New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-20
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
National Efficiency Competition
Postponed Until Winter.

Win
The national efficiency and economy COM
petition has been postponed six months. and
will not start until February, 1912. This
contest. which the commercial car world
hailed as the most practical and promising
OF any commercial car contest which has
yet appeared. was planned by The Com
mercial Car Journal" Philadelphia publ
cation. The contest, as originally planned,
was TO have started on August Is, and a
large number Of entries were received. ell
expressing the greatest enthusiasm The
Commercial Car Journal" however, bit of
more than II could chew in the time allowed
for mastication. It did not realize the i'm
mense size Of the proposition or the ire
mendous amount of work involved. and
found II necessary to postpone the contest
for six months. This will give additional
time in which to perfect the details and in
which to secure many mSre entries.
Tenders for street cars have long been in
use. but their application to automobiles is
something new. The Automatic Fender
Company Of America, with an authorized
capital OF s1,cOO,0oo has been incorporated
for the purpose Of exploiting a fender in
vented by an automobile engineer Tho
capital has been raised largely by men in
the automobile trade both here and abroad.
Announcement has been made OF the 1872
line Of STANDARDIZATION cars. comprising
several highly successful cars of the last
season with many improvements that Will
find appreciation and including a new car
with the Silent Knight motor, the first in
America TO embody six cylinders OF the
sleeve valve type. While the leader Of the
line is q 6S-horsepower car, known as the
Stoddard- dayton Special" built with Ave
different bodies OF extreme luxury and re-
finement the Knight model is O. particular
interest because It is the first high priced
car 10 be built with the steering wheel on
the left side and control levers In the
centre.
Distinct advances in design are shown in
each OF the twenty-five models, and numer-
Gus exclusive features are embodied in the
chassis and body designs. All are desig-
mated by names. rather than by letters or
numerals The complete line consists OF
the Stoddsrd-Dayton Knight, SIX cylinders;
Stoddard-Dayton Special, 5S-horsepower;
stoddard- Dayton saybrook, 4S-horsepower;
Stoddard- Dayton Stratford, 3S-horsepower,
and Stoddard-D Dayton Savoy. 2s-horsepower.
Preliminary arrangements have Just been
completed for one Of the longest tours of
its kind ever made, and two weeks hence
a line Of twelve seven-passenger automo-
biles, followed by a high geared truck, will
roll out OF New York headed for Los An
geles over a trail that covers four thou
sand miles. AT least fifty passengers will
be carried on the trip. but the most strik-
ing feature OF the cavalcade will be that
every one OF the cars is TO be OF the same
make-a Garford forty" manufactured by
the Garford Company. OF Eyria. Ohio The
truck is also to be a Garford product II
will carry extra parts. tires, tubes, etc,
and Will be in charge OF an expert mechan-
ician.
One Of the largest orders ever placed for
remountable rims was received last week
by the Dorian Remountable Rim Company.
when w. D. Newerf. OF Los Angeles, or
dered three thousand rims for use on the
Pacific Coast.
"A change is working in the open selling
market because OF buyers knowing quality
more thoroughly and being better able to
make their purchases on the merit OF ma
chimes" remarks c. 7. Silver, president OF
the Overland Sales Company, of New
York. Not long ago wealthy buyers went
largely on the principle that the highest
priced must be the best Now It is getting
10 be a question OF greatest value, and men
who have learned are picking out the best
made cars and buying them. once. any
thing in the shape OF an automobile would
sell, but this is becoming less and less so.
Since Il was announced last week that our
new Overland models r and T were to sell
for LEES than $1,000 our salesroorus have
been ver!table motor beehives Motorists
who know say that these two models are
unquestonably the greatest value ever
offered in a motor car"
Having driven an American car over most
Of the highways OF England and Scotland
and wishing to see the process by which
II WAS manufactured, Lord EXmouth, a
member OF the British peerage. during his
recent visit 10 Chicago took occasion to 20
TO Racine. Wis. and inspect the factory
OF the Mltchel-Lewis Motor Company.
where the car he owns was male. As a re-
suit he declared himself more pleased than
ever with American cars and methods. and
the Mitchell people have a correspondingy
high opinion OF Britain's aristocracy.
The Hudson Motor Car Company reports
that it's cars are meeting with wonderful
success In India. Burmah am lndo-China
where It's trave!lin. representa-
tives. V. A. and H. n. Dodge. are engaged
I'm opening up the Oriental ma Ret. hereto
fore practically abandoned TO the British by
the American manufacturers.
Advices have just been received by tho
Touring club Of America from Connecticut
that the new 81. CooO0 concrete bridge across
the Connecticut River between Sayhrook
and Lyme. will be opened for traiiic on
Thursday. August e. This viii he glad
news ~ tho hundreds OF motor tourists