Arizona republican., 1912-05-08
LITTLE SIX"
 |S A WINNER
George Hageman Presents New Car of Interesting Design to the Local Trade: It's a Six Cylinder Thirty Franklin

There are automobiles and automo-
 plIes, but one of the handsomest and apparently most serviceabIe cars to enter the local market is q six cylin-
 der, thirty horse power Franklin, de- nominated by the manufacturers as the Little Six" produced under the Franklin Manufacturing clmpany's no yearly announcement" plan of 1 production. The car is of an entirely
 new type, and has cleverly combined | two popular features of automobile | construction-siX cylinders. in d mo-
 tor of thirty horse power,
 Speaking of the new Little Six" MT. George Hageman, the Franklin dealer in this territory, said: 'The Little Six is of distinctly
 original type and probably the best description we can give it is to call 1t q small car with a six-cylinder motor
 We have had a constant demand
 for car like this new model from people who want to get the flexibility and smoothness of running that comes from d six-cylinder motor. but who do not want a big. heavy car. Tn building the Franklin Little Six the idea of the designers was to get a car that would be about the same size as the average four-cylin- der car but that would embody the well known advantages of iX-cylin- der construction.
 The Little Six will carry five passengers with the greatest com fort. It has d wheel base of 116
 inches and uses tires 34 inches front and 34 4i2 inches rear. These
 tires are amply large for the weight put upon them and have q carrying capacity of about 500 pounds in cX- cess of their normal load. This will have a marked tendency in cutting down what is a bugbear of the usual six-cylinder car-eXcessive tire cost.
 "The motor embodies the most re cent development in Franklin con struction.
 "The auxiliary eXhausts used in our earlier models have been clm- mated. The gears driving the mag neto and cam shaft have been re- duced to three and these are en- closed in the rear cheek piece of the motor and run in oil. The valve con- struction has been simpified and the possibility of leakage has been greatly reduced. The oiling system is of the new re-circulating type, with an individual lead from the
 gear-driven pump to each of the main hearings of the motor Positive fabrication is obtained. and. by means
 of this system. the average oil con- sumption is about one gallon to ev-
 cry 400 miles of running.
 The oil that drips back from the cylinder walls and engine base into the sub base is strained through d fine mesh screen, the area of which is larger than in any other type of motor using similar oiling system.
 The oil is kept perfectly clean, and il strains back into the sub-case very quickly.
 "On the Little Six we are using the Bosch dual system of ignition with the spark advance automatically con- trollcd by centrifugal governor The throttle control has been slightly changed and the throttle IS now worked by a lever at the top of the steering column, this lever working lover d notched quadrant.
 "In appearance. the car maintains
 the characteristics of Franklin con struction. It has full flush sides and the Franklin sloping hood. The bod
 ios are made of sheet aluminium over l T wood frame. which not only secures light weight and gives great strength
 but prevents checking and cracking 1 and preserves the tlhlSh.
 The Little Six like all other 1 Franklin models. is coming fully equipped. The equipment ii'0i 1 ton and glass windshield. together with full lamp equipment