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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1917)
fkE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 28, 1917. TO A DEALERS COMING . TO AUTOJISPLA Clarke Powell Expects Over Two Thousand Sub-Agenti to Attend. OTT TO CHICAGO FOR IDEAS . Omaha promise to be tomcthing of a convention of automobile dealers when the eleventh annual Omaha Automobile exposition opens Febru ary 26. Clarke G. Powell, manager of the show, reports replies to invita- lions to territorial dealers even this early date indicate that every automobile dealer in the surrounding country will be on hand when th doors open. " ' ,. The Omaha auto show is not ex clusively an exhibit for the local dis tributors. Practically all Omaha dealers act as jobbers for the tcrri tory around Omaha in Nebraska and iowa and these agents who make their purchases through the Omaha houses all intend to be here tor the show when they will see for the first time the new spring 1917 models. Last year about 1,500 dealers from outside points attended the local ex position, but this year Mr. Powell expects the number to surpass 2,000. The more sub-agents who come to Omaha the greater the attendance at. the show, for almost all of these outside dealers bring at least six prospective Buyers with them and several have been known to bring as many as forty to fifty. . Local dealers and representatives are making elaborate plans to re ceive their sub-agents. Conferences. lectures by factory experts, get-to gether dinners and the like are being . planned in large numbers. Mr.' Powell has gone to Chicago tor the national show at that city. Fie intends to- gather some data which will aid in staging the Omaha exposition and he also intends to make arrangements with several of the big factories to bring their entire Chicago' exhibits intact to Omaha. Brake Problems "Confront Best . Auto Engineers Many followers of automobile con ttruction were somewhat disappointed in the New York show this year be cause no real improvement in braking equipment was shown in the great majority of cars. . While it is true that year after year other betterments hive been incorporated, brakes have received little attention, - ine unequal braking effects are completely eliminated by putting the single service brake on the transmis sion, the differential gears distribut ing .all forces equally between the rear wheels. At the same time the trans mission brake is more powerful be cause of the gearing. The gear ratio of the average car is about four to' one, so the brake drum revolves four times faster than the rear wheels and gives four times the leverage for the braking effort. ; Thus only one-quar- ter as much torce must be exerted to accomplish the same result. This ease of operation appeals to the aver age driver. - . ' r The larger allowable variation of pressure, due to the high speed ot the drum, is also a valuable feature, as it J practically eliminates the chance ocking of wheels with consequent skidding dangers and excessive tire wear. Lastly, the transmission brake is not located in such - an exposed position as are rear- wheel brakes and im wcrciorc KH nauic id dick up oin and crease. , Two American manufacturers, one ot whom is the rranklin Automobile company, Syracuse, N. Y., use the transmission service brake, with marked Success.- v t Universal Tread Casino ' - V.:;, Like Michelin Racers ' The Michelin Tire company of Mill . town, N. J., brought out a new tire a little over a year eo. known as the Universal Tread Casing.' R. J. Eisen v hardt of the Omaha Auto Supply com pany, local agent tor Michelin tires, says that this new tire', in general con struction and method of manufacture, t is similar in its full rounded shape and extra thick tread to the Michelin-rac- , ing type tire that won such high repute in the days of automobile road ' racing. The tread of the Michelin Universal is made up of a series of letter "M's," the outer surfaces of which are broad J and flat, thus presenting to the ground , a very long wearing tread surface. The , sides of .these letter "M's" are- not V rounded, but are square so that the "M" tread remains clearly defined until the tread itself is worn away. : The Michelin Universal is a casing of unusually sturdy construction as re gards the carcass. For example, these tires are made up of from five to eight plies of fabrics, depending on the size, i instead of from four to seven plies as are generally considered sufficient. Then there are two breaker strips in- stead of one, which is said to add a good deal to the durability of the tire. Militiaman Boosts for . Dodge Brothers' Car Dodge Brothers cars in use by the United States army continue to win favorable comment, y J. R. Whitlock of Summit, N. J., who. served on the Mexican border with the New York troops, is the lat 1 test to give Dodge Brothers cat a . boost He is' quoted In a New York paper as saying: "There is ' nothing like them in Texas and we had a good variety of -.; cars in use at our division headquar ters at that. I drove the quartermas ter's Dodge more than 5,000 miles ... over the worst imaginable roads and 1 through miles of adobe mud which was frequently under layer of water. ,j v Only once was the car unable to pull ' ' itself out and then only because of a $ - broken chain. It was amazing the wav those Dodge cars stood up under such 1 treatment as they received. I started i driving with little appreciation of the $ Dodge. I 'returned filled with en s' thusiasm." -, I Bart ea UtOswr. C , ft . ' 'Twou'la fca 0 hard blow for Job Mc- i, Oraw shoals kla Olanta so oa atrtk. John I certainly haa a nlflr tntm under hi com. mind and ahoald It t shot to ptocaa It would tako aoverol t build, up alKa aaeUaer proutlalaf outfit. JOINS FOECES OF SMITH AND THE HUDSON 'janrjnon 7W snoMCKBlt, In response to the needs of a vastly increased volume of trade, Guy L, smitn nas created a new department in his business to be devoted entirely to the wholesaling of Hudson Super Sixes and the carina- for the interests of Hudson agents. 1. M. Hromwell will manage this new department, devoting his entire .time to the wholesale end of the busi ness. Years of experience in charge of the distribution of some of the best selling lines in this territory fits Bromwell admirably for the duties of his new position and his extensive acquaintance among the dealers and buyers of this section makes an in troduction unnecessary. Omaha Automobile Club ; Fosters Three New Bills The club has submttcd to the state legislature a bill providing a peni tentiary penalty for the buying of cars whose engine number has been de faced or altered. It is an original bill imcd at curbing the market for stolen cars. A bill is prepared for the rcsistra- tion of automobiles in garages similar to registering at a hotel, Chief of folice IJunn recommended the bill to Club Counsel Wells as a measure which will materially help in keeping tab on transient cars stolen in other stales and cities. The club lias another bill with peni tentiary penalty for defacing or alter ing an engine numoer ot an automo bile. At present. Ohio and New Jer sey are the only states having this measure. ; '" Hoosier Eleven Leader' . ' Gets Scholarship Prize Russell G. Hathaway, ciptain-elcct of the 1917 foot ball team of Indiana university, has been awarded the Gimbel prize, consisting of the inter est on $500 and a gold medal The prize ts given annually by Jacob Gimbel of Vincennes, Ind., to the In diana university athlete who ; shows the best mental attitude, habits',' col lege spirit, application, sincerity and scholarship. Psv-iowa was born Favlowa. Had she been a clumsy, ill-' proportioned child,noamount of training could hare devel oped the magical, ease, of movement which is her charm. I a No less infallibly in motor cars is original-and inspired -design the foundation of supremacy..' " , Before the Twin-six motor was evolved, thesum of Pack ard refinements made it great among the world's cars. Oolca of twenty A- SERVICE DEMANDS OF THE AUTOMOBILE Test Shows That a Little At tention Each Week Will Protect the Car. PROBLEM FOR THE DEALER Service a much abused word. Serv ice in the automobile business as it has been generally understood is to get as much for as little financial re muneration as possible or without pay at all. In a good many respects the manufacturers and dealers are respon sible for this condition. The manufac turer, because he has not educated the public riKhtlv on service, and the dealer, because he has been too willing to ignore the few suggestions that have been made to him. Always eager to please, to make service an asset to his business, he has gone so far that he does not have the equilibrium to recover and change his service poli cies so that they will be not only profitable to him, but satisfactory to the customer and manufacturer. Plan after plan has been given a trial but the only solution to the service problem is the rigid enforce ment of safe business methods. Invariably, if the dealer will keep a check, he will find -that he had his greatest service troubles with the cus tomers to whom he has given a large discount or a long trade on used cars. The sale of one automobile does not make any liffcrence in the aggregate but it can make a lot of mental and financial trouble during its lite with a customer. There are automobiledcal ers irt the United States today ho would pay $400 or $500 more than they received for their product if they could take that automobile out of the hands ot certain customers. The King Motor Car company, in its determination to have a motor car that gives maximum service, went to a great deal of expense to prove the running efficiency of its product. For fourteen days and nights, with a stock model under the sanction and. super vision of the American Automobile association, an eight-cylinder King was driven tor luJSSU miles on the Sheepshead Bay Motor Speedway and the highways of Long Island. It was not a tuned up car, but a stock model. Ihe test was not conducted because of its spectacular achieve ment, bat to prove to the King engi neers just what to expect in two weeks, which averaged two vears of running. It was found that by giving nine minutes a week attention for luel, oil, water and grease, a King car could be run for two years at a very small service expense. John Day Rubber Co. to : Sell Quaker Tire Lines Announcement has just been made by H. J. Day of the John Day Rubber company to the effect that they have taken over the Quaker tire line. This tire is manufactured- by the Quaker City Rubber company of Philadelphia and is reputed to be an excellent product, comparing in quality with the higher1 priced .tireav faf&' ' ltonjr Yank SoouU. '. Tha New York Tonkcea omploy mora acouta tMn sr athw-itwsa-,aaraa ulub. Jo KtUr, Duke farrall, Bobby llllka and Oeorza Latdy comprise lha Yankees' aauad of Ivory hunteru. - J ; I V1 Poise! When all parts work together in splendid harmony grace, beauty and efficiency are the superb results Re-created on the new scale of luxury permitted by Twin-six power and economy with the Twin-six motor for its heart the Packard now offers riding qualities and an easy ascendancy over road. conditionsIIever ap proached before. - A poised cart ; ' ; Grace beauty efficiency these in the Packard car are the sure results of a deep sound tested harmony. body style. Price, open can, SSMQ and See the Ore Motor Sales Ceftnpaay, Fortieth and Faraam Streets, Omaha. - Branch at Sli City. Iowa. NOW ASSOCIATED WITH APPEESON COMPANY. Douglas Bowie, who for several years lias been connected with the Murphy-O'Brien Auto company m the sales department, has joined" the ranks of the Apperson Motor com pany and will devote his energies to selling Apperson and Grant cars. In speaking of the. new lineup J. H. De Jong said: "Our new facilities will enable us to do a great deal more work on city prospects, as our service room is now adequate for this busi ness of sales. Bowie is well acquainted with the city trade- especially and I feel that he will be a big asset." Crook Not Able to Steal Car Equipped With a Perry Lock "Some nerve" was the consensus of opinion when a number of excited on lookers watched a brazen highway man make a "clean getaway" in broad daylight with a "perfectly good" Willys Knight Eight, which was left standing at the stage entrance of the Brandeis theater. After the crowd has sufficiently col lected itself to move en masse toward the scene of the theft a storm of in quiries were Toiced as to what was the matter -with the little Overland which the crook first tried to get. It was quite evident from the nu merous "I saw him" expressions that the golden crook couldn t steer the little Overland. The steering wheel was loose and just whirled around without moving the wheels, v Just about the time the crowd couldn't contain itself arid curiosity had reached the. violent stage i some one laughed. . .J hat someone was the owner of the Willys Knight, which proved- conclusively, that the "system was ail wrong.". It all happened for ine movies ana mc camera man ap peared. ' - ?. , -; . This itttle drama was staged for commercial purposes entirely and the crook was just demonstrating the im possibility. , of making way with a Perry Locked ear, together with the ease nd speed possible , in .takina- an automobile not locked with Perry iriOCK steering wncct. SSM0, at Detroit ' v , jSf TWIN:6 POCKET AMMETER . HARMMATTERIES Puts Enormous 'Strain on En ergy of Storage Box of Motor Car. WELL TO USE H7DB0METEK "I can test dry cells with a pocket ammeter. Why can't I test my stor age battery the same way?" To the average automobile owner a battery is a good deal like a Greek puzzle. It is hard for him to appreciate that' a storage battery is a purely chemical device. And so, a battery is a battery. But there is a big difference between the chemical and electrical natures of the dry cell and the storage battery. Both dry and storaee batteries operate by chemical action when "the circuit is closed." The dry cell, when it is exnaustea, is done; the storage battery, when exhausted can he re. charged. The ordinary dry cell has a comparatively high "internal resist ance, which permits only a certam amount of electricity to be discharged at one time. But just the opposite is true of the storage battery its "in ternal resistance" is very low, and it can discharge a tremendous amount of current when given an opportunity. Itt Effects. . When the pocket ammeter is used on a dry cell, the amount of current liberated is small, doesn't injure' the dry cell and doesn't injure the am meter. But the same little instru ment, placed on a cell of a storage battery, will in most cases be burnt up by the tremendous current dis charged, and at the same time the storage battery cell is permiteed to oiscnarge, ttseit all at once, with a ruinous result upon the battery itself. The same thing occurs when tools or other metal objects are carelessly placed on top of the battery. uuite frequently we are asked to tell what is the trouble -with a bat tery which the owner has 'tested' with a pocket ammeter." savs R. fl Smith, manager of th Delco Exide Service station. "The little scratches on the battery terminals where an ammeter has been placed tell a story of battery abuse which the average owner finds trouble in understanding. "Alt he did was to 'testkit, and the battery may be completely ruined. You see, we have a selfish reason for giving free service to battery owners. it is much simpler for us to test a battery properly than it is to make repairs after the owner has tested it improperly. Besides, it's much better for the owner." Twenty-Seven Horses Are Replaced by Three Machines Three five-ton motor trucks n- gaged in a service involving a rue) whose most distant point is Guten burg, five miles away, replace twenty seven horses and nine wagons for the firm of Jagells & Bellis, Hobokcn, N. J says the Power Wagon. These vehicles not only give a bet ter service, -but effect a direct econ omy in operation for distance work. Formerly a delivery of coal to these i distant points averaged 65 cents per ton. , This firm has begun to replace its horses onlv with reluctance. It has always had a great pride in its ani mals, has bought only the best, and cared for them perfectly. It retains 160. Depreciation is charged on on yxor THE remarkable success of the KING, now in it third year of eight-cylinder leadership, after a long period of build ing successful 1 'Fours,' ' will this year far ex ceed the record of previous years. The eight-cylinder KING offer nothing "medium" but it price. In mechanical -periority, riding luxury, coach design and world-wide prestige, it is distinctly a "salon" car. I Seven-passenger Touring Car, four-pas- 1 senger Foursome, three-passenger Road- iter, $1585; seven-pa aaenger Sedan, $2150. 9 Prices f. o. b. Detroit. Wire wheels $100 A txtn' NOYES-KILLY MOTOR CO., 1 2066-68 Famam St. JEUaStr t nnnjj Omaha Distributors Jff'HlifT1 "S I "K Motor Car Co. 1IMI" This is to announce that we have takeji over the sale and distribution of , the product of the Chalmers Motor Company in Nebraska, Western Iowa, parts of Missouri and Kansas, and are now perfecting our or ganization for 1917. The Salesroom at 2054 Famam street is now being re decorated for us and we expect to move into our new quarters February 1, where we shall be glad to meet our friends and the trade in general. v - . Temporary Quarters, 1206 W. O. W. Bldg. Douglas 3958 j Western Motor Car Chat. R. Hannan, Jr., President Walter S. Johnson, Secy, and Sales Mgr. E. V. Abbott, Vice Pres. and Gen. Mgr. each animal at the rate of $25 per yean i. Once a year an inspection is made and animals not up to standard are condemned and sold. From $325 to' $425 is paid for new ( animals. Enough reserve horses are maintained so that those in active service are never overworked. Yet, despite the natural preference for horses, Jagells & Bellis would welcome a condition that would make it possible to retire them alL Motor trucks give far better service in the snows of winter. They main tain the service when horses are ma rooned in their stables. Machines can be used in rush work night and day. Moreover, they can be protected by insurance, while horses remain unpro tected because of the high rates and difficulties attending live stock under writing. Co. VVi 'wm I I