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part six COMMERCIAL AUTO Convention Proves Successful MAKERS TO MEET You two A diy MAKE IRESTONES IN WAR Tire Troubles? OAKLAND ENTHUSIASTIC WHY? Diving Venus Buys Electric No Punctures Guaranteed No Blowouts Without 33 More Reservations CHANDLER ADOPTS SLOGAN Mileage SAETY IRST I 8 Interstate Sales Co I Sole Distributors A New Price and a New Series 676 Woodward Avenue Agents Wanted Everywhere $2385 1915 1 Tire Troubles Which Goodyears Best Combat Left Side Drive these Remy Electric Starter Invisible Hinges Clear Running Boards Tires on Rear Unit Power Plant Ta rl a vuLcanzaton hundreds LCdUq 0 arge rubber rivets 13 iai uciun i Goodpyear Takers £re VI things worth gi Power Tire Pun' Quiet Bearings" Hyatt Roller Bearing Co DISTRIBUTORS Phone Grand 4191 for Demonstration 22 Brady Street near Woodward ti In And 1 1 1 I I if i a I il I potent method we LvUuV form in each tire rltirinrr I LANDERS RUN SUCCESS training nt Elgin for th road rares of August 21 and 22 within a tow days CADILLAC EASILY RUN THE DETROIT REE PRESS SUNDAY AUGUST 9 1914 OLDSMOBILE PRICE CUT ew If any of the spectators that filled the Detroit Opera house on Tuesday to witness the Diving' enus in realized that in the audience sat Annette Kellerman herself deeply interested in the success of her first motion picture performance Miss Kellerman came to Detroit especially to view the films in their tenth week at the Detroit Opera house While here she decided to look over the electric car field and with Manager Harry Jameson to wait on her at the Century Car branch It did not take are oc her long to decide that a Century Electric was just what she wanted Mr Jameson reports an order for a Century Model LH for Immediate shipment and says that It was one of the easiest sales he ever Kellerman has owned sever al electrics and Is quite familiar with electric car mechanism hence It was a comparatively easy matter to demonstrate the superiority of the Century Majestic control and electric remarker Mr Jam eson The illustration shows Miss Kel lerman entering her new Century NEW HEARSE BUILT BY CADILLAC The above nhotocranh shows the new Cadillac Motor Haarae which attracted ao much attention at the Armory during the Undertakers and moaimers convention last weex TIRE ARMOR ON EXHIBIT An exhibit of more than casual interest to motorists is that of the Interstate Sales company 676 Woodward avenue sole dis tributors for the Interstate Manufacturing company of Detroit They show an armor for tires which 1 the fruit of five research The protecting fabric is made of best Sea Island cotton with India gum rubber tread stork and the defense against sharp pointed contact consists of three layers of alloy discs of 24 gauge metal the inter st1c being overlapped like shingles are laid upon a roof These inner liners are cemented to the bead of the casing only preventing creeping but enabling their transfer from one casing to another This device flexes perfectly with the flat tening or inflation of the tire and is claim ed to be an effectual safeguard against puncture no matter what the state of the tires fuller ashion Garage PHIPPS RISCO MOTOR THIEVES SHOW PREERENCE three or four more leisurely weeks to the enjoyment of Its wonderful attractions This booklet may be had for ask ing at leading automobile clubs travel bureaus and from the pub lisher at 334 ifth avenue New York Bumper Crop Promises Make Out look Among armers Bright Early prophesies of a record automobile business among the western farnters In the next 12 months are confirmed by govern ment crop reports In that section of the country the volume of motor car sales depends almost entirely upon agriculture distributors throughout the west ora enthusiastic over the prospects of a busy season after harvest is over said John Willys president Of the Willys Overland company before have conditions been so uniformly favorable for the farmer from coast to coast and lakes to gulf condition mean many more auto mobiles for the farmer The tints has passed when every farm horse was scared at the sight of a motor car even in the thinly populated distrlots Automobiles have become a rural October to ings and so on that are used on their cars It is surprising how many persona who are not owners of ma chines know all about the parts of motor cars They hope to possess them some time and they are mak ing up their mtnds which ones to buy" The new price of $2385 sets a new stand ard of high grade automobile value and the $400 reduction is possible only through refinements of selling and manufacture Great Grandmother of Indian apolis Takes Out amily Thanks advances made In equipment and the simplification of control women can handle and enjoy the gaSbllno automo bile with the same confidence and freedom as mon Gradually more and more of the fair sex took to the wheel and now even tho great grandmothers are piloting cars The reference to the great grandmother is not a rhetorical flourish but a sales fact for along comes Bower of the Cadillac Automobile company of Indian apolis who reports just such a state of affairs in the feminine movement Tho great grandmother is Mrs Ella Smith of Indianapolis wh bought a Cad illac and proceeded to give the entire fam ily of four generations a ride Mrs Smith enjoys driving her own car and says she does not find It difficult or taxing on her strength pO This method used by us alone reduces by 60 per Hi cent the risk ol tread Bl separation Monarch Salesroom and Service Station Mr Charles Hutter who is well known in former days of baseball ha taken over the management of the firm of Rutter Raths Thei sen Auto Sales company at 761 65 Dix avenue where they have on exhibition a full line or fh Mnn arch motor cars in their salesroom and also are conducting a service etatiun open 24 hours a day The 1915 Model Premier a com petitor at its new price of $2385 and the new chassis is made of better material than its predecessor proven by thousands of miles of individual and contest touring Economical and powerful These are the reasons the exclusive which brought Goodyears to the top These are the sav ings proved by millions of which have won them more users than any other tire in the world Young Man Comparing Makes in Sight of Watchman Bides Away in Oakland In an rancisco motor car thieves particular as to what car they steal cording to a daily paper there which says rVVlth all the sang frold and nonchal ance of a Raffles a San rancisco motor car thief speqt an hour tn broad daylight trying out several cars to see which one he preferred clean cut brisk young man was seen by a watchman carefully to atop the motor of a J5000 car climb out of the machine and Into the car standing directly before it He was perfectly familiar with the starting apparatus of the machine and listened Intently to the hum of the motor from the car he tried sev eral others in succession when the puailed watchman thought It time to Interfere no trace of embarrassment the watchman was informed that the inquisi tive one was intending to purchase a new car and took this method of trying out several makes and comparing them with hia own car "The watchmae advised him to do hia comparing In the salesroom Quite agree In No Rim Cut tires you get the best know No maker can excel them You gei four great features found in no other tire Change in Hupp Motor Ad orce The Hupp Motor Car company through Sales Manager rank Mooney announces that on August 1 It transferred its advertis ing representation to Theodore Mac Manus In his new connection with the Dunlap Ward Advertising company of De troit 1 Detroiter Wire He Safe In London The anxiety felt at the Detroit office of the Maxwell Motor com pany over the whereabout of Its sales manager Charles Redden was dispelled riday when a cab legram from Mr Redden who 1 in With Marvelous Is to Be Spread Broadcast Motor car slogan came into existence with the first automobile placed on the market and have been C9ined pretty fre quently since The latest acquisition to the list of slo gan Is that put forth by the Chandler Motor Car company of Car With the Marvelous During the coming year all efforts of Chandler salesmen and advertising men will be de voted to placing the newest slogan tn ns many different quarters of the country as possible ITactically every Chandler dealer has doubled his orders fop the coming season and preparations are under way for an extremely busy fall and early winter Convention Planned for May Be Brought This City No im feature makes this trouble impossible We control it by secrecy No other faultless way has ever been found to end this major tire trouble a trouble which ruins one old type tire in three Sales Manager Shows How Re duction Increases Output When the Olds Motor work announced a new four cylinder model early in the season considerable discussion was caused by the price set at 31360 since it was determined that the new car should up hold the well known Oldsmobile reputation for quality The makers promised a car that Should be the exact replica of their In everything but vise and many thought the price incongruous with that for the specification of the lighter car seemed to put it in At Ipast the 2000 class Now comes word of a changed not upward as many predicted but downward by 465 When asked the reason for this move Hall sale manager said: "It 1b superfluous to remind business men that price hinge on output That fact te fundamental This price $1350 was made possible by the fact that practically every eir of the first lot had a buyer ready and waiting for It that the sales and adver tising expense waa an almost negligible quantity the time the last of the was out of the factory the success of the new model was assured 00 conclusively that the following factory order was increased many fold Buyers and dealers alike when the theoretical goodness of the light was corroborated by actual observations of its performance made It plain that In bringing out a moderate priced Oldsmobile we had struck and a 'gusher' at AKRON OHIO No Rim Cut Tires With All Weathr Tread or Smooth Despite iiigii a no Co costly features our mammoth production has reduced cost to minimum Now 16 makes of tires ail lacking these features sell higher than Goodyear prices Some are one third higher Tires Go Through Battle With Bullets Imbedded Just before the Mexican war cloud dark ened the horison of the United State war department General Lucio Blanca of the constitutionalist force In Mexico drove his war car through the thickest of the Matamoros battle This car was equipped with irestone non skid tires The tire were badly mutilated by the hail of bullets from the federal sharp shooters but tho tough fabric was not penetrated although a ball from one of the machine gun cut a broad gash la one of the treads General Blanco gave the tire credit for carrying him safely out uf the danger sone Tester Captain Alfred Aloe depot quar termaster of the United States army in Galveston ordered irestone solid tires with quick removable rima This equip ment made possible to change a tire in a few minutes when necessary Russia a number of its army trucks equipped with irestones and ac cording to the present outlook these tires stand a mighty good chance of being in even tighter places than General Blanco's went through in Mexico this spring A convention of the manufactur ers of commercial motor vehicle is to be promoted by the National Au tomobile Chamber of Commerce (Suring October effort are being made to bring this convention to Detroit as this cltv is rapidly be coming the center of production for 'the motor truck industry of the country There are now 17 manu ifaeturer of trucks In Detroit and Michigan an1 of this number 14 iare in Detroit In this list are the Packard ed ieral Wagonhals Denby Commerce Standard Universal Aetna Pull More Kosmath Studebaker Signal Republic and the The Reo Is located at Lansing the Buick at lint and ilia Horner fit Wvan done Other concerns In the motor truck field are being added constantly Severn of the light car companies are building commercial cars There are undoubtedly more mo tor truck manufacturers In the of Detroit than in any otherclty of the country pot excepting rChicago Some years ago an activeeffort was made to promote for De ftrolt commercial vehicle exhibit rto be held at the Michigan State 'air grounds The moonlight river ride of the Automobile club has Ibeen announced for riday evening August 21 The steamer Pleasure has been obtained and will leave ithe foot of Randolph street nt 7 lo'clock In the evening returning at midnight I A varied program of entertain ment has been arranged There will be dancing singing and vaude ville i The committee In charge consist of red Randall Winter gnd Abbott Dr A McPhee Chairman of the entertainment committee will assist I The commandeering of all of its cars at the Paris branch and the enlistment in the war of manv of Its employes caused tne racxarulotor company to close the branch jn the rench capital The request from a foreign coun try fop quotations on 100 ederaltrucks received last week by the tfarUrAl Motor Truck comuanr of Oetroit Is a reminder that one of the important uses of motor ve hicle tn warfare will be clearly demonstrated throughout Europe in the present war Thou sands of trucks will be used for the war supplies over the splendid roads of Europe and can non will be transported In commer cial cars At 9:30 Sunday morning at Bello Isle the the crack base ball team of the Wolver ine Automobile club captained by James Graham will meet the captained by rank Sealand Of the Detroit Automobile association Walter Wilmot man ager of the Detroit Automobile and for 20 years a ball play er 1n the major leagues will play right field for the Wolverine club our miles of the Eureka road running west from Wyandotte have been completed Three miles more able the amateur Raffles got out of the car ne waa testing generously nanaea tno watchman a cigar and drove away in an Oakland car was recovered several days later but Raffles Is still Approve DescrlptlveAdvertfslBg thorough knowledge by the public of the parts that go into the make up of an automobile is an aid to the manufacturer and a guar antee to the public as well says Keether general sales man ager of the Hyatt Roller Bearing company this say Mr Kee ther majority of automobile concerns set forth in their adver tising and in the catalogues of their cars the kind of steering gears of tires or starting systems of bear Auto Toxr Booklet Out The latest claimant to motoring favor is a booklet describing by means of text and mans a tour de luxe of about 1500 miles which takes in the world famous resorts of the Berkshire the Adirondacks Lake George and Champlain the Green and the White Mountain th Malne Lakes and the New England Coast from Rockland to New York work has been arrang editor MacNalr former tnans Whnthf guides and tit the tour may be easily to ken Jn two weeks one may devote Wolverine Club to Hold Moon light Picnic riday August 31 And you get a price which is (ar below manv other not those Ininrfa tvnrm rfpihntfr distinction and quality Nothing but the best enters into its con structionandirTdesign it is second to none MANY COMPANIES MOTOR TRUCKS IN DETROIT London wm received by landers presldent of the Mr Redden succeeded In the last train which left PYhlnS London rans Motorcyclists Go rom Detroit to New Haven and Beturn Tie flrat landers motoroyle club run held from Detroit to New Haven and re turn Auguat 1 proved a Twenty two entries constituted th first booking After the club posed for Its photograph tn front of the Motor Products branch store on Woodward avenue Cap tain Burr led the way Members carry ing tandem passengers were given pref erence by being placed in th lead with tl)e captain The run was not made without Incident although a count taken at Mt Clemens found none short A short distance out of the Bath City several in lies of deep sond were enountcred New Haven was reached about 12:30 tho members being treated to watermelon and ice cream by Mr Phelps New Haven dealer for the landers And afterwards taking dinner at the hotel Benjamin alter president of the Mo tor Products company took part in the run riding tandem with Sales Manager Howard Another run will be held in the near future A very suceaefui convention of distributors has just been concluded by the Briggs Detroilur company The new car announcement of which la being made this week met with a whirlwind of approbation Con siderable new territory for the ensuing year is being opened up and the present 11st or distributing agencies numbering more than 20 will be materially Increased iHE 1915 Model Premier is a six cylinder automobile of Blow Outs outa due to wrinkled fabric by our extra "On Air cure This extra cure on air bags under actual road costs us $450000 per year No other maker employs it Town and Country Lights Ventilating Windshield ill ill" Our All Weather a aUlly treads are tough Anti Skids center strains at small points in the fel fabric Being flat and smooth they cause vibration They grasp wet roads with deep sharp resistless grips will be finished this season The new stretch of concrete road way on Grand River avenue outsidehe city limits was opened August Motorist will find It possible to pass the bad stretch of Michigan avenue which is torn up by going out Warren avenue and turning I back to Michigan on the Miller road Ralph DePalma with Mrs DePal ma made an escape from Europe just previous to the war trouble The great race driver will start rrominff nr icrin rn tn 'TfkyvAa Call and see what it has done for others If you cannot call Grand 294 and our salesman will call on you Stream Line Body One Man Top east Or amne team t0WD th two league has Dlgn there are bound to bi tremes os to the pennant race Our service station is open night and day for you We equip your cars while you sleep See our display of Used tires Innertube Armor is approved by the leading tire manufacturers 1 When both team on the same Joy fills' each townsman' Or face a sunny And happiness Is rite 1 ar But when oth team the 6am 4ts Ab that Is different aidu The fans all plainly blue And not a fac I City Journal No Not Any More! To give care free service the various parts of an automobile must fit Just neither too tight nor too loose This is especially important in the bearings If they are too loose they rattle and wear very rapidly if too tight the friction is excessive and in some cases ruins the entire mechanism in the Hyatt factories the com ponent parts of Hyatt Quiet Bearings are carefully ground to a thousandth part of an inch to insure an exact fit whole floors of special grinding ma chines are devoted to this work This is only one of the many tea tures of Hyatt Bearings that have caused them to be used so exten sively in every kind of motor vehicle Two books odo about motor ear bearing in general for prospective purchasers the other for automobile owners will be sent on request THE GOODYEAR TIRE RUBBER COMPANY AKRON OHIO Thia Cenoan ha mu a uiucy ruuuer concern wnicn uses the Goodyear nanio Any yeaier can supply you with Goodyear Tires If the wanted size is not in stock he will telephone our Local Branch IRN5 nails ER UBE stvrxra PLOW OUT4 BL Epi If if 11 If' If a rl H' i iii tr IO XI i I a I I I I i 5 1 esssss1 Bllli i If AY I MMI rtl i I I i 4 I (HI HI I Mt '7 A Jlfi 3 I i 1 EfiES 1: I 1HLWL11L I 1 1 1 cs Mt 3 S3 iP I ss IS 9 EE MM I 'IM) I Sm5 SMM iw S3 sE r' rI as SS WK SI I ChicaoO r5L Aw a Ay cs Lv 55 gap' MU ISP I 5' CANVAS RUBBtn MH inn nil MJ rpr Wf ex i IB I I IB ll ll I ll I 3 aB 1 "I i i i i i IB 9 I I i I ll I i i i i i i i i i 1 1 i ll I 1 1 i I i i 1 1I i i i 5j? 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