Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 June 1916 — Page 10
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Stories .of the Local
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STUDEBAKER BUILDS EASY REDING MODELS
Engineers Solve Problem of Riding Comfort By Using Long Springs.
To make a medium-weight car ride comfortably without jolting a*id swaying is ac problem which has been solved by the Studebaker engineers.
Certain types of springs afford easy riding qualities, but allow the body to sway, making the car hard to drive. Other springs may be sufficiently rigid to make driving less difficult, but because of the stiffness of the springs, the car is hard riding.
The problem which the Studebaker engineers had to solve was how to use Ion# and resilient springs, assuring comfort to the passengers, and at the same time how to support the rear axle in such a manner that it would always be held rigid and in line, thus assuring ease in driving. Every purchaser now Remands an easy-riding car, and the increase in the number of women drivers also increases the demand for a car which can be held to the roughest roads at all speeds with slight effort.
After years of development the Studebaker engineers perfected a strong and very resilient spring which was considered ideal for the Studebaker car. In order that this spring might not be robbed of its elasticity, radius rods were provided on either side extending from the rear axle to the middle of the frame. These rods take all the driving strain off. the springs, reducing the spring duty to carrying the car. The radius rods also hold the rear axle in line under all conditions and prevent the rear wheels from whipping from siQe to side.
Another objection^ which Studebaker engineers had to driving the car partially through the springs was that it Would involve the only necessary elimination of the front shackle. This would take away the device by which a certain amount of unavoidable end-sway is absorbed and prevented from being transmitted to the body of the car and its occupants,
In all models of Studebaker cars also a strong torque arm lessens the strain on the universal joints and assures
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Pen Sketches of Automobile Men—No. 2
Gordon Morris, local agent for the Buick, received his experience in the automobile game under the able tutorship of \V. E. Robinson, local agent for the Ford. Mr. Morris made such a salesman for tHe Ford branch that he attracted the attention of the Buick state aigents and as a result he is npw in charge of the Terre Haute territory. While' yet a young man, Mr. Morris is thoroughly familiar with automobile salesmanship and his friends are, predicting a big future for him. Several years ago Mr. Morris was ambitious to handle the throttle on some of the /big racing cars but gave up this hobby after placing in several local speed contests. Mr. Morris is well known in the southern part of Vigo county, where he was born and reared.
safety to the passengers. It has happened in cases where cars were not equipped with torque arms that the universal joints have uroken under the strain of a heavy pull, allowing the entire propellor shaft to tear its way through the tonneau floor.
Automobile Club Notes
The secretary of the club had an interview with General Manager Grover, of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company in regard to placing a danger signal the place where the interurban crosses high-
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way, south of Numa. To people traveling this road after I dark, the crossing is very dangerous. 1 So Grover has 3 agreed investi9 gate this matter and, if necessary, place signals about one hundred feet from
the ii!a ,i either side of the crossing.
J. H. Philips, of St. Louis, who called at headquarters two weeks ago, stopped on his return trip from Port Huron. Mich., last Wednesday. He reports that the roads from Port Huron to Detroit are in a very poor condition. There are stretches of the road from Detroit to Chicago which are tad also. The road from Toledo, O., to Fort Wayne, Ind., Is very poor until the Indiana line is reached.
We routed him via the Big Four trail to St. Louis, as tourists who have recently traveled the National road, report that it is almost impassable, due to the recent heavy rains.
The people of Effingham have been reporting this road in a very good condition, which is misleading. If you are contemplating making a tour call at headquarters before starting and we will be pleased to instruct you as to the condition of the roads leading from Terre Haute.
R. H. Jones, of Columbus, O., came over the National road from Indianapolis Wednesday. He said that the road from Reelsville to Terre Haute is very bad and he also reports that at Camden, just east of Eaton, O., for about fifteen miles, the road is almost impassable.
The following is an extract from a a ietter which we received from the Butler Automobile company of Albuquerque, N, M.: "The ocean-to-ocean highway from Albuquerque west is open for travel twelve months of the year. In 1915 there were two thousand automobiles traveled over this route thus far this year there has been at least a thousand cars over this road. We are always pleased to furnish tourists with
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all information possible, and our printed catalogue is the most complete ever gotten out, giving all details and telling where wood and water can be had for camping purposes. "The longest drive between supply or. gasoline and oil on the ocean-to-ocean highway is only fifty-five miles this also applies to hotel and garage acco*mmodat,ions."
We received a letter from James Porter, of Martinsville, 111., to the effect that the roads are being improved on the old National trail, between Marshall and Martinsville. There are signs posted showing the best detour. Go north to the first road, then go one mile west, then back to the National road. This is the best and shortest detour. The roads are fair from Terre Haute to Paris, 111.
Mr. Mace, Superintendent of roads, is making some very good improvements on the National road east of .Highland Lawn cemetery tp the county line. He thoroughly understands how to make roads, but he needs money with which to do the work.
This question is often asked the club: "What are you doing"? If you will be so kind as to drive over North Seventh street from Maple avenue to Fort Harrison road—also on Poplar street from South Seventeenth one mile east, you will find some of the things which the club is doing. However the work is not completed, but will te within the next week.
Caution! Bridge is out which cross-as Honey creek at Allendale, on the Sullivan road. A new concrete bridge is being built. Avoid this route, as the detour going south is very bad.
The following tourists have called at headquarters during the past week: Louis Kuehn, Evansville, Ind. R. J. Andrews, Ft. Pollnis, Colo. Loren Reed, Terre Haute G. H. Heine, Ft. Wayne, Ind. F. C. Heine, Ft. Wayne, Ind.: C. W. Ellis, Cairo, 111. G. W. Huston, Cincinnati, O. R. H. Jones, Columbus, O. J. H. Philips, St. Louis W. K. Ross, Sullivan,. Ind.
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They're Just a Part of the Ride.
The more I hear some men talk about their motor cars, the better I like to walk.
Sometime somewhere someone is going to build some kind of a car- that will run just the same as some other .cars that someone else has built somewhere, and sell them like some of our stores sell clothes and furniture and then we'll all say mean things atout John D.
If some men tried to buy a pair of shoes on the same principles they use in buying an automobile, they'd be walking barefooted the rest of their lives.
Oh, those "neighbors of ours, who can't even recognize the st,raw hat we let them wear last week when they pass us in their new cars.
M&ISSNER REPORTS INCREASE W LOCAL TIRE BUSINESS E. C. Meissner, of the Duplex Tread Tire company, reports a big business from dealers in Missouri, especially at St. James and Bourbon, both towns being patronized largely by tourists. It being generally understood that the reason for tourists being greatly in favor of Indiana tires, even though in Missouri, is due to the great mileage users of Indiana' tires are receiving.
Letters are being received daily from all parts of the central west, with expressions of satisfaction received from Duplex tread tires, as made by the special process used by the Duplex company exclusively. Also it is gratifying to note the way customers of new tires, purchased from the Duplex Tread Tire company, send in repeat orders, from country districts. Frequently such orders are received by long distance telephone and telegrams.
Mr. Meissner reports a big increase on city sales on new tires and Duplex tread tires, due to the fact that the stock of tires carried by the Duplex Tread Tire company is complete in every detail on all sizes, manufactured both standard and odd sizes.
with easy driving and comfortable riding, on all sorts of country, roads, equip your car—front and rear— with RACINE Country Road Tires.
Note that the additional rubber on the tread of the Country Road Tire is centered where it receives the most wear, insuring greater wearing qualities and more mileage.
The remarkable service the Country Koad Tire is giving has made it the most popular anti-skid tire on the market, with users who demand tire economy. We can demonstrate these facts through actual service.
We also sell Racine Automobile Inner Tubes, both Red and Gray. None better—few as good.
Vigo Tire Co.
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TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE
Gossip from the Manufacturers
Another Road Record Made By Chalmers 6-30
Piloting the same Chalmers Six-30 roadster in which he broke the ChicagoNew York road record two weeks ago, Ben F. Durham arrived in Indianapolis on June 19 from Detroit with a new record of eight hours and twenty-two minutes for the 305 mile run.
Two hundred and sixty miles of the Indianapolis trip were ftiade in a driving rain, over roads flooded by recent continued bad Weather. Numerous detours at points where new. stretches of road were under construction caused delay as did tihe breaking of a shock absorber which spelled a loss of nineteen minutes for repairs. "The performance of the 3,400 R. P. M. Chalmers under conditions even worse than on my New York trip was a revelation to me," said Durham on his arrival at Indianapolis. "Althopgh the roads were in bad shape, we did'not use chains at any point, the wonderful road balance of the car keeping us right side up at all times. Our average of 35.91 miles per hour for the trip is a remarkable one, considering weather conditions. I am confident, though, that the Chalmers Six-30 can cut at least 30 minutes from this record if rain and poor roads are eliminated from our schedule."
Some idea of the pace traveled by Durham in his trip to Indianapolis can be gained from a comparison of the fastest train time of nine hours flat and the Chalmers record of eight hours and 22 minutes.
LETIERS
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LENNY
Terre Haute, Ind., June 24.
Dear folks: Considerable much has occurred since 1 last wrote to you and no doubt you have wondered what has become of your son who is here selling automobiles or I guess I should have said trying to sell them for as yet I have not sold any but have several prospects which I expect to sell soon if they intend to buy. Last Monday Mister Wilson called out all the national guard boys in Terre Haute to come zo the colors and they did and caused a lot. of patriotic talk among everyone here and since the militia has been encamped at the armory here Harry Miller, another salesman, and I have been out to see them every day to see just how it feels to be a real guard. Consequently not mu'cli work has expired during the week here in the automobile game.
Last Thursday I went out to see a man that was in the market for a car and demonstrated tlie oar to him and showed him the fine points and he like'd it so well that he said he'd guess he'd take it and I thought well here corv.es in $50 easy and yet wanted to act like I was unconcerned and I told him I would come around the next day and get his order, but I took his nime. He said he had fclcntv of money in the bank and would pay me cash for the machine so I wondered what I'd do or feel like carrying a bag with over a thousand dollars in it down to the office and say just as nonchalently, which is a Greek phrase, meaning, "I si ould worry," well here is the cash for a machine I just sold. I uould just fee them open their eyes find wondering how I did it 'and biting the bills to see that they weren't tissue paper when I picked up an evening paper and read where the police had captured a man who had escaped from Madison, Ind., and his name was the same as the tne the man that I had sold the car r.oo. I could have just died but 1 c.idn't and kept still about it. Believe me I'm going to a.sk the'next man I get to talk to where he is from and if he feels funny in the head or drinks much.
Thanks for the five spot and tell Dad to let those Belgium hares I had in the barn out) into the chicken yard so they can get some air. know they must be just, dying for air.
Hoping you are the same, I am. your ton, LEN.
THE TRIBUNE'S COMPLETE AUTO DIRECTORY.
Marmon, Detroit Electrics and Republic Trucks—Terre Haute Automobile company, South Seventh street.
Euser-Hedges' Gnrnpre, 434-36 North Seventh. Serlpps-Booth Marion Heastls, «C2 Ohio .street.
Chalmern and Hnynen H. J. Cole, 314-li-1S Ohio street. Mmwtll—C. Enrl Jaques, 514-10-18 Ohio street-
Hudson, Chandler and Pathfinder Motor Cars and Milburn Electric. C. Scott Ranna, 670 Ohio street.
Oldsniobile and Briscoc—.1. A. Miller, 2»-31 South Ninth street. Chevrolet mid Stutz Chevrolet Motor Co.. 66S Ohio street.
Studebaker Cars—William Engles. 222 South Seventh street. Interstate—Geo. C. Fischer, 1214 Wa'rash avenue.
Ford Cars—W. E. Robinson, North Seventh street. Cadillac, Reo and Dddjre—Stein-hart-Gricner company, 319-321 Ohlp street.
Pilot, Harold rooks, Tenth anil Lafuyette avenue. Saxon, C. R. Strong & Son, (570 Ohio street.
Smith-Form-a-Truck John J. GifTel, 847 Lafayette avenue. Elco Cars—Terre Haute Auto exchange, 665 Lafayette avenue.
Dort—E. I. Poison, 27 South Fourth street. Cole—Wabash garage, 662 Ohio street.
Mitchell Main Street garage, Thirteenth and One-half street and Wabash avenue.
Crow-Elkhart—Fifth and Cherry streets. REPAIRS AND SERVICF STATIONS
John J. GifTel, 847 Lafayette avenue. Thomas repair shop, 222 South Seventh street.
Terre Haute Automobile company, 121 South Seventh street. J. B. Engles, 667 Ohio street.
Kricscher Moon Sales company,. 1220 Wabash avenue. Taylor & Boyd, Fourth and Poplar streets.
Garrlgus & Miller, 648 North Fifth street. Exlde, 33 South Ninth street.
Rayfleld, Thirteenth and One-half street and Whbash avenue. Hise Ignition company, 412 Ohio street.
TIRE AGENCIES.
Flske Tire company service station, 16 South Ninth street Thomas Jackson, manager.
United States Tire company service station, Sixth and Cherry Mreets. Indiana Tires, Duplex Tread Tire company, 312 Ohio street.
Racine tires, Vigo Tire company, 310 Ohio street. Firestone tires, Cole Auto company, 514 Ohio street.
Buffalo tires, Thirteenth street and Wabash avenue. Kelly-Springfield and Miller tires, J. B. Engles, 667 Ohio street.
Goodrich, John S. Cox, 222 South Seventh street. Goodyear, Terre Haute Auto company, 119 South Seventh street.
Marathon, Walker Two-tread Tire compaqy, 1230 Wabash avenue.
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AVERAGE OR STANDARD OF 439 CARS In Power, Roominess, Comfort and Size
AVERAGE PRICE
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we that Studebak-er is the B'EST VALUE that it is possible to get in a car, the mere claim means no more than that of any other manufacturer for his own car unless Studebaker can actually produce the figures to substantiate our contention. Studebaker does not indulge in glittering generalities and every argument we present to prove Studebaker superiority is firmly founded on actual fact. That is the reason why Studebaker has reached the place it holds today in popular favor.
Buyers today are motor wise. They must be shown, and they appreciate a careful analysis of facts which does not exaggerate. The day of the spell-binding salesman has passed, for the public is too well educated to be fooled by high-sounding claims.
In the tables of comparison which we will print, Studebaker superiority is revealed in a most startling fashion. .Study the items point
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RAMON JONES, D. D.
Duplex Tread Tire Co., Terre Haute, Ind. Gentlemen:-As you may remember, I bought a tire of you May £3, and it is giving good enough servioe that I am writing to ask if you,can fix over a bum job of someone's else.
I have a 30x3 1/2, sewed tread, and the outer tread is good, but the stitching is a poor job, and the two oaslngs were not cemented, either. Could you take the good outer tread and make me a serviceable casing out of it? And what would be the charges, and what sort of a guarantee wbuld it carry?
Thanking you in advance, and for past courtesies, I am, Very truly yours, RJ/LAD.
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by point and when man has done this, he wMl find that Studebaker price, power, equipment, style, size, comfort and roominess are brought closer home than they have ever been before.
Absolute figures without comparison havfc* little value. There must be a standard to which to refer—a base by which to be guided.
Where Studebaker has the best of the argument is in the superiority that can be shown when Studebaker figures are. compared with recognized standards an'd averages.
We can take the Studebaker and compare it point for point with the average cars of the same price or higher price, and in every instance we can show that Studebaker offers either the same advantages for less money or better advantages for the same money. The standard to which our comparisons will be made is indisputable, because it is deduced from a compilation of actual data published by the manufacturers.
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FORDS ON PAYMENTS
U0R a limited time we will offer FORD CARS on a liberal payment plan. Come in and investigate.
Runabout $405, Touring Car $455, Coapelet $610, Town Car $660, Sedan $760 Delivered at Terre Haute, Indiana.
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