THE WACO CAR, A SEATTLE PRODUCT-(1) Front view. (2) Front part of chassis, looking from the left. car. (4) Plan view of chassis. (5) Showing arrangement of control elements. (6) Waco Car "Made in Seattle' (3) Three-quarter front view of Rear view. wide and 46 inches leg-room. The comfort idea is still further carried out by the deep springs, all hair stuffing and black long-grained textile leather upholstery. Within easy reach of the driver is the leather-covered instrument board, with Stewart speedometer, ignition and Washington Metropolis Enters a $950 Propo- lighting switches, dash lamp, oil gauge and ammeter. The S sition in the Fight for Pacific Coast Trade EATTLE has entered the car manufacturing field with a less-than-$1,000 proposition, which gives every evidence of meeting with approval of the motor-wise of the Pacific Coast territory. The Waco car, built in a five-passenger touring model by the Western Automobile Co., is listed at $950. With a wheel base of 112 inches, the Waco is in the big-car class, and the mechanical make-up and equipment are such as to make it compare favorably with the best efforts of the eastern factories in the same price class. The unit power plant of the Waco is of the four-cylinder type, 334-inch bore and 44-inch stroke, and developing 37 horsepower. Ignition is by Dixie magneto and the Schebler carburetor is used, the Stewart vacuum feed system drawing the fuel from the 15-gallon tank in the rear of the frame. The two-unit starter and generator operates at 6 volts and charges at 11 miles an hour. The car is driven from the left, with control levers in the center, the electric horn button being located in the center of the 17-inch walnut corrugated steering wheel. The clutch is of the floating Raybestos ring type, with multiplying levers. The transmission, three speeds forward and one reverse, has nickel steel gears and drive, with imported SKF self-aligning annular bearings. The brake equipment of the Waco is made extra powerful in order to insure an adequate margin of safety-the service brakes, being external, contracting 12 inches in diameter and 2 inches wide, and the emergency internal expanding equalized. The front springs are semi-elliptic and the rear three-quarter elliptic, with main plates of vanadium steel and made extra long and strong to insure easy riding. The front axle is drop-forged I-beam, and the rear axle of the full floating type. The artillery type wheels are equipped with quick detachable and demountable rims, the tire equipment being 32x32 throughout,with spare rim and carrier. The Waco body is of exclusive design, with high, roomy seats and comfortable backs. The rear seat is 48 inches wide, with 42 inches leg-room; the front seat is 40 inches lighting system includes, besides the electric parabolic reflector, head lamps and tail lamp on the license bracket, an extension service trouble lamp mounted on the dash. In the matter of equipment the Waco is in no respect behind cars in its class. The one-man top is of especially fine material, and the windshield, mounted at a 20-degree angle, gives the car that much desired rakish appearance common to cars in the $3,000 class. All the other equipment is of similarly standard quality. The weight of the car, fully equipped, is 2,350 pounds. Davis Car Built in Seattle Manufacture in Seattle, Wash., of an automobile with special features which are attracting the attention of motoring men has been begun by the Davis Car Co. The principal detail is the Davis model cone friction drive. which has been invented by L. W. Davis, of Seattle. The Davis car is divided into two separate units, the engine and the transmission. The latter is accessible and admits of easy repairs at small expense. By means of the cone friction drive, a rolling contact on the friction faces is obtained and the engine power is delivered direct to the wheels. Hill-climbing is claimed as a feature, because of the utilization of the full power of the engine at all times, the driver having ten speeds at his disposal. "Your Garage, How to Build It," is the title of a handsome publication which has been published for free distribution by the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, Chicago, Ill., with Charles R. W. Edgecum be as the author. He starts his booklet with the declaration that in a short time almost every American family will have a motor car of some kind. He says that there is now a motor in every sixth family, and that the motor car is America's biggest institution. Adequate housing for the car is, in his opinion, an absolute essential. He gives two types of garages, of cheap and of expensive type, one each for a one-car and a two-car garage. The publication concludes with a description of a six-car garage, rent, costing $1,400, and producing an income of $450 a year, a 25 per cent investment, besides giving the owner his own garage rent free. built for 586.8 Miles Through the Heart of Chicago in 24 Hours A Typical Chalmers Performance At 12 noon, Monday, March 26, a stock Chalmers seven-passenger touring car with first and second gears removed, was started north on Michigan Boulevard through Chicago traffic. At noon, Tuesday, March 27, the Chalmers was stopped at the starting point. It had gone 586.8 miles through Chicago's densest traffic. The motor had never been stopped. Nothing but high gear was used. To prove conclusively Chalmers flexibility on high gear, the low and intermediate gears were removed from the transmission. The car was a standard Chalmers sevenpassenger touring model, complete with standard body, top and full equipment. An average of slightly over 14 miles per gallon of gasoline was attained, an excellent example of Chalmers economy. 586.8 miles, through the famous congested Chicago "loop" district, is a wonderful feat. This performance on high gear is even more wonderful. It is without an equal. It is an endorsement of the motor. It proves Chalmers reliability. It demonstrates Chalmers cooling. It shows Chalmers flexibility and perfect control. It is a new achievement. A condensed summary of the signed certificate issued by the Contest Board of the American Automobile Association, under whose supervision the test was made, is reproduced below. THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the Chalmers seven-passenger car above mentioned was a fully equipped stock car. It was driven for 24 hours through Chicago traffic. Only high gear was used. The motor was never stopped during the run. The mileage obtained was 586.8 miles. The gasoline consumption was an average of slightly over 14 miles per gallon. аккиминие Chairman Contest Board, American Automobile Association. THIS CHALMERS CARRIED FAMILY OF TEN ACROSS CONTINENT. Russian Family Crosses Country in Old Chalmers Running on ordinary coal oil or distillate, covering a stretch of over 300 miles in reverse gear, a veteran Chalmers car that had been driven eight years brought Abraham Toube, his wife and their eight children, into San Francisco recently. Toube is a Russian and his wife a German. They left Portland, Me., three months ago, traveling 6,000 miles since December. Hotels and parking stations bothered these rugged travelers not at all. They pulled into the cities and encamped for the night on the bestlooking vacant lot. The large special body of the old Chalmers served as sleeping apartments, dining room, reception hall and general living quarters, this despite such weather conditions as hail heavy enough to smash the thick glass of the headlight. Near Needles, Cal., the entire transmission, save the reverse gear became incapacitated through an accident. Undaunted, Toube backed his car the entire distance into Los Angeles, some 315 miles over the desert. This part of the trip took nine days. Ford Cars Replace Patrolmen in Coast Cities. The police Department of Los Angeles is being "Fordized." Where three patrolmen were formerly used, the services of two are now being dispensed with, while the third is provided with a Ford car in which to cover the territory formerly covered by the three on foot. Not only is this plan destined to work a great saving for the taxpayers, but it is expected to accomplish far-reaching results in ridding the city of undesirable characters. In Oakland, Cal., and other Coast cities Fords have been used by the police with good results for some time. Sixteen Fords are now used by the Oakland Department. Petaluma, Cal.-A. G. Ehmann has taken the Grant car agency. Modesto, Cal.-Ray Rasmussen will distribute Maxwell cars. PATHFINDER TWELVE USED IN RECRUITING FOR UNCLE SAM. Harry Stutz Provides Ambulances for National Guard Motor ambulances, supplementing the mule-drawn ambulances already in service, will be provided for the Indiana National Guard by the Stutz Motor Car Co. through its president, Harry C. Stutz, to donate six chasses constructed especially for ambulance purposes. The Parry Mfg. Co., promptly volunteered to provide the ambulance body when it learned of the Stutz donation. Mr. Stutz not only offers the motor chassis, which, with the bodies added, will be worth between $12,000 and $15,000, but he promises to aid in recruiting thirty first-aid men to accompany the cars. Men in his factory have already volunteered to join a company to become drivers of the cars, and enough more men of the shop are willing to enlist to complete a company. It is Certainly a Darling Negotiations have been completed whereby the Darling Motor Co., of Dayton, O., will take over the Wright-Martin aeroplane factory for the manufacture of new cars. The lines of the Darling are distinctive throughout, and speak well for the efforts put forth by James Guthrie, the consulting engineer, who is well known in the automobile field. It is a decided departure from conventional design, with its straight body effect and double cowl, patterned after the popular European models. All Darling cars are built upon the same chassis, but are equipped with several different body styles. The Darling contains many of the standard specifications of the Society of Automobile Engineers. For instance. there is the model 7-N six-cylinder Continental motor, 31⁄2 inch by 54 inch stroke. There are Timken axles with spiral bevel drive; Borg and Beck disc clutch; Stromberg carburetor; Bijur press-a-button starting system, two-unit motor geared to flywheel through Bendix drive; Gemmer steering gear; Kellogg tire pump: Atwater-Kent ignition; Stewart vacuum gasoline feed. The car is also equipped with demountable wire wheels with wheelbase of 130 inches: MotoMeter; combination headlight, with Conaphore lenses, extra wheel on carrier at rear, rain-vision windshield, tire pump driven from transmission; disappearing folding auxiliary seats, lock tool compartments in step inclosures, electric signal under bonnet, speedometer, ignition switch and lock, and the various other features that go with all high-class motor cars. The weight of the Darling car is approximately 3250 pounds, fully equipped, ready to operate. It is expected the building will be ready with machinery and equipment for building Darling cars within the next few weeks, and deliveries will begin within the next sixty days. Brawley, Cal.-E. S. Lack has become Allen agent for the Imperial Valley. San Bernardino, Cal.-Boyer & Munger have opened a garage for special Studebaker repair work. ONE OF 25 ARMS PALACE HORSE CARS THE LEXINGTON HOWARD COMPANY HAS REFITTED FOR SHIPPING THE MINUTE-MAN SIX. The above picture shows how the horse is being driven out of his luxurious compartments by the automobile. The Arms Palace horse cars were planned primarily for the luxurious transport of the equine over railroad lines. It is fitted with stalls and conveniences for the cars of the horses, just the same as the Pullman car is fitted for the convenience of man. But the automobile is crowding the horse aside to such an extent that the picture speaks very eloquently of the horseless horse car. Twenty-five of these Arms Palace horse cars have been fitted by the Lexington-Howard Co. of Connellsville, Ind., for the accommodation of its automobiles, and the picture shows a four-passenger Minute-Man Six being run out of the ex-horse car, which, with three others, was brought from the factory to Eugene Martin, distributor for Southern California and Arizona for this line. Mr. Martin has experienced a great Ross ELLEVUE SAN FRANCISCO The Bellevue has well been termed GEARY AT TAYLOR STS. it has the spirit of good service and all the facilities that produce it. The name of Morgan Ross is inseparably associated with super excellence of hotel keeping and completes the assurance of perfect satisfaction. -Accessible-Every downtown attraction within four minutes walk. -Comfortable-300 superior rooms with bath. Enjoyable a table of unusual excellence. Reasonable-Very moderate rates. Commendable -Real personal service. American plan from $4.00. European plan from $2. Wire or write for reservations. MORGAN ROSS, Manager. Chandler Should Earn $3,000,000. as It Beginning with January 1st, up to March 10 the Chandler Motor Co., of Cleveland, has shipped 2,822 cars compared with 1,799 a year ago. seems reasonable to expect an output of 4,300 cars for the first quarter of the year, invariably the poorest three months of the year. Owing to the higher material cost this year and the necessity of shipping bodies from Detroit by express, the Chandler's per car profit of $132 will probably not be achieved for the current quarter, but on a per unit basis of less than $120 it should earn about $500,000 for the first quarter. Based on the manufacturing schedule of summer and fall months, its earnings for the year should total at least $3,000,000, or the equivalent of better than $42 a share. * * * 100 Cadillacs Per Day. According to the statement of Sales Manager E. C. Howard, the production of eight-cylinder Cadillacs for the month of March reached a total of 2032 cars, and April is expected to show a substantial increase to reach an average of one hundred cars per day. * * * Goodrich Puts "Rubber" in Name. Sales for the B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, O., are now being handled by the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., which has just been organized. The new company has charge of sale of Goodrich products and serve as the selling link between the manufacturers and the consuming public. The original company continues and is the owning and operating concern. U. S. Rubber Elects Directors. The annual meeting of the United States Rubber Co., New York City, was held recently at New Brunswick, N. J. James S. Alexander, president of the executive committee, R. F. Thomenson and Charles Segar were elected directors. These men represent the new interests that have entered the company, which are Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the American International Corporation. De Palma Out of De Palma Co. Ralph De Palma has sold his interest in the De Palma Mfg. Co., Detroit, and will drive a Packard racing car this year on his own account. He will, however, continue to aid the company in an advisory capacity. Following the reorganization, the officers are Frank Book, president; Herbert Book, vicepresident; and C. W. Toles, secretary and treasurer. Besides rebuilding De Palma's old Mercedes car and two other racing machines, the company will manufacture aviation engines. Maxwell Advances Prices. The Maxwell Motor Sales Corp., Detroit, has been compelled to increase the retail price of the Maxwell touring car and roadster models by an advance of $30. The present price is $635. The advanced prices became effective May 1. Mahin Changed to Wm. H. Rankin. The name of the Mahin Advertising Co., of Chicago and New York has been changed to the Wm. H. Rankin Co. William H. Rankin is president: Wilbur D. Nesbit, vice-president; and Herman A. Groth, secretary-treasurer. * Hunting Joins MacAvoy Advertising. James P. Hunting, formerly of Singleton-Hunting Co., advertising agency of Cleveland, O., has joined the MacAvoy Advertising Co., Chicago. He has opened an office in Cleveland a: 1305 Union National Bank Building. Mitchell Dealers Sure of Deliveries. President Otis C. Friend, of the Mitchell Motors Company, Inc., of Racine. Wis., says: "We have material bough: and stored for the output of 20,000 Mitchell cars for 1917 and will make deliveries as per our contracts with our dealers." Hood Tire Expands Production. The Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, Mass., is erecting an addition to its plant that will provide for an increase of 80,000 square feet of floor space and will permit a continuous 24-hour schedule. The present production of the company is 300 tires a day and the increase in floor space will enable the increase of production to 2,000 tires a day. Hurlburt Truck Prices Raised. The Hurlburt Motor Truck Co., New York City, has been compelled to advance the prices on its standard models. The 12-ton model will sell for $2,350. the 2-ton model for $3,300; the 32-ton model for $3,850; the Van Special 32ton model for $4,150; the 5-ton truck, $4,600; and the 7-ton truck, $5,500. * * * Mention "Motor West," Please, When Writing to the Advertiser |