solution, every
body does not realise the Important
part which the motor truck will play In
solving it
"Viewed in one way, the utilisation of
the motor truck has increased with re
markable rapidity ; and yet, when you
look at it from another viewpoint, it is
surprising how slow business has been
tetake full advantage of the enormous
saving of time and labor which the mo
tor truck makes possible.
Has Sapplanted Horses
"The motor truck may fairly be said
to have supplanted the team for hauling
and delivery purposes. But we do not
as yet realize the extent to which it is
going to relieve the railroads from han
dling a large tonnage of small and trou
blesome freight, and to improve trans
portation service throughout the-country.
"Some beginnings have been made and
the results have proved most successful.
Motor trucks are now running on regu
lar schedule between some adjacent cit
ies. In England they have carried the
system much further, and 'Good a trains'
trucks with a string of trailers, traverse
many parts of the country.
"In this development, as in so many
others, the war has taught us more than
we would otherwise have learned in
many years. Where would the irrencn
and British armies be without their
enormous fleets of motor trucks and
lories r What the motor truck Is doing
today behind the lines In France, It can
do for us in this country.
Brings Coasnmer and Frodseer Closer
"Motor truck trunk line systems, with
tributary ljnes serving tributary dis
tricts, would be of immeasurable ad
vantage to manufacturers in many lines.
to wholesalers, retailers and to the con
sumer, to say nothing of relieving the
railroad congestion. The manufacturer
would be enabled to make quicker and
more frequent deliveries to wholesalers
or to retailers. The retailers" trading
radius would be greatly enlarged he
would be able to give good service to a
much greater number of customers. The
consumer would be benefited because he
would be brought nearer to the manu
facturer, the wholesaler and the re
tailer. A.
"It would work Just as well the other
way. The farmer would be brought
nearer to his market The products of
his farm could be transported more
quickly and at more frequent intervals
to the towns or cities where his buyers
are.
"We have the roads, and we can have
the trucks. There is no reason why
we should delay longer in-making the
fullest use of them. In fact, it is abso
lutely necessary that we do so In the
near future, lr we are to Dnng our na
tional productiveness and prosperity to
the maximum."
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GREAT IMPORTANCE
OF OPEN HIGHVAY:
Congested Condition of Railroads'
Aggravated by Blockade of .
Public Thoroughfares.
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Missfirf Causes Hiss
Sometimes a sharp hissing sound is
heard at intervals and seeming to come
from one of the cylinders. Often this
is mistaken for a leak, but the irregu
larity of its occurrence destroys this
hypothesis, as a leak would occur at
every period of high compression. The
sound Is due to an unflred charge, which
fills the exhaust port, and is ignited
when the next fired charge passes the
valve. Such a mtssfire may be due to
weak mixture or to Intermittently faulty
ignition.
Photo The PMikyt.
R. L. Adams
R- L,. Adams, formerly manager of
the Mendota Fuel company for the past
five years, has' joined the Hupmobtle
forces of the Manley Auto company. Mr.
Adams has been an automobile enthusi
ast and good roads booster for consider
able time and his family has practically
been raised in automobiles. At the pres
ent time his son, W. E. Adams, is driving
a motor car in the ammunition tra,in
"somewhere in France." Mr. Adams Sr.
has driven a Hupmobile for the past
four years.
Emergency Carbon Brushes
The small rods which are part of the
ordinary pocket lamp battery can be
filed and trimmed down to make a very
acceptable temporary replacement for
worn out carbon brushes in the magneto.
The war has magnified transporta
tion into an importance greater than
ever before. Keeping the roada dear
every day in the year, says the high
ways transport committee of the Coun
cil of National Defense, is virtually
part of the war program and as obli
gation on every cltisen.
Snows of the present winter have
shown the imperative need of a nation
wide effort to keep highways open
every day of the year. Storm of un
precedented severity have frequently
Kuieo travel over urgently neeoso roa
and thereby Isolated a great percentage!
of farm. j
This interruption of travel struck se
rious blows at the nation's war prep-,
arations. It added to the food short
age, it deranged business. It was the:
direct cause of hardship and materia
financial loss.
Short-haul freight that could net be
handled by already overtaxed railroads,
but which could have been diverted to
clear highways, was piled up to a.ggra
vate the already Immense congestion. :
Such a condition, continues the earn-:
mittee. would be economic folly as any
time, but with the nation at war tt be
comes a national peril.
According to R. D. Chapln, chairman
of the committee, the problem is one
that calls for more than Isolated en
ergy effort. It must be dealt with com
prehensively and preparation be made
in advance so that there can be assur
ance that roads will be open at all
timer.
Cause of Squeak
An annoying squeak which Is some
times difficult to locate is caused by the
edges of the doors rubbing. This rub
bing Is occasioned by a slight sagging
of the body in the center, and it may be
cured by placing a leather washer of
the required thickness around the body
bolt, between the body and the frara.
Don't neglect to watch your tires and
keep same at proper pressure.
Gravel Contract Is
Awarded in Coos
The f'oos county court has awarded
a contract to gravel the Bandon-Curry
county road a distance of 11 miles for
$49,416. The. contractors offered to d-
the work for 87 cents a square yard
and pay the county 15 cents per yard
for the use of its machinery and 5
cents a cubic yard for gravel.
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