New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-08
Trade Meas and Notes

G. Franklin Bailey has been made
general manager of an association to
control the Cook patent on truck at
tachments for converting touring cars
into trucks. This is the basic patent,
and Is the one under which the Redden
Motor Truck Company is operating, and
which the Redden company controls.
A suit entered against the Smith
-A-Truck Company, Of Chicago, to
establish the validity and scope of the
patent has been settled by the Smith
company agreeing to take out license
and to pay royalties on all trucks made.
This practically establishes the stand
ing of the Cook patent as the basic
patent controlling the manufacture of
all devices for converting pleasure cars
into trucks by means of truck frame,
axle, springs, wheels and tires, COM
posing a unit so designed as to slide
over and bolt to the pleasure car frame,
thus relieving the pleasure car axle OF
oil load.
The manufacture of these struck
maker" attachments has already grown
into enormous proportions. and, al
though the business is only about a
year old, there are several manufactur-
ers engaged in it whose output runs
into millions of dollars.
The association that has developed,
of which Bailey is manager, is to be
something along the lines of the old
A. L. A. NJ, which was largely response
BILE for the developing and standardiz-
e L.. IN
W. F. Sternberg, who successfully
disposed of the used cars for the Chal-
mers branch before il became an agen-
cy, is now sales manager for Colonial
motors, the Metropolitan representa-
tives Of the Liberty car. In making
this appointment, John +. Plummer,
president of Colonial Motors, did ap-
proximately what G. T. Silver did in
appointing Rodney X. Haines, manager
of his used car department, as sales
manager in charge of the new car de-
partment of the Chalmers and bort
agency.
On moving to new quarters on
Broadway, at Fifty-third Street, for
merly occupied by the Hupmobile. the
Crow Motor Sales Company has en-
gagged the. Baron DEWITT in connection
with the sales campaign for Crow Elk
hart cars and the Hollier Eight. The
Crow Motor Sales Company is special
izing the DEWITT Submarine Auto Body,
described as a Land Submarine"
E. J. Kilborn has been made general
sales manager of the Liberty Motor
Car Company. He started as a traveller
in Oklahoma for the p. Il o. Plough
Company, and became sales manager
of that company. In 1911 Kilborn left
the farm implement business to become
branch manager in Kansas City for the
Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company. From
this he went to Chicago to become
branch manager of the General Motors
Truck Company. Two and half years
ago Kilborn was appointed manager of
the Oakland Motor Company's Chicago
wholesale branch, and in that capacity
had had charge of the distribution of
Oakland cars in the Central West.
The motor car of the future will be
built almost solely from pressed steel,
declares Ray Harroun, in charge of the
engineering and production of the new
Harroun Motors Corporation. Harroun
says that his new car will contain q
greater proportion of pressed steel than
any design now on the market. He
draws the conclusion that, within few
years, the product Of dies and presses
will largely displace such materials as
gray-iron and malleable castings, alum
mum, wood, brass, bronze and large
proportion of the forgings now used in
automobile construction.
Albert n. Atkinson, principal Of the
Stewart Automobile School, and Peter
]. Mcdonald, a salesman OF automo-
biles, will open on October 10 the Peo-
Piles Garage on West Fiftieth Street,
near Broadway. In addition to floor
space for the storage Of 100 cars in
the building, Their will be a supply
department and a machine shop.
The new Doble steam cars being built
by the General Engineering Company,
OF Detroit, will be seen for the first
time at the New York show in January.
A new branch of the Times Square
Auto Supply Company has been opened
at so Nassau Street, in the financial
district, TO sell automobile accessories
and supplies.
George s. Morrow. president Of the
Jew Saxon Motor Corporation Of New
FORK. has appointed William II. Crow
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