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"SOUTH BEND".
What It Owes. To Studebakers.
An American correspondent writes:--
not
BUY NOW!
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CARBURETTORS.
I have frequently been asked if
Car Prices May Go Up. An American correspondent. writing in Indian and Eastern Vetora says How much South Bend, Indiana!
Two months ago I warned owes to the Studebaker plant thuyers that their motor cars were would be difficult to say, but likely to cost them more in the without the endless buildings immedia e future and already my from which the famous "Sixes" warning has proved well-founded. come that thriving town would. One firm has raised its price as I am afraid, be but a sleepy little much as $:00 for its closed cars it pays to fit a new carburettor country village. Yet,
o and other makers are getting where an engine is lifeless or is ago, before the ready to follow. In spite of the extravagant with gas, says a mo- many years automobile came, at the cross,
huge quantity production-thes torist. roads of South Bend there was asay America will turn out three doubts on the subject, as it Personally I had my little factory that was famous for million cars this year-it will be seemed to 10 the carriages it turned out. impossible to pay the mounting designers would see to it that the that engine They were good honest vehicles Cost of steel and labour without carburation of their product was that were light on the horses that raising prices, and when once the the best possible, but I bave, drew them and comfortable for every price boosting begins in learned a less on from personal the passengers. That was the earnest reputable makes of car experience, and I hand it on for Studebaker outfit of the latter will go to considerably higher what it may be worth. I drive part of the nineteenth century. prices-to-day the motor car is two cars regularly, one of which Then the gasoline engine came Probably the best value of any is fitted with a Stromberg car- and one was fitted to a Stude manufactured product offered to buretter, the other had no name baker carriage! I wonder what the public, If you are thinking of to it and do what I would my the blacksmith founder of the buying a car-do it now! old horse carriage days would say
gas bill kept mounting and my if he could revisit the mighty!
pleasure in driving the car was gone. Just to see what would organisation which today is the successful model but largest manufacture: of
these happen I took the Stromberg and six others were of high price and with the aid of several washers cylinder motor cars in the world. not always too successful în fixed it to the other engine well I do not think it is sufficiently operation, but the Studebaker enough to get it to work. The understood, that to the Stude-six made good and set a fashion improvement was so marked that haker Company is dus the fact which the world has quickly I had a new carburettor properly that the six-cylinder is so followed and it will not be fitted and have cat my gas cost universal. There had been other long before the four-cylinder nearly one-third, while the engine sixes before the South Bend engine is found on only the seems to have acquired & e Company brought out their very cheapest of cars.
lease of life.
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The triumphs of Shell in the French Grand Prix, the Boulogne Grand Prix, the Aerial Derby, the King's Cup, the historic Atlantic and Australian flights, are one form of proof of superiority. Another is the evidence of
Prominent Motor Journalists who have witnessed the testing of Shell:
MR. H. MASSAC BUIST in The Observer,
A higher useful compression than any other of the well-known brands"
CAPT. E. DE NORMANVILLE in The Motor Chimer.
"The superiority of Shell......so convincingly demonstrated" MR. J. OWEN in The Feferee.
"In every case Shell Motor Spirit went further than the others”
MR. ARTHUR J. SALMON in The Daily Graphic.
*Shell came out on top to a remarkable extent.
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Map at bottom shows the route to London.
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CAR?
The following cars are in excellent condition
OLDSMOBILES
STUDEBAKERS
ESSEKS ESSEX SEDAN
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