THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: 'AUGUST 81, '1919.
WILLYS LIGHTS
TO HAVE SALES
ORGANIZATION
One of the Companies Con
trolled by John N. Willys to
Build Farm Light
Plants.
A modern electric lighting and
oower plant for farms, rural schoolj
and churches, suburban homes,
yachts, etc., is to be manufactured
by one of the John N. Willys com
panies, the Electric Auto-Lite cor
poration of Toledo, O.
The new system will be known as
Willys Light. It will be marketed
by the Willys Light division of the
Electric Auto-Lite corporation
through distributors and dealers.
The formation of the sales organiza
tion is now under way. It will ex
tend throughout the United States
and eventually throughout the
world. Distribution in Washington,
Oregon and Idaho is in the hands of
the Sander-Prentice corporation,
with temporary offices in the Col
man building.
The new system is said to be the
most complete that has yet been
placed on the market. It is op
erated by a Willys-Knight sleeve
valve motor a motor known for its
simplicity of operation and its quiet
ness. The engine has been developed
to such an extent that it requires
practically no attention and is so
simple that a child can operate it,
according to those who have ob
served it.
The complete plant consists of a
Willys-Knight engine, directly con
nected generator, a simple control
box ana a storage battery. The
Knight engine burns kerosene at ap
proximately one-half the cost of
gasoline. It is air-cooled, self
cranking, self-running and self-stopping.
The control is semi-automatic.
The new lighting system is adapt
ed to an increasing number of uses.
In addition to its general utility on
the farm, it is available for cotton
pins, lumber and construction
camps, oil and gas pumping stations,
mines, stores, garages, dairies, tele
phone exchanges in smaller towns,
warehouses and stations. It also
may be utilized for hospitals, fishing
and hunting clubs, country homes,
street, store and home lighting in
small towns, theaters, military
camps and in summer resorts and
cottages.
Tate-Morton Begin to See
Delivery of Holmes Cars
Tate-Morton company, dis
tribitors of Holmes air-cooled mo
tor cars, are now beginning to see
shipments of sufficient volume to be
able to make definite arrangements
as to delivery. The demand for this
car has been so great that produc
tion has fallen way short. The fac
tory is now reaching a point where
their production plans are being
carried out in line with their sched
ule and deliveries in the future will
be based on a definite assurance of
a certain number of cars for this
territory each month.
Patriot Trucks, Manufactured at Havelock
Now Reach Every Part of the Entire Globe
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1 Exterior view of one end of the Hebb factory
2 Patriot truck doing road work near Omaha.
3 View in assembly room.
Half-Million Dollar Plant is
Turning Out More Than
10,000 Truck Each
Year.
Patriot motor trucks, built of the
be-st materials and of the mast dur
able design in order to withstand the
hardest kind of work, have created
a world-wide trade whicn the big
factory of the Hebb Motors com
pany at Havelock is unable to sup
ply at the rate demanded.
Huge orders are being received
from South America, Canada and
the Orient, in addition to the enor
mous demand within the United
States.
A world-wide sales system has
been built up within less than a
year. The Hebb Motors company
has 18 district managers throughout
the United States, who keep in
Vi Ton-TRUCKS-2 Ton
Mean Pulling Power
"A chain is no stronger than the weakest link" A
truck must be so constructed that the power will be
delivered to the rear wheels without waste. If this
is not accomplished the rated horse power means
nothing.
Defiance Trucks deliver their
power to the rear wheels in
such a maner that every bit of
power developed in the motor
is transmitted to the point
where pulling takes place.
There is no waste.
The Defiance is constructed
in such a maner that it is
adapted to hauling where road
conditions vary and where
loads range from 10 pounds
to 4,000 pounds.
See the Defiance at the State Fair.
Standard Motor Car Co.
Carl Changstrom, Pres.
2020-22 Farnam St. Omaha. Phone Doug. 1705.
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touch witli all the truck dealers in
their territories. The company then
has direct representatives in South
America at Buenos Aires, Argentina,
and at Victoria, 'British Columbia in
Canada. A special agent at San
Francisco handles all the trade to
the Orient and Mexico.
All these agencies are doing a big
business, just recently the San
Francisco manager having placed an
order for between 800 to 1,000 trucks
to be delivered before next June in
the Orient China, Japan and Si
beria. Friday of this last week the
company received an enormous or
der for shipments to South America.
At Mew York the Jiebb Motors
company has connections with an
exporting company for trade in Eu
rope. A number of trucks have
been shipped to France and Eng
land.
In Texas Field.
Just recently the first Patriot
truck was sold to an oil company
at Ranger, Texas, and since then six
or seven car loads have been sent
for use in the oil fields of Texas and
Oklahoma.
The Patriot truck was put through
severe tests and it withstood them
so well that the other orders imme
diately followed.
When one comes to realize that
the Patriot truck is practically a
brand new article on the markets
and that all this trade has been
built up in less than two years, he
is astounded with the success with
which it has met. He also sees that
it has proven tremendously success
ful to have met with' such a ready
response from American business.
The first Patriot truck was built
while A. G. Hebb was manufactur
ing delivery car bodies at a factory
at Tenth and Vine streets two years
ago.
The first machine is still in use
on a farm in Kansas. From the
time this one was put out, the Pa
triot has proven so popular and sub
stantial that the little factory at
Tenth and Vine was found to be en
tirely too small to turn out the pro
ducts as fast as the demand was
growing. The Hebb Motors com
pany was then formed and a large
tract of 17 acres on the western edge
of Havelock was secured for a fac
tory site..
Last spring the building was be
gun and was completed in the fall
so that the machinery could be in
stalled and the manufacture of
trucks could be started before the
winter set in. .
The building is situated between
the main lines of the Rock Island
and the Burlington railroads, af
fording excellent shipping facilities.
It has 800 feet of shipping docks on
the Burlington line.
The Main Factory.
The main factory building is 240
by 420 feet in size, two stories in
height, and has a total of 185,000
square feet of floor space. It was
erected at a cost of a half million
dollars and is one of the largest ex
clusive truck factories in the coun
try. It embodies all that is modern,
both in the way of working equip
ment and facilities and conveniences
for employes.
The Hebb Motor company fac
tory has a productive capacity of
25 trucks a day which amounts to
practically 8.000 or 10,000 machines
annually. The patriot truck is built
in two sizes, one and one-half tons
and two and one-half tons capacity.
All styles of bodies are made right
in the factory. From funeral hearses
to big oil tanks are made. Bus bodies
and mechanical dumping trucks are
also turned out. Already the com
pany has supplied a number of oil
tankers to the .National Kenning
company of Cleveland, i
CITY COMFORTS FOR
COUNTRY HOMES ;
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DEALER'S CONTRACTS
now being closed for desirable Eastern Nebraska and
Western Iowa territory. See us at the State Fair, Lin
coln, September 1st to 6th and learn about this attrac
tive proposition.
KILLY & NOYES, Omaha Distributers
C. W. CHILES, Sales Manager j
316 South 19th Street, - - - Omaha, Nebraska i