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a 5 THE SUN. BALTIMORE. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1917. PISTON RING PROBLEMS VIEWS OF INTEREST TO MOTORIC As Told By J. E.

Norwood, Pioneer In Automobile Industry. "Much has been said about piston Lift the Hood rings, and each designer gives facts to bear out his own ideas, if one reads i them all, he becomes confused, says J. E. Norwood. "The old design, plain, smooth face ring is stil lthe standard.

9 a the groove, pulsating as it were. It is claimed the volume of oil in this groove forms a seal, preventing the escape of gas, preventing the oil working up, also preventing the refuse of gasoline working down into the oil pit, thereby eliminating to a large extent the most serious troubles with the automobile and truck motor." USED-CAR SALES LARGE Demand Now Exceed The Snppi States Old Dealer. W. J. Myers, one of the real Id-timers in the automobile business, saw back in the old days the growing demand for used cars and for a great number of years he has been exclusively engaged in the business of handling only second-hand cars.

"There was a time, and it was not so very long ago, that the sale of used cars was considered quite a hard task to negotiate," 6aid Mr. Myers, "but as with everything else, time has brought about many changes, and today it is not a question of selling used cars, but a perplexing thought of how to secure them for the constantly increasing demand. That the used car market is fast taking on huge proportions is evidenced by the great number of used cars sold each year. oil in order to overcome this trouble and save the motor bearings. "One of the most serious mechanical defects contributing to the immediate carbonization of any motor is piston-ring leakage.

If gas escapes past the piston ring on the compression stroke, when exploded, fire will follow the escaping gas, burning up the oil. Carbon will form, black spots will appear on the rings and the piston, and for want of lubrication they will wear very fast. The loss of gas and friction for the want of oil, will cause lack of power; the motor will run sluggish and knock on a hard pull, causing injury to all the vital parts of the motor transmission, etc. "No piston ring will hold compression without oil. It is the combination of the close fit and resiliency afforded by the ring and the seal of oil, that holds compression.

The more oil about the ring the better the seal. "Automobile accessories companies of this city have brought out a new design piston ring, known as 'No-Leak-0," "oil seal ring." This ring is made concentric, lap joint, with a groove out around the face of the ring. The groove is cut at right angle with the face of the ring sloping downward. On the down stroke the square edge gathers the surplus oil from the cylinder wall and pulls ii towards the oil pit. On the up stroke the oil is distribunted on the cylinder wall again from the sloping face of Individually cast concentric rings are most largely used.

For the most part, they give satisfaction, last longer and are cheaper than most patented rings. It is a fact, however, unless sufficient oil is used to form the seal, gas will escape. When sufficient oil is used to get maximum power, it cets ud into the firing chamber, fouls the plugs and chokes the motor with carbon. The motor and its component parts are often unjustly condemned for troubles which should be charged to carbonization. Poor gasoline is making this question one of constantly increasing importance.

The refuse of poor gasoline (coal oil which will not vaporize) works down GRANT into the oil pit injuring lubrication. Many builders have advised their customers to dump the oil from the oil pit every few thousand mils, putting in fresh $875 f.o-fe. Ckrelaad TXTIEN vou lift the hood of a Grant Six you cc a valve-in-head engine that is pretty nearly the best piece of engine building you'll ever nave a chance to look at. This Grant Six engine develops 35 horse power at 2400 R.P.M. andisone of the most powerful and efficient engines of its size ever built.

Its economy is nationally famous owners average 20 miles to a gallon of gasoline and 900 miles to a gallon of oil. Other things you will note under the Grant Six hood are die Stewart vacuum feed, the Wagner starter with Bendix drive and the finest electrical equipment ever put on a popular priced car. When you close the hood, stand off and take in the lines of the Grant Six. Then go around to the rear and look at the full floating rear axle, the big brake drums, the cantilever springs. Then step into the car and note the roominess, the high-grade upholstering, the springiness of the cushions.

STAR MOTORCOMPANY Distributors for Grant Six and Truckford NEW LOCATION St. Paul 3S68 13-15 NORTH HIGH STREET Good Territory Open for Dealers Gmt MotarCw Corporation. CI 'r ,1 i ft 1U ilv 1 If A TH HAWK. HI Announcing the Opening of NEW DISPLAY ROOMS 122 and 124 West Mount Royal Avenue rOU.are cordially Invited to see these motor cars and learn the reasons why they have sold themselves on the basis of real merit. Announcing the KLINE MOTOR CO Para Will be Prices or iavis muWt iQ17 increased on Septemoer Spmice Station 7 993 Pnrh Avenue Telephone Madison 1146 ON TON TRUCK 1 The La Porte -He inekamp Motor Co.

Eugene F. La Porte R. J. Heinekamp We wish to announce to our friends and the public that we will shortly have on display one of the NEW ONE-TON FORD TRUCKS. Due notice of its arrival will be given and we cordially invite you to call and make a thorough inspection of the latest and best one-ton truck on the market.

we a Psion to make deliveries as early as any Ford Dealer in Baltimore. Yours for Real Service La Porte -Heinekamp Motor Co. Authorized Ford Agents, CATHEDRAL CHASE STS. Phones: Mt. Vernon 1530 2S34.

In the Centre The headquarters for the Auto Tire Accessories Corporation at 1421 North Charles street. This concern, the retail selling agents in this territory for Dreadnaught tires "Made in Baltimore by Baltimoreans" has, within the past few months become one of the largest tire branches in the city. Oscar S. Duerr, secretary and general manager of the company, is seen in the doorway. Duerr is one of the youngest officials occupying such a position in the East, and much of the success achieved by the Dreadnaught product in Baltimore and the State is due to his energy and ability.

He reports that the factory at Orangeville, although having recently increased their output considerably, is unable to fill the orders pouring in from all parts of the country where the tire is represented. Many hundreds of them may be seen on the streets of this city. The Lower Photo: The snappy three-passenger Chalmers roadster being shown by the local distributers, the Zell Motor Car Company. It is one of the most popular models Chalmers has ever built, combining as it does companionship, very trim lines and the smart, racy appearance so much sought for in roadsters. The change time has wrought.

One photo shows the old style horse-drawn water-tank wagon and the other two one-ton Studebaker trucks on which are mounted tanks holding 350 gallons of water. The scene is Camp Meade, Admiral, where there are more than a score of Studebaker one-ton trucks on the job. These trucks were sold by officials of the United Auto Sales Company, local Studebaker distributors, and have been giving extraordinary satisfaction. They are equipped with pneumatic tires. This tire equipment is one of the secrets of the successful operation of the Studebaker cars there, for they plow through the sand and across the newly constructed roads with ease.

The horse-drawn water tank was also built by the Studebaker corporation and the photo was taken at Camp Meade and shows a member of the Fifth Regiment on guard. The horse drooping behind the water wagon is brought up from time to time to relieve the other animal and in a tight place to worL in tandem to pull the load out. Four water tanks on Studebaker one-tons are now in use at the camp. They bring drinking water from Laurel to the workers at Camp Meade and are continually in service. Two Studebakers are also equipped as ambulances and these have been giving fine service, for they have been called into use on a number of occasions to rush patients to Baltimore hospitals and they have been the means of prolonging life until the proper medical attention could supplant the temporary work of the surgeons at the camp.

Ilarrv A. Mayer, vice-president and general manager of the United Auto Sales Company, declares that the work of the Studebaker outfit at Camp Meade has proven a revelation to the contractors, and on more than one occasion these one-ton Studebakers have demonstrated their superiority for this particular work. Ileal records were made in delivering the first Studebaker trucks with the tanks on them. The first order was obtained on a Saturday evening about 4 o'clock in the evening, and a local cooper obtained special permission from the authorities and working on Sunday the completed job was ready for delivery early Monday morning. This illustration strikingly shows every merchant that the time has come for eliminating the horse-drawn -vehicle and substituting the more economical as well as the more up-to-date method of motor transportation.

1 if PRICE IS GOING UP Cole Company Announces September 1 Increase. MADE MILITARY RUN Maxwell Company Arranged New York-Washington Dash. was surprised, he declared, to learn authoritatively that the modern motor equipment could cover so many miles in so short a time. The first army demonstration was made between midnight and morning. It is said that other tests of the kind are to made in various other parts of the United States, each of the runs to be official.

In all the runs the Maxwell will use United States chain-tread tires, this equipment having withstood the New York-Washington dash with a perfect score. INCREASED COST OF MATERIAL SUCCESS, SAYS MAJOR-GENERAL Willard Threaded Rubber Insulation That's the distinctive feature of the Still Better Willard Battery announced this week in the Saturday Evening Post Come in and let us tell you how 196,000 little threads solved a big problem at which battery engineers had been working for years. Complete battery service includes keeping you posted on the latest improvements in batteries, just as much as giving expert repair service, having rental batteries for you, and helping you care for your battery. We give complete service Willard Service. DITCH, BOWERS TAYLOR, Inc.

ENTERS TRUCK FIELD The Complete Automobile Service Company PALACE GARAGE NORTH AND MT. ROYAL AVENUES. Phones, Madicon 55758 Two Hundred Dollars Will Be Added To Prenent Figure The First Of Tlie Month. It was stated this week that it has been definitely decided to increase the price of the Cole Eight, manufactured by the Cole Motor Car Company, of Indianapolis, to the extent of $200, effective September 1st. Factory officials admitted a couple of weeks ago that an increase was forthcoming but they were not in a position to name the exact amount.

In a formal statement concerning the increased price, C. P. Henderson, Sales Manager of the Company, says: "The new Cole prices are simple due to the increased cost of production and not because of any changes in the models. The Cole Eight today represents what we consider to be the highest type of workmanship. The popularity of the cars gives us every reason to continue the present models.

"But, as explained before, the ever-soaring cost of materials makes it compulsory for us to do one of two things, either increase the cost or diminish the quality. The Cole Eight stonds too high in public opinion for us to even think of endangering its reputation by building it more cheaply, consequently the new selling price. "As the motor trade well knows, it has been the policy of the Cole Company to add minor improvements and refinements to the product as rapidly as they can be developed and found practical. That is one of the reasons why the ccsts of materials affect us so seriously. Hold Changing Meet.

That motorists of Honolulu, Hawaii, might become more familiar with the ins and outs of tire changing, a big tire-changing meet was recently arranged in that city and staged at one of the city's theatres. Fifteen 2-men teams competed for championship honors in this novel contest. The contest covered deflation of the tire, removal of casing from the rim and tube from the casing, replacement of tube and casing, and inflation of the tire to 50 pounds pressure. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company team won the contest in the remarkable time of 1 minute 47 seconds. Tent Made To Show Practicability Of Transporting Troops Quickly By Automobile.

In the first of a series of military runs by which Major-General W. A. Mann, chief of the Militia Bureau. Washington, is to be given data regarding the availability of transporting troops by motor car. a Maxwell touring car, driven by P.

W. Gibbs, road engineer for the Maxwell Company, covered the 230.8 miles between New York and Washington last Monday night, in five hours and fifty-eight minutes. This is a record for the durability run over the distance between the nation's metropolis and the national capi-tol. The test represented the first official United States Army motorcar run ever made between the two points. The run began at the Jersey city side of the Cortlandt street ferry, New York, and ended in front of the State, War and Navy Building, The Car was met at the State, War and Navy Building by Major-General Mann, who was given a letter regarding the test from Adjutant-General Louis W.

Stotesbury, of New York. Afterward, General Mann dicitated a reply to the adjutant-general, and this will be taken back to New York in the Maxwell in the second army demonstration it will make. Among the passengers were James A. Hemstreet, director of touring for the American Automobile Association, New York and Washington. Mr.

Hemstreet certified for General Mann the fact that the Maxwell covered the distance without a motor stop with but two stops of the car, necessary at railway crossings where the gates had been lowered. "I am well pleased with this initial test," Major-General Mann asserted, "and I have addressed my congratulations to Adjutant-General Stotesbury for the valuable and informative data he has put into the possession of the militia bureau. The test was a success from every viewpoint." Major-General Mann expressed his admiration for the durability and road capability of the Maxwell as it stood before him at the curbing in front of the State, War and Navy Building. He Grant Company Purchases Equipment And Stock Of Deneen Company. A merger of considerable interest to the automobile industry has just taken place in the purchase of the Deneen Motor Company by the Grant Motor Car Corporation.

Both companies are located in Cleveland. The Grant company had been making plans to enter the light truck field this fall, and the plans were so far along that contracts had been let for the building of additional factory space to take care of the manufacture of trucks. With the purchase of the Deneen Motor Company, the Grant Motor Car Corporation obtains an established line of popular priced trucks containing six models 94-ton, l4-ton, 2-ton and IVi' ton. The Deneen company has been in active business about a year and has built up good distribution for its product. It has been making 10 trucks a day and has on its books a substantial list of unfilled orders.

The Grant Motor Car Corporation has called a stockholders' meeting for August 24 to authorize an increase in the capital stock from $3,000,000 to $3,500,000, to take care of the purchase of the Deneen company. As has been stated, the Grant company had already begun active prepara tions to enter the truck field andhad developed a line of its own. Pending the completion of the additional buildings now under way, the manufacture of Denmo trucks will be continued in the Deneen plant, but it is expected that within 60 days the new Denmo-Grant truck will be proceeding on a quantity basis in the new plant. The Denmo truck is. said to be the only truck with a starting and lighting system.

This feature was patented by President F. Deneen. Mr. Deneen will have charge of engineering and sale of trucks in the new organization. Lenses LegaliteJII ISSPft Fulfill the requirements of the new headlight laws of every state from the Atlantic to the Pacific from Canada to the Gulf LEGALITE LENSES keep all strong rays of light within a height of 42 inches from the ground.

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