The Dickinson press., 1917-01-13
MOTOR NEWS
BY the Motorist
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The Union Delivery is again using
cars for delivery purposes after being
showed in for about two weeks.
Dealers are making great prepara-
tons for an early spring business and
are making plans accordingly. The
sales throughout this section of the
country will probably reach far be-
yond any previous year.
1t is a bad practice to store your
car in a barn or stable at any season
of the year. The ammonia will not
only ruin the paint on the car but
it is also injurious to the trimmings.
Build a separate shed removed from
the barn if possible.
Some thawing weather the past
week and motor enthusiasts had hopes
of the country roads getting in shape
to travel. One of the New England
motor stages came in Tuesday for
the first time since the storm but
country travelling is not general at
this time.
Dickinson dealers are making ar
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lis automobile show in February and
the Fargo show in March. The auto
mobile shows in the northwest are
attra citing more people each year and
it is predicted that there will be a
record breaking attendance at the
shows in 1917.
Might as we'll send in your $500
to the secretary Of state and get
your 1917 license now. They won't
get any cheaper and you won't be
under the necessity of explaining to
an officer the reason you haven't got
it later in the season. Display both
tags, one in front and one in the
rear, and then there can be no mis-
take about using duplicate tags. 1t is
estimated that there were 10000 or
nor cars in the state last year on
which license was not paid. That's
not fair to those who do pay for their
license, and automobile owners should
see that all cars exhibit a license tag.
It puts more money into the road
fund-and we need all we can get. If
one pays, all should pay.
With nearly every manufacturer of
automobiles and accessories in the
United States represented by exhibits,
the greatest automobile show in the
history of New York opened last
Saturday at Grand Central Palace.
Not only does the show eclipse any
similar previous efforts in this
country, but it is declared there never
has been a show that approaches this
one. The first floor of the massive
palace is given over to displays of
bodies and completed automobiles.
Skies, tours, twelves and Fights are
scattered around over the floor so
thick it is almost impossible to get
around without stubing ones toe on
a thousand dollar automobile or a
jitney bus. Included in the display
are many freaks, new things in the
auto world, which are getting their
share Of attention. But, as always
has been the case, the tried ideas
predominant. Sixteen different styles
of bodies are on display. On the sec
ond floor are the accessories, from
tiny pins and bolts to a full dressed
motor, in full operation.
Ground has been broken for the
new plant of the Saxon Motor Car
corporation on the tract of land re-
Gently purchased by the company on
the western outskirts of Detroit,
Mich, the motor center Of the world.
The site comprises nearly forty acres
of ground fronting on the terminal
railroad and affording excellent ship
ping facilities. Under the direction of
a building committee Of Saxon Off
Gals a unit plant of factory build
ings has been laid out which will
give the company plenty of space
for expansion in succeeding years.
The main building Of the plant will
be built of reinforced concrete and
the first unit is now under way. This
will be a structure 1862 feet long by
240 feet wide with a floor space Of
more than 100000 square feet. This
will house several departments Of the
plant and the departments will be
so grouped that the process of o n
structing a motor car will move
steadily forward from one end Of
the building to the other. When the
plant is completed officials of the
company say there will be no more
complete motor car factory in the
country. In the crowded conditions
of the present plant 100 cars a day
arc being turned out and this number
will be materially increased with the
addition of facilities and room in the
new plant.
ut was only a few weeks ago that
I publicly urged all motorists to pre-
pare their cars for the advent Of
zero weather." says Max Hagelstine,
service manager of the Studebaker
Corporation, land I gave them specific
directions for the preparation of an
anti-freeze mixture that would guard
against the freezing of the water in
the cooling system of their cars.
While it is true that some motorists
made adequate preparations for the
cold weather, it is also true that a
great many owners woke up the other
morning and found that Jack Frost
had got in his work. that the radiator
was damaged and the cylinder
cracked. And to my way of thinking,
cracked cylinder and split radiator
tubes cost a lot more than alcohol or
glycerine. While the most easily pre-
pared solution is, perhaps, the calcium
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