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NEW fl-C-H GARS
ARE DEPARTURE
Specifications for 1913 Models
of Low-Priced Automobiles
Are Most Complete.
The R-C-H Corporation, manufac
turers of the R-C-H car, has created
something of a sensation in the motor
car producing circles and among mo
torists generally, this time with an an
nouncement of equipment on the R-C-
H touring car for 1913 that heretofore
has otily been looked for on cars selling
at a much higher price.
This equipment includes five electric
lights, non-skid 32 by 3 1-2-lnch tires
all around, Warner autometer, top fit
ted with Jiffy curtains, top slip cover,
rear vision mirror and robe rail. That
the 1913 season will be one in which
full equipment of a motor car with
every essential to convenience and
comfort in driving will be demanded
by motorists is indicated by the R-C-H
announcement.
That full equipment is to be the big
feature for 1913 is indicated by articles
in various motor papers recently. To
the 1913 R-C-H touring car at S9OO
belongs the distinction of being the
first low-priced car to specify either
electric lights, non-skid tires or War
ner autometer as standard equipment.
All three go into the R-C-H. along with
the popular Jiffy curtains, first includ
ed on May 1.
The lamps used on the 1913 R-C-H
are all of the bullet type. The head
lights are 12 Inches in diameter, fitted
with 1G candlepower bulbs and double
parabolic lens; side lamps 6 inches in
diameter with 4 candlepower bulb and
parabolic lens, and the tail lamp 4
inches in diameter with 2 candlepower
bulb. Ediswan -sockets are used
throughout. On the head lights the
parabola is set into the body of the
lamp, allowing easy access to buibs
and focusing device, and permitting of
the cleaning of parabola or glass in
door without the removal of screws or
other holding devices.
Current is supplied by 100 ampere
storage battery, carried in a battery
case on the running board.
The. .specification of non-skid tires is
all an innovation, and the advantages
of this ate manifold. They give
the driver a feeling of security, no
matter what the road conditions may
be, and reduce the cost of upkeep be
cause of their longer life.
On this car 32 by 3 1-2-inch tires
will he used exclusively.
The autometer furnished Is A War
ner mode! 30 with speed indicator, trip
and total mileage recorder, the latter
■being of five figures.
The top is of the best Fairfield rub
ber, the most durable and serviceable
that can be secured. Each top is fitted
"with Jiffy curtains, which were first
specified as standard on the R-C-H on
'May 1. These curtains make It un
necessary for the driver to leave his
seat and wade through mud to inclose
the car when a storm comes up, so
with Jiffy. curt.ains he need not, when
caught In a sudden shower, walk
around his car and place his curtains,
for they operate from Inside. A top
slip cover is also provided with each
ca r.
Tbie wind shield will be of the same
type used heretofore, integral with the
body, thus doing away with all arms
and- supports.
The horn is of the special tallyho
type, concealed under the hood.
The. rear vision mirror, so helpful in
city traffic, as it enablies the driver to
view the traffic behind him, is also
provided, while a complete tool kit, tire
repair kit, tire pump and standard jack
complete the equipment.
Among the mechanical changes on
the R-C-H 1913 chassis are a hand
brake, placed at th-e right of the driver,
a hand throttle controlled by means of
lever operating on a segment attached
to the steering column.
The Bosch hio’h tension magneto will
be continued, and the latest improved
B-l> carburetor will be used.
The left-hand drive with center con
trol. now- being featured in the an
nouncements of the highest priced cars,
has always been standard for America
on the R-C-H am] will be continued.
No changes whatever wili be made
In the motor nor In the transmission,
which is integral with the rear axle.
The popular short wheel - base two
passenger roadster will be continued in
standard and EE models.
The standard car at S7OO will have
gas head lamps, oil side and tail lamps.
30 bv 3-inch tires on clincher rims,
generator, top with Jiffy curtains and
tallyho horn, as regular equipment.
With the EE model at $750, gas head
lights and. prest-o-lite tank, oil side
and tail lamps, 32 by 3 1-2-inch tires
on demountable rims, top with Jiffy
curtains and tallyho horn will be fur
nished.
That it is lightest is the
weightiest reason why you
should own a Ford. Every
added pound which an auto
mobile carries above that
which is needed for strength
—means added expense and
added danger. The Vanad
ium-built Ford is strongest
for its weight.
Seventy-five thousand new Fords go into
service this season—proof of their une
qualed merit. The price is $590 for the
roadster, $690 for the five-passenger car,
and S7OO for the delivery car—complete
with all equipment, f. o. b. Detroit. Latest
catalogue from Ford Motor Company, 311
Peachtree St., Atlanta, or direct from De
troit factory.
FIRST HUDSON BUILT
STILL DOING SERVICE
IN POUGHKEEPSIE
What becomes of the aged automobile?
In the endeavor to answer that inter
( esting question, a well-known Detroit au
tomobile authority made an investigation
among motorists.
In determining what becomes of the
> old automobiles, the authority was un
able to find any of these cars which were
"scrapped." In several instances it was
discovered that old cars are being used
for pleasure on farms and are also being
employed in doing some of the farm work.
Some big beautiful cars of years ago are
doing service as delivery wagons, others
being used In livery service, still others
are used only occasionally, while a few
I had been stripped of bodies and converted
• into power plants for pumping water and
general work. Very tew of the aged cars
. of the infant days of the automobile in
dustry have tfben lost to sight completely.
It was found that with one make of
car, the Hudson, none had worn out and
■ motorists were successfully operating ail
of them. Some cars, though they had
■ sold and resold several times, are still in
; operation. But it was found that most of
the old automobiles are still running. No
trace of an automobile "junk heap" was
found.
The inquiry brought out the Interesting
1 fact that the first car created by Howard
i E. Coffin for the Hudson Motor Company
I —car No. I—has run upwards of 50,000
I miles and is still doing admirable service
in the hands of Joseph P. Davis, Pough
keepsie, N. Y.
, The car was originally sold in New York
’ city and up to the time of purchase by
Mr. Davis, had changed hands a number
1 of times, and Mr. Davis has run car No.
I 1 over 6,000 miles. Some old cars met
■ with accidents and were destroyed, some
■ were burned up in fires, some became
baggage wagons and taxicabs. Farmers
are buying some to haul produce to town.
Another old car In Augusta, Ga.. has
1 been driven by five different owners and
the man who first purchased it bought it
back again after it had run thousands
; of miles. Ke still drives it and refuses
to allow it to get out of his hands again,
I though it Is one of the first Hudsons built.
The first Hudson, which was driven on
the Pacific coast, is car No. 2. a car
1 which was turned out by the Hudson
' factory the same day on which the auto
mobile owned by Mr. Davis was built.
The car has been in the hands of a Sac
-1 ramento, Cal., owner for four years.
For four years an El Paso, Texas, ‘wom
an has driven an old Hudson and declares
. that it is running as finely as the first
day it was built. This is also one of the
' Hudsons that was built on the first day.
The first Hudson in Japan is still being
, driven by an American physician in call-
• ing upon his patients.
As a consequence the investigators
; found it Impossible to determine the life
I of the cars, for none had worn out.
An interesting fact in connection with
■ the very first ear which Mr. Coffin built
—before the Hudson company was organ
ized—is that it is being exhibited through
out the country. Though built a decade
ago the staunch little car is still in ex
cellent running condition and when it re
turns from its exhibit trip it Is to be
placed on exhibition in Detroit.
It is an old-style curved dash car and
probably one of the most notable an
tiques of the automobile industry.
Simplicity is largely accountable for a
car’s long life. Cars that are dustproof
because of inclosed motor and valve mech
anism usually live longest.
The astonishing point about the inves
tigation was the apparent fact that no
’ “junk heap" could be found as is the case
with practically every other form of ma
chinery.
OAKLAND MOTOR CO.’S
ATLANTA BRANCH IS
LEADING ALL OTHERS
L. F. Smith, manager of the Atlanta
branch of the Oakland Motor Company,
, is in receipt of a telegram from J. B,
■ Eccleston, general sales manager of the
' company, in which Mr. Eccleston states
that the Atlanta branch has for the
, past two tVeeks surpassed in the nufn
. ber of sales all of the other branches
. of the Oakland Motor Company.
i This is a record of which the Atlanta
branch is proud. The habv of the or
: ganization in point of time established
I has leaped clear to the front in the rec
ord of sales and is rapidly increasing
its lead. The Atlanta office is setting a
pace for the other branches that the
i latter find hard to keep, and General
Majiager Eceleston’s telegram is a trib-
■ ute to the buying activity of Atlanta as
well as the energy and enthusiasm the
Oakland office is putting into Atlanta
. sales.
1 When President George E. Daniels of
the Oakland Motor Company was In
■ Atlanta in February he looked out a
window of the Piedmont hotel one day
' and said: “Atlanta neople are prime
I connoisseurs in motor car selections. I
can see that by the class of cars they
I are driving, and I kne>w the Oakland is
- going to suit their tastes. Watch the
; Atlanta branch go ahead of all the oth
' er branches.”
And Mr. Daniels certainly did not
make any mistake.
TiiK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. JUNE 29. 19rz.
RACE DRIVERS
BUYE-M-FCARS
■ »
Dawson and Wilcox, 500-Mile
Race Winners, Purchase De
troit Cars for Own Use.
To have, for his very own, to do with
as he likes, a light, speedy, economical
motor car is one of the ambitions of
every race driver. Nine times out of
ten the expenditures which any dare
devil makes, after winning a big purse
at the risk of life and limb, Include the
purchase of such a car.
That this fa true will probably sur-,
prise the average spectator of races,
who usually pictures each of his heroes
as a man at whose disposal are all the
cars of the factory he represents on the
track, and the least of whose troubles
would be a car for his own personal
use.
The facts in the case point to an en
tirely different conclusion. At any
rate, after the first International
Sweepstakes at Indianapolis a year ago
several of the winning pilots went to
the Studebaker branch at Indianapolis
and purchased E-M-F and Flanders
cars. This year's race had a similar
result.
Joe Dawson, winner of the race, and
Howard Wilcox, his teammate, who
won ninth prize, have both bought
Studebaker E-M-F “30” cars. Don
Herr, relief driver for Dawson, bought
a third Studebaker E-M-F “30.” Hardly
had the National team left the store
when Harry Endicott, winner of anoth
er big chunk of money, dropped in and
paid list price for a Studebaker Flan
ders “20.”
Manager Sutherland of the Indian
apolis branch is greatly nleased over
the preference shown by the experts for
the Studebaker product.
"I suppose it is a sort of combination
of circumstances that is at the bottom
of It,” said he after Endicott had rolled
away in his new Flanders. “The race
drivers seem to like our stuff because
it is fast, stylish, reliable and econom
ical to keep up. I imagine the latter
consideration has as much to do with it
as anything else. The race driver of
today is a temperate, frugal man who
spends very little money without get
ting good value in return. Our service
facilities and methods of manufacture
appeal to them, too. Wherever they
may be they know they can find a
Studebaker store. Then, too, most of
them are married and want a car their
wives can handle without trouble. At
that, their personal wants in the auto
mobile way don’t differ much, I imag
ine, from those of the average man.”
CHINESE PURCHASING
AIRSHIPS FOR USE IN
WAR DEFENSE TESTS
With France rapidly developing the
aeroplane as an instrument of war and
taking the same command of the air
that Great Britain has of the sea, and
Germany taking a big interest in the
dirigible balloon from the standpoint of
its practicability in times of war, China
is not far behind in recognizing the
usefulness of the aeroplane to quell the
recent warlike disturbances in that
country.
Several machines, at the instigation
of Jue Chockman. a Chinaman of con
siderable importance in Detroit, were
shipped some time ago to the ast.
Other machines, it is said, have been
sent to the Chinese government, and
the Chinese representative at Detroit,
Mich., has purchased two large orders
of Goodyear rubberized aeroplane fab
ric and complete aeroplane wheels to
equip the air fleet for service in the
Far East.
fill.
1
WHITE MOTORTRUCKS
are manufactured a company
vOhich has had the confidence and
respect of the industrial vOorldfbr
o\)er tjears. The name of the
VJhite Company is the best guaran
tee in the vOorld of the sterling qual
ity of VOhite Motor Trucks. , .
The
Manufacturer* of gasoline motor car*, trucks ® taxicab*
\\ ATLANTA BRANCH / .
132 Peachtree Street /.
MOTOR NOTES
That American-made ears are becoming
popular in Russia is evidenced by the fact
that the Nyberg Automobile works, of
Anderson, Ind., has just received an or
der for twenty-five Nyberg Six-60 models
from Count Nicholas Kpusnetzoif, of St.
Petersburg, Russia. A short time ago the
Nyberg company sent two of its cars to
the count, and as a result received this
large-order. Part of the cars are to go to
Odessa and the remainder to St. Peters
burg.
■■—
Formal announcement of the plans for
the construction of the Metropolitan Mo
tor Speedway were made yesterday at
the offices of the company, 1784 Broad
way. New York. During the past few
days it became known that the Metropoli
tan Motor Speedway association actually
having been Incorporated with
an authobized capital of $1,500,000, but
details and definite information were not
obtainable.
The above-mentioned association has
just been formed to take over 300 acres
on the Jersey meadows, near Newark,
for the purpose of constructing a motor
drome and stadium. Ground will Jje
broken next month and the speedway is
to be completed within a year. On July
4, 1913, the premier event will be staged
—an international 500-mile race. Engi
neering offices have been opened in the
Ordway building, 207 Market street, New
ark, and a corps of experts engaged
With banners flying and bands playing,
the transcontinental Alco truck of Charles
W. Young & Co., with a three-ton cargo,
departed from Philadelphia on its 4,000-
niile trip to the Pacific It was a gala
occasion, the start of the first coast-to
coast delivery of goods by truck from
manufacturer to customer. From the time
It took its position, heading a parade of
a half thousand commercial vehicles, until
it left for New York, there was a con
tinuous round of enthusiasm.
Many thousands lined the course and
chdered the truck and cfew on their jour
ney. When the hour came for hitting the
trail to the Pacific, an escort party led the
truck far beyond the city limits.
"One of the most popular ways of ‘va
cationing’ this summer will be motorcycle
touring,” said one of the officials of the
Flanders Manufacturing Company, th*
other day.
“We have received a number of letters
recently from Flanders ’4' riders, who say
CADI LLAC
STEINHAUER & WIGHT
228-230 Peachtree St. Ivy 2233
3/Q 1 l/j2 3 eind 5> ton capacities’.
Simple Engine ♦ Accessible * Economical
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120-22-Mnrlctta, St.
FULTON AUTO SUPPLY CO.
249 Peachtree Street
Automobile supplies of every kind. Mail order given
prompt, attention. Lowest prices obtainable. Write for cata
log. Make your car complete.
m O ’Touring Cnr *•
“40” Touring, sizes
“GO" Touring Car*six cylinder
The White^y^Company T T
; that they are planning their vacations
L along this line.
f "It is a very inexpensive, and at the
■ same time enjoyable, way of spending
s a vacation, the cost as figured by our
engineers, amounting to approximately
! He a mile, being much cheaper than
> any other method of transportation.
( "A motorcycle enthusiast living in San
> Francisco writes that he has just com
pleted a 3,500-mile jaunt through the
mountainous region along the Pacific
coast, and reports that the cost of his
■ trip—his transportation—was sls. and,
aside from having one puncture, encoun-
t tered absolutely no trouble.
'The flexibility and easy riding qualities
r of the Flandersj '4' make it an ideal ma
chine for road work, and ere the summer
is over we expect to hear from a great
i many Flanders owners who will have
t spent their vacations in this exceedingly
t novel manner."
3 Gasoline, or as It Is called in Great
3 Britain, petrol, has advanced in price
• steadily during the last ten years. No
motor organization lias done more toward
’ trying to find out a remedy for the grow
-3 ing cost of fuel for motor cars than the
Royal Automobile club. Resolutions have
I been introduced to provide away for
preventing further increases in price, but
! when it came to experimenting on a sub
stitute for the fuel that has soared to an
almost prohibitive figure in the last few
months, the most practical suggestion
. came from the Knight engine inventor.
i Mr. Knight has opened a laboratory in
, the big garage of his Warwickshire home
where he is conducting experiments with
t shale oil and other indigenous fuels with
the hope of finding a commercial substi
i tute for petrol.
I A decided Innovation, in the form of
I touring information, is announced by the
Touring Club of America in the placing of
detour signs at points upon the main thor-
I oughfares where it is necessary for tour-
• ists to avoid roads that have been closed
i for repairs or reconstruction.
■ These new detour signs will be in the
form of a large l)lue arrow bearing in
plain white letters the words "Detour-
Follow Arrows," with "T. C. A." on the
- arrow point. The arrows will be placed
i along all important detours from the main
t thoroughfares by the official cars of the.
Touring club, as well as by the club's
s representatives at its 25 branches located
■ in the principal touring centers.
SPECIAL LOW PRICES
ON
Automobile Supplies
TOURS and picnics by
motor can be made far
more pleasant and enjoyable
by equipping your car with
Lunch Baskets, Thermos
Bottles, Sandwich Boxes
and other novel accessories
and supplies for automobile
comfort. We have them at
reasonable prices.
Supplies and accessories
of every description are to be
found here at all times.
Best Oils High-Proof
and Filtered
Greases jL Gasoline
Write or call for our neu) catalog.
We can save you money.
FULTON AUTO SUPPLY CO.
225 Peachtree St.
ATLANTA
No-Rim-Cut Tires
10% Oversize
100,000 Sold Monthly
For the first time in history, the demand for one
tire is almost 100,000 monthly.
Some 200,000 men have already adopted it
It is a new-type tire—a patent tire—the Goodyear
No-Rim-Cut tire.
It cuts tire bills in two, and has proved that fact
to hundreds of thousands of users. As a result, this
tire has become the most popular tire in existence.
You should know this tire.
What 200,000 Men Know
This tire—which far outsells all
others —has been tested out on
some 200,000 cars.
Its place today is due io the ver
dict of 200,000 users.
It is the final result cf 13 years
spent in tire making. So there is
nothing accidental about this suc
cess. It isnotanyfleetingsensation.
The verdict of those 200,000 users
is bound to be your verdict, too.
Our Patent Type
The No-Rim-Cut tire is a patent
type. It forms the only way known
to make a desirable tire in which
rim-cutting is impossible.
Rim-cutting occurs on 23 per
cent of all the old-type tires. That
is shown by careful statistics.
Rim-cutting has never occurred,
(jOOD/YEAR
AKRON, OHIO
No-Rim-Cut Tires
With or Without Non-Skid Treads
THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO., Akron, Ohio
This Company has no connection whatever with any other
rubber concern which u«m the Goodyear name
Atlanta Branch, 223 Peachtree Street
TELEPHONE BELL IVY 913 AND 797.
GEORGIAN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
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magazine section
and can never occur, on our No-
Rim-Cut type.
In addition to that, we make
these tires 10 per cent over the
rated size. And that 10 per cent
oversize, under average conditions,
adds 25 per cent to the tire mileage.
So No-Rim-Cut tires, on the
average, save 23 plus 25 per cent.
So many have proved this that
the demand for these tires has
doubled every eight months, on
the average.
And you will demand them, and
always insist on them, when you
once try them out.
Our 1912 Tire Book—based on
13 years of tire making—is filled
with facts you should know. Ask us
to mail it to you.
