The San Francisco call., 1909-12-16
A[ROPL LANES AND
AUTOS COMBINED
Palmer-Singer Motor Company
Is the Latest to Enter the
Local Market
New Concern Will Handle and
Demonstrate Both Motor
Cars and Airships
By r. r. L'HoMMEDIEU

BY r. R. L'HOMMEDIEU
The aeroplane has arrived as com
! mercial proposition. 1t was announced
yesterday by II. A. Roberts. who. with
G. b. Roberts and w. H Davenport,
| under the title of the PaImer-S Singer
motor car company, which opened a
new agency for that make of cars in
San Francisco, that his company, be-
sides handling this we'll known vehicle,
was in a position to make deliveries
about April 1, of aeroplanes of the
Santos -Dumont and Clement-Bayard
| models.
The demonstrator will arrive a short
time before that date, and, realizing
that these undoubtedly will be the first
of the aeroplanes here. the company is
booking demonstrations, now.
| This means that the jaded motorist
| who has become such speed burner
that the fastest speed of the modern
motor car seems tame, will now have
! something to make his pulse beat
faster. The Singer company
has opened headquarters at 605 Van
] Ness avenue, where it has a six cylin-
uCi w hOISSpONef, Toy IOnicou, o1u
demonstration. The new car is built
on striking lines, and is very attractive
| c. B. Gardner of the Pullman auto
mobile company has returned TO the
p.a .o.a- : tended te9g DIR trip in in the the
.:.H1ol -ear eeloy While away Card
ner eSta b Ii S e d
agents for the Pullman at Sacramento
and Vacavil'e and has parties in other
places ready TO serve in the same ca
pacity The company yesterday re-
oeived three more Pullmans and has six
! en- route, very close to the city. Gard
ner drove down from Sacramento and
had trying time, the roads being in
! very bad condition. After leaving Port
Costa a road with two forks was en-
countered. The fork that seemed TO
have been travelled most was taken. As
| II was dark night this was blind
choice and the party had gone only
| snort distance when heavy down
grade was reached and the road mar
rowed. At the same time the party
and slid and the only thing to be done
was to drive ahead as fast as possible.
| Finally tie bottom was reached and
the party found themselves at the Sleby
smelling works
An attempt was made to climb the
hill, but the heavy adobe made IT i'm
| possible and the party had to put up
| for the night at the hotel. In the
| morning they secured team. by the
payment of $40, and had the auto
hauled to the main road. Gardner sug
gests that it might be, we'll for the
| supervisors to post this road with signs
| as it is utterly impossible to tell which
| is the right road to take.
Calvin C. Eib of the Pioneer automo-
| bile company yesterday reported that
the company re-
Many Chalmers ceived "a Chal.
Reach the City tfe.e the 20 rai and 40 40
horsepower models
Nine of them Were shipped out yester-
are unsold. These are runabouts of 80
and 40 horsepower. Some of these cars
will not leave the city until the first of
next week, being held. up by lack of
freight accommodations.
r. L. DuBroy of the III. o. Harrison
company said yesterday that ever since
s.. the companys an
Soil Everifts nouncement of the
! without Car Everitt car in sun
So days paper the
selling force has
been more than busy with customers.
H. o. Harrison secured one-tenth of
the Everitt cars to be built this season.
Already DuBroy has sold one-tenth of
his company's allotment to agents in
the territory over which the H. o. Har-
| rison company has control.
Rene J. Marx, manager of the Re-
| nault Freres selling branch in San
Francisco, reports
| Warren Buys the SAFE anu de-
horsepower four
cylinder Renault
runabout to w. T. Warren.
The Diamond rubber company of San
Francisco is just in receipt of very
:. strong letter of
Indorses the e o IN incubation
Diamond Tires s9vering eSsding 1T its new new
from the Lee motor
car company, distributors of the Cadil-
lac for southern California. The letter
states that this type of rim equipped
the Cadillac car in the Ascot race and
that it proved the best demountab BILE
rim on the market for either racing or
touring purposes.
III. o. Harrison, who has been in con-
ference in the east with the directors
Harrison Was motor cdt GoIn
Snowbound pany, the builders
:. of the Everitt ear.
has had a hard
time coming home. He decided to make
the return by way of the northwest and
|, I,afu 1aa ha-