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SAW FIIANCI8CO CITI10NICL15 TS 422L STTNDXf SKPTESIBBR 2 1017 X8 pj fl Grace Accomplishes the Thing a With Least Outlay of Energy i II That which we call beauty of motion is motion with no power lost or misapplied II And true efficiency it never gained until watte II eliminated II II II To develop a motor that would mate the mott out of II every particle of fuel it became neceuary to reduce if tize of the cylinden employed and multiply the number of explosion II II And the retult The powerful economical Twin Sis fj motor with itt continuout torrent of power To thit banc beauty of performance Packard beauty of free flowing body Imea and graceful tymmetry I of contour are fitting accompanimenti II II Ask the man who owns one II i II OrifcrraatWiutor i 1 II 1400 Van Ness Ave I Oakland 2100 Broadway I Ml I I Burns Distillate Successfully II i AUTO FACTORIES Rose Says Many Big Firms Are Making Aero plane Engines PRICES OF CARS SOAR Chalmers Factory Continues to Hold to Output Despite Its Other Activities That President Wlleon li deter mined to attic th future of America en hie bresent war programme ni natter what the eaertflce the eon vletlon Of I It Ron Clialmera die trlbuter who hae Jult returned from an extended tour of the East Row vlelted the mora Important manufac turing center where he found the hum of the chassis building lath re placed br the more aerlaue and signi ficant roar of aircraft macmnery munition foundrle and ordnance building Rooe emphatically pointed out that the Government le rapidly absorbing the producing facllltlea of the auto mobile bualneea Including not only the main planta of the larger Instltu tlon but their chief ao ircea of eup pllea and parte neceaeary to complete production SKKS MANY CIIAIGK The laat Eaaterrs trip I made wa In April atated Roae and the ehangee that hare takes place In the ninety daya alnce then relative to the war programme are aa decided aa the difference between a 10 Chalmera and the preaent day record holder The manufacturing facllltlea of the country are atrlppe for action By the time they have reached their full tide of production a legion of fighting Americana will be ready to man the front line trenches and once manned It la a certainty they will be held until the American goal aa aet forth by the Prealdent haa been attained In aome channelc of bualneea tn the Eaat the effect haa been depres Ing But Juat aa the bulging war profit of the paet few year hav been enjoyed entirely eaat of the Mississippi ao too will any reaction he locallaed accordingly For three yeara past we In California have proapered moderately but cubatan tlally and nOw with bumper cropa turning Into gold our good tlmea will continue AUTO TRICES SO in For many month we of the auto mobile lnduatry have been conatantly warning the prospective buyer of soaring prlree Perbapa aome may say It haa been over adrertleed but tt haa never been over eatlmated There la more profit In making muni tlona than In making motor oara and material la more readily releaaed from Government control with the reault that controlling lntereata are grad ually diverting the work of the motor planta For thla reason according to every Indication the automobile prleea of today will be beyond recognition In the next alx months But automobiles will still he aold and although the Chalmera factory la already turning to certain Government work Ita mo ktor car production will continue eel ftng thla wonderful car which ao re cntly captured fifteen of the beat atock ear recorda within the Jurla diction of the American Automobile Association AUTO FACTORY AND AUTO TRUCK PLANT MERGE Grant Company Takes Over the Deneen Corporation of Cleve land The Frsnk Renatrom Company waa notified jeeterday that tie Grant Motor Car Corporation of Cleveland had purcnaaed the Deneen Motor company alao of that city The algnincance of the merger la tnat the Grant Six will haa a brother a truck The Deneen company man ufacturee the Denmo truck and pend tng completion of bulldlnga belni erected will continue to make this truck In the Deneen plant The new Denmo Great truck the Itenstrom company la advlaed probably will be ready for distribution within alxty aaya Prior to the purchase of the Deneen Motor Company thfc Grant corpora tlon had been making plana to enter the light truck Held thla fall The plana even had progreaaed to the point of letting contract for the building of additional factory apace to care ror tn manufacture of trucks With the urchaee of the Deneen company the Grant Motor Car Cor oration haa obtained an established ltne of popular priced trucka of three quarter ton one and one quarter tw and two and on half tone The Deneea company has been In active business ror snout a year and ha built up a good ytem of dlatrl ution for lta product It ha been making ten truck a day and haa eubatantlal Hat of us 01 led order on It books The consolidation give the Grant company a flying start In a Held rwhlch several other pleasure car manufacturer are preparing to enter It harlsequlred a distributing erganl aatlon by taking over the Denmo dealers and haa la Ita own organlsa tlon of IK dealer an anjple llet from which to pick additional truck distributer MORELAND WILL BUILD TRACTOR Southern Trockmaker Start Hew Plant at Burbank Watt Moreland general manager the Moreland Motor Truck Com pany announces the starting of per atlona on the million dollar manufao u1m nlant at Burbank this week Thursday the ground waa ataked off 1 for the first unit which will be uaed Immediately for the experimental work on the new Moreland farm tractor The contract for th first bolldlag haa been let The atructur will of concrete aleel and glee and I he built eo that enlargement may be mace wunoui aiaiuroing wora in mo finished part of th building or changing the general architectural design It expected that this bulldlag will be occupied and manufacturing under war In from four to alx week Th Moreland Compear ba secured the services of Matt seen on of Ctae pioneer In the California imple ttacBt and tractor business for thla Ueparfmeat Th new Morelaad traoter which I Jtae reault of five year work oa th fjMaart ol Merelaad during which time I probably twenty fir different type i4f tractor hav been declined la well under way It will thirty horee I power at th halt with fifteen her power draw bar pull It will weigh trand SMS panada ead burn distillate rurh tb of tha Morelaad aaal Pioneer Six CylihUer Builder Here Alexander Winlon at the rshttl ol the fint exctuuve CUnJer automobile manufactured in the United Stales Wmlon it now a visitor in San Francisco fLsPxSBBBBBBBsSBiBBrU Ban OP riiii bbbbbibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb tv i BhsT Psa asnf4 Vr BrsarW4MSPXsaajaBBBT BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBm SllUf AMJL flBa BP WtIllJaSBBBnsSBBBBl3eBBBBBBBBBB EK bTn rsrkaSSXBBBBBBBBBBBBBH JC aMi4vslBBllitmBBBBKIWBB II WJrV SSmsBaBT WlteWk aBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB CTga3aXS fVygHJ TjsaMBMBBM LaaaasssassPa vkW tulA IW aaasf 4assssssaasan Stft 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moaqulto through the clouda at a two nfilea a minute clip la akin to the nerve necvaaary to pilot a car over a track at ay one hundred and twenty milee an hour Paulding Edwards a former automobile racing driver la a atar at the wheel of an aeroplane Fd warda Inaugurated the California automobile corps to train military avlatora for thla country during the war and the motorlat who drtree down to San Carloa by San Mateo county la apt to find the large and cheery Paulding with hla large and cheery emlle driving a war plane In a large and cheery way A Orant Six party waa taken to San Carlos thla week by 11 McCarty the ubiqultoua photographer of the Frank Renatrom Company and Edwarda waa both ahot and Interviewed RECORD TOURING IN TAHOEREGION Travel So Far This Season TJoubfei Former Trafflo Alresdy twice as many motor oara have made th trip to Lake Tahoe aa during any pravloua aeaaon and with the big month to com all recorda for touring to Northern California a playground will be ahattered Before the end of September 7000 motor cara will have mad the trip to Lake Tahoe according to the heat flgurea available Thla I almoat double th number of machlnee that have made the run to the lake In prcvloua yeara and had It not been for the late opening of the roada thla number would have been eonelderably Increased It waa practically the middle of June before travel waa Safe Biles who haa kept a close record of the number of care going around the lake eatlmatea the total date aa soOO II Comatock of Brockway eatlmatea the total for the aeaaon at 7S00 and Ituese aaya that fully 4004 machine hav paaaed through th Utile town of Al Tahoe at the couth end of the lake September la alwaya a big month at the lake aa thla I th moat beautiful time of th year USES SHIRT PATCH In the absence of a blowout patch a motorlat recently tore up an old ahlrt and cemented a flat portion around the tube at the place oppoelte the hole In the caalng Two wrap plnga were made and the patch held for alxty mllea Tt ta eatlmated that there are only 1000 cars In Sweden PEAK POINTS OUT ECONOMY OF AUTO TRUCK Eepublio Man Says Jon Only Hare to Feed Power Wag on When It Works If you have a horae you hav to feed htm every day In th year that la unleea you would abua the animal and thoae daya that he Is worktng he will not average at beat more than twenty milee each day lou do not bVv to feed a truck unleaa It working for you and then the ground It will cover la only bounded try Ita mileage limits Thla la why the truck I taking th place of the horee and the mule say George Peak aale manager of the Harrison Motor Car Company local Itepubllo Truck dlatrlbutera Sho tage Of labor and material are undoubtedly bound to bring about harp advance although prleea have not yet advanced appreciably The man who reduce hauling coat and in ereaaea tranaportatlon capacity mar really be aald to be performing a duty for hi country for ho I assisting in th conservation of the feed supply and of man power both of which are euch great factora at thla time Th truck haa got to relieve the rallroada of a portion of their enormous freight tradlQi and ao expedite the movement of troope and munition a well a accelerate general bualneea Never under any clrcumetancea 0StStStSMStStUt llllllIllW TRUCKS itpaysto purchases truclfthat ia ttbsheclthetet the pace fo7Proere3 ror years every tmureveinent In light duty track that practical ao has provA krarth while oaf been incorporated In the Commerce Ton Track Simplicity of design ana ruggcanee of coostroctna invsraoiy mas lor iowi operating cost andlongcvtty kTlieyarcaaJatcttal pert of every Commerce Tonf ruck I The rower durability trrnanduntnatchedetulpmeot of the Commerce One Ton Truck ha established for It too an unexcelled reputatioa With these two trucks built in a will rcngc of body styles Ccfmncrrc Truck for nearly every I conceivable purpose Is available aoaldng tMJmovcrce lpatirulelyadeptedj far practically every kind of bueineac Both in lint coat and upkeep expeae CocnmcrccTruck arc lower thsVtruclrsofl Sleoerr quality In satisfying service they arc beyond all price Letademonetra 1 Itlon aomt out to you what a rcaOy good track can do Oct acquainted with the I SCcsasncrce and with lis I fw can help your delivery problem our service bat I yovt disposal Our one idea atoarej yon sctisftod yeurtruch mirchatc Commerce Model A Taa Track rtee Complex SllfS Co Tlt itslllitslllHIF Jr 1 Mxassssssssssslxasea nrt John McLun Company IMS XaUtbraU Street aua road way Oaklaad fa rraaalla rheaoOahUad So a mills iiuwiiisiM sv BUY STUDEBAKERS Coming Raise in Price Brings in All the Tardy Ones and Sales Are Booming The American publlo Is gradually awakening to ori fact that practically all material entering Into th construction of a motor car hav been rapidly Inrreealng in price aaya Chester Weaver Btudlbaker distributer for Ban Francisco and vteln My Tbl fet been broiexht vry forcibly to th attention of HUmotor ear buying publlo br the automobile raanufaetorer who In their hew paper ad for many week past hav announced an Increaa to their prleea Some of these mtkera hav even been forced ta make a aecond Increaa cine July I A year ago Modebaker made hug purchase and placed long term contract for raw tnaUrtals making It poaelbl to continue th preeent low price while other manufacturer of car In th 8tudbakr ctae advanced their prleea But at the same time continually warned tha public that the tncreaalng coat of labor and material might fore Studebakar to raise the price at any time without notice In all alnrerlty and without any effort to stamped people Into buying our cer perslatently urged Intending purrhaaers to buy their Studebaker at that particular time and make aur of a auhetantlal saving Now th wisdom of our reasoning la being demonstrated dally herd at our aalearoom Became the popular demand for Studebaker car la rapidly exhauat Ing the materials purchaeed at old prices the factory recently made an announcement of an Increase In nrlce of aU model to take effect September II Thlc definite announcement ha been the caua of a big rueh for Studebaker car It seems a though everyone In my territory want to take advantage of the old price now A great many purchaaere of Studebaker care and perhapa tha major portion of them are leaning toward th De Luxe modele Here the buyer haa hi choice of four dletlnctlve color chrome green battleahlp gray purple lake dad auto blue Finished In any one of theee colore a Studebaker takea It place on the road with the moet excluelve motor car made Demand for Individuality prompted Studebaker to offer the De Luxe mndelev and I am told that they are creating no end of favorable comment all over the country RACING STARS WILL SHINE AT TACOMA MEET Patterson Cooper and Durant Will Match Their Skill and Serve in Contests The automobile race to be held In Tacoma tomorrow promle to be the moet Interacting contest ever held on th Pacific Coaet for Hated among the enl rente are euch akllled and well knoWn pllote a A II ratteraon Earl Cooper and Cliff Durant While Pattereon la the Pacific Coaet champion eeld title belar acquired by winning the main event at Tacoma on the Fourth of July ha nntlclpatea no little lack in retaining hie laurel at the Northweatern metropoUc tomorrow for In Cooper he Ic pitted agalnat a racing driver of long experlenec and unueual aklll and In Durant com pete with on of the ncrvlcet and moat apectacular performera of the American track Pat aa the Weatern apaad king I known on the track and around Stockton where he sellc Hudson motor cars will drive th aame Super Six Special No IT that ha piloted to victory on Independence day He will race Independently of th Hud eon Motor Car Company having purchased from the factory the car which he piloted a member of the former Hudson racing team While Patterson wi lrtually unheard of a a racing driver les than a year ago he ha made a wonderful howlng In the ahort time ha been performing on the banked oval or dirt track In addition to winning the main event at Tacoma on the Fourth of July and thereby attaining the Pacltc Coaet championship he flnlahcd first In th 100 mil claaaie at Santa Roaa laat May took aeventh poeltlon In the big apeedway event at Cincinnati on Memorial day and eetabllahed a new non atop road record at the Grand Prix race at Santa Monica laat fall He waa alao one of the driver of the Hudson which laat year aet the alngle and double tranecontlnental record Tha dopeater will hav a tough time picking the winner In advance of Mondays contact for In Pattereon they have th eool conalatent per former and the winner of the laat big event In Cooper they have the victor of many of America big apeed testa and In Durant they have a pilot of unusual skill who ha performed creditably la many of the country big racee a CIEAlt TOrR RRFLFCTOR Wipe duet from reflector and ten frequently aa duet cute down tha light See that cable connection haa not been loosened by vibration SAXON SIX A big tourtnf car for fir people Automobile Prices at Low Point Right Now Buy your Saxon Six at once You cant afford to wait Todays prices are the most favorable thalt may exist for several years Every Jcnown condition points to practically certain increases in the cost of motor car material During the past year you have teen coats of 9 different material that ae important elements in the construction of an automobile go from 40 to 150 higher No one can say definitely how soon br how much prices will rise But they will almost dead sure Thats So buy your Saxon Six today Then youll save the added price that must be asked in the near future And youll also get a higher resale price if you decide to sell your car next year Of all the good values now offered in the automobile market Saxon Six at 1050 delivered here is by long odds the greatest It is the only car in the 1000 class with a Continental Six cylinder motor 11 of its most important features Continental motor Fedders radiator Timken axles Timken bearings Warner Steering gear Stromberg carburetor Remy ignition Wagner 2 unit starting and lighting system Spiral Bevel gear Semi floating axle and Exide storage battery are also found on 40 of Americas high priced cars ranging in cost from 1250 to 10000 Think of the extraordinary quality and value that reveals Alike in 11 essential points yet a difference in price between Saxon Six at 1050 dcliv ered here and tljese 40 other fine cars of from 1250 to 9065 Phone us for demontration Drop us a line or better still nmai in nrinitllu lnji WT wwitaw lis iwtaeej ewwaje Du Broy Motor Company Inc VanNesf Avenue at California Street D1STBIBUTOBS OakUaa Dealers i Peck A rail Metae CaV WS Br4war i Th inrmal vbenina of our net building tronounced bv automobile authoritiesHhc niost complete motor establishment in jon Francisco xill take place Tuesday Wedneiday and Thursday1 of dhh vcflv Ail vm I11 Virin llnnm rwirfiniforfu ntn MOrii in on lit fnfl aDfionunilo Ol inoautsr incm i IMS SHI I U1UVII rujr 0 thoroughness of our organization and equipment for taking care of their needs car Tuesday ul 4 8 1 i 1 lli Ait.