The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27
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A contributor TO one OF the popular ma gazines
says that while the running expense on a tour OF
1000 mites may not be much there Is great ex-
pense In preparing a car for such a trip and greater
expense In Tcjuvcnatlng It afterward. He states
that every car needs overhauling after every 900
miles. This Is al astonishing variance with the
facts concerning the recognized hest makes, and
there are many cars In commission TO day which
utterly rcfutt the idea. Most OF the cars that I'm
ished h 1 900 mile tour for the Glidden trophy were
run from the finishing point 10 their home garages
without overhauling. the winner starting the next
morning and going from New York to Buffalo.
At the recent show In Boston there was on exhibit
ton a Pierce Arrow, belonging to James T. Shaw
OF that city. which was driven q ,47s miles In eleven
months without any repairs. At the end OF that
time It required less than 81 worth OF work TO put
Il In perfect condition. Yet this Is not remarkable.
| except 10 respect to the mileage made. There are
many other cars with records almost as good.
The smallest cost for repairs naturally belongs to
the best made. highest priced cars, but even the
medium priced cars do not require such tremendous
outlays for maintenance as some OF the articles In
popular publications represent,
During tho last three years American tourists
In Europe have grown into the habit Of using Amer
can cars instead Of the foreign machines. which
were formerly considered indispensable for travel
abroad. This would seem 10 Indicate that the
American product will shortly come into %conApetl.
ton with the best foreign cars on their own ground.
While up TO the present time a great many foreign
Rasolene cars have been sold In the United States
and comparatively few American cars have been
sold In Europe, II Is evident that the conditions
are beginning to change and that before long our
EXPORT figures will show many instances Of high
powered American machines shipped to European
nurchssers. American electric carriages have long
been popular In England and France. and several
hundred columbia are in use In the cities of Lon
don and Paris.
Although they had engaged space at the open
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had finished up two cars for exhibition the Rainier
company found It impossible TO participate In
the show. as the cars were sold and claimed by
customers as soon as finished. Fourteen cars
have been delivered since last Monday. Sales
%S Sonss ,Sew ,n t oSl u so +. F. P'fP% Proctor, ~ the s'' theatrical
manager; a similar car TO II. J, Mallory Of the
R fSHo' SeSsli' Vice ,%presIdeh, Of the american
SS%si'lPP s,n and SuI Rssn!as s S0TFP PRANK U TSHT!nf 's ;Ss
W NsHe known o. whip, also Clark Holbrook. William
Arnold. Mrs. Loretta Wallace. and John Hartog'
During the pas, week the HqlTan Company
iss ofSo ma -p hrSpoiSs races ces at \ Florida in 81 January,
The trophies consist OF four handsome silver cups
fPe Ten iou gold suD %'d '%ers re 4or whining a's iSs following Sl .
races: Five mile heavy championship. time ?
championship. time 10 minutes; ten mile heavy.
weight championship. time Q minutes 4os S seconds.
by the famous Lancia. The other cup was for tho
nxs mile nil o middle w TeiEEh i., 's 1ao ln 3 mEnv Taies b W s.s
WOu Wy StNithS - h'r 'ft ..
seconds, |
From far of Los Angeles. where the American
car has an agency. come glowing accounts OF the
extraordinary endurance shown by these powerful
machines In all day runs to and from stricken San
Francisco. Many prominent Californians own
Americans and declare them 10 be unsurpassed
for reliability and easy riding qualities. Corell
& Crosby, whose show room is In the Old Guard
building on broadway, have secured In the face OF |
Considerable competition the New York State |
agency for this car. and arc kept busy explaining
lis many good features TO prospective purchasers.
Congratulations stu keep pouring in on c. B.
Rice, the popular agent for the Baker electric !
line In the East. ever since he declared his inten.
lion OF opening up an. exclusive salesroom and
garage for electric vehicles In Newport Many
OF his correspondents assured him that only for
this they would not have taken their electric We
hiclcs there this season.. MT. Rice has arranged
for the sales room on Bellevue avenue and the
garage on the Merton road. |
The polce department of Syracuse has been
making exhaustive tests of late With an air cooled
FRANKLIN touring car for police department work.
Recently the car successfully carried seven men
three policemen, the driver and three others-to
the station house.
Present indications are that. fully one half the
cars that will compete In the French Grand Pnx
and Vanderbilt Cup races will be equipped with \
~ cylinder motors. A sin greater evidence of
the stability OF the sx cylinder Idea 10 the fact that
the Mercedes Psnhard. Napier. Gobron -1rnne
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