Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-04
ADvANTAGESOF SIX
OVER -FOUR MODEL
Various Phases Of Question Ex.
planned by Robert L. Morton,
Chalmers Representative

single phase of motor construction at
the time is with the tsa question Of
Of either side lined up, strongly for
their particular type, the buyer is
quite likely If he is not wary to become
That four cylinder car maybe a
gooS 20 do one soS Gs9not be den denied The pub,
sven by 1 builders of Totda Skies e9neetae on the
Shsr h Ss hsnd there has Is %sa n. aauesti01 but
progress. When leading manufacturers
IN ever increasing numbers add ''sixes"
to their lines. and finally drop the older
forced to the conclusion that the six
at least merits the serious consider
alton of every buyer.
unreasonably biased claims advanced
by adherents of both fours and skies,
there there are some Fundamental facts
ing. buyer can easily learn for him.
self" says Robert L. Morton, local Chal-
mers nner dealer; The wonderfully in
few hundred cars four or five years
ago to many thousands for this sea-
son is not an accident or the whim of
manufacturers who have more money
than brains The ever increasing de-
mand for skies is the result of en-
perience.
steyens-Duryea and winto cars Of that hat
type We're built have learned not that
fne fner SIX is IN, necessarily faster than a
h any @ faster @ than Mii Giomo four Of siysa sa"a
power; not that it will travel any more
rapidly through sand or mud than
hour harc Of lass as great motor size. But they
snese things easier. with less fuss with
less vibration, with less gear shifting
and consequently, with less wear and
q ~ i, fy,a nv,I All.
Il think that all any builder of skies
snould ask is that the intending buyer
ma out for himself if these things
perience. Claims have nothing to do
W,th Sn n 1t; Amy man who will ride 100 or
OF OF or 81; even ven 20 @ miles behind the wheel
same road in any four will know when
ne ne leaves the car why thirty-seven of
the forty-two leading builders of this
country have made skies their leading
4, 1T, 1T has been said that the six is
simply a fad. 1t doesn't seem quite
eSasona6le eSas liable that American buyers in
tinue to indulge in a fad as So costly
as the motor car If they derived no
atersd that Kind 9ensf of People Just don't have
thhrers - the biggest and strongest in
ehs chansinet edinetrY their spent spent vast fortunes
the six has had to prove itseif tmsfi tmUi
as "Tbe 1he four our, once had to-.
for tbs ne most fomr frequent plea one hears
than the six. Why, wv 1 wonder. edero"lSal Tbe
reason nmS a for the supposed greater econ
c1nsgr c1mg OF std the four I have never seen
perlence shows that a weli-buiIt six
VIII travel any given number of miles
as as i9f Iittia any g given period Of time on just
81.
~ has been, my experience that
weight is the biggest factor in econ
anE FOUR Anq of the.T the six is not heavier than
one four l have in mind is not lance: &C.
large as the Chalmers Model "a. we vet If il
Grad GMeiSns nod between three and four hun
cylinder motor which has to work
harder to move this extra weight, is
WReh 6as to Of fuel than six
to to carry. Again. experience nee proses proyes
,,r I'VE hear la'f frequently, too, that
bui9 bafSpeao sooa engineers siHss s. don't know
ing; More than half the leading fa fac c.
tories IN England. France, Germany
sba siNas 6elglum n are experimenting with
build them. skies are being proSmceS al
by the leading European manufactur-
And isn't it about time we stonned
Worshipping this European fetish
america owes a great deal to Europe.
But we have outgrown our early ignor-
ance OF automobile engineering. The
United states is to-day the greatest
motor building. nation in the world.
We build ten times as many cars as
Europe. And in every market of the
world, In competition with the best
Europe produces we outsell European
cars ten to one. We have gone ahead
or our one-time teacher. We are show
ing Europe the way now and most
assuredly on skies. 'os'
Nor yet do | wish to he cIassed