The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-14
LIKE Their CARS
Owners Write of Satisfaction
to O. n. iHimelburger, Topeka.
Dealer Handles the HupmObi1e
and Apperson Models.

q II
automobile business in Topeka in the
fall of 1918 at the present location,
1l1S-1119 West Sixth avenue in
brick building that has one hundred
foot front and a depth of one hun
dred fifty feet The main room of the
plant is the middle and the west por-
ton of the building, the front part
of which is used as a display room for
the new Hupmobile and Apperson
cars. In the rear of the room are the
used cars, and in the southwest corner
is the business office. Between the
large display room and the driveway
to the storage. room there is a rest
room, furnished with brown wicker
chairs.
Back of the storge room thru which
the driveway leads, is the well
equipped repair shop. This shop juts
out from the main building and is en-
closed completely on the three expos
ures<by windows, making it-an exceed
ingIy well lighted and ventilated work.
shop.
There is special equipment attached
to steel rods in the ceiling for moving
motor on which repair work is being
DONE, from one machine to another
and Jack to the chassis.
The repair shop in which there. are
employed five specially trained me-
chanics is maintained strictly for serv-
ice On cars sold by the Hamburger
firm, as no outside work whatever is
taken in.
In connection with the service de-
partment Himelburger states that
twelve months free service, consisting
of repairs and all minor readjust-
ments,>1s given on all new Hupmobile
and Apperson cars The car owners,
both ladies and gentlemen. are urged
to enter the repair shop at any time
and watch the work that is being done
on their cars.
Sold 6ss Cars.
Since he started in business three
= years ago, he has sold six hundred and
thirty eight new cars and over a thou
sand used cars, making total of more
than sixteen hundred cars.
The new Apperson Eight, with
eighty less parts, is turned out in six
models; The standard four passenger
touring, seven passenger touring, the
Anniversary four passenger touring,
the Anniversary seven passenger tour
ing, the four passenger coupe, and
the seven passenger sedan.
There are four models of the Hup-
mobile including the ROADSTER. the five
. passenger touring car the. four pas
senger COUPE and five passenger Sc
dan.
In connection with the Huprnobiie
car. Hamburger has. received mani
fold evidences of pleased and enthu-
siaStic owners.
A E. Van Petten of The Pioneer
Mortgage company. took a trip to
Wisconsin, this summer in the Hup-
mobile car he bought last spring from
Himelburger. He said:- 81 drove the
car over 1000 miles on this trip, over
all kinds of roads, and a portion of
the way thru mud, and -averag ed over
nineteen miles to the gallon Of gase-
line. The car worked perfectly and
did not have to put a wrench on. it
but once. and that was Simply to ad-
just a valve nut, which probably took
ten or fifteen minutes of time. The
car has plenty of speed and the great
est pickup of any four-cylinder ear
| have ever driven. In fact, think
it san get away as quickly as any six
in which have ever ridden.
When I arrived at my destination,
we went over the ear carefully and
did not find a loose nut anywhere on
the chassis or engine, which / think
is saying a good deal considering
some of the rough roads over which
we drove. To sum it all up, will say
that I am very much pleased with the
car and the work it does.s'
Another enthusiastic Hupmobile
owner is the Reverend w. E. Black
stock of the Trinity NJ z. church.
He says: I'm 1914, bought a Hup-
mobile on the advice of-a friend who
was in the real estate business and
consequently driving all kinds of
loads over all kinds of roads in all
kinds OF weather. It was a good buy.
In six and one-half years it never had
to be pulled and was always ready to
"On long drives would get twenty
miles or better to q gallon of gas and
two hundred and twenty-five to two
hundred and fifty miles to a quart of
oil. Because it served me so well, 1
naturally, when trading it off wanted
another Hupmobile, and I've got lit.
I'm expecting as much from the new
car as secured from the one bought
in 1914
John Doster of 1s1 Greenwood ave-
A.
following words: Frankly, I think it
is a wonderful little car It possesses
q dependability and economy of opera
ton that 1 never found in other cars
previously owned by me.
''Pep' and 'Get-Away'
at has as much pep and get
away as any six I ever owned.
In a test covering six hundred
miles, driving mostly around town, I
used approximately thirty-two gallons
of gasoline, which is between eighteen
and nineteen miles to the gallon. Dur
ing the same period I used about one
quart of oil every three hundred miles.
Finally says Doster, stthe general
reputation of the 'Hup' for worthiness
is borne out by my own experience"
O. c. Paxson Of Meriden, who does
q lot of country driving in his Hup-
mobile, says that it never yet has had
to be pulled out of a mudhole, but
travels right thru on its own power.
He also says that he gets full tire
mileage and uses an average of one
gallon of gasoline to every twenty
miles.
This Hup, when bought It. had been
used two years. After driving it two years
myself, I have turned it in on new Hup
at dearly the price paid for it. For this,
I have no reproaehes Of conscience, for it
seems to me TO be as good car as on the
day I bought it have been Ioath to
part with it. but have yielded to the urgent
persuasion. Of the HuP dealer to trade for
a new car"