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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1921)
B-C Trade Re)orts Show Increase in Auto Shipments ! for. I j il tiitdflt Salt's i;nv ili.trilmtur nf Jordan iiuio mobiles. Part of the time Hat pent in tlr territory kiirrounding Omaha, and Mr. Surrell expreturd hit aatisf action with the manner in which the Jor dan bukiues is beiiiit handled. According to renoiU which ate mining in fu'in arioi( in the territory, the lordati people i doing a very satikfactoiy buinci at All points. Forty-five hours per thiinucnt U the average time avrd through liv use of motor truck on abort liauU. From an old volume of the tension laws of the WUrontln lrgialaturc it i found that in 187$ a prize of $10, 000 was ottered to any tiliien of that ttate for the invention and production of a machine propelled by ateam or other motive agent whkh would be a cheap and practicable subttitute for the liore and other animal on the highways and farms. Ty Cobb and His Car tfw, . . . ... - Manager Viaitur Here W. V. Surrell. iunt ale manager of the Jordan Motor Car company, Cleveland, O., spent but week with the 1'etersoa Motor cum- ftrmand Beit in South, Mid- tllewest and Pacific Coast Uied Car Business Being Reorganized. Till- BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY. SErTEMHfaU 1. HUM. 1 " par i r- ft' .e J sV A Gradual Improvement In the autc- niobile butinest ii shown in trade report received at the National Au tomobile Chamber of Commerce di uctora' recent meeting. Automo bile ihipmenta fcr Auguat ahow a 2 per cent gain over July, and reach 72 per cent of last year's August business. Normally the August m!c are Its than July s. The south, the Pacific coast and the middle west states are register ing the most sales, with the chief business coming from urban cen ters. The seasonal decline in sales is ex pected for fall and winter though improvement over the same period a ear ago is looked for. Farmers have been liquidating their crops and the money from the harvest this fall is expected to stimulate rural demand tor cars and trucks now so widely needed on farms. Re-Organixing Used Car Business. With 10,000.000 cars on the roads the volume of used car sales is be coming a major business requiring he dealer's attention as fully as his new car trade. Dealers from all jarts of the country report that this : nd of the business is to be more fully recognized and ued car shows, rebuilding, and sales plans will re reive more attcntic-n than ever before. 1 he , automobile industry limjs promise of increased business in the icvival of the railroads and the up ward turn in pig iron production. Railroad activity indicates a return ing demand for transportation, with coincident call for motor vehicles. Ask Law Enforcement. Believing that large number of ac cidents are caused by ever-speeding of motor cars and motor trucks, cou pled with the over-loading of the lat ter, the N. A. C. C. is calling upon police officials of the country for more strict enforcement of the traf- lie laws, ot which there are a sum cicnt number on the books, but the provisions of which have been too generally disregarded. Reports show that over-loading of trucks of all sizes has in some cases 'mined the roads and in other cases has overcome even the powerful brake equipment resulting in acci dents that could have been avoided. While it is true that the speed craze has long since died out, there are still many who travel at ex cessive rates, who disregard the rights of others on the highways and who fail to take propel precautions at the intersection of roads and railroads. The N. A. C. C. believes that a two-ton truck carrying four tons 'is more dangerous on the highways than a five-ton truck with its normal load of live tons. It endorses the Pennsylvania law which requires each truck to bear a lettering show ing its weight, the body weight and the weight of the load which It should carry. The Chamber opposes truck bodies of abnormal size and advocates loads which will conform with the recommendations of auto mobile and highway engineers for one inch width of tire for each 800 pounds, of weight. Fancy Treads Made to Overcome Wave in Tires Some car owners think tire treads are decorations like embroidery on women's dresses, or distinctive pat terns by which the manufacturer can leave advertisements on soft roads. But rf such trifling considerations were suggested to the scientists who create the modern tire, they would be scandalized. As a tire revolves there forms .a bulge just ahead of where it is in contact with the road. This bulge is called a "traction wave. Al though the bulge always stays in the same relation to the road, the re volving of the wheel has the appar ent effect of making it travel around the tire. , , ,, , In plain tread tires the full force t .hi. .-nntinup to roll around the tire. But where a tread with a ribbed or cogged backbone, as m xnc Miller geared-to-the-road design, is used the wave is divided to a cer tain extent and thrown off at the sides. Some tire "treads are smooth, some corrugated and some indent ed, but the purpose of them all is to overcome this wave. The decora tive effect is only incidental. Omaha Firm Gurries 100,000 Repair Parts The Auto Electric Service corpo lation is now the largest electrical repair and supply house in the middle-west. With an organization of n.miiri anit 100.000 cenuine fac- tory repair parts in stock at all tunes, this concern is equipped to iae of any electrical work or parts needed. ' One of the features of the com- pany is its free inspection of elec trical systems. This Omaha organ ization is doing business all over the miHi!1-wc. anil has a battery de partment which takes care of hun dreds of batteries at a time. Ford Sales Gains 25 Per Cent Since Price Cut Was Made The following comment from the home office of the Ford Motor com pany of Detroit indicates the way in which Ford's last reduction was .' received by the public: "Branch telegraphic reports indi cate daily retail sales of Ford cars and trucks increased SO per cent the first week since price reductions with coresponding reductions in deal ers' stock. Marked shortage par- ticnlarly of the enclosed types of cars are already being felt in many sections. Unfilled orders for all types of Ford cars and trucks are rapidly accumulating at production has not been 'increased over the reg ular monthly, schedule of 100,000 ears. L if 1 J d vi...: T.. nl hm T"ltrnif "Tv'jfri" rlimhinir Into Ilia new Oldsmobile, following a victory on the diamond. The insert shows him in his fighting togs. MOTOR DIGEST "Spotlights" are prohibited in Massachusetts. Philadelphia is called "the city of dented fenders." More garages than homes were buitt in the United States last year. The motor vehicle is one of the five major units of transportation. The average motorist spends from $125 to $150 annually for gasoline. There are over 100 recognized automobile schools in the United States. ' There is no case on record of an automobile having been struck by lightning. . a Red, white and blue is the color combination for. license plates in California in 1922. - Germany now has more than 100 automohjle factories, employing 50, 000 skilled workmen. Approximately one-tenth of the en tire population of the United States are owners of automobiles. Women are found to operate pas senger automobiles and mqtor trucks with as much care and accuracy as men. In Buenos Aires, S. A., it is plan ned to issue luminous number li cense plates for automobiles used -in that city. Policemen in Chicago have re ceived orders prohibiting them from using their own automobiles to do patrol work. In Pennsylvania, roads on which oiling work is to be done are an nounced each week by the state highway department. Wisconsin was the first and only state in the union (1875) to otter a prize for the development of a motor vehicle or tractor. According to law, every married woman in Spain must obtain con sent from her husband before she is permitted to drive an automobile. Virtually every commonwealth in the United States has a different method of examination through which permits to operate a motor vehicle are granted. French cars of the two-litre class, or engines having a maximum piston displacement of 122 eubic inches, make more than 94 miles to a gallon of fuel. . . The maximum possible market for automobiles in the United States is calculated at 20,000,000 cars, or an average of one for every family in the country. Consumption of gasoline for the first six months of 1921, was 2,300. 155,900 gallons, as compared with 2,142,705,633 gallons in the same per iod of 1920. "Drive slow and see our city; drive fast and see our jail," is the new "welcome" sign exhibited along the automobile highways leading into At lantic City, N. J. Penalty for violating the new state highway regulations of Missouri con sists of fines of $5 to $500, and im prisonment in the county jail not exceeding two years. ' With the United States leading, Canada is the second largest automo bile user in the world, followed by New Zealand, Australia, Cuba and the United Kingdom in order of im portance. The state of Kansas, with an esti mated registery of 300,000 automo biles, spends practically the entire proceeds of the wheat crop of that state to keep the cars in gasoline and oil each year. While the United Staves Is the best country in the world for motorists a car for every 11 Liberia is the safest for pedestrians, or a registery of eight cars for a population of 2,- According to an ordinance passed by Chicago, privately owned auto mobiles painted red will not be per mitted to travel the highways. In. terference by red cars with fire deJ nartmcnt activities is given as the reason for the new ruling. 000.000 inhabitants. The record tor a passencer auto mobile covering the distance between San Francisco and New York City, 3.347 miles, is 4 days, 14 houit and 43 minutes. This includes all stops for traffic delays taking on gas and oil, changing drivers, etc. An automobile race track is plan ned at Porte dc Versailles, near Pans, which course will be over 4 3-4 miles to the lap, including two straight runs of nearly 1 1-3 miles. The track is to consist of a concrete foundation, a layer of end-set brick, and a top-dressing ot concrete. Sipce the beginning of the auto mobile industry, 25 years ago, the number of cars manufactured up to the first of 1921 has been approx imately 11,775,000, of which more than 700,000 have been exoorted. About 9,000,000 are in use and 2,000,. uuo have been worn out, destroyed, or abandoned. Automobile stealing has become so nearly a "nation-wide industry" that some of the largest insurance companies in the United States have stopped writing the familiar "fire and theft" policies, and 90 per cent of the others are, planning to insert clauses in these policies eliminating from protection all accessories, such as tires, tools, etc. A trial of the automobile title law of Maryland in one year has resulted in an almost complete elimination of motor car thefts in that state. Under the law, no car can be registered and licensed until title to it has been cleared. Once a car in the state has been rcorded as the property of an individual, license for it cannot be obtained by any one else unless he can show the title : has properly passed to him. Many automobiles are bought tnrougn the aid ot financial . com panies by persons who cannot pay cash in full A stem is followed by which the prospective buver oavs one-third cash and the balance in 10 or 12 monthly installments. Motor vehicles cost more, in Great Britain than in. the United States, Dccause ot their inability to manu facture cars in Quantity oroduction. 1 Charles J. Swain claims to have owned the first automobile in Phila. delphia, in 1898, and since that time he has owned 24 different cars. Prohibition officers in Greenville, a. C, recently tound an automobile rigged up as a whisky still, with an extra gasoline tank used as a boiler heated by the engine. In a number of states the entire cost of construction and mainten ance of state highways or of state bonds for road improvement is now borne entirely by the motor vehicle owners. When an automobile, owned by Robert R. Asner of Baltimore, Md., backfired, which caused the machine to catch fire, he drove half a mile away to a fire station to have the names put out. The total special tax paid by motorists in this country amounts to $267,000. This does not include the regular personal property, excess profits, income or other taxes to which the car owners may be subject. Automobile thieves on August 10 stole 35 cars in New York City. The average tor the month was Z5 cars a day. ' A Better CHEVROLET at a New Low Price CkevnUt "Four-Ninety" Cktvnht "FB" Modth. Models Touring Car r Roadster &525 Touring Car or Roadster $9?5 Coup or Sedan - - - 875 Coup or Sedan - 1575 Light Delivery Wagon (ooa seat) S52S Mm Jt O. . JW Mi. - ' CHEVROLET MOTOR COA Divimn m GmtrmlMfnOr CHEVROLET MOTOR CO. Retail Stan ;SSJ Faraaaa Street OMAHA Pheae HArnw 7260 . A New Cadillac and a New and Glorious Zest in Motoring The new Cadillac Type 61 carries with it, of course, all of the positive assurance of sound, enduring value which has always been associ ated with the very name Cadillac. Needless to say, there is all of the old reliabili ty, responsibility, and regularity of perform ancemore pronounced than ever because in the Cadillac plant the passage of time is a continuous process of improvement. But in addition to these hidden 'traits of character which have made it the world's standard of motoring efficiency the Type 61 Eight Cylinder Cadillac brings you other posi tive and quickly recognizable qualities which immensely enhance ease and enjoyment. Within a few minutes from the time you have taken the wheel you will discern a more pro nounced quality of resilient readability than the Cadillac has ever developed before. In other words, it is our judgment, that this Type 61 accomplishes the greatest advance yet recorded in overcoming road discomfort and insuring riding ease. Largely by way of simple but fundamentally sound changes, such as lowering the center of gravity without decreasing road clearance, smoothness of travel has been surprisingly Improved. Again, a recently adopted and equally simple improvement in carburetor practice has bettered Cadillac acceleration so that its pro verbial, swift surge of power Is even more immediately brought into action and mileage per gallon of gasoline increased. The new Cadillac gets away grandly, and communicates both to the one at the wheel and those in the tonneau, a sense of pent-up reserve power that is delightful. The same simple changes that have given it a greater degree of road resilience have brought with them much greater beauty than before. The Type 61 is a delight to the eye not merely at the first admiring glance, but in the wealth of attractive details which a closer inspection reveals. Experienced motorists will delight in the artis tic and convenient arrangement of the instru ment board, the windshield and ventilator improvements, the restful simplicity and grace of the new steering wheel and controls, the convenient inspection lamp, and other refinements of a most pleasing character. Incidentally, Cadillac coach work has im proved upon itself so that the new car comes to you not only with greater charm of general design but a far more impressive and beau tiful finish. These latter are the lesser satisfactions the real delight will come in the revelation of greater riding ease and roadability, and swifter acceleration. 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