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UWEDTiSED GOODS TOP SMS - TT- I ' f Nationally "Advertised Ac cessories Much in Dei : Vmand. in Stores j 0' En a FOUR TO ! SDDlVUflGE'Gili GRAM SAID FORP FORDOR FINISHED IN MAROON BiGTi',:::i?i iilciD UllCiOOO 0 , . 1 1- MEM D1VS liJTEISTiT SliOiV UIGUEST 0 r n ri "Nationally advertised automo bile accessories are as mijfcih irj de mand as, any.. other Hoe of wSdoly advertised merchandise, jsays Walter Rydell, local manage)- of the" Western; Auto Supply com pany, '1 .'"When a motorist selects acces sories for his car, he demand the same standard quality and! nation ally, known makes as he kioes "when baying groceries j or cpoth- or cloth- -; I 4 L ! ,' Mt has always been the policy fot Jhe Western Auto Supply Com pany to handle the. best quality merchandise obtainable, and in keeping with, this policy, we carry practicably al p the nationally known and ! advertised ' makes of accessories. v. fake S. M.lspoqightsl for example- 4 We sell many Inore of this well known make t&an any other and much of this is duje to the wide publicity given them. It is the same way with horns, ,E. A. . lead in the electric .field, -hile the Aermore tops J ; sales? ont the exhaust list. In mirror sales the Cop-Spotter and Kokomol mirrors lead. Boyce 7 motometers are. jwell known . through their ejxtensive advertising and are a popular ac cessory, among car owners." I "A. ( C. and Champion! spark plugs are v popular, j sellers j and when the motorist . needs a, tire gauge or a valye core, hej usually thinks of. thef Schrader makeL'- ' "No.fr that the winter Reason is here, concluded Mr4 Ryaellj "it Is interesting to note hojw jany Malco automatic windshield wip ers and McKay skid .chains, poth Rationally . advertised ' aqcessores, are being purchased! bjr motor ists, 7" . 1 - V" 4- - ,f- VIOHi DEDUCED PERFECT SHAFTS Wiilys-Knight Crankshafts Are balanced to prevent .-.Slightest Vibrat on : Through the use of the imost mndern nrecision instruments the crank shafts of all Willjfs-Kiilght engines are perfectly weighed, -measured and balanced! to (elim inate all motor vlbratlonis. i .The new method entirely fevo Intionizes this phase of motor as sembly"' and ' ' introduces' a new standard in the smooth perform ance of the automobile enjglne. The old method of turning vrank ahafts by hand waa' crude com pared to the work of itfese new machines now in use by ithe Willys-Overland company, I'orifaerly the balancing of thecraink shaft depended upon the, skilled; fhand and eye- of-the "worktaanl Adell cate and .'mechanically j perfect fnachiiie' now balances the haft . and aceuratelrjKauges thfe vrU ' .The new precision jmatthinje re sembles . witiiajrT Xlaa . wih the addition of a delicate set of scales and. -measuring devices. The cran iliaflsJ af e m&d iied, h en placed ila jthft f lathe and, through slowreTolutioni, accur ately hal'atfced.-lNbt-oalyj does this new jmaehine U balianco the shafts but It" also llndiates the exact amount of " weight jlo tie re moved and jtheTxactt loalt n ,of this overfreight. .The', operations are slmpfe and rapidly performed. The; reeprdljig of t any ubtrne portion' of the shaft s-Immediately reglrtered on" the scales, j The Indicator remains in 5 was posiuon evenfter the machine .tnnnftj. ' eliminating has been ill ' Iguess work vind; pcfssibUIty of i ierrpr .on the part 01 tne operaiur GER3IAX PliAN UKVlEWED A' -German- ican finance wwiMTir ii.a taken over the! busi- auto- mobife industry In 'Germany for the purpose of t seums vt dr ears on the installment plan. Ne gotiations are 'being n?acted between the eicbsbank add the German manufacturers for tne use of the Reichsbank cred ts ac counts.. The risk of payment will .he assumed by the Hndnce com pany. ; 1 - ". -J ; ' Chemists were IZ 7 a ihB final perfection of ?uc f,iv to Copper wire used -annually .. - rvvrolt cars .. tne manuiaciujo - - -! . ntild make a gigantic magnet Oi' Production to Be Increased ! Fifty Per Cent,. Factory. Men Declare ; ' Production of the four cylinder Overland, the lightcar prod u (k of WUlys-Overland, will be ' 50 per cent greater for; 1926 than during the past year which was the rec ord year 'for this "model in the history .of the organization, j ; , The first Indication of greater developments in this light four came jn September of last t'ear when" the - price on the standard sedan model was dropped to! the lowest , price ever put on a tour cylinder enclosed .cat with stand ard features of design and equip ment including three forward speed sliding gear transmission, honeycomb radiator, heavy frame construction and etandard-isize body specifications. ' This price brought a volume of sales wMch . exceeded by a large percentage the ability of the fac tory toLkeep production up with demand. j The acceptance of this sedan at the price established was an im mediate indication of a sales field which had, never -been sounded by any manufacturer of a standard type four cylinder-car. j The total volume of sales in' this four eylirider model for 'entire year of, 1925 was? 6yer,l 00,000, incliGTing all body types of wliieh there were four. ; - j I . .Manufacturing plans -for 4s?6 Contemplates a minimum, output Of not less than 150,000, with ev ery possibility . that this huge number .-will be ejteeeded- bfore the year is ;over.v- Ci f "'':' (' Included i in the Overland four line are the standard sedan; de luxe sedan and the touring ear. j The ' sales volume in ' the' jfour cylinder model was reached in the fact of a total volume of six cylin der cars,- Overland "and Willys Knight, sold .and .delivered -during -rJabiiOL, exceeded- IlOO'.OdO units.' ; ! - ' ' ' ' " At the present" time, the price on the1 Overland four standard se dan is still .the lowest in the! field with no near competitor In sight. i Reception of New Sixes Ac- companied by New Rec ords of 4 Performance OAKLAND, Jan. 23. Amid the flurry throughout the dealer or ganization of . the Darant,Motor company of .California assthej new Star' six was announced with a tre mendous reception all over the wesV the Star, four, cylinder jtour ing car crashed into the limelight with new performance records. Under official newspaper o"bser- vaiton. the world-famous Mtj. Ta- malpais-road, recently opened to motor traffic, has been climbed in a standard Btock Star f our tour ing car,- then first time a car has ever negotiated the hill in j high gear. "With a representative of "The Marin," San, Anselmo news paper, , aboard, Austin JI Into of San Rafael drove the . record breaking f Star car. -The . car fully equipped with fenders, was top. and ' windshiled. At the start of the trip, the gears were4 meshed In the "high : position, and the ob server removed the gear ishift lever. - ' ' According .to the observer, the trip was made without effort, de spite ; heavy grades in ..places on this road. . Many cars had prev iously made the-high' gear attempt on .the . it. Tamalpais foad, be cause of the international public ity this famous mountain has re eelved-i' Fpr many years past. It has been the site .for ;"the crook edest railroad in the world, and thousands .' of western tourists have ; been at the summit of the hill. , , . : - rJ. ' 7. The second record performance was in competition with a car in Its price class, following a chal lenge in Santa .Barbara. . .Stock roadsters qt both iStar, and .the second ' car.- were used, and J both with land without 7 passengers In several tests, the. Star . four cylin der roadster came out victorious. The testing , ground was the fa mous California street hill, one of the most widely known local hills in Santa Barbara. The achieve ment "Vas : followed by a 'Star car parade throughout the city which drew attention from thousands.' Four large class factories sup ply material for. Chevrolet closed star four mm- V PUCEBESIDFSIX Optimistic Business Outlook for 1926 Is- Presaged;, by New Buildings ; The expansion program carried out by the Ford Motor company during the year 1925 not only in dicates the healthy condition : of the company, but also reflects In a general way - an ; optimistic bUsi pes outlook for the yearf 1926 In industrial buildings the com pany has added; 20Ch0O; square feet, of floor - spaced during the year. This Is an increase of mpre than 10 per tent and jjflves it a total of 227O0.00Q square feet, or slightly more than 520 acres under -roofi in plants; throughout the world, exclusive of the Ford Motor coiapany: of Canada,: ltd., in whicli'lo carry on its program of mass . production. ' ; - Tiie largest expansion, as might be expected came? in the Detroit area in which are; located the company's great "manufactur ing units. . t t :. .' At the"-River Rouge plant, prob ably the greatest industral center in the world,-- the large motor building -was , opened earlyin the year and operations begun which removed' a number of! departments from Highland Park. Several large buildings, were completed at the Rouge during the year, equip ment installed , and " operations started. One of these, known as the pressed steel building and use for the manufacture of press ed steel parts, fenders, etc.. has a floor area of . 375.000 square feet. Another -building approxi mately the -' same siae,'. completed during the year, is df voted to' the manufacture of springs, ' crank cases and steel 'forgings.; : ' The most notable ; of, the River Rouge buildings, however,, is the new . steel mill and .open hearth furnace building with a total floor area of 644,00 squarefeet all pi h "story. 'construction,' While -the' mill "will not be itt full operation until early Jn the spring, rolling ot steel In the 14 -inch merchant mill has been under way for several weeks. - At Dearborn the new engineer ing laboratory , 'Was completed early ( in the year , and! already work has begun on an extensive addition to this building, increas ing the floor space 60,000 square feey Additions and alterations also have been made to the power house and heating; plant While only minor building ex tension and changes' were ' made at the Highland' Park! plant of the company, removal of a num ber of departments to River Rouge permitted extension of sev eral departments and the intro duction of new, manufacturing ac tivities. ." .'; . ; I - At the Lincoln division plant of the company a new mree-siory DOWN THE ROAD- SOME PEOPLE I . " : . i f-. ACHIEVE KIND-HEARTEDNESS, WHILE HAVE IT ; THRU5T -i . '1 ' V " ' 1 , . ,. '' ' 4. - X. X. X X '- X X- X X X X X XX X .- B ?" ; H -:y---- f ; , . rtr-""f A ' TAhX "5! -Vut v n . ..."-l""""-- J k- v if jiA- , ' - . - -i- . . . -tJs . .... ... .. - . . . ... . - " - 'S - i " - : . A decideuiy .attractive appearance is givrn tne improved Ford Fordor Sedan by the rich Windsor maroon, in which the car is now finished. Upholstery harmonizes in color. ' Ml 1 :M -rkih u u ii t' ft Artistlcaf. e's'$n'0,"VieantIfulIy Dietrich, i a chaaffeur-driven car partition behind the driver m ay be leather sjiliv-thrwtee'8peGiied. " . I . iwi ' i : addtion will be 'completed early in the new year. Smaller manufacturing plants which Scent Into operation during the last year included 'a hydro electric plant at Watefford, Mich., and additions "were made and completed during the year at Pe quamihg. Mich., and at Iron Mountain, Mich., where the new wood distillation plant went into full operation. . . The new plant at the Twin Cities was .completed early' in the year and assembly and manufac turing operations started. In the matter ot domestic as sembly plants the company dur ing 1925 completed branches at Norfolk, Dallas and Louisville, and began the assembly of cars, these plants increasing prod uction ' ' 1 .' --T- - i T I . . . r r , T , r t I , ARE, i BORN KIND-HEARTED - . , t -.:. UPON . . THEM - FASIILIAU THE LINCOLN LIMObsiNE -finished,--and -unusually roomy, the Lincoln- Limousine, body by extremely popular, both for formal and informal use. The , glass lowered out of sights The. front compartment is upholstered In ' --r u-.x.; ; ' r - -i : : ' ;rs v:- capacity- more than 700 cars and trucks a day. Two new assembly plants are contemplated for the coming year. Construction work has begun on a plant at Sonierville, Mass. which will have a. floor space of 3S6.S50 square feet. Site for another plant has been purchased at Chester, Pa., which will comprise four sep arate buildings. The total floor area of .these units will be 395, 000 square feet and they will be completed early In the coming year. 1 .Extensive developments have taken place during the year in foreign countries. In South Amer ica extensions were made to the Ford plants at Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo increasing assembly capacity to 200 cars daily. A new PTHBR5 s -f vv v' N v . X X V X X X X X x - . X X X X QUOTATIQNS branch was established at Per naiubuco,, Brazil. t Another expansion came with the establishment of a branch in Mexico City. 'Mexico. .:-JVt In Europe new plants were Ac quired in Antjverp, "Belgium, and at Paris, France, .where building operations, are practically com pleted. Each of these new plants will have an operating capacity of 150 cars dally. " ' , " Duco permits straightening of body dents without repainting. Factories devoted to Chevrolet manufacturers consist of 167 buildings. Chevrolet factories throughout the country cover 345 acres. CCievrolet has semgling plants. five foreign as- Bv BECK New Model Sixes Enthusiast ticallv Received at .New . s' York Auto Show 1 "The big New York. National Automobile Show which just came to a .close last Saturday,' marked an enthusiastic endorsement of the various Cleveland .Six models , on display." states Sid Black, .vice president of the Cleveland ; Auto mobile company, ..who Just return ed -from this national motor car exhibition. "It is a question whe ther the Cleveland Six 'was ever .more enthusiastically ? received than this year at. New York. "Five of, the ntne models com prising the Special and 31" series Cleveland Six were exhibited; the Special 4 3 Sedan. Special De Luxe Sedan. Series SI Sedan, Coupe and Touring De Luxe. "To further enhance tAe Cleve land Six display at the show "this year the mileage motor was fin ished in .snow, jvhfte enamel and the chassis was silver finished throughput. It made an impres sive setting and attracted a -great deal of favorable comment. "The Cleveland cars on exhfbi tlon were in smart colors which were characterized by beautiful .two tone blue and green shades. These -colors will be. standard from now on with all Cleveland Six motor-cars for 19 26. ''"."In "retail sales at New York the Cleveland Six figured very con spicuously." The sales volume 'se cured warrants optimism as offi cials feel hat the-buying tendency shown .'for cars at the' New York show is usually a pretty, good cri terion of future sales trend fn other sections, if past exhibitions and sales at this show can be held as a basis for an opinion. " Air Transport System Be : tweert'Four Cities Paves Way for Expansion' , A notable development in the activities of the Ford Motor com pany during the year was its en trance into the manufacture of airplanes, i The first step in air activities came with the1 establish-J ment of a line - between Detroit and Chicago. This -was followed by the opening of another air transport line between'" 'Detroit and; Cleveland. Subsequently, .the company acquired the Stout Metal Airplant company and began man ufacture of all-metal commercial airplanes at the Ford ' Airport, (Dearborn, Mich. Expansion Jn this, new division of the company is seen in contracts' whith have just beeto let . tor" ; an additional hangar at Dearborn and a .new hangar at Cleveland; thjetwo .hav ing'a total capacity for ten planes and, caveringan acre pf ground. During' the year thfe' company put' two ships into coastwise and European service and a big ocean freighter,! the'. East Indian, which has been reconditioned, - will .go into service early In January. - Tn addition to these the. company acquired a number of tugs for towing the fleet of vessels recent ly purchased .from the govern ment for scrapping. . ,. s At. its .Highland Park , plant the company during3 the year complet ed .the largest electric locomotive in the world - for use on . the elec trified Detroit and Ironton rail road. -v - , Power development during the year was also a big feat are. Two large turbine y generators . - were erected. in, the Hirer Rouge power bouse and these- . together with otherpower . units "Installed at mines' and branches bring the to tal increase f oj the year 1925 alone up to 1 70,000. horse- power. - The close of the year. 1925 finds a , total 'fit ,19 1 ,3 4 fU.e m plpye.s In the J-'ord ' organ j zatianrpu g 1 ou t the ,Cn ited . States hlch In cl nides, all'jro.r4,acUvltiea,;s . ora pared . with 142,52 a' year ago. anjincrease of 49,596 employes. I T$S Jt ll W PC II ,l)Kfl -,DK . .;..-. . ' ' .'- .':.- -; r., I- POUTLAND Jan. 21. , City building V 'officials " of;1 the .Pacific northwest met here todagy to wprK out a u nif orm b u ild in g" odel All building material men and manu facturers, associations will be in vited to attend ,a . j.e.eJAs.tonvoT row when various angles of the code will be considered. " - Delake An S.0:room hotel will be buflt here f or the season of 136. - - PAHT OF FORD USE Huge General Petroleum iShip Arrives in Portland hrom Northern rort On her maiden voyage in the service of t he 'General Petroleu m Corporation,' the big tanker XAq. Capt.' II. II. Hopner,arrived In 'Portland from Seattle nt 3 p.; m. .Wednesday She left, the Oeneral Petrbleum plant at San Pedro a week ago. ' l' The Lio recently was converted from steam to Dieat-l drive by the Bethlehem Shlpbuldlng and Dry Dock company of San Francisco. Shipowners and marine engineers of the entire- Pacific cn.nst 'art much interested in the Mo '(fnr she contains he largest single Diesel engine ever biiilt -in" the United States: The engine wok constructed by the . Bethlehem company1 in San Francisco. ' A test trio of the -I-Io with hr new power plant wai made Janu ary 4. This trip look her out through thetGolden tlate towards the Farallones and back. She ran over the test course of a measured mile, coming up to every expecta tion of the experts oi board. The Paciflic northwest was se lected as her obiectlr nn h.r maiden trip because it was here that General gasoline was first distributed in a retail way to con sumers, -r . The Lio was originally built for the shipping board ill 1921 by the Tlaltimore Dry Dock k Ship lluild ing company. She was purchased from the Shipping Board by the General Petroleum I Corporation. Her new Diesel engiie cost in tht neighborhood of l0OO,00O and her other new equipment has cost another $200,000. She is not -onlv equipped with the last word in power for the sea, but has every modern devise for sajety and Von venience: Hydraulic steering gear, the latest gyro compass aud pilot control;, radio -encompass,. elct re sounding machines, and carbonic acid gas for fire fighting. - The vessel has a capacity' of 85,000 barrels, iier power plant develops 2,800 sharf horsepower. The huge Diesel engine is 44 feet high and 32 feet long. On board the .vessel with com mander Capt. H. H.f Hopner, vet- - uuicj -ireiruieuni fleet, was M. C. Searle, chief en gineer, I liay Jones, assistant ma-, rine superintendent for the com pany; William Gahrf port steward ror tne General Petroleum cor poration, and. five technical ex perts from the Bethlehem Steel corporation, who inspected the new. Diesel .engine during the trip. r . -" The. local officials of the Petro leum corporation met the hip sla it arrived and .congratulated the captain pa ..his auccessf ul' voyage, which was made with little trou ble, in spite of the new Diesel, .wbJcti .went' to : seal fpr " the first lime. WIL'S-fl HILL CI!.".; American Car Takes First , Place in Severe Test in . South African Event j American cars took, the first five places in a hill tlitnjj against tlme.organlied.by the Tatal, outh Africa," automobile club for the Woolavington. trophy. A British car was sixth; followed ; by 'two Italian cars. ' The fastest time of, the day, 56 4-5 seconds, was made by the American Jewet, driven by T. C. Erwln. . I , - The competition was held r.-i Inchanga'Statlon hiH" 41" miifH rrom Durban, with i ri'e cf 2! feet In a distance cf 2 02 5 f?t The start . was .tm m tn :- kCTade. with ,. no char t i v- -h t: ? -3 h . '-hr . I rivi -who a jefr-liand .K ni r: . a r ' corner ' thf t.--! 1 abilty t of th? .c t: wer all amateur.' rfi ;v ; Lvatf-ly owne d , ars i i tourlag trim.- jT.he. race. was 'elef. :. . .;!', t!;:,. ....-'jTbe. ," il -'Jfotorf u tu id: the event, p ysi MMr.,Erwin's l!'"ib with t: Jewett was obviou ihe f: on the lower portioa cf tL. 1 and-be-was very fast-oa tl .; i: ; . stretch in spite or a bad : the secocd corder." t . Portland rift y t! fmer lines regrtjlat! Pcit!and. ,-,ly MM HARD