The San Francisco call., 1910-07-08
new COMMERCIAL
VEHICLE ARRIVES
Couple Gear Truck Brought Out
by w. II. Whyte and Stands
Severe Test
BY R. r. L'HoMMEDIEU

Another new commercial truck has
entered the local market 1t is the
couple gear gas electric vehicle and
who has with him, demonstrating these
vehicles, L. E. Ruffe, factory expert
The main features of this new truck,
which is of five ton capacity and over
is that in the gas-electric the storage
battery is dispensed with and, in its
place a gasoline engine is connected
directly with an electric generator. The
current is conducted from this power
unit through suitable wiring to the
driving motors, which are contained
within the coupled gear in the four
driving wheels.
Yesterday the five ton demonstrator
was sent for a test over the Fillmore
street hill. 1t made a splendid show
ing, being stopped at the steepest part
and then started again. feat per-
formed by this wagon was recently
accomplished when it hauled 81 ton
casting, which would have been a hard
proposition for six horse team to han
die.
Already two of these vehicles have
been purchased by the Southern Pacific
company for handling their freight
The confusion of the terms quick
detachable and "demountable" with re-
a gard to rims is not
lT7irestoue Tire unusual, even to the
Teru,s ExnIajpedI motor car owner
= - = who is well up on
motor terms. This
fact was brought to light recently by
the receipt of number of letters by
the Firestone tire and rubber company
from seekers for this knowledge. In
speaking of these terms c. c. Eichel-
berger, mana ger of the local branch of
the Firestone company, said yesterday:
The quick detachable rim provides
for quick removal of a tire, usually by
removing locking ring which forms
one side of the clinch or retaining de-
vice of the rim. This requires defia-
tion of the tire before removing and
pumping up the tire after 1t is applied.
The demountable rim provides for quick
removal of both tire and rim from the
wheel without taking the tire off the
rim. This does away with time lost in
already inflated on extra rims. 1t is
also much quicker in operation.
THE quick detachable demountable
rims are a combination of the features
of both. These rims do not require a
new set of quick detachable tires. even
though the car was formerly equipped
with the old style clincher tires. BY
drilling holes in the quick detachable
demountable rims they can be used with
short stem stay bolts until the old
clincher tires are used up. When
purchasing new tires quick detachables
will be wanted in order to do away
with the stay bolts. The holes of the
rim SnOulQ Lnen De plugged up SO IQdL
moisture will not get into the tire"
Announcement has just been made by
the Winton motor carriage company
- that the 1911 Win
HHnouneement Tsaay TSs W36t6s fGE dsivsTy Sss
the first company
to produce six cylinder cars exclusive
". and for the last four years the car
has not required single radical
oh 10 inf N m hot
the Winton company has complied
sworn records of the upkeep of the
Winton Skies since the summer of 1907
and that the latest reports show that
20 different Winton Skies have run
1S4,19o miles at an average cost of up
keep of II cents for each 1000 miles.
Realizing that million dollar busi-
ness can not be carried on in thousand
-----~ dollar. quarters, as
Improvement. In to- to size, eotane the cnm Gen-
the Gilmore Plant eral moi9Is cori, 1.
Immediately on
extensive improvements and enlarge
ments of the Elmore factory at Clyde,
o., where the two cycle valveless Ell
more car is manufactured. Among the
new buildings to be constructed will
be machinery building 200 feet wide
and $50 feet long. This will enlarge
by 800 feet. A move which will greatly
benefit the employees of the Gilmore
factory also has been made. The COM
pany has purchased three farms COM
prising in all about $50 acres, which
will be cut up into building lots, and
sold at a nominal price to the men
employed in the factory who wish to
own their homes A company will be
organized which will take care of the
business, and make terms in such
way that the lots may be purchased
outright, or on the installment plan,
those not being In position to pay