Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 77

Oakland Tribune, Sunday, Aug. 24, 1952 ALONG AUTO ROW .1 FRATERNAL NEWS AND NOTES Oakland Produces Plastic-Car Body Pot-Luck Supper Set sports car body manufactured in Oakland. Tribune Auto Editor low center of gravity with 1W ground Engine develops 207 Jxp. at 3600 r.p.m- and it is claimed the cars have a cruising-speed 11C m.pi. It is planned to marked the Maver.

ick sports car complete for Our place in this picture is as follows: J. Fraser Rae is the owner of Industrial Plastics Service, and has been associated with the plasties industry in the capacity of technical consultant and instructor for over twenty years. Hero and There Van Peabody Broadway De Soto and Plymouth dealer, announces the appointment of W. B. "BUT Morrison to the sales staff.

Bill has been identified with the Eastbay automobile industry since 1923 usually representing higher priced Earl Cunha, former metropolitan district manager, has been vrt same time, provides great economy of operation. This is outstanding in view of the fact that this engine delivers the highest output per cubic inch displacement of any engine on market today." Don E. Ahrens, general manager of the Cadillac Motor Car Division, last week announced the appointment of W. S. Chis-holm as director of personnel and public relations for Cadillac.

Fibreglas-plastic 1 1 '( a billion miles of owner driving behind it, the FirePower V-S 180 horsepower high-compression engine has proven, to be the least demanding service-wise of any engine Chrysler has produced, reports F. E. Van Hal-teren, director of service, Chrysler Sales Chrysler Corporation. Hi 'When this engine was ready for production, we were faced with the fact that its efficiency was based on highly complex mechanisms never before used in a mass-produced automobile "engine," Van Halteren said The faith of Chrysler engineers in this engine has been justified by the unexcelled performance and economy provided by the hemispherical combustion chamber introduced in the automotive field in the FirePower engine," he said. "Owners daily write us expressing their satisfaction with the hifih Derform- ance of this engine which, at the By HOMER D.

FEY, England's largest seWnf truck in ita price class, tho Thames, baa recently made' ita appearance in the Bay -area and, has caused quite a 1 flurry, of, sales Interest Big load space; ease handling, economy of opera-" tion and low cost combine to make it a potential hit with operators of small light delivery panels. The Thames is highly eco-nomical to buy, operata 'and maintain, according to Cecil Whitebone, distributor for Northern California. Bay area operators are1 reporting mileage as high as 30 to S3 miles to the gallon in the country and suburbs and 28 to 30 in heavy city traffic. IK 120 cubic feet of loading space meets the needs of many users who want a small, fast, economical delivery vehicle to service their customers. The Thames truck, along with Britr ish-built Ford passenger pleasure cars, art handled in the Xastbay by Clarence Bull-winkel, of Oakland.

Awards by Dodge Salesmen for Dodge dealerships in the Eastbay are being honored this week by the Dodge division of the Chrysler Corpor- ation for outstanding accomplishment in the retailing of Dodge passenger cars and trucks. As a result of high retail sales, leading salesmen will receive a charter membership in the Dodge "400" Club, and be presented with a special pin and club membership certificate by Jtobert Dull, Dodge district manager. The club is a perma- nent organization with membership each year determined by the best individual sales records. As members of the club, these Xastbay salesmen will have as associates other top Dodge salesmen throughout toe country. Salesmen who received official word of their sales success in a congratulatory message from E.

C. Dock, general sales manager of Dodge in Detroit include D. Gill, L-Swensen, W. Whithead, A Jones, F. Stein-inger and Lowery of J.

E. French D. Eberly and R. Vanier of Dana-Frane Motor E. Kuntz and S.

Grant of Don Marquis, all of Oakland; A. Avery, E. Lowery, S. Dodge and W. Alstrand of J.

E. French Co. in Berkeley; R. Postma, F. Dwyer A.

McCauley and R. Bateman of Jack Erwin Motors in Alameda; W. Biggerstaff, Godfrey, H. Hansen and G. Ward of Reese F.

Starr, in Richmond; L. Kelley, and Long of Jack Holland, Inc. in Hay-ward; and J. J. Bentley of Eisen-huth Motor Sales in Concord.

Fibergf as-Plastic Car The largest fiberglas-plastie sports car body yet constructed, according to the manufacturers, was produced recently by the Industrial Plastics Service at 4425 Linden Street. It was constructed of Astro lite liquid plastics, reinforced by Fiberglas manufactured by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp, and was built especially for Maverick Motors of Mountain View and will become standard equipment for the Maverick sports car. "largest Fiberglas-plastie sports car body yet constructed," is designed to fit wheelbase ears the over-all length is 16 and width "Weight approximately 220 pounds. The Maverick Company does' a complete job of rebuilding V-8 La Salle cars. Engine is re-bored to standard Cad size, special grind three-quarter race cams, Edmonds Heads, Mallory ignition, dual exhaust, etc Steering an4 have been redesigned and car has a goiiig on Auxiliary BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN, Ladies Auxiliary to Oakland Lodge No.

63, will meet a pot-luck dinner at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Key System Employees Building, 11th and Franklin Streets. A past presidents eve ning will follow, under the direction of Margaret air man. ELMHURST REBEKAH LODGE NO. 277 'will meet tomorrow evening at Odd Fellows Hall, 9120 East 14th Street Dorothy Davidson, noble grand, will preside.

"Hawaiian Night" will be the theme of the evening, Mrs. Frieda Shell, who recently returned from the Islands, will be chairman. The program will feature movies of Hawaii, followed by refreshments in the banquet room. OAKLAND EAGLES AERIE NO. 7 will hold a "Hard Times Western Night" at 8 p.m.

tomorrow at Eagles Hall, 387 12th Street. Games, entertainment, dancing and will be featured. All members, their i it families and friends are invited to attend, according to Andy Hynes and Manuel Lachandro, co-chairmen. A LETHE CHAPTER NO. 366, OES, will meet tomorrow evening at 1837 Akatraz Avenue, Berkeley, for a dinner marking the chapter's 32nd birthday anniversary.

Julia Oberg, associate matron, will be in charge of dinner arrangements. Past matrons and past patrons will fill the stations. WEST GATE CHAPTER NO. 290, OES, will honor matrons and patrons of the East Bay at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Berkeley Masonic Temple.

Mildred and jBert Wenk, worthy matron and patron, will preside. Stella Jane Harrison, past matron, will be chairman for the evening, assisted by Billie Shaw, Lillian Frederickson, Minnie Shafsky, Ann Kepner. Wilma Young-quist, Ette Townsend, Natalie Slemmons and Wilma Cantando. 1 BERKELEY REBEKAH LODGE NO. 262 will entertain condudve to his desire to travel M-9 officers of lodges In District Nat 70 at 8 pan.

Wednesday at the Berkeley Odd Fellows Temple, Bancroft Way. and Fulton Street. Viola Thompson, noble grand, will preside over the meeting; Mrs. Agnes Devine will be chairman. Each officer' wiv wat mm guests the corresponding of 5- cers vi uic visiting mugtrs.

Emily Brown ell, district deputy president, and Esther Christy, district deputy will be special guests of the noble -grand and the vice grand, respectively. Absit Invidia Re-bekah Lodge No. 11 of Oakland will present the "Heart of Friendship," which will visit each Rebekah lodge in the state to promote the project of Ethel Garner, president of the Rebekah Assembly of California, for improvements at the Children's Home in Gilroy. Abhit Invidia Rebekah Lodge will present the program and. light refreshments which will be served by the Berkeley lodge, under the direction of Mrs.

Devine. and to see the daily move- MYERS MOTOR COMFANt No. 5 Castro 3 Keyword appointed San. Francisco xone business manager, Pontiae Motor Division, according to Don R. Stuart, zone manager.

Cunha, who has been with the local zone since 1847, succeeds Glen Pace, who has been named assistant zone manager at the Portland, Ore, zone office. Ted Wheeler, popular veteran salesman for Lou Fox, Berkeley Studebaker, left recently (in his Studebaker) for a vacation in the high Sierras with his- wife, Louise, and their three children. They expect to return after Labor Day. W. A.

Abbott Jr, Ford Motor Company Richmond assembly plant manager; Neal Hammond, industrial relations manager, and A. Black, quality control manager, are in Dallas attend ing a manufacturing conference of executives of the Ford division. In addition to the Dearborn personnel, plant, industrial relations and quality control managers from Ford- assembly plants in Dallas, Kansas City, Long Beach and Richmond, are in attendance. Members of the De Soto Dealer Association of Northern California held a meeting last week at the California Golf Club at which preliminary plans were set up for a combined conclave with the Do Soto group of Southern California. The two-day affair will be held at -the Biltmore in.

Santa Barbara dp. September J8 and 19. The program will have as speakers nationally-known automobile executives as well as top-flight regional personalities. Eastbay dealers taking an active part in planning the details of the coming state-wide meeting were: Tal Runnels of Berkeley, Van W.ipeabody Sr. and Van Jr, of Oakland; James DiBari and Henry Vallerga of East Oakland; Adam and Bernard Weisgerber of Richmond, and Alvin Joseph of Hayward Production of tubeless tires, one of the post-war products, is currently at an all-time high, according to John L.

Colly er, president of the B. T. Goodrich Company which introduced the world's first tubeless tire in 1947 "More than a million tubeless tires have already been delivered to American motorists and the present rate of tubeless tire production in our plants is nearly triple that of last year as a re sult of the new standards of safety, service and mileage the new tire has established," the rubber company executive de clared. With a mileage record of over uncATion? National Happening! paeae Tt 2-4009. J7 mm 1 It Means 8olfa-Ta Maiiyf CS world an inspiring companion for his meats among his fellows.

llavo tho TfllCDHE state who insists; that his, whole life changed for the better when he got his Cadillac. These are but typical of innumerable Instances of the deep regard in which Cadillac owners hold their cars. The loyalty and respect a Cadillac' engenders are extraordinary indeed. What can there be about a motor car to it mean so jto io many? JftThe answer Aot far to seek. Because of its world-wide standing as one of the better things in life, it reflects credit and prestige upon its owner and indicates that he is a person of substance and good taste.

Because it performs so well and so dependably, Inj all the historyof the world's commerce, it -is doiibtul whether another manufactured product ever had such a hold on the affections of its owners as the Cadillac car. I i There is a well-to-do gentleman in a southern state, for instance, whe will permit no one to minister to his Cadillac except himself other than for its mechanical needs. He washes it, polishes it, cleans it and drives it himself. -1 i. i There: is a family in New York which has owned a long series of Cadillacs to which have been given the.

names of people because they regard their cars as all but members of the household. vyv. -There is a professional man in a mid-western. FOLLOW YOU Because it is beautiful and luxurious, It is a Joy to own and a pleasure to contemplate. Standing in his driveway, rolling down the streets" ofhjs favorite city, or parked at the entrance to a distinguished dub it is a credit to his -Judgment and a testimonial to his No wonder he cherishes it, and thinks of it as all but a part of his own personality.

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