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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 ’ w uCrA forj}&tnon.th'a(iait ’ l ’ j The 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 PAGE NINE 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.