Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1939 — Page 20
PAGE 20 Automobile News—
Travel in Indiana Up 30 Per Cent Motor Club Reports
Over 1938,
‘Great Gain in Long Trips’ Is Predicted by Louann Myers.
Automobile travel in Indiana this véar has increased $0 per cent over 1938, Miss. Louann Myers, Hoosier Motor Club travel department manager, said today. “On the basis of queries received there will hé a great increase in long trips later in the year, as well," she added. The club receives travel inquiries and gives out itineraries to motorists Of 31 counties surrounding Indiananol IS. Short Trips Popular Short trips have been unusually popular this year, Miss Myers said, and will increase even more because of the scenic sights made up of dogwood and other trees in blossom. Hoosier motorists will make longer trips as vacation-time comes around, she predicted. They will travel principally into the Northwest to see the lake district, Yellowstone and Glacier National Park. There will be travel to both Fairs, requests for information indicate, but because of the added attraction of the Northwest, San Francisco will see more Indianans than New York will Serves Part of Indiana Miss Myers said the long trips will vary between 5000 and 9000 miles. The figures issued by the club as to short travel are not as accurate as those for long because many tourists make short Indiana trips without consultiny the club. The club serves only part of Indiana. Other counties in the. state are served by clubs in Cincinnati, Evansville, Terre Haute and Chicago.
PARKING METERS UP TO WORKS BOARD
Whether Indianapolis = installs parking meters depends on the action of the Works Board, it was learned today. The parking meter question was raised by the Safety Board several \ Ss ago, but Safety Board mems are planning to turn over Its of a study they have been ing to members of the Works
ceived brochures from ing Meter Co. of Oklaining the various 1g meters which can on City streets. The °n no action, how-
nbers indicated that any decision to put in the meters, which parking time at the rate ckel an hour, will be made fter extensiz tudy.
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April 27 (U.| ford fireman and a helplding a new emergency whose adaptability will ex1 ar ther in the East, includBoston and New York. Work was begun a year ago by Roswell Hassam and Master Me~hanic Oliver Nicoll, but 20 weeks ost when Hassam was ill with umonia, and time now is being repairing the engine wrecked an accident a few weeks ago. Built on a chassis of a 2% -ton truck, the body. will contain pulmotors, diving helmets, searchlights, 110-volt generators, first aid Kits, stretchers, a “hospital” which will hold four patients, various sized jacks and an acetylene cutting out-
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battery of searchlights will be inst 1 on the roof, and four 500-
light for any emergency. The new track will answer every alarm.
HURLED 50 FEET BY CAR, WOUNDS MINOR
LYNN, Mass, April 27 (U. P).— Struck by a hit-run driver today, les Crymble, 76, was thrown
Char 50 feet through the air. He landed on the hood of a parked automobile and medical . examination showed hurts so slight that hospitalization was unnecessary.
Stream Lines
Firestone Co. Installs Tire ‘X-Ray’ Machine; Ab Jenkins, Driving New Zephyr, Visitor.
HE Firestone Tire Co, has installed a tire “X-ray” at its local sales room, 502 N. Delaware St, which enables motorists to “prevent” blowouts by discovering them * ‘before they happen.” The driver can inspect his tires without removing them from the wheels.
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A workman “looks for punctures.”
Ab Jenkins, holder of most of the speed records in the world, was in town today and prophesied a speed of better than 400 miles an hour this June on the Utah salt flats. The record for the measufed mile, which is about the only thing that has escaped him, is held by Capt. George Easton of England, at 357 miles an hour. Ab is driving a Lincoln-Zephyr now and is visiting Fred Williams Jr, the new Lincoln-Zephyr dealer here, with whom he went to school at Salt Lake City. He said he intended to try for a new limited stock car record with the Zephyr.
Ab Jenkins and his new Lincoln-Zephyr.
MAJORITY of accidents is due to a human, rather than a mechanical element, according to Dr. John G. Jenkins, writing in the 1939 Brittanica Book of the Year. Certain persons are “accident prone,” he says, and a small percentage of the population is responsible for a large percentage of all accidents. He suggests identification and control of this group as the best means to do away with accidents.
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One of the bugaboos of the much-liked white sidewall tire has been its tendency to get dirty. Engineers now announce a new white
paint that will renew the sidewalls or make black ones white, Made with a rubber base, the new paint is self-vulcanizing and
is elastic, thus flexing with the tire. 2 = 8 s 2 o
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IN AUTO PRICES
G.-M. Report Holds Theory ‘Infeasible’ as Aid to Stabilization.
Times Special DETROIT, April 27.--The often-
recommended system of reducing automobile prices in bad years in order to stabilize production was termed infeasible in a report made public today by the General Motors Corp. The report was made by representatives of the Institute of Applied Econometrics and summarized by S. M. Dubrul of General Motors.
Some economists have suggested that if the selling price of autemobiles was controlled by a group of manufacturers, who would agree to lower prices when the intensity of demand was low, a much more “standardized” production schedule would result.
Says Theory Impractical
The success of this theory depends on the producers’ selling more cars when their sales were poor by lowering the price rate thereby stopping seasonal fluctuation of production, it was pointed out, According to Mr. Dubrul's summary, the drop in prices necessary to increase the demand for cars often would bring the price level below the cost of production, thereby making it impractical ecven
though working hours and production would have been standardized. He cited the case of one company which found the demand for its car had shrunk to a point that the sale price would have had to drop from $704 to $493 to keep sales up to the average production level. The summary also pointed out that automobiles are “perishable” goods®and cannot be stored like pig iron. Thus the the manufacturer cannot continue to make cars when their price is low and “wait for the market to go up.”
Urges Price-Demand Balance
The only recommendation set forth as at all feasible was for the manufacturer to sell at an extremesly high price when there is a seasonable demand so that he can then afford to keep up his production at the time when he must sell at an extremely low price.
The summary then states that this probably would not work because no one would buy until it appeared that the industry was beginning to lower its prices.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
OPPOSES DROP AS STABILIZER
Ford Begins ‘Production Of New Plow
DEARBORN, Mich, April a7 (U. P).~Henry Ford announced that his automotive plants would begin manufacturing a tractor-plow he believes will revolutionize farming, on a mass production basis at once. Mr. Ford said his machine incorporated a plowing system invented by Harry Ferguson of Belfast, Ireland. He said it was so revolutionary but so fundamental that Mr. Ferguson’s name would become as famous as those of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, and other great inventors. Mr. Ford said children as young as 10 had operated the tractor at his Ways, Ga, plantation without difficulty. He did not set a price on it, but said it would be sold “as cheaply as possible.”
WARNOCK TO SHOW TRAVEL PICTURES
A travel exhibit and tourist service will be opened May 1 to May 6
at the C. O. Warnock Ford show- -
room at 819 E. Washington St. | Mr, Warnock said today that oil companies, railroads, and the two fairs would co-operate by providing maps, pictures and displays. “The purpose of the exhibit is to interest persons in tours of the country and to provide itineraries for those who are ready to make trips,” he said. The exhibit will occupy about 5400 square feet. It will be open from
Powel Crosley Jr. will unveil a model of his new low-priced automobile to 200 Crosley Corp. whole= salers at 10 a. m. Friday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Details about the automobile, which has been described variously as a “single-seater,” “two-eylinder,” “practically three-wheeled,” and to “cost about $300,” have been withheld by the corporation, The 200 wholesalers, who have been called from every state, represent more than 25,000 distributors, the corporation officials said. Radio,
ice-box and part dealers will sell the new automobile.
MOTOR CLUB TO ADD 75 NEW MEMBERS
The Indianapolis Motor Transportation Club expects to announce addition of 75 new members at a banquet tonight at the Severin Hotel, P. L. Joyce, club president, said ‘today. The club will present awards to winners of a membership contest that has been in progress during the past month. Leaders in the contest to date are D. F. McCormick, Frank Stehlin, Andrew Alexander, Charles Lewis, Robert Winder, Floyd M. Jackson, Robert Campbell, O. J. Pearson, J. A. Garrett, Robert Elder, James M., Shinkle, John Gedig, Charles McKenzie, Earl F. Throm, L. E. Berry, Herbert Woodall and Jack Kohl.
NEW LOW PACKAGE RATES!
Reduced rates on packages of 21 pounds or less—on heavier ship. ments for shorter distances. No extra charge for pick-up and delivery in cities and principal towns. Phone:
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curios, which he has gathered on! several Mexican trips, he said.
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OGER M. ELMORE, Nash dealer at 230 E. 16th St, reports a 100 per cent increase in new and used car sales for the first quarter of 1939 as against last year. . . . Washington Sales Co. Chevrolet dealers at 400 N. Capitol Ave, have opened a new used car lot at 16th and West Sts. . . , Sixteenth St. looks to be a second “automobile row” with the addition of another used car lot at 16th and Meridian Sts. by Hickman Oldsmobile, Inc. . . . Monarch Buick Co. opened a new lot recently at 1620 W. Washington St. . . Summer activity has reflected in modernizing and landscaping at several fronts. . . . Johnson Chevrolet modernized its lot at 1ith and Meridian Sts. . . . Frank Hatfield Co. landscaped its 626 N. Capitol Ave location. . . . Ace Motors, Hudson dealers, have ine stalled lights on the lot adjacent to their new showroom at 1219 N. Meridian St. W. H. Schmelzel, Ace Motors vice president adressed a distributors’ council! meeting of the Hudson Motor Co. at Detroit
this week.
HIGHWAY 61 LINKS GREAT LAKES, GULF]
VICKSBURG, Miss. April 27 (U.|§ P.).—The Great Lakes region has been linked with the Gulf of Mexico through the completion of U. S| Highway 61, a 14.-million- dollar | I \ stretch of paved road. : Representatives of Louisiana, Ten-
nessee and Mississippi met near here for dedicatory ceremonies after tie last trip was finished. |:
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