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■■■iiiiiilii A Great Car |
With a Great Motor
r I ""HIS five-passenger touring car
••Nohdltoottcep — x j s without exaggeration the
No and too deep" mo st beautiful car ever built
■■■■■llllßin by the Jackson Company. It is
I complete. There is generous room
for each one of the five passen
gers. The tonneau compartment is
exceptionally ample. The soft up
holstery is in real leather. Painting
and trimming is done in the Jack
son shops and there is an air of final
ity to every detail that makes both
!' dealer and owner proud of the car.
Its Eight cylinder "V" type, overhead
s valve motor is matchless in its simplicity, its
A I] flexibility, power and accessibility. It is
\ | easy starting in any weather. Its smooth
\ | ness is simply extraordinary. Come and
l : see. Find out for yourself.
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V I IT Fhe-Paieiifer Tour in* Car, $1295. Foar-Passenger
| i! Cruiser, including five wire -wheels $1395. Wood wheels
V\ !• SIOO lest. Two-Paienger Roadster, $1295. Five-Pas-
V j V aenger Sedan (Demountable Top) including regular
top. 51505. Alljurice, f. o. b. factory.
M\ IPUM AT THE ALTO SHOW
¥l P. H. KEBOCH |
District Sales Manager,
if—a V\ lU> STKEET HARRISBURG, HA.
Jackson^M
CONSTRUCTION IS
FLANKLIN'S POINT
\Y. Shank, Local Distributor,
Is Exhibiting 1917 Models
at Show
The Franklin for 1917 is built in one
rtype of chassis, on which the eight
types of bodies fit Interchangeably.
These are the touring car, runabout,
four-passenger, cabriolet, sedan,
brougham, limousine and town car.
(GEORGE H. SOURBIER
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
1310 North Third Street
Dell Phone. Auto Service. B
| p ro{ v ' I 'HE new Briscoe at $685 we believe is the best looking, the sweetest
1 •*■ rOgLCSS £ running automobile ever built at the price. Success has made it.
Increased production has lowered costs, provided more refinements.
i . * I 'OURING car has surprising roominess—try it! Four-passenger road
= J ster is the only car built with a full back to the front seat —a nov
elty—see itl Briscoe-built in Briscoe factories insures quality in
every detail.
i X/fpQCnaf* \/OU w iH tniss the real meaning the show holds for you if you
1 1* y fail to see the beautiful, handsomely finished and completely
equipped 1917 Briscoe models.
Five Passenger Tonrinfc Car $685 CoacXaira SBIO
Pour Puwnier Roadatar $665 Deli vary Car (Canopy Top Body) S7OO
E. T. MEHRING, Distributor
1717 N. IOIHTII ST.. IIAIUUSBUIIG, PA
Hell 5U5-J. Some Open Territory.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, HXRRISBURG TELEGRXPH FEBRUARY 14, 1917.
Prices on these various models range
from SI,BOO up to $3,000. A notice
able feature of Franklin body con
struction is the make-up of the body
sill and the method of attachment to
the chassis frame. The body proper
is without a floor—the chassis plat
form serving this purpose—and is sus
pended at four points on the chassis
frame. This construction serves two
purposes. It furnishes the lowest pos
sible floor line and, while allowing a
firm body sill to which door casings
and other framing may be anchored,
does not interfere with the resiliency
of the wood chassis frame.
Upholstery is hand-buffed, straight
grain leather, semibright finish. The
standard color Is Brewster green. In
tho case of the sedan model, provi
sion is made for suit case trunks.
Instead of the cylinders being cool
ed by water which in turn must be
cooled by air, the Franklin applies air
directly to the cylinders without water
as an intervening medium. Franklin
cooling eliminates a radiator, all hose
connections, pipes, pumps, water jack
ets, fan and belt—l 77 parts In all.
The Franklin is represented in Har
risburg territory by E. W. Shank and
is among the most attractive exhibits
of this year's automobile show.
BEST ENGINE IS
LIGHT AND SPEEDY
Expert of Oakland Company
Says Lightweight High Speed
Motor Is the Best
By A. C. HAMILTON.
Chief Engineer of the Oakland Motor
Car Company
From every angle the light high
speed motor is the best engine for
automobiles. Not only does it give the
motorist economy, flexibility and a
smoothness that cannot be equalled by
the heavy, slow speed type, but it
is the most logical from the point of
technique in motor construction.
Coming after the steam engine in
ternal combustion motors naturally
followed the best steam engine design.
At the outset engineers had nothing
from which to work except the steam
engine. The best principles of steam
engine design called for a large bore
and a short stroke in an engine whose
piston speed never exceeded a thou
sand feet a minute.
It was considered dangerous to at
tempt a higher speed per minute with
a steam engine, and the tirst internal
combustion engines were designed
with a large bore for the cylinder and
a short stroke. Experiment and test
showed the weak points of such con
struction.
The larger the heated surface of the
combustion chamber, the more waste
of heat and consequent loss of effic
iency, engineers found to be one draw
back. Then, too, the speed was held
down by the inertia of the reciprocat
ing parts energy lost when the
heavy piston was stopped at the end
of the upward or downward stroke.
The big heat surface of the large
bore, short stroke motor also prevent
ed the use of high compression be
cause it produced pre-ignition, com
monly called "spark knock," was ex
tremely hard on the bearings and dis
agreeable to the motorist.
To reduce the inertia of the recip
rocating parts and the charging and
scavenging of the cylinders.
With a view to reducing the heat
surface of the cylinder and elimin
ating all the waste heat possible the
bore of the cylinder was reduced and
the stroke lengthened. This not only
adds power by reducing the heat
losses, but it lightens the reciprocat
ing parts, thus reducing the inertia.
These points of construction gave
this type of motor a distinct advant
age over other types. It reduced the
heated surface so that "spark-knocks"
were eliminated. It permitted the in
stallation of the same sized power
unit in a shorter space, getting away
from the long heavy motor and en
abling designers to have more latitude
in the exterior lines of a motorcar.
Having established the superiority
of the long stroke small bored motor,
engineers discovered that the over
head valve gave the best results. This
is due to the fact that there arc no
pockets in the combustion chamber
in (his method of construction as op
posed to the L-head or T-head motors.
While harder to build, this type is
worth while, and its success as a pow
er producer is well recognized by
makers of aviation motors and auto
mobile racing cars.
In the construction of Oakland
"Sensible Six," both the overhead
valve and small bore long stroke
motor have been worked out to a
point of maximum efficiency. Oak
land Six motor represents the very
latest in approved practice of engine
construction.
IN NEGRO MINSTRKIJ DAYS
Farmer: Think of it! The number
of people nowadays who are done by
the middleman!
Grocer: But Just think back about
thirty years?
Farmer: As to what?
Grocer: How they used to be done
by the End Man!— Farm Life.
AUTO DEALERS
ON FINE BASIS
Expert Tells of New Conditions
That Have Helped the
Dealer
By Vice-President L. E. Willson,
Briscoe Motor Corporation.
The average automobile dealer to
day is making a good profit on his
investment. In the early days, pos
sibly because the business was new
and there were no established pre
cedents or plans to guide them, many
dealers had difficulty in breaking even
or lost out on the venture.
Your dealer to-day shows keen
judgment in the selection of the dif
ferent makes of cars, lie has learn
ed from experience—dear experience
—to gauge the wishes and require
ments of the motor buying public.
The ever widening lield or the more
diversified use of the motorcar lias
been a great factor in aiding the deal
er to make money.
Both dealers and manufacturers are
now co-operating to make the auto
mobile business a twelvemonth busi
ness. and regardless of the fact that
for years two breaks have occurred
during the automobile year —one the
change in models, the other the win
ter season—it has proved itself to be
the greatest industry of the ages.
Most manufacturers and wisely
too—are eliminating the break in the
selling season by making changes in
their cars as a gradual development
rather than an abrupt and sudden
change from one design to another.
The Briscoe Motor Corporation, like
numerous other makers, has been
working under this policy for some
time, and it is a welcome protection
to both dealers and owners, who here
tofore never knew at what moment
they might suffer a loss in value
through a change in the model of the
car they were selling or driving.
Aluminum Pistons Continue
in Use in Chalmers Car
With prices of raw materials jump
ing skyward, automobile manufac
turers are constantly confronted with
the temptation to lower the quality
of their product. That they con
scientiously refrain from doing so is a
tribute to their desire to manufacture
quality lirst cars.
"Probably no single item entering
into car manufacture has increased
in cost so much as aluminum," says
C. C. llinkley, chief engineer of the
Chalmers Motor Company. "Yet we
continue to use aluminum alloy pis
tons because we know that type to be
superior for installation in our high
speed motors.
"Six aluminum pistons cost approxi
mately $6; the same number of cast
iron pistons cost about sl, and in
creased expenditure holds good all
the way through our car. Our valves
are of tungsten steel, so hard that
they will stand the highest tempera
ture; the usual valve is of nickel alloy,
which is much cheaper. We use
pressed cotton gear, which costs four
times as much as the usual gear.
"Our constant endeavor is to build
a strong, light car with a powerful
motor. The aluminum piston used
in the motor of the Chalmers Six
weighs only twelve ounces. Compare
it with the usual castiron piston of
two and a half or three pounds in
weight and you can appreciate the
saving in weight and the resulting
low pressure on the connecting rod
and bearings.
"Weight and vibration are the two
greatest contributors to expense in j
operating a motorcar. By eliminating j
each factor to the best of our ability l
we have secured a car that ranks I
as one of the most economical on the ]
market. And economy seems to be i
the thing desired by the public."
Hudson Super-Six Car
Is Economical to Run
P. S. Blatchley, oil geologist, of
Champaign, 111., says the Hudson Su
per-Six is an economical car to own,
and submits figures to prove it. After
driving the Hudson car 5.4 69 miles in
three months, his running expense
I was $127.60.
! Thre hundred and ninety-five gal
i lons of gasoline were used to cover
I this mileage, a running average of
j 13.8 miles per gallon. Nineteen gal-
I gons of oil were used or one arallon
'for every 287 miles. One 400-mile
| and two 700 - mile trips were taken.
| Sixty per cent, of the remaining 3,600
I miles consisted of city driving. Mr.
i Blatchley says the engine of his Su
| per-Six was never touched for repair
ior adjustment, and that he is de
lighted with this record.
The Hudson display at the automo
bile show under the direction of L. 11.
Hagerling, local Hudson distributor,
is one of the most attractive there.
"I took four prominent residents of
Albany on a motor trip to Detroit to
attend the world's salesmanship con
gress," says E. V. Stratton, Hudson
distributer at Albany, N. Y. "We left
Albany at 5.35 in the morning and
reached Philadelphia at 0.15 p. m.
Half the trip was made through pour
ing rain. The route we went showed
258 miles. The round trip mileage
was 519 miles; and for the entire trip
the average mileage per gallon was
18.8 miles. On the return trip we
left Philadelphia at 9 a. m. and made
an hour and a half stop in Trenton,
reaching Albany at 8 p. m. We were
not driving at what would ordinarily
be considered a" economical speed.
"Many Super-Six owners in Albany
and other New York towns are gett
ing 16 to 20 miles on a gallon of gaso
line."
U. S. Army Engineers
Endorse Jeffery Trucks
To pass muster by United States
army engineers, a motortruck must
accept the time honored challenge of
the army mule and demonstrate its
ability to "go anywhere a four-mule
team "an go." This challenge has
been met successfully by the Jeffery
Quad again and again not only in
severe tests but in actual workaday
service down in Mexico.
The technical qualities that a mo
tor vehicle must meet to be selected
for service In this department of the
army are: Positive nonsllpping drive
on all four wheels, high ground clear
ance. both under axle and center of
truck (the reason Is obvious to any
one who has seen a motortruck cross
a desert or an unbroken field) ability
to revolve on all four wheels under
almost any road conditions.
In addition to possessing all the
above features the Jeffery Quad is
rendered all the more desirable by
having the ultimate in tractive abil
ity—namely its locking differentials
and special tire chains.
The Jeffery line is handled exclu
sively in Harrisburg territory by the
Bentz-Landis Auto Company of Lo
gan street.
A BETTER NAME
What does Bluffem call his new
country place?
Althea-among-the-Maples.
Huh! Last time I saw it I thought
of naming It Dog-fennel-among-the-
Uuck-plantatns.—Farm Life.
Dodge Sedan, Convertible,
Achieves Popularity
Keeping faith with the public
brings quick reward.
Evidence of -this truth is to be found
in the results following the recent
publication of the first advertisements
relating to the Dodge Brothers con
vertible sedan, exhibited at the Auto
mobile Show. The advertisements
stated merely that "the sedan is a ear
such as you would expect of Dodge
Brothers," and that it was designed
and built complete in Dodge Brothers'
works.
Immediately, and in most cases
without further idea of the car's ap
pearance, people began placing or
ders. The fact that Dodge Brothers
built it seemed a sufficient assurance
of refinement and quality. The re
sult is a demand with which dealers
may not be able to keep pace unless
there is a big change for the better
in shipping and manufacturing condi
tions generally.
The Dodge Brothers sedan, like the
Dodge Brothers coupe, is truly a car
of distinctive appearance. Designed
to embody the very latest and best in
American and foreign coach work, it
immediately conveys a lasting im
pression of comfort, quality and re
finement.
The greatest lines are conserva
tive as well as graceful and dignified.
With its flat type of root and the
absence of extreme lines, the body
is one that will suffer little from sud
den shifts of' fad or fashion. The
J J Compare! Now-compare! I j
| j Today the motor wares of J I j
1 the world are spread in |l
| I centered and splendid array 11 |
1 for your review and verdict. 11
I A week of opportunity! A ||
1 J "world's fair" in motor- || |
| dom! And a chance to see I
| | the new Twin-six under the 1 |
1 most auspicious circum l II
| ! stances. If the superiority 1 |
| lof the Packard has never 1 1 I
| been apparent to you, com- || j
| 1 parison must make it so j I j
| I now. An interesting and 1 j
1 an easy task! At the au- ||
| 1 tomobile show —you owe II 1
| |it to yourself to compare. | j I
I I
Display of
Used Cars
During the Auto Show we will ex
hibit at our Showroom Used Cars of
Standard Makes, rebuilt or overhaul
ed, some repainted, all in fine running
condition. They will be sold at
Winter
A small deposit will hold your car
till Spring.
Music From
The Overland-Harrisburg Co.
212 North Second Street
Closed Evenings this week.
color panel of the body is painted a I
deep blue, outlined by a cream-col- j
ored stripe. The cowl, body front,
fenders and hood are painted black !
and the wire wheels are a cream color I
to match the stripe.
The interior is conservative and ex- |
presses the same sense of refinement i
that is suggested by the lirst glance |
at the sedan 'from without. The gen- I
eral color scheme is gray with a bluish j
tint. The cushions are of the Turkish j
type, upholstered in gray and trim- I
med with narrow lace. Particular j
attention to comfort is evident in all !
details of the seating arrangements. I
The cushion springs are of the high- I
est grade material well padded with j
curled hair. Attractive in appear
ance and especially wide and deep, |
the rear seat is inviting in every re- i
spect. The roominess of the entire I
interior, in fact, is unusual for a se- j
dan.
The Dodge Brothers sedan is de
signed for use in summer as well as |
•in winter. Adaptability to all weather
I conditions is one of its most promi
| nent advantages. The arrangement of
' the doors and windows is such that in
j a few minutes it may be converted
I from a closed to an open car. In
I either form it retains its original ap
i pearance of dignity and refinement.
The rear side windows may be re
moved entirely and concealed in a
I narrow compartment especially built
: in the back of the rear cushions. The
1 remaining windows may be lowered
I from view and the pillars extending
I above the body may then be removed
I without difficulty and deposited un-
der the rear seat. This leaves tile
car entirely open from the wind
shield to the back panel. Either the
upper or lower sash of the wind
shield may be adjusted to any de
sired opening for ventilation.
All joints and fittings are made so
carefully that when the windows and
panels are in position it is difficult
to determine that the body is of the
convertible type. In all details of ex
terior finish and interior appoint
ment the Dodge Brothers' sedan is a
car of commanding individuality.
Tells Inspiration For
Geared-to-Road Tires
"When the motorist has to turn out
on a narrow road for a steam or gaso
line tractor, he is usually peeved, when
in reality he should be glad to give _
it the right of way," says P. C. Mill- ~
hoff, sales director of The Miller Rub
ber Company.
"You see," continues Mr. MiUhoff,
"long before the automobile and pneu
matic tire was even thought of, steam
tractors used a non-skid tread to give
them traction, and prevent skidding,
and it is this tread that Miller engineers
adopted to their pneumatic tire. They
I call it the 'Geared-to-the Road' tread,
i and it is similar in design and identi
cal in action with the tread used years
! afro, and still universally used on trac
tors.
"The sharp-geared teeth of the Miller
I "Geared-to-the-Road' tread cut through
the slush and mud and mesh with the
pavement. They literally get your car
| to the road.
"So you see the motorist does owe
I something to the efficient, yet none too
handsome tractor which sometimes
| seem to "hog the road.' "