The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16
NOTED COLUMBIA
in A new MODEL
Well Known Automobile Comes
TO the City in the Latest
Design of Body

Another car which has. just arrived in
this city is the 1911 six passenger ves-
tibule Columbia. Mark So. The car win
be on exhibition at the headquarters OF
the Columbia agency at Van Ness and
McAllister street tomorrow. The lines
of the car are beautiful. and the finish
is luxurious and of the best materials.
The wheel base is 120 inches and the
wheels take 36 by inch tires in the
front and rear The motor Is OF four
cylinders. developing SO horsepower,
and measuring 47s inches bore and 5is
inches stroke.
4 The ignition is by jump spark. double
system, with two sets Of plugs The
current supply is by Bosch high tension
magnet and storage battery with COIL
The fabrication is by self contained
pump circulating system with sight
fesd and splash. The motor is water
cooled The transmission is by pro-
peller shaft with two fully inclosed
universal points. and the speeds are
three forward and reverse
The equipment consists Of two gas
head lamps, tail and side lamps Of oil,
gas tank, shock absorbers. horn. muf-
fer cttout. trunk rack. tire carriers.
extra luggage box and complete set Of
tools. robe rail. and a tray under the
Ecft Scdt LOt tllc lOR CuItdAHc% HC
front seat is inclosed. the doors OF
which are not quite as high as the
doors OF the tonneau, which gives a
very attractive appearance.
NJ g. Torossian of Cairo. Egypt. who.
after a technical education in the
United States. has embarked in the
! handling of motor cars in his city.
points out the salient trade features OF
the automobile market in that country.
IT,, E~orx-r g. Ell fafRc n
buy four. cylinder cars de luxe with
Iandaulet or limousine body. he says.
''as the native Turkish ladies prefer TO
ride in closed cars. The cars must be
luxurious and at the same time chesH-
In Cairo there are about 625 cars in
private use. and some 20 machines that
mer are nearly all landaulet or llrnou-
sine types, while the taXimeter vehicles
are chiefly second hand machines re-
modelled for the service
There are about 20 motor car agents
in Cairo. Half the cars in the city are
of French manufacture. quarter are
a mixture of Italian. Belgian and Amer
lean As yet American cars have no
reputa tion in Egypt, principally on ae-
count of lack of competent agents. 1t
the car manufacturers in the United
States would be less independent and
would encourage their foreign asents s
business in the east. In Egypt the
trade is just in its infancy
When the operator. who drove an
automobile for hire, became a "ehauf
feur' who understood his business.
there also appeared the class pride OF
| riority and resentment with which the
chauffeur viewed the ambition of the
coachman to become himself a chauf-
feur, which is perhaps not quite as IL
should be- The good coachman is an
| Intelligent person as a rule. and when
/ he becomes a chauffeur he brings with
| him a number of qualities that are Of
decided merit and highly desirable In
OF course we do not hold for mo-
1 ment that il would be we'll TO take the
/ gasoline motors. ignition and motor car
mechanism in general. and trust TO his
unskilled care the handling of mod
ern high powered automobile.
But the coachman furnishes good ma
teria1 Of which chauffeurs are madH;
invariably he possesses an intimate
knowledge of the way in which vehi-
cles are steered and handled in crowd
\ ed traffic; being accustomed to the
speed of horse drawn vehicles he may
be relied upon 10 accommodate the
/ of his passengers and to a reasonable
| margin of safety; he has learned to
obey orders. to be punctual to consider
! the wishes of his employer. without the
show of insolence SO frequently en-
countered in the chauffeur whose abil-
ity to steer motor car and pull the
/ levers of a change speed mechanism
seem to make him. sort of superior
| being.
| We are familiar with the chauffeur
who will dignantly refuse to "beslob''
| himself by washing his employers car.
| insisting that this be done by meniaIs
devoid of the chauffeur's skilled me-
| chanical standard. The cOachman. on
the other hand. will be found not only
willing. but peculiarly capab of car
ing for and keeping in good trim the
highly vanished surface of an auto
mobile body and the polished parts OF
the car.