Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-07


 lax in observing the law in regard to markers or even in registering their cars, because they have figured as long as they remained on country roads they would not be observed by policemen or other officers of the law, or at any rate they have taken a chance.
 But their heyday has ended for the automobile department of the office of the secretary of the state is now equipped with a twin-six machine to be used in investigations of violations of the automobile law. The purchase of this car will enable, presumably State Policeman Rowe H. Wheeler of Stra6Ord, who is at present assigned to this work, to appear at Abingdon. Allerton Farms, Aspectuck or Avon and scout the country lanes in quest of farmers with cardboard numbers in use. which were copied from last years markers.
 It is to be expected that the weekly list of hearings to be held at the Capitol before Secretary Charles D. Burnes will be longer in the future.
 WiIIys- Overland officials wired John North Willys, President of that com pany, who is enroute to California, that on Monday the factory passed the hundred thousandth car of the 1916 models.
 This big record of a tenth of a mill lion cars stands without a precedent in the manufacture of cars of this size and type.
 It was only in 1908 that MT. wiIIys. as head of the Willys- Overland Com pany, celebrated the production of 400 | cars a year as the conclusion of a successful years business. These production figures have stead | fly risen so that you can drop out at | the Overland plant most any Saturday morning and see them build and ship more automobiles in Saturdays half | days work than were formerly built and shipped in an entire year. l Shipments to date are more than | three times the volume for the same | period last year.
 | There are AS recognized makers of l automobiles in the United States. Ac- cording to estimate, they will produce upwards of a million cars during 1916. The Willys-O Overland Company will build approximately 20 per cent. of | these to the value of more than a | hundred million dollars.
 This entire 1916 production of Over lands and Willys-Knight's Is sold and | under contracts. Overland dealers now number nearly 5000 in this coun- | try and Canada
 | These cars are known the length and breadth of the world. Overland dealers and Overland service are at | hand in every civilized country. Foreign dealers alone number about | 500 and Overland cars are as familiar | a sight in Reykjavik, Iceland, as in | the streets of our own city. | When one of the big, new factory | buildings of The WiIlys- Overland Company of Toledo was completed a few days ago. it was suggested that it would be a great place to give a dance, | before the machinery was moved in. The Overland officials gave their | consent, and arrangements were un- der way when 1t was found that the | big structure was not large enough to accommodate all the employees who | planned to come.
 To take care of the crowd, three | nights were set aside and over 5000 people participated. Music was fur nished by the Overland Concert Band | of fifty pieces, made up entirely of Overland employees.
 It vas entirely a family affair and probably one of the biggest parties ever attempted by an industrial organ | ization
 DepIoring the increasing price of gasoline to a point where indications | are that it would reach 50 cents a gallon by summer the board of direc- tors of the Automobile club of New Haven recently voted to apeal to the | National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and other automobiling bodies to investigate the situation.
 The action followed letters from members or the cIuo ctlng the predic- | tion that gasoline would go to 50 cents per gallon during the summer and asking if some relief could not be secured through cooperative action of automobile associations. The letters resulted in a long discussion in which | 1t was suggested that the ingredients | of various chemicals now on the mar ket to increase gasoline mileage be | looked into. The matter of having a | chemical analysis made of numerous | substitutes for gasoline and increased | mileage adulterants was discussed, | and while no action was taken, 1t is
 very probable that the club will push a campaign for cooperation among all the larger automobile clubs in the country in bringing about extensive
 study of the question of q gasoline
 substitute or compound.