Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06

riably of pressed steel, the stock being
relatively heavy in pounds per square
foot, but to make the running boards
light as well as rigid, they are punched
out. leaving about 30 per cent of the
total weight of the original metal. These
boards are rendered strong by having
Hanging at the two edges, and they are
also properly shaped to neatly engage
the mudguards, to which they are bolted.
Because of the legal contest that has
been waged between the EMF Company
and the Studebaker Automobile Company
since the cancellation by the former COM
pany of the selling agreement between
them, the public has been led to believe
that the big EMF plants in Detroit
were closed down. This report is en-
phatically denied by President and Cen
eral Manager Flanders.
The Hudson Motor Car Company plans
by the middle of next summer to. be
manufacturing automobiles in a new fac
tory which it proposes to erect at a cost
Of $500 900 in the district known as Old
Fairview. This announcement was made
Thursday by President Roy D. Chaplin.
The move, it Is pointed out, will make
of the adjacent territory an auto city, as
factories to manufacture auto parts are
expected to follow the erection of any
one large plant. The Michigan Central
railroad has promised to build freight
and passenger station in the vicinity.
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Eleven classes will be given instruction
in the school conducted by the Pierce
Arrow Motor Car Company at buffalo
this year. The school is in charge of
men in the mechanical department of the
company, and the course, lasting two
weeks, consists of experience in the as
sembling, maintaining and driving of
cars. No charge is made. but the entries
are confined to chauffeurs who are en-
plOyed by Pierce-Arrow owners, repair
and garage men who have the handling
of cars of this make and owners who are
mechanically inclined.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com
pany has issued dictionary for Tired"
people. 1t is a vocabulary of facetious
interpretations of the familiar names.
parts and idiosyncrasies of the automo-
bile industry, with a few terse hints to
help confuse the earnest reader who
seeks diligently for light on obtuse SUBJ
jects.
Gas in place of air for the imitation of
tires serves the purpose admirably If the
user will but watch his equipment and
replace the gas which escapes.
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The Carter Motor Car Corporation re-
ports deliveries on recent local sales of
Washington cars to S. M. Frazier, toy
tonneau. Portland amber, type Az; ]. S.
Leatherman, baby tonneau, olive green.
type A-2; Joseph Berberich, deep red
touring car, type B-1, and Lieut.. A. +.
Tate, Fort Myer, Va, touring car, Port
land amber. type Az.
committee thoroughly representative
of automobile and such other interests
throughout the country, which will be
benefited by the passage of the federal
automobile registration bill, has been ap-
pointed by Chairman Charles Thaddeus
Terry as the national legislative conven-
ton committee. This committee will have
general charge of the convention to be
II to discuss the merits of uniform au-
tomObile legislation. By securing the
passage of the federal automobile regis
Tation bill by Congress. which will be
the chief effort of the convention. the
frst step on broad lines toward securing
the much-needed uniformity In automo-