The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-22

this the following quotations are
made:
.sThe prospective motor truck own
ers as a class must be sold by i'm
proving the service now being received
by the present owners of trucks. This
does not refer to what is commonly
termed service by manufacturers, in
the sense of repairs and adjustments,
but to such scientific analysis and
plain honesty and frankness as to
make each motor truck installation
highly efficient and successful invest
ment.
I'm endeavoring to do this, the
manufacturer is confronted by a num-
Der of classes of purchasers. which
may be enumerated briefly as follows:
1.-THE owner does not recognize the
importance of his delivery department
Git is the only department in most
businesses which has been permitted
to operate for years in a casual way.)
1.-The one who is basing his motor
system on horse experience, and does
not realize where his losses occur. 1t
is hard of course to steer between
over buying on motor equipment and
the equal danger of combining horse
wagons and motor trucks under the
same system and conditions.
THE one who is alert to improve
| conditions and is glad to devote the
necessary attention to the problem
The Vim fulfills to the letter every
one of the above specifications. This
| is the reason for the success of the
| Vim. Half-ton delivery trucks have
| been such a success in Topeka.
Visit Velie in Special Train.
Perhaps the best evidence of the
modern automobile dealers progress
| siveness was that displayed by the ].
| A. OLeary Auto Co. of Iowa City, Ia,
distributors of Velie automobiles for
that section of the Golden state who
this past week brought 270 Iowans to
| Moline and the Velie factory to see
how Velie Skies were made. Mr..
| Mr.. O'Leary invited every one in his
district interested in automobiles to
make the trip at his expense-270 re-
| sponded and special Rock Island
| train was chartered and labeled
"Velie Six Special The Velie COM
| pany were advised of the expedition
and met the visitors with the Velie
band and sufficient automobiles to
| carry all hands from the station to
| the mammoth factory.
S-Cylinder Economy.
The term, "eight-cylinders'' prom
| iseS to become symbol for economy
as well as flexibility, according to Of
| ficials of the Olds Motor Works Re
| cent tests conducted with the Eight
| of this firm show a surprising frugal
! ity in the consumption of gasoline,
when the size and horsepower of the
| car are taken into consideration
In order to arrive at practical
| determination in the matter, a great
number of Oldsmobile Fights, selected
| from stock at random, were sent upon
| the road, in the hands of various driv-
| ers. The gasoline average, as the re-
| suit of these tests, was found to be.
| from fourteen to fifteen miles a gall
| Ion. Quite often, in the hands of a
careful driver, it exceeded sixteen
miles.
The Independent Auto company re-
ports the sale of the following cars:
Mrs. Frank Holloway an Oldsmobile,
| DR.. Merrill Lindsay an Oldsmobile W.
R. PettijOhn an Oldsmobile and c. B.
Merriam a Marmon "a.
N. V. Woods of the Topeka Buick
company has received eight carloads
of Bucks This is the largest ship
ment of cars ever received by one
firm in Topeka.
The Topeka Buick company sold
cars to the following this week: A
H. Purdy, A. p. McKown and H T.
Richie.
F. G. Kinley received a carload of
Fords Wednesday.
Overland company reports the sale
| of cars this week to: Cal linn of
| Topeka a Model rs, VIM. Smith of
Hoyt a Model SO. VIM. Anderson of
| Topeka a Model SO, Harrison Nichol-
| son of Burlingame a Model SO, s. G.
Mabin of Carbonate a Model S3.