New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-30
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Odd Bits of Interest Picked Up
Here and There.

! AS supreme test for Yanadium steel
with Ford heat treatment as against any
! other steel used in automobile manufactur-
/ Ing, Henry Ford recently suggested race
from Detroit 10 Lansing, a distance OF i"
miles. over road cheated with cordwood.
/ While Mr.. Ford shuns the angle OF bet
/ ting on such a proposition he has given II
as his opinion that no other car could fol-
low the Ford over such route and be
intact at the end OF the Journey.
/ The practical lndestructibity Of vana-
dunn steel. which is used throughout the
construction Of Ford cars. is the quality
that makes ar. Ford so certain that his
car would win the unique race he suggests.
When the Aeronautic Society OF New
York met last Thursday 10 hold its annual
banquet President TAFT, General Leonard
Wood and a number of government of1ciais
interested in the development Of the aero
plane were present.
OF course. every item OF the menu and
all the decorations were arranged with an
eve TO the portrayal OF mans conquest OF
the air but the chief feature was the
menus, which were printed on Goodyear
aeroplane fabric. This is q new ruboerized
| cloth. which is made especially for the deli
cate wings Of heavler-than- air machines
II has done so much to advance the triumph
Of the "airnan" that the committee on ar
raneements naturally included 1t IN the
features which marked the banquet as
unique event.
An order for a flve-ton truck 10 be used
for Transporting prisoners between the va
,ious police stations and the county jail III
chicago has lust been placed by the mum
mai authorities in that city with the r D.
stearns Company. of Cleveland
1,,o-d vyas recently received by the Pope
4rs-+so-d Automobile Company, Of this city,
+bat Bert Dingley. driving Pope-Hartloru
Gov won the mile high" hill cIino at
paSlands. Cal. on April Il. lowering the
-,rey,o,is record for the sixteen-nllle course
Fro,,, RedIands 10 Oak Glen by trifie more
80 4our minutes. Dinsley won both IN
+ba stock car and free-for-al events III
,ba stock car class he covered tho s'ope
a. e minutes ~ seconds. and did better IN
the free-for-all by seconds.
1ao,, 7. Straub. secretary Of the j. .
pretz Company. Of New York sailed Oh
.ba Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse last Iues
dav on his annual trip abroad to WISH 'ne
r1or+s which produce the goods his com
pany markets here
Another twenty -four-hour race IS to be
held on a board track. This time the YAK
land Notordrome will be the scene OF the
,rornd-tbe-clock contest, and an exception
orv large entry is expected. As has been
the custom Of the past. the Bosch Masne'o
Comnanv. of New York, is Offering prize
Of $50 10 the winner II the present mileage
record held by the Fiat car is broken
THE record now stands at 1491 miles The
condition OF the award IS that the car
he Bosch equipped throughout the race
Hamilton Carhartt, jr, vice-president OF
the Carhartt Automobile Corporation. Of
Detroit. has been spending a few days in
town. interviewed at his Broadway sales
room, he expressed much srauuca'ioh "'
the present outlook and said;
"The New York branch is making the
factory hustle 20 fill its needs So I'M
perative have been its demands OF late
thar we have had 10 turn down practically
our entire Western business ana rush al
our output on 70 New York.
When asked II he intended 20 race Mr..
rhATft
get into the game. and when we do II VIII
be with the goods. Up 70 the present
time we've devoted so much energy 10
turning out pleasure cars that racing cars
had to be RELOCATED to the background
- z Baker. known 20 his friends I'm the
ar,onobile business as Cash." has been
engaged by the new sales manager Of the
stevens-D uryea Company. Harry Fosdick.
% look after the southern territory OF this
company.
On Monday. May !, the Fiat Automobile
c.ornanv will move into its new salesroom
Al broadway and 57th street. The new
Fiat location is at the northeast corner ana
"a onIv a couple of doors south OF the
sslssroern occupied by the firm for the last
three years.
The three upper floors Of the building az
proadUav ard 57th street have been used
for rerair,ng and oyerhauling Fiat ears
for some time. and will continue TO be used
for the same purpose. For the present me
Fiat concern will use only half OF the nam
floor space. but ultimately all of the street
floor Will be devoted TO displaying Fiat cars.
while Ceorpe Robertson the famous race
driver. no longer pilots cars IN races III
likes 10 meet the high spots once IN !
while, as was evidenced In Brooklyn Inc
other day. II seems that M. Robertson f.
had A friendly tilt with a motorcycle police /
man. and. needless 10 say, he won the race
hands down. Mr.. Robertson drives iiuo-
son "33" torpedo, and the chances are that
he will be detained many times during the
Goa son for exceeding the limit II is pref
a., hard n get the racing fever out Of a race
Artvsr,s system after he put in many years
at the game