Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-26

Happenings Of the weck-Cars
sold aud New Ones CominW--
Dealers Are In Good spirits.
[ The jackson Automobile company Is SO
ling out TO win the big 500-mie race which
Twin be run on the indianapolis speedway
Decoration day. The jackson racing cars
have always acquitted themselves most
lcreditably IN all the events which have
starred on many occasions on the big In
danapolis track especially in the last big
event which was run on the Indianapolis
speedway previous to its being paved. This
Twas the contest for the Wheeler & Sheb-
Ter trophy in 1902 Just 10 give an idea Of
what the conditions were under which cars
raced on the speedway before Il was paved
there is a short account OF the most siren
Iuous test that these racing cars were ever
subjected to on the old speedway: The
distance Of the race was 300 miles. There
were nineteen cars nineteen started; at
the end OF the fiftieth mile seventeen were
still running, the Jackson in the eighth
place. One hundred miles found the Jack
son seventh; i@ II had crept forward to
fourth place; at $50 miles, half the distance
Iof the race. It led the field by safe mar.
gin. The cup was not awarded, but there
was inscribed upon It a record Of the re-
lmarkable performance of the Jackson car
Manager Gould said in speaking Of the
Ford.
Just contemplate on these figures for
la minute: Building $500 cars in one fac
tory and shipping them all in one month.
1t was only a short while ago that 1890
cars represented the entire annual output
Iof the fairly large manufacturer Of auto
mobiles. Think OF the enormous force Of
Iworkingmen. master mechanics and gen
leral equipment necessary 10 produce and
ship 5000 cars In twenty-eight days, TWEEN
ty-four working days, 5000 machines, an
average OF $50 cars per day; value Of days
loutput over SiOO,OOO. Each week end the
Ford company had an order in with the
Michigan Central, one of number Of
roads used, for 200 box cars. The output
of the Ford factory for 1911 will be 5000
cars Accept the combined estimates given
out by the various American motor car
manufacturers, OF an output OF 10000 cars
for the present automobile year. Ford
alone will build at least $1,000 OF these cars,
Tor in other words one car in every five
American made cars sold in this country
this year will be a Ford"
John B. Hulett OF the Lozier Motor COM
pany spent several days in omaha last
week, closing up an agency here. Hulett
is elated over the performance Of the Lo-
zer out in Los Angeles last week. Here
is a wire received of the event:
LOS ANGELES, CAL March 19-Teddy
} Tetzlaff driving a Iozer stock chassis,
defeated Ralph De Palma and his ninety
horse power Fiat In 1OO-mile match race,
breaking worlds records all the way.
} Time as follows: Twenty-Five miles, IS
} minutes, 22ss seconds s1h NJ. p. H.; so
miles, 80 minutes, S5t seconds, 81 M. p.
H.; IS miles, 81 minutes 5o1A seconds, 50
NJ. p. H.; 100 miles, 1 hour IA minutes, %
seconds, sou M. p. II.
''Tetzlaffs fastest mile was the nineteenth
lap, which he turned in Il seconds, gaining
a mile on the foreigner. De Palma drove
a consistent race, but the terrific pace set
by the AmeriCan-made car was too much
for him and at the finish the Lozier led by
the comfortable margin Of six and one
half miles"
} with total mileage Of 24,159 miles to
its credit and 81 states travelled in since
J last July, the Abbot Detroit Bull. Dog
arrived in this city from Sioux city. Ia.
at 10 o'clock last night, in charge of Dr.
Chas. G. Percival, editor of Health Maya
zine OF New York City, under whose au-
spices the proposed 10000 mile trip of
the Abbott is being made.
|
mobile trip ever before known in the his
: tory of the industry-1OOO 900 miles and judg-
ing by its performance up to date, it bids
fair to accomplish the feat. The car which
! is a 1910 stock car, was purchased from the
! Kansas City agent after It had been used
] as demonstrator for 5000 miles and been
J a contestant in many endurance and re.
. liability runs.
3 The car is equipped with American pgo-
! ducts entirely, being furnished with Split
! dorf magnetic, Casgrain speedometer, and
vacuum carafes for hot or cold drinks
according TO the climate. cooking and
camping utensils, sleeping bags, block and
tackle, shovels, axes, and all the necessary
equipment needed on trip OF the magni-
, tude of this one.
: At the completion of the 10000 miles, the
car is TO be torn down and subjected to
an exhaustive examination by a techinal
committee composed Of prominent automO-
bile authorities, and It is conceded that
both the industry and the Abbott Motor
Co. will benefit greatly by what has been
: accomplished by this 1856, American auto
mobile
So great has been the foreign demand
for the light weight model car manufae
: tured by the Ford Motor Company OF De-
tToit, that the export shipping department
OF that company have been working over
time TO fiji the foreign orders. Ever since
the first of the year. the Ford export de.
partment has been making average daily
shipments OF eighteen model I cars or
. over a hundred cars a week. which in IT.
self 10 an industry that many automobile
concerns would be proud Of The dsstina-
tons OF these cars are varied. some be-
ing sent to England, some to Europe, to
. Australia. a carload to Africa, another to
= Japan, in fact every cvilized country on