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Model 86 /. o. b. Toledo
No Advance In Price
The price of the big, powerful Overland Six (Model 86) will
not be advanced.
Prices of other Sixes are advancing. Prices of Sixes recently
announced on new models, are higher. In fact, comparatively
figuring, prices of practically all Sixes are now far in excess of
4 the Overland.
On the basis of present prices of raw materials a Six of the
Overland quality would have to sell at a much higher price.
But due to a little foresight in purchasing we escaped ha ~ig
to pay premiums for raw materials —hence the price of the
Overland Six is not increased.
This in spite of the fact that prices of all steels are up from
100% to 150%; that the price of aluminum has gone from about
20 cents a pound to over 50 cents a pound; that the price of
copper has more than doubled; that tires and other accessories
have had a sharp advance.
We cannot guarantee that this present price of $1145 will
hold indefinitely.
The serious condition of the material market makes that
impossible.
But the quality is not lowered; and for the present prica
Is not advanced.
I Just compare the size, power, flexibility and quality of the
Overland Six motor; the length of the wheelbase —the seating
capacity, the finish, the equipment, the comforts, the con
veniences and improvements of the Overland Six with all others
and you'll find no valid reason for paying more than $1145 for
a 6ix cylinder automobile.
Deliveries now.
"Overland Service Satisfies"
The Overland-Harrisburg Co.
212 North Second Street Both Phones
The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio
"Mad. in U. S. A."
Value of Retaining the
Wax and Oil in Tire Fiber
Credit is given the Miller Rubber
Company, of Akron, Ohio, for teaching
tire users the value of "entire tires,"
and tile danger of judging a tire pure
ly by its surface features.
P. C. Mlllhoff. tire sales manager of
the Miller Rubber Company, calls at
tention to the fact that the tread on
Enger Twin Six, $1095 B
The first popular-priced Twelve. The car that has taken the coun
try by storrn. The car that fulfills every desire of motorcar lovers.
Beauty, comfort, power, flexibility, smoothness. The Enger Twin
Six has all of these and more. It contains everything you need or
want in a motorcar—yet it sells for only $1095.
Twin Six—l 2 cylinder*. Cantilever Sprlnc*- Electric ll^Uta.
2%-l«. bore, Sii-ln. stroke. ...... ,
Valve-In-Head Mo to*. lIK-lncfc vrfceclbaae. Electric a tarter.
Develops 47-GO H. P. Fir* yacht-line body. Complete In every respect.
—agents Wanted
ENGER MOTOR CAR CO.
131 South Third Street
H. DeHART, Manager. Both Phones
SATURDAY EVENING. HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 4, 1916
| a tire is no more effective than the re
-1 mainder of the tire permits it to be.
In other words, a tread is at the mercy
of the rest of the tire. MillhoiT says:
"The fact that the Miller nonskld tread
is a scientifically designed geared-to
the-road tread is in itself of vital Im
portance. but for the real value of a
I Miller tire one must go deeper. The
Miller method of manufacturing tires
' retains the natural vegetable wax and
oil in the cotton liber during process of
| vulcanization, and this natural lubri
cant In the cotton means less Internal
friction and more life and miles in your
tire."
The Miller method vulcanizes at a
low degree of heat without robbing the
fabric of its life-giving wav and oil,
and thus saves the fiber from becoming
brittle and losing its tensile strength.
The Miller tire has not been "burned
out" during manufacture—all its wear,
toughness, endurance and all its mile
age are preserved for wear on the car.
"When a car's geared-to-the-road
you can put 'skid fear' behind you for
ever. To drive with confidence and com
fort—to have your car instantly obey
your slightest touch at the steering
wheel—to secure absolute traction on
slippery city streets or on tracherous
country roads, you must have a tire
that is built to meet those conditions."
Miller "Geared-to-the-Road Tires"
are scientifically built to gear your car
to the road through mud, sand or slush.
With Miller tires on your car you're In
control. Its tread is an integral part
of the tire and retains its safety fea
tures until the entire tire is worn out.
The greater mileage you get from them
will make your choice of Miller Tires
an economy, as well as a permanent
safeguard.
Some Motors Use Less
Gasoline Than Others
With gasoline constantly ascending
in price and descending in quollty, it
lias become necessary for motorists to
take steps to offset the disadvantages
of expensive and inefficient fuel.
George B. Zech, Buick dealer at Har
rlsburg, Pa., said yesterday, "With gas
oline at its present high price, the ad
vantage of the Valve-ln-I-lead type of
motor is more pronounced. This motor,
as is well known, conserves and uses
B higher percentage of the energy con
tained in fuel than any other type of
gasoline motor. The absence of valve
pockets In this motor means tiiat there
is less heat to escape Into the water
jacketed area surrounding the cylin
ders, and as heat and power are one
and the same thing In motorcar oper
ation it can very readily he seen that
the Valve-In-Head motor bears a very
direct relation to the pocketbook of the
automobile user. And as the price of
gasoline goes up this advantage of the
Valve-In-Head type of motor becomes
Increasingly apparent.
"In all typos of motors except the
Valve-In-Head there is an absolute
waste of power, which means a waste
of fuel, and this waste has been care
fully computed by Buick engineers to
be in the neighborhood of fifteen to
twenty per cent, of the entire energy
contatne din gasoline.
Hundred's of users of the five-pas
senger Buick touring car have report
ed gasoline mileage averaging all the
way from seventeen to twenty-three
miles per gallon. This Is exceptional
ly high. It is plain therefore, that
while little can be done toward keep
ing the price of gasoline down, these
high prices can be offset, in a very
I large measure, by using the type of car
| which makes the utmost use of the fuel
1 supplied. The higher gasoline is in
price, the more Important it Is that
as much power be derived from It as
possible.
POLICE USE SIDE-CAR MOTORCYCLES
The above Illustration shows the adaptibility of the motorcycle sidecar
idea into practical business uses.
The Police Department of Boston, Mass., recently installed a fleet of
Indians equipped with a special sidecar to accommodate two passengers, be
side the driver. It is now no uncommon sight in Boston to see a bluecoat
come spinning down the street with a "dip" or pickpocket seated beside him
who tried in vain to make a quick getaway from an Indian-mounted copper.
Cadillac Eight Always
Responds to Throttle
If, when you step suddenly and hard
on your foot throttle and the speed of
the car does not instantly Increase, it
may mean that your carburetor cannot
supply at once enough sasoline to com
pensate the Inrush of extra air to the
motor. This is a fault more or less
common to carburetors; and the way in
which Cadillac engineers have over
come it is highly ingenious.
When the throttle la opened quick
ly the tendency is for the mixture to
become lean, for the reason that the
gasoline, because of its greater den
sity. is not drawn into the mixing
chamber as easily and as rapidly as
the air. This disproportion of gasoline
and air is seldom of more than momen
tary duration, but even that is suffici
ent to cause a skip or two or a choking
of the motor and keep it from develop
ing the power needed for rapid ac
celeration.
The device evolved by the Cadillac
engineers is a skillful application of
the plunger pump principle. In this
case, however, the action is confined
to only one stroke of the plunger. When
the throttle is suddenly opened the
plunger automatically accelerates the
supply of gasoline through the spray
nozzle, thereby providing a correct ex
plosive mixture for quick acceleration
and the getaway is instantaneous.
Dealers Approve of Paige
Plan For Credit Sales
Paige dealers throughout the coun
try are now in receipt of the prelim
inary instruction for the plan where
by they will be enabled to sell Paise
cars on a partial payment and credit
basis to those buyers who wish to take
advantage of accommodations of this
nature.
President Jewett of the Paige Com
pany has already received a large num
ber of letter from dealers who express
their delight and satisfaction with the
plan which, they declare, is of a con
structive and conservative nature in
keeping with the dignity of the prod
uct and the nature of the business
which it is intended to serve.
The dealers also say they believe the
plan is a development in the right di
rection and in harmony with the mod
ern spirit of merchandising. Tn all
other branches of retail business the
buyer is given dignified credit. In fact,
the custom Is so universal that a very
large, percentage of all retail business
is now transacted in this manner.
Whether the article sold be expensive
jewelry or high grade pianos, the ac
tual cash purchasing power is not the
governing factory, neither Is the com
modity sold on credit confined to goods
of low grade.
The customer is universal and is a
convenience that all classes of people
are taking advantage of, providing the
method is dignified. There is, there
fore, no reason, the Paige men tell Mr.
Jewett. why Paige buyers should not
have this advantage if they wish it.
Many of these dealers declare they
are eager to get busy as they already
have a large volume of business await
ing the actual operation of the plan.
The plan, however, cannot be put
underway until the dealer is supplied
with various forms and documents
necessary for such an undertaking.
Kach state has different laws govern
ing such transactions and the dealer
has to be supplied with blanks and
documents in conformity with the laws
peculiar to his locality.
All the preliminary work has been
prepared by the aHnkers' Commercial
Corporation of New York through
which the dealer will make tin- trails-
Tkis Jefjfery Q uaci
(Four-wheel Drive, Brake and Steer)
Will arrive tomorrow, and will be demon
strated Monday or Tuesday of next week.
All contractors and others interested in a truck
»hat will go anywhere a four or six-mule team
will go, should see this truck work.
Bentz-Landis Auto Co.
1808 Logan Street
Bell Phone 461
action. This work, under the direction
ill* Joseph A. Bower, formerly of De
troit and now vice-president of the
Bankers' Commercial Corporation of
New York, is now well in hand nd deal
ers will soon be in possession of the
documents they need to put the plan in
operation.
Oldest Resident in New
York Takes Auto License
When a person reaches the ripe old
age of SB, the greatest part of which
has been spent as a judge of good
horse ilesli, and when that person comes
to selecting an automobile it can
truthfully be said that he brings wis
dom seasoned by years to help in his
choice.
For three-quarters of a century
Henry Spicer, of Dexter, N. Y., rode be
hind the fastest horses he could buy
or raise. Now Mr. Spicer owns a Jeffery
touring car and reecntly had the honor
of being the oldest citizen of the State
of New York to take out an automobile
license. This is Mr. Splcer's second
year as a motorist with 5,000 miles to
his credit last season.
In his own words, Mr. Spicer selected
the JetTrv because "he liked the looks,
like the riding qualities and what he
heard about the stand-up-to-itivehess"
of the Jeffery, Some years ago, Mr.
Spicer owned Gold Dust, a Grand (Mr
cult performer, and is therefore a good
judge of speed. Dater he served in the
New York Assembly for one term, but
refused a renomination oil the grounds
that "a man who had any business at
all had no business to be in politics."
\ CHALMERS^/
\ Peerless "8"/
V Dodge Bros. /
\ KEYSTONE f
\ MOTOR CAR CO. f
\ 1019-25 Market Street B
• SszaaeamsnESElSßr*
Demand For Cars
Is Country-wide
"What impresses nie particularly In
connection with our shipments during
the winter months, is not so much the
quantity of ears shipped, though we
have shipped every day to the limit
of our liberal production, as the uni
form distribution of shipments
throughout tho United States," says
George S. Waits, Secretary of th«
Grant Motor Company. "In previous
years I have observed more or less
variation in shipments. Certain por
tions of the country have absorbed
winter shipments to a larger extent
than others, lint this winter, irrespec
tive of climate or other conditions,
Urant cars have been distributed to
all points of the compass. There are
no holes or soft spots just a strong
ly Increasing demand from everywhere
as day succeeds day.
"As an Indication of the wonderful
ly Increasing stability of tiie Industry
and the universal prosperity of dealer
and consumer all over tills broad Re
public, it stands pre-eminent. I. think
it can be said that when this industry
leads the way, and it Barely does, that
the amount of prosperity accruing to
every other industry on earth, must be
superlative and with the wonderful mo
mentum gained, cannot but indicate
stable and lasting prosperity."
All-Season Car Is
Economical to Own
George C. Hubbs, assistant general
salesmanager of Dodge Brothers, points
out that if a person uses his car all
the year around that he automatically
reduces the overhead on his investment
and that the cur is therefor much
cheaper than when it is only used for
the summer months.
"I have often expressed the thought
that a motorcar should be considered
from its utilitarian value rather than
as a pleasure vehicle," says Mr. Hubbs.
"And in Impressing this point 1 have
tried to show the real economy of buy
ing a car which can be driven all the
year around. While the initial cost of
a car equipped with a top for con
verting it into a closed car for winter
driving is slightly higher, when you
figure the cost of all the year driving
compared with summer driving only,
; the advantages of purchasing the car
j with the closed top is very apparent."
"Dodge Brothers closed ear is the
ideal car for driving oil the year
around. In winter you have a hand
somely fitted up closed car. When the
! Itrst warm days come the side panels
; can be removed and it is a semi-open
■ car. With the coming of real summer
: the top can lie taken off and the reg-
I ular open top substituted."
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