Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, July 27, 1913, NEWS SECTION, Page 8-A, Image 8
TIIE OMAIIA STNDAY BEE: JtLY 27, 1013. HAY HANG OP HEW RECORD Firestone Wins Four More Eaces talked-of "Panama-Pacific Road Race' from Los Angeles to Sacramento UlA miles, July 14 was overwhelmingly s Firestone victory- .yerbeck in a Fiat won Waterman In a Bulck, second and Old field in a Flat, third. All three used Firestone tires, and the first and second cars never changed a tire during the cnUre race. Hasty High-Powered Cars Will Try 8-A New Model Cadillac Makes Record Run from Detroit for It at Galveston. Attractive prize offered ITomr maA TIalf noun Continuation lOoe-fer-All Xlaee la ta Cmrrr i m tVInnlnr Pane of Fire ' Tkoanana Dollar OAIflTESTON, Tex., July Jl Wltb The first week In July added many race laurela to the already welt filled victory list of Firestone tires. Tho much- S ! tutor hlEh-Dowered car entered and with speedy pilots to man them It ta expected that new world' straightaway record will be hang up at the coming- Oalreston beach meet Although the "Print record tor the mile and two-mile dlstancea now held by Barman probably will not be eclipsed, there are aome long-dlitanco narks which undoubtedly will fill. The tour and a half hours' continuation free tbrfOl race, the feature event of the gheet, which 1 to run three consecutive days and for which a prise of 15,000 is of ifared, haa enlisted a number of the fast act tone-distance cars now racing, and world's records are bound to be hung up. Ralph Mulford will start his Peugeot monster, which he bought recently from Ooux, who drove the car to victory in the recent KO-mlle race at Indianapolis. (Sfolford will have aa a contender another Peugeot, to be driven by Armour Fergu son, Louis Dlsbrow, who has been smashing records with his Simplex "Zip" and "Jay-Sye-See" racer, has been entered in a number of events for which his cars aro Ugible. Jack Loealn of Boston has en tered two Stuts cars, and a number of Vexans, amateur drivers, also have en tered and will attempt to take some of the iiMO offered for the various events to be run. Captain Munn has announced that all rents except the mile time trials vrVH be raced from standing starts. Steven events are scheduled on the pro gram for the three days' racing feat. Motor Trucks Give Lumber Firm Big Edge on Competitors The value of the motor truck for pur poses of business promotion Js empha sised every now and then by some firm which finds it worth while to advertise to the trade the Improvement in service It la able to afford lta customers through the replacement of its borse. drawn equip ment by motor trucks. Not long ago, in Cincinnati, the M. O. Pan-in lumber company Installed a Peer less truck for making deliveries from Us lumber yard outside the city to the vari ous railroad stations in town. A good deal of the Farrln business Is with people outside of the city, and on Important part of its delivery problem is bo get stock to the railroad stations promptly In response to a letter or tele gram containing & rush order. After the truck had been installed the company found it was nearly always pos sible to get the lumber to the stations on the day the order was received. . .This quickened service to out-of-town cus tomers nearly twenty-four hours on the. sjrdor. It gave the company a distinct advant age over its competitors. A series 'of folders for mailing to the trade was pre pared on pJls subject. And tho results of the advertising campaign Increased the JjUelnesa quite considerably. liH CAmtjLAC CAR AS IT AIUUVKD AT HOME HOTEL AFTER IlUN FROM AND i4 MINUTES. Iieft to Right U W, Nygoard, Oeonce F. Reinv President Cadillac Company ot Island, Burgeon for Union Pacific, and A. L. Schantz, President State Bank DETROIT TO OMAHA IN '31 HOURS Omaha, in front seat; Dr. Roeder, Grand of Omaha; Tom Foley of Omaha, rear. ter figure being five times as great as that for France's nearest competitor, Italy. The United States makes a small showing at 65,040, but the increase is from fl,K0 in 1908. Tho value of tho parts imported In 1912 fr.om the countries named Is: France, 973,294; Germany, IW4.TS1; 'Italy, IS24.M3; United States, 415,468. Though tho figure for this country ia relatively small the trade had grown from only 18,333 in 1903. Other items that deserve notice are that more complete cars were imported from Belgium than from any other European country except France; Germany had had nearly fourfold increase since 1901; Rus sia sent parts to the valuo ot 1114,015. Chicago Record-Herald. NEW PARTS ARE'PUT TO THE SEVEREST TESTS Three Packard testing cars on their way from Detroit to Ban Franslco passed through Omaha last week. The Packard company hammers away night and day trying out new engineering features and the experimental department has always known that the quickest way to break some one's "happy thought" Is to incor porate it in the prevailing chassis and beat It from Detroit to Ban Francisco and back. If the new assembly stands up under tho hard trip with a wide open throttle through the deserts and over Foreig: n Makers of Autos Follow American Plans It was not ao many years ago that European automobiles on exhibition in this country were the one big attraction at the different shows. The American jnanufacturers felt that they hod to fol low tho foreign designs in order to have their cars strictly up-to-date. Then, too, jubllo opinion seemed to faYor forelsm machines, bo for a time the manufactur ers across the water had thlnga pretty auch their own Way, aa f ar aa style and wr concerned, and found in America one of their most profitable sell, la centers. According to jr. T. Hart. KtsKUnt ot Ifea It-C-H corporation. Detroit, the ltu. B&on at the present .time Is Juat rvf.r. "It you could look through the walla of w oi me ioreign automobile factories," aid Mr, Harts, "roxi would find the off! ciala and engineers grouped about th parts of an American car, studying the chassis and body designs, and Very likely riwumiuuc mo motor piece by ptecV POSTOFFICE PURCHASES TWENTY WHITE TRUCKS Acting under a decision that the recent postal awards for the purchase of 100 ootor trucks were not made in con. Jormlty with the law, the Poatotfice de partment has announced now awsrdV nw carding to new specifications In place of inoae wwen were siren out In the last feouns of the previous, administration. The tot! number of vehicles to reduced from tm to rorty, naif of which are delivery truck and tha other half trt-cara. The entire truck contract was awarded to the White company of Cleveland. O.. whose motor trucks predominate In the COTcrasaent service aa they do In mer eatI work. Competing for the award were thirty manufacturers ot gasoline mm eleetrto trucks. . EXPORTS OF AMERICAN CARS Browlasr TrA vrlth droit Britain In Coasplet Com a&d Parts. Statistics- have been published en th automobile Imports and exports of Great Britain which are of Interest the world ever awl of particular Interest to the vmiea cKsxea. mere nas been, u ap eara, an "American Invasion.' In 19M tho largest Importations, of complete oars were from Fiance, amounting in Tale aa they 4ld to il.lM,J. In that yar, the errespondlng figure for the United aKattt was only f.t Bat In Mil the Importation from this country had risen,'! value to CHB.tt. while those from afcanee had fallen to 7,1CT. Other feature of the trad show xfmui variations. The chassis Imported j flV FrxAoe increased tc value front mountains, there is a possibility that the company will toko that particular part under advisement It is the business of an experimental driver to "break" tho part which he in testing. If he succeeds he has earned n credit and convinced his chief that he Is a good man; if he falls he silently admits that the designer of the part in a better man than he. The company has four testing route. One Is through the mountains of Penn. sylvanla; one from petroit through the mean southern roads In winter to a test ing camp In Georgia: and routes to the Paclflo coast through Arirona and New Mexico In winter and through Omaha, Salt Lako City in summer. 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