The San Francisco call., 1910-07-09
new HOME FOR
The HAYNES CAR
One of the Finest Automobile
Plants on the Row Is Near
ing Completion
By R. R. L'HoMMEDIEU

Every convenience, refinement ana
accommodation for taking care of their
trade will be found in the new nome
of the Haynes auto sales company The
building, which is nearing completion,
is situated at the southeastern corner
of Van. Ness avenue and Turk street
and when finished will be one of the
handsomest homes for the modern We
hicle in this city. A spacious sales
room, light and well ventilated offices
and a large and splendidly equipped
shop will be among the most notice
able features of the new headquarters
The growth of the business of the
firm has been rapid and substantial
and demands such accommodations in
order to properly handle the volume of
business done Not only is the company
required to have large quarters in this
city, but also in Los Angeles, where
it recently moved into an elegant
new building. and now plans are under
way for the erection of similar build
ings for the agencies at stockton, Sac
ramento and Reno.
This is an evidence of the popularity
of the Haynes car throughout the state
and country. All the buildings will
resemble each other, the substantial
and artistic mission type of finish be-
ing used.
Next to the contesting cars them
selves public interest in the Glidden
tour has centered
Diamond Tires made by the va
- rious makes of
tires employed. AS
in former years, the Diamond tires
have come through with substantial
lead to their credit. OF the 40 cars
that started 16 were wearing Diamond
strictly stock tires, claim the Diamond
divided among six other makes of
tires. Before the tour was completed,
changed over all around to Diamonds.
Of "a blowouts registered four were
on Diamond. tires, twelve on the next
largest competitor and eight were
distributed among the remaining five
makes. A total of 13 Diamond tires
were replaced on account of cuts, while
15 were replaced by the next largest
competing make. This same competi-
tor suffered 63 punctures, as against So
suffered by Diamond tires.
Beyond these simple figures none can
give a complete statement of tires in
Guiding results and mileage cost with
latter stages of the run practically
none of the cars were running on
schedule and many were so far behind
that the tire observers were unable to
get anything like complete data. Fig
ures given out and representing them
selves as accurate throughout, there
fore are sure to be misleading
Ralph Robitaille, who drove the
Diamonds with which the machine was
equipped gave excellent evidence of
their superiority. Halliday, who drove
a press car carrying seven passengers
for the entire distance, completed the
trip with the same Diamonds that he
had on at the start and declared them
a the end of the tour in excellent con-
dition. Diamonds were also on the
n a. toe Loo 1nl fIot 1a fvi,o
Premier No. 2, and gave fine satisfac-
ton. Other drivers who testified to
the excellent service given them by
Diamonds during the grueling tour
were j. ]. Gallrey of the Columbia,
pace maker: Fred Castle of the Glide,
o. f. Van Sickley of the Falcar, c. c..
Bevington of the Westcott, w. Don
nelly of the Cino, r. r. Aude of the
Chalmers confetti car. George Neff of
the Parry, A. L. Martin of the Cole.
John Glover of Westcott press car and
P. Knight of the Cole No. 6.
S. N. Griffith of Fresno has just pur-
oh i he