The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20

That the idea of speed is uppermost
IN the minds Of large percentage of
a visitors at the Va
oIds Il An Eaxxi rious auto shows,
Ridipc Machine writes ". J. Mead,
= - secretary and gen
eral manager of
the Olds motor works. to Charles :.
Howard local agent for the Olds-
mobile. is demonstrated by the tact
that Al least half of the visitors at the
Oldsmobile booths ask concerning the
speed of the siX-cylinder Olds mobile
Limited which is equipped with -
inch wheels While these questioners
seem TO be under the impression that
this car was designed primarily for
speed the fact remains that II Is purely
pleasure car bulit Tor comIorL VI
course with its big 90 horsepower mo
tor a tremendous speed Is possible, hut
this we do not recommend Tor pubnc
highways. The point which we al
ways emphasize is the fact thai II is
the easiest riding car on the market
today
Frank McAvoy. factory expert of the
Chase motor wagon. who has just ar
rived in this city.
r-.,1r,- r-x,crt has not come west
forChase Wagons feurs 70 lsiStI in uf tbe art of
h a n ] n II
Chase. but 10 teach the men who have
been driving the horse drawn vehicles
for large firms BY this means the
former drivers will be retained, while
the Chase takes the place Of the former
horse drawn delivery wagons.
At the request of George Crawford,
Fuperintendemt Of the delivery depart
Inent Of the Emporium. McAvoy has
started to instruct several OF the drl-
Ners Of that large firm.
Crawford has also ordered the first
of the Chase motor wagons, which VIII
be put into use by the Emporium ana
which will have q specially constructed
body for carrying packages.
2. Stewart, agent for the Crawford
cars. has had some trouble regarding
A shipments of cars
T,-.,,or5 s. from the factory
ora~ffTG fSe afir e Climb that has caused
sternation The last
he heard from the cars which should
be on the way west was that there was
r carload coming by way OF Portland,
which should arrive this week SteWart
Is more than anxious for the arrival OF
this carload, as it contains the car
which he wishes to drive in the hill
climb on Sunday
The experimental department at the
automobile factory Of the II. III, FRANK
lin manufacturing
FranLIin plant cuse, is being en-
Iarged TO include
room for the
assembly Of experimental CONNER
cial cars. Experimental trucks, tax
icabs and other commercial vehicles
will be assembled in this room. A part
of the space will be devoted TO the
building of new body designs for the
Franklin commercial line
Edward Waterman Of Fresno was IN
san Francisco yesterday and reported
that there VIII be
u.a Ro.o q great automobile
for CoaIinga celebration "a at Goa
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there viii be a road race from Fresno
10 Cosiinga On May day there will
be d leo mile road race, the course
passing through that place. There viii
also be a hin climb and many other
sporting events.
Z {. Collins, head OF the Cartercar
automobile agency in this city, re-
ports the sale of
r.r1erca- Heine Of this city.
~ Collins also re-
ports that the
company has ordered "A more Carter
cars.
It has been decided by the committee
IN charge that the Chicago show for
1911 viii extend over 13 days, exclusive
OF Sundays. instead of seven days The
report of the late Chicago show showed
3 that there had been 1.54S dealers in at
tendance, and that the total attendance
including public, dealers and their at
tendants. exceeded geo 600 and prob
Rbly reached nearer 100000.