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Tn<> above shows « Jeffery with a specially constructed liody for funeral car purposes. The hody was designed
smi built by the FenU-Lsndis Auto Company for R. W. Day A Son. of WiUiamstown, Pa. This is but one of many
special jobs placed by A. Ilentz. manager of the local company, who has made rapid progress since he became an
automobile distributor two years ago.
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SATURDAY EVENING, TLARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JANUARY 29, 1916.
REVIVING THE
SPEED FETICH
; Reo Engineer Says Speed
Points Are Not Essential
For Practical Usage
"I am surprised to see "speed" again
coming back and being used as a sales
argument in the favor of a number of
new models," says H. T. Thomas, chief
engineer and designer of Reo cars.
"I thought the day of high speed
talk, save in the case of cars espe
cially made for racing, had gone never
to return.
"It is illogical—that talk about
speeds of 70 and 80 miles an hour, in
a car made for general utility, touring,
etc.
""Of course it makes a strong appeal
to the unitiated and the uninechan
ical, and perhaps we engineers are
too prone to look at it from a scien
tific and practical standpoint.
"Our sales manager frequently tells
us that as salesmen, we engineers are
hopeless.
"I suppose that is so, too; yet 1 am
sure he agrees with me that in the
long run he would rather sell cars that
have a sound engineering basis than
those built with an e>e singled to
talking points.
"It Is difficult for one who has not
studied the practical engineering prob
lems involved, to understand why
speed possibilities should not be argu
ments in favor of any automobile. It
seetns to them that, though they may
never want to use it. still it must be
a good thing to have in the car.
"Now there is just the point. It Is
not a good thing to have in the car.
"I contend that it Is not possible to
build an automobile that will make 79
to 80 miles an hour and yet retain
i in it those qualities the average buyer
j needs and should have—long life and
low maintenance cost.
"I guess 1 am hopeless from the
salesmen's standpoint, because now
that 1 have gotten this far, 1 lind It
difficult to put in words so that the
average layman will understand, those
technical reasons which have such a
| tremendous bearing on the case.
"Let's see if we can do it.
| "A gasoline engine may be made
jto develop Its maximum efficiency
I (no! I didn't say maximum power,
I but maximum efficiency) at any speed
the designer may predetermine.
, "There! That sounds pretty good.
I 'Read It again, and you'll understand
it,' as the publicity man says.
"This is accomplished in devious
ways; by variation in compression and
valve sizes; periods of opening and
closing; degree of opening and clos
ing; by ignition, etc.
"Ratio of stroke to bore, on which
so much stress is laid by some ma
kers. and which so greatly impresses
the tyro, has in fact, very little to do
with the case.
"Nor is a long stroke motor neces
sarily a _ high speed motor, or vice
i versa. You can get any old speed you
I want out of either if you know how.
Make the compression high enough
and the valves large enough and you'll
get all the engine speed you want.
But. —high compression motors are
notoriously bad performers at low
speeds and the action is very severe on
crankshaft and connecting rod bear
ings in the long-run.
"The engineer who knows his busi
ness can perform all kinds of stunts
with a gasoline engine.
"There is a great temptation to do
it, too. AVe Reo Folk gratify our
curiosity by doing it in our own lab
oratories. We are never tempted,
however, to foist these things on Reo
buyers. We know the ultimate con
sequences too well. Besides, the Reo
policy of producing and selling only
that which our greater experience
teaches us has proven the best after
all.
"We engineers, looking through the
periscope from out the laboratory,
have frequently noticed that when
some new and hitherto unproven fea
ture is to be tried out on the public
the 'speed' argument is resurrected to
conceal the real issue.
"You can, as I have said, produce
various interesting phenomena by
juggling with the various parts of a
gas engine, and among others you
] can produce maximum efficiency at
any engine speeds and also by gear
ratios at any desired car speed.
"Now if the average speed at which
the average owner wanted to drive
were 80 miles an hour we could all,
and doubtless we would, make our
motors so they would develop their
I maximum efficiency and run with the
I greatest ease and the least vibration
at that speed. That is easy.
"In fact, that is precisely what is
done in a racing car, But did you
ever take a cross-country trip in a
racing car over roads where you had
to hold the speed down to say 25 or
30 miles an hour?
"If you have. I would not need to
go any further with this argument.
"You would appreciate what I
mean, and you would not want in your
car a motor that developed its maxi
mum efficiency at 70 miles an hour.
"You would want exactly what the
more conservative engineers, from the
fullness of their experience, have de
signed lor you. That i 3, a motor that
develops its maximum efficiency—that
runs smoothest, most silently and with
the least vibration and wear at those
speeds at which you will want to
travel 95 per cent, of the time —and
that is about 25 miles an hour.
"But I suppose the advertising: men
and the salesmen need something new
to talk about from time to time. It
must get pretty monotonous talking
about the same things all the time.
"Wo engineers can at least sym
pathize with them in that regard.
For if we just kept working away in
the laboratory at the same old thing
all the time, we would get tired of It
even though we knew those same old
things were after all the best things.
"I would commend to the salesman,
however, another way of relieving his
nerves. That would he to take a spe
cial racing car. go ouf and burn up
the roads for a few hours once a week.
I have found that Is an effective cure
for rhe racing spirit.
"We in the laboratory accomplish a
similar purpose in another way. We
build and experiment and try out all
the freak things we hear of in Amer
ican and European engineering jour
nals.
"That gives us scope for our imagi
nation and yet does not Impair the
tteo prestige with the public.
"Once in a while, too. we And some
thing that is really better and then
the Powers that Be let us put it into
the Reo car.
"For the most part, however—say
about 9!i per cent, of the time—we
discard the new ideas as impracticable
or useless."
GUNMAN IMPORTED TO
DISCREDIT POLICE
[Continued From First Page.]
Agency and the resultant murder of
Policeman Kror Johnson. He said
that should this connection Vie proven,
and also that certain oolieemen and
politicians had allowed the criminals
to work in Chicago, charges of acces
sory before the fact to the murder of
Policeman Johnson would be lodged
against them.
Rosenthal Murderers Brought
With the alleged confession of Mack
and the Kramer brothers that they
robbed the Washington Park Bank,
the authorities to-day are paying spe
cial attention to reputed importation
of criminals to discredit the adminis
tration. The Kramers were quoted as
having said they were intimates of
the Rosenthal murderers in New York.
According to Charles Kramer the
brothers were taken into custody by
the New York police shortly after the
murder in July, 1912, of Herman Ro
senthal. They were found, he said. In
the room of Harry Horowitz, known
to the New York authorities as "Gyp
the Blood" and were held for a few
days while the murder was being in
vestigated but were released when
they established an alibi. They came
to Chicago last September. Brodie
and Feine also are said to have police
records in New York.
Only portions of the alleged confes
sions were made public.
Practically ail of the money stolen
from the bank has been recovered.
Arrest Son For Breaking
Into His Parents' Home
Breaking into his parents' home at
"05 Capital street, which had been
locked and nailed shut when they left
the city, John Green was arrested
early this morning together with a
companion. Charles Smith. Both are
charged with felonious entry. Officers
McCann, Schelhnus, Cummings and
Scliaffner made the arrest after neigh
bors had reported earlier in the day
that someone had been sleeping in
the house. The parents are visiting
at Butler, Pa., and had the place se
curely closed when they left.
Al"TO KILLS PET DOG
A small white pet dog was struck by
a large automobile while going down
Race street at breakneck speed in the
vicinity of Conoy street this fore
noon and killed. The driver of the
car never stopped.
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Yes, sir, just for air!
You don't have to buy a
spark plug or leave a tube to
be mended or buy a pint of
oil because you need air.
Just say, "I want some of
your air." and you'll see smil
ing faces and men eager to
help you out.
And any other time when
you really need us or any
thing we carry we know you'll
remember us.
"Air in time saves
a blowout"
Shaffer's Garage
Bell Phone 27(17
40-78 S. CAMKHUN ST.
H. D. La Tour, Malinger.
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Ensminger Motor Co.
Third & Cumberland Sts.
DISTRIBUTORS
CASE §
The New Forty JMbL
SIO9O
With all the merits of the earlier "40" which sold \/M
for $2,300, the Case Company gives you proof of
j the progress which the company has made in the The Sign of
automobile fleld. In taking: over the distribution Excellence
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j quality and efficiency, we Invite your inspection of the new model with
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cellent mechanical facilities In our own service station.
120-lneh wheclbase: 3%x6 L-head motor, 40-45 H. P.: Westlnghouse
; starting, lighting nnd Ignition: Tlmken hearings; floating rear axle
with spiral bevel gears; cantilever springs: 34x4 wheels; one-man top;
divided front seats, adjustable. Price JIO9O, f. o. b.. Racine, Wis.
B4 AND 8 CYLINDER
RISCOE CARO
The capacity of the four-cylinder Briscoe motor Is 190 cubic
inches; that of the eight-cylinder motor 196 cubic inches, so that the
power output of the two motors is about the same, both being rated
i at 38 horsepower. Whether you prefer a Briscoe Four or a Briscoe
Eight, you cannot go wrong In either case, for Briscoe cars are the
result of latest engineering thought.
Briscoe 4-38, $750 Briscoe Eight, $950
I'rices f. o. b. factory
Connover & Mchring
Sole Distributors for Central Pennsylvania
1713-1717 North Fourth Street
Veteran Firemen Buy
Third Street Property
At the first annual meeting of the
Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Associa
tion officers were elected and announce
ment was made that the association has
secured the property at 923 North Third
street to be used as headquarters.
The new officers include: President,
William L. Jauss. of the Washington
Company; vice-president, E. Levi Tittle;
recording secretary, S. P. Dunbar; finan
cial secretary, T. S. Cless; treasurer,
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C/rr e/th* American Ami
ENSMINGER
MOTOR CO.
THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS.
Distributors.
The Time
To BUY TIRES
Our Annual
COMPARATIVE PRICES
30x3 >4 Non-Skid SIO.OO
33x4 Non-Skid $14.75
34x4 Non-Skid $15.00
35x4J/2 Non-Skid $19.00
37x5 Non-Skid $25.00
FIRST FIFTEEN FEBRUARY DAYS
Front-Market Motor Supply Co.
Augustus Wildman; trustee, W. DeWitt
Franklin; auditors, Jesse Smltli, John
W. Williamson and John T, Ensmlnger,
Jr.; membership committee, George D.
Kills, John T. Ensmlnger, Jr.. and E. 11.
Nickel; delegate to State convention,
A. K Patton, and alternate delegate to
convention. I* IT. Eickol. Committee
to select furniture for the new home,
Howard O. ITolstein. E. Levi Tittle. T.
S. Cless, Augustus Wildman, Charles
H. Spicer, George I). Ellis and A. I* Pat
ton.
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"The Car of No Regrets"
Five-passenger, eight-cylinder
$1,150
Seven-passenger, eight-cylinder
$1,350
Prices f. o. b. Factory
King Car Sales Co,
80 S. Cameron St.
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