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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1918)
tHE. OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 21. 1913. 7 D WllVf-AWAY IS ONLY SOLUTION i TO CAR SHORTAGE - . ...... - Oldsmobile Official Can See No Relief From Present Short age of Railroad Equip ment. "Judging by the'present trend of conditions I am convinced that even the most favorable of Summer weath er shipping conditions will not release any appreciable amount of railway facilities for the transportation of automobiles. : t"This opinion," said Mr. P. I Emerson, sales manager of the Olds Motor Works, "is based on a pretty careful study of conditions which I have had an opportunity to make in practically every large distributing center in the country. , . Relief Not Probable. "Of course the railroads suffered severe setbacks during the terrific winter. But though they are now able to greatly increase their carrying capacity, this is largely offset by the movement of war materials which are being completed in steadily increasing volume. ' " '' "How very fortunate it is that auto mobiles can be delivered to their des- tinations under their ow.i power. For if it were not fo.- the daily drive-away there would be mighty few new cars put into use this season. No Storage of Cars. "Usually at this time of the year dealers and distributors in all the cities have good stocks of cars on hand that have been received from the factories during the winter. This year no surh condition exists there are practically no accumulated stocks f motor cars. "The manner in which automobile , sales organizations have adjusted themselves to the new conditions 5s nothing short of marvelous. It is safe to say that approximtaely 60 per cent of all cars leaving the factories today are being driven overland by dealers. , "It i6 nothing new any more to 'start a big fleet of cars on a thousand mile trip. And as road conditions im ; prove it is to be expected that prac 1 tically every automobile made will be .nneinnal xrt iUgx mtklip h iorhllrO VO " Tips on Batteries For the Motorist "Despite the educational campaign carried on by the battery manufac turers, a great majority of motorists itill' continue to treat their starting battery as a mystery, and the same ideation is occurring day after day ; vhen should a battery be repaired and vhen should it be thrown away? yl "The answer to this is: Put your ' elf in the hands of the expert and at . '.he same time bear the following ooints in mind," says Louis Hiller, uanager of the Delco-Exide service station at 2024 Farnam street, Omaha. "First, have the battery opened up for your own inspection and all sepa rators removed so that the entire sur ' jfae of the individual plates may be t, readily seen." Dri ve? Away is Successful : Solution Of Shortage of Freight .Equipment E9 End Your Storage Battery Troubles for All Time car while your battery is be ing charged. DON'T be held up awaiting inspection or repairs. DON'T try to find the way out of your battery troubles by renting another battery temporarily. Lease Permalife $1.25 Exchange Fee Any Time-Anywhere We Exchange Your Permalife Batteries As Often As v Necessary "Fqr,life, at the price of a charge, for a fully charged, perfect battery. Let any of the following listed Permalife stations ex plain how the National Stor age Battery Exchange Sys tem provides you always with a perfect Storage Battery. Scenes like this will become more and more familiar as the warm weather progresses. This picture shows a day's "drive-away" by L. G. Hamilton of Craig, Neb. It consistsQ of eight Model 90 Overlands. one Model 89 Overland, one model 85-6 Sedan and a Fulton lj4-ton truck. , Kelly-Springfield Company Brings Oat New Style 'Cord' Tire A recent announcement to , the effect that the Kelly-Springfield people had entered the cord tire field brought forth some rather interesting data regarding the evolution of solid and pneumatic tires. "Back in 1845 Robert W. Thomp son, a Scotch civil engineer, invented the first pneumatic tire, taking out an American patent two years later," asserts George W. Hiett, manager of the local Kelly-pringfield branch. "He never knew how completely he anticipated the modern motor tire, for it took 60 years or more to per fect it. "We did 'our bit' towards this de velopment. "During the days of the horse drawn vehicle Kelly-Springfield car riage tires were standard equipment on the best of them. They were on the brougham of the prince of Wales before he liecame Edward VII of England, and they were on the vic toria of President McKinley. "We had a reputation to sustain and we bore that in mind when we commenced to build pneumatic tires, one at a, time, carefully by hand. These pneumatic tires added to our prestige, for they were the first in America to convert great mileage ex pectation into road realization. "When the cord tire made its ap pearance we recognized certain valu able features in the new type and we began to experiment with cord con struction along independent linesv - "We had to go slow. It was easy enough to make a 'just-as-good' cord, but people were educated to expect more than that from a Kelly-Springfield. "After two years we got what we were after, a tire with all the ad vantages of cord construction plus Kelly-Springfield mileage. "We obtained from 500 of these cords an average of 11,725 miles on the rear wheels and 14,000 miles on the front wheels of test cars weight ed at 5,200 pounds, driven over the worst winter roads at rate the of 320 miles every 24 hours. What these I nfA........ - -.'. I M IM ' ' 1 11 ""S " in i . i. ep.-Yow vlnick cords will deliver in normal use on good roads we cannot guess, but we do know that they are worthy of the name Kelly-Springfield." Sterling Truck' Dealer Now Housed in New Location H. Becker, who recently took over the distribution of Sterling trucks in this territory, has completely redec orated the location at 809-11 South Sixteenth street. At this location Sterling truck sales and service will be handled. Knw 111 Man. "I thought your landlord kd you to vacate. I understood h wanted to tear down the place and rebuild." "He did, but I'm hanging on from month to month." "How doyou manage It!" 'He'a very avaricious. I place a check In hla letter box tho flrat of every month. He can't bear to part with money once In hla possession." Louisville Courier-Journal. Auto Electric Service Co., 316 South 19th St., Omaha, Neb. Nebraska Distributors for the Permalife Storage Battery Co., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The 23d St. Garage Kearney Blair Battery Co. Blair Columbus Auto Co Columbus A. V. Johnson Stanton People's Garage Fremont Neils Neilson Grand Island Western Tire & Battery Co., Ogallala Lee & Larson Kimball Wisda & Durland Lexington Hahler Garage Sidney Peters Bros. Millard V.J.Kohout Wilbur Crete Auto & Mach. Wks., . . .Crete Harry E. Simms ........... Aurora T. M. Sheaf & Son f Fullerton Alvin J. Johnson fWahoo Red X Garage ; .Minden Moon's Garage .Taylor Wilder Electric Co Central City Stalker & Hayes Albion 1 Uninterrupted service is what counts. An idle truck means money lost. Keep your truck at work running on United States. Solid Truck Tires. They give you most mile agegreatest all-'round sat isfaction. We have United States Solid Truck Tires in all sizes either demountable or pressed on and can quickly apply them to your truck. A huge 250-ton hydraulic applying press is at our dis posal day and night. Our instant service will save time and money for you. Put it to the test.' United States Solid Truck Tires Are Good Tires OMAHA BRANCH 9th and'Douglas Sts. Phone Tyler 840 THE KSEfClMS OF A MOTOR CAR Appearance Durability Reputation Performance Price Service THESE ESSENTIALS AS FOLLOWS APPEARANCE Its looks measure up to its' true standard. ' REPUTATION It "set the pace" for the motor car industry some twenty years ago, being the first tcarVin America to be built and sold in quantity. DURABILITY ' ' The selection of .materials, the precision of workmanship and the experience in better motor car building assure this vital characteristic. PERFORMANCE ' The smoothness of power under all speeds, the remarkable acceleration Well, it is impossible for one to "get" the full meaning of the application of this term except by actual test of the car. r SERVICE Stations everywhere in all the principal , cities and smaller towns you find Oldsmobile dealers equipped to render efficient service. PRICE Measure the price of this car, $1,495.00, f. o. b. factory, and measure the sterling value built into V it. Then compare both with other cars in this price class or tnis quality class. Nebraska 0 Co. (Inc.)' Distributor for Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa 2559 Farnam St, Phone Tyler 3336, Omaha, Neb. Sixteenth and O Sts., Phone B-6522, Lincoln, Neb. ; km