Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-04
MANY MAXWELLS
HAVE BEEN SOLD
POPULAR CAR FINDS READY
SALE
Motor Vehicles Now Being Used In
Transporting House Goods in
Large citles--Parisians
Use Electricity

Among the recent sales which have
marked the local automobile trade Of
Los Angeles the Maxwell has been
forging to the front rapidly.
Those purchasing the Maxwell within
the past few weeks are: A. z. Fleming,
William Cochems, Santa Ana; A. p.
Crippen, Maj. Driffil, oxnard; Kesslef
Machine company, San Diego; w. L.
Graves, Los Angeles; A. Dunmar, Santa
Ana; DR.. Potts. Oxnard; G. 70. Burg
strom, Los Angeles; II. E. Swan, On
tario; Bull Bros, Santa Cruz; A. r.
Nelson, Riverside; c. e. Birely, Los
Angeles.
A feature of this years May day
moving in Chicago was the extensive
employment of motor vehicles in the
work of transporting house goods.
Motor trucks were used in every part
Of the city for transporting everything
from wash tub to piano to the new
abodes of their owners. The work was
done more quickly and with more salts
faction than by the horse van system;
the furniture is subjected to less jarring
and jolting and the saving in time and
labor has caused a proportionate de-
crease in cost.
The demonstration did not end with
the use of the motor trucks; owners Of
pleasure cars filled up their tonneaus
with the more fragile bits of their be-
longngs and carried them through
crowded streets and over rough roads
without damage.
Thirty large cut out sign boards have
been placed by the Maxwell-Briscoe
Motor Car company on the line of the
Pennsylvania railroad between New
York and Philadelphia, and forty along
the right of way of the same railroad
between Washington and the Susque-
hanna river. These are the first of an
extensive campaign or signboard ad-
vertising which the company will un-
dertake The signs are of a very at
tractive character and will undoubt-
edly prove restful to railway travellers
as opposed to the present monotonous
assortment advocating the use of pills,
matted milk and breakfast foods.
The large open air show projected for
the coming autumn by the American
Motor Car Manufacturers association
it has been decided, will not be held in
Buffalo as at first intended. The asso-
citation was in receipt of a strong bid
from the Buffalo chamber of commerce
and from the Buffalo Automobile club
for the holding of this show in the
Bison city. 1t proved to be an i'm
possibility, however, for the chamber
of commerce and the club to agree in
the details of the proposition and the
national organization eventually de-
cided that it would be better to hold
the show at some other point. Many
of the members are in favor of holding
the exhibition in or near New York
city, and the matter is expected to be
settled this week.
A handy little reference work for
automobilists has Just been issued by
the Auto Instruct Publishing company
of 317 West Fifty-ninth street, New
York city. 1t is entitled 1.-The Making
of an Automobilist" and has compactly
written chapters on engines, carbura-
tion, cooling, transmissions, driving
mechanisms, fabrication and ignition.
There are also valuable hints dealing
with losses of power knocks in motors
and much data regarding road driving,
anti-freezing solutions. storing and
handling gasoline, equipment and oper-
ating. The book is the work of H. A.
Grant, M. E.. and chapters are con-
trbuted on special subjects by Jona-
than D. Maxwell. Frank Briscoe,
Horace De LiSser and G. w. Kelsey. |
The book is of about 14o pages.
Electricity Comes to Front in Paris
1t is a noteworthy fact that in Paris
the use of electricity as a motive power
for cabs and other public service pur
poses is steadily increasing. This is
particularly the case among the aris-
tocracy, the bankers, ETC., who seem to
prefer this type of vehicle for city use,
while the gasoline car is relegated, be-
ing used almost entirely for touring
purposes.
In transmission devices, too. electric
ity is being experimental with. 1t is
this type of transmission that is being
fitted to many of the gasoline buses,
which resemble the old style Partisan
horse-drawn buses. except for the ex-
haust which is carried above the top of
the vehicle. 1t is most remarkable that
these buses do not skid on the wet or
greasy pavement.
The adoption of automobile hacks is
helping traffic very largely in Paris. |
Renault F'reres have just delivered 200
of them. They are rs horsepower and
of the 2-cylinder type. having three
speeds and a direct drive. The body
of these hacks rests on three springs.
One admirable feature of the hack is
that it runs without noise.
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