The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-30
Automobile News


 the front with such rapfdity as has the guaranteed 50 : shorse- power. Moline Knight, product of the MoliT1e Auto
 The Moline Company maintain that the Moline Knight is a psychological car, brought out at a time when thousands of buyers wanted a Knight sleeve valve type of motor but did not care to pay the prevailing high prices for Knight motofed cars Its price of 2,480 hits the pocketbooks of many who could not afford to go beyond that price.
 The above record coupled with its un- paralleled 337 hour nonstop grind on the testing block of the Automobile Club of America, when it captured all. worlds records for power, endurance and economy, are some of the reasons why the Moline factory is over-bur- dened in an effort to keep up with the demand for the Moiine-Knight
 The motor truck has taken upon it.. self the building of the modern west. Its speciality seems to be aid in the accomplishment of the great engineer ing feats which have to do with the harnessing or conveying of water. Packard motor trucks were called into action on the Great Western Power. |Conpany's dam at Big Meadows in the very heart of the Sierras Of Cali fornia. A haul Of 52 miles where there were continuous grades of and 5 per cent. for 10 miles at time, and grades of r to IS per cent at other points did not deter the trucks. The freight was steel girders weighing 1,-s 800 to 2.o00 pounds and generally weighted to the truck by heavy bags of cement.
 In the shadows of Mts. Hood and have engaged in another huge under taking. The Northwestern Electric Company, of Portland, Oregon had to harness it's power from the White Sal mon. river in lWasbington 100 miles away. They calico on the motor truck to help build the big power plant and then specially equipped this same truck to set more than 1000 poles over which the electric current was brought into Portland.
 In. the mountains 1t carried lengths of pipe so long that 1t took 300 pounds of cement on the front half of the trucks platform to keep it from tipping over on the 10 to 15 per cent. grades.
 Packard trucks have covered 20, GOO miles in this mountainous work where formerly only mules could be used.
 The automobile of today has to meet requirements not expected of any ether machine,,' said George H. Peck OF the Peck & Lines Co.,, distributors for the Haynes Americas first car, in this territory. Tt must be we'll built, accessible, easy to operate and as nearly .fool-proof' as mecha nfcaI in genuity can make it.
 The question, How much speed will it develop2' is seldom asked by the prospective buyer. He is more interested in the dependabd1ity, the the service offered by the manufac- turer-
 The time will come when the auT8- mobile will give very little mechanical trouble; to those who are already ac- quainted with the care and adjust ment of the machine that time is here. The average car consists of about S. o00 parts-some as many as 5000. It's efficiency is directly dependent upon the harmonious working of all these parts, and in order that this end may be attained, first, the car must be de- signed, not assemb1ed then, this de- Isign must be intelligently executed. But this is not all, the owner must be informed in regard to those things which enable him to obtain good ser vice and maximum efficiency.
 This does not mean that he must. become an engineer. mechanic or re- pairman, but ,sit- does mean that he must know how to Iubricate his car, how to care for 1t and how to make minor adjustments s'
 The Haynes Automobile Company -f1as just made. an announcement Of interest to. motorists, to the effect that a page in their house-organ, The Haynes Pioneer, will be devoted each month to discussion of vital parts of the automobile. Things that have puzzled automobile owners will be Sex- plained in plain simple. everyday lam guage. by Fl. G. Weaver, manager Of their Technical Bureau, who will edit this page. to Haynes cars alone but will relate to automobiles in general. The subject discussed will be governed by the na- ture of the Inquiries received from car owners, dealers or others interested in the automobile in any way whatso- ever.