I—j j . racter 1 A MAN'S capacities are determined by several factors, chief among which is the fiber of the stuff he is made of. Like all of Nature's most potent : : forces this is invisible, and being so, it | secures its expression in effects and results. Competency, energy and hon ' esty —these qualities constitute greater - IF worth. And their development creates j character. | Motor cars, too, have character. It t is injected and molded by the hand of I man; its presence is conspicuous when | put to the test. I Maxwell Motor Cars, for example, gain character and individuality by reason of experience, care and skill with H which they are made. Every operation must strengthen the final result and thus the ability to give abundant and satisfying service is correspondingly fc \ increased. 3 ill As we specialize in the manufacture of light weight, standardized auto-. I mobiles, we can and do concentrate our 3 entire attention on those details that I jjj make for better motor car character. I One chajsU; fire body styles 3 Two-Passenger Roadster, . . . $635 " Five-Passenger Touring Car. . . 655 Touring Car (with All-Weather Top), 710 Two-Passenger Cabriolet, . . 865 Six-Passenger Town Car, . . . 915 IFull equipment, including Electric Starter and Lights. All prices F. O. B. Detroit Z MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT MICHIGAN | r || | MAXWELL MOTOR CARS art- sold in Harrisburg by our distributor E. W. SHANK 107 Market Street BeU Phoue 386 Test Your Old Carburetor Before Discarding For New "Before you let someone substitute / \ ■ m. m. j-fTV CYLINDER mTma "The Car of Xo Kojreis" The Kins is the second oldest auto mobile in the United States; 1916 model sllsO 7-Passenger Touring . . $1350 Good Territory For Live Dealers King Car Sales Co. 80 S. CAMERON ST. m Ensmioger Motor Co. Third & Cumberland St» # DISTRIBUTORS V "R?p !,n " FIREPROOF GARAGE i G o. b. fiiT0rr......... $71.00 I 24-g*m«» Stopl Rear Window Wire Glass •«4j3HHr c - frank CLASS . t'liiriv. Union Trust Bldg. "RECIPROCACAUTOMOBILETNSURANCE i;\l)()l{Sl 1) 15V .MOTOIi ' Ml; (»1 HAliltlsHtlU. Pennsylvania Indemnity Exchange, Philadelphia Ask For l iterature A. l„ H.M.L, Ast., I 'at riot Ithlg. SATURDAY EVENING. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH APRIL' 15, 1016, another for the carburetor on that old ■ ar of yours—the one the maker put on—just do a few things that the salesman of the other will insist upon doing any way before he 'proves' what his carburetor will do," says Horace T. Thomas, chief engineer of the Reo Motor Car Company. "Mind you, I don't say that there may not be a better one—for the world does move and xreat improvements have been maue from time to time in earbu retort. But before you discard the old tiust> one do these things: Clean the cylinders—remove the carbon an,l run kerosene through to loosen up the rings wnicn may have become gummed. That will restore the compression. Now grind the valves and in putting them back adjust them carefully as vour in struction book tells you. Adjust all motor bearings, too. and see that your clutch is in good condition. Oh. ves. a clutch may have a lot to do with the performance of a carburetor. Also look !<?.. J; he . , Ignition system—clean the plugs, adjust the points and see that the sparks are accurately timed. Nor forget the cooling system—if radiatoi or cylinders have become clogged with ."?i? °J ot " er deposits, temperatures will change so rapidly It .will be im possible to maintain any carburetor nd justnient—that which seemes all right for the moment will not do after a few miles, A good boiler compound will iv mo\e the deposit and restore the cool regularity 1 l ° the former efllclency an.i "The Wise carburetor salesman in ?' s „ ts °n doing these things before trv !H i ? netter' carburetor—if vou insist on proof before buying. And. of course, the. new broom' sweeps clean. chance" °" e friven llle i^ his ta,k about the high co. t of gasoline and short mileage per ul i 7u. Uld tease If owners did those simple things more frequently—and it will stop anyway with the war. for i'vl\ return to their normal level while the increased efficiency will continue. MAXWELL HAS NEW MILEAGE RECORD Local Distributor Tolls How Stock Car Made 44 Miles to Gallon Many automobile owners ar® watch ing- the rise in the price of gasoline with feelings akin to dismay, but this particular phase in the high cost of living is causing Maxwell owners but I little concern, says E. W. Shank, Max well distributer here. Mr. Shank Just received word from the Detroit offices of the company [that an economy test conducted April j7, a Maxwell stock touring car hung up another Maxwell record by clip- j ping off 44 miles to a gallon of gaso-I line. This test, made under discourag-1 ing weather conditions, and other j similar tests about the country, are, proving a source of satisfaction to all I Maxwell owners. The day on which the Detroit test was made was cold, the thermometer • registering only a few degrees above the freezing mark, when the start was made. At the beginning of the run. there was a strong head wind and the, finish was made along several miles of rough gravel road. With these ad-: verso conditions eliminated, the Mnx-| well undoubtedly would have added several nules to its total. A stock touring car was used, with | standard equipment and loaded with driver and three passengers, the to tal weight carried, including passen gers. car and accessories, being 2,780 pounds. The start was at Birmingham, in Oakland county, and the tirst part ol the Journey was made down .Wood ward avenue into Detroit. The North Grand Boulevard and other streets were followed to Michigan avenue, where the road led straight out to Ypsilantl. A persistent head wind threatened the success of the test and four miles east of Ypsllanti, the gravel road be gan. The going was extremely rough, but the entire length of the gravel | road was encompassed, the engine stopping just as the front wheels touched the asphalt pavement of j Ypsilanti's main street. Th last drop of the one gallon of gasoline upon which the test was made, was con sumed. The car in which the test was made has a remarkable history, which gives added value to the test. It has a total mileage to its credit of 23,000 miles, j being the tirst 1916 Maxwell turned out of the factory. It had the honor of; establishing the Indianapolis record, beating the train schedule between lie- j troit and Indianapolis by almost two I hours. It made a trip across the con-j tinent from l.os Angeles to Detroit. ■ The test was observed by Detroit newspaper men. Eastern motorists were Interested in an experiment made recently in j Brooklyn, when a Maxwell was driven 5.2 miles on one and a quarter ounces less than a quart of gasoline. This is an average of 31.12 miles per gallon. Just as in the Detroit experiment, an ; auxiliary tank was used for the test. ; The Bureau of Weights and Measures! certified that the tank held less than a quart. The car used was a regular stork five-passenger touring mode! and carried five passengers, weighing approximately S»0«> pounds. Reo Truck Orders Are For Domestic Use Only "Yes. we did get a big truck order ' last week." replied R. C. Rueschaw, ! sales manager of the Reo Motor Truck t'onipany, in response to a query. I "But it wasn't a foreign order as the < stock brokers reported. 1 "Our order came from the good old i ' t". S. A., and while it wasn't all writ- i ten on the same order form, it did : ; come in the same mail Monday morn- J ing. Neither was it from Washington. It was from everywhere—and you'd , never guess where the biggest part of it came from. I "When I looked over the morning's orders 1 exclaimed, 'What are they:, to do, move Richmond, Indiana, ' across the border into Ohio, or what?' I For Richmond, Indiana, had sent us an order for twelve 2-ton trucks in one batch. "That's the kind of orders we Reo 1 folk like." continued Mr. Rueschaw— "orders from Richmond, Indiana, and Warren, Ohio, and Fort Atkinson. Wisconsin, and other similar metro politan cities of which there are thou sands and which, in the aggregate, ab sorb about 80 per cent, of the Reo product. And it is our pride that the | Reo motor truck factory Is running day and night and that we have or- j ders for forty days ahead of the fac tory output and that every one of those orders is for domestic use and I tor peaceful purposes. "We turned down two big orders t from the war zone recently, and, while we are throwing no bricks at those t who have accepted them, we art preening ourselves and strutting a bit with pride that our own country ab sorbs all the Reo trucks we can 1 make." Hupp Shows 69% Increase Over March of Last Year "The consistent Increase in the sales and production of Hupmobiles con tinued during March, when the Hupp | Corporation broke the big February ' record and made the month of March the largest In its history," says E. C. | Knsminger, distributor for the Hupp I Motor Car Corporation. "With the in- I creased facilities, production of cars at the Detroit plant was per cent, larger than for the same month last year. "The success the Hupp Corporation has had with its Series "N" has been one o fthe most remarkable ever en j Joyed by a motorcar concern. From the time the model was first put out 1 last June the Hupmobile factories have been unable to produce cars fast enough to meet the demand which j has steadily increased, so that the eon -1 oern is now farther behind in orders j for immediate delivery than it has been at any time during the present | selling season. This condition exists ; despite the fact that the production iof cars has steadily increased each j i month, and during March the best ' production of the year was made. "For the first quarter of 1916 the I Hupp Corporation enjoyed the best ! three months of its history, with a gain of 70 per cent, over the same quarter of 191 n! The most pleasing fact to the Hupmobile officials is the steady' I growth in both orders and produc- : tion. There has been a consistently large demand for cars of the Hupmo bile type alt season, and orders at the factory have not been receive!# in a* spasmodic way. Every distributor and dealer in the Hupmobile organization shows a big increase for bis territory | over the same period of last season. 1 In other words, the whole country is 1 > buying mute cur* Ihau ever before, i vs/ vs; " \*j <•) it \,The New Case 40-SIO9OI [£(< | | X/ie Car o/ |j rvy Only the long sweeping lines of the new -J L Case 40 are straight. All other lines have _[G 7(5 been molded into curves . All corners are gone. This plastic modeling—this collection ZfL V}_ of unbroken lines —give an air of distinction (0 found only in cars of character. <r- The unmistakable be only too glad to help' y beauty and many distin- you study the new Case IQ 7/ J guishing characteristics of 40 point by point. At r V? this new Case make men SIO9O this car, with 120- *)) spot this car and admire inch wheelbase, three- *7 * 1— it —envying one's owner- piece steel body and many Iv! 7(j ship. You will enjoy driv- refinements, cannot be ! ing a "different" car—one duplicated &at its \ price. -w i) ) that stands out in quiet May we expect you today I? - dignity from others. or tomorrow? Or shall U'®! 7) Why not begin your in- we send illustrated de- f)j -x r fill vestigation now? We will scription by mail? ill -> ' J Conover & Mehrlng Sole Distributors for Central Penna. M\ <j frkx 1713-1717 N. Fourth Street Bel ' p s h ° ne Harrisburg, Pa. K&f 6 / IS Kxc tiV" ,ce •* Slc th.' nc " / / fl World OTer World or#r Facilities For Building 1,000 Overlands Each Day The present plans of the Willys- j Overland Company calls for a great-1 ly Increased production schedule to I meet the unprecedented demand for! Overland and Willys-Knight cars. Last | year the factory turned out approxl- j mately 100,000 cars. At the present time the Overland plant is producing cars at the rate of more than 800 per day. Their out put for 1916 will total close to 200,- 000 cars. With the completion of new factory additions the Overland will possess the facilities for building 1 1,000 motorcars every twenty-rour hours. This daily production is more than double the number of cars that were produced durinsr the entire year of 1907 when the Overland car first made its appear ance. The phenomenal growth of the To ledo concern is attributed largely to the high-quality system of quality production methods, which have been in vogue at the Overland since its inception. By producing cars in large numbers they have not only reduced manufacturing costs to a minimum, hut they have been able to offer popu lar-priced cars of a fineness of work manship which the public has come to associate with cars of far higher price. AUTO STORAGE— First class, fireproof garage, open day and night. Rates reasonable. Auto Trans. Garage 5-Pa.ss< riger Touring SMS Koadster Type Sold Ensminger Motor Co. TMIIID AXI) CIMBKRI.AND STS. Bell I'hone 3515 > Am*ric*rt ENSMINGER MOTOR CO. THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STK. j Distributors. Hudson Super-Six Ascends the Lookout Mountain The first Hudson super-six demon strator to arrive at the salesroom of the Hudson distributor there, Tom Botterill, was given its baptism of fire by being pitted against Lookout Moun tain. This is one of the many peaks near Denver. It is thirty-five ihiles from Denver to the top of the moun- This New PEERLESS EIGHT confirms the value of long experience ~7p A/tORE painstaking attention, through a longer period of time, has IV± been given to the Peerless Eight than to any other model pro ® J dueed in the Peerless Factories. -pf 'i*- — 7 In performance, it is superior to the sixty horse power $6,000 "sixes" that jh —were a regular feature of the Peerless line for many years. Reduction in • J weight to 3500 pounds has nearly doubled the mileage per gallon of gasoline, while the per mile cost of tire replacement has been cut to less than one-third. -£-~ This new eight is a characteristic Peerless achievement in ease of riding and in beauty, qualities that have always made PEERLESS Motor •J Cars notable among the few great makes which dominate the quality market in A merica. Characteristics: PEERLESS V- Type Eight- Weight 3500 pounds; Complete Splendid Cylinder Motor, Cylinders 31x5; Force Feed Equipment, including Cord Tires, Extra Rim, Oiling; 125-inch VVheelbase; 35x44 Tires; Moto-meter and every needed accessory Touring SIB9O Roadster SIB9O Keystone jMotor Car Co. 1019-1025 Market Street C. H. Barner. Manager A Both Phones tain and back again to the city. The super-six turned the trick on high gear with three passengers. The roads were iin poor condition for travel. The road to the top of the mountain has an average grade of 6 per cent, for more I than four and one-half miles, winding upward from an altitude of about 5,200 feet at Denver to 7,200 feet at the top of the mountain. There was no apparent consumption of water in , the radiator. The entire trip, with • stops for pictures and return test for grade, was made at an average of ! about twelve miles to the gallon. The California Grays, San Fran* Cisco's select military organization, have recently purchased a Hudson through the H. O. Harrison Co., of San Francisco. On special order t« the factory, it was finished in a beauti ful pearl-gray. It is one of the hand-* soinest cars ever brought to that city, i Robert 11. Morgan, chairman of tlia I committee making the selection, states I the Hudson was chosen for its good • | name. 9
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