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7 BIG AUTO PLANTS SOON TO BE BUSY E OF driving through mud, roads caused by the spinning of the- rear wheels over sharp stones, and we again suggest the use of chains under such conditions. Taser Inflation Common Fa nit Once or twice each month a reliable vulcanize r should be used and all neces sary repairs made. -Neglected cuts allow gravel and water to enter and loosen the tread,' and If small matters are not cared for promptly and properly they soon become large ones. Brakes should be inspected frequently. . Do not apply them suddenly, unless, of course, to pre vent accident; this as well as spinning the wheels when starting, is very bad practice and should be avoided. Under inflation has been the most direct cause of - tire trouble and is uncalled for when one considers that almost- every city block and every small town has either a tire repair shop, garage or accesory store which is equipped to furnish air 'abso lutely free of charge. An underlnflated tire will roll over stones instead of kick In them aside and cause a bruise or break in the Ore which later results 4n a blowout. Rim cuts,,, separation f the plies of fabric and other trouble are to be found If this is not watched closely, Driving- on a flat tire : results in the troubles mentioned above and, if not equipped with a spare easing, -run on the rim. Front wheels should be examined and kept in proper alignment at all times, as this will cause both rubber and fabric to wear 'through in, a , very shor. time. ' . . ' Cars which are stored for the winter should not be allowed to stand on the tires. This is very hard, on both Casings and tubes and renders them Unfit for service when the car, is again' put into service. We would recommend In this case that the car be jacked up and set on blocks or ."horses" and about one half the required air pressure left in the tires. Before the car Is put into service, de mount the tires said have them carefully examined; all rust should be removed from the rims and graphite applied. This method. In our estimation, and after sev eral tests, has proven most satisfactory at the least expense. .There are several suggestions On the subject, such as de mounting the tires and wrapping sep arately in paper ..cloth . or burlap and. then storing in a dark room ; how ever, as stated above, we have found HAS APPEAL FOR DISCERNING MOTORIST SAVES EXPENSES Also Much Grief Is Saved When Proper Care Is Taken of De structible Rubber. Casings. CARE IN DRIVING IS FACTOR the first mentioned to give Just as good, if not better, results, and will enable the motorist to realise maximum service at minimum cost. -. Made of a material v Impervious to grease, a soap holder for-bath rooms and kitchens has been invented that can be built Into a v?all recess. Many New Factory Additions Are Planned to Meet Demand That Will Arise for Cars. 4000 FORDS &AILY OUTPUT -- Makers of Automobiles Fail to ' Agree on Reduction of Prices, . but Demand Is Not Lessened. Underinflation Is Common Cause of Trouble; Use of Chains on Wet Roads Advised. r f THE OREGON SUNDAY. JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1913 CONS HON AUTOMOBILE TIRES fflffl HEW ORDERS v ' i Detroit, Mich.. Jan. 4. All automo bile plants report satisfactory strides are being- made In realigning, adjusting and repairing In preparation for the new era. Ford Company Beady Boom It Is understood the Ford company will be ready within a few weeks to re sume production at eWn a greater rate than before the war. The new schedule, it Is said, will call for a daily output of 4000 cars and even producing at this as tonishing figure continue for a long time before real inroads can be made on the flood of unfilled orders. Many factories are planning for. additions now, that the construction ban has been lifted by the cessation of hostilities. An indication that, the General Motors corporation is preparing to erect a new motor car factory on the big tract of land which it owns, partly in Detroit and partly in Hamtramck. is given in peti tions filed in the name of William C. Du rant for the closing of DeQulndre street through this property. Cadillac Gets More Plants At the time that this tract was ac quired some years ago, it .was an nounced that a great consolidated plant for the Cadillaa Motor Car company, one of the General Motor's subsidiaries, was to be erected on it. This decision was ?ue, it was said to the fact that the Cadillac company now has a number of plants which are widely separated and that its main factory at Amsterdam and Cass avenues ia not capable for expan sion. For various reasons the new Cadillac plant was never built. However, a new airplane motor pliant was constructed on this site and it is expected this will be the nucleus of a new plant commen surate in size with the Dodge plant near-by. Transition from a war to a peace basis should be comparatively simple for the White Motor company. In the first place government orders were for Its standard trucks, requiring no great factory alterations and consequently in volving no great change for the consump tion of peace business. ' Selling Plani Organised - qrhe problem is In getting selling or ganiaations back in shape to take care of normal production. Though the gov ernment was taking the standard White product, it was taking but one model. As a result Inventory and material stocks on other models were allowed to run down. It will, therefore take a little while to get that material in and going through the factory for production of other models. On the other hand, while White has been running 100 per cent war business for tKe past three or four months at the time it swung into the war game it had more or less stock in its various branch offices and in transit While the sell ing organisation has been cut down It has not been completely disorganized i ne nmiB company management feel v v f v i R. E. Murphy and A. II. Knaus, owners of' Twin States Motor Car company, discuss new -features of the Chandler Dispatch. that the domestic market for trucks hereafter Is going to'be bigger than ever before, for the war has convinced many people who were unconvinced before of the reliability and stability of the motor truck. Cancelling of war orders in other words is expected to Bpell only a modest manufacturing problem and only a tem porary gap In production. White to Pot Out Fall Line So far as its new 16-valve touring car is concerned, the White company feels that at preBent the truck market is more important and justifies the bending of every effort to get out a full line. Until truck production 13 thoroughly reorgan ized not much attention will be given to the passenger car end. Until spring. White probably will be a 100 per cent truck proposition. An odd feature of the present auto mobile situation is the failure of the makers to agree on the question of prices. Many manufacturers have al ready reduced the prices on different models. ' while others announce that price reduction will not be considered at this time, and still others have said that the present prices will stand for six months or more. Explaining its recent $300 reduction in the price of its eight-cylinder car, the Cole Motor company states: "Our attitude is simply this: s When the government curtailed production and made it impossible for us to build but a very small per cent of the num ber of cars we had anticipated, because of the hiph cost of labor and material and the restrictions placed on our pro duction, we were forced to increase our price J300 November 1. Change Cami Suddenly "The change in conditions came much sooner than we had anticipated, and we were able without interruption to read just ourselves to our former normal basis. Under those circumstances we felt obligated to the public to restore the normal price of our product. "Our reduction of ?300 in, price, there fore, should not be interpreted as a re duction so much as a restoration of a normal permanent price, which will give the public the assurance that the cars they buy now will maintain their price quotations, not for a brief period alpne. but for a long while." - " The Mitchell Motors company of Ra- ,-clne. Wis., has reduced the price of its 40-horsepower six $190. from $1465 to $1275, and its 48 six $200, from $172R to $1525. The Kordyke & Marmon company, Indianapolis, manufacturers of Mar mon cars, announces the price of Mar mon cars will not be reduced in the im mediate future. The announcement says that only a reduction in the cost 4-ef labor and material, as well as an in crease in the quantities of the latter de. livered, could bring about a reduction, and this is not looked for for some time. Honolnls Will Offer Market S. S. Paxton of Honolulu, head ' of the Royal Hawaiian Sales company, is en route to Cleveland to seek the agency for the Cleveland tractor. Mr. Paxton handles the Pierce, Reo, Cole and Mar mon. M. K. McKenny, sales manager of the Denby Motor Truck company, will have charge of the Pacific Coast branch to be opened in San Francisco January 1. He lived in San Francisco prior to his connection with the company in De troit. J. I. Boldman, California repre sentative for several years, will be the Western sales manager. Mr. McKenny will bo Western manager. Chairmen Chosen For Highway Work Indicative of the prominent part highway improvement is playing in state legislation is the strife among leg islators for the chairmanship of the committees which frame legislation cov ering highways. So far as the incoming legislature is concerned, it is reported that the chair manships of the committee on roads in the senate and house have been already decided upon. It is understood that A. W. Orton of Multnomah county is to be chairman of the senate committee and W. B. Dennis of Yamhill, chair man of the house committee. Fred Comer Joins Experimental Staff Fred Comer, one of the cleverest rac ing mechanics in the business, who has ridden with "Cliff" Durant Hn all re cent races won by the Pacific coast speed champion, has joined the experi mental staff of the Chevrolet Motor company, of California at its big Oak land plant. Comer is working 1 - the truck division, trying to find a way to break up one of the new Chevrolet one ton commercial vehicles. So far he has npt come even "close," in spite of some unusually strenuous tests. TRUCK TRANSPORT ORGANIZATION ON To Bring Order Out of Chaos Is Problem Confronting New Traffic Regime. MARIE y-DAvmswis WIN PORTLAND - SEATTLE NEW YEAR'S MOTORCYCLE ENDURANCE RUN Winning the Firestone Trophy Cup presented by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. to the team win ning this event three times. Twenty riders entered Four on HARLEY DAVIDSOiNS. Four riders finished perfect Two on HAR-LEY-DAVIDSONS. Of the 4 Harley-Davidsons. entered 4 fin ished. It proves by test if you want a motorcycle that will take you there and bring you backr you wantaHarley. r Motorcycle & Suppl y Co., Inc. 209 FdURTH STREET .Largest" Exclusive Motorcycle Dealers in the Northwest We Will Be in Our New Store, Corner Third and Taylor Sts., After Jan. 10 r Highway transportation is at present in the development stage, and much con fusion must inevitably result before the work of transporting freight under the new conditions is systematized. Organ ization of reload bureaus throughout America is aiding to bring erder out of chaos. Information given out with -regard to truck transportation companies is too often incomplete and business men only know that an organization has been formed to develop freight hauling by truck to and from certain cities. In time information in regard to headquar ters of the freighting companies and in regard to the arrangements to handle the freight will.be made more generally known. Forrest J. Alvln, who has given- the subject great study, says that ultimate ly the national system of freight hauling companies will so shape their affairs as to make it entirely possible for the mer chant desiring to ship goods to route those goods in regulation railroad style through the country for long distances. "Gradually as this business grows." said Mr. Alvln. "there ,will come system en abling our business men to arrange their, shipments to almost any city of the country, and to route those shipments through the country, naming the freight hauling organizations they know to be reliable. "hTe receiving company will receipt for the goods at the start, as Is done by the railroads, will .deliver them at the end of its route to the loading platr form from which the company operating in that district will take them onward to the end ofWs route. There will be no appreciable delay in this system, for every trucking company, every hauler of freight, will realize that the success of a business which promises so much must lia in the crical handling of the freight to its destination. There must be no comparison, except that which is favorable, between the times of handling goods from city to city, 'from store door to store door, and the trucking com panies' must see that comparison be tween their work and that of the rail road in both freight and express fields is all in favor of the trucking service. "The work of systematizing this serv ice must not develop upon the highway transport committee, which has its work cut out In bringing about the organiza tion of the companies. The business men and civic associations must take it up, as many are doing, and the prob lem will require careful study and na tional organization work.' Yakima Farmers Buy $3,511,148 Worth of Automobiles in 19l8 Takima, Jan. 4. Yakima farmers and business men who went over the top for every patriotic purpose to meet the needs of the nation and appeals for hu manity, still had money enough to pur chase $3,511,148 worth of automobiles and accessories during the year, accord ing to a compilation made by dqalecs here this week. This is a gain of 7a per cent over the automobile business of 1917 and double the business done two years ago. i Of the money spelit for cars during the year, the sum of $1,368,175 went for new automobiles ; $429,732 for used cars : $262,738 for new trucks : $59,205 for used trucks, and $201,048 for tractors. The truck and tractor business is certain to ! make great gains in the coming year, as j there is an increasing demand. The val ley's crop production this year will go above $30,000,000 and next year the total acreage under cultivation will probably be 25,000 acres additional. There 'is nothing the motorist should, practice more than the conservation of motor car equipment. Tires, as a rule, receive less attention and are called upon to go farther and do more under any and all conditions than any other part of the car equipment, and we there fore feel and hope that the motorist may derive something beneficial from a few suggestions "picked up" in our. years of experience. ' On paved op city streets the motorist in winter months has snow, sleet and rain to contend with, and as there is great danger of skidding, chains should be properly applied and used. This re quires much care, as improper applica tion is not only harmful to the tire but the chain as well. It is not necessary on dry roads to use them, as a good rer liable non-skid tire prevents side slipping or skidding. Avoid car tracks, as they allow the rear tires to slide or spin while stopping or starting and there is also great danger of skidding In turning out of them. Frozen country roads cause a great deal of trouble, causing cuts and bruises. Long tread cuts are the usual results of Beaver Garage Inc. 209 Union Ave. N. LARGE FIREPROOF BUILDING EXPERT MECHANICS SQUARE DEALINGS PRICES REASONABLE Service station for Miller Geared-to-the-Road, Cord and Fabric Tires. Auto accessories and sup plies at attractive prices. Phone East 304 for Ser vice Car. Owners of Ford Cars are advised to beware bf 'Counterfeit parts." If your carl needs adjust ment bring it where you will find reliable service with the complete mechanical equipment to give the highest quality of Ford SeWice obtainable. You cannotepect your Ford car. to give, the service and endurance you demand unless you have it cared for by men experienced in Ford methods and using the parts manufactured by the Ford Motor Company for their car. Ford Cars of all types are now coming through in Ijmited quantities and is rapidly as possible the big Detroit Factory is being converted from 100 War Work to 100 production of passenger cars and one-ton trucks. i .!-'- The undersigned City Dealers will serve you promptly and efficiently: .. j j Francis Motor Car Co. East 13th at Hawthorne Palace Garage Co. Twelfth and Stark Wm. L. Hughson Co. Broadway at Davis Rushlight & Penney East Third at Broadway Robinson-Smith Co.i 1 Sixth at Madison , Talbot & Casey j East Ankeny at Grand "Return Loads Will Cut Your Hauling Costs" rt ..... -i ' -jt-.f.v.'rfL X 3 1 "4. illicit 1- V IK VESTA SPARKLETS BY "DOCTOR SPARK" SPARKLET NO 3 VESTA owns the basic patent controlling the use of Titanium in VESTA Storage Batteries. This is a rare mineral now coming into use for purifying and strengthen ing metals. 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