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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 12, 19ir.
U.S. BUYS 3,000
MORE PACKARD
3-TON TRUCKS
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Makes Total of 4,800 of These
, Which the Government Has
.t Ordered in Last Ten
Days.
Three thousand three-ton chainless
trucks have just been ordered by the
United States war department from
the Packard Motor Car '" company.
This is the second quantity order
placed by the government with the
Packard within ten days and brings
the total of the two prders up to
4,800 trucks, representing a money
value of more than $16,000,000.
"This is a big task the government
has laid on us." said President Al
van Macatiley, "but it is met with an
equally big demonstration of loyal
determination among the executives
of our manufacturing division, the su
perintendents and foremen and the
workmen of the truck factory to see
the job through on time.
"We of the Packard feel that the
placing of this order is a distinct in
dication of Detroit's importance in
the government'! plan for successful
prosecution of the war. The center
of the world's motor industry it to
be, judging from these orders, the
center of America's war transporta
tion industry. That means a great
deal when you stop to consider -that
this war is primarily a war of ma
chines, food and transportation."
New Motor Company Branch
To Be Opened on Auto Row
Announcement was made last week
to the. effect that the Baker R. &
L, Motor Car company have opened
orancn in umana which win be in
charge of Paul Doane, who is well
known to the electric car trade tof
Omaha.
Mr. Doane is very much dissap
pointed over the inability of the Baker
people to furnish him with an Owen
Magnetic demonstrator. The demand
for this car so far exceeds the supply
that demonstrators have otily been
furnished to one or two cities in the
United States. '
The Owen-Magnetic Js an engi
neering achievement wrich does away
completely with the gears in the car
and makes it possible to go from low
speed to high with absolutely no no
ticable change in the action of the
motor as it gains speed.
Motor Car Brakes Must
Be Efficient for Safety
"With the great number of auto
mobiles now in every day use," said
II. Pelton, Marmon distributor, "one
of the most vital demands made upon
the- automobile engineer, is that the
motor car' brakes are efficient, and
that they can be applied with ease.
"Many times a day the driver of an
automobile is called upon to meet un
expected emergencies, in which he
trusts his life and the lives of the
other occupants of the car to the
brakes. At a critical moment no fea
ture U more important.
"Marmon engineers ha?e developed
I brake system with a margin of safe
ty bard to find in cars regardless of
price.
HILL CLIMBING ON
HIGH HARD ON CARS
Figures Show How Much Bet
ter it Is to .Shift Gears
as They Are In.
, tended.
The high-gear hill-climber is first
cousin to the scorcher, and both are
bound to become wiser as time goes
on, asserts R. O. Allen, writing in the
current issue of American Motorist
on the folly of driving motor cars up
steep hills in high gear solely for
boasting purposes.
Continuing, Mr. Allen says:
"I fully understand that the modern
automobile is made to climb almost
anything but trees. But I wish to
demonstrate that to climb a steep hill
on the high gear imposes the hardest
kind of work not only on the engine,
but also on every other part of the
car. The low gear ratios are provided
for hi" climbing and they should be
usen tor it.
"It may be well here to consider a
little more carefully the amount of
work performed by an automobile
climbing a gradient on, say, a gear
ratio of three to one. A ratio of three
to one revolutions of the rear wheels
is produced by three revolutions of
the engine shaft. With the lower
gear ratio, the intermediate and the
low, the number of engine revolutions
becomes still greater as comoared to
the number of road wheel revolutions.
By One Explosion.
"It is not difficult to compute with
exactness the distance which a car is
propelled by one explosion in the en
gine cylinder and the power consumed
in hill climbing. The circumference
of a thirty-two-inch wheel is approxi
mately 100 inches, and in covering one
mile the wheels revolve 633 times.
With the motor turning over three
times as fast as the road wheels, it
will require 1,899 revolutions of the
gear shaft to propel the car one mile.
Thus, if such a car should proceed
at the rate of thirty miles per hour,
approximately 950 engine revolutions
per minute are required. With two
power strokes at every revolution
there are 1,900 revolutions per mile
and each explosion propels the car
one toot and four and a half inches.
Hard on Cars.
"This estimate assumes that the car
be propelled over level ground. To
nrvtnt a hill simply means that grade
resistance is added to the various
national and other stresses. An au
tomobile weighing 2,000 pounds climb
ing a hill 200 feet high (measured
vertically) simply performs the task
of overcoming- the action of .gravity
or lifting, and the calculation of 'the
power required to do this must in.
volve the factors from which the
horsepower unit it derived. To lift
2.000 pounds 200 feet high in one mm
ute is the same thing as lifting 2,000
x200 400,000 pounds one foot high in
one minute. Theoretically, then, the
lifting of 2,000 pounds 200' feet high
requires 400,00033,000 12.12 horse
power, and the losses through fric
tion, air resistance, etc.. consume the
remainder of the theoretical horse
power output.
"From all of this It must become
apparent that rushing uo a steep hill
on the high gear must subject any
car to enormous stresses, which are
likely to affect the life and service of
the car to a considerable degree, bear
shifting is not a cumbersome task,
and the mounting of gradients will
not be attended by harm if the gears
are put "to the use for w hich they
were intended by the automobile de
signer." Warm Weather Battery
Hints by the Expert
Elmer Rosengren of the Nebraska
Storage Battery company is advising
car owners on the essential points of
warm weather attention to batteries.
Probably the most important of these
is water. During the summer a stor
age battery should receive pure dis
tilled water at intervals of a week or
ten days. This is necessary because
of the evaporarion of the solution
which gives the battery its life. If
this solution is allowed to leave a
portion of the battery plates exposed
to tne air, tnese piates win yetenorate
and the life of the battery will be
greatly shortened.
Another point to consider is the
hydrometer test to determine specific
gravity of the sclution. This test
should always average I-oU and in
cases where the car owner does not
want to make the test himself, he can
have it done free of charge at any
Willard service station. If the bat
tery is allowed to go below the grav
ity mentioned, it will gradually run
down and refuse to turn over a start
ing motor or operate the electric
lights.
REPUBLIC MOTOR
TRUCK BAND COMES
Musical Aggregation on Tour of
Country in Omaha Monday
and Tuesday, Playing
on Streets.
There is a decisive thrill to the
shrill boom boom of a marching band,
but with all a band without the per
forming drum major is greatly lack
ing. The Republic Motor Truck com
pany's band, coming here Monday
and Tuesday, on a tour of the United
States, has all even the high-hatted
drum major with his twirling wand.
Headed by the Republic band of
fifty pieces and decorated Republic
trucks, furnished by the manufactur
ers, the Republic parade will pass
through the downtown district.
The first feature of the parade will
doubtless be that of the expert drum
major of the band, S. A. Crone, whose
work of the past deserves more than
mere mention. During his career he
has made for himself a reputation
by the work he did in the New Ulm
band, the Second Minnesota infan
try cavalry band, Cole Brothers' band,
the Fifteenth cavalry band and of the
United States army, the St. James
band and the Sherman-Kelly band.
In the Republic band Crone's train
ing of the past is reflected and the
military discipline he maintains
among his boys creates an impress
in;; spectacle.
The band will play at the Market
Monday from 10:30 to 11:30 a. m.;
court house, noon to 1:30 p. m., and
at the Ak-Sar-Ben Den in the even
ing. Tuesday it will be at the Com
mercial club at noon and at the court
house in the evening.
Studebaker Prices Are
To Advance September 15
"The increased cost of materials and
labor has finally forced us to announce
an increase in prices of all models,"
says L. J. Oilier, vice president and
director of sales of the Studebaker
corporation. "But this increase will
not become effective until September
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"It has always been a hard and
fast Studebaker policy to give the
customer the benefit of low prices as
long as possible and I want to make
it clear that we are increasing prices
only in proportion with the increase
in the cost of manufacturing Stude
baker cars under prevailing conditions."
Exhaustive Tests Are Made
Of Roads by War Department
A great deal of significance is at
tached to the activities of the War de
partment, not only in adopting the
road maps and logs prepared by the
national touring bureau of the B. F.
Goodrich Rubber company, but in
conducting military tours of the
strategic roads which will be available
in quickly transporting supplies. One
of the most recent tests was made by
Captain O. R. Bird, quartermaster's
department, United States army, who
shattered all Los Angeles to Salt
Lake City records in his dash over the
new Arrowhead trail in the remark
able time of thirty-four hours and
fourteen minutes. The Silvertown
equipped Oldsmobile driven by C. H.
Bigelow contained Captain Bird, a
sergeant and a corporal, constituting
a regulation military patrol, and again
proved that the new Arrowhead trail
is the shortest route between Salt
Lake City and Los Angeles. The old
record of fifty-five hours held by
Barney Oldfield was made over an
other route.
Since the War department has de
cided to purchase 70,000 trucks for
the transportation of troops and sup
plies, military officials are busily en
gaged choosing the best available
routes between advantageous points,
Goes to School to Learn
How to Repair His Auto:
On a sisal plantation about twenty
miles from Manila, Philippine Isl
ands, there stands a $5,000 motor car
broken down. It will continue to
stand there until its owner, James
S. Miller, who incidently owns the
plantation, completes a course in mo-
tor mechanics and goes back and
finds out what is the matter with it
Mr. Miller's return to this coun
try revives a mystery story which
was prevalent in Lancaster county
some twenty years ago. Miller's
home was formerly about three miles
from Lincoln, but when still a young
boy he became dissatisfied with a life
of toil and poverty and" left home
to seek his fortune. He finally wound
up in Manila and made a fortune in
sugar. He didn't write home for a
long time and when he did write
1'. folks had all moved away and
he was unable to get any trace of
them. Friends of his saw his name
in Kansas City papers as attending
the Rahc Auto school of that city
and are now endeavoring to locate
the other members of the family.
Up to date Mr. Miller has not been
able to locate either of his two broth
ers or his mother, who were alive at
the time of his disappearance, but he
hopes to get word of them soon.
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USED CARS
The Murphy-O'Brien Auto Co. bae adopted a now policy
of soiling used ears. A guarantee accompanies every Dodge
Brothers and Paige car we sell. We assume responsibility for
defective parts and five the purchaser every assurance of sat
isfaction. This ie something new in the automobile Industry
n most radical change from the policy employed by all dealers
in used cars.
Heretofore the purchaser lias assumed all the risk. He bat
bad to depend on bis own judgment, or "luck." He could never
be sure be would not have a big repair bill tacked on to the
original purchase price. We are going to change this. We are
going to insure you to guarantee you will bo satisfied. We
believe this ie only fair that the man who spends his money
for e used car is entitled to the same attention and considers
tion that is given to the purchaser of a new car.
SEVEN DAYS' TRIAL
Come down and pick out your car. We'll tell you every
thing we know about it Then try it for seven days. If, at the
end of that time, you are in any way dissatisfied, bring the car
back and every cent of your money will be cheerfully refunded.
That's all there is to It. There is no red tape.
In n week's time you will know whether the car Is as
represented end that is wkxt the trial is for to determine
if you are satisfied. Then, as a further assurance of eatlifac
tion, we will gWe n
30-Day Mechanical Guarantee
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We give, for a period of SO days, the same guarantee as
to the mechanical soundness of the used ear that wo give with
new cars. Tbus we assume all risk.
We believe the prospective purchaser of used ears will ap
preciate this new policy. We know we will derive a vast amount
of satisfaction if we can say on December 31, 1917, "Wo know
that everyone wbo has purchased car, of any description,
from the Murphy-O'Brien Co. is satisfied."
Come 'in and talk it over. Now Is the logical time t? pur-,
chase, as prices are low.
' USED CAR DEPARTMENT
Murphy-O'Brien Auto Co.
181416-18 FARNAM STREET. TELEPHONE TYLER 123.
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"The
World's Greatest Motor Track
Never was a commercial vehicle of the same sturdy, high quality and
proved construction offered to the public at anywhere near the price.
Before it was considered fit to bear the MAXWELL name the MAXWELL
truck was tested for 19,000 miles, over all sorts of roads, under every kind of
weather condition. At the end of the gruelling test MAXWELL factory officials
were satisfied to present it to the commercial world.
The MAXWELL truck is qualified by every standard to occupy the fore
most position in its field. Not a f eature has been overlooked, either in construc
tion or organization, to make it stand (Jut as the greatest commercial vehicle
value ever produced.
The MAXWELL truck is equipped with the famous Timken-David Brown
worm and gear drive. The worm drive is generally conceded to be the most effi
cient and successful power transmission designed for a truck of one-ton capacity.
It is expensive to build, but is unquestionably more efficient in continuous, hard
service.
The MAXWELL truck is equipped with Timken roller bearings throughout
front and rear axles. The Timken reputation for sterling quality is unquestioned.
The MAXWELL truck is electrically equipped. Electric lights, generator
and storage battery of standard make are part of the regular equipment, assur
ing greater efficiency on the part olthe operator and in every respect proving
more satisfactory than any other system.
- The MAXWELL truck is equipped with a motor, modified to meet the re
quirements of heavy service, one that has been tried and proved in more than
, 150,000 MAXWELL passenger cars. It develops 33 4-5-horse power on brake
- test and is unusually economical in the use of gasoline and oil.
Let us demonstrate the sterling qualities of the MAXWELL truck in actual
service. Let us become a part of your business until you are thoroughly satisfied
that our claims to supremacy are justified.
Immediate deliveries to a limited number. Demonstrations in the order of
application.
Midwest Motor arid Supply Co.
PRICES:
One-Ton Truck
Chassis . . $865
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With Cab and Windshield .. $900
With Stake Body, Cab and
Windshield ..-T ,.$950
With Box Body, Cab and
Windshield $950
With Open Express Body, In
tegral Cab, Side Curtains
and Windshield $995
With Panel Body, Integral
Cab, Side' Curtains, and
Windshield $1015
f. o. b. Detroit
2216-18 Farnam Street
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Omaha, Neb.
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