Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1941 — Page 4

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Used Car Prices Going Up, But Market Isn’t Running Away, Survey Shows

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' CHICAGO, July 18.—Although no word is uttered, truck drivers

have a language all their own for -

communicating with each other

as they meet and pass on the

road. There is no magic about it. It isn’t done with mirrors, but with

guage these drivers talk is safety, R. G. Jasper, fleet engineer for the National Safety Council, explained today. The truck drivers also will talk to you, Mr. Private Motorist—but first. you must learn the cryptic language they speak. ” ” ”

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the signals? Well, here are a few: 1. When .one truck driver rolls up behind another {ruck and wants to pass, he gives a couple of short toots on his horn, or flashes his lights meaning, “I'm ready to pass you.” 2. When the truck driver ahead gets these two short toots, or a

sizes up the road ahead. ‘If the way is clear and safe for the fellow behind to pass, he flashes his tail lights and marker lights, meaning, “Okay to pass! Come ahead.” 3. If the driver ahead feels it would be unsafe for the driver behind to pass because of an in-

tersection, child near the road,

approaching car or other patential hazard, he makes no response to the signal ‘until the way is clear. 4, If a truck driver has left a serious émergency hazard behind him—a wreck partly blocking a road, a tree down, a farm animal which had strayed onto the road

DAY,

g Lights and Horn fo ‘Talk’ Safety While on the Road

a warning to trafic coming to-

ward him with continuous “frantic” blinking of his headlights at night or a “wave-down” motion with his hand in day time, either

of which means to the oncoming

driver, “There's special danger down the road a ways. Look

AND JUST.-WHAT are some of flash of lights from behind, he sharp!”

lights and horns. And the -lanBy DAVID MARSHALL s =

. USED CAR ‘PRICES ARE ADVANCING but the charge that the market is developing “run-away” tendencies thus far is untrue, according to a survey by the National Automobile Dealers Association. A <abulation of 38,503 dealer sales Of used cars throughout the sounjry showed an average price rise of about 2 per cent, the association says, with the largest increase in the iater models. In 1937, it was : vointed out, used car prices jumped 15 per cent above normal. a Although denying used car prices were soaring under impetus of the} CT Ye defense program, the dealers’ group conceded that “inflationary forces” : MT ATE 2 . 5 may boost them to equal or exceed, 1937 levels. : : rT ve y 2 a 2 8 #2 = = ? 7%) a Yi 3 Z ; & 7 2 Packard Gets $19,000,000 Defense Contract 2 a __ Tn ZZ 2 > _ 0 ZZ chit

. THE PACKARD MOTOR CAR CO. has received a new $19,000,000 defense contract calling for immediate production of an additional 900 aviation-type marine engines to power U. S. and British surface torpedo boats... : : . Gian This new award means Packard will step up its production to five engines a day. Since receiving its initial order of 720 engines in 1939, production has been at the rate of three a. day. Later production will be boosted to seven .engines with the simultaneous production of spare

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Drive Dodge From Argentina to Detroit

A RECORD-MAKING AUTOMOBILE trip from Argentina to the United States was completed June 27 when four South Americans arrived in Detroit in a Dodge sedan covered with signatures scratched in the finish. ! : The arrivals were four sun-bronzed brothers—Felipe, Jose, Benito and Ernesto Maillo—who left Buenos Aires on Oct. 13, 1940. They reached the U. S. after 234 days of sometimes hazardous driving through ‘Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.

OPEN TONIGHT UNTIL 9 P. M.

Vice President Forest H. Akers of Chrysler's Dodge Division and Assistant General Sales Manager E. J. Poag . . . with the four Maillo Brothers, ’

: At New York the brothers were greeted by the Council of National Defense and by the Nelson Rockefeller Committee for the Development , of Cultural and Commercial Relations Between the Americas. Sponsor of the trip was the Circulo Cultural of La Plata, Argentina, whose members considered the trip a medium for calling attention to the need for unity among the peoples of the Western Hemisphere. For two months, two of the brothers were laid up with malaria. In Costa Rica they crashed through. a bridge and it took them eight hours to get the car out of the water. Their car was a two-door Dodge sedan from which the running boards and muffler had been stripped to facilitate travel through the dense jungle growth. The quartet will return to Argentina retracing their original course in a 1941 Dodge.

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MOTORISTS NOW NEED about 1:2 tires each year costing them THEY LAST ONLY! about $13.39, which is less than 10 per cent of a motorists tire. bill 35 Anka § : years ago, according to a tire price study made by the B. F. Goodrich Co.| § - : u In 1906 when a motor car was an expensive vehicle, the average motorist each year needed at least four ‘replacement tires to keep his ‘ car running. Tires, with tubes, then cost about $43.60 apiece so the (4 J VE, / ¢ BiG 6.9 CU. FT. (ALMOST A 7) A

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Trucks Take Part in War Games.

AMERICA'S MILITARY MIGHT is on the move in battle maneuvers. Thousands of soldiers are being trained in simulated warfare south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

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