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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1924)
f Petite Salon at Hotel Fontenelle to Open Monday Attractive Lincoln Models \frith Latest Improvements ^ ill Be on Display Four Days. Quality car lovers will find a new delight In the petite salon in Omaha this week, and judging from arrange ments being made for the affair It will assume all the attractive propor tions of an elaborate society function. The salon Is to he presented by the Ford Motor company for a special showing of Lincoln motor cars and will he held In the palmroom of Hotel Fontenelle Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday and Thursday. Settings of unusual beauty will be nrrnnged for the ears and visitors will find themselves In most luxuri ous surroundings. An orchestra will add to the effectiveness of the salon. Guests will have an opportunity of becoming folly acquainted with the Lincoln car and of inspecting the dis tinctive standard body types along with a number of more exclusive custom-built bodies. Three Attractive Cars, Three highly attractive ears are to he displayed. One will he the Flept wood seven-passenger inside drive Bt ■** limousine, done In thistle green and ' equipped with wire wheels. There also will be a two-window Judkins Barline, a ear of unusual distinctive ness. and a Judkins two passenger coupe, finished In blue, a body type of strong appeal to those desiring a car for personal use. Visitors also will have an opportun ity of studying the Lincoln motor, for a special cutaway motor will he on display so that inspection of all working parts may he mad<y It Is beautifully mounted on a nickeled frame with mirror underneath and all brilliantly lighted. Another feature wil he a standard Lincoln 136-inch wheelbase chassis, upon which all body types are mount ed. This chassis of polished steel with many parts copber plated and equip ped with wire wheels, presents an In timate picture of the exacting de tails carried out in Lincoln construe tlon. Fine Coach Work. • Those interested in details of fine coach work will be attracted by a Lincoln body In white which will form another exhibit, permitting full inspection of the body construction. The famous Johansson gauges, the standard precision measurement for the world, also will be featured at the salon, illustrative of the extreme precision carried out In building Lin coln cars. The salon will open Monday morn ing and will be open every day from 10 a. m. until 10:30 p. m.. closing . Thursday night. i Crinilcn.scr or coil should he re , " placed If weak. jion't wait till you're .. jught on a rainy night 10 miles from r he nearest garage. I .-—— ■g== Model to Feature Petite Salon Among Lincoln cars none is more imposing in appearance than tile seven passenger, inside-drive limousine with the fleetwood body, and lovers of fine motor cars will have an opportunity to inspect this car at the petite salon to be held in Hotel Fontenelle for four days beginning Monday. Spark Plugs Need Change Annually Experiments Prove Continued Operation Is Actual Waste to Owner. I,ong time experiments by motor car manufacturers have proved that it is actual waste and unfair to a motor car to run it more than a year with the same set of plugs. Thou sands of motorists have found that a new set of plugs after from 8,000 to 10,000 miles, not only makes better performance certain, hut actually saves enough in oil and gas to pay for the new spark plugs. Other thousands, when they pre pare their cars for another season of driving, will install a complete set of new spark plugs. Why it is real economy to do this Is easily under stood when the part that spark plugs play in engine operation Is known definitely. In the engines used in motor cars today the charge Is fired in each cylinder at every other revplution of the crank shaft. This means that the spark plugs are called on to do liver the firing spark from 600 to 1.500 tim » per minute, according to the speed Of the engine. The temperature around the firing points runs from 600 degrees up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, the average being around 1,300. In most motors oil continuously is being splashed on and burned off the spark plug. This tremendous heat and stress, due to the rapidly alternating com pression and firing strokes, gradual ly affects the efficiency of the spark plug, no matter how well made It may be. The spark plug will con tinue to fire and ignite the cylinder mixtures, but combustion is not nearly so complete. The products of com bustion gradually adhere to the sur face of the core and eventually in duce surface leakage, which weakens the spark after a long period of serv ice. Easy gear shifting is a matter of “feel." A skilled motorist has an un canny sense of touch, enabling him to change quickly and silently. A good plan is to depress clutch, shift from low to neutral, then from neu tral to second, and release. This double maneuver almost Invariably assures a silent shift._ ALL PIERCE-ARROW ENGINES SIMILAR The fact that the performance of the new moderately priced Pierce Arrow series 80 car closely rivals that of the larger and higher priced series IIS model affords an Interesting com parison of the engines of the two cars. Both are of the six-cylinder type, Pierce-Arrow enginers having special ized and concentrated upon six-cylin der design since 1306. The engine in the larger Pierce-Arrow model gener ates a maximum of more than 100 horse power. The smtfller Pierce Arrow engine yields more than 70 horse power, making it proportionate ly as powerful,•for the car is about 1.000 pounds lighter than its larger companion. Both engines are built virtually by the same methods, side by side, in the Pierce-Arrow plant. Brakes that aren't adjusted and equalized, rattle, chatter and squeak. The tread of one or more of your tires is soon worn down; the frame of the car is distorted with strain; the wheels lose their perfect align ment. Brakes should be adjusted every 80 days. Gold Medal Won % by Packard Men V on Wav to Detroit Pathfinders Are Rewarded for Blazing Trail for Canadian Rockies Highway Route. Carefully guarded, 'a'' large solid gold medal is being carried from the Pacific coast to the factory of the Packard Motor Car company. It Is in the custody of A. F. Bement, vice president of the Lincoln Highway as sociation, and K. 8. Evans, one of the founders of the association. They will present it to Alvan Mgcaule.v, presi dent of the Packard, upon their ar rival in Detroit. The medal was awarded by the Canadian Highway association as rec ognition of th*e fact that a Packard sport model, driven by Bement and Evans, was the first automobile to rross Canada from Winnipeg to Vic toria on an all-Canadian route. Nought for 12 Years. For 12 years the medal had been held up as a prize for daring motor ists. Many attempts had been made to win it, but each previous effort had met with failure. It lfnd corrta to be regarded as certain that no 'automobile could he forced through the roadless mountain fastnesses. Death Btalked lxwlde the two mo torists for many days as they fought their way westward through the Canadian Rockies. While traversing many parts of the route a single breakdown of the car or a blowout of a tire could have caused disaster, and either could have been expected because the going was harder than any automobile ever was designed to withstand. For 63 miles down the Fraser river canyon between Lytton and Hope, B. Where Champion Sillimanite Was Found A point in n canyon in the Inyo mountain range of California where Hr. Jeffrey of the Champion Spark Plug company discovered the first boulder of siUimanite in 19'.’0. Sillimanite is the insulator found in all Champion spark plugs. It is almost unbreakable and its properties are such tiiat C hampion is the first choice of the leading racers of the world. ——^11 - ■■ il New “Drive-It-Yourself” Model Ready The Yellow Cab Manufacturing Sales corporation is now ready to market the "drive-it-yourself" Ambassador sedan. The car is designed to stand all hardships that must he endured by a car in rental service. All the activity and seriousness of a Yellow cab product is reflected in this sedan. Hat h detail is built with the greatest care and over sized to stand the abuse to which it is subjected. It is the Intention of the company not only to sell these to rental com panics but alao to individual owners. _ C., the car was driven over the ties of the Canadian National railway through a box canyon 600 feet above the river, a raging torrent. It Is this natural cut through the moun tains made by the Fraser river, which is followed by both the Cana dian National and Canadian Pacific main lines. Highway Pathfinders. Here. too. will have to go the through coast-to-coast Canadian na tional highway, for which Bement and Evans and the association’s of flcial Packard were the pathfinders. When they arrived at Vancouver the two motorists were feted for two days. The car was given a minute inspection and it was found necessary to make no repairs other than tight ening the body bolts and spring clips. The tires were cut and worn almost down to the last layer of cord, but they still held air. The car was shipped to San Francisco by boat and Bement and Evans are now re turning east over the I,incoln high way. ^ NEW SALES CHIEF FOR OAKLAND C. W. Matheson. vice president and director of sales of the Oakland Motor Car company, announces the appoint ment of Harry M. Robins, formerly director of foreign sales of Dodge Eros., as director of districts. Robins will again be associated with Matheson. who was formerly Dodge Eros.' vice president, in charge of sales, and will have an important part in carrying out plans for development f the Oakland dealer organization throughout the United States. With characteristic vigor, Mathe son, upon becoming sales chief of th» Oakland organization, immediately put into effect plans for the strength ] ening of ths Oakland factory selling 1 and dealer organization. 1 Essex Travels 1,702 Miles in 48 Hours Standard Coach Driven I* rom Utah to Indiana by One Pitot. Newt of an unusual cross-country run-4u an Essex coach—a trip that took the driver from Utah to Indiana In 48 hours—has just been received by the Omaha Hudson-Essex company. In some respects, according to W. IT. Wetherell, this run excelled even that of the famous transcontinental dash of the Essex four several years ago, in that it was unplanned for and was the achievement of a single driver. “Driving one of the new balloon tire standard Essex coaches,” said Wetherell. a man in Ogden, Utah, who wished to see his mother in Per ryville, Ind., started off on a remark able achievement of nerve and skill. “In 4S hours 15 minutes of actual driving he covered 1.702 miles of all kinds of roads, with no relief or as , sistance whatever, lie was using an Essex coach which had gone only 600 miles and which had absolutely noth ing whatever on it but the regular equipment. The time he made show's that his Essex averaged more than 35 miles an hour. “His trip covered roads in Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. A lot of them were badly cut up and chuck-holed, cruelly hard on a car and driver going fast. Yet the only difficulty encountered was a tire puncture. The driver. U. U Hains. has written a warm letter of congratulation to the Hudson-Essex distributing concern in the inter mountain territory. “We are receiving many compli merit* from Essex six owner* here In the city. The old Essex four was a famous performer, but the new six has all the stamina and reliability of performance, plus a much greater smoothness and comfort, so they tell us." SNUBBERS ARE EXAMINED FREE There arc r lot of oars with Gabriel snubbers operating In Omaha that r.ot getting the la-neflt *mbber* at ■ suplained to give. This Is due to forgetfulness on tli p. rt of the driver, according to Mi Powers of the Gabriel Snubbers sal. and service, 2212 Harney street. They are glad to have snubbei users drive In for free inspection an advice. When In need of help try Omah Ilee Want Ads. '■ j I I i I AN unusual showing of the latest coach-work which A distinguishes the Lincoln chassis—held in the FONTENELLE HOTEL ♦ This intimate view will enable all who are interested, to | examine at leisure these excellent examples of ultra refinement in modem coach building. Outstanding features include the Lincoln Exhibition Chassis —a rare example of mechanical perfection and artistic beauty. See, also, the cut-away motor, the Electro-Fog generator 1 and the marvelous Johansson precision measurement gauge manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. 1 . . \ You are cordially invited to see these cars at the FONTENELLE HOTEL the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth of October. Afternoon and Evening. | LINCOLN I A Year in Advance of It* Field Advanced L-head engine 4-wheel brake* Fiahcr Bodies Puco body finish (.'entrained controls Disc steel wheel* Full balloon tin* New Fisher one-piece ventilating windshield Automatic windshield cleaner Rear view mirror Permanent visor Transmission lock Snubbers on front spring* Crnuine mohair uphols tery ^ Heater and dome light Automatic spark control l’nit instrument panel Precision manufacture - install a Set . ofChampions thismd{ Prepare for better driving by in stalling a new set of dependable Champion spark plugs this week. aw-*.Dealers everywhere will explain to you how a set of new Champions in sures better engine performance and how they save their cost in the oil and gas they save. Thousands of motorists are find ing it real economy to install new Champions in all cylinders. You, too, will know new motoring satis faction if you follow their example. Champion X is 60 cents. Blue Bos, 75 centa. TO WESTERN5 AUTO SUPPLY CO. 408 Sou th 18th Street Omehe. Neb. p=^ i]our kind Wf of a closed car- this pf True Blue Sedan THE True Blue Oakland Sedan ia made for people who ^ know that the kind of a closed car they want cannot be j built to sell at an open-car price—for people who want | a car built to definite ideals of quality without any compromises. 1 This sedan has style —sparkling, captivating style. Its body is $ structurally identical with closed bodies of cars in the three J thousand dollar class. ; All Oakland bodies, closed or open, are ouilt by Fisher to the || same uncompromising standard of excellence. This body is finished from top to bottom in Duco. It has the 1 new Fisher one-piece ventilating windshield —a life sa\er on | suffocating days—rain proof in a cloudburst! S It has all the True Blue Oakland features of motor car enjoy- f| ment—“a year in advance of its field.” Ride in it—compare its performance—look at the uwktnanjhip. Oakland has built you your kind of a closed car — and is selling it at a very modest price. roadster special ROADSTER LANDAU coif PE COUPE FOR POUR TOURING SPECIAL TOURING LANDAU SEDAN SEDAN I OAKLAND MOTOK CAKLU. 20th and Harney Street* i