Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1927 — Page 11

JULY 13,1927

NEW RECORD IN MOTOR EXPORTS IS INDICATED Statistics for First Five Months of 1927 Show Huge Increase. DETROIT, July 13.—Export statistics for the first five months of th year indicate that automotive 1927 will set anew record, according shipments to foreign countries in to B. H. Cram, president of Cram’s Automotive Reports, industry authority. The figures show that 186,866 passenger cars, trucks and busses, valued at $131,019,390 have been exported, as compared with 142,167 vehicles, valued at $102,369,813 during the same period in 1926. Records for May Last year, total exports of motor vehicles from the United States and Canada, including assemblies abroad, were 487,289. dt is estimated that exports this year will run between 550,000 and 600,000. Passenger car exports for the month of May were 30,65222, while trucks and busses numbered 10,510. Total passenger car shipments for the five month period are 138,955, and for trucks and busses, 47,911. This compares, with 111,076 passenger cars and 31,091 trucks and busses in the same period in 1926. The value of passenger car shipments this year is $101,090,627, and trucks and busses, $29,928,763. This is an increase in the passenger car value of $19,685,279, and in the truck and bus value of $8,964,298 over that of last year. Trucks to Australia Detailed statistics showing the exports by country of destination again place Canada in the first position, with Australia replacing Denmark as the second leading market, being followed by Argentina, Brazil, United Kingdom and Belgium. The first three countries took a larger number of passenger cars than during x the preceding month, while the other leading markets showed a slight decline. Australia retains her position as the leading truck market with Denmark occupying second position of importance, clSsely followed by Brazil, Belgium and Argentina. Export business for automotive manufacturers is bound to increase greatly during the coming years.

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This photo shows how an engine is bolted to its chassis by means of rubber mountings.

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BY SWEDE SWANSON After driving a few hundred miles on the country highway the unsuspecting tourist finds he has fallen j into a speed habit. He has been keeping a steady pace of thirty-five or forty miles an hour, or more, gradually becomes so used to this pace that it seems like the every-day twenty-five miles an hour to which he had been accustomed in the big city. It’s a bad habit, although hard to inhibit. It’s all the worse when the driver strikes a small town and keeps up the same fast pace that has seemed so easy to him on the highway. That’s too fast and unsafe for any populated district, besides being illegal, and should be held down. The only way to do it is to keep your speed constantly in mind, on the country road as well as in the city, to regulate the car’s pace in accordance with the district it is traversing. Thus, not only will driving be safe wherever you go, but there will be less chance for breaking the speed Jaws. Thirty-five miles an hour is the usual speed limit on highways. The police generally allow another five miles leeway. Forty miles an hour is a good, safe, economical speed. “Say it with Fried Chicken,” is Harvey Oakley’s slogan, and last Thursday night Harvey said it with twenty-one home-grown springers. The cause of this lavish display of Indiana’s favorite dish and all the trimmings, was in celebration of the Oakley Motor Sales successful Sales Campaign last month. It seems as though Harvey Oakley, President of the Oakley Motor Sales Company, Hudson and Essex dealers, made a promise to his Sales and Service Force that if they sold a certain number of cars during June, he would give them the best chicken dinner possible. They made him make good and he certainly did. Preceding the dinner a series of volley ball games and other contests were played. Mr. Oakley expressed his appreciation to his salesmen for their sales accomplishment in June and offered cash awards for sales campaign for July. H. J. Walker of the R. V. Law Motor Company, Hudson and Essex distributors, announced that Oakley Sales is now in second place for the entire year in point of new car sales. Talks were also made by Harry Metzger and Charles W. Allen of I the Indiana Investment and Securi ities Company, Dan Goodman of The Star, and Harry Swanson of The Times. Three short toots of the horn when passing a motorist means a flat tire, according to a telegram received by the Hoosier Motor Club from F. C. Wever of Indianapolis, who Is now traveling somewhere In Montana. Mr. Wever suggests that the horn signal for flat tires be adopted by the Hoosier Motor Club and all affiliated A. A. A. clubs in the country. Why not? Much of the tremendous success which Nash has experienced during the past year is attributed by the officials of the company to the Nash seven-bearing crankshaft motor, with which all models are powered, according to R. H. Losey.

BY ISRAEL KLEIN Science Editor, NEA Service Rubber is going to take the shocks and vibrations out of motoring. It is already being used for mountings of engines on some auto chassis, and for mountings on springs. It is being tried out In steering wheel hubs, as bushihgs at bearing surfaces and may eventually find its place in every point/of coiitact on the automobile where there might be any suspicion of discomfort. We still think of rubber, in connection with automobiles, in terms of tires. But even here it has been improved to such an extent that comfort in motoring has been greatly increased. Balloon tires have done this. Yet rubber engineers have gone much farther. Their aspirations are for the replacement of practically all metal joints with rubber. And they have already begun their work of replacement The advantages of rubber, in general, are its property of elasticity, its strength and especially Its ability to absorb energy. It is therefore an ideal vibration dampener and shock absorber. It needs no lubrication, as metal joints do, and doesn’t wear as easily. INTEREST ON CIRCLE Murphy Motors New Salesroom Attracts Crowds. The opening of an automobile salesroom this week by Murphy Motors, Inc., distributors for the new Falcon-Knight, 106 Monument Circle, marks a decided departure in the marketing of motor cars, and is a move that is being closely watched by the Indianapolis automobile fraternity. C. S. Lewis and S. N. Cooley, executives of Murphy Motors, say the move to the Circle has attracted much attention also from prospective buyers and the opening nights this week were well attended. Murphy Motors formerly occupied quarters on N. Capitol Ave. The general offices and service rooms of the company have been moved to the John W. Murphy building, 36 E. Georgia St., a point also well removed from the usual haunts of automobile wholesalers and retailers.

Murphy-Motors Inc. Distributors of Falcon-Knight Motor Cars, Formerly Located at 436-40 N. Capitol Ave. ANNOUNCES New Showroom on the Circle 106 Monument Circle (English Block) AND New Sales and Service 36 E. Georgia Street (Service Entrance in the Rear, Off Penn. St.) Murphy-Motors Inc. 106 Monument Circle 36 E. Georgia St. Lincoln 7554

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In the Spotlight of Highest publicfavor more than ever Riding is like flying New advantages never associated with this , _ c price-field, single out the Greater Essex Su-l-Pass. Speedster. . 835 pei-Six with spotlight brilliancy, marking ££ ’ ; ; ; ; 73! it farther than ever above all comparison. ~ .M 5 Even though production is greatest in Essex hisAU prices f. a. b. Detroit. 1 1 • 1 .1 1 11 phis war excise tax. 1 tOty, demand is so large that we must handle all deliveries on the basis of priority of orders. E S SEX Super-Six R. V. LAW MOTOR CO. Distributors 1219-1225 N. MERIDIAN ST. / MAIN 4082 —ASSOCIATE RETAIL DEALERS— • P. B. SMITH AUTO CO. G. WININGS CO. J. A. MURPHY, INC. 430 N. Cap. Bird. Lincoln 3603 3816 E. Wash. St. Irvington 3398 2124 W, Wash. St. Belmont 2900 OAKLEY MOTOR SALES CO. NORTH SIDE HUDSON-ESSEX CO.— 1665 S. 'Maridian St. -, a ■ '' ' f -

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MOTOR LEADERS SURVEYEUROPE Alfred H. Swayne Heads Business Tour Party. Alfred H. Swayne, vice president of General Motors, has sailed for a business trip to England, France, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He will be joined by a group of General Motors executives who will make a study of business conditions and General Motors operations overseas. When interviewed on the outlook for business in this country, Swayne said in part: “Although we had a very backward spring, with unfavorable weather in many sections of the trade has been in good volume and most Industries have been operating at a pretty satisfactory rate. We have now entered the summer period of seasonal quiet, and not much change in the level of general business is likely to occur during the next month or two. “The outlook for the latter part of the year will, of course, be affected to an important degree by the crops and by autumn developments in the building situation, and it is too early to make predictions regarding either of these. For the immediate future however, no radical change in the general business trend seems to be in prospect. “On the whole, business is in a sound and fairly well stablized condition and has been so for a considerable period: and unless the agricultural and building situations should prove to be distinctly disappointing, there seems to be a good reason for expecting the usual seasonal expansion of activity in the autumn.” Rubber Paving Tried Melbourne, Australia, is experimenting with rubber block paving to insure more quiet on streets along hospitals and churches. The high price of rubber is keeping the city from putting such blocks to general use. Auto Hock Shop Money now is loaned on automobiles by a Hartford (Conn.) automotive accessory house. By the way cars have been offered for hock, the firm will do a bigger pawn business than in the sale of accessories.

DISTRIBUTION ARRANGED FOR SHOCK ABSORBER Lovejoy Hydraulic Product Handled Through United Motors Service. Distribution of the Lovejoy Hydraulic Shock Absorber in the field through United Mtors Service began on July 1, it was announced today by H. H. Willis, manager of the local branch of United Motors Service. The Lovejoy works on the positive hydraulic pressure system, with all parts working in oil. The principal of operation is the same as a door check, the Lovejoy piston absorbing any rebound of the car.

PONTIAC MAKES SLIP-ON BODY Type Is Designed for Delivery, Salesmen’s Use. For the benefit of merchants and businesses that do not have a sufficiently large volume to warrant a special delivery vehicle and traveling salesmen who must carry a large stock of samples, Robinson-Thomp-son, Inc., announces two cars especially adapted to fit such needs—the Pontiac Six coupe and roadster suitable for mounting two types of slip-on commercial bodies. The open express body or the closed panel body may be slipped on either the roadster or coupe in a very short time; in the case of the roadster by simply removing the rumble seat rear deck cover, and in the case of the coupe by removing the rear deck cover. The inside dimensions of the open express body on the Pontiac Six roadster are: Width, thirty-seven inches; length, fifty-eight inches; height of panel, ten inches. The inside dimensions of the closed panel body slipped on the Pontiac coupe is as follows: Width, thirty-seven inches; length, fortyfive inches; height of rear opening, twenty-four inches.

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HABIG CO. BUYS GARMENT FIRM Coverall Business Necessitates Expansion Program. Early in 1927 the Hablg Manufacturing Company, 1035 N. Meridian St., added to its line of seat covers, tire covers, and other fabric accessories, the Habig brand of mechanics coveralls and motor coats, manufactured by the Union City Garment Company, Union City, Ind. A policy was originated and consistently pursued to sell these garments direct from factory at wholesale prices to automotive dealers, garages, tire and battery shops, service stations, etc. Contracts were made direct with some of the leading tire and car manufacturers, who in turn distributed this merchandise to their respective dealers. A corps of twenty commission salsemen was added to the Habig staff. In less .than six months this business developed to such proportions that it became necessary to expand the productioan facilities at the factory in order to supply the demand. In order to expedite this expansion program, it was necessary for the management to obtain control of the Garment Company. The outcome of the negotiations which have been pending for some time is the incorporation of the Union City Garment Company, Inc., by the members of the official family of the Habig Manufacturing Company, and one of the partners and production manager of the old company, known as the Union City Garment Company. The officers of the new company, E. J. Herrmann, president; Meredith Nicholson, Jr., vice-president; L. A. Voislnet, vice-president; Vere

Special Sale of Used Tires We have 400 tires of all brands that were taken In on Generals during our recent trade-in sale. They have many miles o' road service left in-tbero, all the junk tires have been taken out and sold as junk. These tires are in most cases better than cheap third grade new tires and will give more mileage. All Balloon sizes and some High Pressure. See these tires before buying cheap new tires. While they last. s2*o sig^ 1 ALL SIZES WE ALSO HAVE SOME BRAND NEW STANDARD MAKE TIRES TAKEN IN ON GENERALS THAT WE WILL SELL AT LESS THAN WHOLESALE COST THE GENERAL TIRE CO. 838 NORTH DELAWARE ST.

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GRAHAM TRUCK I SALES GAINING June Record Exceeds Every Preceding Month. June sales shipments of Graham Brothers’ trucks and commercial cars to Dodge Brothers' dealers who sell and service them, broke previous monthly records for the year, the company announces. The total of 5,730 Graham Brothers’ units produced and shipped during the twenty-four working days of the month of May and brought Graham Brothers’ sales for the first six months of the year to the total of 29,677 trucks and commercial cars. In previous years truck sales in general have shown a falling off In June. Graham Brothers’ 1927 sales curve, however, has shown an upward trend since Jan. 1, and dealers report that prospects are bright for even higher sales during the second half of the year. The present great demand for trucks follows a series of remarkable improvements In designs and appearance. Prices have remained at the same level.

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