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War Taught Lessons Are
Bearing Their Fruit Now
New Standards Learned in Stress Applied to
Motor Cars Now, Says Moskovics, of the
Nordyke & Marmon Company.
By F. E. Moskovics
Vice-President Nordyke and Mormon
Company
It was freely predicted during the
war that the world's truly great motor
cars would eventually be designed and
made by those few motor car manufac?
turers who were devoting their facto?
ries, capital and organizations to the
building of aircraft motors for the gov?
ernment. The frequency of this predic?
tion was based upon the fact that the
experienced engineers and manufactur?
ers had learned a new engineering and
manufacturing science during the war.
Under the tremendous drive of war
the scientist, the engineer and the man?
ufacturer were inspired to feats of en?
deavor utterly beyond the normal. The
battle of the laboratory ? and factory i
was as tense, as dramatic in its way,
as the operations on the battle front.
The urgency was as great and the im?
possible was as frequently accom?
plished. Manufacturers who were pro?
ducing gasoline engines and aviation
motors for the government accom?
plished things that never before were
done outside of the laboratory. They
revolutionized automotive engine pro?
duction standards.
It was the knowledge of such things
that made engineers and leaders of pro?
duction predict that the world's great
car would he born of the war. The i
very fact that work on the Liberty
motor taught maker and organization
how successfully to build engines to
the close limits of that motor, and
how to establish an inspection organi?
zation more exacting than any before
known showed the leaders that those
makers could and must follow the new
ideals in the future.
It was clearly seen by the prophets I
that the great strides would come in
the factory end and not frotn the design?
er or engineer. 'The war work clearly
taught that no radical changes in the
design or principle of the internal com?
bustion engine had developed.
It was from the accumulated knowl?
edge of this sort that the Nordyke &
Marmon Company produced the new
series Marmon 34, with its high
efficiency engine. In the new mod?
el we have a car of exceptional
qualities with a new sweetness _?f
running, with a ? motor free from
vibrational disturbances and a per?
formance record that is truly re?
markable. The results were accom?
plished by a practical application of l
the great lessons we learned in the |
building of the aircraft motors. These !
things were known before, it is true,,
but only in the laboratory or experi?
mental way. They never existed in the
realm of practical production.
Big Men Turning
Now to the Use
Of Smaller Cars
Particularly So in the Case ;
of the Dort, Says Mans?
field; Often Do Their
Own Driving, Too
By John D. Mansfield
General Sale? Manager, Dort Motor
Car Company
Since the first sevon-passenger tour?
ing car and the heavy limousine be?
came mediums of transportation big
men and big cars have been intimately
associated. With the high cost, owing
to small production and the fact that
one must know his banker well if he is
Mr. Mansfield
to indulge in a liveried chauffeur, no i
others could hit the pace.
Por years these captains of industry, i
?minent professional men and owners
of acres o: c.ty property, were content ;
to sit back and let the hired man bearj
the brunt, having in mind only their
objective and dodging the legal limit
of speed to attain it. But there is a :
spirit of unrest among Americans of j
the wealthy classes, not the unrest of
the other strata which threatens peace
and prosperity, but the want of some?
thing else, something new, an experi?
ence not on the daily schedule of their
ordinary lives.
Seeing their sons and daughters
laughingly on their way in a trim four
cylinder car, many of these men have
figured on taking a whirl at the game
which has such a grip on the younger
I set. So they have learned to drive,
. driven hither and yon and from it
found just what th.y .nought, an experi?
ence and one chockful of human inter
.?t. Esst and West, North and South,
big men have bought Dort cars for
themselves-. They are taking their
measure of enjoyment out of driving
them and have found that in emergen-'*
c?es ? small, clever car at hand is far
better than the big car at one place and
the chauffeur perhaps at another.
Users of the Dort car, whether in the
touring or closed five-passenger types
or In the all-season coup?, are not re?
stricted in particular fields of wealth.
They bave invaded all 'and now are a
welcome adjunct to both the business
and Hie iffe-worth-livini, sides of big
?en. Driving widens the horizon, it
increase? perception, it banishes hum?
drum?particularly when the medium
is an easily mastered Dort.
No Need to Envy Man
Tho women who are said to envy
man hi? ?any pockets will delight in
the new Marmon touring cars exhibited
at the Grand Central Palace. Resides
the capacious door pocket, there are
?HisUisry voeseU ?t the ?ids? of the
tonn?o. just the place for glove?,
iits fiasses and rsnlty bags.
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Two-Tone Color
Marks Car in
Westcott Display
The Westcott, "the car with a longer
life," distributed in New York by the
Westcott Motor Company, 1838 Broad?
way, is at the New York show in a dis?
tinctive new design, with a two-tone
color combination and with many re?
finements.
The new color combination adds to
the car a touch that makes it stand
out* A belt extending around the
body, at the top and over the hood, is
in a lighter color than the panels below
This four-passenger roadster is just one of the improved Holmes air-cooled cars, which this year will be seen at
the show. The first announcement of the Holmes, two years ago, was a sensation.
i it, and the wheels are finished to match
the belt in color. Adding to the car are
a cowl ventilator, controlled from the
dash, and a cowl-fitting windshield,
with the lower .glass stationary.
The makers exhibit at the show all
models that are now being produced
at the plant in Springfield, Ohio. They
are of two sizes, the "Larger Six" and
the "Lighter Six."
In the larger size are a seven-pas?
senger touring car, a five-passenger
touring car and a seven-passenger
limousine-sedan. In the lighter size
are included a two-passenger roadster,
a three-passenger coup? (straight seat),
a five-passenger touring car and a five
passenger sedan.
The "Larger Six" has a wheelbase of ;
125 inches, the "Lighter Six" of 118 \
inches. Both have Continental engines. !
All tires on both models are non-skid j
cords. Thermostatic control of the
cooling system helps k'eep the engine ;
temperature even in any season or cli- \
mate. A radiometer, with dial on the
instrument board, shows motor temper?
ature.
The Westcott company has included |
all the conveniences usually provided ]
by the makers of the best cars for the i
comfort and convenience of the pas- ?
sengers, and more besides. The iri
closed bodies are custom built, of
aluminum, and of the most modern
coach design. Perfection heater equip- !
ment is used in all inclosed types.
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Women drivers are expected to be greatly attracted to the Auburn line, par?
ticularly the sedan here portrayed.
General Manager Westco.i Motor Car
Co. Member Automobile Show
Coachwork Is of
New Design in
"Sensible Sixes"
At the Oakland exhibit at the Grand
Central Falace a new four-door sedan
and a businesslike coup? are being
featured by the makers of the "Sen?
sible Six."
The changes that have been incorpo?
rated in these two models include sev?
eral chassis refinements that increase
car life and riding comfort. The coach
work is of different design, but the 44
horsepower, overhead-valve engine in
the sedan and coup?, however, is the
same.
Both the Oakland four-door sedan
and the coup? have fineness of appoint?
ment and completeness of equipment,
the two cars having many conveniences
in common. The interiors are spacious
Cor the passenger capacity, and are j
upholstered and .trimmed in automo- j
bile cloths, ?with carpet and silk roller |
curtains to match. A large dome light '
furnishes illumination at night.
Special attention has been paid to
the easy convertibility of both the
TlieN
ew1
The Aristocrats of Moiordom"
In keeping with Kissel tradition o? unrestricted
originality, the new Kissel custom-built closed
models are decidedly exclusive developments of
mechanical en&ineerinfc and body craftsmanship.
First New York Presentation, Jan. 3rd to 10th.
Grand Central lalace AuiomopileSliow
First Balcony af head of Main Stairway
This premier exhibition' includes the
. Six Passen?er Sedan
K>ur Passenger Urban^Sedan
Four Passenger Coupe
Designed and constructed at the Kissel factories
?mounted on the Kissel custom-built chassis and
propelled by the new Kissel custom-built motor.
Sidney B. Bowman Automobile Co.
Broadway at 52nd St. New York City.
Service Station
225-231 West 49th Street
Salesroom
Telephone Circle 2614
sedan and coup? from a snug closed
car to an airy open model. In fair |
j weather the glass in the doors may
j be partly opened or lowered entirely
[ by means of window regulators.
| Within easy reach of the driver is
I a window shield cleaner, which keeps
the glass clear of rain and snow, while
an inconspicuous floor heater, utilizing
the exhaust vapors, supplies clean,
warm air on days of low temperature.
"No models built by tho Oakland
Company ever offered more tangible
? evidence of Oakland value than do the
new tour-door sedan and the coup?,"
said Charles M. Brown, manager of the
New York branch.
j "The appointments, for example, in
? elude many items that are found only
? in cars of much higher price. This
i value, which distinguishes every unit
; of the sedan and coup?, is made pos
! sible by the savings efTo-tcd through
i enormous production, great purchasing
power and the concentration on a sin?
gle chassis."
Templar Corporation Is
Exhibiting Four Models
At the Grand Central Palace the
Templar Motors Corporation is dis?
playing a complete line in four models
?said to be among the most beauti?
fully finished cars at the exposition.
Every effort has been made to make
those live up to the reputation of
being "The Superfine Small Car."
The exhibit at space C-3 on the
third floor includes a wine-colored
touring car?this rich red suggesting
the rare old Burgundy of days gone
by ?a gray sportette, a bronze roadster,
and a sedan finished in Brewster green.
Because of limited space it will be
impossible to display t he popular
coupe model.
Representatives of the Templar
Motors Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio,
who are at the exposition include
M. F. Bramley, president; Harry W.
Anderson, general sales manager;
Charles E. Bailey, assistant sales and
advertising manager.
Brake Adjusters on Cole "8"
Automatic brake adjusters on the
Cole Aero-Eights make a periodic ad
. j?w?tment of the service brakes' unnec?
essary. Each time the brake is applied
the ratchet within the adjuster auto?
matically moves on the brake rod, de?
creasing the surplus length occasioned
by tho mineral wear. Thus the brakes
are kept in permanent adjustment.
Cole No. 1 Still on the Job
The first Cole car ever shipped from
the factory in Indianapolis was sold to
P. K. Wilson, of Jacksonville, Fla., In
1908. The car, which is a 1008 Cole
30, is still in service and is used daily
by Mr. Wilson, although it has been
driven more than 90.000 miles, an aver?
age of more than 8,000 miles a year
for eleven consecutive years.
Keeping Away Vibration
Nash engineers have made th? ?.
Four unusually free from vibr.5"
according to those who are in a ^
tion to know. The door supports bnu
permanently into the car ???rl
minimum of vibration to the hL*
Carefully balanced construction l2
made the motor practically win.? ?
vibration at all. y Wltho?t
When you see this distinctive
radiator at the Show, you wul in?
stantly note that the new, smartly
continental National Sextet is dis?
tinguished by a pleasing lowness
unduplicated in any other car,
Eucopean or American?
POERTNER MOTOR CAR CO., Inc.
1759 Broadway Telephone Circle 1186
At the show the one display
you cannot afford to miss
is the Haynes exhibit
cA personal recommendation by A. G. SEIBERLING, Vice-President and
General Manager of The Haynes Automobile Company, Kokomo, Indiana
N the Haynes exhibit there will be surprises for
you?newness without oddness?a display that will
hold your interest and attention because of its real
value to you as a car owner or an intending one.
Two distinct new types of fashionable closed cars are included
in the showing?the last word in extreme refinement of
design and quiet luxury of adornment.
Character?-character?character?always the keynote of
Haynes design and construction, will be presented to you
with a rare perfection.
The exhibit will demonstrate that the dominant Haynes
principle, since the day Elwood Haynes presented America's
first car twenty-seven years ago, has always been not merely
to keep pace with progress, but to lead.
As a presentation of the choicest in modern motor car crea?
tion, the Haynes exhibit will excite as much interest and
create as much comment as did the original Haynes car
which pioneered the way for America in automobiles.
It is the one exhibit you cannot afford to miss?the first one
you should see?the one you will always remember.
?ou will enjoy it as you can only enjoy the highest develop?
ment of the genius of the designer, the engineer, the builder*
and all the other experts whose craft and handiwork are
called upon for your interest and enjoyment.
THE HAYNES AUTQMOB?LE COMPANY? KOKOMO, INDIANA; U. S. A.
The Haynes display is Exhibit A-7, Grand Central Palace
CHARACTER CARS
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