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— l ——‘i’ l . . W BUICK HOI LARGEST IN U.S. Solid Concrete Structure for Atlanta Branch Is Nearing Completion. The new home of the Atlanta branch f * of the Buick Motor Company, now in course of construction at Peachtree anil Harris streets, will without doubt be the finest in the world, according to the statement of Malcolm G. Porter, an In- R-’ r dlanapolis visitor at the Atlanta auto -1 mobile show, whose travels have taken him all over the universe, and who is an authority on this wubject. "Atlanta and Georgia should feel proud of the Buick branch in this city." said Mrs. Porter, as it will be bigger and more important than a majority of th® motor car factories throughout the country. I have investigated motor «ar conditions In every important city In 1. the country- and never before, have 1 come across such a pretentious branch." Th® new permanent home of the Buick In Atlanta is to be ready for oc | cupaney next month. It has 26.200 square feet of floor space, is of solid concrete and fireproof and modern In every detail. The frontage on Peach tree street shows four stories above the street surface, but the steep grade on which the structure stands gives it five full stories at the side and in the rear. Buick radiator designs in zine and huge Buick script, with a myriad of electric lights, will make that corner one of the most attractive in the business section i' of Atlanta Passenger and freight elevator serv ice will make all of the floors easily ac cessible, and under the one roof will be found the entire Atlanta Buick organ ization. Included will be the offices and sales rooms, the service and parts de partments, and the storage rooms for new cars. There will be floor space for 500 new cars. The service and parts departments will be the most complete W in the United States, according to the T statement of 11. H. Losey, new mana ger of the Atlanta branch of the Buick ® Company. “It is our intention to keen on hand al all times a supply of parts sufficient to meet the demands of nil owners," said Mr. Losey, "and the mechanical force in tlie service department will be com posed of the best experts obtainable. Our interest in Buick drivers only be gins when we sell Buick cars, and It is our intention to conduct our parts and service departments In such away as to keep our owners satisfied " The Atlanta Buick bran, b will be the biggest thing the Buick Company lias, outside of its gigantic factory at Flint, Mich., which Is the biggest in the world. • The Buick plant has 84 acres of floor space and lias a capacity for 75,000 cars annually. No attempt lias ever been made to operate at full capacity, how ever, for tlie stated reasons that ship ping facilities an inadequate and the impossibility of obtaining enough work men whose abilities are up to the re quired standard. At the present time the Buick factory is shipping 100 cars a week, and It expects to maintain tins schedule until June 1. Hundreds of these ears will come to Atlanta for dis tribution in tlie Atlanta territory . And it Delivered \ WKS®- the Goods \ \\ J J If. ' \ Over boulevarded highways in the East it sped} \\. U z through sand two feet deep in Ohio ; across track- \ v— al. I Zs less prairies in Illinois, with the heat of a sizzling SUn beatin K down. It crashed through weak \ - t ■> ‘ - - bridges in lowa and conquered roads of gumbo. "s' w~rduNc'C— Thp allc “l' mud of Colorado was no barrier ; its x 5 progress was not checked by cloudbursts in X? Wyoming, by steep-sided gullies, by deep ruts, Lj JF A by roads submerged. S f , < u ’ " " ew roa dway over the broad expanse I ,n I * a h ’ crosse d the Great Salt Lake Desert, ~~ —. N. la I °ft en miles from habitation; battled with lalcol \ Motor Trucks "* COAST * OB o I° n 3 l ” I° n 2 ton I fc. ' I \ \ hailstorms, rainstorms, and snowstorms in Ne- \ vada; climbed the tall peaks of the Sierras that ' seemed to mount to the skies. *Z i '’ ■' ' \ At last into California! JBC \ It pressed onward to San Francisco; then 35 '''Cafe \ | miles to the north. And the first load of goods 1 vY eTcr delivered across the continent by motor rTA ’"’‘X truck had reached its destination. T- ) Tt completed the journey of 4.145 miles in 41 ? hours of actvl’rnn- I n " l,r titne - Across 15 states it hauled a 3-ton load of Parrot Brand Olive Silk Soap, the product of its owners. Charles W. Young A Com patiy. from Philadelphia to a customer in Petaluma. Cal. It faced the A most terrific conditions ever forced upon a motor truck; received the most gruelling tests yet suppliedfin business service. But it delivered the goods! < xlco truck simply punctuates the strongest claim we have ever made, simply onions, ates «hv other Meo trucks are serving and saving for leaders in more than a hundred lines of usim ss m Aim riea, m the tropics, in \laska, in Canada, in the Philippine Islands and so on. Write for information ilanit Meo trucks in your line of business. LOLI MOTOR COMPANY OF GEORGIA B 2 iY^N T r^Y ST / 99 ors Also of Alco Motor Trucks. Alco Motor Cars and Alco Taxicabs. Movers of the World's Goods since 1835. Capital. $50,000,000 MBMHHRRIBMBBS ««■■■ -w mm.. STUDEBAKER DINES • SOUTHERN DEALERS Manager George Hanson, of the Studebaker Atlanta branch, added an other item to his long list of achieve ments Thursday when he entertained the Studebaker dealers of the South at a mid-day luncheon In the Transporta tion club rooms. The Studebaker company Is always anxious to bring its dealers together and discuss policies for the betterment of the factory- and for the good of the dealers On numerous occasions dur ing each year Hanson makes plans to hold some kind of dealers convention and the one held this week was particu larly opportune, coming as It did dur ing show week and just when the new Studebaker cars had been formally an nounced to the public. Factory Officials Here. This meeting was of exceptional ben efit to the dealers for the reason that by some stroke of ingenious manipulation Hanson bad secured the permission of General Manager Gunn to have as his guests James 11. Hazelett, chief engi neer of the Studebaker Detroit facto ries; V J. Philip, assistant general .-ahs manager, and Orin S. Wilson. Eastern district sales manager. With these officials right at their elbow, the dealers were afforded the exceptional opportunity of discussing the new cars and getting valuable pointers that will mean much to them during the 1913 season. Hanson Talks. In an unusually interesting manner Hanson told of the difficulties he met in Detroit, whin he first planned to get the factory men to leave their work right in the midst of their heavy pro duction season and how he finally man aged to get the consent of the big bosses to come down and meet the Southern dealers at the Atlanta show. He told of the Studebaker policies and the future plans of the corporation, touching strongly upon the co-opera tion of Sales Manager Benson with the branch managers and dealers. Introduced by Hanson, the factory men made talks to the dealers and as sured them of their pleasure in being allowed to meet them and telling them interesting facts about the new line of Studebaker cars. Dealers From Four States. Nearly all the South was well repre sented and the salesmen were all in a happy and optimistic mood, so en thused were they over the new Stude bakers. Those present were J. C. Sprane, of Anniston Hardware Com pany, Anniston, Ala.; F. A. Roberts, of Robert. Motor Car Company, Jackson ville, Fla.; C. H. Sams, New Smyrna. Fla.; L. C. Kyle, Gadsden, Ala., K. E. Auto and Electric Company; Harry- Hopkins. Gadsden, Ala., K. E. Auto and Electric Company ; E. G. Barnett. Athens, Ga.; F. L. Martin, Carlton, Ga.; F. E. Besson, Dublin, Ga.; Harry House, St. Augustine Machine Com pany. St. Augustine. Fla,; T. N. Hen derson, Tampa Harness and Wagon Company, Tampa, Fla.; H. L. Beeman. San Juan Garage, Orlando, Fla.; J. K Dorn, .Miami, Fla.; F. D. Smith, Carl ton. Ga.; Frank Mallard, Brunswick. Ga.; T. A. Bryson, Savannah. Ga.; Morris Ilaym, Savannah, Ga.; John A. Bririe, Lake City, Fla.; Henry Davis, The Atlanta Georgian Automobile Department • • OFFICIALS PRESENT. • * * • A. J. Phil, assistant general sales • • manager. • • James H. Hazelett, chief etjgi- • • neer. * • Orin S. Wilson, Eastern district • • sales manager. • • O. C. Reed, Birmingham branch • • manager. • • H. L. Smith, Charlotte branch • • manager. • • C. M. Love, Florida representa- • • five. • • G. A. Moore, Georgia represen- • • tative. • • A. R. Thomas. Athens sales • • force. • • George W. Hanson, Atlanta • • branch manager. • • Harry Cohen, salesman, Atlanta • • branch. • • J. L. Hixon, salesman, Atlanta • • branch. • Gainesville, Fla.; J. Reeves Gambro, Barnesville, Ga.; S. L. Mitchell. Chta tanooga, Tenn.; B. A. Tyler, Dalton, Ga.; Walter Rylander. Americus, Ga.; O. P. Woodcock. Jacksonville, Fla.; VV. M. Johnston, Lithonia, Ga.; R. M. Tribble, Lithonia, Ga.; Judge Dan Green, Birmingham, Ala.; Will Sum mers, Gainesville Auto Company, Gainesville, Ga.; H. K. McClendon. Mc- Clendon Auto Company, Valdosta, Ga.; R. E. McKnight, McKnight Bros. Motor Company, Senoia, Ga.; George W. Hill. Christie & Hill, Cornelia, Ga.; Hamp ton Rowland. Athens. Ga.; J. H. Lester (auto company), Sheffield, Ala.; F. J. Sesler (motor company), Mobile, Ala. CHASE PRODUCES NEW LIGHT DELIVERY CAR FOR FAST CITY WORK The latest addition to the line of commercial vehicles manufactured by the Chase Motor Truck Company, Syr acuse, N. Y., is that of a 500-pound ca pacity delivery t -ck, brought out to meet the demand for a low-priced light delivery vehicle. The general design is similar to the design of other models made by the Chase company, which builds vehicles with both right and left control and two and three-cylinder en gines. The new model has a two-cylin der engine of the conventional Chase type, and the left side control and steer. Tlie speed of the truck is twelve miles an hour on high and four miles an hour on low gear. The price of the vehicle equipped with an express body is SSOO and SBOO when fitted with a panel top. The loading platform is 58.5 inches in length and 40 inches in width and over hangs the rear axle by 20.5 inches. When the truck is loaded the height of the loading platform above the ground is 31 inches and this distance is 33 Inches when the truck is empty. The truck can be turned in a' circle having a diameter of 30 feet. The total over-all length of the ve hicle is 10 feet 6 inches on an Bu-ineh wheel base. The distance from the dasli to the front, of the seat Is 22 inches and tlie distance from the front of the seat to the back of the body is 8 Inches. The weight of the vehicle Is 1,500 pounds. BUILDS AUTOMOBILE, PUTS IT AWAY AND HOPES IT REMAINS Few people would invest $2,000 in tlie building of a vehicle and then store it away, new. with the devout hope that it might never be used. But this is just what President John N. \\ lllys, of the Willys-Overland Company of Toledo, Ohio, has done. And, furthermore, nothing would make the big automo bile manufacturer hapiper than to know that there was never to be any use for the conveyance. For the ve hicle in question is the Overland am bulance. Several months ago, when the change in models made caused a temporary slack-up in tlie rush of the Toledo plant, a number of employees were put to work on the Overland ambulance. One of the best chassis made by the company was fitted with the mosj mod ern ambulance body made, with special upholstery, spring seats and cots, stretchers and complete cabinet of "first aid" remedies and appliances. / X DLLIVEHY CAR 800 iw j i J, \ $ w Yes, Sending Them Right Up! Do you know of a bfctter answer to a good customer than 14 Sending Them Right Up”? Goodrcu&orners, Mr. Merchant, demand good service. And because they knoJ when they get it, a Studebaker “20” delivery car will prove invaluable in your business. The Studebaker “20” is to order delivery what your telephone is to order taking. Botl mean promptness, the life of modern retailing. There is not a on your books who will not be gratified to know of your purchase of a Studebaker “20 ’ delivery car. It repre sents you well. It Eaturally pleases your customers to have their goods delivered in so smaKt and good looking a car as the Studebaker “ 20, and on the streets it is everywhere a advertisement of your enterprise and up-to-date business More merchandise, to mfrse wider territory, in less time, at less cost this is the merchants are seeing the n6int every day. With the Studebaker "20 ' delivery car wu take no chances. Many ' are already in use in this city and the clajms we make for the car are daily being substantiated. We can show/ou precisely what the Stude baker "20" is doing for other merchants nere and what it costs them. Before you buy you can be absolutely sure what you will get. • Our customers will tell you that Studehpker service to owners of Stude baker cars is precisely what you have a rigljt to expect from the Studebaker In' organization. It is a fact, not a promise. lAnd it means that your Stude- \ \ L - baker “20” will constantly be ready to me« the exacting demands of your WU trade. Some of our cars are actually being Vised over 100 hours per week, As a business man you owe it to your&elf to investigate. Our representative will be brief. Send for ux ' Price complete, SBOO fo.b. Detroit For Tank and Speedometer, V) The Studebaker Corporation, Deloit, Mich. 2 ATLANTA BRANCH X 114 Auburn Ave. G. W. Hanson, Mgr. t According to advices received by C. A. Gilbert, Western district manager of the United States Tire Company, all of the United States Tire Company's factories will be operated during the coming winter on full summer sched ule. This means that they will be run night and day, three shifts of work men being employed. The decision to continue this plan, begun last year, was reached at a con ference in New York last week between General Manager J. M. Gilbert and the company’s factory managers Drivers of automobiles registered out side the state of New xork will in the future be arrested and lodged in a po lice station for violation of traffic or dinances, instead of being summoned for a hearing. Foreign drivers heretofore when ap prehended by officers have been given the privilege extended by magistrates to state drivers to appear in court in AUTOMOBILE NOTES response to summons without arrest. Because so many have ignored such summonses, tlie magistrates have de termined to take away tin privilege. The success of tlie British cars in the recent French Grand Prix has re sulted in concentrating attention once more to the question of road racing in England and a general movement has been started to revive the races which were formerly held on the Isle of Man. It is denied that when racing was abandoned it was due to the opposition of the late King Edward VII, to whose attention the matter was never brought, it is claimed. The last large ear to be announced is the National. This Indianapolis com pany does not build yearly models, but offers its cars to the public on the se ries basis. The new series is called the Improved Series V. and has five regu lar models,, one more than last year. rs These models are: Seini-racing road ster, speedway roadster, toy tonm.au five and seven-passenger touring car- In this line are also included limousine? coupes and sedans. As a Vital step in a persistent ca a palgn being carried on by tlie Denver Chamber of Commerce, the Denve 1 Motor club, the Colorado state high waj - commission and Other organiza tions. to have that city placed upon a great transcontinental highway, a. trip to mark out the Denver-Salt Lake City section of the projected Midland Trans continental route has been made by Charles M. Kittredge, Jr., assistant sec retary of the Chamber of Commerce,' and A. L. Westgard, official map maker for the American Automobile associa tion, New Jork city. Kittredge acted as official representative of both the Chamber of Commerce and the Motor club.