Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
MOTOR GOSSIP

The Lord Motor company has been
among the busiest places on Gasoline
row the past week. They have de-
! livered thirty e. M. F. cars in eight
! days, have arranged their show rooms
! to accommodate their first carload of
! Flanders cars and have some clever
! things to say about their customers:
! The Southern California Nightingale
| Ellen Beach Yaw, is speeding along
| the boulevards in her new Flanders
| car: Frank T. Holder of Pasadena is
hitting the high and low places with
his eighth Studebaker car, and other
Studebaker 40s have been delivered to
c. S. Bradford and Howard Hunting
ton, and all this while P. S. Lord,
president of the company, has been on
strenuous business trip to San Fran
cisco. However, Harry Lord can so
well look after the business that Lord
Sr has only to pass on the office
memoranda and glad-hand his many
customers.
VIII Carrigan of Carrigan Bros, the
Southern California and Arizona agents
of the popular Royal and Midland
makes of cars, has Just returned from
Phoenix. where he established an
agency for the Midlands. He reports
that the motor car business in Arizona
is assuming big proportions.
The popular racing driver, Frank
Seifert. is the new superintendent of
Carrigan Bros. garage, and it is an
even bet that Frank is getting ready
to put one over on the racing bunch
with either a Royal or Midland.
DIR. Rhoads of Los Angeles is one of
the motoring enthusiasts who delights
in doing out the ordinary stunts.
| The genial doctor has gone to Tia
Juana in his big seven pa assenger
Studebaker 40, whence he will start on
a trip from Mexican soil to Boston via
Canada. His first objective point is
Goldheld, then Salt Lake and along
the Green river through Wyoming, then
into Denver and to Omaha, Chicago,
Detroit, passing into Canada at the
500 and recrossing into the United
States at Niagara, and on TO Boston.
c. A. Garfield, the local oil magnate,
is getting lots of recreation and pleas
ure out Of his new 40-horsepower seven
passenger Locomobile, purchased last
week from the Los Angeles Motor Car
company.
Los Angeles favorite manufacturing
plant for automobiles-the Duro brand
is working its force night and day to
keep up with orders. A four-cylinder
Duro was shipped last week to N. A.
Claiburg at Santa Paula, and another
was sent to Seattle. Two cars with
torpedo bodies are being built for Long
Beach customers. Just to show what a
Duro car can do, one covered the trip
to Lancaster last week. crossing the
mountains four times, and back to the
| city in few hours running time
while another Duro car of the two
cylinder type made the trip to Elsinore
and return in nine hours.
J. M. Carpenter and Lee Carpenter OF
the local Doris agency, accompanied
! by their wives and Miss Eva Ansley
| left Friday for st. Louis, where they
| will take a. new model Doris car and
tour the middle west for three months.
A Stanley steamer recently made the
trip from san Diego to Portland, near
ly 5000 miles, carrying four passengers,
and on the entire trip experienced no
mechanical or tire troubles.
A 10-horsepower Stanley steamer was
delivered to L. II. Austin of Bakers
field last week and made the run from
this city to the purchasers home town
in six hours running time. Mr.. Austin
had but three lessons in driving before
he started on the long trip, but every
thing went through nicely.
James Garvey has covered the Ger
man empire in the interest of the
Twitchell air gauge, and has moved on,
latest adVices from the globe trotter
showing hi INTO be in Paris.
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Arrowhead
Pure mountain air cures asthma, and
the hot mud, steam and mineral water