The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-06-26

ALL CARS R sILENT-when new.
AND ALL CARS ARE PoWERFUL-when new,
IN A "DEMoNSTRATION"-much abused word, more
abused GILES expe1ien--any automobile you can name
will give a ~crcdiable performance. VIII climb any
hill OF SOW any burst G. spced you can specify
BUT THAT PROVES N~CTHING-as you know.
o n IF o HAVE OWNED CARS-and if
you haven't this ad is not for you for the Lozier is
the connoisseurs' car-you know that the performance
Of a car that has icst hen tuned to concert pitch"
and driven by one who IS an artist a making demon
STATIONS, proves-absclutcly nothing.
1T GOES WITHOUT SAYING that if the car was in
capable of doing the regulation Stunts" it never would
have left the factory. The second one of that series
never would have been built
YOU A GALL TO MIND cars you have known to
perform the most remarkable feats when new but
which, in six months, a year, or at the Longest. two
vse-s. have become vertablc rattle-traps. And the
power-it also has vanished. Hills 1t would take on
high" it will now struggle up only on second
NOR ARE THE NOISES CONFINED to the motor.
They seem to come from everywhere. Gears growli
frame whines, springs creak, and the body squeals as
itweaves; while the doors either will not open or will
not stay shut.
THE MoTOR-you wonder how one motor can make
so many different kind Of sounds at the same time.
Valve-siaps-those silent valves-when new. Pistons
pound; hearin~s ratte-and the other noises can be
distinguished but not described.
WHY IS THIs2 YOU ASK. Perhaps the following may
explain. It may or may not be news to you-depend-
ing on whether you have ever INDUCED in the expen-
sive luxury of a speed launch.
A N HOUR GUARANTEE is the maximum that
makers of high-speed launch motors will give. Think
Of thatI That the motor is capable of running under
sustained maximum load for one hour and no more.
YET ANY ENGINEER KNOWS that is a tremendous
guarantee. Sustained maximum load for one ful hour
why, 80 per cent of all the gas engines built would
burn up" or fly to pieces under the terrific strain
WE'LL REPEA THAT-ful speed-maximum load.
one hourl
AND T FIFTEEN PER CENT might stand
the hours test-but would never be good for much
afterward.
AN ~HcUR-THEN A REsT-then another hour If you
N Eke-that is what the speed launch motor is guaTan-
teed to do. But it must have that rest between times.
NOW LET'S APPLY THAT to an automobile motor
in actual use. The average car in hands of the average
driver-and especially the expert demonstrator-is
never driven to its limit fer long at one time. A squirt
a stunt-then a good long rest-inspechon and the
necessary adjustments. And most any motor will
stand up under that.
OR; IF N DRIVES carefully always-never
forgets-a motor of mediocre quality will stand up
for quite some time.
u IF, ONE DAY, he and the car happen to be feeling
" road, he is liable, being human, to step on the &C
celerator and cut her loose for a few miles.
M ~THEN-GoNE is THE SILENT CAR; gone the sweet
ness that tempted him to buy. Gone the power OF
PERHAPS HE DOESN'T NOTICE IT just at the time.
He noticed she was a tIAe hot when he slowed down
but didn't think that serious. But a few days later
his car catches a lot of sounds that were not there
before. And they seem to be everywhere. Not in
the motor alone-the goodness knows that seems to
need first aid"
so THE VALVES ARE GROUND filters adjusted and
everything else done that can be done. But the doc
tor cannot replace decayed tssue-nor wholly cure a
sprain. Never again will that motor be The same.
Alas you know it-for you have had that experience.
YOU 7 IT WASN'T CAPABLE Of withstanding the
sustained load fer so long. Momentarily, yes. But
over a long period, no.
BUT THERE ARE AIRS THAT WILL-they consti-
tute that other S per cent, or thereabouts.
LoZIER IS ONE OF THEM. If we were asked 10 ex-
plain the essential difference between Loziers and
other cars, we would say that it is in that ability to
withstand the severest service for the greatest length
OF time.
AND IF ASKED TO ROW IT we would point to the
records made by Lozier in such terrific tests as the
Vanderbilt-which Lozier won; the Santa Monica,
which Lozier won the Elgin Road Race which
Brighton Beach, when Loziers finished One, Two
a -Four and a Six.
YOU WILL RECALL DOUBTLESS, that, just to show
how a Lozier would cool under such severe condi-
tons, the driver of the Six removed his fan a few
hours after starting.
IN THOSE E~VENTS-those contests-the kind of quail
ity we like to call Lozier was proven most conclu-
sively-for they were called upon to withstand max
imum speed-maxmum sustained load-for three to
twenty-four hoursl
WE COULD GO JACK OF THAI and show records
of Lozier motors in marine events. For, fifteen years
before Loier BEGAN to make automobiles, Loier mo-
tors were the Standard of Perfection in marine en-
gines.
Try THE WAY. HAD YOU ever compared the standard
OF horsepower formerly applied to marine motors with
that which, by common consent, is used-in ads-a'
the rating" of automobile engines2 Here's the diff
ference; The rating of marine motors was actual
determined by pulling against water-which will no
compress and so must be displaced, That calls fol
sustained effort. No rest, no letup. No releasing
or slipping the clutch Maximum load all the time,
LozIER STILL ADHEREs to that standard Lozie
motors and Lozier cars are made to stand up unde
sustained maximum stress for longer than others, an,
to make sure they will, every Lozier motor is tested
under hydraulic load That is why Lozies STAY