The Washington herald., 1917-10-21
MURRAY AGENCY
PLACED With new
LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR

The new Murray agency. located at
1926 Connecticut avenue, is to be
known as the Wandeyne Company.
Z. S. Deuth, who heads the firm, has
extensive interests in Pennsylvania,
being filament metals producer and
president of huge electric lamp con-
Germ.
So large are these interests, that
much of his time will necessarily be
devoted to them, the responsibility for
his automobile agency resting largely
upon the shoulders OF Forrest ]. Will
cox. his sales manager.
Wilcox needs no introduction 10
motordom. Every motorist of more
than a few years standing recalls
Forty Wilcox, whose records for dirt
track driving still stands in three A
annals. 1t was he who whipped Dis
brow and Theobald decisively in their
clashes of five or six years ago when
those two cleaned up among dirt
track performers. Until wilcox, with
his husky Mercedes entry. Of the Ger
man Import Company appeared these
two had outgeneraled ALI the dirt
track experts OF the country by their
team work.
In their last match Wilcox, on the
old Olympic Park track, established
dirt track record of .305 for the half
mile in the classic event, travelling
the last three quarters of a mile with
three tires and a nude rim.
He knows automobiles. He was
Eastern salesmanager at New York
for the Saxon Motor Car Company
for two years previous to his associa-
ton with the Murray agency, and
when Deuth planned his Washington
agency, 1t was Wilcox he wanted and
got.
Harold Simester, Wilcox's assistant.
was with Rolls Royce, being sales
manager for that firm in New York
for the past five years. That those
who want special design of body or
innovations of appointment in the
Murray, will get exactly what they
want, is unquestionable. Simester,
besides his management of sales for
, Rolls, was in charge of body plan
ming and building.
Previous to coming TO America.
Simester was six years in charge of
the Rolls testing plant in England.
director of design.
! For the Murray itself, there is much
to be said. 1t has an eight cylinder
fours, Of the best semi-steel.
Body colors are optional Through
out the Murray, stock models contain
hand-buffed, first quality leather.
trim-style being of the plated order.
Rear tenders are mounted directly
against wheel house of the body. and
so fastened with lag screws as to
assure permanent freedom from play.
Aisle-way between the front and rear
seats may be had on request.
From the radiator with its genu-
inc honeycomb cellular construction
and jacket of solid German silver.
through the Finch crown-type fen
ders, and back to the beautiful rear
assembly, the car holds a definite
charm.
Engine bore is IA inches. and
stroke is five inches. A. L. A. NJ.
rating is 33.S horsepower. Brake test
shows seventy-five horsepower and
maximum speed Is ninety miles per
hour, although the stock guarantee
is eighty. That the car can achieve
this was demonstrated recently at
the Uniontown races.
Carburetion Is by a specially de-
veloped type of Duplex Benith car
buretor. Dixie Magnetic supplies is-
milton, ana StarJnS ana HBHllnS SyS-
TENS are Westinghouse.
All valves and cylinders are cooled
continuously and efficiently by ample
water passages fed from a double
pump and huge radiator. Entering at
the lowest point the water emerges
directly over each exhaust valve.
Special attention is given at the fac
tory to the machining of cylinders
and their seasoning before grinding.
Oil is delivered from the bottom of
the oil pan by a positive gear-driven
pump through a passage extending
lengthwise of the case to the crank
shaft main bearings under a pressure
OF from ten to fifty pounds, carrying
with the speed of the motor. From
the main bearings it is then forced
through the hollow crank shaft to
each connecting rod bearing. Then
through a tube connecting rod to
wrist-pin bearings and cylinder walls.
An oil passage in the case is also
connected with the three cam shaft
bearings.