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Gasoline Leakage Makes
Motor Wear Expensive
'•I am not at all anxious that motor
ists should consider me a crank or a
calamity howler," says Max Hagel
stine, service manager of the Stude
baker corporation, who has attracted
considerable attention throughout the
country by his frequent pertinent
tips to automobile owners, "but 1 cer
tainly do want folks to know more
about their cars and the proper care
"'"Take the matter of lubrication, for
instance. 1 ilrmly believe motorists
cannot know too much about lubrica
tion and lubricating oils. Lack of
knowledge means loss of pleasure, loss
of time and, oftentimes, considerable
loss of money. And there is one un
derlylng phase of the subject which is
often overlooked by motorists and jet
which is the base of many lubricating
troubles. 1 refer to what is common
ly known as 'gasoline leakage.
"Gasoline leakage Is generally
caused by a certain amount of mix
ture which is not burned and finds its
wav into the crank case diluting the
oil and destroying its UibricaUng qual
ities from 10 per cent, to 30 per cent.
!n from two weeks to a month's time,
depending upon weather conditions.
This means that on the compression
stroke some of the gaseous mixture
from the combustion chamber leaks
nast the piston rings and condenses
in the cool crank case. This action is
due to the fact that the oil does not
perfectly seal the space between the
cylinder walls and the piston rings.
In some instances this leakage has
been so marked that oil taken from a
crank case, due to the la .
of gasoline present, exploded when
touched with a match.
"Of course It Is perfectly
that gasoline is not a good lubricant.
And It does not take much speculation
to determine what will happen to a
motor if no steps are taken to prevent
the gasoline from leaking into the
crank case and becoming a part of
the lubricant. . .
"Oil, diluted with gasoline, becomes
a mighty poor lubricant and will leave
the cylinders dry if allowed to con
tinue unchecked. This will cause wear
and necessitate the replacing of some
vital part of the internal mechanism
of the motor. "Wrist pins, cylinders and
pistons are very apt to suffer from
this gasoline leakage—with great
danger of burnt out connecting rods
and main bearings.
"Motorists can avoid this trouble
and gain assurance of a perfect seal
between piston and cylinder walls by
the use of a good motor oil, of course,
and the frequent draining of the oil in
the crank case.
"If owners will drain off the old
oil in a crank case often—say once
everv two weeks in cold weather, and
once' a month during the summer—
and replenish with fresh oil, there
need be no fear of the oil deteriorat
ing and losing its oririnal lubricating
qualities. Five dollars spent this way
may save a bill of from fifty to one
hundred dollars in a season for neces
sary repairs. The frequent changing
of oil in the crank case during a
period of seven months would not
amount to the price of one piston—
and it only takes about ten minutes'
time to make the change."
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Fairfield "Six-46" seven-passenger.
Fleetwood "Six-38" five-passenger.
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COMPARISONS ARE
APT TO MISLEAD
Miles Per Gallon Does Not
Necessarily Prove Service
ability of Car
During a discussion among several
show visitors last night concerning the
advertising claims of many motor car
manufacturers, W. R. Strickland, chief
of the Peerless Motor Car Company's
engineering department, came out flat
footed with a statement which, on the
face of It, appears to conflict with the
ideas of about 90 per cent, of the
automobile builders. "In the absence
of definite standards, comparative fig
ures on the performance of a car are
misleading and generally worthless,"
he declared.
"Broadly speaking, the statement
that a big car will make better than
twelve and fifteen miles an hour on
a gallon of gasoline means nothing,"
he continued. "Or to say that it will
make seventy-two 'miles an hour,
means very little to the consumer. The
real Information sought by the in
telligent buyer is: What will the car
accomplish under all conditions; how
will it take the bad roads; Is it easily
handled in dense traffic; will it climb
hills; does it waste fuel and so on and
so on.
"Anyone who knows anything at all
about building automobiles knows that
it is no extraordinary feat to put to
gether a car which under certain con
ditions will make ninety miles an
hour, but the suitability of the car
for ordinary purposes is another ques
tion. In fact, It might be absolutely
worthless for touring or normal city
driving and still It would make ninety
miles an hour. It is no real trick to
get a big gasoline mileage under cer
tain conditions. For instance, if the
driving surroundings are just right a
car might roll off twenty miles to the
gallon of gasoline on one occasion and
that same car would have less than a
twelve-mile average for down town
work or for average country roads."
"My advice to the buying public
is this: See what the car will do under
all kinds of conditions, before you buy.
Make the demonstrator take you over
rough roads, climb hills, drive through
crowded traffic, speed It up on a level
highway and then compare its per
formance under those conditions with
| that of competitive cars. Finally, buy
| the one which shows up the best. That
lis the way to tell the efficiency of
a car."
"Because of its powerful 80-horse
power motor, the Peerless car can fur
nish all the speed, and even more, that
anyone could wish. It was only a few
weeks ago that It won the dealers'
event at the Unlontown, Pa., races
with an average speed of 80 miles an
hour and at times negotiating as high
as 95 miles an hour. Even then the
driver had not exhausted the full pos
sibilities of the motor. But, neverthe
less, the Peerless has something to
talk about besides speed. It points to
the fact, and proves it, that it is an
admirable car for all around service.
It has power, speed, comfort, beauty
and a type of design which is used
only by the makers of the most costly
cars.
"When any reference is made to
Peerless gasoline mileage, you can de
pend upon it that the figures used
were not taken on a test trip, es
pecially to obtain the maximum mile
age under the most favorable condi
tions. The figures are taken from
across country trips, generally, and'
they include every kind of driving ob
stacle which the ordinary motorist
would be liable to encounter. With
this in view, it means something when
the Peerless Company says that 15
and more miles per gallon of gasoline
have been obtained by its product."
"The public is beginning to realize
this and that is one tf the reasons
why the demand for Peerless Eights is
greater than the supply."
BIBLE CLASS SOCIAL
New Cumberland, Pa., March 31.
On Thursday evening an enjoyable so
cial was given by the Men's Bibltf
class of Trinity United Brethren
Church under direction of a commit
tee with George Rigling as chairman.
G. W. Heffleman, president of the
class, delivered a short address and
welcomed the guests. The Rev. J. R.
Hutchinson offered prayer and the
Sunday school orchestra of twelve
pieces furnished music. Features on
the program were: Music by quar
tet, consisting of Miss Esther Snell,
Miss Ruth Williams, J. W. Wright and
Daniel Sites; baritone solo, William
Boycr; solo, Frank Entry. The Young
Men's Glee Club also sang and Jesse
Stone and Ira Ryder gave an instru
mental duet. A feature of the enter
tainment was cartoon work and
slight-of-hand tricks by Prof. Haley.
Miss Elizabeth Smaling was the pian
ist. Ice cream, cake and sandwiches
were served.
Nothing marks an auto as of the
ancient vintage so distinctly as the
tarnished and battered brass work.
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All Super-Six Racers
to Finish Is Hudson Policy
"Hudson's fleet or Super-Six racers
virtually will run 'from back of
scratch' in all the Important Events
this year," said L. H. Hagerling, Hud
son representative.
"The handicap is self-imposed. In
order to satisfy Hudson alms, all of
the great roces must finish.
"When one considers the compara
tively small percentage of racers in
the big speed events which finish at
all, it is at once apparent that the
Hudson has assumed almost an im
possible impost.
"But in winning all worthwhile rec- j
ords last year the Hudson was never I
extended to the limit of its endurance.
There always remained a big reserve
of power and endurance that was
never required even in those terrible
tests.
"This year, therefore, the Super-
Six will be put to the ultimate test.
Long distance races at frightful speed
will be required of the cars —and all
must finish to satisfy Hudson. An
honest exposition of these qualities of
endurance of endurance and power
demands that the race cars adhere
to Super-Six stock structure. This has
been done. The principal change is in
shortening the chassis. The Super-
Six racers will be pitted against spe
cially constructed freaks in which
every quality has. been subordinated
to speed. They do not even distantly
resemble the stock cars of the names
they bear. Therefore their perform
ance signifies nothing of what can be
expected of their stock car. In the
course of a year of ordinary car
usage, one of these cars would con
sume thousands of dollars In fuel.
"But the qualities which the Super-
Six racers will demonstrate in these
speed events are the same that the
purchaser of a SUper-Six stock car
gets. That is why the Hudson did not
radically depart from stock car struc
ture in building its racers.
"The Hudson does not expect to
take first place in all of even a few |
of these races. But it does expect the
Super-Six to maintain a high average
speed—always among the leaders—
and always to finish.
"That undertaking is so broad that
to be perfectly honest it must be quali
fied. Hudson knows the Super-Six,
and knows it is capable of enduring
the most terrific trials of speed and
endurance, and always to finish. But
there are the chances of the track,
over which no amount of scientific
building has control. Some track
catastrophe, spraddling across the
course of a fast-flying Super-Six, may
involve it also. Bar those chances all
Hudsons will finish. The makers are
confident of that because they know
the Hudson cars. And Hudson own
ers everywhere are confident of ft be
cause they know the Hudson Super-
Six, also.
jeffery Quad Solves
Difficult Haulage Problem
Because a Jeffery Quad proved its
ability to negotiate the heavy mud
roads leading into a tract of timber
near Erie, Pa., after teams and rear
drive trucks had been abandoned in
despair, the Conneaut Shovel Com
pany of Conneaut, Ohio, saved 40,000
feet of first quality white ash.
"We purchased this timber under
a contract with a teaming concern to
haul the logs into Erie at $7.50 per
thousand loaded on the train," says G.
W. Benton, secretary, treasurer and
manager of the Conneaut Shovel Com
pany, in a letter to C. W. Nash, presi
dent of the Nash Motors Co.
"The teamsters went into the woods
with three big teams and worked two
months. At the end of that time they
had made no advancement and we
were forced to loan ihem money to
continue their contract, incidentally
advancing the price per thousand to
$10.50. They finally thx*ew up the
contract.
"We then tried to sub-let the job
but found that it was impossible to
get anyone to undertake it. I called
a directors' meeting and laid the case
before them. They suggested trucks.
The i writer went personally to sev
eral of the big motor truck factories
and asked for demonstrations. But I
found that none of the rear drive units
could hope to cope with the problem.
"Then I went to Kenosha and saw
a Jeffery Quad perform. In this dem
onstration the truck was loaded down
with pig iron and driven down to a
dump lield where dumping from vari
ous excavations had ben piled. When
we arrived at this field the demon
strator simply turned at a right angle
to the curb line and the truck waddled
up the curb, across the sidewalk and
into the field. Through piles of loose
earth that came up to the body,
through mud holes, over railroad ties
the truck kept on its way as if this
was a usual performance. But after
watching the test I was convinced that
1 had found the solution of our haul
ing problem.
"When we tried the Quad on the
timber we found that we could bring
tho logs from Erie, we found that
we could deliver to our factory for
almost the same amount that it would
otherwise cost for Just hauling it to
Erie and loading it on the train. In
other words we affected a saving of
$7.00 a thousand in bringing in this
timber.
"Since that time this truck has been
driven through the deep sand along
the shores of Lake Erie where teams
were unable to load up their quota of
sand and pull out. We have climbed
wash banks on the creeks south of
here with loads of logs where all
telims, trucks and automobiles gave up
in despair. We even drove it into a
moulding sand pit where no team has
ever been able to pull a load out and
where four horses are often stuck
with a light wagon. We backed
through this pit when one end of the
truck was sunk so far down that the
frame dragged on the sand. But the
Jeffery Quad pulled out without
scarcely an effort."
Haynes Breaks Washington
to Richmond Auto Record
D. B. Gish, Washington, D. C., driv
ing a stock six-cylinder Haynes tour
ing car, broke the automobile record
between Richmond, Va., and Wash
ington, D. C., September 19. The new
record of 4 hours and 4 minutes clips
61 minutes off the previous mark.
Mr. Gish drove the same car with
which l he recently broke the New
York-Washington road record in 7
hours and 26 minutes.
The driver with three passengers
motored to Richmond on the day
preceding the run to prepare for the
dash over the rather rough roads of
the Old Dominion. At 5.25 the fol
lowing morning, they headed in a
northerly direction, passing through
Solomon, Spotsylvannla, Fredricks
burg, Dumfries, Alexandria and across
the Potomac into Washington, where
they checked at the municipal build
ing at 9.29.
The motorists passed through the
Chopwamslc swamp below Dumfries,
while it was still heavy with mud in
various places, following heavy rains,
without shifting from high gear. Af
ter negotiating this bad stretch of
road, while speeding down'a hill in the
vicinity of Occoquan, one of the rear
tires blew out. This accident pre
vented a high gear run, and raised
the time of the drive over the four
hour mark.
The average on the run over high
ways on which fast traveling is diffi
cult was better than 35 miles an hour.
On the last leg of the trip from Acco
tlnk Into Washington a speed of 55
miles an hour was maintained. The
previous record of 4 hours and 55
minutes for the 138.5 miles between
Richmond and the national capital
I was made over a year ago in a twelve
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The Sun Never Sets
on the Briscoe
Host everybody'is familiar with the
proud boast o£ the English, which
states that the sun never sets on the
English flag.
Briscoe cars can also claim this dis
tinction as they are now sold in fifty
one foreign countries, islands and
colonies. Regularly established -deal
ers are to be found in Algeria, Antigua,
Argentine Republic, Australia, Barba
dos, Bolivia, British East Africa, Brit
ish Guiana, Chile, China, Cochin China,
Cuba, Curacao, Denmark, Dominican
Republic, Dutch Guiana, Ecuador,
Egypt, England, France, Gibraltar,
Grenada, Hawaii, Holland, Hungary,
India, Japan, Java, Mexico, Morocco,
Newfoundland, New Zealand, Norway,
Peru, Philippine Island, Russia, St.
Martins, Salvador, Scotland, Siam,
South Africa, Spain, Straits Settle
ments, Sumatra, Sweden, Switzerland,
Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela, and
Wales.
The Briscoe car being of French
origin and design is very popular with
foreign buyers, whose discriminating
taste has been developed by the high
priced machines manufactured and
used extensively abroad.
It would require a search through a
pretty big Atlas to find mfiny places
of importance on mother earth where
Briscoe cars are not to be seen in
gratifying numbers.
Three Super-Sixes Added
to Japan's Imperial Fleet
The Emperor of the Flowery King
dom rides in a Hudson Super-Six. It
is the only American built car attach
ed to the Imperial Household of Ja
paij.
The llrst Hudson Super-Six—a
Limousine —was purchased for the
imperial household a month ago from
the Japan Automobile Company, Hud
son distributors in Japan. Within two
weeks two others were added, a town
car and a town car landaulet. They
are for the emperor's personal use,
and it is reported that the selection
was dictated by him, although of
course, attaches of the household
made the purchase.
The prestige accorded to the Hudson
Super-Six in Japan through its selec
tion by the emperor can scarcely be
estimated by Americans, unless they
know the Idolatrous esteem in which
the ruler is held hy his subjects.
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• The Studebaker SIX
—An Evolution
THE Series 18 Studebaker Six is an The roadability, the easy riding qualities
evolution. It is the result of four of Studebakers are recognized by all ex
years' concentrated study of the perform- perienced motorists.
ance of 300 000 Studebaker Automobiles p ackard and p;
m the hands of owners. . . , . „ . . , ..
baker retains its graceful, aristocratic
It is even better than the Series 17, for ,; nes from year to year
it embodies ninety distinct improvements
of mechanical construction, convenience The manufacturing methods applied in ,
and comfort. the production of the Studebaker Six
It has been refined to a point of practi- have been developed by four years con
cal perfection. tinuous experience with single basic de-
It is the lightest car in ratio to its power This fact al ° ne ha . s enabled
on the market. baker to kee P lts P rlce remarkabl y
In ratio to power it is the most econom- ' ow °
ical in consumption of gasoline. Last year the entire Studebaker output •
Its weight L- scientifically distributed, its was
balance refined to such a point that a were disappointed. This year, too, the
single set of tires frequently runs from production is limited. Be wise—place
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Willys-Overland Announces
Staggered Door Type Sedan
The Willys-Overland Company of
Toledo, Ohio, is now building a stag
gered-door type of convertible sedan
body on its Willys-Knight Four
chassis.
The doors in this type of body are
placed so that the entrance for the
passengers is located in the middle of
the car on the right side, giving the
passengers an unobstructed passage
way to their seats.
The driver's door, however, is at the
front of the car, on the left side, so
that he interferes with no one when
he enters or leaves the automobile.
Up time of the introduction
of this type of body, the convertible
sedans were equipped with doors on
each side in the middle of the car.
It is expected that the installation
of staggered doors will add to the
popularity of the Willys-Knight sedans
which already have become one of the
most admired types of the comprehen
sive Willys-Overland line.
Touring Sedan Has Proven
Practical For Summer
With the summer touring season
on apace, another time-worn illusion
anent the closed car. has been dis
pelled. Heretofore, the only manner
in which a single chassis could be
utilized the year round, was to pur
chase two bodies of lirpousine and
touring design and switch the two nt
the dictates of temperature.
The touring or convertible sedan
I has changed ail this. It has long been
demonstrated that the vast majority
of motorists seldom lower the tops
on their touring cars during an entire
season. With this in view motor car
designers brought forth the touring
! sedan with permanent top, and the
driving public has welcomed the type
with open arms.
Reports from the Chalmers Motor
Company indicate an unprecedented
sale of the Chalmers touring sedan
model. It has proven to be the only
type yet brought out that is called for
MARCH 31, 1917.
365 days In the year, \yomen motor-"
ists In particular, who have struggled
with refactory "one man tops," dur
ing sudden summer showers, have
flocked to the standard of the sedan,
and their influence is seen in the rec
ord spring sale of these cars.
The all-giaps construction of the
body, which has rendered it a "sun
parlor on wheels," in the winter
months, is removed with ease and the
interior is opened wide to the summer
breezes. In the Chalmers sedan the
driver's seat is of the club chair type.
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weather role of closed car during tht
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