Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-17

George III. Lewars of the Good Roads
Machinery Company and T. +. Penny
hacker, jr., secretary of the American
Association for Highway improvements.
No exhibits of machinery or materials
will be made 1t the Richmond congress.
as it appears to be the unanimous opinion
| of the manufacturers that exhibits have
proven unsatisfactory in the past, and
should be eliminated as a feature of all
| future road conventions
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F. H. Geyer placed an order last week
| for a 1912 Apperson % touring car.
| fully equipped, making the second order
| for Apperson cars by Mr.. Geyer within
the past few weeks.
| Sales of Maxwell cars We're reported
last week as follows: Messengers. to r,
model q. to +. r. Marden model l, to
| Fl. w. Whipple and j. W. Holmes: Max
we'll special. G. W. Hammersley. A. A.
Maxwell to c. A. Moore, and mark as
| Columbia roadster, to John Thole.
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A model - Buick touring car was de-
livered last week to Theodore J. Morgan
| of this city. and Buick bug" to G..
b. Hall of Baltimore, Md.
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G. A. Bentley and DIR. S B. Balm re-
turned last week from an Son-mie tour
III tnt former : ReSai roadster, after
having had some exciting experiences
"sklddfng over muddy roads and run
ning into numerous washouts. The itin-
erary of their trip included Philadelphia,
via the short route: Atlantic City AS
bury Park. New York and other eastern
summer points. Notwithstanding their
rough voyage at times, they returned
| without having met with any serious
cident, with the exception of one pune
| ture and were very enthusiastic over the
trip.
a Hudson 80; touring car. fully equip
ped. was delivered Thursday 10 Charles
f. Gross.
Too great care cannot be exercised
IN keeping the mud shield below the
engine and gear box clear and free from
volatile oils. Despite supposedly adequate
provision for drainage. the average under
shleld usually contains a small sized pool
or mingled greasy water and oil. which is
as Under to d possible spoonful or two
OF gasoline, such as may trickle down
from the carburetor a almost any time
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Work of demolishing Madison Square
Garden, the historic exhibition building i'm
New York, will commence early in Feb
ruary, 19l2 skyscraper office building
will occupy the site
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W. Bonsor recently connected with the
| Packard Motor Car Company, is now
associated with the Stevens Duryea Com
! pany in the production department of the
| factory in the capacity of supervisor of
| parts. Mr.. Bonsors manufacturing ex-
perience has been rather extensive. and
for some years he was connected with the
! Daimler Motor Company, limited of
| Coventry, England
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The trip of the members of the Society
/ OF Automobile Engineers to Europe dur
| ing November next will mark another
/ epoch in the history Of the S. A. E. which
| during the last year or 80 has been grow
/ ing by leaps and bounds and contributing
/ very materially to the literature of the
best automobile engineering, both by
| scientific papers and discussion and the
creation of standards of designs and pro-
i durtion
Where rubber hose is used to make con
I n"ctlonS IN the water circulation pipes OF
4 cracking. resulting eventually in a leak.
Il 4 gasoline motor. and has bends in il. a
1 good plan is to reinforce il by brass
coil spring which * u good fit inside. This
/ prevents any fattening at the bend and
4 cracking, resulting eventually in Il leak.