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    THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 21, 1919.
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Gavitt
Will Get You
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Don't worry when your car is stalled or wh.
something refuses to work.v Again we say, don't
worry. Just go to the nearest telephone and
call Harney 900 after 6 P. M. or Harney 2708
during the day. This will bring the big service
car to your assistance.
Repairs
You will find Gavitt's Repair Shop one of the
most complete and well organized in the city.
All kinds of repair worlf welding, electrical
work, radiator repairing and numerous other
specialty branches can be taken care of in
Gavitt's Repair Shop.
Cold Weather
Accessories
We carry a line of cold weather accessories and
conveniences. Manifold heaters, hand warmers,
alcohol, radiator covers, car heaters; in fact,
everything for cold weather motoring. If we
don't carry it in stock, we can get it for you on
a moment's notice.
Remember the Number
When You Need an
Automobile Expert
Harney 900
After 6:00 P. M.
Harney 270G
During the Da:
E. R. Gavitt Repair Shop
40th St., Just Past Farnam North
EVERY HOUSEWIFE SHOULD BE AN EXPERT PURCHASING
AGENT. SHE SHOUD KNOW HOW TO BUY AS WELL AS THE
MERCHANT KNOWS HOW TO SELL. SHE MUST READ ADS.
NEW NASH FOUR
WILL APPEAR AT
H. Y. AUTO SHOW
Car to Be Built in Quan
tities as Soon as New
Milwaukee Plant Is
Completed.
The curtain is to be raised on the
Nash four at the New York Auto
mobile Show. Announcement has
been made by the Nash Motors com
pany that the four-cylinder car,
which has created so much interest
throughout the country, is to be
shown to the public at the national
snows.
Except that the new product of
the Nash Motors company is a
four-cylinder car and that it is to be
built in quantities, no details in ad
vance of the actual showing of the
car are forthcominar. However,
when the public is permitted to view
the latest addition to the Nash ram
ily, it is predicted by those in a
position to know, that interest will
be keen. In fact, it is declared that
the exhibition of "the Nash four will
be one of the outstanding features
of this years national show..
While details at this lime are
lacking it is known that the con
struction of the new four-cylinder
Nash is in keeping with the stand
ard maintained by the Nash motors
organization. Mr. Nash, himself,
and the engineering department of
the Nash I ors conipanv are sat
isfied that the new car will make a
fit companion to the Nash six, which
has earned for itself so favorable a
reputation in the hands of owners
throughout the country.
With the completion of buildings
and the installation of machinery in
the new Milwaukee plant now being
built, production of the new Nash
four will begin. It is likely because
of the headway that has been made
in the building of the factory, that
cars will be in the hands of dealers
some time in the late summer.
Packard Announces New
Pneumtic Tire Truck.
Removing Headlight Rims.
When headlight rims have become
stuck in place or are rusted it is pos
sible to remove them by placing a
square screw driver on top of the
ltft rivet and then hitting squarely
aDove the pin with a hammer, lhis
serves to start the rim turning, and
the rest is easy.
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New Triplex Springs
Radical In Design
Wonderful In Comfort
Q VERLAND 4 Sedan re
cords a great step for
ward in motor car design.
Even on the roughest
roads the new three-point
suspension Triplex Springs
ward off the shock of road
bumps.
Attached diagonally at,
each end of the car, they
protect car mechanism and
passengers from the usual
jolts and jars. They permit
long springbase with its easy
riding and short wheelbase
with its easy handling.
They thus make possible
light weight with resulting
great economy.
You can have no idea of
die comfort, satisfaction and
convenience a light sedan
can give until you ride in
Overland 4.
Tlit Four-Door Sedan complete
In every detail weight only 300
pounds more than Touring Car
811111$
Van Brunt Automobile Co.
Omaha DhWb:JS.E" Council Bluffs
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2562-4 Farnam St. writ, quick. 18-20-22 Fourth St.
Pneumatic tired trucks,' desig
nated to meet the demand for
greater speed and wider range in
truck transportation, are announced
by the Packard Motor Car company
for 1920 -production. These new
modles are the first pneumatic tire
trucks to be manufactured by the
Packard company, and are distinct
in design from the solid tirctruck
models.
The trucks are built in three dif
ferent sizes, giving a large range
in capacity. The fact that they are
specifically designed for pneumatic
tires is a long step in the applica
tion of the motor" vehicle work,
according to F. J. Bury,, freight
transportation manager, Packard
Omaha company.
"The efforts to make pneumatic
tire trucks by simply changing tire
equipment has proved a failure," he
said. "The pneumatic, tire when put
on a wheel intended for a solid tire
gives a much larger wheel diameter?
increasing the gear ratios heavily.
The consequence is rapid engine
deterioration because the engine is
laboring constantly. The problem
has been one of design rather than
one of adaptation. We have
answered it by a new model which
is built for the work it is -to do."
Early in November one of these
new trucks made what is regarded
as a new road speed record for
motor trucks. It made the run be
tween Bay City and Detroit, a dis
tance of 120 miles, in five hours and
52 minutes, an average of 20.6 miles
an hour. One half of the distance
was traveled over roads wet by re
cent rains. The truck vas packed
to its capacity of three tons. It was
equipped with 38x7 Goodyear Cord
tiers in front, and 40x10 rear, y
News from All Over
the Automobile World
V. B. Jameson, veferan of the
days of the earliest days and con
nected with Benjamin Briscoe in
his activities from the inception of
motoring, will have charge Cfthe
offices of Bellanger Freres of Paris,
France.
C. H.'Bassett, has been made dis
trict manager for the Bethlehem
Motors corporation for the state of
Louisiana. Mr. Bassett was for
merly in the south for the Fulton
Motor Truck company. Other dis
trict managers appointed by Beth
lehem corporation this week include
George H. Leavitt, in Georgia, E.
V. Semotter in Iowa, Chas. Powers
in Indiana and A. H. Spoulda in
Michigan.
Reed Foundry and Machine com
pany, Kalamazoo, has received an
export order for tractors to the
amount of $500,000. Charles T.
Howe, 299 Broadway, New York,
is the purchaser. Production on
this order starts January 1. The
lomg dry company is also in receipt
of a large order from Ohio dis-1
tnbutors.
Another automobile show is
planned for New York to take cye
of the overflow from the national
automobile and national motor
trucks shows. 'The Independent
Exposition company, 163 West Thirty-fourth
street, New ' York, has
taken an option on one of the large
armories convenient to Grand Cen
tral Palace for the purpose of hous
ing those who cannot secure spece
at tjie national shows. The show
will run from January 3 "to 10, and
admission tickets will be distributed
freely. The idea is to replace the
displays in private stores adjacent
to Grand Central Palace, the store
keepers having become profiteers in
the highest sense of that much used
and hardly abused word.
The Antigo Tractor company lias
been organized at Antigo, Mich.
The capital is $500,000. A four-
wheel pull tractor, invented by D.
b. Mewart, will be manutactured.
Charles W. Fish, president of the
Charles W. Fish Lumber company,
is president of the Tractor company.
L. P. Iradewell is vice president.
To solve the high cost of living
at Saginaw, the Lockwood Manu
facturine company, a new $100,000
corporation, will mount store bodies
on their three-ton-motor truck, pro
viding for a complete grocery store
in miniature. They have orders for
ZOO of these trucks, which will be
used to travel direct to the homes
of the people carrying all sorts of
staple groceries. ihe housewite
enters by a door at the front of the
body and passes around a narrow
aisle inside. She helps herself to
what she wants from the racks, puts
them in her market basket, and pays
for, them as she passes out of the
store. Perishable foods are car?
ried in a refrigerator.
Tt4iksrn TTnii?nTnfif rflmftanv
ranita! "WO f)00. ha been organized
in Kalamazoo to manufacture ga
rage equipment. Machinery .has
been purchased and instailea tem
porarily in the plant of the Atlas
PrM foirmnnv. Tohn H. Penni-
man is president, H. V. Garvey,
vice president and Charles S. Bush,
secretary-treasurer of the company.
Walter T. Youn. who has been
associated with the National City
company, New York, since its in
ception, has resigned to join fcMel-
huish and company, investment
bankers, 40 Wall street, New York.
Mr. Melhuish was former president
of the Fulton Motor Truck company,'
resienine to take up .he sale of
automotive and other securities.
Frank S. Cook, advertising man
ager of the Denby Motor Truck
company, has resigned to become as
sociated with the Green-Fulton-Cun-
ningham company, advertising
agents of Detroit. Mr. Cooke was
connected with the Free Press for
more than 30 years, resigning to
join the Denby forces.
Guy C Core, for two and one-half
years advertising manager of the
Briscoe Motors corporation, has
been appointed director of advertis
ing and publicity for the Jackson
Motors corporation, Jackson, Mich.
Mr. Core ws advertising manager of
the Springfield Body corporation, De
troit and of the Redden Motor
Truck company, Chicago. He is a
former Omaha newspaper man.
Henry Ford, in addition to estab
lishing co-operative stores at which
his 52.000 workmen may buy their
provisions at "sale at , price" will
manufacture hit own flour from
75,000 bushels of wheat from his
farm. Mr. Ford will establish flour
mills and supply them from his farm
with the wheat and then sell the
product to his workers. The farm
may supply much more in the way
of produce for ,the stores, one of
which is on Manchester avenue in
Highland park in a part of the plant
and well patronized.
Hal Trump, who resigned as Chi
cago office manager of the Green-Fulton-Cunningham
company to
join the Campbell-Ewald Advertis
ing Agency is now to become a
New Yorker as manager of the
New York office of the latter com
pany at 347 Fifth avenue.
Louis Lowenstein has disposed
of his interests in the F. R. For
tune company, Wooster, O.. and is
in Detroit engaged in development
of a company to manufacture tools
and instruments.
Otis Friend, who has secured the
Olympian Motors company, at Pon-
tiac, and changed the name to the !
T- J -I, 1
rnena company, win name nis car
the "Friend."
C. S. Bailey, former assistant to
George Twitmyer, advertising man
ager of the Peerless Motor Car
company, Cleveland, has become
advertising manager, Mr. Twitmyer
having taken the position of adver
tising director of the Stevens-Dur-year
company, which has been re
organized at Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Clean Off the Snow to Keep
Business Moving as Usual
"Keep the business wheels turn
ing."
Thit slogan wat adopted by the
travel and transport bureau of the
B. F. Goodrich Rubber company in
its recently inaugurated highway
snow removal campaign. Messages
from practically every northern state
to the bureau show decided interest
in the undertaking and in marly in
stances state and county highway
departments are prepared to keep
their roads cleared for motor truck
and passenger car traffic. But in
far too many important districts lit
tle or no provision has been made.
Winter highway transportation, it
it pointed out, is as essential as
summer traffic. Inter-city, rural and
suburban motor, trucking will drop
to a low ebb of efficiency unless
concerted and immediate action is
taken. Not only transportation, but
the roads themselves suffer from
heavy snows and the resultant dam
age done when the thaw comes.
The state of Kentucky has 90,190
automobiles.
It is reported that an early meet
ing of the stockholders of the Har
iouh Motors' corporation will be
called and rumor savs that from
$2,000,000 to $2,500,000 is to be
placed in the coffers of the com
pany, allowing of immediate start
upon a large manufacturing pro
gram. A new series Premier is soon to
be offered the motoring public, ac- 1
cording to Willam Gardon, of De
troit, distributor of the Premier,
who recently visited the factory.
Recen additions to the list of
cars in America, including the
Meteor, the duPont, the Revere,
the Porter, the Curtiss, and many
more, have been four-cylinder crea
tions, and from the demand for
light four-cylinder cars it is evident
that the smaller motors are again
going to be popular.
A. W. Lines, sales manager of the
Spencer-Smith Machine company,
Howell, Mich., announces the clos
ing of contracts with the Hershell
Spillman company. North Tonawan
da, N. Y., for 146,000 pistons for
the coming year. Carload' lots of
finished pistons are being shipped
to Mitchell Motors company, Ra
cine, Wis., and Continental Motors
corporation, Muskegon, Mich.
Officers and executives of the
Lafayette Motors company, Indian
apolis, of which D. McCall White
and E. C. Howard, former members
of the Cadillac Motor Car company
staff in Detroit are vice presidents.
were tendered a welcome dinner by
the Greater Indianapolis Industrial
association in the Riley room of the
Claypool hotel, Indianapolis, No
vember Zl.
Austin Parker, New York news
paper man connected with the New
York Tribune, has joined the ad
vertising staff of the Packard Motor
Car company as director otpublicity.
Ten Million People See
Ford Pictures Weekly
The "Ford Educational Weekly,"
a film put out by the Ford Motor
company has earned for that com
pany the largest circulation of mo
tion pictures in the world. Ford
films are run in 5,238 theaters in
the United States each week. They
are also distributed throughout Can
ada, Europe, Asia, South. America,
Africa, Australia and many .other is
lands.
The Ford pictures are viewed by
more than 10,000,000 of people in
motion picture theaters each week.
But they are also in demand outside
of the theater. Churches, colleges,
the Y. M. C A., public and private
schools and even many of the coun
try's largest penal institutions find
Ford films particularly valuable be
cause of their high moral and edu
cational value. i
Many reels of Ford him showing
how certain special war materials
were manufactured have been se
cured by government officials to
serve as a part of the national rec
ords in Washington.
When a man buys his first
Cadillac, it is a natural sequence
for him to come into .our place a
few days later, to tell us how
wonderfully the car thrpttles
down and gets away to a quick
start in city driving.
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