The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-22
. NOVEL AUTOMOBILE.
Cincinnati Man to Have Fast
est Machine In the World.
WILL BE TWELVE FEET LONG,

Owner Expects to Show That Amer
icnn Built Vehicles Are Superior to
the Foreign-strength Forty-eight
Horsepower cone Horse Shay
Iden a Feature In the Construction.
The old zone boss shay" made ia
nous in poetry by Oliver Wendell
Holmes, is to have a prototype in Gin
cinnatj in the form Of a remarkable
automobile. says the st. Louis Repub.
lie. This new and unique automobile
is being built by w. H. Summer for
MI. Wilbern, a retired millionaire to-
bacco merchant of Cincinnati.
Eyes," said the millionaire, II nm
having built for me an automobile on
the exact plan of Holmes mi boss
shay Every part Of my new machine
will be as strong as any other. There
will be no weak parts whatsoever in
the vehicle.
"My new automobile is being built
for me for two purposes. One is to
demonstrate that we can build finer
automobiles in America than they can
in France, which is ahead of the world
in the use of automobiles, and that Gin
cinnati Is n Of the best locations in
this country for a large automobile
factory. II this machine now being
built for me should prove the success
/ expect of it. it Is very probable that
a large automobile factory will be
erected in this city, where every part
of the vehicles will be made under n
roof *#"
This new machine is built with the
object of making it the strongest, finest
and fastest racing automobile in the
world. The vehicle is being built to
make eighty miles an hour on a racing
track and from thirty-ive to forty
miles an hour touring I'VE the coun-
try.
The automobile will be IL feet in
length, 5 feet s inches wide and 261A
inches from the ground. this being
much lower than the racer operated by
Fournier, the noted French chauffeur.
1t is being erected to cut the air. The
engine base will be of aluminium
mixed with a certain quantity Of alloy.
An aluminium box casting for the en-
CINE has been made by a Cincinnati
firm that is the largest aluminium cast
ing ever made in the United States,
being 80 by 20 by IL inches and weighs
eighty pounds. The same casting in
iron would have weighed 400 pounds.
Every part of the automobile except
Fir ~ rhop,;yo,, {c hoi,,- ,ooIo So Ne, a. u
natl. .-.t IN.
There will be & twenty-four gallon
tank of gasoline. 1t will take one gal
Ion Of gasoline for every twenty-five
miles. The whole machine when tour
ing will weigh $3.50 pounds and 1000
pounds when racing. The maximum
strength will be forty-eight horsepow-
er. All the running section of the ma
chine will be Enclosed in a dust proof
aluminium case which will be three
parts filed with the finest l%ubricating
oil, the intention of Mr.. Wilbern being
to see how many miles this automobile
will run without the machinery getting
out Of order. -
The builder. Mr.. Summer, states that
the machine will be positively noise
less. Mr.. Wilbern decided to have this
zone boss shay built as the result Of
an accident. He was out riding in his
small automobile a few weeks ago,a c-
companied by Miss Eleanora Hosea of
Mount Auburn. The two front wheels
broke off, throwing Miss Hosea and
Mr. Wilbern out of the vehicle. Miss
Hosea was slightly injured at the time.
and the automobile came near being
made into old scrap iron by a street
car. After that accident Mr.. Wilbern
reread the "One Hoss Shay" and. like
the old deacon of tire poem, he vowed
he would have an automobile built in a