The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-02-08
|MANY CARS EXHIBITED
At AUTOMOBILE SHOW

X. L. Beach of Beach & Allyn, To-
cal dealers for the REQ and bort cars
has Just returned from the Eighth
Annual Automobile Show which was
held at Portland last week. 1t has
been conceded by all who attended
the show that this is the largest and
most successful Automobile Show
ever held in the Northwest.
Decorated to represent the great
Columbia Highway with a canopy of
blue and white and beautifully paint
ed scenes along the walls, the Armo-
nv was fitting back ground for the
display of motor cars. AUTOMOBILES
of every known make and design
we're shown to crowds of enthusias-
tic spectators who thronged the
building both afternoons and even
ings.
At the booth of the Northwest
Auto Company, distributors for the
Northwest and the home of the Mar
mon, Cole, REQ, and bort pleasure
cars, as we'll as the REQ, Stewart
and Indiana trucks, could be seen
especially designed models of each
make of car-.-fourteen in all. In
truth. it was a magnificent display.
1t is interesting to note that the
bort factory considered the Port
land Automobile Show of sufficient
Importance to send two of their re-
presentatives there with a specially
made cut-out chassis, painted white
and gray and showing all working
parts to splendid advantage.
Messrs. Jas. Robertson and W. M.
Buch, Service Engineer OF the bort
Motor Car Company, each afternoon
and evening delivered very interest
ing lectures explaining the peculiar
features of the bort. These lectures
were listened to by crowds who gath
cred about the chassis and were q
source of education to many.
They spoke in part as follows:
Every permanent organization
must have a foundation which, II
motor cars, is the frame. The Dor
frame is made of finest grade, heavy
pressed steel, reinforced by pressed
steel cross members, with angle
plates hot rivetted at all corners
preventing all possibility OF thu
frame becoming twisted under thu
most severe usage.
Exceptionally strong construction
is carried out all through the car
lfront axle unusually heavy, from
lsprings longer, being 81 inches Ion!
and 2 inches wide; beam and steer
ing knuckles double heat treated
preventing flaws or weakness.
Most important of all is the pow
er plant, which in the bort was de
Isigned by Mr.. Etiene Planche,
Frenchman by birth and the origina
Edesigner Of the Peugeot famous rae
| ing car. This noted engineer ha'
developed motor in the bort cap
able Of maximum speed of 33 Fl. P
at but 1900 revolutions per minute
To those mechanically inclined, tbi'
| fact speaks for itself. ..
peculiar to the Dort are the fol
llowing superior features: The doub
lie exhaust; the Carter carburetor o
| the fixed jets type, fool-proof and in
possible to get out of adjustment
the Connecticut automatic ignition
system which is appearing on man,
high priced cars with marked sue
cess and insuring very hot spark
wonderful rear springs SO " inches
long of the true cantilever type, civ
ing the bort the reputation Of beint
the easiest riding car of it
size on the market; rear axle 81
| we'll made and SO strong that fac
tory service department of severa
months standing has never been call
| ed upon to replace one; a Westing
house starting and lighting system
used by rs of the leading cars il
America, two of them the highes
priced Manufactured.
"The slogan of the bort factor
| ia indeed a true one--"The Quaiit
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