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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1919
SECTION TWO
PAGE THREE
NEW VICTORY MODtL
OF Ml
I
CHELL MAKES
GOOD WITH VENGANCE
Hi
1121
miles in second gear through sand that
could he negotiated no other way it
was expected that considerable carbon
would be formed in the motor. This
expectancy was augmented by the fact
that excessive lubrication was the rule
Yet, when the motor was torn down
ar.d all, carbon scraped it was found
that just 24 ounces had collected. This
is in the face of more driving than the
average motorist would do in an en
tire season and under conditions that
usually, would never be attempted by
the ordinary car owner.
Because of the extremely heavy con
dition of about one third of the entire
mileage when the car was ground
through roads that it seemed no me-
Get Acquainted With Your Car
"A LITTLE ADVICE NOW AND THEN
IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN"
In a contest between man and mat
ter, man usually wins; one exception
is the case in which a man attempts
to punish a motor car to the breaking
noint. If the car be sturdy enough it
will wear the driver down and make j
him admit defeat, though he spare
neither car nor motor. Such vas the:
t ccomplishment placed to the credit of
the New Victory Mitchell when, in
5.;::'0 miles driven in 22 days, it with
slro:i a test that scarcely could have
been made more sevre.
When Automobile Editor Brownie of
the Milwaukee Journal, probably the
best known and most severe road ! The police of any of our larger cities
driver in Wisconsin, took the Victory Would disagree with him just as unJ
Mitcl-.cll on his 5.000 mile stale trtinK .iualifielly.
chanical device could withstand, re-r
axle trouble was tobe expected. Not
once was it necessary to give thought
or attention to this feature. It with
stood without complaint all that hu
man endurance could throw upon it.
And when, at the conclusion of the
tour, the car was driven over the con
ciete road from Milwaukee to the fac
tory in Racine, the motor ran as
smoothly and as quietly as during the
first 1000 miles of the tour; the rear
axle was as conspicuous by its utter
silence. New tires had replaced all
but one of those with which the tour
was started and the car struck a pace
of 67 miles per hour without sensible
strain or undue effort.
If the average car owner were asked
whether he could identify his own car
under any given set . of circumstances,
his impulse would be to return an un
qualified and indignant affirmative
highway inspection tour, a tour over
nil the main line highivays in the stnto
rf Wisconsin, it was understood that
ine car was expected to withstand
As a matter of fact most car owners
depend for identification on some
scratch on the body, some broken
rew in the . chassis or some other
STORAG
era
e
IS SOUL OF ALL
AIRPLANE NIOTDBS
an average of 300 miles per day overjeqUaNy uncertain factor. They do not
hiphwavs of every possible condition
The car was to be in no way sparett
or coddled; it was to be driven through
to the finish without shop attention,
or. failing, just so far as it would go
and the truth was to be told of the
rfsnlt.
Wisconsin's trunk line highways are,
probably, as good as any similar sys
tem to be found. For the purpose of
th ordinary tourist they are excel
lent. F.ut the tour of the Victory
?3itche!I was in no way ordinary. To
begin with, it was undertaken at the
most difficult time of the year possible
and the climate did not hesitate to
throw its (junta of burden upon car
and driver. Sometime, during every
day the car was out It was rained
upon.
No state in the union affords a
preater variety of scenery and conse
ouently, of roads, than does Wiscon
sin. In one of the days of the .our
the car traveled from the midst of rhe
f.tnA belt in the center of the state
down to the southern border and 'nto
yellow and red and gray clay and hack
to the gravel of the easter.t central
section. During this day's run it was
called upon to travel through both
sand and mud into which the axle
dragged, twice it was thrown into the
sofc mud of ditches and made to drag
itself, with the aid of chains, mud
hooks and tractor-wheel-like Mttach-
ments pi iced on 16-inch sections of
the rear tires, back to the roadway.
And this was a fair example of any
, " c' the days of the tour.
That the tour might be of value to
the niakets of the car, as well as
serve its purpose of state "Righwf.y in
spection,' a specified grade of gasoline
and a certain lubricating oil were
used throughout the entire tour,
shipped to convenient points about th?
state. In addition to the lS-gallon
tank on the rear, two five gallon tanks
of fuel were carried on the -jniing
boards. These, and the shovel that
traveled with the spare tires were
found to be the two most useful insti
tutions aboard. Many times, lacking
but two of an average of once for each
day out, it was actually necessary o
shovel away parts of soft roadway on
ditches into which the car had dug it
rVlf before it could be forced on its
way. It was a grand little ,vi ..-tlci!.
that, shovel. '--
Twice, in the course of the tour, the
Victory Mitchell traveled the length of
Wisconsin, from Heloit to Superior and
again from .Tanesville to Eagle River.
Four times it traveled the width of
the state. From sweltering heat at
I'.eloit it ran into fog and snow flakes
(it Superior, all within 4S hour. F'om :
the semi-mountainous roads of the
region around the famous Wisconsin I
stop to consider that our-big manu
facturers are turning out models in
ten thousand lots that differ from
each other in not the slightest dis
cernible degree. By the time a suc
cessful automobile , thief has run a
stolen car throHgh his "service ma
don" it will puzzle the most careful
owner on earth to identify his ve
hicle. An instance in point is found in the
recent experience of a car owner in a
middle western city who lost his car,
a touring model of a popular make,
and after some three weeks of anxious
waiting was summoned to police head
quarters to see whether he could iden
tify a vehicle answering to his de
scription of his lost car.
Arrived at the police station he
found a small group of other owners,
who had assembled to try and identify
the same car to see which he had been
summoned. The hopeful owner had a
number of marks by which he felt
confident he could prove his owner
ship of the restored vehicle. There
was a bent screw in one part of the I lose it.
chassis, a dent in one fender, a scratch
of peculiar shape on the dash. The
car with which he was confronted was
undoubtedly of the same vintage as
his lost boat, but unhappliy it was
painted a rich ultra-marine blue in-j
stead of the dark green that had j
graced his vehicle. The most earnest
scrutiny failed to disclose any of in!
disinguishing marks on which he had
re'ied. A slight chipping of the new j
coat of enamel revealed the fact that
it had been put cn over a previous!
coat of the dark green that our friend j
had described. But two of the other;
assembled owners had put in bids for!
ilark green cars, and eventually -one of j
them managed to identify the car by h 1
chip in the gearsef housing. The iden
tification was not particularly convinc- 1
ing, but in tha absence of anything!
better it served to give the car to the1
on ner who had been able to describe i
the imperfection.
As a matter of fact no car owner!
ought to depend on any such casual j
means of identification as slight im-'
aerf -actions that may have accrued :
during the operation of the vehicle.;
When the professional automobile!
thief steals a car he takes it to what j
amounts practically to a rebuilding:
factory. In many cases the entire:
mechanism is taken down and the
different parts are redistributed with!
those from other cars of the same j
make and model to turn out what i
amount to new vehicles. Mechanical j
units are shuffled about so that uj
slight imperfection on one part noth-. ',
ing except that that particular part I
once had a place on a certain car. '
The only safe method of placing
Ddls it rolled onto the flat, track like identification marks on a oar is to
stretches fart -lor north and east and i i lace them on all the major parts of i
on the hills and the cut-over lands of the- mechanism. Perhaps the most!
At any rate the police summoned
this owner to see if he could identity
the reclaimed car as the one he had
lost. He came to headquarters, looked
the vehicle over, paying considerable
attention to the dash, and turning to
the detective in charge, said: "This is
my boat all right.iin spite of the fresh
coat of paint."
Have you any marks to identify it
by?" asked the officer.
"Yes. sir," replied the owner. "My
name is J. K. Smith, as you know. Just
take a look at the-face of that clock."
The officer looked. On the dial of
the clock was the legend, "Brown
Clock company. Boston, Mass." In fine
serif t beneath this maker's name was
"Sold by J. K. Smith, Agent." The
thief had accepted this as a bona fide
agent's name instead of a really clever
identification mark, which it was.
In a recent theft case in Boston
the owner of a stolen car was able to
prove his ownership of a recovered
car by means of his initials, which
were engraved in each of the hub
caps.
The individual owner can probably
find a dozen distinctive ways of mark
ing his car for possible identification.
but the point is that this should be
done, because when a car has been
stolen the police demand something
more than say-so on the part of the
owner before they return it to him.
Be sure that there are more ways than
one by means of which you can prove
that your car actually i. yours, in case
you are ever unfortunate enough to
When a Liberty motor is giving its
utmost to push forward a Libert?
plane, the result to the ear at least, is
a noise which would hardly be wel
come in the reading room of a public
library, or under your window when
you want to sleep.
Such is the voice of gasoline raised
in protest against being introduced to
the little spark of electricity which
jumps across the spark plugs 165 times
every second; but the protest is in
vain for the "juice" keeps coming;
165 times each second, 9900 sparks
per minute, 594,000 times in an hour,
coming from a little innocent looking
box full of lead and acid and water
and rubber, stowed away in the fusel
age, out of sight but never out, of the
mind of the man whose life depends
upon it
The storage battery is the soul of
the Liberty motor. As gasoline is its
food, steel and aluminum its clothing,
so is electricity its 'spark of life.
Without that spark it is1 an inert
mass; with it the Liberty motor is
source of magnificent power.
The Willard Storage Battery com
pany in Cleveland had for years been
making storage "batteries for starting,
lighting and ignition on automobiles.
When Uncle Sam decided he would
"take no more nonsense" from the
kaiser, the Willard organization was
asked to design a storage battery for
ignition in an aircraft motor.
. The first difficulties faced were the
necessary limitations on size and
weight, as -Uncle Sam's specifications
called for a battery of a certain ca
pacity weighing not more than ten
pounds. Any motorist who has tried -o
lift his storage battery, knows what
it weighs. Lead, the very name
sounds heavy makes up most of the
storage battery, and ten pounds of
lead is not very much. The Willard
engineers set to work and designed a
battery of the proper capacity, weigh
ing but ten pounds and two ounces.
which was satisfactory to the govern
ment designers.
But size and weight were not the
only obstacles. An automobile prop
erly driven stays on its whtels md
there is no danger of the acid contents
of the battery spilling out. But a
Liberty plane must operate just as
well "head over heels" as any other
way, and the Willard engineers found
that they must design a battery which,
while open at the top, did not spill its
contents when inverted. This sounds
rather difficult. and it was. but it
was done just the same. Within ten
days from the receipt of the govern
ment's specifications, the Willard en
gineers had designed and perfected a i
battery which met the government's;
needs as to capacity, size, weight, and j
this battery operated upside down. :
This battery was adopted and never
since has it -been changed in any de
tail. ' j
Such, is the inside story of the ignl- j
tion on the Liberty airplane motor.
Storage batteries have for years been i
recognized as the most efficient and :
most reliable means of providing j
ignition for gasoline motors, but other
and less advantageous forms of ignl- j
tion had to be used until American!
inventive genius was brought to bear 1
on modern war problems. j
The inventions of war are being;
rapidly turned to peace use. We are!
breaking our swords into plowshares. :
and the same little Willard battery;
which gave life to the Liberty aircraft I
motor over the Argonne is now fur- i
nishing the 9900 sparks per minute !
which help to carry Uncle Sam's mail j
along the air lanes. ,
Oxy-Acetylene
WE
DING
FEMININE PERSISTENCE
(Birmingham Age-Herald)
Lo and behold, the lady suff
Of lobbying can't get enough.
She's found in legislative halls
And on each solemn solon calls.
Completely cornered, he poor man
Puts up the best defense he can. .
But as we watch his face we think
He'd give nine dollars for a drink.
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THE FORCE OF HABIT
(Kansffe City Star)
Already restaurant proprietors are
printing announcements Mnat on New
Year's eve they will sell nothing but 50
cent nut sundaes after 9 o'clock.
All Kinds-All Times-All Work
Guaranteed
Automobile Frames
Bodies Parts Welded
We Are Highest Class Experts Most
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Auto Lamps Fenders Radiators
Windshields Rebuilt or Repaired
LET US ESTIMATE YOUR JOBS
Phoenix
Sheet Metal Works
320 W. Washington St. Phone 3589
the north .vhere the roads are more
perfect th;in in any other sec: ion of
the state and where on? trnve's for a
hundred ,niles(rir more without once
seeing a human habitation.
Twice was it necessary ;o make
minor rrpa'rs that the tour miffht be
continued reither of whli h .'repairs
rould be charged to the car and
v. ere therefore legiiimate. Om'e, on a
di-enly rutted sand road through the
ciit-over lumber co'lntry a front wheel
struck a sunken. h'''lrlen lerr at 38
miles per hour and broke one leaf of
a front spring. This was replaced.
Apain, !n going around a washed out
culvert it was necessary to drive
through wet. black murk. The wheels
sunk, the.f-ont wheeis aprsHnst a log
in the mire. In using chains and
mud -hooks to drive the car from the
bole one of the mud -hooks came loose
s-iirt the brake-bands were torn off bi
lbo spinning wheel. This brake band
v as replaced. With these exceptions
it was never necessary to make re
pair or adjustment except to make
carburetor allowan'-e for the widely
varying road conditions.
N'ot once throuphoufthe entire 5'dISi
miles was a spark-pluT touched. It
'.as necessary to replace the large
(.Mxoline tan't which was lo.it. This loss
was undiscovered by driver and
passenger until the tank was too fat
behind to be found wh"n search was
made. The car had traevelcd tour
miles on the supply in the vacuum
tank. A new tank was shipped to a
point 80 miles ahead and the distance
made bv twisting the gasoline tine
through a vent in the running board
and inserting it into one of the emer
gency tanks on the side.
Oil in the crankcase was changed
approximately every 500 miles: high
test gasoline was used throughout. Be
cause of the excessive load imposed
upon the motor often ten or fifteen
satisfactory method of doing so is ti
place punch marks on the various
units. All such marks should be put
m places where they will not be read
ily discernible. For instance on ' lie
insido of the axles, on the flywheel, on
the upper side of the gcarset housing
After the marks have been made they
.should be rubbed over with grean;
until they are as nearly indistinguish
able as possible. -The car owner can
have a prick punch made with his
initials on it in very fine type and
with this it is possible to place identi
fication marks on the various parts;
that will generally escape notice ana
yet remain permanently.
One owner whom I know has had
the upholstery of his front and rear
seats lifted up and has tacked his card
on the wooden framework of the seat.
This is not at all bad. because the
thief would seldom think to look in
this location for an identification mark
of any sort. '
Another clever idea is to bore a few
small hole. a mere fraction of an inch
into the framework at a given place
carefully measured from permanently!
located landmarks. Then fill these
holes wirti lead and wmear the spot
well with grease. If there comes, a
time when it is necessary to identify
the ear it is a simple matter to meas
ure of f. the proper distance, scrape a
little of the lead off and prove owner
ship of the car.
In some cases an owner has been
able to identify his car by reason of
some simple but ingenious mark so
placed that it is apparently part of
the car or equipment. Not very long
ago the New York police recovered a
stolen car and nabbed the thief at the
same time. The car corresponded in
every way to a description given by a
certain bereaved owned except that it
had recently been repainted in an en
tirely different color scheme.
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