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FOUR
TH
a M OTOR.I ST;
' .SXn&bridged MagazineJor Car Owners
. EDITED BY 'Vf jL’
<mA -WILLIAMIULLMAN J JM
One reason why a $4,000 car glvei
•uperior results Is because It re
fceive* management and care of the
$4,000 kind.
PAYING THE
PIPER
When a motorist recently ashed
an automobile dealer why the
manufacturer didn't adopt a cer
tain device as standard equipment
he received the following reply:
"You fellows won't lot him.”
The inquirer was naturally ptix
*lcd. How could the car owner pre
vent any manufacturer from doing
as ha pleased? And why should the
motoring public block the tho de
velopment of anything It wantcd7
The answer Is simple. Everyone
who operates a car Is discouraging
the manufacturer from adopting
anything that will In anyway com
plicate the automobile. Every now
and then a manufacturer will try
something new—something that
produces excellent results if prop
erly attended to—but owners fall
down on their role and the manu
facturer eventually suffers.
It Is to avoid tills that the In
dustry keeps on making enrs that
could be a whole lot more service
able with the ear owner's co-opera
tion. They can't afford to take the
chance unless all the manufactur
ers do likewise. When all makes
adopt something as standard tho
motorist has to wake up and do his
share toward making the Idea ef
fective.
Many a good Idea has gone Into
the discard because owners Imagin
ed It was self-operating. The elec
tric transmission Idea used 1n the
now defunct Owens-Magnetic car
proved to be a costly experiment
largely because the car owner
thought he had no part to play In
Us success. Everybody co-operates
to the extent of keeping tho engine
supplied with oil becavise all cars
make the same demands, but when
the Innovation Is peculiar to Just
ono or two makes the owner Is like
ly to neglect It and then condemn
It.
When the motorist Is willing to
taka enre of better automobiles tho
manufacturers will build them.
THE OLD MECHANIC
SAYS:
Do you ever consider the weath
er when you are plannlti' for re
pairs on the car?
1 guess It's sort of rare to be so
forvslghted. Judgin' by lbs way
owners rush In here for various re
pairs and adjustments after the
Weather gets 'em Evi rv lane wr
had a hot day this past summer
more chaps would come In here
than I could possibly lake rare of.
We could go for days of cool
to Start with
Delco
Ignition for
FORDS
Th* new Delco ignition
System for Fords in
rrrasrs your driving sat
isfaction—makes your
Ford start in all weather
as it does in July.
Delco ends the need of
buying new timers. This
system is a permanent
one, built with the same
care and skill that has
established Delco as the
world's finest in Starting,
Lighting and Ignition.
Delco furnishes'a hot,
accurately timed spark
keeps plugs clean —gets
more power bv better
combustion—makes the
engine operate smoothly
at any speed. It has an
automatic spark advance.
Simple timing adjust
ment, exclusive with
Delco.
Fold and Installed by
HAIR A SEAGO
470 Broad Street
Phona !6?8
AUGUSTA. GA.
f
WHITTON &
PRITCHARD
All Kinds Machine
Work.
General Auto and Truck
Repairing
Whits Truck Service Station
and Parte
Phona 1637. 575 Bread St.
weather without havin' occasion to
tighten a single fan belt.
I'm wonderin’ whether It’s going
to bo the same situation this fall
when a few chilly days bring khelr
own troubles. We always have a
pile of radiator and pump work
the minute motorists have to put In
antl-frcezo solutions urtd find that
they can't have any success while
the system leaks. A lot of 'em have
to be disappointed for the simple
reason that wa haven't been able
as yet to do two Jobs at once.
Every time we got a rainy day I
can figure on an onslaught of Jobs
adjustin' brakes, flxln" windows and
attackin' windshield wipers. No
body seems to figure when the sun's
out that a rainy day may be In
the wind.
There's some people around here
who will keep usin’ their ears
through g week’s rain and never
figure that when it clears off and
they want to take a week-end trip
tho car may be shy of grease tjn
many vital spots. Just ns soon ns
tho sun peeps out they all flock
In here to havo done In ten minutes
what should havo been done some
afternoon tho week before.
Th wise owner figures that to he
prepared for changes In the weath
er Is to be runnln* with a car that
Is In the best of condition all the
time, lie gets double service out of
each trlp'to tho shop.
FOR SAFETY’S
SAKE
Whenever a driver surprises you
by making a sudden left turn di
rectly In your path never try to
swing around to the left of him
Alwaya aim for the opening be
tween tho curb nnd the rear of bis
car, applying the brakea at tho
same time. The chances nro that If
bo continues to enrry out Ills p'an
ho will be out of your v/ay by the
time you reach the spV, and 'f ho
makes tho mistake of stopping you
will collide with him In the lens',
dangerous position.
DO YOU
KNOW CARS!
One popular, make.of car la using
a Herman silver radiator Instead of
nickel. Do you know which one It
is?
What make <it car is using an ad
justable wrist pin bearing?
What car uses a fan that auto
matically disengages at speeds of
forty and over?
llow many cart are using sir
cleaners? What nre their names?
Do you know the name of the csr
that carries Its rain cur'ntns In
baric of the back scat cushion?
What car Is now using a hraka
pedal set up higher thnn the elutch
pednl In order to get greater lever
age?
What car holds the record for the
quickest stop?
With what car oan you shift from
high to second and then to low at
any speed?
In what eight-cylinder ear do
you pour engine oil In through
openings In tho cylinder heads?
On what car do you adjust the
fan belt by turning a wing nut?
The starter button la on the dash
of one make of car. Do you know
which one?
Who’s making a aleeye-valve
straight-eight ear?
And yet yotl thought you were
"up" on automohilee!
ANENT AIR
CLEANERS
Many motorists are wondering
whether air cleaners can be used
on their old cars with complete
satisfaction nnd the Information
they nre receiving is unfortunately
unreliable in too many Instances.
Air cleaners for engines are de
stined to lie generally adopted, but
It would be unfortunate If the de
sire to unload them too quickly
upon the puldlo should result In
temporary dissatisfaction with
them. Tho point Is that tho typical
air cleaner draws in too much cold
air for the proper operation of the
older types of engines In cold
weather. Cara being designed to use
air cleaners now use special meth
ods of preheating the gas mix' t e
after It leaves the carburetor and
before It reaches the cylinders. If
you are Interested enough to ex
periment. you can use an air clean
er on your old motor In winter pro
vided you make some provision for
preheating the air that la drawn in
to It.
THIS AND
THAT
There aaams to he room enough
for every form of transportation de
spite the Inroads of newer forms.
A few years ago the country w.i>
worrying over the effect of the
automobile upon the railroads, and
today It Is known that (lo t.ral
Motors Corporation paid during
the past >i :u 1K5.(M0,090 In
railroad freight charges. Refo-e
the automobile became popular this
profitable branch of the railroad
business was unknown.
Motor tourists are now warned by
the government not to transport
nlrsery stock, such as young white
pines, from one place to another,
owing to the prevalence of Mights
and nursery diseases. One of the
most common of these ts the white
pine blister rust now being found
In the New England and Lake
states. A young tree dug up and
brought home may mean sacrific
ing a lot of shrubbery at home that
Is many times more desirable.
SWITCHING
OFF IGNITION
Motordom Is still handicapped by
rules of car care that have gone
out of style by reason of changes
In design This is hest Illustrated
hi the matter of switching off the
ignition when descending hills
Formerly this was considered an
excellent way to hold back the car,
l ut testa today show that It makes
very little If any difference wheth
er the Ignition Is on or off ts the
engine Is to be used as a brake.
With the "üb" cylinders used In
the early days each power etroke
of an engine delivered a lot of mo
tion to the crankshaft, and thus to
the rare Itslef. even If the throttle
was closed to the Idling poeltion.
Switching off the Ignition, then,
$ 1 9 complete
wirh l>«Jt o
coilforhwdt,
$9.90 Htrte
l'ofh*l'Hf#»
tailuJf ui.
robbed tho engine of this driving I
power and offered Its full compres- 1
slon force as a braking force. To- {
day. however, with smull cylinders
It Is a different story, and
torlst should hear It in mind when
ho Is using the engine as a brake. I
Tho Individual power stroke of < ach |
cylinder when tho throttle Is In the
Idling position Is hardly sufficient
to he detected when descending
hills.
LESSONS FROM
ACCIDENTS
Sometimes a tip on car care Is
a tip on safety, and wlmn a motor
ist overlooks the former Jie is often
duo for trouble. This was Illustrat
ed In a recent affair In Washing
ton, where a car shot Into a crowd
watching a baseball score bonrd
when the driver stepped on the
starter.
Drivers are told to press out the
clutch pedal when Hing the starter
ait a means of saving the starter
motor the work of turning over the
main driving and counter-shaft
gears of the transmission, hut this
Is also a safety feature. If for any
reason the gears nre not In neutral
tho operation of the starter cannot
possibly start tho cor itself when
the clutoh Is disengaged.
MORE TRUTH
THAN GAS
A cross road Is a meun road.
Judging from tho week's news
what most cars need is a spare
driver.
If tlils discourtesy business keeps
up deaf folk will be about the only
ones who will enjoy motoring.
The fellow who suggested that
every car should he equipped with
a spnrc horn wasn’t very observing.
A lot of cars already carry a two
horned driver.
An Insurance Journal advises that
overturning In an automobile with
out striking another vehicle or ob
ject Is not a collision, and accord
ingly, not covered under such a
policy. Tho motorist might get away
with It. however, by contending that
he ran Into bad luck.
MORE TRUTH
THAN GAS
Too often a hasty reading turns
Breaks Speed Record In Making Millions
By a Twice Tried and Proven Recipe
"tbis ■- - (' ' >v
HARRISON BOYCE
“Get the Million Making Habit,” Says Self-Made Millionaire Business Man
What is the easiest, quickest, sur
est way to makp a million' dollars?
With the exception of that old
one about “Isn't-it-lovely-weather
today?" this question perhaps holds
first place. Every youth starting
out in the world with a college di
ploma in one hand and a want ail
section of the newspaper in the
other has asked it. Comparatively
few have found the answer. To he
very exact only one out of every
50,000 ever solves the problem ac
cording to statistics of the National
Census Bureau.
The experience, however, of one
Individual who did arrive at the an
swer is attracting more than the
usual amount of interest in the com
mercial world.
Harrison Boyce, one of the lead
ing automotive engineers of the
country, made one fortune in four
years. And then just to prove to
the world that it wasn't an accident
he turned around and made another
one. The second time in view of
the experience he had gained along
the way, he clipped his time by three
years and three months.
Wise men who go in for statis
tics claim this is a record, ruling out
of course the tremendous fortunes
that are won and lo?i overnight on
the stock exchange. One million
dollars in nine months! The inquir-l
ing youths drop diplomas and want
ad sections and frame a wondering
and admiring "How?”
According to Harrison Boyce,
himself, the "how" of it is simple.
"It isn't hard," he explains. “All
you have to do is to find something
everybody needs and can't get. Then
find out a wav to make it and sell
it to them. They buy it and pay for
it and pretty soon you have a mil
lion dollars.
Easy, isn't it?
The "something everybody needs
and can't get" which brought Boyce
Ins first million was the motometer,
the little round glass jigger that sits
up on the front of the automobile
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
an Instruction book Into a destruc
tion book.
The trouble a lot of car owners
have Is paying for their machines
on time.
There sre some who suspect that
the balloon tire has a string to it.
A man Is an article particularly
adapted to the task of changing a
tire for a lady.
What’s in a color? Have you no
ticed that highways are invariably
recorded on maps with black
stripes?
There are an awful lot of brave
dogs riding In motor cars these
day*.
Tt has been discovered that cer
tain types of women are better
suited to drive than others. The
layman, however, will probably be
content with the assumption that
tho best type of woman driver Is
the one who knows how.
NEW TRANSMISSION LINING FOR
FORDS
MARVELOUS INVENTION
WPd r e ld triplewear
ONDER J&JSftSrdiS* $2.25
A Product Greater Then In Nemo ** -r ® #l
Christened 7i« h Crown of Perfection
N.wW..v.wl, h |OUr«k.U pgoVEN product of
v£n£ZTi£XZuZg ENGINEERING ABILITY
Tho MAGIC performance of this WIZARD Transmission Lining Is far b«3rond your
dreams in a smooth, NON-CHATTERING band, reducing sirain on drums, gears
and axlee, and saves on tires and fuel. The savins for fleet owners is tremendous. Solo
owners as well are having TRIPLE WEAR installed now.
The easy start on steep hill* and smooth getaway is amazing; works like an electria
motor. Thousands of minute oil pockets in each hand. An assursd smooth stop.
TRIPLEWEAR SATISFIES WHERE ALL OTHERS HAVE FAILED.
Havo a set installed. You sure will see the difference. “Safety First.’*
Guereatee with every set.
SOLD BY BEST OF DEALERS PROPORTIONATELY PLACED
FORD AGENTS QUALIFY
Orders end Correspondeaee Handled by the Csapany
DURWYIXAN COMPANY. Jnc., Mfr*.
Putenon New Jer.ev
engine and indicates to the driver
when the water in his radiator is
too hot for safety.
Six years ago every motorist need
ed something like that, wanted it,
demanded it, but couldn't find it.
So Harrison Boyce set his active
brain to work and invented one in
his own laboratory which he had
rigged tip in the cellar of his home.
The laboratory up to this time had
been merely a hobby where he in
dulged his interest in mechanics.
Now it assumed the proportions of
a commercial institution.
Having perfected his invention
and given it a rigid test on his own
six-cylinder car, Boyce began look
ing around for capital with which to
finance the manufacture of his prod
uct. He found many people willing,
even anxious to lend hint money. In
fact, they were a little too anxious.
They wanted to put a large amount
of money at his disposal but in re
turn they wanted a big interest in
the business.
"Which, of course," Boyce points
out, “was fair enough, but somehow
I didn"t like the idea of sharing with
anybody when it came to the con
trol of my business. It was mv
motometer. I invented it, and 1
finally decided that 1 would put it
on the market. So I did."
That simple "So-I-did" covers
some strenuous and oftimes precar
ious activity on the part of the
young inventor, for, in the months
that followed, it frequently looked
as if his independent attitude would
ground the infant industry on the
rocks.
With his "shoestring" he set up a
small factory in Long Island City.
To-day that little building covering
a half acre has expanded into the
big Boyce Motometer Factory doing
a total business of $5,000,000 an
\illy.
7u»t about this time most men
would have sat bark and called it
a dav. But somehow Boyce had
had so much fun making the first
CHARLESTON, S. C. HAVE
15 PACKARD TAXICABS
More than 1,000,000 miles, a dis
tance equal to 41 trips around the
world, have been traveled by a fleet
of 15 Packard Six cars used In
daily taxicab service at Charleston,
H. C. The fleet is operated by the
Kanawha Taxicab Company.
The first cars were delivered to
the company two years and four
months ago. Later, additional cars
were purchased from the Ruby-
Sterrett Motor Company, Charles
ton Packard distributors, and the
number was brought up -to a total
of 15.
Saturday the mileage registered
on ail the cars was totaled hp and
found to 4ie 1,027,271 "miles. The
greatest mileage for a single car
was 89.079, and the lowest reading
was 37,078, this on one of the most
recently purchased cars. Some of
the cars have been in almost con
tinuous 24-hour service 'dnee they
were purchased. As many as 300
rails a night are made by the fleet
million that lie began looking around
for some way to amass another
young fortune.
Again it was “something-that
everybodv-needs-and-can’t-get" that
engaged his attention. The auto
motive world for a long time had
been demanding a chemical which,
when mixed with gasoline would
prevent the formation of carbon in
the cylinders. So that one day when
a wizened little professor of chem
istry came to him and said that he
had it, Boyce was immediately in
terested. The outcome of his ne
gotiations with the professor was
the launching of a second business
project to manufacture this product.
This time the million mark was
reached in nine months, as the sale
of the new product skyrocketed to
a Monthly output of 7,000,000 cans.
Unlike most millionaires, Boyce is
not full of tabloid platitudes con
cerning the sure road to success.
“I haven’t any dyed-in-tho-wool
method for making a million dol
lars,” he explains. “But there is one
thing which I do tell young men
and that's this: Don't spread out
your energy. Concentrate it on one
point. I made several mitlion dol
lars out of the motometer because I
was content to direct my energies
toward just one particular automo
tive necessity. I am making more
millions out of the gasoline mixture
because I let every other thing in
the w-orld go hang and devoted my
entire attention to this one thing.
"Making money doesn't require
any particular gift other than aver
age intelligence and a willingness to
Mlt hard. The trouble with the
ordinary fellow is that he works
hard, but he doesn’t work hard
enough at one thing. It's pleasant
to he versatile, but it’s more lucra
tive to specialize. That’s why the
physicians today who devote their
entire life to the study of one organ
of the body make ten times as much i
money as the ones who know some
about anatomv in general.”
and the driving is over all kinds of
roads and streets, from good to the
worst possible.
“With all this mileage,” said Wil
liam O’Daniels, manager of the
taxicab company, “our cars appear
almost new at all times We plan
operating and maintaining them at
this standard for another two and
NAEH
Naih Leads the ft'orld in Motor Gar l altie
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Advanced Six
Touring y
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Five Passengers •- '
$1375 j] I i.
wmbu— f icam Kar/ /: ># '-
?£' ■ \ * - -
“All-Season*” Top, standard equipment •‘•Glass Enclosures at slight extra cost
The Advanced Six s'Pass, Touring
With Special Nash “All-Seasons” Top and Qlass Enclosures
Now Nash offers a real enclosed car at an open
car price. The entire top is built as a permanent
part of the body. There are no rattles—no leaks.
Nothing to get out of order. The big windows
are of genuine glass. Come view it .
ADVANCED SIX SERIES-SPECIAL SIX SERIES
Models range from $1095 to $2290, f. o. b. factory
TOMPKINS MOTOR CO.
615 BROAD STREET.
THIS IS A S TUDEBAKER YEAR
Two Cars in One—
oAn opai and closed car combined
STUDEBAKER Duplex —a closed
and open car combined. An en
tirely new-type car—developed by
Studebaker and available from no other
maker.
It is the most sensational most
talked-of car in America.
One minute you are enjoying the
coinfort and protection of a closed car
next the unhindered freedom that
made the open car so popular. And
the change can be made in 30 seconds
by simply lowering the roller side
enclosures.
Yet with all this two-fold con
venience, the Duplex-Phaeton sells for
no more than an open car.
The new Studebaker Big Six is strik
ingly beautiful—with long, low sweep
STANDARD SIX SPECIAL SIX- 810 SIX
113-lm. IF. B. SO HP. 120 ,* W-B. 65 H. P. 127-1* W B 75 HP.
*‘l4s 5-Pass. Duplex .Phaeton sl49* 7-Pate. Duplex-Phaeton *1874
i-PIM. Duplex.Rosdstcs 1121 i p... n„„i„ '
S-Peet. Court-KoaJater. 1 »95 3 Duplex-Roadster 1450 j. Pul Coup* .... 2b!o
5 Paw. Coupe .... 1495 4 Px«e. Victoria . .. . 2050 . „ . .
5-Pww. Sedan 1595 S Pm». Sedan 2150 F™*-Sedan . . , , J7BS
S Paa.. BerUn« . I*so S-Pate. Berline .. . . 222* 7-Pets. Berlin. .. . . 2SKO
4 wheel brakes. 4 due wheels, 4w heel brakes, 5 disc wheels, 4wheel brakes, 5 disc wheels,
extra $79 c*tr<t $75 extra
(All prices f. o. b. IT. 5 factories, and subject to change uilKeut notice)
PALMER, PHINIZY & CONNELL
627-629 BROAD ST. PHONE 3333.
STUDEBAKER DUPLEX'
The NEW.TYPE OPEN.CLOSED Car
a half years and possibly more or,
in order words, to add more than
another million miles to the dis
tance already traveled.”
Visitors to the English Parliament
average 50*10 on ordinary days and
more than 20,000 every Saturday.
The New Studebaker Big Six Duplex-Phaeton
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19
George Washington selected the.,
site of the White House in Washing
ton, D. C., Jn 1791.
More than 1,000,000 tons of peat
are produced annually in the Nether
lands.
ing lines. It is especially designed and
powered for seven-passenger service.
The Big Six Duplex-Phaeton is de
livered to you with complete equip
ment. This even includes two highest
grade bumpers, extra balloon tire, tubo
and tire cover—there is nothing else
to buy.
But to appreciate this car you must
inspect it—drive it. Test its delightful
ease of operation—steering mechanism
especially designed for its full-sized
balloon tires.
Notice the new location of the light
ing switch on the steering wheel—and
many other new and unusual features.
See this car that has definitely solved
the open-closed car problem.