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" AUTOMOBILE NEWS AND ADVERTISING Wr~~*§T
ALE RED P. DAMES, ALTO EDITOR SPECIAL FEATURES EVERY SATURDAY
NEW ENDURANCE
RECORD IN ESSEX
Covers 1.061 Miles in 24 Hours
Over Snow-Swept lowa
Dirt Roads
Running: day and night over frozen
lowa dirt roads, a standard Essex
touring car has just established a
new record by covering 1,061 miles
In S4 hours.
Starting at West Liberty, lowa, at
10 o'clock In the morning. Nov. 26th,
the Essex ran over the highways of
the eastern section of the state, stop
ping only for gasoline and oil until it
was checked in at lowa City at 9.46
a. m., Nov. ST.
And this new record was not made
on a track or speedway by a specially
built racing machine. It was made
by a fully equipped car that had al
ready been driven more than 12.000
miles in the last ten months. It also
was made under the most unfavorable
weather and road conditions imagin
able.
During the entire period the mer
cury never rose above freezing and
the car was forced to fight its way in
the teeth of a bitter wind. Often
reaching a speed of 70 miles an hour,
then slowing down to a scant 20 miles
on some treacherous stretch, the Es
•ex ran hour after hour.
Darkness came and still the Es
•ex darted swiftly and silently over
the rough roads. Toward midnight,
•now. whipped by a freezing gale, be
gan to fall steadily, but nothing
could stop that speeding shape w th
its lights cutting a precarious path
Better Have Your Tops Repaired and Closed
in Warm and Tight and
AVOID PNEUMONIA OR FLU
There's no real reason for a man to be un
comfortable in his car in winter.
The Ustus Limousettes for Fords are ALL
THE RAGE. Better try one, at
CA pi A¥ v Carriage and
• -£•• A -C-*.AAV Auto Works
East End Mulberry Street Bridge
Harrisburg, Pa.
I he Two-Power Ranger of Today—
The Product of Two Decades
Eighrecn years as a manufacturer of suit of nearly five years concentrated on
motor vehicles have established the repu- the perfection of this eight cylinder
tation of the Peerless Motor Car Com- model. It combines light weight, with
pany for producing the best that engineer- in the limits of safety, with roominess
ing design and mechanical accuracy can and distinctive appearance,
accomplish e ,gj,, cylinder motor permits of a
A decade ago the Big Peerless cars, flexibility and lack of torsional vibration
selling as one of the highest priced makes which are essential to great power and
on the market, were masterpieces of the ht£h speed.
roach-builders an and were equipped The "Sporting" and "Loafing"
.with motor power-plants which easily ranges of the "Two-Power Ranger" .
kept the Peerless m the lead. ha Ve made the Peerless justly famous.
The Peerless Eight of today is the re- A demonstration is a revelation.
rnomt Saktwt Ckup WttSow Ntaa
Touring. 52900 ' Coupe. $3500
Roadster. S2'JOO ✓ —s. Sedan-Limousine. $3900
Sedan. 53700 Cleveland
Aiwy. Keystone Motor Car Co. 24 Hout
Open - c. H. RAK.XBN, TIER. Service
57 South Cameron St., Harrisburtj
SATURDAY EVENING,
.through the night and the dancing
J snow (lakes.
Dawn broke again, but still the car
. | rushed on. its lights growing dimmer
, as the sun struggled in vain to break
I '"lts wicked." said one of the watch
' ers. marveling at the punishment the
; | car was called upon to withstand, but
the motor never faltered, not a single
adjustment being made to it during
i the entire run.
j And at the finish the car was run
| ning as sweetly as it had at the
t start, not eve"h a tire having been
; ' changed. The actual running time,
( deducting the stops made for gasoline
and oil and the finish 14 minutes
5 ahead of schedule at lowa City, was
I exactly 22 hours and 45 minutes. The
. average speed during this time was
47.3 miles per hour. The average
• j speed for the entire lapsed time was
f I 44.4 miles.
■ | But wonderful as this achievement
t is, it is nothing more than may he
. expected of any Essex, as the car
' which made this record was standard
in every respect. Also it was owned
. in Waterloo and was driven by lowa
. 1 men.
Record-making strides are being
' made in the construction of the new
1 units in the S 1,000.000 building pro
' gram of the Franklin Automobile
' i Company. Possession has been given
" i of the ground floor of the new half
million dollar manufacturing plant
' on the site of the present works.
1 Two months ago the site was a va
-1 cant lot. Now the company has pos
-1 session of one floor and the building
•| is nearly completed. It will be seven
> I stories high.
' Charles J. Pnrtello, an Instructor
" in the training school of the Franklin
Automobile Company, and director
• ,of the Franklin Band, one of the
leading musical organizations in the
r i city, has composed a march, ar
-1 ranged for band, which he will dedi
' cate to the automobile industry.
THE NEW HOME OF THE SQUARE DEAL AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY
The above illustration shows the new quarters of the Square Deal Auto Supply Company at 141S and
1420 North Third street The entire first floor has been devoted to the display of accessories and motor
equipment. This firm was formerly located at 1408 North Third street and few doors below the present
location.
New Noncarbon Oil to
Be Handled in Dauphin Co.
The Pittsburgh agencies for the
Packard and Holmes Air-Cooled Car
companies, and the Automotive corpo
ration, local distributors of the Ap
person Eight and Mitchell cars, have
placed their indorsement on Gibraltar
noncarbon auto oil as the greatest
lubricant of all time, and thus is es
tablished a Pittsburgh product which
is destined to rank as one of the
greatest aids to progress the auto
mobile industry has ever known.
At the Packard company F. E.
Bishop, technical manager, supervised
the test of Gibraltar oil in one of the
demonstrating cars, and in his report
to the Gibraltar Oil Sales Company,
SSS Union Arcade, said: 'T found this
oil to be the best lubricant 1 have
ever handled. Using it in one of our
demonstrating cars we made approxi
mately 1.050 miles on five quarts.
There was no attempt made to check
the usage of oil. which could have
been held down lower than the quan
tity used. The best mileage we have
been able to get out of other oils was
approximately 600 miles to the gal
lon."
The trial of the Gibraltar oil in the
Holmes air-cooled cars was started at
the Holntes factory in Canton. 0., and
the oil was put through every test
that the engineers of that company
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
I deemed necessary to decide its effi
ciency. Not only did Gibraltar oil
come up to the standard established
by the other lubricants, but proved
I its superiority over them so decisively
j that the officials of the Holmes com
j pany came to Pittsburgh personally
j to supervise the final test of the oil
j in carrying the Holmes car over the
| steep grades of the Allegheny moun
| tains. The test included a run from
! Pittsburgh to Ligonier and then up
1 and down the mountain between that
town and Stoyestown four times and
finally back to Pittsburgh. On this
• run Just one pint of oil was used.
In making his report to the Gi
braltar company. Mr. Stewart declar
ed: "The oil proved decisively that it
will enable the Holmes people to re
-1 duce their oil consumption 50 per
cent. It it now being used in Holmes
' cars in this district and I consider
|it the best automobile lubricant on
the market."
A. G. Denton, president of the Auto
! mdtive corporation, after testing the
[ Gibraltar product in both the Apper-
I son Eight and Mitchell cars, reported:
}"W'ith the oil in an Apperson eight
; I made 400 miles on one quart. In
: the Mitchell car I drove 700 miles
; and upon examining the engine found
that there was not a particle of hard
' carbon existing therein. Further
i more, I can safely say that by using
. this product we have been able to
; save 30 per cent in our usage of oil
; and 10 per cent in the consumption
I of gasoline."
Gibraltar non carbon oil is com
pounded by a secret process to with
stand the intense heat of the engine
and becomes a so'vent through the
chemical action under heat, produc
ng a cleansing property. This re
mits in keeping the walls of the
ylinder clean, allowing the consti
.tient to enter the pores of the metal.
The inventor of the concentrate
which when mixed with oil is pro
ducing such results is J. C. Hood, of
tVilkinsburg. Mr. Hood is a chemist
end engineer and has been experi
menting on this concentrate since
9 The concentrate is a laboratory j
preparation, a compound matter pro- j
ducc-d by various elements used. !
chemically forced and satisiied for a !
time into a secret compound matter.
This new oil will be distributed in
Dauphin County by W. T. Wade.
< The baseball team of the Frank
lin Automobile Company has just
won the championship of the local
industrial league. defeating the j
teams of Brown-Lipe-Chapin, manti- j
facturers of 90 per cent of the auto- j
mobile gears made in America: the
Dyneto Electric Company, manufac
ttuers of starters for automobiles;-
the Halcomb Steel Company: Nettl
ton Shoe Company and others.
§ Mexicans Are Reported
| to Be Trying to Buy Arms
and Shells in Europe
Paris, Friday. Dec. 26.—A number .
o' Mexicans have recently arrived in !
Europe and are reported to have at-'
tempted to purchase arms and am
munition. according to information ,
received here. Whether these Mexl-!
cans are connected with the recent!
shipment of five carloads of machine j
guns and accessories sent from Cas- '
sel to Amsterdam. which Marshal
Foch reported were consigned to Mex- j
. :o, is as yet unknown.
The Mexicans, forming a group
hieh is reported to represent the
j "arranza government came to Europe
y different routes, having previously
greed upon a meeting place which
is understood to be a city in Fiance.
, It is now reported they are in the j
interior of Germany.
CLEARINGS INCREASE
New York. Dec. 27.—The actuul con
dition,of Clearing .House Banks and
tiust companies for I.>e woel: (five
days) shows that they hold $8,232,-
580 reserve in excess of legal require- i
ments. This Is an increuse of $20,-
553. 370 from last week.
3
HIT BY Mill. TRICK
3 Florence Lusk. of 2160 North Sev
-3 enth street, is in the Harrisburg Hos
-3 pital suffering with severe contu-!
3 sions, received when hrt by a mall
g truck at Sixth and Woodbine streets '
5 last evening. She was somewhat liya
-3 ' terical when taken to the hospital.
5 , but her condition to-day is reported '
g i to be good.
TRAFFIC VIOLATOR FINED
g A. Katzman was fined $lO in police
g court yesterday for violations of the [
g traffic ordinances. He Is charged with
3 driving on a street car track in Cam- !
3 1 eron street and with refusing to get
• j out of the tracks In accordance with j
j [ traffic regulations.
APPERSON BROS.
ONE JUMP AHEAD
When Coal Shortage Came
They Used Gas in Their
Own Motors
!One thousand Apperson horses are
now furnishing the motive power for
operating the plants of the Apper
| son Bros. Automobile Company at
| Kokomo, Ind.
Twelve "Eight with Eighty Less
Parts" Apperson built motors, reg
istering on the dynamometer test
approximately 85 horsepower each,
are pulling the load at the Apper
son plants during the present coal
crisis.
In the motor block test depart
ment are installed dynamometers in
I sufficient quantities to take care of
i the daily production of this concern,
j Twelve of these are being driven by
! the same number of Apperson eight
cylinder motors, which combination
operating in conjunction with a gen
erator set, produces sufficient horse
power to permit of operation nor
mally.
As a result, Apperson cars are
being turned out in good quantities
and the Apperson organization
throughout the entire TTnited States
and foreign countries now appreciate
fully the forethought on the part of
Apperson officials that hns made de
liveries possible at such a critical
time.
For the second month in succes
sion the Franklin Automobile Com
panv in September exceeded the
j schedule which is to bring the pro
! duction of Franklin cars up to 18,-
!00 for the current year 964 cars
! were scheduled for production that
j month and the factory report shows
' 1,004 delivered to the Tales depart
| ment. Production in October shows
a further gain over September and
at that, the over-demand_ for the
Franklin cars is still 2,700 cars
ahead of manufacture.
Aut°
Gloves,
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Leather jf
; FORRY'S
Harris J ■
Building. j ■; ■
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Well Known Local Automobile
Man Announces
That He Has Secured the Dis
tribution in Dauphin County of
! GiBRALTER OILS
"The Only Non-Carbon Oil"
Gibralter oils have been pro
claimed by many of the most
! prominent automobile construc
i tion engineers in the industry to
. day ua the finest, most economical
oil on the market. A salient point
in referenced to this oil is its
ability to run up a very high mtle
: age record to the quart. That
means economy. Gibralter Oil is
sold in lots of 5 gallons to as high
; as a carload.
We will be pleased to call and
give you complete information.
Drop us a card.
W. T. WADE
102 N. Sixth Street
| Ilarrisburg Bell 3140 M I
DECEMBER 27, 1919.
FIRST CAR THE
PUBLIC BUILT
Engineer Belden Says Public
Itself Has Dictated Design
of Overland Four
"Overland 4." says E. H. Belden,
vice president in charge of engineer
ing for the Willys-Overland Com
pany, "Is the first car I know of that
has been engineered from the basis
of production possibilities and the
public's wants. It is the American
car.
"When Mr. Willys gave the order
to proceed to the development of a
good light ear, economical in upkeep
and of the utmost ease in riding, our
work began. When the first car
was produced the various depart
ments—sales. service, advertising,
production were consulted to get
their knowledge of the public's idea
of the ultimate light car.
"The service department indicated
the faults to he avoided; the adver
tising department told the public's
desire and the sales department
through dealer and salesmen inter- ;
preted the public's actual need. And
so on. And in refining the car we '
availed ourselves of the most practi- !
cal of all these ideas.
"There is another feature to which I
I might call attention. Overland 4 j
is a new car from the ground up. |
No stock or parts left over from for- j
mer models could be used in its con
struction. The story of its design '
is no less new. In the past it has ,
been something of an accepted cus- I
torn for an engineering department j
to lock itself up to design a new j
model. Hobbies and pet ideas of I
the engineers found a place in the j
design. The engineering department !
then built its own model; tested that i
itself and turned the result over to
the factory and said: 'Go ahead,
build this.' This practice was en
tirely discarded in building Over
land 4. I
"Overland 4 is the first light car I •
iniinwill if iwit i itiiniiiaai 1 1 '^iiimi iiiihiii 'in munii—nn
| With the Wonderful
New Springs You Skim
Over the Rough Spots J
THE new three-point from the wearing shocks of
suspension Triplex the road.
Springs of Overland 4 make .
ti it a totally different kind of , Overland 4is easy to
car handle because of its short
' . _ „ ~ wheelbase, though the
• u IS won d'; rfull >' casynd- is long like that
ing because thesenew springs of bj h cars
ward off the bumps of the
road. Riding seems like This combination of light
floating, car conven i ence an d big car
It is light in weight and comfort results in a car of
therefore economical of tires such exceptional qualities
and fuel. Economical also that it establishes a remark
in upkeep becausethesprings ably high standard of motor
protect car and mechanism car comfort.
/
The Sedan is complete in every
detail. It weighs only 200 pounds
more than the Touring Car
1 \ CO
212-214 North Second Street
YORK BRANCH: Open Evenings NEWPORT BRANCH:
128-130 West Market St. Bell 4370 Opposite P. R. R. Station
"Prices Subject to Change Without Notice"
know of which from the very first
line of its design has been built with
regard for production possibility in
the factory and with regard for all
the public wanted in u good light
car. The first experimental models
were built in factory departments
where the car would have to bo built
by the mechanics who now bnild the
car in quantity production. And the
tests were not made by the engineer
in;; staff alone, but by all sorts of
people—service men; car-smashing
The' Se^<!n 's >ca i n i•() tithe {
HARRISBURG AUTO COMPANY
It is seldom that we pause to think over the
business that is past, only in as much as it concerns
the service we render our customers. But at this
season of the year, the dawn of 1920, we pause to
think of the tremendous volume of business we have
done in 1919.
That it has been most pleasing to us goes with
out saying. In a small measure, yet sincere, we wish
to take this means of thanking our many friends and
patrons for their part in this wonderful increase, and
to wish them one and all
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
Harrisburg Auto Co.
George G. McFarland, President
Fourth and Kelker Sts., Harrisburg, Pa.
mechanics; dealers; advertising men;
and all sorts of ordinary folk.
"This is the real secret of Over
land 4. It has been designed by the
public Itself. Its design provides all
the public has desired in a light car
with actual ease of riding. And it
has been built as the public would
have it. The result is a car of un
usually high quality of material and
construction and of unexcelled ease
of riding because of the three-point
sprtfig suspension."