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TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEBi NOVEMBER 2, 1913.
STREAMLINE BODY FEATURES
Prediction of Lozier Motor Company
Engineer is Fulfilled.
ORIGINATED IN RACING CARS
ForrlRn HnRlnerrs In Their Search
tor n IJody Type Pur IletnoTert
frnm Home nnd CarrlnKe
Adopted Thli Style.
During the Xew York Automobile show
last year several newspapers printed an
Interview with J. O. Perrln, chief engineer
of the Loxler Motor company. In which
Jlr. Perrln predicted the adoption of the
streamline body as tho standard design
for motor cars.
At that time only one other concern be
sides the Ivorlcr company was turning out
cars of tho streamllno type, and much
doubt was expressed In some quarters an
to whether tho style would live. Just
how cleso the lazier cnRlneer'a forecast
has been carried out can be determined
by a Blanco nt the various 1SU cars.
Almost without exception the makers of
medium priced nnd hlRh priced cars have
announced streamline bodies for next sea
son and the number Includes some of the
most conservative manufacturers In the
country. Motor car manufacturers Ren
erally have sealed the fate of the old
style projecting dash, and the smart un
broken lines of the new models have met
w'th Instant favor.
In common with other advanced Ideas of
motor rar construction the streamline
booy originated In Kurope. Foreign engi
neers In their search for a body type far
removed from the old horsc-and-carrlage
Idea, obtained the necessary Inspiration
from the specially built racing cars. The
racing car was constructed with special
reference to wind resistance and was the
first streamline creation. Here, then, was
a graceful, pleasing looking type which
could bo made over with a few slight
changes so as to be suitable to the family
touring car. The change was put Into
force by several Krench and British mak
ers three years, ago and since that time
the big majority of foreign cars have
been built along these lines.
Probably the biggest comfort to be de
rived by the motorist from the now body
style Is tho fact that It bids fair to be
permanent. Provided the purchaser of a
114 car steers clear of the exaggerated
and freakish style of streamline design,
he can be fairly certain that his machine
will be In style for some years to come.
,
I of his pleasure, and considered It some
I thine of an ornament denoting him a
motorist.
"A great step toward promoting clean
liness was taken when self-starters were
Installed, but there arc many others
which are not fully appreciated by a
man until he has had experience. To
the ordinary man spring bolts would
seem rather an unimportant corsldera.
tlon and ono that would not require much
considerations He does not consider that
many of tho squeaks which motor cars
cleVelop are caused by spring bolts not
properly lubricated."
Little Cadillac
Makes Remarkable
Record in England
Ten years ago a ten-horse power Cadil
lac, then a new stunning representative
of the latest In automobile development,
won the Itoyal Automobile Club of Brent
Htitaln lXOO-mllo reliability run. The car
emerged from the trial with a remarkable
record, making 2.P79 marks out of a pos
sible 3.000.
Recently over the roads of southern
fengiana, unaer me auspices 01 ine iioyai
Automobile club, the same little Cadillac
two-seated machine has been making n
remarkable showing by participating In
the anniversary run of this famous trial
and coming through with flying colors.
What makes this performance even
more remarkablo Is the fact that this
little old car haa been on the road con
tinually since the trial of 1903, traveling
many thousands of miles.
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Crowds Seek Employment at the Ford Factory
ECI3NU AT THE FOItD AUTOMOBILE PLiANT AT DETROIT.
Self-Lubricating
Bolts Are Attached
to Marion Motors
"There Is no doubt but what the aim of
automobile manufacturers at the present
time Is to make the motor car ns con
venient and comfortable as possible, these
features being considered second only to
mechanical excellence. This fact was
brought home to me most forcibly when,
at tho time we were designing the
Marlon cars for 1914, our engineers sug
gested self-lubricating spring bolts as a
feature to be Incorporated In the new
cars," says J., I. Hadley, president of
tho Marlon Motor Car 'company.
"Tho driver of the motor car at the
present time expects, to keep Immacu
lately clean. This Is different from the
attitude of a few years ago, when a
man who drove an automobile did not
mind dirt and grease, but took It as part
Large Motor Truck
Equipped with Hard
Base Firestone Tires
fihol with Firestone tires, what Is be
lieved to be the largest automobllo truck
In the world has gone Into service In
Troy, N. V. With a wheel base of sev
enteen feet and a body seven by nlno by
eighteen feet It has a capacity of 6,740
loaves of bread six tons.
Firestone hard base removable tires
are used.
The truck Is the first of several to be
Installed by the Charles Frclhofer Bak
ing company of Troy, Albany and Schenectady.
Pathfinder Ends
Southern Survey
The all-southern transcontinental high
way, with Ha tortuous New Mexico and
Arlsona desert and canyon trolls, Its
black Texas gumbo, Its Arkansas clay
canobrakea and river bottoms and Its
rough, stony grades In Tennessee and
North Cnrollna, haa been added to the
long Jlst of cross-continent routes sur
veyed, mapped and standardized by tho
American Automobile association, and tho
United BtaWs government office df public
roads.
W. O. It. Westward, field representative,
completed his long transcontinental grind
at the national capital last week In the
Mime oldv Pathfinder "40" that had al
ready laid out four transcontinental
routes for the American Automobile as
soclatlon and which was one of the
entries In the Indiana automobile manu
facturers' tour to the Pacific coast last
aunt.
Omaha Automobile
Club Members Go
After Delinquents
At the meeting of the Omaha Automo
bile club held Wednesday, Member
Jewell called attention to delinquent
licenses In Douglas county. A report he
presented from the county clerk shotted
that the delinquents were OSS for ono
year, for two years 305 and for three
years 1,107. Aa the license money Is re
turned to Douglas county to be used In
good road work, It was urged that tho
club members, any of whom may be
delinquent, pay the regular license fees.
On motion of Mr. George a committer
will ask the county commissioners that
proper officers bo Instructed to collect
delinquent license fees.
An Invitation to tho club to send de-
gates to the United States Good Roods'
aseoclatlon convention of St. Louis, No
vcmlrer 10-16 was presented and tho sec
retary Instructed'to write to the secre
tary of tho association advising that If
It were possible delegates would be sent
to represent tho club.
Homo Milter sold that at Twentieth
ctreet and the boulevard, tho swltohtng
of cars greatly Interfered with the cross
ing of automobiles, He took upon him
self tho task of calling the attention of
the Missouri Pactrio railway officers to
this and Instructions were given to train
crews to keep this crossing clear and
since then there have been no reasons for
complaint.
Tho president appointed the following
dtlcicatrs to attend the State Automobllo
association at Grand Island, November
1E-19: Harry- Lawrle, J. E. George, S. A.
Biarle, II. W. Jewell, C. U. Gould, Gould
Dletx, P. A. Wells, E. ft. Wilson, R.
Brown, W. D. Hosford, Ieo Huff, p. jr.
Carr, J. Vasak. H. It. Iloucek, W, B.
Cheek and H. 13. Frcdrlckson.
Mr. Jewell wus appointed publicity
representative of the olub and Mr. Gould.
Jn special representative of the club, to
The Standard Electric
, $2100 Car $2100
Contains nothing not accepted as "STANDARD"
by every high class Electric Car made
No Better Power Plant (Westinghouse) in any car
No Better Batteries (Exide) in any car. 1
No Better Axle in any car.
No Better Wheels in any car.
No Better Tires (Motz) in any car. (
No Better Body (Aluminum) in any car. ' "
No Better Control in any car. s x ' . "
No Better Design (French) in any car.
No Better Upholstering in any car.
No Car handsomer or neater 'in design, but it is
1,000 pounds lighter in weight, and
$1,000 less in price than those we compare with.
Intending buyers, we invite you to call and make
your own comparisons. We offer perfect service
MARION AUTOMOBILE CO.,
2101-3 Fara&m Strt, Omaha, Neb.
C. W. McDonald, Manager.
call upon automobile dealers In behaK
of the IJncoln highway and the selling
of certificates.
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Latest Packard Six
Much Superior Car
"A motor car of tho highest type can
be produced for considerably less than
was possible two years ago, or even one
year ago." Thl? Is tho statement of H.
H. Hills, sales manager of tho Packard
Motor Car company.
"After years of patient Investigation,
designing and testing we have developed
a typo which promises toyemaln substan
tially unchanged for several years. With
the greatest burden of development wore
behind us, with better manufacturing fa
cllltlen and more complete standardiza
tion of parts, in conjunction with In
creased output, we are now able to pro
duce a six-cylinder 38 at a lower cost
than It was possible to make our four
cylinder 30. Tho latest model 38 Is a
more able car than the 30, as well as
being smoother and having even better
riding qualities. The design Is. more ex
tensive, the quality of tho material Is
better and there are many added refine
ments promoting comfort, and convenience."
Franklin Climbs
California Road to '
the Highest Point
Higher into the altitude of the Sierra
Nevada mountains than an automobile
has ever gone before, Ralph Hamlin of
Ios Angeles recently pushed the nose of
his Franklin racing car 10,000 feet up Into
the air.
Mr Hamlin, with a party of friends,
went up In the Sierras on a camping trip.
While there he Inquired from the natives
what was tho highest point in the moun
tains a motor car had ever gone and
learned that one machine had got as far
as a certain mine. This point had markeJ
the extrome limit. Mr. Hamlin's car was
sent to beat this altitude record. He
reached the mine without having encoun
tered any difficulties and determined to
go on farther.
But there appeared no way to go. The
thick underbrush and Immense Jagged
boulders blocked his way. Obtaining the
FcrvlCM of a guide the boulders were
tolled out of the way and a rough trail
cut along which the car went. When the
, Franklin had reached 10,600 feet above
t sea level Mr. Hamlin was satisfied.
This altitude stunt of Mr. Hamlin Is
claimed to be the highest point a motor
car ever reached lit California. Engineer
McClure of the California state highway
staff says that the road Hamlin took Is
the highest In the state, but Hamlin 4went
farther than the road and drove his car
over loose rocks and snow to a point 109
feet higher than the end of the road,
where no vehicle had ever been before.
AMONG AUTOMOBILE KINGS
I
Some Idea nf the Crop of Melons
the Country Hands to
Detroit.
Upward of 112,000,000 every week pours
Into Detroit to fill the gasoline coffers of
tho crop of new automobile millionaire
manufacturers In the "City of the Strait."
That Is to say, Michigan has over 80 per
tent of the "devil wagon" manufacturing
trade of the United Btates, and Detroit
has 66 per cent of the SO.
As the total Michigan output Is approxi
mately SfcS0,C09,0Q0 per annum and la
likely to reach J1.000.OCO.000 before 1915
Detrolt's share runs Into flmires that
make the mythical riches of swashbuck
ling Monte Crlsto look trifling.
Whence comes this prodigious prosper
ity? What causes have combined to cre
ate a new Pittsburgh of tho middle west?
Surely there Is some explanation.
It Is on Interesting story rivals any
of the talcs of (he "Thousand and One
Nights." The curious part of this ro
mance of magic money-conjuring Is that,
generally speaking, the supreme kings of
this new Industry are not financiers.
They are. Instead, blacksmith.
This wondrous anomaly becomes Intel
ligible when one stops only for a fsw mo
ments to consider how the gasoline car
has annually beaten Its own marvelous
record for growth. It has advanced In
popularity with the speed of an aero
plane. In ancient times that Is to say, about
the year 1900 the men behind the vari
ous car models that have survived the
tests of efficiency were mostly day labor
ers of one kind or another, but chiefly
blacksmiths, leather workers, railroad
yardmtn and others less skilled.
It requires a self-trained mechanic to
take Interest In the Intricacies of the
gasoline engine. Such a man was Henry
Ford, who today has an Income of $1,000,
000 a month. Ford was an itinerant
threshing machine boss; before that no
was a farmer's lad; later an employe In
an electric light factory. He. possessed
Yankee adaptability for- mechanics. He
worked nights on his ("new-fangled mo
tor," as he described It. The results wera
slow and crude, but he kept on the job.
Other men who are now at tho front of
the gigantic Industry came up with fac
tor) soot upon their faces and foundry
grime upon their overalls.
It was, you understand, a problem for
a dreamer a man willing to Idle away
his time.
The era of the capitalist in the gasoline
field came much later. The blacksmiths
were the founders of the new dynasty.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Ctmpltttty Equippid '
VUkGnjBDniitUtrttiUrl0ri4tnuntrUm. fHtn ... IUh Jpvy
A Revision of Prices Downward
F
OUR years ago we marketed a much small
er car, than our 1914 model; for $1250. And
this was a bare car with no equipment.
.Today we offer you a much larger car in every
relpect, refined right-up-to-date and completely
equipped for only 5950 25 less than our price
four years ago. y
Four years ago the wheel base was shorter,
the tires smaller, the motor smaller, in fact every
essential part of the car represented less value.
In addition to that you had to pay extra for all of
the equipment.
Today the Overland has a longer wheel base.
larger and more Powerful motor, larger tires and
complete equipment. In fact every individual
unit is larger than heretofore. Yet the price is
25 under the market of four years ago; is 30
under the present market and has fully 200
greater value.
All of which is accounted for by our gigantic
production which has been increased each sue
ceeding season. For 1914 we will build 50,000
cars. And a production of this size is the sole
explanation, for it makes possible the numerous
economies which increase values and decrease
prices.
Still, you argue, other manufacturers must
have reduced costs and increased values just as
we have.
But they haven't.
Look around you. Think a minute of tho
curs you know of that have not reduced prices.
Think of the cars that are about the same in speci
fications andyprice as they were several seasons
ago. Then go further and think of the manu
facturers who have raised their prices.
That's probably an angle you failed to con
sider. That's probably a point you overlooked.
But it's important.
Check our price reductions and car enlarge
ments and refinements during the last four years.
The facts will astonish you 1
Then call on the nearest Overland dealer and
minutely examine the 1914 Overland. It has a
powerful 35 horsepower motor ; it has ample five
passenger capacity for family comfort; it has hand
some and brilliant electric lights throughout even
under the graceful cowl dash; it has larger tires ;
it has a wheelbase of 114 inches.
There is spacious body ; luxurious uphol
stery ; the finish is rich, beautiful and simple ; tha
brakes are larger and stronger.
There are Timken bearings ; the high grade
Schebler carburetor; the magneto is a Sphtdorf
and the speedometer is a jeweled Stewart.
Everything is standard the world's best.
But the price is lower than ever.
And, most advantageous of all, it is the most
economical car on tires, gasoline and oil.
There is an Overland dealer nearN
'Phone him for a demonstration today.
you.
Phono Ulack 061
18-23 Fourth St.,
Council Waffs, la.
Van Brunt Automobile Go,, Distributors
SPIO Farnam St.,
Omaha, Neb.
Phone Doug. 8207.
The Willys-Overland Company
Toledo, Ohio
Manufacturers of the famous Garford crni Wilbs-UtiUty Trucks. Full information on request.
