New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-07
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Little Bits of Items Picked Up
Here and There.


| OF the Carhartt Company returned on
Tuesday from q trip in the hills OF North
| orn New York with the new Carhartt 1872
| So horsepower raceabout The most dis
tnctive feature OF the 1912 line IS the special
new engine. which is OF the popular T-head
| type as stroke BY So bore. The valves are
exceptionally large. with small lift. reduc-
| ing the wear and increasing the power.
The new cars are I'm the following models:
! Raceabout with extra mechanics seat If
desired. runabout, with or without single
or double rumble toy tonneau and phaeton
1 in FIVE or seven passenger type The wheel
! base Of these models varies according TO
/ type
Simultaneous with the regular stock car
comes the 1912 junior go with 4xA2 and
A.xr2 engines according 10 model This
little car is finding particular favor among
women drivers.
The A. Elliott Ranney Company has
moved into i's new salesrooms at No. 100
Broadway. al 54th street. The new quar-
tiers. which are five times larger than the
others. were made necessary by the de
mand for more room for Hudson cars.
How commercial history. as well as its
l
/ been illustrated in California. where the
/ ola stage coach line, Tor many years con-
sidored an obsolete institution. has been
reircarnated. Only this time instead Of
six sturdy horses hauling a rafting omni-
/ bus over the long roads there are six pow
/ erfll CYLINDERS. which prope a pneUmauc-
/ tired vehicle up hin and down at a faster
pace than the old stage coach drivers ever
dreamed Of
| The new stage route service has been
opened between Kernviue and Caliente,
/ Cal. a distance OF forty-hye miles. and q
Mitchell Jo-horsepover 6-cylinder aGtomo-
/ lille IS tine stage" An IDEA o. the work
/ it ras 10 DO may be gained from the state
ment that. though the roaI has a good sur
( face the grade averages 10 per cent. IN
making the run the car climbs from an
altitude Of LOO rect 10 one OF 5000 feet in
little less than forty miles.
! 4. f. Hunter. one OF the first men on the
Pacific Coast 10 become interested in motor
cars. and for a long time a member or
the San Francisco firm OF Osen * Hunter,
which did much 20 introduce the automo-
ollie west of the Rockies. has taken the
agency for Garford cars I'm Northern Cali
fornia and Nevada
While the big Eastern and Middle West
ern cities have already adopted motor
trucks 20 large extent the Pacific SLOPE
has held back
An innovation ia line Of a convertible
car FOR suburban and country use is being
brought out by Wyckon Church 4 Part
ridge This car, on the CONNER chassis. rs
designed TO fU three distinct helds Of use
fulness.
r. can be employed as a bus. with closed
TOD. open top or no top at all seating from
eight 90 fourteen passengers. thus filling
tine needs of estate holders who, upon the
arrival Of a number Of guests. frequently
epd their regular touring cars Inadequate
a. q means Of transporting visitors
ri5s .ar can also be used as luggage
-.~, carving no TO two and a half tons.
bringiug supplies and baggage from the
station % the country home
/ ,,otl,er use is for long distance touring.
o. special arrangement being provided, fitted
with berths. a table and ample storage
rom, FOR food and clothing. This type can
also he fitted up as shooting brake with
gun and ammunition lockers.
rbere Is scarcely any limitation 10 the
variety of bodies o. the luxurious appoint
ments possible in this car WINE u Is not
h,u, FOR unusual speed. 1t can travel cas-
uv mn to from twenty-five 10 thirty miles
an hour taking steep hills al twenty mites
I i, has large. strong springs and rides over
.ountr, roads more smoothly IMAM 'He
average touring car. Each body VIII De
huiIt 10 suit the personal taste oi 'he
owner There will he no stock modeia.
4 contract to feed the animals III ieF
iovv.tone National Park is a pretty big IN
d.rtakipg The transportation Of food was
a staggering problem when horses were
,sed Between 1860 and l5.0tD tons Of nay
and grain are hauled great distances ehch
,-oar +. Il. sherman. the contractor. VINO
has the task al the present time. has begun
! "a supplant the horses with automoDhe
/ ,r,,,ks and has placed in service Sampson
one-ton freight motor
Columbia car won FIRST prize 10 the
a.. ~ the reliability runs Of the ne"
,tcst season, that OF the Quaker city
$50 club OF Philadelphia, on Saturday
- % The field numbered hry-two
| t.ios and J.. J. Berger. president OF the
49,. uon the event with his new six pas
-. columbia The run was from Phia-
49,, 10 Atlantic city. y. J., seventy
,,,ies and the allowed time Was .
- IL minutes Is seconds The Columbia
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