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GARFORD ROAD
BUILDING TRUCK
Meets Demand For Modern Ap
paratus; Company Strong
Good Roads Booster
order to fully answer the ever
present demand for more mqdern road
building machinery, the Garford Mo
tor Truck Company, of Lama, Ohio,
has introduced a new model which is
known as the Garford road builder
and is specially designed to build and
maintain roads of all types at a lower
cost than ever before. It is most fit
ting that the Garford Company should
be an important factor in the manu
ture of road building trucks, in jriew
of the fact that it was a pioneer in
the good roads movement, and since
its formation, has been one of the
country's staunchest advocates of road
improvement.
At an expenditure of many thou
sands of dollars, this company has
waged unceasing campaigns for the
construction of good roads, and the
announcement of the most practical
and economical road builder ever
produced will be of more than ordi
nary interest.
The Garford road builder will oper
ate over any kind or condition of
road, as it is so designed that it will
perform work on roads under con
struction on fills or sub-grades.
This modern vehicle for road build
ing and road maintenance has a
body capacity of five cubic yards,
equivalent to six tons, and its
strength is insured by its heavy type
of steel construction. The body is
Hanged at the top and at the corners,
and is reinforced with extra heavy
gusset plates. It is supported on two
four-inch I beams running length
wise and connected by live four-inch
I beam cross sills. The body is ten
feet long, twenty-four inches deep
and is six feet wide at the front and
six and one-half feet wide at the rear
end. making impossible any binding
of the load while being dumped.
An important feature of the body
i-onstruction is the regulation of the
tail-gate opening for the spreading of
material to any desired thickness. The
hoist is operated by hydraulic pres
sure and an automatic cut-out is pro
vided at the extreme dumping angle.
The entire mechanism is controlled
from the driver's seat' and is so simple
that any truck driver can quickly be
come accustomed to it.
The standard equipment of the
Garford road builder includes two
draw bars, one of the double spring
tvpe for trailer work, and one rigid
drop bar for pulling plows, scarifiers,
graders and scrapers.
The front wheels are equipped with
wide center rims and the rear wheels
with cleats of the herring hone type,
all of which may be easily and quicl>-
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SIMPLE BUT EFFICIENT DEVICE
USED TO TRUE OVERLAND TIRES
As an example of the thoroughness
and accuracy with which even the
minutest details are performed in the
automobile industry no better illus
tration can be furnished than the in
spection of tires at the factory of the
Willys-Overland Company.
Each tire, after the wheel has been
assembled, is thoroughly inspected and
tested for alignment. It must be lined
up evenly with the rim before it can
be placed on a chassis.
The inspector mounts the wheel on
a pivot, then swings a roller into place
against the rim of the wheel. Along
ly detached. The herring bone cleat
gives better traction in mud or on
sub-grades with less vibration.
The chassis carries out the well
known Garford design, the exclusive
and popular feature of short wheel
base—only 12 S inches.
This is secured by the motor under
cab construction. The engine being
in front of the driver's seat, is acces
sible for adjustments without leaving
the cab.
The short wheel base makes turning
possible on very narrow roads and
cramped quarters, where such trucks
usually have to go for loading. At the
same time a short frame length re
duces weight and adds sturdiness to
the construction.
The four cylinder, heavy duty mo
tor affords simplicity in construction
with greatest efficiency in operation.
Its three heavy plain bronze bearings
provide for any readjustments. Speed
of motor is controlled at all speed
changes through a Garford governor
of ball or centrifugal type.
Transmission of power through
work drive jack shaft to rear wheels
through sprocket and chains provides
for greater gear reductions, thereby
giving a maximum of power.
This jack shaft construction is
unique and at the same time highlv
efficient. A worm of hardened steel,
operating in conjunction with a bronze
gear gives high power producing pos
sibilities and insures long life to these
parts. The jack shaft is splined into
the differential, which is carried In
side the worm gear. Drive sprockets
at tha outer ends of the jack shaft
carry chains to the rear wheels.
All of the wheel bearings are of
special design of heavy roller Timken
type, permitting readjustment when
necessary on account of natural wear.
The transmission has four speeds
forward and one reverse with direct
drive on fourth. This gives proper
gear reductions for pulling under all
conditions with the necessary speed
in fourth for the better stretches of
road.
Other details of design anfl con
struction are in full accord with Gar
ford practice and up to the usual
high standard of the Garford Motor
Truck Company.
The road builder has been tested
out thoroughly and has exceeded ex
pectations. Its pulling power is as
tonishing, and being constructed for
operation over all kinds of roads, it
fulfills a multitude of the needs of
contractors in this and other lines.
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open day and night. Rates
reasonable.
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side of this roller, pressing against the
bight point of the tire he firmlyvholds a
marker, while he revolves the wheel.
Naturally he marks the spots which
are in alignment, and misses the por
tions of the tire which require further
adjusting. The defects are then quick
ly remedied.
This test, coupled with the inspec
tion for the alignment of both front
and rear tires, is performed to insure
purchasers of all Willys-Overland pro
ducts with minimum wear on tires.
Every wheel that leaves the Willys-
Overland assembly rooms has been
aligned and inspected in this manner.
DEFINITE FIELD
FOR SI,OOO CARS
By Hugh Chalmers
Probably the most important de
velopment of the automobile industry
during the past few years has been
the gradual defining of price classifi
cation among those manufacturers
turning out a large volume of cars
annually. It has been fairly veil set
tled, for instance, that the four-cyl
inder car is destined to lead in the
lowest priced fields. And the sixes,
eighths and twelves have their mar
kets almost as sharply defined.
Because the SI,OOO field offers the
automobile manufacturer an oppor
tunity to incorporate improved fea
tures of construction with quantity
production. I believe the future of
the car selling near that price to be
already assured. When we pay $25
or S3O for a suit of clothes, we do
not expect to obtain the quality of
goods for which we pay SSO or S6O.
But as our worldly prospects increase,
we gladly pay the difference tp ob
tain long wearing qualities in our ap
parel. For exactly the same reason,
we know that the buyers of cars in
the SI,OOO field are recruited to a
great extent, each year, from former
owners of cheap cars.
time to time we hear the
pessimists haul out and dust off their
little talk on the "point of satura
tion" in the automobile industry. To
the men who have followed the au
tomobile industry from its inception,
this view point appears ridiculous. In
the first place we must remember
that the industry has been passing
through a steady process of evolu
tion for over ten years. Hundreds of
thousands of automobiles have been
turned out in that time, but I will
venture to say that a big majority of
cars now on the road are products of
the past four years. Each succeeding
year sees thousands of cars relegated
to the scrap-heap. Which answers
concisely the question, "What be
comes of the old cars?"
We were not familiar in the early
days with the heat-treating processes
or the metal combinations which
make for long life. If we had been,
pur first models would still be doing
yeoman duty on city streets and coun
try roads. This natural process of
elimination has made room each sea
son for a fresh crop of better motor
cars, and the probabilities of over
production, it seems to me, are large
ly confined to the cheap car field.
Briefly, the most difficult problems
in the automobile industry are what
kind of car of cars to .build, at what
prices and how many. Due to the
rapid development of the enginering
end. changes in the automobile in
dustry have been kaleidoscopic in the
past. Severity of competition and
caprices of public demand have
caused changes of policy not always
for the best.
There was a time when automo
biles had but one cylinder, then two,
three and four. When fours first came
out we often heard the remark that
a four simply multiplied your trou
bles by four. Yet when fours were
perfected, the old types were thrown
away. To-day the four is practically*
relegated to the very low-priced cars
or to racing creations. In the field
selling around SI,OOO, the six-cylin
der car is pre-eminent. This is so not
because manufacturers artificially
stimulated a desire for this type of
car, but because the demand for a
smoother, more flexible motor al
ready existed and the six demonstrat
ed that it filled that demand.
Havink decided upon the type and
price car he intends to build, the
manufacturer is at once confronted
with cost of manufacture. The Chal
mers Company was one of the first
concerns to realize that manufactur
ing from the raw material was the
only plan by which the middlemen's
profits could be eliminated from the
selling price of the car.
we have for a long time manu
factured the big majority of parts
for the Chalmers cars under our own
roof. But during the coming year
we plan to still further Increase our
activities Along this line. Operations
are under way whereby we will oper
ate our own drop-forgo shop, paint
ing and trimming departments and
several other Important branches of
our business now being taken care of
by outside concerns.
With $5,000,000 recently added to
our working capital, we are planning
a production of 28,000 to 30,000 cars
for 1917 on a basis that keep our
big Detroit plant working at full
■peed for the next twelve months.
We have Just achieved a record
years' business entirely Independent
of war profits or other outside con
siderations, and our manufacturing
schedule will go through regardless
or whether the Kuropeiui *ar la get-I
tied utxt month or next ycau j
Finds South America of
0. Henry in Six Months
Trip Through Countries
The South America of O. Henry,
with its barefoot-soldier, revolutions
ai.d yellow fever, and the South
America of wondrously beautiful
cities, rich in art and culture and
splendid architecture, peopled with
diplomats and genteel folk, were found
by Fred Cardway, who has just return
ed from a six-months' visit.
His trip was made in behalf of-riTe
Packard Motor Car Company, the
purpose being to discover methods
American businessmen would best i
follow to establish a good, friendly |
footing of trade rotations.
Cardway says the American desire
to make business dealings prompt and
entirely practical, from the American
point of view, will not do in South
America. The man who attempts to
sell goods in that manner invariably
fails, for the Knglish, German and |
French people who have extensive i
trade interests in the South American j
countries do things more to the liking ,
of the people.
"Your Frenchman, Englishman or
German goes to Buenos Aires or Rio.
and makes his home there. He be- I
comes a citizen and takes an active i
interest in the welfare of the city and j
the nation." said Cardway. "Yet there
is no doubt that goods of American
manufacture will be welcomed in
South America.
"I found many of the wealthy, edu
cated people of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos
Aires and Montevideo, who were as
tonished to know that there was such
a thing as a twelve-cylinder motor
car, or that America produced a motor
car that surpassed the cars made in
Kurope.
"Since the beginning of war, prac
tically no high gradecars have been
sold, because of the difficulty of get
ting them from Kurope. It really had
not occurred to the majority of South
Americans to even consider American
made cars for high class usage."
Cardway was accompanied on his
trip by Mrs. Cardway. They were re
ceived everywhere with cordiality,
especially in Brazil, which has the
| friendliest feeling for the United
States. Government officials were ex
ceptionaly kind and made it a point
to make their visit pleasant. They
were given a short undersea voyage in
a Brazilian submarine, and were
taken for a flight over the harbor at
Rio de Janeiro in a naval airplane.
On their return they traveled from
Buenos Aires 800 miles across the
continent to Valparaiso, Chile, on the
new railroad, which has been complet
ed only two years. This road crosses
the Andes and reaches an elevation of
18,000 feet, far above the timber lino.
They stopped for a day at Callao,
Peru, and made a trip inland to Lima,
the capital. There they obtained a
number of Incas relics, some of which
Cardway values highly. There, also,
they found a revolution in progress,
and got into the yellow fever zone.
Their return was through the Panama
canal to Colon and via Jamaica, to
New York.
A monkey and two parrots that
were presented to them in Buenos
Aires was included in Uieir return
luggage.
D'Orey & Company, bankers and
steamship agents in Rio de Janeiro,
were appointed Packard dealers, and
in Buenos Aires a company was form
ed to handle the American car. Louis
Mitre and his brother, publishers of
"La Nacion," the foremost newspaper
of Argentina, Carlos Alfredo Turn
quist, a banker, and Gustavo Landivar.
manufacturer of the famous "43"
cigarets, are the chief stockholders
in the company.
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Prices Effective April Nine years of continuous, consist- More than three hundred thou
-1?t ' 1017 ent development, improvement, sand owners and more than
L . htF refinement! . four thousand dealer and fac-
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P v ' their experience with these cars
Big Fours Over three hundred thousand now and their helpful suggestions of
Towint. . . tsja in use' improvements. . ~
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sedoH .. . si4so That is the history of the car that i: ||
built Overland because it repre- In their new beauty, in their per-;
Light Sixes sented integrity of value. fected easy riding qualities, in gj
i tuSIiSZ- l : l?,l . , , f , ~ , their proven sturdiness and
S°.Z • ■ • f'rfsl And as steadfastly as this car has mechanical excellence, ;in their I
t represented original integrity of admitted tire, fuel and oil |
Wiiiys-Six value, so also has The Willys- economy, these cars are worthy lj
Touring . . . fwj Overland Company sustained of the confidence we have, that
that integrity of value through- they will further enhance.Over- I
1 Willys-Knights • ou t j^ g service in the hands of land prestige. H '
i Four cZpe!liiji those who purchased it. i
sj!. Four Sedan. . fioso
■jife EitU The Overland Big Four of this The prices are SBSO for the Big
season and its twin —except for Four, $985 for the Light Six,
ntdulHlsix £d'ei,. B tia?""It the motor —the Overland Light ' while we have them to deliver
account too late to correct adter- Six, are the direct outcome of until May 1st —thereafter $895 ifu
all this development. ... and $1025.
of April,
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In the short time Cardway was in
South America, he cabled to Detroit
and brought with him personally or-
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THIS is the Republic idea of •
Quality—proved by more
than 10,000 Republic Inter
nal Gear Trucks operating in
every State of the Union.
With these sturdy trucks goes j §
Republic Sizes
Republic Dispatch Model 9, max
imum capacity 1500 lbs., furnished f "T .''V In
express body with can- 'rtf'rtn v |i
opy top, side curtains, glass front, j|
or express body and bow top,
$1195; Model 11, 1 -ton chassis,
$1375; Model "A," 2-ton chassis,
$1785; Model "T," 3K-ton Dread
naught, $2675. . Moa .ir , a
Penn Mar Auto Co.
Kast J'.nd Mulbcrr> street Bridge,
Republic MotorTruck Co., Inc, Aim, Mich. '|
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APRIL 14, 191/.
ders for 23 Twin Sixes. Ho believes
this is an Indication that If American
manufacturers In various lines will
establish friendly and dignified trade
relntlons with South America, a
splendid field will be opened to them.