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40,000 Essex Cars
To Be Put on Market
During Next Season
Great Strides Made by New
Organization in First Year,
Hudson Factory Taking
Oedit Only for Designing
i-iupt
of manufactu: d, above all, expe?
rience are whs ant most in produc?
ing automcbih ue.
"The -vosde- success achieved by
the Essex dir. its first year on the
market, duvi c lieh 20,000 cars were
built and sol I.. ndoubtedly is due to
these three fa'?i *s. The Essex is built
in the Hud^ n 'factory. It was de?
signed bs-'?lv .on engineers, and be?
hind it standi the experience gained
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The entire cover of the rear deck of the roadster ta removable, giving space for a large trank or sample case.
In addition, there is a large compartment behind the seat that may be used for luggage.
from ten years of achievement in pro?
ducing the Hudson Super-Six, the
world's largest selling fine automobile.
"It was produced to meet the demand
for a light-weight car of the highest
quality, possessing the comfort and
performance of the highest-priced auto?
mobiles on the market, but possessing
the additional advantage of the utmost
economy of operation, due to its light?
weight, scientific construction and ad?
vanced design. That it has accom?
plished this purpose is proved not only
by the experience of 20,000 owners dur?
ing the past year but by the fact that
it captured more worth-while records
during 1919 than any other stock car.
"Starting with the advantage of a dec?
ade of experience in building Hudson
cars,, the designers of the Essex were
enabled to avoid the mistakes which
might be mado by pioneers in automo?
bile construction. The craftsmen who
built the Essex wero trained in the
Hudson factory according to Hudson
ideals of workmanship. Because of the
tremendous volume of output of the
two cars, material could be purchased
on the most advantageous basis.
"The result, as was to be expected,
was a car built to the highest quality
ideals of workmanship arid material.
And the success it has achieved has
been entirely on its own merits. The
Essex was not announced as a Hudson
product. It was left to wiji its way
alone and-unaided.
"Never before has a car established
its leadership so quickly. Its beauty
had a universal appeal, while its lux?
ury, ease of control and wonderful per?
formance met with instant recognition.
The utmost efforts of the factory failed
to keep pace with the demand. This
year 40,000 cars will be produced, or
double the number turned out last year.
But the demand is so great that even
this doubled output will fall far short
of requirements."
One H. P. for Every
Fifty-one Pounds of Weight
For every fifty-one pounds resting
on the tires of the Maibohm phaeton
the Maibohm engine develops one
horsepower. These figures, along
with many others, were recently given
by the Allen-Waring Company, Mai?
bohm distributors in this city.
Producing the greatest possible effi?
ciency with tho least weight neces?
sary to tho proper operation of tlic
different parts has been the aim of th(
Maibohm engineers. Twenty-three
hundred and fifty pounds is the weigh
to which the Maibohm has beei
trimmed. Of this weight the six
cylinder engine accounts for 42!
pounds.
In spite of this relative lightnes:
the motor develops 46 horsepower
The result of this weight paring i
seen in low fuel consumption am
unusual tire mileage.
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Super?ne Small Car
en the Templar first made its
debut in the East, it was an instan?
taneous success. The discriminating
New York public placed its stamp of
approval on this superfine small car.
The demand was considerably in ex?
cess of the supply. We are sanguine
that the new Templar models to be
exhibited at the National Automobile
Show will make an even more pro?
nounced impression on show visitors.
These cars are built for those who
appreciate detail, refinement and
quality?costing slightly more than
the average moderate-priced car.
They have been designed and per?
fected by engineers familiar with
high speed, long-stroke motors of
foreign standards.
TEMPLAR MOTORS CORPORATION
CLEVELAND, OHIO
MORROW MOTORS CORPORATION
Eastern Distributors
1761 Broadway, at 56th St. New York
Wh
AC Spark Plugs
Make Fine Record
On Racing Courses
100 Per Cent Efficiency
Claimed After a Year of
Hard Tests on Speedway
and Dirt Tracks of U. S.
On road racing course, speedway and
dirt track AC spark plugs during
the year of 1919 added many fresh
laurels to their collection garnered
in previous seasons of grueling com?
petition in the realm of gasoline
scented speed. -v.
The road racing record of AC plugs,
for example, is 100 per cent perfect,
the two events of this character on
the 1919 schedule being won by drivers
depending on such equipment for
sparking their engines. In the 250
mile Santa Monica race, won by Cliff
Durant with the Chevrolet Special,
all the cars to finish had AC's in
their cylinders, while at Elgin, where
the 301-mile classic was revived, AC's
not only rode with Milton's triumphant
Duesenberg, but they also finished
second, fourth, fifth and sixth.
In a total of 651 miles of road rac?
ing, covered at a grand average of
70.9 miles an hour, these plugs func?
tioned without a single miss, the
Santa Monica and Elgin victorg hav?
ing no ignition trouble of any kind and
finishing with the same spark plugs
as they had when they started.
Tommy Milton, the most consistent
driver of the year, also scored three
speedway victories with AC plugs, es?
tablishing a world's record of 112.4
miles in capturing the ten-mile race at
Sheepshead Bay, and Was deprived of an
opportunity to monopolize the sea?
son's laurels at Uniontown by an ac?
cident on the next to the last lap-of
the 225-mile September sweepstakes,
when he had a winning lea'd on the
field.
At Indianapolis," where the 600-mile
international sweepstakes was re?
vived after a war-time hiatus of three
years, sixteen of the thirty-three cars
competing were AC equipped. Eddie
Hearne, who took second money and
drove the first American car to com?
plete the run; Ralph De Palma, who
broke all records up to and including
250 miles and captured sixth placo
with a Packard; Ira Vail and Denny
Hickey, who were eighth and ninth
across the wire without raisinc the
hoods of their mounts, were the AC
prize winners^?? .
Pislon Slap Beaten,
Packard Man Reports
; Drilling Hoi? for Pin to One
Side Eliminates This
Noise, He Says
Ever since the beginning of the
automobile industry "piston slap" had
existed in safe ODscurity, under the
rotection of the major car noises.
How, with the elimination of these
more offensive sounds, the "piston
slap" was discovered, diagnosed and
finally cured, was told by Milton Tib
betts, patent counsel for the Packard
Motor Car Company, who is in New
York attending the Automobile Show.
"It was found," says Mr. Tibbetts
I "that tight pistons, that is, pistons
| with not moro than lMj- or 2-tC00ths
of an inch clearance in the cylinders,
sloped the 'slap' and another 1000th
added to the clearance started, it again.
Also, somewhat looser pistons, with
"lab?rate and expensive heavy spring
piston rings, would sometimes get it.
"Some manufacturers fitted their
i pistons tight, with consequent enor
; mous manufacturing loss in working
I to such narrow limits, and with risk of
: having their motors stick if taken out
1 when now and run at- high speed.
Others used the heavy rings with the
resultant wear on the cylinders as well j
as with questionable results. Thou?
sands of dollars were spent in the
experimental rooms to get a better
answer.
"It came one day. and was st?.rting!y
simple. Rut it is doing the work in
i the best motors, such as the Packard,
where the manufacturers have ob?
tained licenses under the patent, and
it allows the fitting of pistons with
3 to 5-l,000ths or more clearance and
with rings of ordinary stiffness, with?
out any resultant 'slap.'
"It costs not a penny more, and
requires only that the hole in the pis?
ton for the piston pin be drilled
slightly to one side instead of ex?
actly in the center as heretofore.
Merely a slight offset given to the
oiston pin so that the piston is un?
balanced on the connecting rod, and
the piston doesn't slap &wy more."
Kipling and the
Shortage of Elgin?
Mack S?nger, the New York dis
! Inbutor of the Elgin Six, has been
i having one whale of a time trying to
I get the factory to "come through" with
i delivery on more cars for tho last
three months. To make a short story
roundabout, Mack, upon the night of
| his sixth return from the home factory
I at Chicago, disturbed by the "insolence
j of these brazen Western bus "builders,"
I in their telling him for the 878th
' time just what they have wired,
! phoned, written and repeated, "that
: every means was being exerted to get
| him as many cars as possible in the
; face of a shortage of materials, steel
and coal strikes and what not"-? As
we started to say, Mack had an un?
pleasant dream. In fact, it might be
called s-?-m-e nightmare:
"Boots! Boots! Boots! Back and
forth to Chi again. 001 miles, there
! and back again. Six trips! Footing it
! back and there again?what if I had to
walk it! 30-inch steps. 22.838,977
: steps! To Chi and home again. To
?get some Elgin cars. Boots! Steps!
Shoes! Shoes! 12 to 20 dollars now.
22,838.977 steps, THERE AND BACK
AGAIN! Wear out $800 worth of
' shoes. Is there no relief' from the
! draught? Steps! food?potatoes! $2.40
j a bushel now. 240 averaged sized pota?
toes the bushel. 80,000 potatoes!
M. F. Bramley
?President yenplur Motora CoxbomU?o*.
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Known as K-6-45, this five-passenger touring model has US-inch wheel base
and a 50-horsepower engine.
Enough to feed the entire undergradu
uate body of Columbia University for
two weeks. POTATOES! BODY!
STEPS! 'Gonna have any cars "for
me?' So help me"
A wire on his desk greeted Mack
upon his arrival at the salesroom next
morning:
"Responding to yours of the 27th.
Forty-eight 1920 models shipped to
you to-day via' New York Central.
Including three for show"-?
All's well now for a time at the
Elgin Motor .Car Distributing Com?
pany. And fulfillment of more orders
are promised soon, so there'll be some
more red Elgins running around town
after the show. Did anybody happen
to notice the broad grin on Mack's face
at the Elgin booth, B-29?
To What Base Uses
The coal strike and the resultant
shortage of factory power gave old
National No. 8, winner of the 1912 In?
dianapolis 500-mile race, an opportunity
to get into the limelight once more.
The flywheel of the car was hooked
up to an overhead line shaft and the
engine contributed its power to lathes
used for machining parts for the motor
of the new National Sextet.
Signal Corps Was First
"The Chevrolet Review" says: "The
Signal Corps was the first branch of
the United States Army to utilize the
automobile in any capacity. This was
in 1899."
! Dort Dealer Praises
Acumen of Public
Purchasers Are Learning to Se?
lect Best Values for Least
Mjmey, He Declares
"When the Dort Motor Car Com?
pany appointed me to look after its
; interests in the New York territory,
the first question asked of Be was:
'How many Dorts will the district .
take?'" said F. L. Sanford, manager *?f
the New York branch, Dort Motor Car <
Company.
I "My reply was: 'As many as you .
. can allot it?
"In this I was absolutely sincere, and
nothing has happened since to chango
my opinion. I know the Dort car ?ivl
what it will do, and I know the New
York public and what it will take.
"New Yorkers are admittedly keen
and discriminating buyers. They have
first choice of the best the market af?
fords?in motor cars as well as in other
commodities. This is so because pro?
ducers recognise everywhere the ad?
vertising value of a New York repu- *?"
tation."
"'Carload Lots" Come Often
According to John D. Mansfield, gen?
eral sales manager of the Dort Motor
Car Company, entire carload shipments
of cars to Dort distributors are no
longer unique. The popularity of th?
Dort this season brought forth demand I
from dealers in every part of the coun- '
try. Particularly is this true of th_ '
Eastern seaboard, where sales have ?
jumped by leaps and bounds.
OAKLAND OWNERS REGULARLY REPORT
RETURNS OP PROM 18 TO 25 MILES
PROM THE GALLON OF GASOLINE AND
PROM S.000 TO 12,000 MILES ON TIRES
THE NEW OAKLAND SENSIBLE SIX POUR DOOR SEDAN
OAKLAND
S?.N.S.I.B.L.E SAX
CONSIDERED solely as an investment,
the new Oakland Sensible Six four
door Sedan presents remarkable value in the
light of present-day prices. You will find it
a big, handsome car, well designed and well
made, which gives you full protection in
winter and plenty of open air for pleasant
driving days. An unobtrusive heater is
incorporated as further insurance of your
comfort in cold weather. This and other
Oakland models are on display during the
Automobile Show at Space A-30, Grand
Central Palace.
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Cour?, S1S-S. P.O.B. Pohtta-,Mien. A_omow__-?-_?Wi_?W-____.-fc-n______T,tl>
OAKLAND MOTOR CAR CO.
1760 Broadway, at 56th Street Phone: Circle 4880
THANKS TO THOUSANDS OF LOYAL CUSTOMERS
A WONDERFUL CAR
Leads all exhibitors in the value
of its production ?and secures first
choice:?Space No. 1 at the
National Automobile Shows. ?
World's Largest Baaders of Six Cylinder Automobiles
BUICK MOTOR COMPANY
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, NEWARK,
358 Livingston St. Broadway & 55th St. 45 William St,
FACTORY?FLINT, MICHIGAN