Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1936 — Page 8
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NEWS OF THE
AUTO WORLD
SAFE DRIVING HELD MATTER ~ OF COURTESY
Studeliaker President Cites Signals of Truckmen in Passing on Roads.
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Safe drjv ing & Hofman, president of baker Corp. is each driver of common cou ing his motor car. ; “If we were: all as courteous to each other on the road as the truck drivers are,” :declared Mr. Hoffman, “there would be almost ng accidents | on our highways. : “The next time you drive at night,” the Studebaker chief executive continued. “take particular notice of how safel¥ the truck gry. -
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nonstop, for 35 feet, makes a forward run of 35 feet. til jit is. time to do it all over again.
Eastern Air Lines lays claim to a new world’s But instead of pinning the ribbon on one of | its giant. airliners, the claim now is. made that the Chevrolet truck, used by EAL for refueling planes at Jacksonville, Fla., has achieved the world short-haul record, with a total of 38 miles registered on the speedometer after 12 months of daily service. Each day 1t makes eight round trips. Then it refuels a plane and There it rests un-
TRUCK TRAVELED onLY 38 MILES IN 12 MONTHS SERVICE
The “Champ,” as the airport crew calls the truck, has three drivers, but no state license, since . it operates entirely on company property. It forms -an important part in the efficient operation of the Great Silver Fleet and has ‘made consistent contribution in: enabling Eastern air lines to keep a .minimum schedule of eight and one-half hours between New York and Miami. It is estimated that it will have to be in service 5812 years before it can equal the record of 225,000 miles held by several Chevrolet trucks.
It backs up,
ers take care of the problem ay, a es of some ef our horrible accidents. “When two trucks
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V- 8 COMPLETES ECONOMY TEST
Ford Averages rages 21 5 Miles a Gallon in ‘Scottie Car’ Campaign.
are moving same direction and one driver wishes to pass the other, you will | observe a striking lesson in safety The driver who wishes to pass will flash his s on and off two
OF three times.
headlight
Gives “Clear” Signal If the road ahead of the leading | truck is not clear, there will be no answering signal. But if the road is clear to pass, however, the lead- Operating out of Greentown, Ind, ing driver will fiash hi 5 light { under normal Indiana driving conoT. - Siash ms rear lghiS|gitions, a: standard Ford V-8 pasa few times, indicating ‘come ahead’'|senger car recently completed a 2000to the driver behind him. mile test run during which it aver“As the rear truck, in passing, |28ed 21.552 miles a gallon of gasodraws alongside of the truck being |line for the entire distance. Accordpassed, and goes ahead a little way, |iDg to R. A. Hayes, Indianapolis the driver being passed, as soon as |ford branch manager, the run was he sees that it is safe for the pass- | SPonsored by the Greentown Auto ing truck .ggain .to pull into the | CO: and the results were certified by
righthand lane, will indicate so.by |'hree impartial observers. flashing his readlights a few times. | was part the national Ford “Scot.
This is because the driver of the| HE Car’ Seen) Samper. 2088.3
passing truck can not judge when |
The test |
BLUE POINT ADDS TO EQUIPMENT
The Dodge one and one-half-ton truck (pjctured above), purchased from the Mewis Motors; Inc.,, by Karl Gassert, owner and manager of the Blue Point Service Station, 958 S. Delaware-st, is the latest edition to Blue Point's complete service. The truck has an 800-gallon tank, is streamlined in design, painted orange ‘and blue with raised offset blue lettering on the sides. Mr. Gassert, who in 1919 opened Blue Point with one gasoline pump
BROWN COUNTY
PROGRESS FAST, RA AIDS REPORT
as State Unit Notes 100th Anniversary.
With Brown County celebrating its- one hundredth anniversary as a political subdivision of Indiana; Rural Resettlement Administration officials here today reported rapid progress of the RA’s Southern Indiana Bean Blossom Agricultural Demonstration Project near Nashville., : Through this program 20,000 acres of Brown County submarginal hill land is being transformed into a combined - forestry, recreation and wild life area. Reports received at the RA regional office here from Ralph C. Wright, project ¢ superintendent.
225 housed in a transient labor camp, are now at work on the various operations incident to the conversion of the area.
WPA on the Job Most of the workers have been
recruited from WPA rolls and from families still residing in the area.
Mr. Wright reported, centers primarily around the recreational de-
st velopment program.
Large crews are at work removing brush, stumps and trees from a 200-acre area in which an artificial lake is to be created. The lake is to be developed as a conservation measure for fish and game as well as for recreation.
Two Camping Areas
- Elsewhere in the area crews are busy developing public camps and picnic grounds. One of these camps is to comprise 10 acres and another is to include more than 30. Both are to be equipped with ovens, tables and benches. Considerable work ‘also is ‘being done, the report stated, to promote wild life conservation. To @ attract and provide for an increasing game population, small areas totaling 500
Reforestation Under Way |
show that nearly 500 men, including |
The greatest activity at present, |
“of their last meal still between their teeth.
the rear of his vehicle will safely | clear the truck he is passing, and | without the helpful signal from the | slower moving truck there would be |
(danger of side-swiping.
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‘After the swiftly moving truck | hds passed the other, its driver will} flash his rear lights a
which simply means “Thank you.”
Rounding the Row
BY MYRON J. McGEEHAN
ICE PRESIDENT C. T. FOXWORTHY, of Roy Wilmeth Co., Ford dealer, 720 N.:Meridianst, has returned from a fishing trip through Canada accompanied by his two sons. Fox is displaying a picture showing one day’s catch that speaks of his skill as an angler. - = = zn R.. L. .Edwards, president of West Side Chevrolet, Inc., Chevrelet dealer, 2419 W. Washingtonst, is on vacation.
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Roy Wilmeth, president of Roy Wilmeth Co., 720 N. Meridian-st, is vacationing in Banff, Ganada, and will travel to Californig from there. 4 ” ®
§ Dealers in the city are inviting State Fair visitors to inspect their new ant used cars. The visitors will find stocks to be representative. = = n RVILLE CUNNINGHAM, used car manager, Hick-man-Moyer Sales, Inc, 418 N. Capitol-av, Oldsmobile dealer, is on vacation. SN in . Ed Hayes, used car manager, Weissman Motor Sales, 2122 E. Washington-st, Dodge dealer, spent last week fishing in northern Michigan. :
- = = = Peterman & Son have opened a used car lot at 635'E. New YorkSt, and is specializing in buying and selling used cars.
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_ Rocky Rhoades is ing Orville Cunningham,
now assistmanager, Hickman-Mover
sales Sales,
Oldsiiobyle dealer,”418 N. Capitol-
: somo» OUIS FINK, vice president, Fink Auto Co., 440 N. Cap-itol-av, used car dealer, reports a . good volume of sales so far this
month. x = 2
welcomed realizing it
Dealers rainfall,
heavy aid
the would
. business and improve dispositions
that were upset by the. August
heat.
MILEAGE IS CHARTED.
| Fory the first time, a dependable | estimate of the total mileage of | streets in cities df the United States |
has been made. Streets in towns and cities with more than 2500 | pulation have a total of 190,090 |
iles, it is shown by a study which | the National Highway Users’ Con- |
ference has just completed.
If a motorist were to travel over | . every mile of those streets, he would |
drive approximately 30,000 miles farther than if he traveled over every mile of high-type surfaced highways in the United States’
HEAVY WATER CONSUMER According to the engineers, the |
Rouge plant of the Ford Motor Co.
uses more water than the cities of
‘Detroit, Cincinnati and Washing- | §
tan combirded—more than 335,000- | »
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| miles and was made in two and onei half days of almost continuous driving. Eight drivers worked in relays iand the engine of the car was | stopped for only 35 seconds during {the entire two and one- -half day { period. 3
According to the affidavit signed
few times by the official observers, the car used
| 96.895 gallons of gasoline. Oil con- { sumption was only thirty-eight hundredths of a quart | per 1000 | miles. No: water was added to the { radiator, The car was operated on Super 70 HyRed gasoline and Quaker State motor oil. In piling up the 2000 miles, according tg the official observers, the {car travefed over 891 miles of con- | crete, 1122 miles of black top, 58.8 { miles of brick paving, and 16.5 miles of gravel. It made 51 full stops and 33 turn-arounds during the run Traffic conditions were considered average on 22 of the 33 trips, heavy ion three and light on eight. The average speed of the:car was 38.15 miles par hour; The car covered a route from Greentown through Hemlock and East Kokomo and return, on state routes 22, 9, 26 and 31, “making 33 trips over.the route in the two and one-half days. The official observers who signed the affidavit were C. D. Callis, Leo Seagrave and Ralph Kingseed.
ELECTRIC SYSTEM OF CARS IMPROVED
|Advancements Devised for More Accessories.
How the electrical system of the modern motor car has been improved within recent years, to keep up with the constantly increasing demands placed on it by electrical accessories, from radios to fog-lights, was described by an automotive engineer at a gathering of service experts in Detroit. ~Both generators and batteries have been improved greatly within the last few years,” he said. “Generators have been increased in output, and means of regulating the output to suit the demand have been devised; at the same time, batteries have been given greater capacity. “Two important improvements in generators dre forced air cooling and load control. The output of a gener(ator falls’ off as its temperature rises; therefore, air ‘cooling has the effect of increasing its output. Then, in some cars, the automatic control is arranged to step up the generator output whenever the lights are on or the radio is going, and the driver may increase the charging rate even when the lights are off by means of an instrument panel | control. | Batteries have kept pace with the | generators, too. With little or no Frith in size, they contain more
plates, and hence possess a greater { reserve capacity, particularly advan- | tageous for cold starting.”
(FORD'S MILLIONTH UNIT IS PRODUCED
{ According to R. A. Hayes, Indian- | apolis Ford branch manager, the { 1,000,000th 1936 Ford V-8 car was | produced early this week. Ad the conclusion of the day's | work last Wednesday total produc- | tion of the 1936 Ford V-8 series had reached 1,000,131 units. Ford production is now running at the rate of 4500 cars daily, manufacture having been resumed last Monday after a week's vacation shutdown at the Rouge Plant.
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INDIANAPOLIS NORGE SALms
‘the hydraulic-brake system must be "as light as possible and yet have
in" a 20x20 space, now operates a
complete super-service station oc-
cupying 300 feet on Madison and Delaware-sts, selling wholesale and retail a complete line of automotive supplies, sporting goads, bicycles,
paint, hardware, radios and washers.
ALUMINUM USED INBRAKE PISTON
Light but Strong Metal Is Employed in Chrysler Mechanism.
C. H. Wallerich, 905 N. Meridianst, local distributor for Chrysler motor cars, announced forged aluminum is being used by the Chrysler Corp. for the : pistons in the hydraulic-brake system. These pistons, which are of forged Bohnalite alloy, have the advantage of all of the strength possible through the use of forging, plus the advantage of: lightness due to the use of the aluminum alloy. It is important, Chrysler engineers point out, that the brake mechanism respond instantly to.the pressure on the pedal. Consequently, reciprocating parts used in
extreme reliability and strength.
The Bohnalite forging has been found to answer these two requirements perfectly.
TIRE HANDBOOK FOR TRACTORS PRINTED
Goodrich Co. Provides Data for Use of Farmers.
+E. B. Oscars, manager of Goodrich Silvertown, Inc, at Delaware and North-sts, today announced a new 30-page farm tractor tire handbook that has just been published by the.Goodrich Co. It is how available upon request to the manufacturer through the company’s dealers. ; The booklet has as its object the distribution of information concerning the advantages of rubber tires on farm power units in agriculture and transportation. It tells type of equipment rubber tires have handled more efficiently than by any other method. It also discusses specifieations on - all sizes, loads and gives an inflation table, tractor tire and wheel specifications and industrial tractor specifications.
FORD PLANT LARGEST The Rouge plant. of the Ford Motor Co., according to R. W. Ayer & Son, covers 1096 acres and its buildings have a floor area of more than 7,250,000 square feet. is the largest single motor car factiory in the world.
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AMERICAN CAR PRICE AMAZING TO BRITISH
According to the Plymouth Motor Co., eighty members of the Junior Car Club of Great Britain brought their own English-made automobiles aboard the Queen Mary for the first’ of three motorcade tours this summer in the United States and Canada. Thirty-four cars of 22 different makes including two miniature Rileys and two Rolls Royces were shipped. As the cars were sw\ing off the ship, the Englishmen took American driving: tests and secured New York license plates for use in this country. Many of the visitors expressed amazement at the price of the American-made automobiles they saw at the pier. The yadmitted that a car comparable to the Plymouth sedan, for example, would cost 350 pounds or more—about -ahout $1800, .. . . :
HAYES BUILDING AUTO TRAILERS
|Grand Rapids Firm One of
Largest Makers of Auto Bodies.
Announcement was made today that a line of “Motor Home” tourist trailers is being produced by the Hayes Body Corp. Grand Rapids, one of the largest independent builders of automobile bodies. Various estimates of trailer pop-
ularity run from 100,000 to 400,000 |
in use at the present, The new
Hayes line 4s expected to reveal some startling improvements in design and construction, the old-style wood frame giving way to safety steel construction, with. interiors planned for greater comfort, efficiency, and finished with chromium fixtures and fine cabinet work. . The line is priced to sell at less
than $400.
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‘the planting of more than 1,000,000
acres are being set aside for food and cover. : Reforestation operations include
trees, mostly evergreens; reducing fire hazards on 5000 acres of woodland and improvement work to increase the annual growth of existing trees on an additional 5000 acres.
FORD HAS 3030 PARTS According to the engineering de-| partment of the Ford Motor Co., in a single Ford V-8 there are more than 3030 parts built to an accuracy within five one-thousandths of an inch.
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Frederick © VanNuys, lodny, National Association of Tobacco Distributors, executive secretary; Thomas J. Payne, National Confectioners Association president; A. M, Kelly, confectioners associa-
THIS CURIOUS WORLD + + by Wilar Frou]
PRAIRIE DOGS
| ARE ANIMALS OF THE OPEN PRAIRIE, BUT THERE IS A PRAIRIE DOG TOWN INSIDE THE CTY LIMITS OF DENVER, COLORADO.
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One mammoth tooth, taken from a carcass frozen in the tundras of Siberia, measures eight inches long along the upper grinding surface, is two and a half inches broad, and has a length of almost 12 inches. Specimens of ancient mammoths have been found with the food
tion executive vice president, and Marston Abercrombie, general sales manager, Henry Helde, Inc., New
CANDY, TOBAGCO MEN
OFFICIALS ATTEND FUNERAL OF DER
Body Leaves Capital Today |
for Burial in Utah.
By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 29/—Govemmment officials joined Army and Navy officers today in funeral serv. ices for Secretary of War George H. Dern, first member of President Roosevelt's Cabinet to die in active
service. Funeral services will be with full military Honors at Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, The body
will be placed aboard a train, with
an escort of high officials, for burial Tuesday in Salt Lake City, Utah,
While the Rev. Russell J. Clinchy speaks the funeral sermon at 4p. m,
guns at Fort Myer, across the Potomac, will boom out a final 19-gun salute. A salute has been fired each hour since Mr. Dern’s death.
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Buying a retail quantity at wholesale prices is a siren song sung by many unscrupulous vendors to the unwary customer. seems to cast a magic spell over many
of “Buying at Wholesale” people. Many investigations have shown that so-
prices are in reality as much or more on the average than regular
retail prices on the same item.
Some stores and fndividuals make a practice of taking customers to .* = wholesale houses and implying that they are selling at “wholesale; - It is a simple matter for the so-called
prices” a retail quantity.
The thought
called “Wholesale”
“wholesaler” and the party bringing in the customer to arrange a price on non-standard merchandise that will permit both of them to
make a profit on the transaction.
The trick quite often used is to
actually sell a well known standardized article at less. that its regular retail price, thus giving the impression that all the merchandise is offered at wholesale, only to make up the difference in the prices charged on the unknown or non-standardized merchandise.
You should consider that there is a certain overhead expense in wait-
ing on a retail customer.
This is even more true in an actual whole-
sale establishment because of the difference in quantity purchased.
It is illogical to expect that a business can make
a profit by selling
to the actual consumer at the same price that would be quoted to a
retail establishment buying at wholesale.
The next time you are invited to “buy at wholesale” card entitling you to make purchases “at wholesale”
or given a special we suggest
~ that you investigate before you actually buy the goods.
Take the name of the manufacturer, the lot number or description
of the article you wish to purchase, and then go
to a regular retail
store and learn whether or not you are actually being offered a wholesale price. We predict that in most instances you will be very
much surprised when you learn the truth.
When a wholesaler or a manufacturer continues a policy of selling at retail then the prices they charge become retail
prices. ‘
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