Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-15
Auto Owner Does Not
Have to Be a Mechanic

The popularity of the automobile
has not bred a ACE of mechanic own
ers, men who can delve into the motor,
investigate its troubles and make need
ed repairs.
AS a matter of fact the average
owner does not expect to have to do
any work of this kind. When he buys
a car he figures that his purchase will
run with such uniform consistency
he will have no repairs or adjust
ments to bother with. The occasional
small attention the machine may need
he figures he can get from the service
department Of the company that sold
the car.
In the early stages of the motor car
industry there was quite a little of
the Observation-Disclosures" action
from chauffeurs and owners. 1t used
also to be the remark of a large num-
Der of men without money to hire
drivers that they were deferred from
buying automobiles by the doubt that
they had the necessary mechanical
skill to keep them running.
But this hesitation has disappeared.
1t is no longer a factor. The man
.tinkering a car on street or roadside
is becoming such an exceptional spec
the possibility of a car going wrong
anywhere.
1.-THE reliability of the American au-
tomobile is the explanation" says
ID. r. Ream, of Ream & Son, local dis
tributors of Mitchell cars.
Take a car like the Mitchell Light
Four. It's COS is small. yet
it is a complete, handsome car,
adequate in every respect. In re-
liability it is capable of more than the
highest-priced of cars of six or eight
years ago.
This statement does not rest on
my unsupported word. It is backed
by strongest proofs. A stock car of
this model underwent last Fall a test
of one month that for ~strenuousity
has never been matched. In one month
this car covered 1884 miles, running
night and day, an average of $50 miles
every t~wenty-four hours, for thirty
days, irrespective of road conditions.
1.-THE run was made with a sealed
bonnet. There were no adjustments
of any kind. The most unskilled of
mechanics. the man least expert In
motor car construction and operation,
could have piloted the car through
this ordeal provided he knew how to
drive, for there was eve any occasion
to do work of any kind on the en-
CINE.
I'm this test the car did amazing
things, more than could yer by any
chance be exacted of it in actual oper-
alton.
1T tackled every kind of road. 1t
ran night and day. Except when a tire
was replaced a wrench was never used
on the car. The tool chest could have
been left at home. 1t remained I'M
opened. over gumbo roads, through
mud, despite rain and even floods, up
hill and over mountains, this was the
varied experience, and yet there was
no repair work, adjusting or tinkering
of any kind.
THE experience of users Of the car
during the past six months has borne
out the record made by this particular
Light Four. 1t is because the Nit
chell-Lewis Company, of Racine, Wis,
with it's wealth, organization and years
of practical experience. car turn out
at small cost cars of such superior re-
liability that a man no longer feels
that he needs to have a chauffeur OF
to be a mechanical expert to run q
car. He just gets the machine. and
knows that his experience will be the
same as that of other laymen. the cal
built right is so reliable that it will
pretty nearly take care of ITSELF"