The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-20
NOTES OF THE MOTOR TRADE
THE WtkERS AND THEIR PROD
IGT or THE 81 iSON.
ParAard New service Plant Joins the
Others I'm Long Island slty l-ancia's
Good Summing st savannah Mieheiin
yIctUrirs- buick Shows New Model.

Packard service - typlfed IN the new
-truciur. Eight stories tall. Of concrete,
steel and glass. Just opened ga Thompson
avenue. Long Island city. Three sides Of
glass have been ST ia specially imported
steel frames making IL one Of the best lighted
buildings in the country
The building 10 two and n half miles
from tt.e New \ Ork -al-sroons at broadway
and SiSty-hrs, street. reached nv way OF
m. Greensboro BrIdge and Nladuct span
ming the Yards at III. P-nr-y lvania i Lon
I-land system.
The power plant IL ia the bas-m-nt. The
main hOor used for service and sales
rooms The stock room IL on the second
floor tho storing of ears and bodies - done
on tn. third floor. The fourth and fifth
are for the painting and upholst.rinz lie
uartment- III. mechanical and over
hauling department divisions are on the
sixth and --.v"nth floors. On n" eighth
four. which has a clearance OF fifteen feet
will ~ the truck department..
The Packard il tho latest addition to The.
rapidly growing colony Of -erNi'- huIi,ting-
ia Long Island city
new model arrived at tho Buick branch
last week and IL attracting much attention
known a. Model ~ this car has been pn sale
in IN. West for SONS. IIm. II il small
runabout with a two cylinder horiz"nta al
opposed motor. two speeds and reverse
>uding rear tran-rnission-. double -iid.
chain drive. ~-mi-elliptic >pri ms front and
thu slliDtic -pringsrear and with top. wind
-nl.ld. gas lamps and generator sells for
$50.
Bhv knippsT'- I.anCis, vhI"h won the
I t.dsmann trophy race at savannah and
made a new rec ord for lIghi ear racing
= anew NO" a. NE sI roS. " 'n Thas
plenty Of folks who stop io look At the
oddly shaped h"nnrt Of the dmtnntiv-
miles an hour for the iiD miles II the Jour-
nry. The Rasol.n. consumpi ION. tn. Hoi-
Tan folS- announce. was fourteen mile
to the gallon
IN. winning Of III. two Vanderbilt ri-.-
by the Alec car has been such hop~i to
the sales Of tn. company that no '.~p-c ial
eSnr' IS being made no.aday- to get oii'
lind that these racing results speak pretty
we'll Tor themselves.
The -Nichelin a. usual slogan has been
"a sod pretty often Of late IN the big auto
mohil. 'ont.-t- but the Mohelin folk
been in adv NE of the other companies
N "uitm. ,h".r price, on i..sr Tn. an,
~ the day Tor reducing prizes
Major X %. Davidson. commandment
nf the Northwestern Military Academy
~ Highland PARK. III advises IN. Cadillac
company that he j. eng grd IN developing
means whereby automobiles may 10" I-cd
ia signal work. rs next summer hr says
h.. hoI,..~ Ia hav" y machine that Will he ~
value to Ill. service.
Wet weather and bad days are many
in tbs. winter and IL IL then that I'll" driver
feel. the npS.l 81 chains for his car II.
ants chains that will hold and will make
non 50 i,aIing a sur. thing. The Weed
chains conform to TN" average mans tbra
of the sort that can he applied readily aud
all do tn. holding
Preliminary reports TO the Anderson
Carriage Company Of Detroit on tests that
ar" being made OF tho new Edison storage
battery in a Detroit electric show thai the
car has travelled from I07 Ia IJI miles On
n single charge. The tests were made on
country roa IL and were axhau-tiys, having
been conducted under the carr of Mr.. Edi-
son himself These tests, says Sir Edit
son will demonstrate that u man can take
hi. wife out into the country In his elect re
car and have no fear about getting back.
Tho general public seems to he all AZ sea
regarding the amount Of electricity given
OF IN th.. cyIinderS NJ the automobile by the
magnetic. says charles .. Splitdorf Of the
SplitsioTf maRneto labOratOfy. "AmperAge
In n magnetic equals heat units and the more
snpsraR~ magnetic has the better she
spark and consequently the quicker and
better ths explosion in the cylinders Vol
tag" equals the length Of the spark
Tho end or The second Ne-L Oni from he