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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1921)
Surfay, AprU 23, 1921 The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon. Page Three General Interest toPonlA of Wiiimff Vaiiv guick Excellence Result of Lengthy Development Idea about the , Buick line tor 19211. not the The striking thing Sfu design, the beautiful fin gmceiu . tmDr0Ved ap- j. Wilson, season opened, a - .ho renerai imimi"" Zet of the Bulck. Bather, It mechanical excellence of the I, the mecna TO)1ann ,ocal ear, ssf" tnt . .,t,.,atiaTn wan created wave oi euiu-" -- among buyers over the new body lines As the months passed, and Ire and more Bulck cars have Le Into the hands of owners, this enthusiasm has become a per manent thing and along with It, there has grown the realization of what a wonderful machine the Mw Bulck is proving 10 u. i of Bulck engineers In building Bulck ears of unusual value value that Is brought home with ever-increasing emphasis the long er the cars are run. "Bulck mechanical excellence has not just happened. It has taken twenty years to develop the Bulck chassis to its present high state of efficiency through the proper design and co-ordination of the various mechanical units. Great emphasis has been laid on the design and manufacture of each part, but always with the balance and proportion of the car as a whole, in mind. "The smallest details of con struction have received thorough "Pareful buyers interested ,ii.enuon, resulting in the thor- jolely in imu - j selecting Buick not so much fon "And this result has been ob its distinctive beauty as for itsjtalned through the correct rela .n.,nri mechanical excellence. Of ; tlon between power and load, corn- course, they want comfortable and fort and safety, performance and pleasant transportation, out, more , immunity Milwaukee Utilizes Motorcycle To Serve As Emergency Engine especially, they want aepenaaDie transportation, the kind that only a well-engineered car can deliver. "Buick cars have always Deen known for their long and consis ts performance. And the cars gf the present season are reflect ing the even greater achievement considerations that establish the Buick as an effi cient machine. Admired for its beauty, Buick carries with it that greater essential mechanical ex-! collence -by which it can be fa vorably judged in the most criti- cal manner by the buyer striking when we consider that of all the cars sold last year, 60 per cent, or nearly two-thirds of the number, were purchased by the rural population. "Of course thts also includes some suburbanites. But their need is similar to that of the farm er. They have the same problem of getting to town and back. And the motor car is solvine it in a wav that is most efficient! "There is no doubt that the use fulness of automobiles to the farm er is increasing. The experience he has gained in the use of the motor car has taught his countless ways of extending its service in his daily work. "A great proportion of all the cars purchased by farmers last year were of the thousand dollar type and under. This naturnllv in dicates the opinion of the farmer in regard to lighter weight cars, for these are the type which work the majority of last year's car sales." It Trues Crank Shafts A hand-operated tool him hssn linvftntar) trw t,,i.wr . vr.iwiH uu auio- i ;mobile crank shafts. Make Effort to Lift Bermuda Ban on Motors Hamilton, Bermuda, April 22. Renewed efforts to enact a law permitting the use of automobiles in Bermuda have been made this spring by members of the Bermu da assembly. These islands have held out thus far against what is considered a "dangerous Innovation" but there is a strong party for rapid tran sit. The chief opponents of automo biles are American winter resi dents and tourists. Mrs. Vincent Astor, of New York, who has been occupying a residence on Hamil ton harbor for the last two sea sons, sent a letter to the local newspaper objecting to their in troduction on the island. As this colony has only a little more than 19 square miles of area. visitors do not regard motor trans port as a necessity. Since the is- mission case Is very likely due to land of Nantucket admitted auto- an excess of heavy grease. The mobiles, this is about the only ci- case should never be more than vilized place from which they are two-thirds full, and oil is the proper lubricant, not grease. It barred. Transmission Noise. A humming tfoise in the trans- mowers in front of it so that the gearbox means faulty lubrication somewhere. OfHoi about the running records, Prof. Anderson said, is the fact that Man O'War, a three-year-old, holds speedy "engine," equipped with eight extinguishers and with its crew the record for all ages of thor oughbred horses in a race. One Hundred Oldsmobiles In Portland Order Portland, Or., April 23. An entire trainload of Oldsmobile cars, over 100 automobiles in all, will start west within a few days, consigned to the Oldsmobile com- Top Speed rses Is Neared Expert Says Develop ment of Fast Ani malsTo Be Slow In Future. Lexington, Ky., April 22. The limit In speed of trotting and run ning horses has almost been pany of Oregon, distributom of reached, according to Prof. W. R. j the OldB car throughout Oregon Anderson, of the animal husband-:and in the southern tier of coun ry department of the Kentucky ties in Washington. This ship- State College of Agriculture. Im- ment. the largest to be arranged provement In the future will be for Oregon thus far this year and much slower than at any time in I the flm ful, trainload of cars to be sent to this district for many months, is a striking an swer to the sentiment expressed by those who are not familiar with the situation that the auto mobile business is at low ebb and that the saturation point is being reached. An a matter of fact a rust of spring business has been reported by automobile dealers all aiong the row, and a shortage of new cars is feared because of the fact that the retailers, distributors and even the factories have een playing the cautious game and are not now stocked up sufficient ly to handle a strong spring de mand. To arrange for the big ship ment of Oldsmobile to Oregon Ed Cohen, head of the Oldsmobile company here, left for the st a short time ago and is now at the factory concluding the ar rangements. The train should rftart west during tne coming week, according to word received from him by Arnold Cohen here. There will be between 25 and 30 carloads In the consignment, which will mean well over 100 automobiles. All three models, the eight, six and the new four four will be included In the ship ment, with a wide variety ef bodies. Milwaukee is the first city in America to adopt a motorcycle engine." At a recent fire the cvcle "entrine" was riven a test. fire The of two, reached the scene of the blaz long before the slow-moving ap paratus. With the extinguishers the two firemen put out the fire, which, had It been permitted to burn the few minutes before the ap paratus arrived, might have caused considerably damage. Another feature of the new "engine" is its ability to dash around corners and rough narrow alleyways. It is always ready for use at a moment's notice. years passed, he said Prof. Anderson has been making a special study of record-holding "Standard-bred" trotters and "Thoroughbred" runners, an bas ts Ms conclusions on a study of records and histories of the ani mals covering a period of more than 50 years. In 60 years, the record of three- year-old trotters has been lowered from 2.40 to 2.02, a reduction of 3714 seconds. Prof. Anderson finds. In 4S years the American record of running horses, over a ilstance of one mile, has been lowered' from 1.42 to 1.34 4-5 reduction of six and four-fifths "econds. Neither breed has failed to make improvement during a feneration, according to Prof. An derson, and in some cases, im provement has been so rapid that otiy new records have been made l the life of a single horse. lie gradual improvement in the fed of trotting horses, accord -to Prof. Anderson, is shown 1 1914 the prediction was made eletrly by the records of three- Jetr-olds and the years they were! e. mese are as follows: 1S60 Elvira IVhlluM. ta- 1874 Udy Stout, 2.29; 1883 Hnda Rose, 2.19; 1889 Ax J..l4; 1892-Arlon. 2.10 ; "to Colorado E., 2.04; 1914 PerVolo, 2.03 H; 1917 The I1 W. 2 03, and 1920 VMftt, 2.02i leu Peter Voln wishiich .a .r. V M race ord of 2.03 inat tha ni, . . i . """ speed tor his age a." Mned. but Miss Bertha ""'on equaled th j I!".JTh.,!. Real Ladv cut one-half ST' Three years later rJLT?1- fu 'ter of Miss Its pv?0, Placed the tlm at there Anderson said that Zlrf.,reaso,ls to believe that h, l0n of brders to place ear-old record at two "Mtaj uy be reallled C,''' Gre"' Stoughton A. thTr Kreit "tallion, has play JPorUnt part in the im- ill Prf Averse!,. The J" has produced 59 hones Me. rmale recor, 'm u ,1 "; nicn holds th win a Value of Auto To Farmer Proven by Number Now Used "The value of automobiles to the farmer is proved by the num ber he uses," says T. G. Delano, of the Salem Automobile company. "Authorities estimate that near ly one-third of the number of au tomobiles in the country are oper ated by the farmers. Yet the farm er by no means constitutes one third of our population. "This illustrates the utility of the automobile where transporta tion is of utmost importance. In the city there are many methods of transportation. 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