New-York tribune., 1908-08-05
TIMELY AUTO TOPICS
NEW VANDERBILT ENTRY.
Chadzoick Racing Car Named for
the Elimination Trial.

L S. Chadwick entered a Great Chadwick yester-
day in the Vanderbilt Cup race which is TO be run
October "a over the special Long Island Motor
Parkway course. All the experts at the Chadwick
Engineering Works, Pottstown, Penn, have been
turned loose the racer, and EIr. Chadwick says
he will positively have it ready to warm up on
the cement racing highway during the first
week in October. This will give the driver, Willie
Haupt ample opportunity to practise for the elin-
nation race OcUOber 10, when the American team
for the big race is to be selected.
The Chadwick racer will have 6-cylinder motor,
with 5-inch bore and 6-inch stroke 1 speeds for
ward, 112-inch wheel base 56-inch tread Sc by AZ
inch tires rear, 81 by front 4e-gaIon gas tank,
and will weigh, equipped with special racing body,
2.s50 pounds.
Frederick skene State Engineer and Surveyor.
drove over the state reads which TO be used
connection with the parkway, and made some
suggestions TO 4. R. Pardngton. manager OF the
motor parkway, 10 the oilng of the state roads
Mr.. Pardington agreed to carry out the State
Engineers suggestions. At the same time Mr.
Pardington pointed out TO Mr. skene one or Two
bad places in the state roads. and Mr.. Skene said
he would have them repaired at once so that the
ong may begin early N September.
Joe Tracy who made the fastest lap in the 1895
Vanderbilt Cup race. has consented, together with
two other well known racing drivers. TO make
speed test on the cement parkway within a few
days Mr.. Tracy will drive the Locomobile which
he drove in the 1906 Vanderbilt event The purpose
of this test is to satisfy the motor parkway ensi-
neers that their calculations banking and dish
ing at curves and on the approaches to vladucts
over intersecting highways are correct not only in
theory, but actual practice From the point of
of the otorist the test Will be interesting
il will show not only what speed is possible upon
the cement straightaway but also what effect the
cement will have tires.
l. H Manning well known to the metropolitan
automobile trade. has connected himself with the
selling force of Carl H. Page & Co. and will here
after wrap up and hand out Chamers-Detroits from
the salesrooms in Broadway. Carl H Page. who
has been for years one OF the most successful re-
tail distributors in the East has taken the
Chalmers Detroit line for the metropolitan territory
Mr.. Page is well known here, where he has han
died the Peerless. the White and the Locomobie-
He is a veteran in the business. having started
in a deTnonstrator about ten years ago fIe
made the first trip around the world in an automo-
bile Mr.. Page considers the Chalmers Detroit line
the best money making proposition in the market.
Among other prominent dealers who have recent
y closed contracts with the Chalmers Detroit com
pany is Frank ]. Tanning formerly of Levy &
Tanning, of Chicago and prior to that sales mana
ger for the Haynes Automobile Company. Mc.
Tanning has taken the agency for Indianapolis
Louis ]. BergdoI, the well known Philadelphia
motoriSt has organized the Chalmers Detroit Motor
Company. of Philadelphia.
Mason B. Hatch. formerly sales manager of the
E. R. Thomas Company, of Buffalo and Charles
B. Shanks, formerly sales manager of the Winton
Company. handling the Chalners-Detrol lines
retail dealers in Buffalo and Cleveland respec-
lively. The Chalmers-Detroit Company has been
closing up with many of the leading dealers in the
country in the last few weeks, and has already
contracted for $500 cars out of output Of 1900
Charles C. Wridgway. the well known manager
of the Peerless concern of this city. viii sail on
the steamship Lusitania to-day for a well earned
four weeks vacation He will visit France Ger
many and England while abroad. Nj Wridgway
is of the crack oldtime automobile drivers
having made a twenty-four hour record the
Empire City track years ago. He has dis
posed OF all his 1893 models of the Peerless car
and considers this opportune time take 4
vacation
Again have automobiles received official recog-
milton from the United States government. This
latest instance OF progressiveness is apparent in
the new arrangement made by the Post Office De
partment for the use Of motor carry the
mail from the Tinley Park post Office in Illinois
Under the new order the three Carriers of the
rural mail have been supplied with and now
their in much shorter time than
they did when horse drawn vehicles were employed