Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1928 — Page 10

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OPEN HOUSE TO INTRODUCE NEW STUTZ MODELS Thousands Will Be Given View of Blackhawk Line of Cars. BY SWEDE SWANSON Times Auto Ed.tor “Open house” at the Stutz factory from noon until midnight Thursday will give citizens of Indiana an opportunity to see the new Blackhawk car, shown for the first time today to dealers and distributors from all parts of the United States and several foreign countries. The Blackhawk is an entirely new car, comprising ten models, and will be the companion car to the larger Stutz. For more than three years th-"* local factory has been designing, developing, and testing the smaller car, which will have its first public display Thursday. The Blackhawk will not be announced to the public until the New York automobile show—but it has been the policy of the Stutz Motor Car Company to hold a pre-showing for the citizens of Hoosierland. Will Be Shown in .New York At the conclusion of the display here, most of the cars will be sent to New York for the national automobile exposition. Some cars will be displayed after Thursday at the salesroom of Stutz of Indiana, at 1525 North Meridian street. More than 15,000 persons are expected to visit the Stutz during ‘‘open house.” Every hour, on the hour, from noon until midnight Thursday, a special program will start, consisting of a presentation of the various models on a revolving stage, accompanied by living models. Then will follow a trip through the plant, with efficient glides to explain the latest methods of production. The program requires just an hour. More than 750 Stutz distributors and dealers are in attendance at the annual convention today, which will terminate with a banquet ir. the Riley room of the ClaypoiJ hotel. F. E. Moskovics, president of Stutz, will act as toastmaster. Buck Will Speak Glen Buck, president of the Glen Buck Company, Chicago, Stutz , advertising counsel, will make the principal speech of the evening Moskovics and Colonel Edgar S Gorrell, vice-px-esident of Stutz then will summarize the important sales instructions covered in the various addresses throughout the day. The Stutz delegates were guests at a complimentary breakfast in the Travertine room of the Lincoln hotel, after which they were taken in busses to the Stutz factory. The business sessions were held in the Convention hall on the third floor ox

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BY SWEDE SWANSON THE British government has taken the automobile service station situation into its own official hands. Henceforth no “petrol station,” which corresponds to our “gas station,” may be erected in any part of England without first having been passed as a thing of beauty by a commission appointed for the purpose. That’s taking the bull by the horns and making short of a condition that has been thx-eatening the countryside. In spite of that,

the American method is better. Here, interested organizations and a few gracious donors have f en offering prizes for the best design and erection of attractive service stations and those wayside evils that go with them—the barbecue stands. The American method may not be as thorough and effective as the

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method across the seas, but it is sure to win the early approval of every one. The reason is that as soon as anything is made compulsory, there is a tendency to combat it. That this is true, in this country, is proven by the great number of beautiful stations going up these days. Hardly anew stand but has the gorgeousness and attractive the plant. The new Blackhawk models were revealed amid much enthusiasm and addresses were made by various factory officials. Today’s conventipn was the greatest in the history of the local factory and marked anew era in Stutz history. With addition of the Blackhawk line, the selling organization will be increased materially and factory production will be more than trippled.

appeal which England is trying to force into its stations. It’s the most sensible thing to do for one who would make a success-of a gas station or hot-dog stand these days. It’s poor business to do otherwise. Motorists naturally pick out the attractive station to get their gas. For there’s a feeling of distrust and a sense of shame when we enter, of necessity, a station that has just been thrown together. It isn’t necessary to wait until the engine knocks to tell whether carbon is collecting at an excessiv° rate. The amount of soot on the spark plugs tells the story. This is just another reason why plugs should be inspected frequently. In many engines carbonizing is not uniform and the spark plug test furnishes a handy check on this. If the plugs of the center cylinders are habitually sooty it i. i obvious that the mixture to these cylinders is always richer than that reaching the extremes. Some of the carbon that collects in the center cylindei’s can be eliminated by putting a tablespoonful of kerosene into each when the engine is hot. A state-wide campaign to clean up and beautify the roadsides of .California has been launched by the Automobile Club of southern California. Civic organizations, women’s clubs, newspapers and city officials are cooperating. Anew type of metal has been produced to replace the present use of cast iron for automotive engines. It is called "Meehanite,” and is merely cast iron made four times its original strength, noncorrosive and acid-proof. Twenty auto trucks and cars toured France for over 1,000 miles in a demonstration of the economy of using French fuels as against imported gasoline. Only gases produced by French firms were used. The export of automotive products front this country is exceeded only by the export of two other products, cotton goods and petroleum.

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NEW TIRE SERVICE STATION IS OPENED Selig’s Rebuild Old Structure; Have Served City Fifteen Years. Anew, thoroughly modern tire service station has just been completed by Louis and Max Selig. This new station is located at 23 South East street. It is on the same location as their former and less complete store. They have served Indianapolis for the last fifteen years. In their new store the Seligs will have a complete line of batteries, G. and J. tires and tubes. They will also give a complete battery charging and rebuilding service as well as a complete tire repair and rebuilding service. Old Portland Resident Dies It ;/ Times Special PORTLAND, Ind.. Dec. 19,- Funeral services were held today for Dr. James S. Culbert, 71, veterinarian, and director of the Jay County Savings and Trust Company, who died Monday of uremic poisoning. He had lived here forty-five years.

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OAKLAND AND PONTIAC HEADS TO MEET HERE 1175 Dealers to Gather in City to Hear Plans for 1929. ' One hundred and seventy-five Oakland-Pontiac dealers from the Indianapolis district are scheduled to meet here tomorrow with executives of the home office at D ontiac, | Mich., to hear complete details on the new Pontiac Six for 1929. Talking motion pictures, lantern slides, and theatrical equipment j that would do credit to a traveling I Broadway show will assist the Oak- | land officials in putting across the j Pontiac message for next year, which is expected to top any previous year in the company’s history. This meeting is one of a series of thirty being held throughout the nation, which in only ten days will bring factory officials into direct contact with the 5,000 members of the Oakland domestic dealer organI ization. I Heading the factory party here I are Colonel E. M. Lubeck, Western I Sales Manager; W. M. Chamberlin | Manager Sales Development; and Walter Martin, service engineer; Assisting them in the presenta- ! tion of the program will be L. J. I Maise regional sales manager, and I E. G. Mann, district sales manager The meeting is scheduled to begin with a luncheon at the ClayI pool, followed by the complete presentation of the new Pontiac Six to the dealers, associate dealers and sales managers from this vicinity. "The executive party is scheduled to arrive Thursday morning from

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St. Louis and Thursday night is to go on to Detroit. Three groups of home office executives are blanketing the country touching every key point from Boston to Los Angeles, and from Jacksonville to Seattle between Dec. 10 and 22, at which time the last meetings will be held at Cleveland and Minneapolis. Subjects to be covered in the meeting are the complete presentation of the new Pontiac Six, which has been widely heralded as “offering big car features within the price range of the small six;” the extensive newspaper advertising schedule for 1929; servicing of the new engineering advancements on the Pontiac; discussion of the sales rec- '

ords being established by the new Oakland-All-American Six; , and many other merchandising phases incidental to the enlarged program for 1929. One of the outstanding features of the meeting will be Movietone speeches by A. R. Glancy, president, and W. R. Tracy, vice-president in charge of sales, of the Oakland Motor Car Company. Michelin Tires On Credit PUBLIC SERVICE TIRE CO 118 E, New York St.

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GRAHAM-PAIGE TO GIVE EXHIBIT Plan Elaborate Display at Detroit Jan. 3-4. Graham-Paige dealers from all over the United States and Canada h~ve been invited to Detroit by the Graham-Paige Motors Corporation for its first national dealers’ convention January 3-4. An elaborate exposition of the growth and progress of the company in its first year as builders of cars bearing the name of the three Graham brothers will be offered. Graham-Paige representatives of this city,’ expect to attend. “I am certainly planning to attend the Graham-Paige convention at Detroit,” is Mr. W. E. Stalnaker’s comment on his invitation from the three Graham brothers. “The Graham-Paige company has a reputation in the industry for doing these things in original ways that make them more than worth-while. “Only recently. Graham-Paige has scored by being the first concern in the world to utilize the speaking film in industry, each of the three Graham brothers appearing and giving a brief address to urge all dealers to attend the January convention.”

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