Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-02
CHALLENGE WILL
Be IGNORED
WESTERN MOTOR CAR COM
PANY NOT ANXIOUS
Work Commences on Addition to
White csrage--suagestlon Made
to Designate Models by
Numbers or Letters

The challenge issued by Leon T. shet-
tier Of the REQ company to the West
crn Motor Car company, involving
propositions which would determine the
relative merits OF the REQ and Buick,
will be ignored. according to the state
ment Of the Buick people yesterday af-
ternoon.
Mr.. Anthony of the Western company
says that no attention will be EXTEND
cd toward the challenge Of the REQ
people, who are anxious to place their
car in competition with the Buick.
What had been anticipated as an In
teresting series OF races and demon
stration must evidently go by the board
as result OF the backwardness of the
Bucks
Mr.. Shelter of the REQ said yester-
day that he regretted the refusal Of
the Western Motor company to accept
his challenge.
with reference to my challenge Of
Sunday notice the Western Motor Car
company states that they are too busy
70 race and will ignore this challenge
Another reason that they pass 1t up
IS that It costs money to race.
'In regard to this I will say that
/ think know their real reason for not
racing. on Friday of last week their
Buick salesman, Mr.. Harrison, was
invited to take a. trip over the hills in
the REQ, just to convince him that our
car had more power than his. He stated
TO me frankly that we had more power
than he on the low gear. but that he
would like to see us show him some
stunt on the high gear which he could
not equal.
AFTER showing him the best we
could do, | told him that 1 would he
pleased to have him take me over the
same route in his car and show me If
he could duplicate the performance. He
stated to me that he would have to
practice a little and that the car he
was driving was not his regular dem
onstrator.
1T told him / would duplicate my
demonstration with any one of the
seventeen new cars which / had in
my building and would allow him to
pick the car. We believe this explains
the reason why their feet are so alb
normally cold. If they do not accept
my challenge before Sunday / Will
make this statement over my sigma
ture in all of the Sunday papers"
Word has been received that the
Baby REQ will reach Los Angeles about
May 10 and will be on exhibition at the
local agency for ten days.
The miniature Is an exact reproduc-
tion of the light REQ touring car and
are a trifle over an inch bore. with an
inch and half stroke. The little en-
gine will develop a speed of 800 or 800
revolutions a minute. In the construc-
fion careful attention has been paid
to detail and every appliance Of the
regulation sized car is supplied.
The REQ company is now rushing
stock to j. w. Leavitt &, Co, who have
opened their main agency at Oakland
with a branch on Golden Gate avenue
San Francisco
]. r. Oatman of Riverside has pur-
chased four cylinder Oldsmobile from
the White company.
Work commenced yesterday to the
new addition to the White garage
which, when completed, will carry the
largest floor space of any automobile
institution in Los Angeles.
The latest moving picture novelty is
an automobile trip over famous his
torical and scenic routes in stationary
automobile. with the trip represented
by series of moving pictures of the
scenes OF the trip.
The impression given is said to be
very realistic Huge cars representing
automobiles are set in front of the
screen, mechanically operated so thai
they give a realistic impression of the
jars and jolts of a real spin with ar
occasional dip as though rounding {
sharp curve.
The feeling is growing that instead o.
talking about 1905 and 1906 models, cars
should be known as certain types ol
certain models designated by numbers
or letters without reference to the yea
of manufacture.
Motorists dislike to have car tina
is year behind the times and is 81
spoken of, while tradesmen dislike t.
lose good fall trade because automo
bilists are inclined to wait for thr
shows.
The feeling is growing more pro
nounced because the general design o
cars seems to be settled and improve
ments are now more in the matter o
details.