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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

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.MERITS COMPARED

LIGHT CARS AND SIDECARS IN

COMPETITION

.....

WHICH IS BETTER?

We are aure

to

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merits of the baby cars

the powerful sidecars. In compar Ing one with the other, the problem

U.S. MOTORDOM

GLIMPSE BEHIND THE SCENES

A TOUR

ERSKINE SIX

THE CHINA MAIL,

STOCK MODEL SEDAN'S HONOURS

OVER MOUNTAINS

Our fuel investigations and our headlight research are important factors in, the present day use of motor care..

Promotional Work by Invitation

Of probably the greatest impor- tance is the promotional work long carried on here and now being un- dertaken in those foreign countries; Highest honours in the Barber which invite us to send our mis- ton Rellability Trial, Southsionary, not tell them cars, but to African motor classic, was won furnish ideas on highway transpor- by a stock model Erskine Six tation.

Sedan, according to word recely- Here is a board, constructive ed by the Studebaker Corporation work that bonofits every manufac- of America. The Erskine, piloted turer, whather located in England. by Alec Mackintosh, amateur France, Germany, Italy or driver, scored 966 points out of other producing country.

a possible 1,000, to win the grand national cup, two gold medals and a certificate of merit.

Any

Our lectures, almost always speaking in the language of the country, with thousands of feet of The Barberton Reliability is an moving picture álma, undertake to annual event organised by the show how motor cars can be used Rand Motor Cycling Club, Johan-most efficiently: how bankers can nesburg, Transvaal, and is open to profit by becoming a part of the all types of private motor vehicles industry; how highway commis-- and both amateur and trade driv-sioners may be helpful in their ers. This year the test was con-highway progress and how deal- ducted over a specially selected ers can beat and prospects, finance course of approximately 500 sales and maintain propor service. miles.

The first day's ran led from

It to a broad-gauged mass sales- Johannesburg through Delmas to manship iden, with a view to adu- Witbank, Middleburg, Wonderfon-cating and helping those in other taine, Carolina and 83 miles over

countries and making it unneces- the mountains to Barberton, asary for them to go through the distance of 250 miles. The return experimental stages through, which trip was made over the same route wo passed during the last 20 two days later.

years.

Our man lecturing in Tokyo in his second trip round

the

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Specified Speed Based on engine capacity and class of driver. each competitor world; the one travelling through was required to maintain a speci- Central America, lecturing fied speed throughout the test. Spanish, with his "movies":" Officials were stationed at five other one about to start for South open control points and two hid- America, and a fourth, for his an- den checking points. Failure to nual visit to the European coun- maintain the specified speed and trica, are just instances in thla arrive on time at each checking campaign that we bellove point resulted in the loss of one mutually helpful. point for each 30 seconds the en- Benefits Exclusively for Members trant was behind or ahead of

On the

other hand, there are scheduled time.

Thirty-four contestants entered many benefits that accrue only to the trial, of which seven failed to

Reems fair and start: Nineteen completed the proper. rün, the Erskine Six leading with what we term the Cross-Licensing 966 points, and followed by two.

our members, 18

Of outstanding importance is

competitors who tied for second Patent Agreement.

with 957 points.

After an expensive patent sult

The triumph of the Erskine Six many years ago, and wishing to in winning the South African be free from patent litigation the event adds another performance industry entered into an agree feat to the long list of records ment under which manufacturers held by Studebaker-built cars, were permitted to use the develop. among which are five world rement patents of their fellow mem. cords, 114 official American re-bers without the payment of money

royalty. |cords and 48 Australian records.

TEAMWORK

HOW IT PAYS IN AUTOMOBILISM ·

ager, National Automobile, Chamber

·

Each manufacturer contributes his own patents and in return ́re-| ceives licences under the patents] of all other manufacturers enter- ing into the agreement.

1

Croad Lfvenee

[By Alfred Reeves, General Man- included in this arrangement and More than 700 patents are now

of Commerce. Address delivered at any legitimate manufacturer who Sixteenth Annual Meeting, Wash-joins the Chamber contributes his Ington, D.C., May 7-11, 1928.] patents and receives licences under Relations with the railroads and those of a revolutionary character all the others. Design patents and with the steamship companies are cared for by

are excepted. а department of The basis of this agreement was traffic experts who aid the trans- to provide the best possible, car portation companies as well as for the final buyer. conserve the interests of motor each manufacturer to make the It permitted companies in rate-making, routing best car the known art permitted, and similar subjects.

without being subject to law suits,

I

Last year automotive and allied freight amounted to 3,267,000 car loade.

denced by the fact that not al That it has worked well is evi

Saving on Inboxed Automobiles

single patent lawsuit has been We now have five steamships ing the past fourteen years, and brought among our members dur- travelling to Europe especially the agreement was recently renew. equipped to carry unboxed motor ed for a five-year period.

Patents Excepted

Only patents of a revolutionary character were excepted and none appeared during that period.,

ears which means an average sav. ing of $65 a car in freight alone, The 150 members of Die Allge-and lays the car down for the great deal relative to the meiner Deutscher. Automobil-European market at least $100 less the old Club who made a 2,000-mile motor than could be done in and

tour of leading cities in the east-fashioned way. ern half of the United States and "Instalment selling" was a much This department also handles Canada during October, were abused term in the years gone by, Patent matters for the industry, given a glimpse behind the scenes but thanks to the good sense of arranges for community rates to of American motordom on Octo-men in the motor industry, it is the advantage of both members The. sponsors. of the former willber 19 when they were entertain-now on a solid basis and a res and inventors and is the point of tell us that four wheels are better ed in South Bend, Indiana, by the pected part of the banking com- contact for manufacturers in con- than three because they permit the Studebaker Corporation of munity as well as of many indus-sidering valid patents held outside provision of greater comfort and

They declared a healthy of the industry. During the course of their basis for the sale of a car was cleanliness.

will be found not easily solved.

They will be right. But they will not remind us that the sidecar costs

America.

tries.

We hear so much about bual-

visit to Studebaker headquarters 33.1/13 per cent. down payment,ness secrets that it is startling to they obtained a first hand impres- the balance in 12 equal instál know that our members exchange sion of the factors that have con menta,

their production reporta monthly. very much less to buy and to main-tributed to the success of the Instalment sales of motor cars, This makes for proper.planning tain, that it has a very much better | American automobile.

decreased last year. to about 60 and eliminates the old-fashioned road performance; and that, so far The German motorista, who per cent. of total sales.

idea that you must have a spy in as the passenger is concerned, the made their motor tour under the Legislation, city and federal, re- the other man's factory to learn sidecar occupant is more comfort auspices of the American Auto-quires a lot of attention because what is going on. able than any of the passengers in mobile Association, were met by a there seems an ever present be an ultra-light car.

cordon of police west of Southlief that the motor vehicle owner Bend and escorted around Stude is a fit subject for increased taxes.

en Favours Proper Taxes and Control | baker's Proving Ground route to the city. They were We are in favour of fair taxes later taken on a trip through the when the money is placed on the It is Interesting to note that off various manufacturing and as highways and have well defined 2,155 motoring offences committed They will have dainty little super-sembly departments of the fac-policies covering the control of in Paris during July, obstruction structures of the salon type, and, tory and entertained at a banquet traffic, speed, size and weight of was by far the most common, ac in some cases, will be very much better "all purpose" bodies than the Building. The party of visitors ance.

in the Studebaker Administration vehicles, and compulsory insur counting for no fewer than 483. Sunshine models which are to be

Next came offences against the seen in such profusion at the motor

There will be sidecars at Olympia which will compare with the most expensive of salon cars so fer ns passenger comfort is concerned.

show.

The light car is bound to make further progress because it is such a fine proposition, but it will not encroach on the motor-cycle market

to any great extent.

Prices

No official announcement has been mado as to the prices which will obtala next year, but it fa under stood that they will be about the same as those which prevail at pre sents

There may be one or two motor cycles whose list prices will be very little in excess of $20, but the poten- tial rider, should not look forward to any appreciable cuts.

OBSTRUCTION OBTRUDES

Albert Russel Erskine, President while the guidance of a lawyer is of 268. was welcomed in an address by We have invariably found that lighting regulations with a total

of the Studebaker Corporation of helpful, presentations to law mak-

America,

|ing bodies bring the best results

While the German visitors were when the manufacturers appear much impressed by the magnitude and tell their own' story for or

A world car show in New York

of Studebaker's operations and against suggested legislation. City da a prospect for the year 1929, the extent of its manufacturing facilities, they were particularly book of Facts and Figures, are dis- Ing purposes has been made to

More than 40,000 of our 96-page A formal effer of space for exhibit struck with the care and tho-tributed throughout the world and European manufacturers for next were able to observe in the re-thia room who is interested. Palace thro roughness of the testing they!

6 copy is available for anyone in year's show the Grand Central search laboratories and on the Proving Ground. With such a

122 Standards on Motor Cars Bureau of Inter background, members of the

There are now. 122 standarda on Constructors in party declared, it was inevitable motor cars, all with a view to tional Automobile Chamber of Com that American cars should set a

lowering costs so that the car can merce. In the øyent high standard of performance be delivered to the user and main manufacturers accept the invitation under the extremely varied contained at the lowest possible cost. It is proposed to set aside a total of ditions, they are called on to meet They do not hamper individual 11,000 square feet of floor space to in overseas service.

designs in cam,

accommodate the imported exhibits"

The new Buick is the new Style

If you want beauty if you want luxury.

if you want up-to-the-minute smartness. there's only one choice the choice of America the new BUICK with Masterpiece Bodies by Fisher

From one end of the country to another- in New York, in Miami, in Chicago, in Los Angeles, and all towns between over whelming praise for the distinctive beauty of the Silver Anniversary Buick with new Masterpiece Bodies by Fishert

All agree that here is a new style-a new mode an entirely different and original Interpretation of motor car beauty, fore casting the trend of smart body-design for months to come,

And all are volting their approval in steadily mounting demand-a demand sey. eral times greater than the demand for any other automobile that makes even the slightest bid for comparison with this new

Buick!

Thrilling new lines-graceful contours- gently rounded steel panels at sides and hood, the most expensive steel panel work employed on any automobile in the world— lend matchless charm and beauty to the Buick silhouette.

Vivid new colors-smartly-contrasting chrome-plated headlamps and cowblamps

striking new radiator, fender and bamper design-impact added dash and distinction. And wonderful new interiors-with new adjustable front seats and full-width rear seats-new velvet mobair upholstery-and the most attractive hardware and fitments all combine to form ensembles of rare and distinguished artistry. It's the new style- the new mode—in motor cars!

The Silver Anniversary

BUICK

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WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT...BUICK WILL BUILD THEM.

Not Chrysler but the Chrysler Public

B

ROADLY' speaking, the measure. of

any man's success is the size of the public behind him.

He grows as his public grows--as his acts are approved in increasing volume by an in- creasing public.

'These few words tell almost all there is to the Chrysler story-or give, at any rate, the root-reason why Chrysler looms large on the motor car horizon.

Chrysler has never halted or hesitated, be cause Chrysler is free and has no obligations: to anyone but its own public-no limit ex cept the limit of its own creative powers, its own energy and en- chusiasm, its own faith in the boundlessresources of the nation..

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Chrysler quite frankly confesses its intention to try to surpass other cars and other man- ufacturers--quite frankly admits an enthu» siastic ambition for continued leadership in value giving quite frankly intends to leave. nothing undone to earn and deserve and hold the greatest motor car public in all. the world

This, it seems to the Chrysler management, is the urgent need of every manufacturing inutitution which aspires to satlify, a swift, moving public-to realise that it does move, that yesterday is dead, that laurels wither, that today is gloriously alive, that tomorrow calls clamor? ously for greater and greater endeavor:

Due to arrive per S.S. President Mackinley."

Price $4,300

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