FEW CHANGES
IN HAYNES SIX
Details of Appointment and
Minor Improvements
Only Changes
In tho minds of many automobile
owners, the opinion has pretty well
established itself that it is necessary
for motor car manufacturers to radi
cally change their cars at least once a
year as a sales stimulant.
For two and a half years, however,
the Haynes Automobile Company has
continued the manufacture of its
"Light Six" car. During- this period,
the body and the motor have not been
changed, with the exception of a few
details of appointment, and minor im
provements in mechanical equipment.
At the same time, while the floor space
of the Haynes factory has been more
than doubled, production has never
been able to catch up with the de
mand.
The unceasing stream of orders for
"Light Six" automobiles according to
Mr. Miller, of the Miller Auto Com
pany, local Haynes distributors, has
been typical of conditions in the sales
departments of a number of manufac
turers of light six-cylinder motor cars
although the makers who pioneered
In the field naturally held an advan
tage. So wel ,ie need for a high
power automt .ie of low weight been
satisfied by this type of car, that the
purchaser has found his requirements
for fcomfortable and economical travel
met. in every particular without any
necessity .for change in design.
On the advent of the "Light Six" to
the motor car market two years ago,
the new engine marked progress over
the heavier types that had preceded it,
in valve design and the lightening of
moving parts. The latter improve
ment, which was made possible by
reducing the bore of tho cylinders, en
abled automobile engineers to apply
a large number of smaller power im
pacts to the crankshaft in place of a
few heavy impulses. The result was a
smooth running high speed motor
with a wide range of power.
The valve improvements on the
"Light Six" motors consisted of short
ening and enlarging the passages, so
A. H. Shaffer
Distributor For
Kelley-Springf ield Tires
88 S. Cameron St.
You can remember when motor cars
had to be cranked by hand and when
you had to light the lamps all 9 round
with matches
These tilings are funny—now.
A year from now a hand gear shift will begin to
look funny; and in time it will be just as silly as a
hand crank, or lamps that you light with a match, or
a tonneau that opens in the back like an ice wagon.
The hand gear shift is doomed. V
All cars will ultimately discard it.
In the meantime the Premier has already done so—
Premier's gears are shifted by push buttons.
Premier iB the first car in the world to give the
public a magnetic push button gear shift as regular
equipment and without any extra charge.
PENN-MAR AUTO CO.
1133 Mulbery Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Bell, 2696-J M. K. Thompson, Mgr
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that each cylinder was completely fill
ed with gas at the time the explosion
occurred. With this betterment of
automobile design, tho intake mani
fold was cast in the motor block to
prevent fuel condensation on the way
from the carburetor to tlie combus
tion chamber.
These items in design worked to
ward fuel economy, which during a
period of high priced gasoline, has ac
counted for much of the popularity
of "Light Six" cars.
Thm Aluminum Six with Magnetic Guar Shift
FINE SERVICE
FOR REO OWNERS
Harrisburg Auto Co. Conducts
Service Station Along "Ser
vice Lines"
"Reo Service for Reo Owners'" is
the slogan of George C. McFarland,
of the Harrisburg Auto Company, Reo
distributors, who have one of the
largest exhibits of the local automo
bile show.
Mr. McFarland is one of Harris
burg's first automobile men, conse
quently is well versed in the require
ments of the pleasure car and truck
owner.
"Since 1903, said Mr. McFarland, re
cently, "when the first Reo truck was
built, there have been no radical
changes. The first principles were
right and the company has simply
improved the car gradually.
"Just as an example to show you
how we are equipped for repair work
at our service station, let me state
that we have enough parts to build a
Reo truck complete right in our stock
room, so there is no possible chance
of a Rea being laid up while waiting
for parts.'
"When a pleasure car is held up for
repairs, it simply means the loss of a
pleasure trip. We long ago realized the
difference between the temporary loss
of a pleasure car and a truck. For
that reason the service station makes
special effort to get trucks back on the
street as soon as possible so that tho
business of the owner will suffer no
great inconvenience.
"In buying a truck, the greatest, care
should be used to determine the finan
cial standing of the concern which
makes it. It would be most inconven
ient, if, after you had laid out your
money, you found that the factory had
gone out of business and that you
were unable to get necessary parts for
repairs, vln this connection, I would
like to make it clear that the Keo
Company has built cars since 1903 and
that it is the second strongest auto
concern financially in the United
States."
Touring Sedan Has Taken
Hold of Public Fancy
"The Overland touring sedan of the
convertible type seems to be designed
particularly for just these winter
days," says Carl Harrison of the Over
land-Harrisburg Company.
"The call o ftho open is a hard thing
to resist and tho winter afternoons ap
peal to all drivers. Each new season
has brought us some advantage in mo
tor cars. Sometimes this conies in the
form of a mechanical change; some
! times in newer and better body lines.
"This year the improvement has
taken the form of a convertible tour
ing sedan. Here is a car that is bound
to appeal to that class which wants
to use a ear all tho year round.
"The automobile owner no longer
wants to confine his driving to the
summer alone; many owners cannot
afford to have two cars—a touring car
for summer use and a limousine for
winter.
"They have tried the removable top,
bmut that wasn't quite what they
wanted.
"The new Overland Model 85 tour
ing sedan—on either four or six-cylin
de chassis —gives the motorist all the
advantages he has sought.
"Mechanically, the Overland touring
sedan is like the open touring car; the
equipment is the same.
"For wintry or stormy weather, this
car is an ideal conveyance. For the
dinner, opera of dance no better pro
tection can be imagined.
"For fair weather, the touring se
dan is a touring car with top up."
Pullman Line Shows
Much Improvement
"We have particularly good reason
to feel elated at the Automobile
Show," said L. A. Wallace, president
of the Pullman Motor Sales Company.
"Our unprecedented increases in sales
and production have won far greater
recognition than ever before, the Pull
man car having made wonderful
strides in popularity everywhere.
"This recognition has won for our
exhibit a prominent place in the au
tomobile world," he continued/ "and
we are confident the 1917 Pullman
line cannot fail to receive its full
measure of approval this week.
"The exhibit, which includes the
1917 four cylinder models, consisting
of the five passenger touring, and four
passenger roadster shows many im
provement over last year's models.
Representing the experience of thir
teen years in motor car building, the
touring and roadster models possess
many distinguishing features.
"Wo have topped the little old last
year's car at every point—a little long
er wheelbase (11 inches), a little more
power on the hills, a little more speed
on the level, a lot more room, a lot
more ease and comfort, infinitely more
beautiful lines —in fact, a great deal
more car for the money in every way.
"The Pullman is built by one of the
oldest Concerns in the industry. It has
an ancestry of cup racers behind it.
It is built by experienced car builders,
men who have built high priced and
quality cars and know how to put real
quality and real car into the SBOO
class.
"Far from gambling with an unknown
ihere's immense asset in the name
Pullman, a great selling momentum
in the reputation behind it. It is more
car to the square inch in every way
than has ever been offered in this
class before."
Chandler Prospects Brighter
Than Ever Says Dunlap
As indicating the exceptionally sub
stantial development of the business of
the Chandler Motor Car Company,
I Cleveland, hales Manager Dunlap points
to the fact that during the recent series
of conferences at the factory with dis
tributors from all sections or the United
States, bona fide contracts for more
than J27.000.000 worth of Chandler
Sixes, figuring all cars contracted for
at touring car prices, were closed for
the year of 1917.
"This in itself would be big business,"
said Mr. Dunlap, "but when you stop
to think that many of the cars pur
chased under our distributors' con
tracts are enclosed models listing at
prices higher than the touring car
price, and that our export business,
which Is growing by leaps and bounds
and Is now a considerable factor in our
total volume, is not included In these
figures you will realize that Chandlar
business is big business."
The Chandler company is manufac
turing 25.000 cars to take care of its
1917 sales.
POISONED BY SALMON
Sunbury. Pa., Feb. 14. - Eating
heartily of canned salmon, Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Uplinger suffered an at
tack of ptomaine poisoning and are in
a serious condition. Their three-year
old son, Claude, Jr., did not eat and
this probably saved Ills llfo.
Republic Truck Factory
Is Still Branching Out
Republic factory buildings now cov
er about twenty acres. For the last
three years building operations have
been continuous and are now proceed
ing on a larger scale than ever. The
growth of the plant has given a de
cided impetus to Alina and real es
tate, and building operations are ac
tive. Hundreds of houses are being
erected for the truck company's em
ployes.
The company recently occupied its
own radiator plant where the lCepuo
lic armored type radiator will bo built
for all models.
A i-einforced steel and concrete fac
tory. 1,000 feet long, now going
under roof. Is lor the exciusive pro
duction of Republic Dispatch. It will
be paralleled immediately by another
plant of similar dimensions for this
model.
The Republic Is now the largest fac
tory in the world exclusively devoted
to the manufacture of motor trucks.
PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIER BURIED
Sunbury, Pa., Feb. 14.—The body
of Charles E. Emschweller, of North
umberland, a member of Company E,
Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, who
died at El Paso, Texas, was buried to
day. The body was accompanied by
a military escort.
AUTO STORAGE—
First class, fireproof garaga,
open day and night. Rates
reasonable.
Auto Trans. Garage
Of course, while you're in the show you
won't miss seeing the standby of the
Hupmobile line—the touring car.
It numbers its friends by the thousands
—good, staunch friends whose belief in
it can no more be shaken than my own.
New models come and go, but this Hup
mobile looms larger and larger every
9 -f year as the car of the American family.
XC/vXJLXXx V I honestly believe you will not find in
the whole show another car around its
price that is so big, so comfortable and
so thoroughly well built.
car
There are so many little Hupmobile in
dividualities; so many details that bor
der on luxury. That's why it's the car
of the American family. By all means
meet the new Hupmobile at the show!
D. F. Garber
Harrisburg Branch
Hupmobile Sales Corporation
103 Market St. At the Auto Show
Paige "Six" Has Something
New in "Final Drive" Feature
The motoring public looking for in
teresting mechanical improvements
will not be disappointed in this year's
show. While no innovations that
might be termed radical have been
revealed in the new models of the
gasoline driven cars, yet several im
portant structural and mechanical ad
vances may bo quoted.
Perhaps the most important of
these is found in the new Paige Sixes.
These cars are described as "the
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Market Street Lemoyne, Pa.
Best Equipped Machine Shop in or
Near Harrisburg.
Automobiles Repaired and Rebuilt.
High Class Workmanship Guar
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Prompt Delivery. Reasonable Prices
IRVIN H. HEIGES
most beautiful car in America," but
the fact that designers have not over
looked mechanical progress is evi
denced in the new Paige final drive
and frame construction now shown
for the first time and which can be
found in no other chassis.
In the new Paige construction the
propeller shaft is divided into two
short lengths and has a bearing at
about its center. This design is in
tended to eliminate all tendency to
"whip," which racks and strains the
entire mechanism. Vibration and
noise at high speed are also elimi
nated.
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