Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22
CHALMERS HERE
FOR SEVEN YEARS
Keystone Motorcar Company
Have Placed Many Chalmers
in This Section

For seven years the Chalmers
motorcars have been represented in
this district by the keystone Motor
Car Company, and the hundreds of
Chalmers cars that are to be seen on
the highways to and from Harrisburg
is evidence of its popularity as their
leading seller. The most popular
model in the Chalmers line is the 3400
r. p. m. which came into being one
year ago last September. This Six-30
had the remarkable sale of $4,000
! 900 in orders in the convention hall
at the factory when the dealers as
sembled first saw the model on ex-
hibit, and before the first year COM
pleted $56,0OO,000 in orders rec
orded for this one r. p. m. Chalmers.
| Forty-eight thousand cars in all.
This season the 3400 r. p. m. Chal-
mers Is being produced in two lengths
of wheel-base; 115-inch five pas
senger car and distinct touring and
| closed body styles have been built. in
| cooperating the most advanced trend
| of design. ~.
The seven-passenger Chalmers re-
| fleets the influence of foreign design
on American body lines. From the
slant of the hood, on through the
tilted windshield and double cowl, the
sive European creation. The extra
inches of wheelbase insure a tonneau
of full capacity for five passengers,
without crowding the drivers COM
partment In any way.
Deep nine-inch leather upholstery
increases the comfort of passengers
on long tours over country roads and
on ill-paved city streets. Two leather
backed auxiliary chairs fold into the
rear of the front seats, out of sight
when not in use. A highly polished
black walnut panel in the rear cowl
brightens the appearance of the whole.
The front compartment Is roomy and
comfortable. The conventional in
strument board has been superseded
by cluster arrangement of the in
housing convenient to the driver.
Equipped with the 3400 r. p. m. mo-
tor, the seven-passenger Chalmers is
Ideally suited to the needs of the av-
erage American family. The price of
this model is s1,2S0, Detroit.
Offered also, on the 122-inch wheel
base. for 1917, are three handsome
closed car models. The town car, and
limousine embody distinct advances in
design, affording at the same time
ample room for seven passengers. The
touring sedan is one of the handsomest
all-year-round types ever mounted on
q Chalmers chassis.
Lady Duff Gordon, more familiarly
known as Lucille, and famous in New
York, London and Paris as a modiste,
has designed the interior trimmings,
and upholstery for all Chalmers closed
cars for 1917. AS result, excellent
taste and the richest of materials
have been combined to form a series
of closed cars deluxe for milady of the
American family.
In the Chalmers touring sedan, per-
feet driving comfort is afforded at all
-.
er, the front and door windows can
be dropped into the body. If still
more breeze is desired, the windshield
can be dropped, and the rear quarter
windows and window pillars can be
slowed away in special compart-
ment back of the rear seats. The re-
placing of the windows, transforming
the car into a vehicle for inclement
weather, can be accomplished in a
few moments.
The drivers seat is of the club chair
type, deeply upholstered. Next to 1T, |
but separated by an aisle is folding
chair seat that swings back against
the right side wall when not in use. |
An auxiliary seat swings out from the
back of the drivers seat If seating ca |
pacity for six passengers is desired
Ebonized interior holdings har-
monize with the refined interior ap- |
pointments of the compartment, All
seats are uph holstered with finest quail
ity curled hair and covered with heavy
Bedford cloth in either black and
white or buff.
The Chalmers Town car has en-
closed seats for five passengers with
room for driver and extra passenger
on front seat. Here too, Lucille has
specified the interior furnishings, in
Guiding upholSterieS, carpets and silk
window hangings. When the two aux
iliary seats in the passengers COM
partment are not needed, they fold in
to the compartment wall out of sight
In warm weather, the door windows
may be lowered or adjusted to any
position by means of an automatic
regulator. The town car is the ideal
machine for the city dweller and is
built to meet a big demand in the
metropolitan centers for a car of this
type.
The limousine seats seven passen-
gers and also has a handsome inter- !
ior by Lucille. All Chalmers closed car
equipment is very complete including
electric dome lights, vase for, cut flow
ers, chauphone speaking tube, loung-
ing pillow, hassock and robe rail. A
dainty toilette case and smoking set |
are concealed in panels which are re- |
leased by touch of an ebony button. |
On the 115-inch chassis, the Chal- |
mers Six-30 will again be continued
in touring, roadster and cabriolet
styles The Chalmers cabriolet has
already won high favor among those
motorists desiring an all-season car.
Comfortable seating capacity for three
passengers is provided, the drivers
seat being advanced to allow greater
ease of operation. For physicians and
other professional men who must
drive in al varieties of weather the
cabriolet is tho ideal type.
Wire wheels are optional at extra
cost on the Chalmers roadster and
Cabriolet models.