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gggf ; . ; EUGENE, QJ' FEBRUARY 131929. . ' NO. 31 POWERANDECONOMY FEA TURE NEW HUDSON Hot Shots front luto Row C SAFETY DEVISES Produced locally lircH of the safety and comfort Trf. BOdern motorist are due uTveuUonr for the SfJSL.H... Wand, .product 52 Wco corporauop, and the Nedn stop signal, from the toll-Warner company of Chicago. ,I",.".,i iniDroved wind- ud wiper conmiuiuB H -o Sf J prevent. Ice and sleet from the windsUeM, injuring ririoa in i or warmer t mJ 1 disconnected. The iienrt-narucr .... 'j fcT-O-P, to red a" about an 1 . I hall mgn, wuiic u U IDOUt Dine iiiliivo w..B.f t: innMa iho rrnr window tbe car instead 01 m me v uiui; . i- tt,a l.inraf rPfir. Thin is to jTiiteithe objection that brake sig , -i j th tntl litrht Ho not Erict enough attention, are fre- mm -n""". - -rr LiC BACK FROM i.05 ANGELES OPENING . W iTnht.WTiiDDet dealer, has Just Vurnul from Los Angeles, where last IftnrwlaT jonn is. winys, presmeni u th wi vs-uvermnn company, ior- fctlh opened the new $1,500,000 as sembling plant there, by starting the tint car on its way through. As the finallT rolled out. completed. Mr. iwiCjt made a speecn in wiiicn ne said W total oroduction at capacity of flfiDyi-Kmght and Whippet cars, now lilt me new pmnt is uniflnec., win De km cars per minute. The Los An tlri plant alone will be able to turn fat 30,000 carB yearly it was said. The tHorn trip to hugene, which was nude in Mr. Wiese's new Sterns- Efiigat, was made in record time, the Mnince Between Fresno and Duns- wt being traveled between 8 a. m, ftnd 7 p. m, Sunday. The party left (TURN TO PAGE 6) E OF That the export business of the American motor car company which adequately develops tne foreign field may In time equal its domestic busi ness, la the expectation of John D. Biggers, vice-president of the Gra-ham-P a I g 6 International corpora tion and a director of the Grnliam Paige Motors Corporation, Detroit Mr, Biggers declares that tbe de veloping of a large volume export business is of direct benefit not only to the motor car companies themselves, bat to American pur chasers. "It is generally recognized thnt, in mass production, low cost de- Stfnds on maintaining capacity pro uction at nil times. Bald Mr. Big gers, "and export business is a safeguard against seasonal fluctua tions in production. Tbe reason is that south of the enuator. the sea sons . are directly the opposite of ours; countries in the southern hemisphere have their summer while we are having winter, and therefore their greatest demand comes during our own alack season and proves a valuable balancing factor. "Developing an export business is therefore desirable for other reasons than the sales alone, yet it is beset with many difficulties. While, basic ally, all peonies are alike, you will find that the inhabitants of the 100 countries of the world are influenced by varied social, racial, religlou s, climatic, and economic factors, and consideration must be given these superficial differences. "To reach these peoples is, in it self, a nroblem. There are 56 lan guages in the world, not counting the Hundreds or dialects, uur com nanv prints its regular advertise ments in 22 lanttunires in the news papers, which is the best way of reaching people nnywnere in the world, Just aB it is in the United States; and our sales literature is printed in 14 languages. "There are other difficulties such as credits, buying power, duties, taxes, and special retrulntiona. "For instance, the distributor of an American car overseas, as com (TURN TO PAGE -6) Limits of Speed Almost as quickly as it originated, the topic of speed in automobiles has subsided. Today it is style, comfort and performance in terms of power, rather than speed, that are advanced by manufacturers in their efforts to appeal to the prospective motorist Speed, it is gradually being disclosed, has Its limit so far as the automobile is con cerned. When it stretches be yond that limit, it reaches be yond the bounds of motordom also. Its next field is aviation. The airplane resumes where the automobile quits. . That's the significant factor that .is gradually being realized by our automotive leaders. It is also being grnBped as an opportun ity to f uster the au tomotive irogrtun of the future, when arge fast busses will travel over wide concrete highways and will nook up wit b even faster airplanes to enable pas sengers to cross the continent in as short a time as possible. Even today this arrange ment is being planned by one of the largest passenger bus operators in the 'country. His bus and airplane hook-up would bring Los Angeles and New York closer by at least two days. Its success will start other such combinations in a veritable buB-airplane network over the country. Thus the desire for speed and more speed is being sat isfied not by forcing it out of the motor car but by transfer ring it to the airplane at the point where the danger to hu man life becomes too great for land travel and where automo tive efficiency beginB to de cline rapidly. It Is well know to automo tive engineers that the faster a motor travels the less ef ficient it becomes.. And it is also an axiom among high way engineers that the higher the speed limit planned for a certain highway, the more costly does thnt highway be come in proportion to those built for lower speed traffic. The road must be wider, the pavement must be smoother and faultless, and the curves must be banked higher and wider. The saving grace, therefore, In this urge for speed Is the airplane, not the high-powered automobile. GREATER HUDSON MOTOR HAS IMPROVED FEATURES f ., ,. '.-mi iSS 1 rapSiwSs"?;1 !Sti'a;'aa ;sajiws . . tit c ' LEFT Combination of valve-ln-head with valvo-ln-alde principle known as the F-head design gives additional power to new product. ABOVE Cork studs and small spiral springs In the Greater Hua son clutch nlate absorb the shocks of starting and sudden stopping This Is an Important factor-in the "cushioned power flow" of the new models. MBS IS YEAR "Car. owners generally are becom ing more and more acquainted with the mechanical needs of their cars," stated Fred C. Carlson of Carlson and Hat ton, Inc., automobile sup plies, in speaking of their recent expansion to twice their former floor space, and material addition to their regular atocK.or goons. incy real ize that the best parts and supplies they can secure are in the end most economical. It is for this reason that we are keeping pace with the growth of Eugene ana Lane county in our development 'We .stock only national nrana lines that are 'ependaule and have a reputation l - maintain; sucn as the Stromberir carburetors used by Lindbergh on his memorable flight and more recent v on the Question Mark, in its endurance flight We also carry Champion and A C pluga, National Mazda lamns. etc." Carlson and Hatton started three years ago with a small stock of parts and one employe. Today seven people are needed to nnnme tne business, and a stock of $30,000 value Is maintained in order that a complete automotive service can be rendered to car owners and to dealors. Both members of the firm are active in its management and have a combined experience in the auto motive field covering a period of 30 years. It is encouraging to note the optimism that prevaila among the dealers, the majority of whom re port an increase in their business this year, indicating that a very good season is before us," he concluded. E. A. Petre, who has been con nected with Carlson and Hatton for the past two years, has resigned and will enter busineas for himself in Corvallis. i Ivan Spicer recently joined the force at Carlson and Hatton's. (JEM HIJW CARS USE 550 GALLONS A' YEAR BoBcd niton a gnaolino consump tion of 11,563.400.000 gallons, each motorist In the United States, in 1927, used an average of SW gal lons and traveled an average of 7,437 mllea, according to estimates. OF Oregon police and traffic officials In common with those in aixty-eight of the largest cities of the country favor regulations which will require the eyesight of motor drivers to be up to a reasonable standurd before they are permitted to operate cars, according to the Eye Sight Conserva tion Council of America. The council has just completed a nntinn-wide survey which disclosed that nearly two-thirds of the states do not require licenses of all drivers of automobiles. Thia report empha sises the necessity of licensing all drivers bo that the state may pass upon the ounlincntions or tne in dividual and both control and en force safety measures on public high wnvl The fatalities In a single year from auto accident aggregated & 000. The physical capacity of the on important requirement should be nuny good eycsigut. tne council ue clares. Contributinic to a national sym posium of police chiefs, motor ve hicle commissioners, and other state oiiicers having to do with the is suance of automobne drivers li censes Hon, Sam A. Koter, secretary of state of Oregon, told the council: "Simple eye Bight trts, such as might easily be conducted by ex perienced traffic officers or others particularly qualified as 'good driv ers' would doubtless reduce motor vehicle accidents to a noticeable de srree as inability to determine dis tance correctly is the cause of num erous 'passing accidents. Such tests, however, should be coupled with tests for mental reaction to emer icencv situations. Good eyes with 'frozen' muscles would avail noth- The state of Oregon licensee all drive rB but leaves the applicant him self to pass judgment upon his physical fitness to operate a motor vemcie. Whales have the largest brains of all mammals, the largest on record weighing 7000 grama. F-HEAD MOTOR llif 0 10 VALVE TYPES It takes little In the war of en gineering knowledge to realize that cue crena in automobile power plants is constantly toward greater speeds and higher compression," said W. G. Brown, Eugene Hudson-Essex deal er. "Our own contribution to this branch of progress is the high-compression, high-efficiency F-head mo tor in wuieu acceleration, power and fuel economy are more noteworthy than ever, 'Heretofore the trouble with high compression motors has been the fact that they were subject to spark knocks, pro-ignition, roughness and other undesirable feature?. For these defects tho solution has been found in the Hudson F-hcad design which gives us a combination valve-in-head and valve-in-side engine In that the . Intake valve is located in the head and the exhaust valve in the aide. Valves Improved "In our motor, which this year has been a till further refined, the intake valve is located just above the ex haust valve. As the intake opens, the incoming fuel Is drawn right over' the hot exhaust valve. Thii has the effect that all liquid or un vaporized fuel particles are sub jected to the heat of the exhaust valve and chamber, which dries and vaporizes them for complete and In stant combustion. Next, the exhaust valve Is so swept by the Incoming cool mixture that It never reaches the overheated condition that in common with many other engines. "By moderating the temperature of the exhaust valve, our engineers not only prevent pre -Ignition and knocking, but they cause the motor to utilize the entire gas charge, with the result that our motor delivers 01 horBepower with a remarkably low consumption of fuel." Neutrallzer New Although Hudson engineers bars for years paid special attention to (TURN TO PAGE 8) 7" aaid Mot oirdoim calls for IARGEW MUBSON output of all time Already in response to the public" I demand, pro duction of the Greater Hudson has been increased, "d then increased again by far the largest sched ule Hudson ever found necessary. In their own wt rds, by their marked and recorded "allots, motorists by tens of thousands are telling us the Greater Hudson is truly the greatest of all time). Voting in every Hudson salesroom in the country, these enthusiastic multitudes have piled up the most convincing endorsement in Hudson history. Per haps even more important, they have bought these beautiful new Hudson, in such numbers "at we must make thousands more ol them to insure prompt delivery. Every experience and suggestion of the world's largest 6-cyiinderownership is incorporates in the 64 improvements of the Greater Hudson. As co-authors of these creations the 1,000,004 Super-Six owners are naturally first to want to see, inspect and drive them. It is particularly interest ing to observe their special satisfaction in the) numerous body improvements. In comment, these) important developments in body design and ap pointment, fully-equal the more dramatic qualities of the more than 80-mile-an-hour performance. They definitely set Hudson apart from like-priced cars, just as Hudson performance stands alone among all cars. Come, see and drive the Greater Hudson. We be lieve one ride will make it the car of your choiae Hear the Rad program 9ft hi Hudson Eitex CbaUmgm Standard Ejutj7mnt takchxtetn 4 hjdrmdlt ftvowty itutck abtrrbert timSric gas end fl gauge vadiatm $hutUr$- -uxdAli lornf 4.indhlWd wiper itar vtts mirror ! tniedt control 9ft Herring uKmJ mU ftnsiu boMUckrmaliim piattd, and at factory SWSwlSlllM CMk, $1095) mm iiwd Sss, $117; Coupe, $1195) RoaoW, $1250 S-Pako Phaeton. 1350) Town Sedssa, $1375) Cosy vertibleCotss, $ 1450j Lancssu sSM,$ 150 Victoria 1500. Long ufccefboK 5-Pax. Club Sedan, $1850) 7-P.m. Sattais) 2O0Oi 7-Faas 2100. Brown Motor Co.' 812 Pearl Phone 1752 Come In And See The New Cats Five chassis sixes and eights prices ranging from $885 to $2495. Car illustrated is Model 615, six-cylinder.five-passenger Sedan, $1195(special equip ment extra). All prices at factory. Graham-Paige presents' new sixes and eights; of added beauty, improved performance, and, we believe, even greater value. These new models succeed those which in 1928 established a new all-time record for first year sales volume We . want you to see them and to enjoy a demon stration of the thrilling performance of the Graham-Paige four-speed transmission (two high speeds standard gear shift). Charles Taylor's Garage 857 Pearl St. Phone 2185 AAMAM-PAIk cog O
