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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1912)
. P ' THE OMAHA StTNDAY BEE: AUGUST 25, 1912. 11 A Model 69T Completely Equipped F. 0. B. Toledo Self Starter 30 Horsepower 5 Passenger Touring Car Center Control 40,000 Car, 81 110-inch Wheel Base Timkenx Bearings PrestoliteTank ' $50 Remy. Magneto Year akes $50 Warner Speedometer $50 Mohair Top and Boot $25 dear Vision Wind Shield All Bright Parts Nickel Plated alue It! !T7 mis V Possible 1 ) V. , .t. .'-. i.t ! -.). is""' 'I'".- , ' ERE is the car we have asked you to wait for. Those who have heeded our advice will profit. . Those who have not will lose. You were duly warned, advised and notified, and those whose better judgment ' directed them to delay their automobile purchase, until we made public our 1913 facts, are now in a position to feel no little amount of keen satisfaction. This car, at this price, smashes all previous records. It even totally eclipses our 1912 values, which a year ago baffled the world. 40,000 Overlands will be made in 1913. This enormous jump in production makes possible this new car at this new price. As our production goes up, our prices come down, as has been shown in each preceding year. Now let's take this car and carefully analyze the value. First take the remarkable and exceptionally complete equipment of standard accessories. The Warner speedometer is conceded by practically every manufacturer in the world to be the best made. It is the speedometer you find on all of the $5,000 cars. We could have put on a speedometer that costs just half that of the Warner but we wanted the best. The price of this speedometer is $50 the world over. Then take the top and boot. This top is made of the finest mohair. You could not buy it for less than $50 in the open market. The .clear vision wind shield is handsome, strong and serviceable. Besides being an ornament to the car it adds that touch of completion. The retail price of this anywhere is $25. Then there is the well known Prestolite Tank, the price of which you know from past experience is always and to everyone the same. The Overland self-starter cannot be purchased for less than $25. This car carries a $50 Remy Magneto which has an established reputation all over the world. We can touch the big subject of the car itself but slightly? The specifications above tell the story. Here is detailed the most remarkable automobile value the world has ever been offered. Note particularly such high-grade features and fineness in the construction as the famous Timken roller bearings on the front wheels and the equally famous Hyatt bearings on the rear axle. Note more carefully the long wheel-base and big motor. -The wheel-base of HQ inches gives ample leg room in both seats. ( The selective ' transmission, too, is fitted with fine annular bearings. Read carefully the spring and brake dimensions. Com pare these spring and brake facts with cars that cost twice the . price. Do this without fail. You'll find no difference. The three-quarter floating rear axle is another big and important feature. ' Have you ever heard of an equal value for less than $1,200? Why, as a matter of actual fact, you can find $1,500 cars that have practically no more to offer than this one for $985, ) In this age of rapid progress it is sometimes difficult to grasp the full significance of an important, progressive manufacturing step, such as this car exemplifies. But when you sum up the extraordinary cold dollar for dollar value which this car offers, as compared to any and all competing motor, car values, the giant' economical manufacturing strength of the huge Overland plants is realized and recognized. It only proves, the ability of this most powerful and efficient automobile factory. It only proves the economy of producing over 40,000 cars a year and the big money saving it means to you. We can make the positive statement, without any kind of a condition, that this is the automobile industry's record value. This car can now be seen in any city , in America. Over( 2,000 Overland dealers are waiting to give you your demonstration. Look up the Overland dealer in your city today. His address is below. 'Phone him for a demonstration. He will give you all the time, at any time you want Act quick and you'll get a prompt delivery. .i MOTOR For-ey Under, east arately. Bon, 4 in. Stroke, 45 la. Hortepower, 30. IGNITION-Rear Model R. D. Battery end Magneto two eouroee el entreat COOLING-Weter cooled. Thermo Ijfboa Cellular Radiator. OILING Spleen errtere for creak and oem shaft beerinfe. Cylinder and timing, seers ailed with Kiawood lore) feed oiler. CAM 8HAFTrCerbo Steel drop forf ed, three beerinfe. CRANKSHAFT Carbon Mad drop forged, 6v bwio. CONNECTING ROD -C a r b o a Steel drop lorfed. MAGNETO SHAFT Drop lorgisp, fUSH ROO-CraeecBt drill red eteel. FRAMB Channel Seottoa Cold ' rolled eteel. Ne. 9 V. 8. Ga. (.156). Depth Side Rati, 3 ia. Width oi , :' flense Fees, 1 ia. , CARBURETOR Model LBeaeblsr. '"C t Width. lT la. R CENTER CONTROL. n larae.aaarter sttptio. Jjagta. 42 ia.' Width, IH la. All eprlafe here 6 In teel puehiaf area. TRANSMISSION Selective. Three epeeda forward and reverie. Aaanlar Beiriufe. REAR AXLE Three-ejoerter fleet tali beeriale, Hyattt Asia Snail Car penter Sameea Steel. Propeller Bheft, Cold Rolled Steal. Mala Driving Shaft, Caluroet Steal. BRAKES Coatraetiaf end expend ln oa rear wheel,. Inelde diemeter Brake Dram Uin. Width ol brake eboe 2H in. Outeide diemeter Breke dram l&in. Width Brake Bawl, 2 ia. FRONT WHEEL B BARINGS Timken Roller Eeeringe. FRONT AXLE-Drap f tlef, Cleeraaea 10X la. TIRBS-KtM Q. D. ; COLOR-Body. OverUad blaai erheele. reyi all bright parte atckej plated, with black trim. BQUIPM BNT-Mohelr top aad baotiWerner Speedemetan Wlndihieldi FreetoiiteTenki Sell-8tertcn Fivebleek and nickel Lempn Tlre-Ironet Root Rail) Foot Rettl Tool Kit and Jask. T The Willys -Overland Company, Toledo, , Ohio E Van JtRUMT AUTO COMPANY, Distributors J. M. EVANS, Mgr. for Omaha and Douglas County 203 South Nineteenth Street, Omaha. Phone D. 1311 .5 ! 'Y ',-.t .. NEW TROLLEY FUNERAL CAR Th latest addition to the complement of new cart which are being: added to ' the equipment 'of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company la a trolley funeral car, whlcA wzj sat la narvlca recently. The car. which will be known aa the "Hill side," has been built along the general lines of the near-side type of car, ' e cept It has an exit at each end. It' fa painted in deep green with the few lines and other slight decorations in sold. On the rear In gold lettering is "Fu neral Car," while the name has been painted on eaoh of the sides. ' The car is divided into two compart ments, the larger one for the mourners, pallbearers. .Seats are provided In the main compartment for forty persona The casket la carried within & cabinet or vault occupying a portion of the pall bearers' compartment, the top of this displaying the floral contributions. A small rubber-tired folding truck Unpro vided for conveying the casket from the resident r church to the car, and at the cemetery from the car to the grave. finished and decorated, and is equipped with automatic ventilating and electric beating systems. To Insure thqrough sanitary conditions the car Is cleaned and fumigated after every trip. A fea the amaJlar tot the cket nd ox Umlcablni Ainaiiur a nultabla Mao fori Thn laierlor t tha car la ftDnroiwlatly JUtfa Of tan car ia. the fact that at no : : v .1 f time ran the casket be on view while en transit. A receptacle has been ' built on one aide,! the opening being, .on . the ex. terior. -'Inside 19 a large mahogany case, with brass plate for flowers. PhlladeU nllia RacurcL .i i i i i i t5 1 : I . ,1 vM' ',lf, I jpinji . 1 . nMlitwtannaannMaMnnneSaaaMsnenanen '