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MAXWELL TRUCK ON
OVERLAND JOURNEY
Delivers One Ton of Groceries
at Atlanta After 1,500-Mile
Run From New York
City.
That the motor truck is a reliable
means of transportation in cases of
railroad inefficiency is thoroughly
demonstrated by tlie feat of the Max
well truck with its one ton of groc
eries arriving at Atlanta from New
York without a single mishap of any
-consequence during the 1,500-mile
run.
"It has been a remarkable revela
tion of road-ability, dependability,
economy and sturdiness," declared
James A. Hemstreet, technical ob
server for the American Automobile
association, who was a passengei on
the truck during its run. The Maxwell
left New York with a ton of groc
eries from a New York wholesale
house for delivery to the Louisville
& Nashviile warehouse in Atlanta.
So well had the Maxwell stood the
long, hard grind, that a one-ton load
of shoes was collected in Atlanta and
the truck sent southward to Jackson
ville to show its ability over the
loose sand roads of Georgia and
Florida. It is the biggest road prov-ing-up
test ever undertaken by a
truck.
All army camps located near the
roads travelled by the truck have licen
visited. In order to reach the quar
termaster's departments, many times
it has been necessary for the truck
to cut across lots, ditches, cotton
fields, and worm its way through un
broken wood paths.
"Regardless of the obstacles the
A. A. A- observer states that the
truck has been jinaking as high as
12 miles to the gallon.
Roads Are Slippery.
The red clay, banks of South Caro
lina, wet from rain, made the Maxwell
running a slippery event and shot the
gas economy lower than good roads
would have done. The average mile
age per gallon takes into account
every bit of the road.
At Camp Meade, near Washington,
the driver of the truck was forced to
rut lots, dodze around pine trees,
back up and pull around stumps awj
most a half day before the quarter
master's section was located. The
camp is nine miles long and seven
miles wide. Major Charles M. Tobin,
Headquarters, 102d Supply ' Train,
Twenty-seventh division, U. S. A., in
structed Sergeant' E. F. Bridgeman,
the truckmaster, to go over the truck
thoroughly and examine it for wear.
Sergeant Bridgeman reported that
there j was no visible wear of any
parts.
, Th$ tonnage of the truck from At
lanta south will be made up of a half
dozen allotments from the wholesale
houses of that city. The goods will
be delivered in Jacksonville,
War Classes Are Held in !
Goodyear Jire Factory
Ever since the United States went
on a war basis the factory school of
' the Goodyear Tire & Rubber com
pany, Akron, O., has greatly
strengthened its facilities for extend
ing co-operation to the men likely to
be called for .military service.
First a course in military drill was
established, that all drafted men sub
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MOTOR
FOR ALL
Have Your
Trucks are too valuable in your
business to have them laid up
for repairs' during the day. They
must be fit for service every
morning or you are not getting
the maximum in efficiency.
Since entering the truck business
our aim has beento give com
plete service to motor truck oper
ators and we have now added a
sufficient force of expert mechan
ics to give day or night service.
Your truck should be oiled, and
Sandow Trucks Master
. Sandow Trucks are built
r to stand hard service and
' where they have been f
used nothing but praise is
to be heard. ' v
Omaha
First Motor Truck Train Leaves i
Detroit for the Atlantic Seaboard
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' The Michigan state preparedness
board and the Council of National
Defense, co-operating, started the
first motor truck train between De
troit and the Atlantic seaboard on
Friday, December 14. The tram is
now enroute. ine accompanying
photograph was taken "somewhere 6n
the road."
The train consists of 33 Tackard
trucks and is in command of Captain
ject to call might in the meantime
learn the rudiments of military drill,
to help them escape some of the initi
atory knocks that raw recruits must
go through at the training camps.
Many letters have been received
from men in the different camps,
stating that their advancement was
due in a large measure ,to their
knowledge of, military drill obtained
in the Goodyear classes.
' It is quite certain that when our
soldiers arrive at the trenches in
France, they will find a knowledge of
the French language a great asset.
So accordingly a class in French has
been organized, for men who expect
to see service in France.
A letter from the United States
signal corps states that telegraph
st'idents will be enlisted in the signal
service as soon as they can qualify
as 20-word receivers and senders. So
a course in teleeraohv has been es
tablished, including both wire and
wireless. Previous to the war the
Goodyear company had its own wire
less plant, now dismantled, and
through its operators, is able to give
its telegraph students a practical
course in telegraphy.
While more than 1,600 men have
Vgone out from this company to enter
the different branches ot tne service
and the training camps, many more
remain who are subject to call at any
time. It is with the idea of helping
these men to fit themselves for pos
sible promotion, that the Goodyear
company is conducting theSe factory
classes.
Clarke Powell Says
Auto Conditions Good
Clarke' G.' Powell, who attended a
convention of the Champion Spark
Plug company at Toledo, 0., and De
troit, Mich., has just returned with
an optimistic report. The convention
was the first of its kind, being at
tended by all the leading salesmen of
the company and a number of jobbers
from all over the country. About
JSO salesmen and 20 jobbers were
Jiresent. Mr. fowell was -Mere as a
obber.of the middle west.
The message that the Omaha auto
mobile man wishes to bring to Omaha
is that business is booming in the
automobile line and that all talk- to
the contrary is not Jrue.
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COPYRIGHT 1917.
Truck Repaired at Night
. greased frequently and inspected
every day. In that way only can
you keep your truck in perfect
condition at all times. , 1
s Our serviceincludes all manner
of repairing, welding, reboring
cylinders, machining and over
hauling. . Bring your truck to us at night
and it will be ready to start in
the morning. No delay, no laying
up for repairs during workin?
hours. ...
The "Worm lirive" used
in Sand6w Trucks is now
accepted ' by the leading
manufacturers of trucks as
the most efficient type.
Motor Sales
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Bennett Bronson and Lieutenant C.
A. Riley. The overland trip is made
as as test of the practicability of send
ing new trucks from the factory to
seaboard on their own wheels. The
trucks are three-ton capacity and are
fitted with bodies buil according to
Quartermaster's department specifi
cations. One of them is a kitchen
truck which carries food supplies for
the trip. The army drivers were or
dered from Camp Sherman, Chilli-
Winter Weather Fails to
Check Sales of Saxon Cars
With snow whitening a large sec
tion of the country the second week
in December seemed to herald win
ter in all its chilliness and a conse
quent slackening , of business in auto
mobiles was expected. And appar
ently just to prove once again that
this year is different from every other
year, orders for Saxon motor cars
continued to flock in, with-the result
that more than 300 were received dur
ing the first two days of the week. ,
These orders came from every part
of the country. Not only the south,
which is still bisking in warm weath
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er, Dut tne west ana mmaie wcsi
wired and wrote shipping instructions
for Saxons. Dealers are continuing to
sell cars and already they are saying
that the winter months will see many
automobiles delivered to customerse.
This, they aver, is due to the fact
that the public is buying automobiles
for business this year as never before.
Pleasure and luxury are no longer
factors in motor car sales. Utility is
the universal demand.
Ignition Troubles apd
How to Cure Them
The modern ignition, according to
R. S. Smith of the Delco Exide serv
ice station, though comparatively
free from such trouble as will cause
an embarrasing breakdown on the
road, often is the center of irritating
annoyances which have the effect of
causing a temporary delay, lack of
power because of misfiring, hard
startinsr. overheating, etc. There are
in use two forms of ignition systemsJ
one using only a magnito with per
haps a battery system in conjunction
for starting, and the other using only
a storage battery and a timer-distributor.
The latter is now in more
general use.
In four-unit coil Ignition any mal
adjustment of the coil interrupters is
likely to cause misfiring. In magneto
ignition, the interrupter mechanism
is much the same as that "in the bat
tery system and the same instructions
apply. In magnetos, however, the
mageets may become weak and this
will usually cause misfiring, at low
speed, though not always at high.
Coil connection should be watched;
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TRUCKS
ALL ROADS
SAND0W MOTOR TRUCK CO1.
the Situation
There is a Sandow for ev
ery line of business. In
capacity they range from
1 to 5 tons. All parts are
standard. No untried units.
Company
SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1917.
cothe, O., and from Marfa, Tex., to
take charge of the train.
The train is designated by the
quartermaster as division supply train
No. 308 truck company No. 2. The
men are quartered at night in armor
ies in the various cities along the
route, which is generally as follows:
Detroit to Toledo, Cleveland, Ra
venna, Pittsburgh, and over the Lin
coln Highway to Philadelphia, thence
to the port. ,
I in fact the prevalent trouble is caused
by loose or dirty connections.
Local Goodyear Branch
Plays Host to Salesmen
"The oast week has been a busy
one for the Goodyear branctjorgan
ization," asserts Joe McDino, 'mana
ger. "Wc have been host to about
twenty-five salesmen during the
week." . .
During the past week the sales
organization ot the Ooodyear iJes
Moines. Cedar Rapids and Omaha
branches and various others of the
sales organization have been assem
bled in Omaha for, a general sales
conference and entertajnment.
Wednesday was the gala day tor
the salesmen and they were treated
to much vaudeville during the course
of a banquet held at the Rome.
. Among the guests were H. r. .ieg-
ler, district manager; G. H. Barmare,
assistant district manager, and A. G.
Carpenter of the mechanical goods
department. N
Annual Election January 9 The
annual election of the Commercial
club will be held January 9. The
nominating committee as now worki
ing on a list of names to be placed on
the ballot as candidates for the board
of dlretT
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Oldsmobile Men Load Two Autos
Where But One Was Loaded Before
"One of the marvels of. the automo
bile industry is the manir in which
it has solved knotty problems and
found solutions to so many seemingly
unsurmountable difficulties,'' says Mr.
O'Neal of the Nebraska Oldsmobile
company, distributors of Oldsmobiles.
"It has always had to wrestle with
new and unknown conditions and has
always found a way out.
"The transportation problem has
always been full of 'vexatious situa
tions, and there seems to be no end
to them. But at no time have they
been as serious as at present and
traffic managers of automobile con
cerns are straining every resource to
move their product.
"The rarest visitor to automobile
plants these days is the automobile
freight car that was built especially
to handle automobiles. They have
been diverted to move government
supplies and the country's food prod
ucts. Small box cars, flat cars and
Invent Auto Headlight
. To Shine Around Corners
The latest development in autdmo
bile lighting is a headlight which
points in the right direction. Every
motorist has known the annoyance
which arises in turning corners, when
the front wheels are pointed in one
direction and the headlights in an
other, and the country to the left or
right is lighted while the road he
'want.
wants to travel
dark. The new
headlight is connected with the front
axle in such a way that it turns with
the front wheels instead of the body
of tire car and always points in the
direction the wheels ' are pointed,
which is of cbursc the path that the
car will travel.
Motor Car Replaces Mules
On Southwestern Rice Farm
No more impressive demonstration
of the utility of the -passenger motor
car could be desired than the use to
which an1 Overland automobile has
been put in the Texas rice fields.
After five years of service over
the mud roads around Crosby, Tex.,
this car, during the last year, did the
work of 24 mules in harvesting the
rice crop of the Old River Rice com
pany at Crosby. The veteran touring
car was hitched to a cutter and back
Hudson Again is the Mo de
In Fine Closed Cars
similar equipment are being used, but
there is not enough of them.
"Who would ewer think of loading
automobiles with their front ends
sticking up , in the air? Yet that is
just what(the Oldsmobile traffic de
partment is doing. They take a flat
car and build a heavy frame work
arojjnd it about six feet high of 6x6
timbers. There are heavy cross
members at the top of this frame,
into which the front wheels of the
automobile rest, while the hind wheels
rest on Jhe floor and carry most of
the1 weight.
"The Oldsmobile is then loaded un
der its own' power, bing driven- up
on skids at almost a 40 degree grade.
When the front wheels drop into
place, the car rests at an angle of
about 33 degrees. It is then securely,
anchored and covered with heavy can
vas. When the loading is completed,
it looks something like four circus
elephants standing with their forelegs
on one another's backs."
andforth aaross the 9,000-acre stretch
of rice it cut a swath that previously
required three cutters with eight
mules each. The cutter itself was
speeded up by a gasoline engine so
that from eight to 12 miles an hour
was the steady gait of the outfit.
"The outfit is a seven-wheel won
der," declares F. G. Gammon, super
intendent of the farm. "It costs us
a little over $1 a day to run the ma
chine, while It costs nearly that much
to keep a mule. In its present state of
service, the automobile could not be
appraised at much more than $350,
because of its five years of use and
abusewhile one mule costs $250."
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Special Representative Is
Added to Mitchell Forces
Jay C. Brandimore, one of the best
known men in the motor car business,
hag been appointed special factory
representative of the Mitchell Motors
company (Inc.) of Racine, Wis.
Mr. Brandimore was formely con
nected with R. C. Rueschaw, vice
president of the Mitchell Motors, at
the Reo company, for seven years.
Mr. Brandimore is a prominent
man in the automobile industry, hav
ing traveled from one end of the
United States to the other. For the
last 10 years, he has devoted his en
tire time andNattention to the manu
facturing and selling of motor cars.
The leadership long held by Hudson as a builder
of fine closed cars is more pronounced than ever
this Fall. The new models just received from
the factory are beautiful, faultless in finish and
design correct in every detail.
The individuality and smartness of the Hudson
Limousines and Town Cars are reflected in more
expensive custom-made bodies, for Hudson sets
closed car mode.
This year the body lines are' slightly changed,
not extreme, but sufficiently different; so as to
never appear commonplace. Rich; guiet colors
with costly fittings of exquisite design charac
terize the interiors.
There is none of the sluggishness in Hudsons so
generally "found in cars or the closed Jype. The
powerful Super-Six motor with its great flexi
bility nd smoothness gives Hudson closed cars
puoyancy, and a reserve strength that; is sufficient
for any emergency. i
Reasonably prompt deliveries can be guaranteeo!
if selections are made early.
GUY L. SMITH
'Service First"
TIRE TESTERS ON
, LONG WINTER TRIP
Fleet of Goodrich Motoristf
Start cn 150,000-Mile
Drive; Dig Trenches to
Get Cars Out of Ohio.
Unless fortune smiles soon the tin
testing fleet oft the B. F. Goodricl
Rubber company, which left Lima
O., last week for the.so.uth on a three
fold mission, will find itself in
relatively the same position as Ad
miral Peary in his now celebrated
dash for the north pole. Ever sinca
leaving Ohio the pilots of the 15
automobiles have been active day and
night digging paths for their cars.
Their exertions in Ohio alone should
qualify them for positions in General
Pershing's best trench digging squads.
After leaving Cincinnati it took tha
motorists two days to make 60 miles.
The cruise of the tire testing fleet
will take the automobiles over ap
proximately 150,000 miles of roads
south of the Mason and Dixon line
during the next three months. The
Goodrich company is makiijg its
fleets perform national and patriotic
functions this year. This mission is
really subordinated to two others of
greater import in the present national
crisis. The south this year, accord
ing to information given the Good
rich officials, is going to use the motor
truck on a scale. more extensive per
haps than any other section of the'
country. The railroads are crowded
with supplies for troops in southern
cantonments, and producers on whom
the north must depend for early vege
tables and fruits must resort to other
means of transportation.-- The tnotor
truck has been their selection. These
they have been buying in large
quantities. Difficulties arise, though,
in roads and road conditions. It ir
necessary then that some agency take
the fiel.d and gather data that will
be of immense aid to producers. This
the Goodrich company has under- k
taken. Every town and city alonef
the line of travel will be informe,
of the conditions of the lanes and
highways, the weakness and com
mendable features thereof, and the"
best mode of travel between farm and
the nearst point of distributidn- and
shipment.
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