Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
WILLIAMS GROVE
PICNIC PLEASES
Annual Picnic Brings Forth
Big Industrial and Auto
mobile Exhibit

| Large crowds are attending the
Farmers and Industrial Exhibition
! being held this week at Williams
Grove, together with an automobile
show.
The exhibition this year is one
of the largest in this part of the
State and some of the latest i'm
proved machinery is on display and
being demonstrated. Thousands of
persons, some of them coming long
distances, have witnessed the exhi-
bitions and still larger crowds are
expected before the end of the week.
The automobile show includes
many of the new model cars, both
touring and roundabout types, and
the statesmen are demonstrating to
many persons.
New Models Arrive
Two new models of popular cars
have arrived and will be on exhibit
ion in the summer automobile show
the balance of the week. These
two new models are the Overland
4. and the REQ light 6. Both of
these cars have been awaited with
keen interest among automobile
owners and prospective owners.
They are both new designs from
the latest manufacturers of pas
senger cars in the country. While
no announcement of these models
have been made locally, consider
able interest has been shown
through newspaper announcements,
and also through the dealers who
have been expecting them for some
time.
The new Overland represents
what is said to be the ideal light
car. 1t is the result of extensive
tests made by the Overland company
and is perfected to that point where
everything has been eliminated that
added extra weight, vet is compact
and easily accessible. Only the
chassis for show purposes is here
but this gives a splendid idea of
what the car will be. A new de-
parture shown on this model is the
three point spring suspension. An
other Innovation of the Overland is
the moving of the transmission from
the rear of the propeller shaft UP
to Just in the rear of the clutch, iii
fact. the motor. the clutch, the
transmission and the universal joint
now form one unit in the new model,
all being oiled by one system. An
other point shown on the new model
is the elimination of a large number
of grease cups. There are a few
remaining which are easily access
ible. A few oil cups are also used.
The wheel base of the new model
is 100 inches and the spring sus-
pension base is 100 inches. This
chassis is now being shown at Will
liams Grove.
The new REQ light is attract
ing much interest as the Overland.
Like the Overland, it too is a light
weight car of the six cylinder type,
yet nothing has been sacrificed that
would hurt the splendid record made
by previous models of the REQ for
durability. In fact, the new model,
made OF special test steel, light in
weight, vet very endurable is expect
ed to even outdo all previous models
from the point of endurance. The
seven passenger model is now a part
or history the new one beiag a five
passenger model. Tt has the full
stream line body effect and a new
radiator desien. All the other fea-
lures are distinctivelv REQ. The
motor is practically the same de-
sign, as is also the trarsmission and
rear construction. Shipments 81
these cars are expected daily. The
one now here was driven in from
the factory by George Mcfarland,
president of the Harrisburg Auto
mobile Company, so that it can be
SHOWN at the summer automobile
snow at Williams Grove.