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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1928)
THE OREGOK STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1928 "3 SPEEDOMETER IMCy OF SPEED Standard Equipment of New Ford Models One of Best Made The speedometers of the new Model "A" Ford cars hare shown remarkable accuracy In the mea surement of speeds. Designed and built to maintain an accuracy of within three miles fast at 70 miles per hour, these speedometers of the new Fords thu far have shown, in tests, an average accuracy of not more than nnp nnrl a half miln fail at 7ft miles per hour, or just one-half of the tolerance allowed. The allowed tolerance of tbre miles fast at a speed of 70 miles per hour means, translated Into terms of average driving speedo, that if the speedometer on the car indicates a speed of 24 miles per hour the actual rate of travel of the car at that time is not less than 23 miles per hour, or that if the speedometer show a speed of 4 7 miles per hour, the car actual ly is traveling at a speed of not less than 4 5 miles per hour. Whatever the speed limit al lowed by law. the driver of one of the new Fords may be certain that he is within that limit if his speed ometer Indicates exactly that fig ure which is the legal limit. The speedometer which is m ..... j i i iinimam t-iuipuieni on me new Kords is one of the best known n Hnest of makes. It hi driven from a gear on the drive shaft and mjMures rpeed from the revolu tions per minute of the shaft. The tests of these instruments that are bring made regularly In the Ford engineering laboratory at Dear born are interesting. The speed ometers are tested against an elec tric tachometer, which in turn is checked with an integrating revol ution counter, the most precise devise made for determining speeds in revolutions per minute. AVAILABLE WITH MANY TYPES Combinations Possible by Varying Equipment On Five Chassis Sixes and speedy. 'Standardisation' fn production must give war to spe cialization In which the trucks dally solve transportation prob lems of every description." With business in the United States well started into another good year, Graham Brothers truck position- is the strongest in his tory, from the standpoint of manu facturing facilities and diversity in the line of trucks offered. Sales for the first three months of this year Indicate a record breaking business. f'EEHI ESS CHW HOLDS CELEBRATION Twenty-Seven Years Ago Start of Manufacturing of Autos , The Peerless Motor Car corpo ration is celebrating the twenty seventh anniversary of its start as a manufacturer of motor cars. As one of the two or three oldest in stitutions in the automobile busi ness. Peerless has gone through all the stages of development from the small, chugging affair with de tachable tonneau, to the beautiful, luxurious smooth-running vehicle today. A comparison between the first Peerless ever produced with 192S Six-91 la almost startling For while 27 year Is a compara tively short period, as time goes, it cover almost the entire life of the anto business. From the start, Peerless engi neer have bfeen searching for ways in which the product of its plant might be Improved. They were the first to produce car in commercial quantities with the side car door entrance to the rear compartment. They were also first to introduce to America the bevel gear rear axle and four peed transmission. Peerless was granted patents on these improve ments. Ia 1916 the company was a pio neer in developing the 90 degree V-type motor which Is stHl used on Peerless Eights. Numerous improvements have been made over the original motor, bat the compactness of the V-type design continues to hold the favor of -buyers of high grade eights. ' In six cylinder construction, too. Peerless was a pioneer. Con tinually improved manufacturing processes, advanced engineering and the economies of increasing prodnction have combined to make possible finer Peerless Sixes at continually decreasing" price. FRANKLIN SHIPPED TO BARON An Airman Limousine with pig skin colored wheels, and special trim, was driven from the Frank lin factory to New York recently for rush shipment to Baron and Mme.. Charles Huard, Versailles, France. The Huards previously owned a 10-B Franklin which they the had driven 150,000 miles. "JAYWALKER" STORY TOLD IN NEW LIEUT Veteran of Death Valley Region Gives True Ac count of Indian Raid Tar, Skein or Lynch Pin wag ons. Ever hear of them 7 mcj were the sturdy hand-made varie ty used by"the Immigrants or "Jay- hawker" partv that traveled over land away back In 1849. Over 100 of these people lost their lives In the treacherous waste lands oi Death Valley. R. J. "Dad" Fairbanks, of bno- hone and a pioneer of the district with a list of thirst-etrtcken per sons' lives saved chalked up to his credit that would make a Red Cross dog In the Alps take a back seat, is credited with having re vealed some interesting facts that even history failed to take note of. "Dad" came to the Death v alley country back in 1898 and became well acquainted with the Indians of the district, many of whom had watched the "Jayhawkers" die m the valley, and later took posses sion of the equipment left. The "Jayhawkers" were heaaea for the gold rush and strayed off the regular trail. They had trou ble with the Piute Indians in Nev ada but managed to ward off the attack. The IaCtans however fol lowed in their wake and at a point three miles from Death Valley Junction again raided the party. This time the Indians, having so licited the aid of the Shoshone tribe, were more successful and succeeded An killinz several hed of stock and burned three or more wagons. Then the party went on into Death Valley. At a point near Furnace Creek the "Jayhawkers" had their famous argument and split up. The groun headed hT Bennett went south and eventually worked their way out of Wlngate Pass and were eaved. The other half went north. At Salt Creek they drank some of the water there and it was this that ruA their death, rather than actually dying from thirst aa h.i hn erally known. The Salt Creek wa ter caused eickness and this.! coupled with th- int.n. htt l brought about th.i- m 1 - - uuiuiaic i death. Th Tn,,. iw ! - -au0 1UU aCU UU ! from the adjoining buttr. rf W t K a r i Dad" Fairbanks, through the aid of the Indians, was the first white man to discover the remain of tha wagon at the place near Death Valley. Junction, which point is in the Funeral Range of .mountains skirting the eastern side of Death Valley. "Dad" ha the hand-forged pieces in his possession and erect ed a rock monument on the spot of the raid. He has hub bands, king bolts, pieces of the sand board and the old time boxing used inside the hub of the wheela. Due to the dry atmosphere these pieces are well preserved. One of the new Victory Six se dans by Dodge Brothers Inc.. re cently made the tvlp to Death Val ley and went to the spot of the hereof ore unknown raid with Fairbanks. The car .performed like a "true Dodge" and took to the rough, high-centered roada. off the main traveled routes, like a veteran, proving that It is more, than a car Just for the paved boul evards. The reserve power and ready pickup of the Victory stood it in good stead in the deep, sandy! stretches of trail-like roads. TIDES NOT MEANT E-PRQOF IT AKRON. O.. April 14 Automo bile tires are not generally sup posed to be puncture-proof.-Much less are they supposed to be bul let proof, but Miller tire engi neers are displaying a smaller sixed four-ply tire in which two 32-calibre bullets are imbedded, without having gone through the tire. The bullet laden tire is a total mystery. How or why two bullets became imbedded in the four plys of carcass fabric will probably forever remain a mys tery. Miller engineers say that in these days of more or less shoot ing while traveling at high speeds by persons following precarious occupations, bullet imbedded tires are not uncommon. Recently a tire was returned to the Miller factory at Akron with - a large steel-Jacketed bullet Imbedded ia the carcasa. This hard shant nosed projectile had penetrated the tire between the rubber side wall and the carcass and skim med between the sidewall and car cass to the bead on the other side of the tire without puncturing it. While the rapid revolutions of the tire and the angle from which the bullet Is fired, are factors that help to prevent the hot lead from going through the tire into the tube, engineers say that there Is a surprisingly great power of re sistance in the combination of rubber and cotton cords that make a tire. The mystery tire" received one of the bullets directly from the side. Its course was straight indicating that It had not entered the tire from, an angle. Both in the rubber sidewall and In the cord carcass, the hole closed up until it could scarcely be seen. This bullet ended its speeding ca reer in the last layer of fabric against the tube. Almost through, but sot quite. Modern commercial and indus trial transportation has become so extensive that 1.S42 different types of trucks can be built in the plants of Graham Brothers, the commercial car and truck division of Dodge Brothers. Inc., accord ing to surreys just completed at the factories in. Detroit. Kvans ville, Indiana and Stockton, Cal. This remarkable figure is reai hod by combining the stand ard equipped truck or motor coach bo'iy with the five capacities in v.Yiio!i Craliam Brothers trucks are built and varying the equipment, size of tires, type of wheel, spe i:i! -gear ratios, etc. The trucks are available in ',2 -ton. -tfn. 1 ton. 1'4-toii and 2 ton capacities and the combinations originate from these five groups. The 1.S42 different types can be increased by several hundred with the addition of special bodies, ord.-rp for which are received daily hy the factoj-y. TIesearch work is constantly carried on 'to change truck bodies so the specifi ca lions suit the demand f the greatest number of any single vo cation. ' Figures like these explain why we are able to furnish trucks that meet the needs of per cent of all business." said Howard Snea then. director of Graham Rrothers truck sales. "Trucks are built to produce revenue for the man who nv.ns and operates them. They mu.t.be dependable, economical 5 COM E TAK A DRIVE ft;Cj Whatever the standard may be by which you judge car quality and value, you'll find them met be yond expectation in thi "Fine Car of Low Price." Get behind the wheel. Notice first the luxurious finish and completeness of appointments and then the roomy comfort of smart Fisher bodies. How easily the car starts! How smoothly, silently, swiftly you speed away from other cars in traffic throt tling down to a walking pace when necessary, and accelerating TWO-DOOR SEDAN '925 CsciM Tax and Sparm TiV Extra f. o. b. Landing from 5 to 25 miles in 84 seconds in high gear! Here's generous power for spar kling performance . . . speed to meet every emergency and every desire exhila rating and easily controlled. In its fine car balance of all features from luxurious, artist-created bodies to new 55 horse power high compression engine you'll agree that this new Oldsmo Hie Six is tuo years ahead. 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