-n< Brockway Tmck^l
Dependablity—Stability
Brockway Trucks are constructed of highest standardized units throughout, such as Continental Motor—strong as the nation. Brown Lipe Transmission practically inde
structible. Bosch Magneto—standard of the world. David Brown English Worm Drive—Europe's best Vertical Finned Tube Radiator—guaranteed not to leak, the life of the
truck. Sheldon Axles and Springs—none better. Body building, painting and finish—Brockway Quality.
Brockway Quality Known Throughout
EXPERT SERVICE CARE IN BUILDING
You will find us always at your service, not only to assist as efficiency experts in Brockway has the quality, alright, and we could go on talking to you about the
the solution of your delivery problems, but experts as well in the inspection and care high character of the firm building them. Their painstaking care in using nothing but
of the truck after proper installation. We are Specializing in Motor Trucks with the h BEST in everything. The composite superiority and composite guarantee, which,
idea that by doing one thing only and doing it well; by fair play and undivided atten- . r , b . . .. . ,
tion, we can serve you as well as our interests best. reinforced by, the strongest manufacturing concerns in the automobile industry, spells
The Service Organization that is back of every Brockway Truck sold is probably hi S h efficiency, long life and great satisfaction. But we CANNOT tell you so
the most vital part of the entire transaction. To anyone who owns motor trucks, this y° u cai } see t^ie completeness of detail, beauty of finish, and the strength and power in
importance is apparent. Experience will have taught him that only an organization every line. That is the reason we want you to see us at the Capital Auto Show, Kelker
such as is outlined on this page is capable of rendering real Service; and only Service of Street Hall, where we have two models on exhibit. After seeing them you will want
this sort makes a truck worth owning. an appointment to demonstrate their merits in your own business and thus permit us to
Assurances as to Service Qualifications are backed by fifteen years of personal ex- back up our statements with facts,
perience on motor car construction. All YOU ask of a customer is to try YOUR line. WE'RE asking you to try OURS.
Two Models, 2500 Pounds and 4000 Pounds—Worm Drive. Three Models, 1500 Pounds, 2500 Pounds, 4000 Pounds—Chain Drive
Commercial Car Company
Manager
13th and Walnut Sts. Ba RHONES
MITCHELL LIGHT.
SIX IS LUXURIOUS
Economy of Operation and AU the
. Superb Appearances of the
Beit Cars Built
The Mitchell Light Six. according to
Ream & Son, local dealers, presents
more than economy in first cost. Not
only is this car sold for less than half
the price of the so-called high-priced
ears, but it is also the cheapest to
maintain and operate because it is
built on the right lines, and with spe
cial regard to husbanding the money
of its user. There Is nothing in prac
tical automobile work that this car
will not do. It is as good as any tour
ing car at any price, in all the essen
tials. Only in operating cost does it
differ, and the saving is great enough
to attract to it the patronage of the
prospect who would like to own a. six
eylimler car, but who hesitates to
make the purchase because of the
• •ash outlay from week to week to
keep the machine going.
This is the really serious expense of
motoring. There are many who could
stand the first cost, which is really
comparatively trivial. But it is impor
tant to look closely into operating ex
pense, which is a weekly item that
never ceases while the car is in active
service, and which is likely to increase
as it begins to age, to pass the years
of ite best service and to need more
repairs to keep it going.
When we speak of the Mitchell
Eight Six as effecting a virtual revolu
tion in presenting economy of opera
tion we wish to emphasize that this is
not a skimped, cheapened production.
It is not an economy at the cost of
quality. Back of every promise is a
service guaranteed by one of the
wealthiest automobile-making con
cerns in the world, by a local repre
sentation that has made a reputation
America's Greatest "Light Six" $1485
is the result of correct design, selected materials,
accurate workmanship and 22 years' experience
in motor car construction.
It is made manifest to Haynes owners day
after day—year after year—by dependable per
formance under all conditions.
THE PROOF IS IN THE CAR ITSELF.
See, Compare and Critically Inspect It at the
AUTO SHOW
Kelker St. Hall, March 13th to 20th
ROBERTS & HOIN
(Salesroom Central Gangs
SM t'Brwtnul Street HMUllSBlIU;. I*A,
SATURDAY EVENING, HAKRISBURG (666$ TELEGRAPH MARCH 13, 1915
for caring for its customers and has a
plant able to meet any demands. The
wheelbase is 128 inches. It is thus a
big, little car. It will carry six persons
any time to any place and under any
conditions. The six cylinders assure
absolute flexibility.
This car will do its work at half
the gasoline and tire consumption that
would be required for the high
priced machine costing about $4,500.
It has the same comfort and econ
omy as the llnest car. It has all the
superb appearance of the best car
built'. A low rakish effect is gained by
fitting the rear springs under the axle
instead of above it. This results In
lowering the body five inches and
makes a substantial difference in the
appearance of the car. In fact, it
gives it the look of the best foreign
production, while at the same time
permitting enough axle clearance to
permit operation on the inequalities of
American roads.
The Light Six is made in a variety
of models. In the touring car it is
made in two, five and six-passenger
models. It is to be obtained in all
Mitchell forms in the closed cars,
which naturally at this season of the
year are in special demand for all the
many diversions of winter that make
a demand for comfortable transporta
tion from home to theater, opera,
dance, dinner, reception, wedding, etc.
The coupe, coupelette, sedan and
limousine all have the powerful mo
tor of the Light Six, and all present its
many advantages of power, comfort
and economy of operation. All of
these closed models, except the limou
sine. are so arranged as to be driven
from the interior of the machine by
the owner. The limousine has a
seven-passenger capacity and is driven
from the outside. In addition to the
Bight Six, which costs $1,585, we will
also show the Special Six, with 132-
Inch wheelbase, for $1,805, and the
Big Six, with 14 4-inch wheelbase, for
$2,350.
i The Light Six is a combination car,
I equally well suited for work in the
1 country as In the city. Its elegance
;of appearance makes it hard to dis
tinguish from the high-priced ma
chine. For this car any test is wel
comed, regardless of distances or road
conditions. In fact, It Is sold on this
basis. .
DETROITER EIGHT
10NG NEW ONES
Model Introduced at New York
Show Now With Local
Dealer
Complete preparation for the manu
facture and marketing of a low-priced
eight-cylinder car on a large scale,
without a word leaking out about Its
plans. Is the remarkable achievement
of the Briggs-Detroiter Company of
Detroit. Mich., which exhibited its
new "Eight" at the Palace Show,
New York. The price of the new
model car is $ 1,295. "We have been
experimenting with eight-cylinder
cars for more than a year," says
Claude S. ljriggs, president of the
Briggs-Detroiter Company, "and the
remarkable work of the car under
every conceivable condition has been
a revelation to us.
"An investigation of the possible
market for a moderate-priced eight,
covering a period of several months,
has proved to us that the demand is
going to exceed the supply quite ma
terially."
The Detroiter "Eight" will be ex
hibited at the Capital auto show in
Kelker street hall by Connover and
Mehring, local Detroiter dealers.
The Briggs- Detroiter Company had
one of the new eight-cylinder touring
car models and a chassis, as well as
its four-cylinder models, on exhibition
at the Palace Show, New York. While
following closely the stylish and dis
tinctive lines of its older brother, the
1915 Detroiter "Four," the new
"Eight" is more elaborate In finish and
appointments, and embodies many of
the most advanced Ideas of American
motorcar construction. The "Eight"
touring car is finished in a handsome
Kimball green, with gold stripe, and
'has Turkish type upholstering in real
I leather. The chief interest of the New
l York show patrons naturally centered
lin the motor, a compact, clean-cut
' power plant, for which much is
claimed in the matter of power, flexl
bility and economy of operation.
I The cylinders are in two en bloc
sets of four each, the cylinder dimen
sions being 2 % by 4 % inches. The S.
A. E. formula gives the motor a
rating of 24.25 horsepower, but this
rating Is not applicable to the Dc
, trolter type of motor, which is rated
at. 34 horsepower at 1,800 revolutions.
The iwo-cyllnder blocks bolt to an
aluminum crank race, which has a
removable bell, flywheel housing. The
jcrankshaft has two main bearings,
. front being 1% by 2 3-22 inches, and
the rear being 1% by 4Vi inches. Both
of connecting rods connect with
| this shaft, one throw bearing taking
fare of a pair of rod ends in opposite
| cylinders. In order to operate in the
I same bushing, one rod is yoked on
I the end, the other rod end fitting
' within this yoke.
| The single camshaft is directly
above the crankshaft and has eight
cams, one operating two opposite in
let valves or two exhaust valves, as
the case may be. The cam assembly
is on the under side of a plate which
bolts to the top of the crank case
between the cylinders. Positive lu
brication is effected by means of a
plunger primp. Riving an ample oil
flow for all moving parts within.
CASE BUILT FIRST
MOTOR VEHICLE?
Pioneer Inventor Made Self-
Propelled Buggy There Back
in 1871
The transfer of the tiles to the new
office of the Secretary of State at Mad
ison, Wis., recently brought to light
one of the most interesting pieces of
automobile news that has been un
covered in the United States in many
Indisputable evidence was brought
to light to show that the State of
Wisconsin was one of the first, if not
the very first. State in the Union to
anticipate the of the self-pro
pelled vehicle. •
J. S. Donald, Secretary of State for
Wisconsin at the present time, has
become so interested in the data he
discovered in the old files of his of
fice that he lias prepared a formal
statement to show when and how the
the inception of the modern automo
bile came about.
Wisconsin back in the early 70's,
and especially in the year 1875, de
veloped an age of invention and the
State Legislature encouraged every
sign of progress and especially along
lines of labor-saving devices.
That this enthusiasm was not spas
modic and superficial is borne out by
the many inventions brought to light
at that time. However, the greatest
interest centered In the self-propelled
road vehicle and in 1875, 1876, 1877
and 1879 the Wisconsin Legislature
passed laws for the purpose of en
couraging the work that was then go
ing on along these lines.
Among the evidence that came to
light during the moving of the files
into the new Capitol of Wisconsin was
an act appropriating SIO,OOO to the
first successful inventor, who would
produce a self-propelled vehicle that
would pass tests, the rules of which
were then laid down by the lawma
kers, and, compared to the rules of
the modern endurance test, they surely
offer the best example of what the
A. B. C. of modern automobile com
petition was like. This award was to
go to the winner of what was prob
ably the first endurance race ever
held in the world for self-propelled
vehicles.
That the State legislators of the
great State of Wisconsin had foreseen
the trend of the times and anticipated
wisely, was shown by the seven self
propelled machines that were intro
duced to the public in 1878.
But back of the appearance *f these
machines was the invention of Dr.
.1. M. Carhart, of Racine, Wis., in 1871
in the machine shop of the J. I. Case
Threshing Machine Company, the
present builders of the Case car. Dr.
Carhart not only invented and built a
self-propelled vehicle in 1871, but also
operated it and, according to the news
paper files of that time, was indi
rectly responsible for the activity at
Madison, Wis., on the part of the
State Legislature.
Upon discovering the data in the
files showing the beginning of the au
tomobile and realizing that because
of the magnitude of the industry at
the present time, almost everyone
would be interested in the develop
ment of its earliest stages, the Secre
tary of State at Wisconsin wrote to
the present officials of the J. I. Case
Threshing Machine Company at Ra
cine and the investigation followed
which resulted in this account of the
dawn of the modern self- propelled
vehicle.
The vehicle itself is no longer in ex
istence but the State Historical So
ciety at Wisconsin has in its files a
photograph of this most interesting
machine.
When the present-day visitor is go
ing through the great shops of the
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Com
pany, which rival in size and com
pleteness, that of any other manufac
turing institution, little does he dream
that the modern high-class self-pro
pelled motor car had. as its forerunner
in 1871, a self-propelled buggy, minus
ball bearings and roller bearinsrs, and
lacking anything that looked like the
modern rubber tire. But the first au
tomobile managed to travel over the
then undeveloped country roads at
the rate of about six miles an hour.
| STANDARDIZED i
| j WILL BE IIERIC OX OR ABOUT APRIL FIRST j
ml 'PHIS CAR is the product of more than a year's exhaustive research and de- J
| ♦ velopment on the part of the best eight-cylinder engineering; brains in the j
c j automobile industry. ♦
| 1 Weighs less than 3,500 pounds with 126-inch top of pleasing design. Turkish upholstorlßgr of t
l!i, wheel base and roomy comfort for seven people. long grained, hand-buffed, genuine leather. 7
□ I The very latest simplified Delco separate unit I
[7ll North way unit power plant with bore, starting ignition and lighting equipment built into {
If by 4 '/a- inch stroke, 346.5 cylinder displacement, the mo tor—now absolutely standard. i
||| t ail moving shafts enclosed. Latest type accessible Tlmken axle with extra ♦
Of A distinctly foreign type of full-flowing body large, noiseless helical bevel gears and powerful, t
lilf design, with divided front seats, disappearing quiet brakes. Extra large driving shafts and I
HI t auxiliary seats, and beautifully rounded one-man bearings. I
1: r> 1 • A . H. L. Myers, Manager ;
li Excelsior Auto Co., j
ii
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1 There was no liquid fuel as the first
motor car was steam propelled.
Dr. Carhart just before hib death
recently at San Antonio uncovered the
following facts to l>e added to the his
! Tory of the first self-propelled vehicle,
; discovered at Madison, Wis.:
I "The foreman of the foundry and
machine shop of the J. I. Case Thresh
ing Machine Company aided me to
i the fullest extent, making my pat
j terns, casting my cylinders and cylln-
I der heads, boring out and turning the
same together with the main shafting
l and the like. This timely and efficient
• I aid made It possible for me to accom
i j plish my task."
RAINPROOF GOGGLES
Anyone wearing eyeglasses or gog-1
gles who has been caught in a rain-j
storm knows how great is the deflclen- i
cy of vision caused by the water or
| the lenses, says the Motorcycle Review.
But few persons are aware that this
difficulty may be overcome by wiping
off the moisture and then rubbing the
outside of the glasses with the tip of
the lingers covered with kerosenes.
They will then appear dull, but just as
soon as rain comes in contact with the
glasses it will be possible to see clearly
through them. When kerosene is used
it will be essential to rub it over with
the hand so that the raindrops may
run evenly. The efficiency of a lamp
may bo maintained by similar treat
ment of the front glass.
UK AT IX TIRES
A test of the heat of tires in run
nihg fast has shown that from 130 to
150 degrees Fahrenheit was reached.
| Unless run deflated, 200 to 212 degrees
could not be exceeded.