New-York tribune., 1910-12-17
TIMELY BITS Of SPORT AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Dealers. License Sufficient for
Registered Cars.
ChLLAN LAW INTERPRETED
Attorney Genera! O'Malley Gives
His Opinion on the Point
st Issue.

Automobile dealers who are taking regis
| tered cars in trade for new cars have asked
Attorney General O'Malley 10 interpret the
Callan law in an effort to find out whether
registered cars may be operated under the
dealers license. With qualification an
affirmative answer is given to the question
The letter received from the Attorney Cen
| eral follows:
Il have the honor TO reply herewith to
your communication in reference TO the in
depreciation of Subdivision S. Section 2S2,
Article Il. of the Highway law.
The question presented is: May duly
registered manufacturer or dealer, upon
the purchase of &. registered car. properly
operate the same under regular dealers S
license without further complying with the
provisions of Subdivision 3. above men
! toned?
| Subdivision provides that on the sale
or transfer OF a motor vehicle registered IN
accordance with the statute the vendor
shall Immediately give notice of such sale,
with the name and Residence OF the vendee,
TO the Secretary Of State Section 2A OF the
| act provides that every person, firm, asso-
citation or corporation manufacturing or
dealing in motor vehicles may, instead of
registering each vehicle, make a verified ap-
piication for a general distinctive number
for all vehicles owned or controlled by such
manufacturer or dealer. which application
must contain brief description OF each
style or type Of vehicle dealt in
! The first provision evidently applies
| to registered vehicles. The second pro
vision gives a privilege to dealers to
register all their vehicles under one num-
| ber In case a dealer or manufacturer pur-
| chases a duly registered vehicle, [ see no
reason why the spirit and also the letter
| o. the law is not complied with il he there
after operates that car under his dealer s
number provided the car is one of the style
or type described in the application Tor the
dealers registration, and provided also the
car is purchased for resale or for the same
I7Urpos. as those usually operated under
the dealers or manufacturers registration
In order to carry out the intent OF the ACT,
however. so that a complete register may
he maintained of each separate vehicle, II
Is obvious that notice Of the sale or trans
fer to the dealer should be given, as pro-
yided in Subdivision s. With, this quahhca-
ton therefore, my answer TO your questloh
| is in the affirmative.
That the commercial vehicle can accom-
| plish more work in less time than a four
horse-drawn vehicle was demonstrated IN
Kansas City recently. A horse-draWn We
| hicIe carrying a heavy load of alfalfa and
| g. five-ton Sampson truck carrying 2,ezo
pounds left the Kansas City railroad sta
| tion simultaneously. bound in opposite di-
rections. The Sampson driver delivered MS
load eleven miles distant and returned in
three hours. The motor truck was again
! loaded with 542o pounds of alfalfa for the
4 ,Ir-ay1 I-ah
had started on its first trip. AS the Samp-
son reached its destination, ten miles from
| Kansas CITY. the driver of the four-horse
| team had just started to unload While the
horse vehicle was delivering 100 pounds a
distance of ten miles, the Sampson truck
carried two loads. aggregating l1,2io pounds,
| for twenty-one miles.
| Motor Age in its annual review of 1910
road racing has gathered together much
interesting data relating to the big road
races of the last year Motor Age gives
to Mulford i'll the Lozier, the driving hon
ors of the year, and to the Loz1er not only
! the official title of stock champion, but
recognizes the Lozier the free-for-all
road champion of the last season.
For years the ambition of Western auto
!
teur has been TO lower the time for the
run from San Francisco to Delmonte and
return. The distance is 161 miles. Pre-
vious to July 90 1910, the best time was S
! hours 40 minutes. Sixteen separate at
! tempts have since been made 10 lower the
figures. and on last Wednesday George A
SeeIey. in White 80 g2solene car, made the
trip In Z hours So minctes.
NJ ir ter
esting lecture last evening at the Stewart
Automobile Academy, No. 23l West 54th
street. on why AN Owner Should Know
| His Car" Mr.. Stewart has long been as
| sociated with the automobile trade, and
| his wide experience, together with his
| knowledg Of the business. enabled him to
! give an interesting talk. He said in part:
| There is vast difference between the
! mere driving of car and Intelligent op-
Grafton Simply driving car does not
signify anything. team al horses in the
| hands Of a novice Will cover the route, but
| their life and efficiency are shortened by the
incompetent driver. And is il with an
| automobile. The real pleasure in motoring
| lies in knowing how to drive properly, feel
| ing competent to make repairs, il case of
necessity
The following story was recently published
in newspaper OF foufiS
| whose residents recently We're excited by the
arrival of an automobile in their midst:
| quite a little stir was created among
our population in town on "Wednesday af-
| ternoon by the appearance OF an autono-
| bile IL being the first on our streets. The
| ear was owned by ". 5. Whitman, Jr.,
and is a Maxwell car He was accompanied
| by his father w. S. Whitman, of Atlanta,
| who was on ali inspection tour Of the With
| man banks in our mountain district and
| of several schools up here in which he Is
| Interested They came from Cleveland,
(, crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains-never
| done before by any car-and tire time re-
quired to make the trip was hve hours.
| They went to HiwaSsee.
FIGHT OFF AT NEW ORLEANS.
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