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Suggestions Made to Those Who
Go Motoring to Strange
Places This Summer,
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Thousands of motorists this year will
drive from their accustomed and fa
miiiar territory to strange places,
where the topographical conditions
are, unfamiliar to them. and where
they may encounter roads and road
conditions never bhefore met Some
advice on driving under various con
ditions will be helpful. &
Though it is generally known by the
exj) erienced motorist that if a hill is
toc steep for even first gear the re
verse may be used, the first-time own
er may give up in despair and try
another road without a steep grade
The reverse of every car is geared
lower than first, hence if the car can
i pull on low because of the steep
&s ofsthe hill or lack of power, the
driver can back up the hill. It must
be done slowly, of course, and a very
witehtful eye kept for oncoming cars
In ascending grades, glways keep
t@the extreme right. This should be
‘e- always, of course, but on grades
vars coming down ‘usually travel at
speed and the driver takes a little
more road room than usual It will
be found safer also if there is a turn
on the grade
in descending a grade, various re
sistances may be used to keep the car
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i WaLKER BroTHERS Co.
3 WHOLESALE GROCERS
L. and N. Terminal Building
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5 ATLANTA, GA. May 18, 1919.
,;;. Brigman Motors Co,
E 493 Whitehall St.,
Atlanta, Ga.
b | Gentlemen:-
‘ You may advise your custiomers that we have been using
: three Federal Motor Trucks in our City deliveries for the past
‘\ several months, and we are so well pleased with the satisfactory
B | results given that we have placed our order for an additional
" I—l/2 Ton Federal to accommodate our increased business.
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*‘: Yours very truly,
g Walker Brothers Company,
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.‘ There is a Federal Truck that best suits your needs. Let us know what you haul and our ex
i perts will tell you how to decrease your haulage cost and increase your delivery radius.
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El 493 WHITEHALL. ATLANTA. MAIN 529.
Distributors for FEDERAL Truck Company, Detroit.
THE MOTOR TRUCK
O the genteel Toursedan he's a slickep, spiek and span,
*An' he leads a life of luxury an' ease; ,
Mr, Roadster, he's a sport of the racy, reckless sort, )
An' Miss Electric she's a lady, If you please! §
I'm related to their tribe, but I ain't what you'd describe
As a slicker, or a sportin’ lucky-buck; 5
I'm the roughneck of the crew=-I'm the course uncouth Yahoo-— ;
I'm the un-aristocratic Motor Truck! §
I'm the sturdy son of toil, I'm the grim and grimy moil §
An' the bedlam of the busy parts of trade; g
You can pipe me off a mile by my rough and ready style, ?
An' my hale an' hearty hiccough on a grade, ‘
I can carry heavy freight at a slow an' steady gait— !
I'm the patient, ploddin’ sort wWith pep and pluck-—
But 1 gotta groan an' grunt when I do my toilin' stunt, {
‘Cause I'm just a plain, plebeian Motor Truck! {
Where they dig an' blast an’ bore in the earth for oil and ore, {
"Twixt the mines and mills I ply with precious loads; !
O'er the rugged mountain trails I kin trundle with the mails— §
An' they tell me I'm a bear at buildin’ roads, {
From the peaceful countryside where the farms an' fields abide,
I transport tremendous loads of market truck; )
Oh; I'm burly an’ I'm tough, 'cause I'm built of solid stuff— S
~ I'm your bustlin’, husky, rustlin’ Motor Truck!
To the furthermost advance of our fightin' force in France, $
In the face of them inhuman, hellish Huns )
Té the front-line trenches fanned by the breeze from No Man's Land— ;
I kin lug the ammunition an' the guns. ¢
I kin treck with tons of food oer them shell-torn stretches strewed
With the grim debris ot battle, blood and muck— g
An' I'll do my bit unawed, by the e verlivin’ Gawd, 0
As a crashin’, smashin’ U. 8. Army Truck!
—C. WILES HALLOCK in The Denver Post.
in check and save brake lining. Tln
some States the grades are so steep
that if the driver were to use the
brakes alone to retard the car’s move
ment the lining would be burned out
when the bottom of the grade is
reached. The driver should remem
ber that shifting to a lower gear al
ways throws in engine resistance.
Hence on low gear there is the great
est resistance obtainable. If the igni
tion is switched off, then the rear
wheels turn over the engine and fur
ther resistance is thrown in. Opening
the throttie introduces a little more.
The brakes should only be used if the
resistance mentioned is insufficient to
prevent the car from attaining a dan
zerous speed.
Sandy roads baffle the owner who
is accustomed to driving in sections‘
where no such roads exist. The light
ca. takes the sand easier than the
heavy car, but both may find difiiculty!
if the sand is very loose. If the sandy
stretch is quite long and looks dan
gerous, the tires may be wrapped with
burlap and if this is not at hand rope
will do. Deflating the tires is often
all that is necesgary. Once a car is
stuck in sand it is useless to try to
get it out by spinning the rear wheels.
This only causes them to dig deeper
inte the sand. If no progress is made
on the first trial, shift to neutral and
get busy at the rear wheels. Boards,
if they are obtainable, are excellent
in allowing the rear wheels to grip.
The boards should be placed at the
rear of the tires and the car reversed
out of the difficulty.
Tn approaching a sandy spot, it is
best to speed up a little, holding the
steering wheel firmly so as to be pre
pared for an e mergency. In sand the
steering wheels are a little hard to
control.
Muddy reads are negotiated in the
same way as sandy ones, though usu
allv the chains will pull a car through
muc that is not too deep. ‘The mud
road as usually found is not soft for
many inches down, so that if t he car
sirks the chains.will probably take
hold on the firmer grounu underneath
the mud. The market now affords a
number of devices which may be at
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tached to the rear wheels to enable
th: car to travel over almost any kind
of a road. In one instance the device
allows the car to sink just enough to!
clear the axles.
One of the very handy devices for
the tourist who expects to meet
some bad roads and get into difli-i
culty is an extractor of some sore
This is the last-resort device which
may be handled by one man to pull‘
the ecar out of deep mud or sand.
Block and tackle is the common de
vice but there are many special ones
on the market for the automobile
tourist. |
It may seem like childish advice to
sav that a driver never should cross a
stream without investigating its depth
anA the condition of the bed, but nev
ertheless many experienced motorists
forget and find themselves stuck,
Even our war tanks could not travel
everywhere, for our army had to send
men ahead (“bellycrawlers,” they
called them) in order to look over the
territory to see that the tank could
travel over it,
In addition to observing the simple
rules mentioned, the motorist will do
well to make an investigation of the
road conditions in the section of the
country in which he expects to drive.
| The American Automobile Associa
ticn, the travel bureaus, etc., have
information on the roads in all sec
tions, and it would be better to get a
report from one of them. The road
books are, of course, heipful, but they
can not be expected to indicate road
conditions months after they have
been published. .
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Oversize Tires May
Not Clear the Car
When oversize tires are to be used
the car owner should be certain that
there is enough distance between all
the tires and the nearest parts of the
car. When the tires are under heavy
load there is danger that there will not
be clearance between wheels and fen
ders and the casings. Be certain that
when the springs are compréssed to the
llimit by some extra bump the tires
will mot come in contact with some
part of the chasis.
Government Expert Predicts Rail
roads May Soon Have to
Tear Up Short Lines.
That the railroad of the future may
find it more economical to tear up
ghort line tracks and develop motor
truck transportation in its place is
the forecast made on the future status
of the railroads by C. A. Morse, as
sistant director of operation in charge
of engineering and maintenance for
the United States Railroad Adminis
tration. Mr. Morse delivered an ad
dress before members of the New
York Railroad Club and his remarks
were followed with close attention as
coming from one of the best known
railroad men in the country.
“The perfection of the motor truck
and tractor, together with the univer
sal use of the automobile, has intro
duced a new element into the trans
portation problem that should be
taken into consideration at this time,
while studying the reorganization of
the whole transportation question,”
said Mr. Morse.
| “Good roads are demanded for the
use of the automobile and a study
should be made to see what addition
al expense would be necessary to so
construct them that they would serve
for motor truck and tractor. Where,
heretofore, development of the country
for 50 miles either side of a trunk line
of railroad has required the construc
tion of light branch lines, it is a ques
tion to be seriously considered wheth
er good wagon roads should be con
structed and the products of farms
and passenger travel should not be
handled by motor trucks, and auto
| mobiles to the main line.
Short Rail Lines Lose.
“Taken alone and considered as a
{ unit, practically none of these small
| branch lines pay expenses, but as
| gatherers of freight and passengers
to increase density of traffic on the
main lines they are sources of profit.
“As, however, the traffic gathered
by them is turned over to the main
line with a deficit attached which has
| to be overcome during the main line
movement before any profit is made,
it would be a decided advantage if
this traffic could be delivered to the
trunk line by means of the motor
| truck, tractor and automobile with
out this bill of expense attached,” Mr.
Morse said.
Noting the fact that a handling
would thus be obviated since it is
now necessary to truck farm products
to the short line branch,. then trans
fer them to the main line, Mr. Morse
I<-nntinued: “Investigation of this
(Hllhj(’(‘l may show the desirability, as
| good roads are completed, of the tak
ying up of many branch line railroads
l:gnd utilizing the abandoned roadbed
for imiproved motor road, thus de
creasing the expense of maintenance
and operation eof our railroads and
giving in its place a well located mo
tor road. Such a change would ecall
for increased facilitiess at stations
Standardize Motor Plants|
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Is Idea of the British
In discussing a paper on “Jigs, Tools !
apd Specialk Machines,”' before the In-l
stitution of Mechanical Engineers in
London recently, Herbert Carpenter |
sald he would suggest that the Gov- |
ernment should call the motor car man- |
ufacturers together and fal them to
form a committee to consider standard- |
lzation, There were 200 or 300 caArs on
the British market, with not so much |
as a piston ring standardized, Such
4 committee might develop designs em
bodying the best features of every car,
and a dozen types might be standard
ized, c-mhmclnl light cars, taxicabs,
trucks and delivery wagons, together
with two or three other essential Lypes,
They could evolve five or six types of
engine and one or two magnetos, while
they could standardize carburetors,
valves and piston rings The making
of small fittings could be especialized
by the smaller firms, engines by larger
firms, and motor cars by firms still
larger. With such a. system, connect
ing rods should be produced at a cost
of 20 cents per rod, and generally the
price of cars be reduced to preswar
limits. It might be wurged that the
scheme would arrest improvement and
invention, but he thqgught that a man
ufacturers’ committee would be well
able to judge of the desirability or
otherwise of a proposed improvement.
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along the main line for pnssnngoru'
and for hauling freight, including !
storage, trackage, etc., but it wonldl
mean the concentration of supervi
sion and labor, permitting better
housing and living conditions for em
ployees.
“Motor driven conveyances have
gradually been changing conditions of |
railroad transportation for the last'!
ten years, and now that the goncm],
study of transportation facilities is‘
up for discussion, it should be takenl
into careful consideration, and due
weight given to its influence on the
economics of the situation,” he con
cluded.
Merchants---
Motorize Y Busi
I Your Hauling Radius!
ncrease our riquiing nadaius.
I Y our Profits! | |
ncrease Your rrofits.
—ln The Atlanta Journal’s Ship-by-Truck to Rome,
Georgia, last week an immense fleet of trucks demon
strated that trucks can haul your merchandise on a 70-
mile run at a cost that stamps this method of transporta
tion as a sound business Investment. '
—Confined to the limits of your present hauling radius
your volume of sales—of business is just so much—your
profits a certain per cent. The increasing of this busi
ness and profits admits of only a logicak growth.
—Tlncrease your hauling radius and at once you have
opened the channels for an immediate increase of sales
and of profits.
—The inereased equipment for this larger hauling is re
markably low in comparison with the possibilities for
increased profits.
—With motor trucks you can render consistent, regu
lar, effective service to your customers that results in in
creased profits.
—Allow a transportation engineer to help you solve your
hauling problems. Their experience will be of benefit
to you and your business.
. In considering motorizing your
business we invite your inspec
tion of the G. M. C. Truck.
270 Peachtree Street
Atianta o Charlotte
" PRICE REDUCTION
Gates Half Sole Tires
We wish to announce to motorists that the prices of
Gates Half Sole Tires have been reduced in proportion
to the reductions recently made on several makes of tires
THEY STILL COST JUST
HALF AS MUCH
International Rubber Sales Co.
D. B. Donaldson H. R. Armstrong
345 Peachtree St., Phone vy 656