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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1924)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON HUH US 10 Smith & Watkins Have Dis play of Batfbn Tires and . Can Give Information - . ' w v v. u , JJ AUxi iuvimmvi nw..- t -i -r,- . T rtT l i 1 1 i i i ' -' " . " " IE Oil nd Gas Savings , More .Than Pay Cost; Better Performance"-Assured DKTR01T, Mich., Feb. 2 4. Long! time experiments by motor car manufacturers have proved that Jit is actual waste and unfair to a motor car to run it more than a year with the same set of spark plugn. 1 Tioudands of motorists have founi that a new aet of plugs after from 8,000 to 10,000 miles not nly 4nakes better perform ance certain but actually saves enough in oil and gas to pay for the new spark plugs. Other thousands, wlten they prepare their cars for another sea son of driving, will .install a com plete) set of new spark plugs. Why it is real eeonomy -to- do this ja easily undergtoodwen the part ! that spark .plugs play I.i en gine operation is definitely known. i In the engines tided in motor cars today, the charge is fired in each cylinder at. every other revo lution of the crank' shaft. .'This means that the spark -plufrs .-lro called on to deliver .- the ' firlnsr spark from' 600 to 1,500 times per minute, according to ,'le. speed' of the engine. - ' - i i The temperature,faKuria.lhe firing points runs from 600 de grees up to 1.800 degrees Fab.-m-hcit, tho average .being. . arouid 1,300. In most mo.tbra oil s te Ing continuously splashed n and burned off the spark plus. This tremendous heat and stress doe to lie rapidly alternating compression and firing strokes. the spark plug, no matter how well made it may be. 1 The spark plug will continue to fire and ignite the cylinder mix tures; but combustion is not nearly bo complete. The products of combustion gradually adhere to the surface of the core and eventually induce surface leakage, which weakens the spark after a long period of service. The electrodes are pitted and oxidized by the terrific heat una the incessant sparking. This ma terially increases the electrical re sistance. As the -spark loses intensity at the firing points the operation of the engine is seriously affected. Full power is not secured from the gasoline consumed. The en gine becomes sluggish. Accelera tion is slower. It lacks pull on the hills. The unconsumed gaso line seeps by the pistons and dil utes the oil in the crank case, affecting lubrication and many times cansing serious injury to the working parts. , This process is so slow that the motorist rarely notices it. But the operation is actually about the same as driving with a partially retarded spark or too rich a mix ture. The installation of a new set of spark plugs is actually a revela tion to the motorists. . The difference in engine opera tion is so marked as to be unmis takeable. j Power and - pickup are better. There is more speed vEn- gine , operation isinrproved in every way, and the motorist actu ally; saves the cost of the new spaf k plugs in. oil and gasoline. AUTOMOBILE TRAVELS 475,000 MILES IN FIVE AND ONE HALF YEARS' GRUELLING SERVICE - V J V $3 iPWW I The Veteran Big-Six on the Mohave desert near Barstow, California, on its triumphal trip from Los Angeles to New York. A motorist should avoid racing the engine, as increased gas may cause it to stall. A handy screw-driver to fit heads of ; small screws can be made by cutting off the hook end 'of a shoe buttonhook and flatten- gradually affects the efficiency of lng the nd. W. R. & J. H. McALVIN General Auto-Top and . Upholstering Work Formerly with Woods Ante Top Shop w 545 N. Church St. Salem, Ore. 3 $ Nowhere eme was the power and stamina of the Big Six, put to better test than through stretches of "gumbo" roads along the route. The Studebaker Big-Six Touring y Car, with 475,000 miles to its credit, leaving Los Angeles on its mid-winter trip to New York. -n Crosses the I JZ C lMJt ' . - 7T-- A irmm Studebaker Big-Six Continent After Nearly Half a Million Milen This Automobile Covers Greatest Distance Travehnl by Any Motor Vehicle in like Perixl of Tim'. A veteran Studebaker Big-Six touring car which recently com pleted a triumphal trip across the continent from Los Angeles to New York after having traveled more ,than 475,000 miles, is now being driven to South Bend. Indi ana. There it will be placed in the Studebaker museum with century and a quarter. It is believed that this car cov- Three Ways to Buy a WSpB i GA Take Yoyr Cfooace Plan No. 1 The method heretofore most commonly known was to purchase from the NEW CAE DEALER who takes cars in trade. In plain facts there is a risk in buying a used car from a new car dealer because his judgment is bound to be warped in his appraisal of an old car because of his intense desire to sell the new car. He takes the car into stock and too often finds it needs more recon ditioning than he figured. He then has to raise the selling price to a point be yond which the car is worth or has to slight the reconditioning. In other words the .ultimate buyer is the man who pays the bill. Plan No. 2- The second way to buy a usedcar is from a PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL. A person often thinks there is better opportunity for a bargain because of buy ing direct from the owner, but when the facts are known it is usually brought outfhatvthe owner is trying to sell the car himself because he believes he can get more for it than the dealer will allow for it. When buying this way the purchaser should be careful about the ti tie. Has the car ever been stolen ? Stolen cars are sold throughout the country every day with the result that the buyer has paid for something which he. cannot keep. Plan No. 3 THE CERTIFIED PUBLIC MOTOR CAR MARKET, a NON-PROFIT or ganization sponsored by the dealers offers the nicest, cleanest way to buy a good used car which has ever been available. The title on every car is guar anteed. ; The appraisals are made by one man who is not interested in new car sales. ') Thevc&r is priced at what the public will pay readily and from this price is deducted -10. percent handling. charge and the cost of reconditioning. As the i reconditioning is done ati the garage where that particular make car is handled you din. see -that the automobile is given attention by the most in terested .partiesvV This PUBLIC .MARKET docs everything aboveboard. All prices are on the windshield and nothing untruthful twill be said about any machine in its possession. ' . 1; ' ; ; edrtified Public Motor Gar Market . 255 k Church St Look for the Orange 'and Black Sign. . Biff-Six at the head of a parade, held in its honor, at South Bend, Ind. Mammoth new Studebaker closed body plant in background. ered the rreatest distance ever traveled by any motor vehicle in a like period of tirrie. Starting today and driving 0,000 miles each year, the milea.ee of this Bi Six could not be equalled until the year 2004. 1'nt to Keveic Tet This Big-Six was delivered on June 13, 1918, to, Kenton Norman, of Santa i'uula, California, who, according to 'liin affidavit, drove it 94,000 miles up tj October, l'J20, when he turWd in the car to the John Opsahl Company, Studebaker dealers at Fillmore, California. They sold it as a used car on Oc tober 27, 1!)20, to the firm now known as the Associated Transit Company of l.Oa Angeles. For more than three years this firm used the car as-a "r express." in that time, according to the affidavit of the Associated Transit Company, t traveled more than 400.000 miles. It was used to carry Los Angeles newspapers to Southern California cities. For tbr"e vears, rain or shine, this Big Six made a daily run of 400 miles at an average speed c; ;i't miles ;-.n hour. On each oi these trips it carried three-fjtiar-tcrs of a ton of newspapers in tlr: tonneaii. This burden is equal to ten grown persons. . Also Pulled Ton Trailer Nor was that all. To. make cac'a trip doubly profitable, the car was often called upon to pull a. trailer containing an additional ton oi newspapers. According to, the records of th ? Associated Transit Company, fuel mileage for this Big-Six averaged fourteen miles per gallon of gaso Iene. Witn frequent drainings of the crank a.3e, the oil mileage averaged from 200 to 300 miles per quart. And tires covered from i 3,000 to uO.000 miles to the set. the trip lrum los Angeles to New York vva3 begun on Novem ber 26 and ended on January f -no attempt at unusual time was made. Studebaker dealers all along the route welcomed the car into their territories with parades and the tv.r was exhibited at im portant points for a day or mo re in order that the public could ex amine it. C tniph i e , i oss-t 'ou n try Ti i p Hov.ever,; an average far above the gait oi tlu: every-day tourist was maintained. The 2,50-0 miles from los Angele lo St. Louis were covered in eleven and one hail days in spue of stops made tor exhibition1 purposes. Th- veteri.ii bucked the hot. r.rid desert, conquered the bad roads that sometimes lead into treacherous.' snow-covered moun tain trails, ploughed through many stretches of the quagmire in Hi" -Middle West, and completed the entire journey from coast to coast, without any road delays ex cept for three punctures. HOI Kit JiVVS IACK.R1 SKOAX Vick Brothers have just closed a dal wth R. Jr. Hofer for a 7 pas senger ' Packard Sedan. This is Packard number two in the Hofer household, one having been sold a short time ago to Col. E. Hofer. Announcing the greatest advance in motor car design since the self starter the Traffic Transmission, exclu sive in the 1924 Chandler. Vill be on display for one day only, Tuesday, February 10, at the Marion Hotel. Chandler tar demonstrations to be given to all interested I,artics- - .v.ii.w: Come and Ride in a Ncy CHANDLER Chaperon Motor Co. State Distributors . PORTLAND, OREGON WATSON EUK neon! Manager of Local Western Auto Supply Co.'s Store Back on the Job W. F. Watson , local branch manager of the Western Auto Supply company, returned from Los Angeles last Wednesday where he has spent the last two weeks attending the animal con vention of managers of the com pany. There were 00 managers in attendance representing stores in cities from California, Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Nevada, Colo rado, Utah and Arizona. According to the reports from the various managers the general business outlook for the coming year is very bright in all the repre sented localities. A general feel ing of optimism was radiated by the organization heads, who. in the past seven years have made the company grow from an infant in the industry to the largest or ganization of its kind in the coun try today. New stores are being opened in various sections of the country regularly and, according to the present plans 1024 will sec the addition of approximately 50 new. stores. Ir. Watson was glad to get back to Salem, he says, as the weather in the south was most too warm for comfort, especially for one who is used to the mild weather of Oregon. Mrs. Watson accompan ied her husband on the trip. One of the new features to be j added to the service for the uuto ist by the Salem branch of West ern Auto will be the logging of sight-seeing trips that can be made from Salem within a few hours. These trips will be logged out by the manager and will include all camping sights, fishing streams, and photos of service points, as well as picnic locations that are most easily reached, together with trips that afford the best scenic beauty. According to the present plans customers will he furnished witli a direction prospectus of ehe.h trip which will give the mileage between various points along the way, lacatlon of crossroads and locations of spots 6f beaHty for camping and picnicking. This ser vice will be free from the store, as well as all the trips being out lined in the Sunday Statesman each week. The coming season bids well to exceed "by 100 per cent in popular ity that of any other season for the motorist. Autoists are begin ning now to buy camping equip ment and other essentials neces sary to outdoor comfort, and from all present Indications hundreds or new faces will be seen in the sum mer's throng or "gasoline gypsies" this year. If an engine be perfectly in bal ance, it will, theoretically, re quire no foundation bolts or means of holding it to the ground; but if unbalanced, the reaction of the movements of the unbalanced parts will be transmitted to the foundations or frame, throngh the bedplate or supporting arms. Smith & W&tklns, local tire nd accessory dealers, now have a; .dis play tyf-Balloon tires in their win dows at tho corner, of Court jand High streets. The tires mar mot enly be seen here bnt Jim and tJill are ready and anxioos to answer any and sir queBtions about taera. . The Balloon tire, as explained by Smith and Watkins. ls a wider tlrewhich carries one-third the inflation of the regular tire. It rides much, easier, takes the road vibration from the car, thereby' prolonging its life. The low fo liation affords a wider surface of the tire on the road making 11 more difficult to skid. The -success of the tire is not doubted ow ing to' the lact that the trend of pneumatic tires lias been toward a wider tire, a tire that the owner can get from 15,000 to "20,000 Tjut of. ' ' ' - I X t f. Oakland jumped from 19th place in sales in California in.Icccmber 1922, to 9th placft In ijeceaiber. 1923. This represents an increase in sales for this month ot 214 .per cent. For Economical Transportation A BICYCLE Save your money, save your auto, save your shoe leather, save your temper, save your health Save all these by riding a bicycle. Ask the man who rides one. Lloyd E. Ramsden 387 Court St. 4 J l i W. C. DURANT Says: There. can be but one leader in a class. You Have it in The Flint Six Durant's Sensation $1595.00 Here Fully Equipped. Every bearing in THE FLINT is an imported bearing." Every gear in this car is ground and polished. The finish is unexcelled. The performance is phenominaL The only car that is not criticized by the public. You will never know real car comfort and power till you ride in trie. Flint.' Oijeu Sundays Come and Take a Rid SALEM AUTOMOBILE CO. F. G. Delano - A. I. Eoff ; " r.rTt''?"" nT-mr- M-.illiiM ; i, 5 - J V I 1 Jt : ! !