The San Francisco call., 1909-06-04
TIREMFN ARRANGE
FOR BIG PICNIC
Plan to Have Members of the
Automobile Trade as
Their Guests
Most of the Stores in Auto Row
Will Be Closed on Day
of Event
BY r. r. L'HoMMEDIEU

The next event OF interest along au-
tomobile row will be the tiremens pic
MIC given to the members of the auto
mobile trade June Il. The rendezvous
will be at Oak park, Palo Alto. Not
only will the tiremen close their stores
on that day. but most of the automobile
dealers of the city. The automobiles
will assemble at the corner of Van
Ness and Golden Gate avenues at $3.50
a. m. on the day of the picnic
II. L. Owesney manager of the local
branch of the Winton motor carria : g :
New owner. the sale. and De
~ of Winton. livery of little
s. six cylinder VIM n
William Ebert OF Fresno and one of the
same model to w. S. Collins Of Los An An
geles. Collins took delivery of his car
the first part of the week ana orot {
it home He reports the coast ROAD 70
cept around Santa Barbara, which is
badly cut up. The little six cylinder
Winton touring cars for James H. Jones
OF Chico and j. H. Mackenzie arrived
home Saturday and Collins will shortly
start for his mines in Nevada.
C. o. Du Mars. manager of the Los
Angeles branch of the Fisk rubber com
pany. mas wrlssen q
Fisk Tires TO the coast off1ce
3 ,n oo.n the six hour track
race in the south
ern city Decoration day the Durocar,
which won in its class. was equipped
with Fisk quick detachable tires. Dur
ing the whole run of 259 miles the car
was never stopped for puncture.
The question of designing for appear
ance or for efficiency will perhaps al
ways be dis-
DESIGNING for puted one among
Efnoleney 1aetumepsi faetureps. Thom- aa
as 3. Jeffery, max
er of the Rambler. has written to L. H.
Bill. head of the San Francisco branch,
that it is not always wise to blindly
copy Sometimes" said Jeffery, IAN
original designer. studying mainly for
appearance, will neglect considerations
of efficiency. This truth is exemplified
in the construction of the automobile
radiator, where to make an appearance
of compactness the forward corners of
the radiator were made OF rounded form
and unthinking followers have copied
ii. If the designer wished the radiator
to have greater efficiency, with less re-
gard for appearance, he would. instead
of cutting off corners. make the sides
and top of the radiator project beyond
its face to form an air collector and
compel more of the air it meets to pass
between its fms and not escape around
the edges. Some otherwise enthusias-
tic motorists have criticised the for
ward projecting edges of the Rambler
radiator, without knowing that its form
was adopted because of it's efficiency.
and is accountable for the thorough
water cooling observable by users of
these cars"
In the first annual Delaware valley
County automobile
winton Makes club. ecently.
Perfect Score ties thsre tor we're eerfee; si5
scores in each of
the two classes out of 21 starters. In
class A. which consisted of cars over
score. and in class B, for cars under
$4,000. the Regal and the Overland
were among those with clean records
The tying cars will be allowed to COM
The course of the first run was 1851
miles and a time limit OF eight hours
was set. which proved easy.
NOTES OF THE AUTO
j. W. Leavitt of the J. ". Leavitt
company which handles the REQ cars
in this city. is in receipt, OF the in
formation that r. M owen & Co. has
just signed an agreement for the sellA
ing of REQ cars. This deal involves
the marketing of s50,0o0oo0 worth of
cars.
The automobile club of Lowell,
Mass, has guaranteed a $1,000 trophy
for a stock chassis event, and "a pro-
portionately suitable trophy for the
small car race has also been provided
for.
An authority on good roads states
that more than S1.025.000 have been
spent on macadam roads.
Court Edwards of Eureka will leave
this city today for New York, riding q
unicycle overland, via Stockton, Sac
ramento, Reno, Ogden. Omaha. etc. He
will be accompanied by Ray Kent. who
will ride regular bicycle. Kentf
home is in Ohio, and he is returning
there for a visit. Edwards a few year.
ago rode his unicycle from Fresno tt
San Francisco, his riding time being
81 hours. He expects to average be,
tween 30 and 40 miles per day. and will
some day in the trip ride 100 miles
when conditions are favorable for tn,
performances. Both riders are accom-.
phshed cornetists and will carry theil
horns on the trip. Edwards wheel.
with his camera. weighs 80 pounds. /
is 80 inches in diameter. In his Fresno
trip he rode IL miles the last day o.
the trip. The riders expect to reacf