Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-07
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A four-cylinder Rambler will arrive
by express from Chicago today Tor
w. K. Cowan, to be used as a DEM
onstrator. Four touring cars, already
sold. are expected to arrive this morn
ing from the factory
d. M. Lee will start around the Kite
shaped track today with runabout
and small touring car from the CAD
lilac agency. He will be accompanied
by Walter Knight, D. p. Rose and Mr.
and Mrs. Sterling of Detroit, VINO eX-
pect to be absent five days.
A four-cylinder touring car and a
carload of runabouts for the Cadillac
agency are expected in Los Angeles
this week.
A. w. Gump, local agent for the
Glide cars. who has secured the agency
of the Jackson company, will receive
two-cylinder, twenty horsepower car
today for demonstrating purposes.
While gasolene cars are being refur-
bished for the spring season of tour
ing, electric broughams, landaulettes
and hansoms are giving the maximum
of service to society in the leading
cities of the country. That great
strides have been made in the electric
field in the last year is shown by the
new Columbia electric vehicles of the
ton permits the use of pneumatic tires.
Ross's "Tea Kettle" otherwise
known as the June Bug" has been
purchased by Andy Welch. owner of
Charter Oak park in Hartford and
Oakley park in Cincinnati. The Tea
Kettle" has a beach record of thirty
nine seconds made in Florida last Win
ter.
Crankshafts have always been drop
OF IA n
are heated and then shaped under
heavy drops The European method
has been to drill out the squares of
the general design with gang drills and
then machine the finished shaft on a
lathe.
According to w. w. Burk, the total
sales in New York of motor cars of all
sorts have been fifty per cent greater
during the first two months of this
year than during the same period of
1905.
1t was like the lion and the lamb
lying down together, when the licensed
and the unlicensed makers exhibited
amicably under the same roof at Chi
cago this year.
Motorists who have trouble with their
water connections should substitute
wire armored rubber hose for the
metal pipes, making the joints by
means or twisted wire CLIPS. Inc TuD-
ber hose accommodates itself to vibra-
tion and curvature and strains the
unions but little.
Frank Brazel is an automobile driver
with a daily 100-mile stint of driving.
No matter what the weather may be,
the condition of the highways, or his
own feelings. Brazel must count not
that day done which has not added 100
miles to his odometer reading. All
over the country he goes, reeling off
miles. His object is to test the eff
ficiency of the new Hartford Dunlop
tires. In the old bicycle days Teddy
Edwards became famous for his riding
100 miles a day for $50 days.
That politics certainly does make
strange bedfellows is being lamentably
illustrated by the negotiations which
occur between some of those supposed
to represent the interests of automo-
bilists and the politicians at state cap
itals who frame up "strke" measures.
Not only will the road information
and touring departments of the Amer
lean Automobile association be greatly
enlarged this year, but members will
find a string of hotels and garages all
about the country, where they will
receive special attention.
Some of the exhibitors at the motor
boat and sportsman's show in Mad
ison Square Garden were more. than
ever disposed to grumble because the
motor boat display so greatly over
shadows the hunting and fishing fea-