Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1927 — Page 13

JUNE 15, 1927

MOUNTAIN ROAD LURES AUTOIST # TO REAL PERIL View From Peaks Is Fine; ( But Make Sure You Know How to Descend Safely. Mountain touring has a lure all its own; thoughts of it create a desire' to motor to the top of high peaks and thrill to the grand view obtained from those summits, and part of that thrill comes from meeting the many dangers in the ascent. There are special dangers and special rules for mountain driving and because of lack or knowledge of both, many lives are lost each year. The greatest danger in mountain driving comes in going down hill, and that is the part the old-time driver most fears. The only safe way to go down a steep road Is to make the descent with the cars in gear. When the top of the incline has been reached and at the very top of the hill, put the cars into low or intermediate (depending upon the steepness of the grade) and descend in gear. This provides a compression brake and leaves the foot or hand levers as auxiliaries. Watch Your Brakes To try to brake the car with the brake bands will mean to burn out the lining, render your brakes inoperative and put the car at the mercy of gravity. Nor should any one attempt to put in gear when a third or half IB down. To do this means to give tire wheels such a speed that it will be mechanically impossible to mesh the gears. Inexperienced mountain drivers make the mistake of hurrying—of crowding the car under the load of humanity, baggage and incline. This results in scored cylinders, burned out bearings, overheated motors and the like .In driving over rolling hills one might easily average thirty miles an hour. Such a speed is impossible in the mountains. An average of fifteen miles an hour in rough, mountainous country is doing well and to do even that with a load of three or four pasengers who have the usual baggage weight means to put a tremendous strain on the car. Use Your Chains Driving in the mountains means driving in the rain. During the summer and fall it rains every day in the high mountains and frequently in the foothills or low mountains. Do not attempt to drive without nonskid chains. Many experienced mountain drivers prefer chains on every wheel while driving. Sound your horn at every mountain curve! Curves in mountains are invariably on a grade and not infrequently sharp and short. Certain laws of the trail are sacred and always to be obeyed. Two of them are: The outside track always has the rig>.t of way, and, where passing is impossible, the car going tuMiias the right of way.

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BY SWEDE SWANSON The Graham brothers, who purchased the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company recently, have followed that by purchasing the Wayne Body I Corporation plant at Wayne. Mich., ' about fifteen miles from Detroit. | The purchase was made by the I Graham brothers as individuals, but I it is intended that it shall be turned over to the Paige Company at the same price as was paid for it, as soon as the plan providing for the purchase of control by the Graham brothers is approved by Paige stockholders. Work immediately will be under- | taken to make an up-to-date body ■ plant of the property. Modem machinery for the manufacture of custom bodies will be installed. A law requiring motorists to give i standard hand signals before starting, stopping or turning from a direct line goes into effect soon in North Carolina. Under a section of the uniform code, motor vehicle operators intending to turn to the left or right or to stop must signal with the hand and during the last fifty feet traveled. Provisions that a driver before staring or turning must sound his horn to warn pedestrians or other vehicle operators were made. “Adoption of these signals,’’ says C. W. Roberts, vice president of the Carolina Motor Club, “Should result in decreased accidents and save many fenders hard knocks.” This is what is known as being completely sold. Twenty Studebakers in twenty years is the . record of the family of George K. Schmidt, presi- ; dent of the prudential State Savings Bank of Chicago, to whom the twentieth car, a Studebaker custom victoria, recently has been delivered. j After many months of negotiaj tions, the General Motors Corpora- ! tion through its overseas organiza- | tion purchased land in Sweden for i the erection of an assembly plant, i A most advantageous site has been I obtained in Stockholm and it is j expected that building operations ! will be started shortly. The action of the Riksdag in reducing the import duty on automobile parts was instrumental in bringing about the | consummation of the plan. I Ford Motor Company at Buffalo, iN. Y., has been picking up ship- ! ments of Houdallie shock absorbers ! at the Houdallie factory and delivering them to the Buffalo airport, where they are shipped by plane to Lincoln factory at Detroit, Mich. The new Ford all-metal plane has three engines and freight carrying capacity of 1,300 pounds and a total flying weight of 8,400 pounds. The trip from Buffalo to Detroit is made in about two hours and fifteen minutes. B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company : has purchased forty-five acres of j land outside of Los Angles for erecj tion of a Pacific coast factory to be ; devoted to the manufacture of tires and tubes. This new plant will i have a production capacity of bej tween 6,000 and 8,000 tires daily and ‘ will be in operation early in 1928. It i will employ in the neighborhood of ; 5,000 ment. Goodrich decided upon a Pacific j coast plant, according to officials, to ! be in a better position to meet the ; rapidly growing demands of the j coast trade. The Akron plant al- | ready is overcrowded, as production | has increased steadily until it has become necessary to increase manu- | facturing facilities to relieve this | situation. ■ i The mother of William McKinley is the only mother who ever lived to see her son inaugurated President ,of the United States.

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CHICAGO STARTS SAFETY SCHOOL Rod Spared on Windy City Motorists. CHICAGO. June B.—A system of “safety schools” where motorists violating minor traffic regulations are lectured, is spreading through Chicago. The system was inaugurated on the west side and since its inception 20,000 reckless motorists have been lectured at a loss of fines estimated at $75,000. The north side parks have adopted this plan that has worked successfully on the west side, and it is believed that schools may soon be held in all parts of the city. The idea of education to supplant the ’’rod” has found favor with motorists themselves. The lectures arc delivered by members of the traffic commission and are instructive and interesting. Often a class has 500 members. Motorists learn the reason why various traffic ordinances are passed and have a chance to ask questions. Officials say that the “students” are benefitted by the schools and their motoring manners improve. WILLYS SHOWS RECORD IN MAY Quarter 28 Per Cent Above Last Year. Bn Times Special TOLEDO, Ohio, June 15.—With Willys-Overland production reaching 27,569 cars in May, the Toledo manufacturer established the highest May production mark in the history of the organization, a gain of 64.8 per cent over the same month of last year, a factory report says. Compared to the production of 84,760 cars in the same months of 1926, i the year to date shows an increase ! of 28 per cent. Motor car registrations for the

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first quarter, compared with the same period of last year, show an increase of 18 per cent for WillysOverland, while the industry as a whole lo6t 8 per cent, it is pointed out. Willys-Overland gain was heaviest in the East. 11l Health Cause of Suicide Bn Times special LOGANSPORT, Ind.. June 15. 11l health, causing despondency, war, given in notes left by Mrs. Alexander Collins, 47, as the reason for her suicide. She died two hours after drinking chloroform.

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STORE. SERVICE STATION OPENED New Guarantee Business Is Third This Year. Announcement has been made by the Guarantee Tire and Rubber Company of anew Indianapolis store and Super-Service Station at 3012 Northwestern Ave. The store formerly was owned by S. G. Higgins & Sons. The new Guarantee store makes the eleventh in the organization and represents the third store opened this year. It combines a regular store and a Super-Service Station. In addition to carrying a stock of tires, tubes, auto parts and accessories, camping and radio goods, the store has a drive-in and installation service where tires can be changed, batteries serviced or charged, crankcases drained, gas and oil replenished or accessories installed. This arrangement enables the motorist to obtain everything needed for a trip. Dick Williams, formerly manager of the Guarantee store at 2118 W. Washington St., has been transfexxed to the new store. Thomas V M. Conaulty of the main store at 211-213 S. Illinois St., now manages ! the W. Washington St. Store. Service Congestion CHICAGO, 111., June B—While there was one station to every 875 automobiles five years ago, the number of this type of service station has increased so far that there is one for every eighty cars at pres- ; ent. The field is overcrowded, says j C. B. White, Chicago oil man.

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COAST-TO-COAST ROUND TRIP RECORD IS MADE Coast-to-coast and back again! A round trip transcontinental automobile record was hung up Tuesday, June 7, when a Chrysler Imperial “80” phaeton driven by its owner, L. B. Miller, arrived in Los Angeles at 9:59 a. m., 167 hours and 59 minutes out of San Francisco—by way of New York. The time for the double transcontinental trip was just one minute less than seven days. Miller started from San Francisco Tuesday, May 31, at 10 a. m. His primary purpose was to establish a round trip American record, but in doing so, he also broke the oneway cross-country automobile record, which he himself had made last August. He arrived in New York Friday, June 3, having driven the 3,385 miles of the Lincoln Highway in 79 hours and 55 minutes. | This was three hours and 17 minutes faster than he covered the same route last year.

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GOODRICH TIRES USED GY LINDY First Trans-Oceanic Flier to Carry Rubber-Tired Gear. Charles A. Lindbergh, who in a little over thirty-three hours wrote in the sky across the Atlantic Ocean the most amazing accomplishment in aviation history, was the first trans-oceanic flier to carry pneu-matic-tired landing gear to the end of his journey. This Is the gist of a bulletin just received by Swisshelm & Parker, local Goodrich Silvertown dealer, from the Goodrich factories at Akron. Captain Lindbergh had his famous plane equipped with Silvertown airplane cords at the hangar in San Diego, Cal., several weeks before he hopped off on the first

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TRAFFIC LAWS UNIFORM Efforts of New Jersey Officials Lauded by E. L. Cord. “There is sound logic in the efforts of the officials of the state of New Jersey to make uniform traffic rules for the state,” says E. L. Cord, president of the Auburn Automobila Company. "In this effort of New Jersey officials I find they aim to regulate traffic, in such a manner as to comply with the rules in neighboring states. This thought might be carried to all the states of the Union to the comfort of every person driving between states.” leg of his epochal 6,100-mile flight to Paris. According to Swisshelm, these tires, which were 30x5-inch stock Silvertowns, were not tested in any way, but were merely picked out of the tire racks at the factory of the Ryan Airplane Company by Lindbergh and applied to the wheel* by himself and a helper.

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