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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: ' APRIL 21, 191&.
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IMIIASBROUGIIT
REALIZATION OF
MOTORCAR VALUE
"Lexington" 1 Head Convinced
.Nation Now Realizes Need
'T of Motor Car in Daily
' Life.
"Men most keenly alive in automc"
"ile matters today have witnessed a
marvelous change" in sentiment to
: ward the passenger car," said Frank
B. Ansted, president and general man
ager 'of the Lexington Motor com
pany of Connersville, Ind. "There is
no question but that the best cham
pion the automobile business has ever
had has been ftie unprecedented de
mand upon time and energy which
have made the automobile loom up
as one of the big factors in winning
the war Men in every walk of life
find they have to have automobiles,
The farmer, the salesman, the contrac
tor, the business man all have added
duties.,; Time is of paramount im
portatfee and the motor car is essen
tially a time making machine first of
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"This sentiment is reflected at our
plant in Connersville, where far
sighted dealers and distributors e
clamoring for cars. They are patri'
otically aiding in relieving conges
tion by driving them through even to
far distant points, as they realize that
the continually increasing require
ments on our vast war program must
mean a cut in production.
- , Government Comes First.
"Conditions of this sort can only
mean that someone who waits will be
disappointed in delivery. We are go
ing to do our utmost to give the gov
ernment everything they need first.
This is our plain duty. After that
we will then do our best to, supply
all of 'the orders for Lexington cars.
But it stands to reason that the most
forehanded customers will not wait,
"ut will get the cars they need now.
"Ask any of the business men in
Washington these days if they would
willingly give up their motor for the
period of the war and they will tell
ypu that they could not do without
it This condition of affairs applies
to every American, who is finding
more and more things he must do at
home t "place his shoulder to the
. heel of war.
;"There is no question at all about
either the demand or gasoline supply.
The, two vital factors are supply and
.transportation, and Jiere , it must be
'first come, first servd.'" -
Lincoln' Highway Travel
'Will Be Safer This Year
Lincoln Highway travel in eastern
Nebraska -will be made much safer
this year by the construction of a
concrete viaduct over the highway at
Elkhorn by the Union Pacific ray
road, thus eliminating a dangerous
tross at grade. A similar . viaduct
now under construction , in Omaha
will be finished before the start of the
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U. S. TRANSPORT DIVISION IN
FRANCE DOING BIG THINGS
Night Driving Without Lights, Road Repairs and Conges
tion Offer Many Hard Problems for Americans;
Efficiency of Motor Units Is
Remarkable.
Folks here at home, the great un
knowing populace of these United
States, are thoroughly uninformed on
what our motor cars and trucks are
doing for the armies we are sending
abroad.
Three men, three whose names have
seldom appeared in dispatches or
graced the columns of front page
stories in the press, are working
wonders with automobile and truck
divisions. Quiet!, but with remark
able efficiency, Brigadier General H.
L. Rogers, Colonel F. H. Pope and
Major Barrett Andrews have speeded
up"this phase of the service until the
motor truck section stands out as the
pacemaker for alf departments of
United States service in Europe.
Major Andrews, who was in Wash
ington recently on a special mission,
fresh from the front, sheds much light
on the motorized branch of war work.
Closed Cars' Preferred.
Forty per cent of the automobiles
used abroad are closed cars and most
of these are used by officers. The
officer's ear is practically his 'home.
He rides in it, works in it often while
traveling from one point to another
and directs the conduct of most of
his business from it. Often he sleeps
in it. Mud, dust, rain, sleet and other
elements against which the touring
car is no protection, must be .barred
out of his office. Hence the closed
car.
The roads in France are in splendid
condition of repair. v Even up to the
communicating trenches, just behind
the first lines, highways are in good
shape. .They have to be. There are
constant streams of trucks moving to
and from ammunition, food and
provision' dumps find the feeder
trenches, through which fresh troops
reach front lines and others return
on relief.
Shell-Torn Roads Repaired.
The sliell-torn roads one hears
about occasionally are myths, says
Major Andrews, l he moke and teas
from an explode "Jack Johnson" have
hardly escaped, the crater of earth has
hardly cooled before a section gang
is at once at work repairing it. Be
cause -trains of 50 to 500 motor trucks
are moving constantly to and from
the front, the necessity for keeping the
road in repair is obvious. The very
efficient French military police, com
posed of old or partially incapacitated
soldiers, fill the duties of a great traf
fic squad. Their work is the same as
that of our Metropolitan police
to keep the traffic moving and weed
out obstacles that might interfere with
its steady movement.
Each fleet of 10 trucks has a me
chanic, skilled in quick repair and ad
justment. ; If one of the trucks in
this group goes wrong, he fixes it if
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tne nxing can De quickly accom
plished. If not. the truck is run off
the road and out of the way, so that
the rest i the convoy may proceed
without delay. I
At each side of each joad there are
12xl2-inch beams, laid end to end
for the many miles from base to front.
These serve as night guides for truck
drivers, because no lights whatever
are permitted. Even tail lights are ta
boo, because likelihood of breakage
of the red glass discs is great. Night
driving, therefore, is done in absolute
darkness, the drivers keeping to the
rignt -oi ine roaa ana guiaea Dy tne
bump-bump-bump of the heavy wheels
against the thick beams.
Center of Road Open.
The center of the road is always
kept open for dispatch and officers'
cars. And because there is often
room for only one passenger car on
the crown of the road, the trucks, be
ing slower, must keep to the extreme
right and left of the highways. After
each JOth truck there is a "ram" or
moving island for one automobile to
turii in so that another form the op
posite direction may pass. The -10th
truck has a large white circle painted
on its side which may readily be
discerned on the darkest nights. This
indicates the presence of the ram
for the,( officer's car to turn in while
the approaching car passes.
The the natural question as o how
drivers can see on pitch black nights
cigarette is the answer. A. pin-point
of red fire, readily seen at SO yards, is
yet obscure from enemy airplane eyes.
These are the only lights.-
In plateau country, trucks and cars
seldom get closer than 2,500 to 3,000
yards back of the trenches. In hilly or
mountainous country they are driven
up almost as close as the third line.
No Marching of Troups.
There is practically no marching of
troops. Motor trucks carry them to
and from the trenches. This elminates
much weariness for the men and much
delay in transportation.
Group zones, in which two or three
kinds of trucks are used to the ex
clusion of other makes, are a recent
development. This permits me
chanics to specialize and allows for
interchanging of parts that would not
be possible were a dozen kinds of
trucks used in the same section of
country.
Strictest orders prevail as regards
the conservation of fuel. Whenever
trucks or, cars are halted for more
than a minute or two, the engine is
cut off. Failure to observe this rule
brings heavy punishment to the of
fender. It may be a nice thing for artists
to paint and authors to write about,
but the speeding dispatch car is rare.
Seldom, even on those roads not
laden with miles and miles of trucks,
is 45 miles an hour exceeded. Near
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Model 12
1800-lb. $1075
Complete with Flareboard
body and canopy top
With panel body $1120
, Model 10 (
lH-Ton $1540
Chassis only
Model 15 '
2-Ton $1850
, Chassis only
Other models alio
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you to do your present business a a lower cost
but to get you more business by.Improving your
delivery service and by extending the radius in
which you can make sales. "
" This truck gives you 1800-pound pay-load capacity
instead of 1500-pounds and costs you less than most
trucks of the smaller size.
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It is the most modern, most complete and most
economical truck of its size ever built It comes to
you complete .with electric starting and lighting, in
ternal gear drive axle, windshield, bumper, spotlight,
steely felloe wheels-the biggest truck value ever
offered. N . "
All over the country this Model 12 Grant Truck is
selling as fast as the factory can make them. There's
nothing like it at anywhere near- the price. Look it '
over now and get your order in.
LININGER IMPLEMENT CO.
6th and Pacific
Distributor
Omaha
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GrfANT MOTOR CAR CORPORATION, CLEVELAND ,
the points of distribution at the front
the speed limit is 20 miles an hour.
Repair shops and service stations
are divided into three classes. Base
repair shops are complete in eVery
nirA rtf mntnr car nrf trnrlc trvire.
Here a chassis is completely rebuilt, if
necessary.
Huge machinery characterizes these
plants. Moving them to other places
takes from two to three weeks, and
they are naturally a correspondingly
safe distance from the front.
The second type of repair shop is
semi-mobile. It, too, is comparatively
safe in its distance from the trenches.
It requires two or three days to move
it and contains equipment and facili
ties for the handling of adjustment and
repair work which would require a
week's work.
The first-Jine repair shop is thor
oughly mobile, being mounted en
tirely on trucks and ready to move
to any designated point -within an
hour at most. On these trucks are tire
vulcanizers, blazers, lathes, emery and
other grinders and other machinery
necessary in rapid overhauling and ad
justment. Ditch System of Draining
Roads Dangerous, Says Dealer
"I have recently heard a very strik
ing criticism and I fear a just criticism
to Qjir highways," said Carl Chang
strom of the Standard Motor Car
dompany. "One of the officials of the
American Automobile association
claims that all of our present type
highways are equipped with death
traps on each side.-He believes, and
I do, that the present ditch system
of drainage should be done away with
in favor of a system of underground
drain pipes, making ditchless roads
of our highways.
"Any man who has driven over a
busy highway where the speed aver
ages 25 miles per hour knows that at
the end of a considerable journey his
nerves are on edge. He perhaps, has
driven his motor car on the outer
edge hanging over the ditch on one
side, lest his wheels are raked off on
the other side and a half day of driv
ing like this along a deeply ditched
road is enough to destroy his mental
equilibrium.
"I believe that the day is coming
when flat roads without dangerous
curves and without the still more dan
gerous ditches on the sides, is not far
away and when it does come the fast '
moving automobile will be respon
sible for the change."
Motor Trucks "'iwzB"3
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Axles-lgnition-Engine Units Cooling System
-Bearings Transmission Oiling SystemBrakesSprings
Steering Gear Tires every detail that goes into every
Bethlehem Truck is as hear perfect .as science and money can make ft.
Examine die Bethlehem.
$12.95 $19.15
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BETHLEHEM
DUMP TRUCKS
Writ for Catalogue
BETHLEHEM
TRACTOKS
J. T. STEWART MOTOR CO.
2048 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb.
Distributors Nebraka, Western Iowa, South Dakota.
Bee Want Ads Are Business Boosters.
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Whose Tires Do You
Help Buy?
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THE one outstanding and unalterable fact about the def
inite mileage guarantee is that it must be paid for.
We Goodyear Service Station Dealers know this well
as you tire users should know it ; ; '
The cost of such a guarantee, like every other cost of pro
duction and marketing, is included in the selling price of
the tire. . t
Thus the presence of such a guarantee in a tire of normal
price can mean only that some other quality has been
slighted or sacrificed. ,
If you drive with reasonable care, almost any standard
make pi tire will deliver you mileage above the average
guaranteed figure.
The premium you pay for the guarantee does you no good
at all, and by paying it you deny yourself such additional
mileage as uncompromised quality could give.
It is only the reckless driver the man abusive of his tires
who can expect to profit regularly from the definite
, mileage guarantee.
Remember that you are paying for his neglect and helping
to buy his tires the next time you are, offered such a guar
antee as an inducement to purchase.
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This tign identifies the Good
Star Servk Station Dealer.
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THE NOVELTY REPAIR CO.,
4S09 South 24th St. Phone South 1404.
BLACKSTONE GARAGE CO., j
3814-16 Farnam St. Phone Harney 800.
. HOLMES-ADKINS CO.,
4911-15 South 24th St. Phone South 42a
, NATIONAL AUTO SCHOOL,
2814 North 20th St Phone Webiter 8943.
TROUP AUTO SUPPLY CO.,
1921 Farnam St. Phone Douf. S230.
JONES-HANSEN
S. & A. TIRE & RUBBER CO.,
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, 2522 Farnam St. Phone Doug. 3854.
COLFAX GARAGE
30th St. and Ames Are Phone Colfax 1907
ORR MOTOR SALES CO.,
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Packard Show Room,
CHAS. W. WALKER GARAGE CO.
Fontenelle Garage Auditorium Garage,
and C. W. Walker Garage36th and Farnam St.
COUNCIL BLUFFS AUTO CO.,
SW-518 Pearl St., Council Bluffs Phone 2691,
CADILLAC CO.,
Farnam Ad 26th Phone Harney 710.
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