U. S. SOLID TIRES
STOOD UP WELL
DURING THE WAR
Traveled More Than 5,000
, Miles On Heavy Four Wheel
Drive Trucks tfn Shell
Torn French Roads.
'V " 'Treat 'em rJugh " was what the
colonel of the truck convoy told us
to give the truck tires, and we sure
did for over 5.000 miles over the
she:i-pitte,d roads up at the front in
France but the United States-truck'
tiret on 100 F. W. D. three and one
lia!f ton truck stood the gaff with
out one bit of trouble and when I
lcit France last December the truck
Service Station for ffi
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correct would require several days if you sent it clear to the Stewart factory
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Give the same'care to your Stewart equipment that you do to the rest of
your car and you will never need any repair aervice. But, at the first indica
tion of trouble, hurry in to ua. Our factory-trained mechanics will put your
speedometer, vacuum system, or any other Stewart Necessity back into first
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tires looked good for another 5,000
miles." i
That is what former Capt
Thomas Shurtleff of Tacoma thinks
of United States truck tires.
"I was in charge of a convoy of
200 trucks which made the trip back
and forth from Bordeaux to An
gers," continues Shurtleff, who was
one of the first of the boys from the
Pacific coast to go "over there"
Shurtleff was with Company E of
the 52d ammunition train . of the
Coast Artillery corps.
"We had to get that ammunition
mighty quick to the big guns ham
mering away up at the ( front and
many times a truck was in continu
ous service for 72 hours without the
motor stopping, so you see the
truck tires had to make good for
the colonel in charge would not use
any make which hadn't proved its
worth. ;. y
"Most of the roads in France
were surfaced with crushed rock
which is a terrific strain upon a
truck tire carrying four or five tons
of high explosives.
Necessities
Service , Station
Phone Doug. 2323
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WHAT joy is there to compare with the
feeling that the deep valleys and the steep
inclines of Earth's surface become mere plains
when you depress your toe on a throttle.
To know this sensation you must go over a
road where yoiTthought there were hills, in a
Standard Eight.
'The 1 eighty-three horse-power of the Standard
. Eight automobile levels hills. The hill which you
see in front of you becomes an optical illusion.
something to view scenery
way so far as your motor is
Youll realize this to the
stration, with yourself at the wheel. Call in or
phone us today.
Keystone Motors Corporation
2203 iFarnam Street Phone Doug. 2181
- N Omaha, Nebraska.
Mad by thaTsundard1 Steel Car Co Pittsburg, Pa.
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MOST OF HOLMES
MEN FORMERLY
WITH FRANKLIN
Firm's . President Arthur
Holmes, Is Leading Engi
neer of Country On Air-
Cooled Engines.
In the personnel of the Holmes
Automobile Co., manufacturers of
the Holmes improved air-cooled car,
faces thaV arefamiliar to the ex
ponents of air-cooling are found in
numbers)
Arthur Holmes, president of the
Holmes Automobile Co., i$ well
known throughout the United States
as one time chief engineer and vice
president' of the Franklin Auto
mobile Co., of Syracuse, N. Y.,
where his work in developing air
cooling as applied to automobile
motors helped to bring him to his
present rank -of leading engineer in
the country on air-cooling.
During the war period, Mr.
Holmes, was actively engaged as
consulting engineer on aerophone
motors 'of the air-cooled type for
combat planes. The Holmes im
proved air-cooled motor incorporates
the well known principles of design
hitherto found only in aeroplane
motors, which have added to the
high efficiency and low gasoline con
sumption, which have characterized
all motors designed by him.
In charge of engineering depart
ment at the Holmes plant is H. 6.
Massev, formerly with the Frank!:n
Automobile company, with whom he
spent seven years in a designing ca
pacity.,, C. H. Rockwell, vice president of
the Holmer automobile, in charge of
sales and advertising, was for years
connected with te Franklin Auto
mobile company in charge of sales
in the larger territories. The manu
facturing and sals destinies of-the
Holmes Automobile company are
therefore placed in the hands of men
of bread experience in handling the
type of car which the Holmes is -the
final exponent.
It is the statement of Mr. Rock
well that the Holmes seven-passen-geitouring
car fills a unique place
in the 'automobile industry.. There
are . thousands ol experienced car
owners who have become accustom
ed to plenty of room in their cars,
to ample seating capacity for seven
passengers, but who feel that gaso
line mileage and tire service are too
costly. It is fo- these experienced
motorists with well defined ideas as
lo what constitutes satisfactory op
erating cost, that the Holmes maks
first appeal. It brings to roomy body
dimensions and unrestricted seati.ig
comfort the economy that hitherto
has been associated only with small
cars, generally of five-passenger ca
pacity. The motorist is sometimes puz
zled to know just what shape his
bearings are in and does not know
how to test them. Connecting rod
bearings should be tested by tap
ping them very gently with a ham
mer and watching for play. For
the crankshaft bearings, rock the
shaft a little by hand with the pet
cocks open; if you can do this the
bearings are all right V
from, but a flat road
concerned.
fullest in a demon
Powerful. Motor Needed
to Negotiate This Road
Standard Eight Makes Strenuous Trip In Mud To Aid
Campaign for Better Roadbed On Virginia High
way Between Washington and Richmond.
Many stories have been told about
automobiles going through muddy
roads and the differene in these
stories is mainly the telling, be1
cause degree of mud is a matter of
comparison. A New York farmer
would say a road was muddy where
an Illinois farmer would say it was
in good traveling condition.
There is a road called the Virginia
road that runs from Washington to
Richmond.
Take Pictures.
Motorists in Washington and
Baltimore are. interested in having
this road improved because if it were
passable it would be a short cut to
Florida. 1
Mr. Trace of Baltimore and Mr.
Saller3 of Washington, representing
the American Automobile associa
tion, undertook to go over this road,
and get some photographs which
would really indicate the real con
ditions. In the party was a photog
TRUCK ENTERS
NEW LIFE AFTER
MEMORABLE, RUN
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Crosses United States Twice
and Sells for Within $600
of Original List
Price.
After twice crossing the United
States from Seattle to New York,
a one and one-half ton GMC
truck has entered on a new life in
the service of a private truck owner.
Moreover, on resale, even with the
long mileage record of-a- double
transcontinental journey, the truck
brought within $600 of its original
selling price.
( This example of GMC stability
and the way in which G. M. C
trucks do hard work and continue
to do it has just come from the
factory. The truck in question is
that driven from Seattle to New
York by William Warwick with a
load of condensed milk and then
driven back again by Warwick. This
truck made one of the most re
markable and memorable runs in
truck annals.
"The record made by this GMC
in its journeys from coast to coast,"
says Lee Huff of the Nebraska
Buick company, local dealers for
GMC trucks, , "was conclusive evi;
dence in itself of the ability of GMC
trucks to do hard work and to sur
mount the greatest obstacles of
overland travel. After more than
10,000 miles of the most gruelling
travel which the truck had in its
two trips across the country, it
would have been no disgrace to the
construction and ability of the
truck, if it had required, considerable
overhauling and revamping before it
was sent out on any other work. As
a matter of fact, I am told, the truck
came through in such splendid shape
that nothing was needed for it ex
cept such a going over as any truck
should have once a year.
"For this truck to be sent back
to New York again and there be sold
to a truck user for every day work
speaks even more for the truck's
ability and for its stamina. And on
top of that to have the selling price
only $600 below the original list
price of the truck is the most con
vincing evidence of the regard in
which GMC trucks are held every
where by truck users who know. Of
course what sets the price on a used
truck is the value that remains in the
truck, estimated in the light of ex
perience and in a survey of the
truck's mechanical condition." .
Travels Over Miles
Of Mud; Turns Good
Highway Agitator
J. H. Hansen, of the Jones-Han-sen
Cadilac company, returned
Thursday from Indianapolis, where
he and five of his salesmen spent
Decoration day watching the speed
way races.
The trip of 722 miles from Omaha
to Indianapolis was made in 21
hours. The return trip took five
days.
A trip such as Hansen made
through Iowa on' his return would
convince even the most pessimistic
mind of the necessity for, hard sur
faced roads. In many cases it, was
necessary to, spend hours digging
out of mud holes which were en
countered at numerous places on the
River to River road. In some cases
where bridges were washed out the
Omaha) men were forced"- to con
struct their own bridges of planks
from the washed out bridges.
One of the surprising things was
the absolute indifference of many of
the farmers to the conditions of the
roads. They seemed to take the view
of the Arkansas traveler that "when
it rains they couldn't build sooa
roads and when it didn't rain they
didn't need to." I
This certainly is a short-sighted
rapher or reporter from Baltimore
and a representative of the state's
road commission.
The car selected for the trip,
which was known to be extremely
difficult, 'was the Standard eight.
Cars Stuck in Mud.
On the road were cars that had
b-cn-standing there for two days.
Mud over the hubs the spokes
packed solidly with mud and dif
ferential case burrowing in the road
was the usual condition most of the
way.
The photographs reproduced
show how the axle dragged and the
enormous strain on every part ofj
the car can be imagined. Yet the
Standard eight made the entire trip
both ways under its own power.
The entire party make affidavit
that there was no trouble and thit
the hood was not raised from the
time they left Washington, a dis
tance of 160 miles.
attitude and every effort should be
made to stimulate interest in good
roac's.
Rapid Sales of Homes
J. L. Tate, of the Tate-Morton Co.,
recently went to the Holmes fac
tory to secure additional shipments
of Holmes automobiles. The Halmes
made a new circle of friends at the
automobile show and sales are far
in excess of the estimates made for
the present season. '
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Yes! Thisls Another Repeat Order!
BOYER-VAN KURAN LUMBER & COAL CO. place orders for - two
TRUCKS. They now own FOUR REPUBLIC TRUCKS, a part of which
for the past two years.
THIS REPEAT ORDER was placed after Mr. Boyer
other mak4s of trucks owned by other Omaha companies with the1 cost of the operation of faw KLruoLIU -
TRUCKS. 1 x
ASK THEM ABOUT "MURPHY SERVICE" 4 1
TWO MORE REPUBLIC
Republic
I More Than 70 Repeat Or ders
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I ANDREW MURPHY & SON I
1402-18 Jackson
Omaha. Neb.
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WlWi' l ; f I DOUBLE, THE RANGE OF PERFORMANCE - - ' -4 - '
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Altffl III ' De Brown Auto Sale Co- ' VI j t&S "
5 'Jfi! ! It 'II Wholuala Distributors for lew and NOtharn Nebruka. " 1 1 f ?l
f jfiH I i I IX Soma Good Territory Open lor Liva Daalara. 2210 Farnam St., $ j'l'f " -'i, -
S liis!1! !K lii xj Omaha, Nebraska. 1414 Locust St., Des Moines, Iowa. tm&!im .'
ylfjfit i'l i Traynor Automobile Co. h-frflM ?
ill IP 1 W II Retail Distributors. 2210 Farnam St. Phone Doug. 526S. j ! m&, '' .
FOR BEST
TRUCKS HAVE JUST BEEN ORDERED BY BOYER-VAN KURAN LUMBER it COAL CO.,
Trucks Are Good Trucks
Mora Than 60,000
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. Distributors for Nebraska and Western Iowa.
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