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CUTOUT NOW AN
AUTONECESSITY
Atlanta Auto Manager Believes
All Makes of Cars Should
Have Cutouts.
Th* question of the use of muffler
cutouts has b> en agitated in a great ,
mans cities. The consensus of opinion j
seems to be against their use in cities, ,
but L. F. Smith, mtyiager of the At- ,
lanta branch of the Oakland Motor ,
Company, is strongly in favor of all
makes having a cutout. Not for the
purpose of uaking good folks out of ,
their sleep, but for the purpose of ,
knowing exactly how their engine Is i
hitting in a garage and also«for helping
out in a heavy pull. A driver of a car i
can not tell how his engine is run
ning by sight alone, and needs the
sound of tiie exhaust to help hltn. An i
engine may run apparently even to the I
eye and sound decidedly irregular to i
tin- eat at the exhaust cutout. This Is '
due to tiie fact that the flywheel and I
reciprocating parts are too heavy to i
he Immediately aff< < >ed by a difference <
in the power stroke But it does not
mean that the bearings do not feel the i
difference, and it should be corrected ■'
Mr. Joseph Tract', probably the fore- I
most engineet in this country, proved 1
by a test on a new Packard engine that '
there was a very small loss of power 1
With 'he cutout dOSeil. Tills pl'obablt 1
was true with a new motor and a clear
exhaust pipe and muffler but when it 1
is remembered that the exhaust plp< i
and muffler are probablj reduced to <
one-half their normal capacity in a few
months running, it will explain why a
great many owners believe they are los
ing power. They are; and grinding
valves and adjusting will not help if
they can not get rid of the burned gas ,
effectively. This loss of power Is not (
noticeable to the owner with a cutout
on his car, as he probably uses It when
on heavv hills in the country, and the (
heavy charge of burned gas does not ,
have to go through the clogged exhaust
pipe. In city driving, where the explo
sion is so mu< h lighter, the charge w ill |
probably get through the same pipe (
without choking.
So Mr, Smith says, in Justice to ear
builders and car owners, there should li
a cutout on every cur the use of It tn '
be regulated by the wishes of the puli
lie. ,
NEW R C4l BOOKLET
TELLS OF MOTORING
IN EVERY COUNTRY
.1 f». Parmalee, Atlanta manager of '
the R-C-H Company, is jubilant over an
attract Ke booklet just issued by the
R-C-H Corporation, at Detroit a rop>
of which reached Atlanta yesterday.
Parmalee says it Is difficult to get ■
facts and figures before the people in a
wax that is convincing, but this book- i
let teems with photographs and stories
of real tests and trials, beginning In I
America and ending in far-off Africa, and
can not but appeal, not only to the
artistic sense, but to the practical.
Its tacts and figures do not permit of
contradiet ion. and as photographs do not
lie, Parmalee believes that every pros
pective automobile purchaser should read
the book carefully, for it is an educator,
In that it proves beyond question the
practicability of the modern motor car
and the difficult and dangerous places one
tan safeh visit that would btr impossi
ble without one
JOE DAWSON UNDER
BAN OF THE A. A. A.
FOR VIOLATIONS
For violating rule 75, which prohib
its advertising as performances of stock
cars the showings of automobiles In
races under non-stock conditions, the
Schacht Motor Car Company, of Cincin
nati, has been disqualified and suspended
until the first of the year.
The offense upon which the ruling i.<
based was the performance of the Schacht
entry at the Memorial day race at In
dianapolis
In addition to the Schacht matter, the
contest board of the American Automo
bile association considered a number of
other cases Applications for reinstate
ment by .Joseph C Dawson, famous Na
tional driver, and C E. Stuart, sus
pended for participating in an unsanc
tioned meet, were held up pending a more
sat isfac tory ex plana t ion
STUDEBAKER CAR
WINS GREAT RACE
Whether by consistent running at rea
sonably high speeds, a car of the light,
popular-priced type can hold its own in
a long race with the high-powered and
more complicated racing monsters Is a
question which motorists often discuss.
As a rule, Instances where compari
sons can be made are rare, due to the fset
tiiat the ears race on separate classes
The recent Galveston beach meet, how
ever, featured a 200-mile race open to ihe
fact that the cars ra> e in immense field,
from the 90-horsepower creations of the
foreign factories, to the title Studebaker
racers, which have distinguished them
selves in the light ear classes tills year
For about 25 miles the big ears had
the honor for the lead When that stage
was jiassed, however, the field thinned
rapidly, the cars combining speed and
consistency forging steadilj to the fruju
At 50 miles the crowd noted that Hob
Evans and his Studebaker were coming
Ohe by one he cut down his larger op
ponents until with the race less than
half over, he forged into fourth place
From then on. Evans was repeatedly
called upon to fight off the hectic rushes
of bigger rivals, lie forfeited his position
only once, when he made his only stop
for supplies. He got if back in a few
laps, however, and nt th* lini-h was
more than five miles abcuu ul his near- i
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MARMONFAGTOW
TO MAKE TRUCKS
Light Delivery Van Is Added to
Its Line of Cars for the 1913
Season.
Indiana polie is to be the home of an
other commercial car. The newcomer
Is th- Marmon light delivery truck.;
and will be manufactured by the Nor- :
dyke A- Marmon Company, makers of j
the famous Marmon pleasure cars.
The announcement that the company
would add a truck to its line of cars
came as a distinct surprise to local
motor circles, as It was thought that
the Nordyke A- Marmon Company
would adhere strictly to the manufac
ture of the Harmon "Thirty-two” and
"Six.”
The Marmon truck Is a light delivery
car. with a carrying capacity of 1,200
to pounds. Tiie motor used is the
same as In the Marmon “Thirty-two.”
the four-cylinder pleasure car, with
the exception that the truck will use a
motor with a four-inch bore, instead
of the 4 1-2-incii of the touring car.
An unusual mechanical feature is tiie
automatic governor, which limits the
speed of th* truck to a maximum of
twenty miles an hour. A heavy type of
rear system will be used, preserving,
however, the features of accessibility
and simplicity that are found In the
plea -me models.
Another new idea in conned ion with
light delivery vehicles is brought out
in equipping the Marmon truck with
dual rear wheels.
ENTRIES ARE LARGE
FOR GLIDDEN TOUR
Entries are going to lie numerous for .
tile 1912 Niition.il Reliability Tour of'
the American Automobile association, ■
much known an the "Glidden," which
will start from Detroit, Mich., during
the second week of October and run
through Xdrinn, Fort Wayne, Muncie.
Anderson mid Indianapolis to Louls
'lll'. ilieiiee to Nashville, with two
brief detours one to the Lincoln farm
n> .i llogih nvllle and c the other to th*
Ma linnet h < ’a \.■
I Tom ’Nashville the route will go
Ijii.. iy!i Columbia. Tenn., to Florem e.
Sheffield and Tuscumbia, Ahi., where a
turn west will he made to the Missis
sippi river it Memphis. The tour will
then go nearlj directly south to .hick
son. thence west to Vicksburg, and
either return to Jackson or follow a
southeasterly direction below Vicks
burg. entering the main line at a point
below Jackson, its final emirs., will lie
from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
The Glidden Tour Is always Hie lead
ing event of Its kind in the automobile
world, and this year should lie greater
than any previous one. It will he, In
If' < l, a "Lakes-to-Gulf Tour," and be
sides traversing interesting sections of
Michigan. Ohio. Indiana. Kentucky.
Tennessee. Mississippi and Louisiana,
will op. n up a through line between
the North and tile South that will lie
stir, to attract a great deal of tourist
travel.
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Motor Trucks
To The Man Who Drives a Horse
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Study these two pictures. The acquainted with mechanics- —it doesn't ,•<
n left one shows the stable after the take much time to learn to drive an j
horses have come in from the day’s Alco truck. And besides you get over
I work. I'he right one shows the garage a lot more territory in a day. You
when the trucks have come in from the accomplish more work. There is some
day s work. satisfaction in that.
When the truck comes in the work- Moreover, you stand higher up in the
ing day for you is finished. world. You accomplish more for the
W hen the horses come in it takes man you are working for. It is appre
probably an hour longer to unharness eialed by him.
them, put the harness away, feed the If you are ambitious to bet ter your
horses, bed them ami take care of self and provide more for your family,
them. learn now' all yon can about motor
This is an important hour in the day trucks; particularly the Alco truck
for you. which is coming so rapidly into favor
But consider also the more skilled all o\er the country.
and better paid man you become when Come down and look over the Alco
you drive a motor truck. You become any day. W e will be glad to see you.
Alco Trucks are built by the American Locomotive Company
COLE MOTOR COMPANY OF GEORGIA
Distributors also of Alco 6-cyhnder and 4-cylinder Motor Cars.
239 Peachtree Street. Phone Ivy 799.
Movers of the World’s Goods since 1835 Capital, $50,000,000 Ifo.'or 7V.«A- r<
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The Atlanta Georgian
Automobile Department
l| NOVEL OAKLAND DEMONSTRATION |
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Put Stripped Car on Streets to
Show Simplicity and
Silence.
The Oakland Motor (’ompany has
taken a novel method of showing pres
ent ami prospective owners of cars the
really important parts of an automobile,
h is v.e|| known to the automobile
trade that the average buyer is not
offered many facilities of seeing the
chassis of the car he is interested in,
but that he or his wife is more often
• •ncouiaged to enthuse over the paint or
trim of the car. As there is little
choice between the stand ird makes to
day on this score, the chassis should
be the deciding feature of the pur
chase.
1.. !•’. Smith, manage! of the Oakland
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‘‘lt takes the Dutch to beat the Dutch.”
riniH a familiar saw. Probably translated
Into 20th century vernacular, the saying
can be made to publish the fact that, “It
takes a Ford to beat a Ford." This was
illustrated recently when the time record
between Seattle and Tacoma, held by one
Ford, was broken by another.
Local Manager Abbott is of the opinion
that if this company had buift one car
equal in size to the combined dimensions
of its present year’s manufacture of 75,-
<•00 ears, the resultant car in all probabil
ity would more than meet the requore
ments of Mr. Seven-League Giant. Up
could ride in it in comfort and lake with
him Mrs. Giant and all the little Giants.
With the arrival in New Orleans of the
pa th find! ng car for the A. A. A. 1912
National Reliability tour < commonly
known as the Glidden), all details of the
tour are completed. The tour will start
from Detroit Monday morning, October 7.
and finish in New Orleans Saturday even
ing. October 19. 'l’he distance is a little
over 1,600 miles and the average daily
run will be about 135 miles.
A “border line" routing of Hie United
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branch, decided that the best way to
show the public‘the running gear of
the Oakland car was to put a stripped
car on the streets to show the strength
of the chassis and silence of the mo
tor. This has brought forth many
questions and compliments from the
trade and ow ners alike.
Even to the layman, it is evident
that the power plan of a car should be
compact, simple and all working parts
Inclosed. This is. accomplished in this
chassis by building the motor, clutch
and transmission in one unit, thus the
unit power plant. Then this unit is
suspended on three points, flexibly, to
avoid any strains, even over the rough
est roads. Then, bv building the oiler
into the motor, and inclosing the valves
so that the stems run in oil. Is accom
plished everything known to the most
modern engineering. By this method
of unit construction you have a flexi
ble power unit and a flexible rear axle
States was completed by tiie A. A. A.
touring board on the morning of August
19 when its transcontinental field repre
sentative arrived in San Francisco over
the Pacific highway. The Seat tie-Port
land-San Francisco gap completed the
country-round pursuit of touring details.
“Thousands of .Americans never knew
their country until the advent of the mo
, tor car. Its Switzerlands, its Rhines, its
Italian lakes, were sung only in the prose
or verse of pioneers, who by wagon trail,
on horse or in canoe had penetrated reg
ions fair as Europe at iier best can
boast.”
All track of the Alco transcontinental
truck was lost for three days, when, ow
ing to tiie distance apart of towns and
telegraph stations the crew were cut off
from communication while traveling over
the Great Salt Lake desert.
Many tourists are buying the seperate
folding wash bowls of rubber and adding
them to the luncheon kit, with half a
dozen tea towels. They make very satis
factory dishpans, so that the silver need
not be brought back soiled os stained hy
long standing.
unit, connected by one universal joint,
rather than three, as in a number of
cars.
That the inclosing of moving parts,
such as valves, to keep dirt from them
is a most important feature of motor
construction is shown by the fact that
the valves travel 1.125,000 feet to every
5.000 miles the car runs. It is not rea
sonable to believe that grit will not cut
them badly if they are exposed to it.
Then the need for a strong motor sup
port is shown by the fact that there are
24,000,000 power impulses Used in th*
same 5,000 miles. The need for an in
closed and positive lubricating system
is shown by the fact that the piston
Havel is 40.000.000 feet in this distance,
and any failure of the oiling system
would be fatal to them
It is with the idea of making these
important features clear and showing
how the Oakland Company has provided
for them that they have put this car on
the streets.
For the day’s run men wil find a hu
midor holding a dozen cigars quite a com
fort. it may be dropped into the rail
pocket—lt keeps the cigars in perfect
condition.
Knitted silk scarf, eighteen inches wide
by two and a half yards long, finished
with deeply knotted silk fringe, comes in
all of the attractive colors. They make
very dainty litle extra wraps, and may
he worn with almost any stvle coat or
duster.
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Oa.kja.nd
| “The Car With a Conscience 9 ' I
Just to Inform You
J' We have a Direct Factory Branch in Atlanta
to give Oakland owners courteous, generous and
expert service. Our factory-trained mechanics are
here for this purpose.
I The Oakland Models are at the very top in g
| the struggle for superiority in motor cars, com- I
| dining correct mechanical design, beauty and com- |
| fort, reliability, quietness and full power, and low- I
est maintenance cost at a price which appeals to
the average buyer.
I We have gained the confidence of thousands I
of owners of Oakland Automobiles, because the
| corps of experts who design and build Oakland |
cars have the brain and experience which creates
success.
I Aou cannot afford to buy until you investi- I
gate the Oakland. We will be highly pleased to
demonstrate our various models on any road at
any time.
Oakland Motor Company j
Direct Factory Branch 141 Peachtree
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What’s your “system” of
judging a car? If accomplish
ment counts with you more
than fashion’s fickle fancies—
you’ll throw prejudices to
the winds—and judge the
Ford on its merits. It’s the
one car that has stood all the
tests.
75,000 Ford cars already sold this season
-—one-third of America's product. Five
passenger touring car s69o—-three passen
ger roadster $590 —torpedo runabout $590
—delivery car S7O0 —town ear S9O0 —
f. o. b. Detroit, complete with al] equip- ,
ment. Get catalogue from Ford Motor
Company. 311 Peachtree St., Atlanta, or
direct from Detroit factory.
Simple Engine * Accessible * Economical
The
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