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Joe Dawson, hero of the 1912 In
dtanapolis 500. mile race, won at the
wheel of a National, the last Ameri
can-made ecar to achie¥e this honor,
staged a sensational comeback on the
Indianapolis Motor Epeedway m &
series of sprint races staged by the
specdway management for the enter
tainment of wounded and convales
cent soldiers .
Dawson's opponents were Howard
Wilcox, winner of the last Indianapo
lis chamjionship event, and Tommy
Milton, vietor In the road racing re
vival at Eigin.
Dawson proved conclusively that
the accident which ‘he sustained dur
ing the 1915 Indlanapolis contest,
when he overturned in trying to gvoid
Ray Gilhooley's wrecked Isotta, had
not robbed him of any of his nerve
and daring, and he dagove with all of
his old speed and skill
In the first race, a five-mile event,
he covered the distance in 3.33 1-6, an
average of 84.6 miles an hour, nosing
Wilcox at the tape in a spectacular
last minute rush,
The second event, for ten miles,
went to Wlilcox, the Hoosier champion
stepping on his mount at the psys
chological moment and &anunz his |
rival out by inches as ey whirled
togother over the finish line. Time: |
7:10 4-6; average, 833156 miles w‘
hour,
The third contest was the most
spectacular of the program, for fif
teen miles, with cach contestant stop
ping at the pits for a tire change.
Wilcox was the first to come in u.nd‘
got away with a loss of thirty-five
seconds. On the next round Dawson
halted and was off again In twenty
evight seconds, with a gain of seven
seconds on Wilcox to his eredit, From
this time on the contest was a ding
dong aftair, Wilcox assuming the lead
for a time, but again being overhauled
by Dawson at the finish. The time
was 10:36 3-5, an average of 825
miles per hour,
Tommy Miiton was not a factor In
any of the contests, experiencing
engine trouble which rendered himn
hors du combat, and the two former
500-mile winners and members of the
famous National racing team of early
days accordingly fought it out be
tween them.
In view of his long absence from
the racing game, Dawson’s showing
was held to be truly remarkable, some
of his laps approaching the best time
made on the speedway In recent
years. At the conclusion of the con
test the veteran's face wore a happy
grin, and indications are that hav
ing tested his skill and not found it
wanting, there is every probability of
his having come back to stay.
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Low Gear Ratio
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Advisable When
Using Trailers
sing Trail
Tong distance hauling Dbetween
cities has developed imte a thriving
business in almost all sections of the
country where roads are passable. In
many places, where roads are good
and grades npot too stiff, truckmen
are finding it possible to haui some
what more than the ordinary capacity
of thelr trucks and to use trallers to
add to the profits of the trip. In
cases of this kind a low gear ratlo is
considerd advisable by truckmen, to
enable the truck to start the heavy
loads with ease and to handle the
load on stiff grades,
A concrete example of this condi
tion is found in trucking problems
which were met by the Teonhardt
Truck Company of Les Angeles, Cal
This company uses a 3 1-2 ton Fed
eral truck and a four wheel traller
in their regular operations from Ven
tura to Los Angeles over the Santa
Susan grade. This mrade 18 three
miles long and contains as high as
a 12 per cent grade,
This truck has been In constant og
eration for the past eight months
aver this route and has regularly been
loaded with five tons with the traller
carrying seven tons,
An instance of how California farm
org have come to adopt the truck to
their advanced farming methods 1s
found in the work this company is
doing with the bean growers of the
Camirfllo region, The trucks are sent
right Into the fields and pull out with
i load of from ten to twelve tons on
truck and traller, The loads are
transported direct to the wareshouse,
thus saving rehandling, and dellvers
the beans to the consigner fifty miles
from Camirillo within five hours. This
same work, when performed by the
rallroads, requires at least three days
und the bags were handled from three
to four times
This is another excellent example
of the part motor trucks are playing
by relleving the railroads of the un
profitable short-haul work so nec
casary to get food products to the
market.
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Having secured the fundamentals for satisfaction in
tire usage—good tires and good tire service—we can
annex the fine details that increase the scope of satis
faction to completeness.
The utmost courtesy, a willingness that, seeing be
yond the requested assistance, fills even the unnoticed
need; a store atmosphere of enjoyment in service—
these, added to the bare essentials, make dealing with
us pleasant as well as profitable.
Distributors of United States Tires.
“United States Tires Are Good Tires''
Repairing Free Road Service Vulcanizing
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Quick Tire Service, Inc.
Phone: Bell—lvy 65, Atlanta 700, 26 W. Peachtree St.
Note Telephone Number, Read Address Again.
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The Reo speed wagon as it might have been had the war lasted
another year,
Had the war continned into the
summer of 1919 the Reo “Speedwag
on" would doubtless have appearcd
on most fronts as a high speed
creeper. During the last chapters
of the war the British were rapidly
replacing the heavy tanks with the
speedy whippets, the success of
which suggested faster means, of
hauling supplies *over -the plowoJ up
battery fronts.
C. H. Martin, the inventor of the
Martin Rocking Fifth Wheel, sug
gested a demountable tractor appli
ance for light trucks, and was asked
to prepare an experimental model
Recognizing the merits. of the Reo
“Speed. Wagon,” particularly its 60
per cent over size features and ex
cellent balance, Mr, Martir selected it
for his experiment,
Martin's devise was attached to the
rear axle shafts and the front spin
dles, The speed was greater than
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Factory Adopts
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University Post
Good Roads Work
Mr. H. C. Maibohm, president of
the Matbohm Motors Company, San
dusky, Ohfo, manufacturers of the
Maibohm Bix, in an ilnterview un
oovers the detalls of an unusual step
which marks & new development in
factory management,
“There 18 at the present time a
dearth of men who are capable of
accepting the responsibility of ex
ecutive positions. There are plenty
of good men, good mechanies, ete.,
who can do excellent work when ev
erything is laid out before them, but
what we need, and what we will need
in years to come, are men with
trained minds, whose shoulders are
broad enough to carry responsibility,
men who have imagination and fore
thought, and who are fast enough on
their mental feet to meet situations
in advance,
“Realizing that this situation will
prevall, we have adopted a plan which
is alraedy In operation, and the sue~
cess of wirich is already evident. We
are selecting a number of red-blood
od young men, who have the mak-
Ings of large caliber business men,
and putting them through a complete
and comprehensive post graduate
course in automobile manufacturing.
This urse starts at the very bot
tom d goes all the way through.
“™ we want them to know the
fundamentals of construction;
furthefmore, In order to make t:%
capable of handling men, we beliaVe
they spould know the conditions un
der ch their men work. Accord
ingly, start them out In the first
weck of the course rivetting frames
and actual mechanical work
of all kinds during which time they
are er the regular factory rules.
Then, as they progress in the course
from one department to another, they
take ugfl time study methods, cost
accounting, purchasing, selling, ac
counting, factory systems, etc, un
til they have a comprehensive knowl.
edge of the method of operation of
every department.
“They are given lectures by de
partment heads and other experts,
and at all times are under careful
observation, and eventunally, are put
into the department for which they
are best ritted, to specialize in one
particular angle of the business,
“While we do not held strictly to
the role, we prefer young men with
college or university training, and es.
pecially men who have earned thelr
education, as they are more apt and
thelr eduaction gives them a broader
view of situations.
“This is in line with our manufac
turing poliey. We are bduilding our
cars to a standapd of perfection which
will insure future success, soo why
not build our organization along the
same lines?™
HEARST’S STUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAZ, AUGUST 31, 1919.
the tractor’s and in that fact lies
the secret of its efficiency, and one
of the wvaluable ideas corhing. out of
the war is that the trend of present
day transportation is toward smaller
units, more of them and greater
speed, :
After Martin had satisfied himself
that the appliance was practicable he
loaded it into thet ruck, put back the
read wheels and drove it to an east
ern city, where a demonstration was
made under the worst conditions ob
tainable. His success was com.
plete. ,
The rigging was again removed and
the truck driven t¢ Lansing, where
it was demonstrated before the offi
cials of the Reo Motor Car Company.
In that test the tractor truck climbed
out of a sand pit but little short of
perpendicular up onto the road where
it then speeded up to twenty miles
an hour,
Steel Tires Injure
Roads More Than
Motor Truck Tires
There seems to be a tendency on the
part of some who have not thought
deeply on the subject to foster the
idea that the only wear to roads
comes from the use of the motor
‘truck.‘
“A few years ago the automobile
met with this condemnation,” says R.
E. Fulton, vice president of the Inter
national Motor Company, manufac
turer of Mack trucks, “but the auto
mobile is now a thing of such common
use that hardly any one finds fault
with it any more,
“The motor truck is rapidly becom~
ing the nation’s freight carrier, and
while it is not true there are people
who believe it comes in direct compe
tition with existing means of trans
portation of supplies, wpecitlg in
rural communities and between cities.
“Theer has been some unwise legis.
lation against motor trucks as a result
of such an attitude. But with motor
trucks hauling more than 350,000,000
tons of farm products & year the peo
ple can hardly sit idly by and allow
legislation based on false ideas to hit
at the very source of thelr life supply.
“Of all vehicles using our highways,
the motor truck probably causes the
lgt damage in proportion to the
sérvice it renders,
“There are two things that cause
damage to roads: one is the impact
of weight; the other is wear to the
surface.
“With a substantial roadbed the
impact of weight does Mttle damage.
If the roadbed is faulty, weight tends
to break it. It is simply a matter of
gravity.
Perhaps the greatest destroyer of
road surfaces and the least condemned
is the steel tire. The steel tire hits
the roadway with an absolutely un
giving impact. Its constant hammer
ing crushes stones and shatters all
particles that project from the sur
face of the road.
“Steel tires are usually narrow,
and they wear and cut deep tracks
and ruts. They pulverize the surface
80 that automobiles, with the suction
of thelr pneumatic tires, suck up the
dust that is formed and scatter it to
the winds.
“The motor truck with its broad,
flat rubber tires and slow speed, com
pared with that of the automobile,
causes practically no damage to the
surface of the road. It causes no
abrasion and there {s no suction from
the solid tires. Of all traffic on the
highways the motor truck does the
least damage to the surface of the
road,
"As to the welght it Imposes upon
the highway, this is largely taken
care of by the 800-pound limit per inch
of tire width. Legislation which ar
bitrarily limits the carrying capacity
of motor trucks simply adds to the
cost of transportation and increases
the cost of living.
“It is for the people to Insist that
legislation governing motor trucks be
Intelligently formulated. As the use
of the motor truck becomes more and
more an every-day matter, much of
the narrow-minded hostility mani
fested In certain circles at this time
will be completely overecome.
“It s for voters to use their own
Judgment and their influence.”
Big Truck Business
Expected to Come
From Europe Soon
American motor trucks shipped to
Kurope are being received in good
condition and thers is a clamor for
Ameriean made trucks on the conti
nent, according to Cyril Lacroix,
French representative for the Acason
Motor Truck Company, who has ar
rived in this country, .
“There is a good deal of business
in sight for the American truck man
ufacturer.,” Mr. Lacroix declares, “We
are now negotiating from Paris for
the sale of Acason trucks in Poland,
Greece, Serbia and Roumanla. The
purchases are of considerable Impor
tance, both because of the size of
the expected orders and the real ne
cessity of getting trucks In opera
tion in these countries quickly.”
Coincident with Mr Lacroix's visit
to the United States comes a letter
from R. N. Fairbanks, managing af
rector of the British-American Im
port Company, Acason distributors at
London, who, commenting on busi
ness conditions . Great Britain,
says: “While the need of trucks is
very great, yet government regula
tions at present are not favorable
toward large importations of Ameri
can goods, but relief is expeeted from
this condition after September.” With
this statement Mr Fairbanks sent
through an order for Acason trucks.
Indications for a big European truck
business is looming on the sales hori
zon for the &merican truck manufac
turer
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many who have demanded natlona.]‘
motor truck shows in past years with.
out awvail. One of the most deter
mined of the fighters for the re
starting of the annual shows of na
tional charaecter for the display of
commercial vehicles was Carl H.
Page, vice president of the Fulton
Motor Truck Company of Farming
dale, a veteran among veterans in the
motor truck fleld. Mr., Pdge was in
deadly earnest In his contention that
America wanted the national motor
truck shows, and -at several passen
ger car shows at Chicago and New
York exhibited privately in leading
hotels, including the Waldorf-Astoria,
New York, and the Congress Hotel
and Auditorium Flotel lobby, Chicago, |
Success crowned these displays of Ihe|
Fulton truck, resulting in many val
uable connections for the cumx»any.'
Mr, Page advocated the taking on of
motor trucks by automobile dnstrxb-]
utors and dealers and placed many |
valuable contracts in this field. The
Fulton company exhibited at the mo
tor truck shows put on by the deal
ers in New York and Chicago last
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at the time advocated the holding of
}the truck shows in the same week as
‘the passenger car shows., This pro
‘posal of Mr. Page met with imme
diate response, and the National Au
tomobile Chamber of Commerce
reached a decision in exact conform
ity with the published statement of
Mr., Page, who contended that when
held in the same week the motor
truck manufacturers would gain ad
vantage in many ways, including the
large attendance of dealers during
that . week who, in the large cities,
find it so difficult to secure accom
odations that they do not care to re
main over to a second week nor to
return, with the battle for a place to
stop before them. In addition, the
interested of the puhlic generally 'is
centered on the one week, and wltg
all shows held concurrently, even i
several bujldings, there would accrue
the advantage of banner attendances
which always lead to enthusiasm and
to better business through the edu+
cation of many business men who,
under ordinary circumstances, might
not attend the truck show, In fact,
as the shows are largely educational,
the makers see an advantage.in se
curing through exhibitions the same
week as the passenger car show, an‘
attendance superior to that which is
possible when the show is held, as
were the shows of old of a national
character, and as were the shows
promoted by the dealers in January,
during the week following the pas-J
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DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 30.—"“The
present situation in the motor car
and truck industry calls for the ex
ercise of the best business judgment
and common sense on the part of ev
ery dealer,” declares H. W, Acason,
president of the Acason Motor Truck
Companys of this city, in a general
letter just sent to all Acason truck
dealers. The letter continues to say:
“Both the dealer and the ultimate
consumer are affected by the pecul
far ‘economic situation now existing
The cost of labor and materials, due
to the increased cost of living ana
delayed production, is advancing
daily.
“In the meantime the demand for
good motor trucks has exceeded all
possibilities of production and no let
up can be foreseen.
“Imr order that every Acason dealer
may thoroughly understand the s«
uation of this company and regard it
leaving the country each day for their
accordingly, this statement is made.
“Labor is demanding more wages
in order to meet the rising cost of
living. Thousands of foreigners are
bly stand up against this simple eco
of how clever he may be, can possi
native lands, thus creating a serious
shortage of men. No one, regardless
nomie process. No manufacturer or
dealer can absorb the increased cost.
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Production of
Doble Steam Cars
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Will Soon Start
When production on a large scale
starts with the Doble-Detroit Steam
Motors Company, Detroit, as it will
do within a short time now, that will
be a glad day for Moan J. Ham
mers and his associates in the com
pany. President Hammers has spent
many years in bringing to a success
ful head the business of this company,
At the outset all was plain sailing.
The country was amazed by the Doble
steam principles and exhibitions
of the car drew national and
international attentiorf. So much
of a sensation was the Doble car that
representatives of leading manufac
turers in France and England sent
representatives by the score to Amer
ica to study the Doble car and to
carry out exhaustive tests. Distribu
tors in America sought the rights to
large territories and placed orders of
commanding size. Exhibitions at the
national automobile shows and else
where brought floods of indiyidual or
‘ders. Trips throughout the country
created great sensations, Demands
‘were such that the future of the com
pany was looked upon as a foregone
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the beginning has ween to maintain a‘
certain margin of profit above the
cost of production. The fact that we
will always maintain this margin is
the best guarantee of the permanen
cy of this company You, in turn as‘
a dealer, must follow thid same policy
if you are to remain permanently in
business. Any business policy which
is worth while requires courage to}
maintain
conclusion. Then came the great wiy
to interfere. The company went ahead
‘until America entered the war. Work
‘then stopped and all headway appar
‘ently stopped. Mr. Hammers kept
on, however, and held the reins at all
‘times ready to start the moment peace
‘was declared. The armistice came
and then came the deluge for the
company. Distributors and dealers
who had held back awaiting that time
gtarted inquiries. Individuals who
had either placed their orders or ex
pected to do so, started letters for
ward to the company. All doubts
about the future vanished very quick
]y and preparations were gotten unaer
way for big business. With the an
nouncements that companies of lead
ing manufacturers in France and
England had been.organized to manu
facture Doble cars in those countries,
it became known that the European
investigations, prolonged due to the
war, had resulted most favorably. The
opinions of the French and English
manufacturers and engineers were so
favorable that an impression swas
made upon many Americans who naa
hesitated. This hesitation had been
due to the war and doubts of the
ability of the company to manufac
ture in some instances, but others had
naturally hesitated while awaiting
opinions of men high up in engineer
ing matters. With the thousands who
had been convinced prior to the war
and with the thousands whose con
victions grew with time and with
dealer and distributors asking for par
ticulars with regard to plans for
manufacturing, the business of Mr.
Hammers and his associates started
on such a scale that all are now pre
pared for an even busier time than
prior to interference by the war.