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CONVERTS AUTO
IHTOTON TRUCK
Truckmobile Enables Owners
of Pleasure Oars to Make
Big Hanls.
Rauch & Lang Electric
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 25, 1917.
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HAMMER TURNS THE TRICK
It stems but yesterday, so rapid
has been the improvement and
changes in the motor car industry,
that we gazed with awe upon the
creation of Elwood Haynes and the
other pioneers.
Step by step and year by year eacli
year brings forth some radical im
provement, until now we have a car
that seems indeed the ultimate car.
Hut what has become of the old
cars? Junked, you say. Perhaps
many of them have been, but with
the high-test steel of the present day
a motor may be a little old-fashioned,
hut still good for years of active
service.
Many owners of old cars with de
livery problems on their hands
sought to utilize the old car with a
makeshift body and usually suc
ceeded in a small way. They at least
demonstrated the crying need of a
practical device whereby the old cars
could be made into a real truck.
In answer to this popular appeal
came the idea of a truck unit, though
in a crude mechanical form. But
following in the footsteps of the rapid
development of motor cars them
selves, so, too, has the truck-unit idea
been given much engineering atten
tion with the logical mechanical de
velopment. One of the best examples of the per
fection attained by engineering brains
is the Iruckmobile.
Built in Chicaco by the Commer
cial Truckmobile company, a large
concern headed by h.. r. Kirch
berger, this truck unit is pronounced
by mechanical experts to be the last
word in engineering skill, plus the
best of materials used and admitted
points of superiority.
In general application to cars the
Truckmobile does not involve any
idea that is new, but it does without
question emphasize the old truck
unit idea with some splendid and ex
clusive improvements.
The Truckmobile is making over a
pleasure car particularly a Ford
into a one-ton truck, pfTering won
oertul ease ot installation, it may
be accomplished with very little work
and in a remarkably short time by
any man who can handle a hammer,
wrench and, drill.
Is Easy to Prepare
All that is required is to remove
from the Ford chassis the rear
wheels, brake arms, brake rods, brake
drums, lifting the Ford rear axle into
place in steel bracket clamps securely
attached to the side. This makes of
the Ford rear axle a jackshaft in the
truck chassis. On the end of the
Ford rear axle, now serving as a
jackshaft, are placed and easily at
tached two bell sprockets unique in
their construction.
These sprockets key onto the jack
shaft the same as the Ford rear wheel
does to its axe and a driving sprock
et is thus created of greater stability
than in any other truck unit that has
come to our attention.
Naturally the Truckmobile bell
sprocket does away with the neces
sity of cutting or mutilating the Ford
rear axle in any way or taking down
Ford rear housing.
In spring construction, placement
and suspension, the Truckmobile
brings .forth the idea that is novel
and practical. In the use of three
springs two of them side springs
and one of them a cross spring or
auxiliary "Spring the truckmobile is
like a number of other truck units
already on the market. Most of the
others, however, use side springs
much heavier than the cross spring.
Truckmobile engineers contend that
the big bulk of hauling is done in
carrying light loads. As the side
springs are the ones to he brought
into use in light-load hauling, Truck
mobile engineers have taken care not
to make these springs so heavy that
they fail to deliver the necessary re
siliency under load hauling. That
is one reason why the Truckmobile
rides easy when a half or three-quarters
of a ton load has to be hauled.
When a heavy load is put on the
cross spring (suspended from a cross
member directly upon rear axle) is
brought into play, 5
But the big feature of Truckmobile
engineering as far as its spring con
struction is concerned is the suspen
sion of the side springs from the low
er side of the frame. Truckmobile
side springs are not suspended at the
side of frame as in other truck units,
hut interspersed between frame and
axle. In asking one of the Truckmo
bile engineers the "why" for this
construction his reply was as follows:
"If you should try to lift a weight
above your head, would you thrust
your arm holding the weight diago
nally above you, or directly above
your head? Well, the spring suspen
pension on the Truckmobile is exact
ly the same. By keeping the spring
directly under the frame of load
the strain of springs and rest of chas
sis, including bearings, is tremend
ously and continuously reduced to a
minimum."
Features of Advantage.
In addition to the special features
concerning jackshaft, sprocket con
struction and spring construction and
suspension,, the Truckmobile also of
fers features of advantage. The
frame of the unit before attached is
106 inches. After being attached to
the Ford chassis it makes a truck
with a wheel base of 133 inches five
or eight inches longer than any other
truck units. The advantages of the
longer wheel base re naturally ap
parent at a glance.
Every one who has ever driven an
automobile knows that with in
creased wheel base comes easier
steering ability and likewise greater
ease of riding. In addition to this
advantage the Truckmobile, by its
increased wheel base, permits of load
ing space back of the driver's seat
where the hauling of light but bulky
merchandise enters into the problems
of the one-ton truck user.
With length of frame and longer
wheel base the Truckmobile has like
wise included a wider frame 41 Vi
inches wide. With a frame of this
width it is able to accommodate a
much wider body than it would
otherwise be able to do and upon do
ing away with all likelihood of side
sway of body and load, so wearing to
truck mechanism. In its rear axle con
struction, the Truckmobile uses a
heavy axle, 2x2j-inch forged steel
construction, designed, like every
Milburn Light Electric
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other Truckmobile part, to take care
of a load of one and one-half tons
instead of a ton, which is its claimed
capacity.
This truck unit is manufactured by
a company of big resources and fa
cilities for turning out thousands of
these truck units this coming year.
The Commercial Truckmobile Com
pany, manufacturers of Truckmobile,
maintain their general office at 1606
South Michigan boulevard, Chicago.
Three 5-Ton Machines Save
$30 Daily in Sand Haulage
Unlike most contracting companies,
the Rodgers Sand company of Pitts
burgh has found a practical utility
in not confining itself to the biggest
motor truck units, says the Power
Wagon. In addition to three five-ton
machines, the Rodgers company has
a two-tonner; This vehicle is found
to be of particular advantage in car
ing for lighter hauls. Its reduced up
keep is an economy.
The Rodgers company has been a
motor truck user for nearly five years.
The first machine in service, a five
ton motor truck, has actually im
proved itself. It is now covering
more mileage and carrying a greater
tonnage than ever before in its his
tory. The Rodgers company believes that
the depreciation of the machine,
judged by its performance, has been
virtually nothing as far as actual serv
ice goes, and that it would be business
folly to trade the vehicle in for
another. Instead, at the proper time,
the company plans to have it over
hauled and kept in service. Herman
Rodgers,- one of the directing heads
of the company, expresses the opinion
that a good motor truck, even in the
hard contracting service, should be
able to give ten years service with
reasonable care and proper overhaul
ing. This company's machines work
about 200 days per year. Four miles
per gallon of gasoline are obtained
under normal conditions with the five
ton machines. The two-tonner shows
a five-mile average. About fifty miles
a day is the average mileage when
tne Dusy season keeps the vehicles
In active service.
Ten miles is the maximum distance
covered from the yards. The com
pany retains fifty horses for nearby
work, but would gladly discontinue
them all if machines could be oper
ated at as great an economy in street
work.
This company has two yards In
Pittsburgh from which sand and
gravel are hauled to building opera
tions throughout the city. Two mil
lion tons of sand and gravel are
taken yearly from the beds of the
Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at
their confluence to form the Ohio.
This work saves the government the
need of doing any dredging. '
Moving Pictures
Used in Teaching
Selling, Advertising
Monday night, F. C. Rudisell, local
manager for the Firestone Tire and
Rubber company, will give a talk and
show moving pictures on selling and
advertising at the Central High school
auditorium at 8:30. There will be
three reels, representing a young
salesman's experience on the road
selling automobile tires. It portrays
the disadvantage of a salesman start
inir out without the technical knowl
edge of salesmanship and the aid and
help of advertising.
The original purpose of this film,
called "The Link," was for the benefit
of the Firestone Tire and Rubber
company's sales conference, held once
a year in the factory in Akron, U.
During the session last fall there
were a number of people in attendance
who were members ot commercial
and ad clubs. As soon as the con
vention was over there were a number
of demands by these people, asking
for the use of this film at their meet
ings. It was first shown preceding
this convention at the Commercial
club in Cleveland, where a number of
outside people saw it. It seemed to
fit in and answer a need of the Mur
phy Paint company, Willard Battery
company, Stewart s speedometer peo
pie and a number of other large con
cerns who UBed it at some ot their
conventions. The demand was so
great that the Firestone company had
to have a number of prints taken from
the original film.
Mr. Rudisell realizing the value and
educational qualities of the film pre
vailed on his company to send it to
Omaha for use here.
The picture is put on by the sales
manship classes of the evening high
school, taught by Nelson C. Wood.
Anyone interested in salesmanship
is invited to attend.
First Motor Truok is
Received in Honduras
The first motor truck seen in Ceiba,
Honduras, if not on the entire north
coast of Honduras, arrived from New
Orleans recently to be used by an ice
manufacturer. As makers of motor
cars have been actively trying for
some time to introduce motor-delivery
cars on this market, the arrival
of this truck is something of an event.
There is an opportunity for truck
sales to the plantation owners. The
planters, however, are quite skeptical
on this point, believing the trucks
would mire in wet weather.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
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With EXIE Storage Batteries
and DELCO Starting, Lighting,
and Ignition your winter problems
are solved, no Frozen Batteries.
Delco Exide Service Station
2024 Farnam Street
Douglas 3697. Omaha, Neb.
AN IMPROVED MOTOR PART
SOLVES THE FUEL PROBLEM
ThU lg on of the port holes at
which th Ri no I In in completely
wonted and through which the
oupwrhvated vapor iied mixture
passo into the oyllnder. It Is in
direct contact with the heat in it
wall, no thnt the full effect of the
heat from the exhaust nan Is con
centrated upon tt
Air and gas enter at thel
intake opening-. The Wilmol
Manifold does not take hot!
air through the carhuretor I
The mixture1 Is completely!
vaperiied at port openings.!
Instead of a wet, clinging.
waeteful, atom lied mixture!
you have a clean, vaporised!
mixture f great power.
M This dividing wall Is heated by th. 1
V -exhaust from the cylinders, and In turn M
WA m M uperbnate and completely vaporise
m iM tne 'rsnn mt'ture of gasoline and ai
Ilf3 " oylinder portholes. The exhaust ga m
ITTlflS PWfTfl warniB the Manifold at the firt expl M
Tra-L. lair is -ton so that the oar gets away Imme- 1
Bflnrifl dlately.
J i i M J UUU I Wwt of th wilmo Manifold, and heat- if
L I I I ng the incoming gas, the exhaust ga M
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tN I I I carbon. Gae li elean ae tt enters the I
f v I I cylinders and clean a It leaves them I
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Increases Gasoline Mileage
42$ to 54 by Actual Official A. A. A. Tests
Completely Vaporizes. Gasoline
Practically Eliminates Carbon
A FTER you have seen the wonders of all Motordom at the Automobile Show, your
visit will not be complete unless you see that which makes every engine a better
engine, every lubricating system a better lubricating system, every carburetor a better
carburetor
The WILMO MANIFOLD the greatest recent offering of science to motoring.
A few pounds of metal, so ingeniously devised as to awaken the admiration of the
most advanced engineers attached to the automobile engine in a few minutes with a
monkey-wrench, with truly remarkable and officially proven results.
Convincing A. A. A. Tests
The WILMO MANIFOLD utilizes the
heat of the exhaust gases to superheat and
completely vaporizes the incoming mix
ture. Every drop of gasoline of whatever
grade does full duty no shirking no
half-hearted explosions - every explosion
clean, snappy and full-powered no wet,
sticky residue left to trickle down into the
lubricating oils to destroy their effect
or to score or scratch cylinder walls and so
cause undue wear of both walls and
pistons.
The car gets away immediately with
all cylinders hitting.
Tests made under the direct and exact
ing supervision of the American Automo
bile Association itself show an increased
gasoline mileage of from 42 to 54 as
the direct result of WILMO MANIFOLD
efficiency.
And with this increased mileage is the
further important factor of carbon reduc
tion virtually all troubles due to car
bon being eliminated with the conse
quent saving of time and money.
Solves Long Standing Problem
All car manufacturers today are ex
periencing trouble on the score of poor
mileage, bad lubrication, or excessive car
bon or all three.
The fault is not theirs. They have de
veloped the mechanics of the car to the
utmost.
Nor is the carburetor responsible. De
velopment here has likewise reached a
high point of excellence.
The trouble is poor gas. And for this
the oil man is not to blame it is an eco
nomic condition imposed by the impera
tive need of conserving the supply of
gasoline. .
Every engineer knows that heat alone
will vaporize gas. The great problem has
been how best to apply heat so as to se
cure the full driving power from good and
bad gasoline alike.
The solution comes in the WILMO
MANIFOLD,' so simple and yet so thor
oughly effective as to .awaken the three
fold interest of the automobile industry,
the oil industry and the motorist. Read
again the above results of official A. A. A.
tests.
See For Yourself
And the beauty of it all is the WILMO
MANIFOLD proves its own mileage-increasing
efficiency in one short demon
stration under your own eyes, and under
the every day working conditions of your
own engine.
If you are an automobile manufac
turer, an oil man, a garage man, a dealer
or a motorist, you have not really seen the
Show if you haven't seen the WILMO
MANIFOLD.
And the price but $7.50 to $15, ac
cording to the make of the car.
Made by the Gillette Motors Company,
Mishawaka, Indiana, and sold with the
absolute money-back guarantee of the
maker.
Home Office,
First Nation! Bank Building,
Chicago, 111.
WHITTIER COMPANY
Automobile Necessities
Omaha Branch
Temporary Addrtti
401 Sanford Hotel
Special Exhibit and Demonstration During Automobile Show
At U. S. Rubber Co., Omaha Branch, 1608 Harney Street
OMAHA SERVICE STATION S,ttn&
DEALER Call at our exhibit at the Omaha Rubber Company and arrange to see tests of the Wilmo
as compared with Standard equipment, similar to official tests of the A. A. A. Prove to yourself that
the Wilmo is all we claim for it. Tests will be made Thursday. .
