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COUCH BODIES HOE BUILT BT . NEW METHODS M A ° riarity ’ manager of the h d i« L ' Arnold distribution house fmrn « a comrTlUn lcation received ,d U Arnold - ™tes that . ° or * n 8 public has shown a 8 at deal of Interest In the new sex coach, and much surprise has " n ex Pressed that so much car and pOach value can be obtained for the eoa?h*? 8 rd i e h 8 ( , 0f prlce * th ® Easex fore ” a better car than ever be says Mr. Arnold. comnll C T aCh body fram ® hullt tn ih manne r entirely new ♦ lira *» rt Jncl o»ed car manufa.c . rogres ? lve assembly features sri,£ 0l ?° my by educing the cost of »im nU /* Cture ' Aab ’ bard maple and _ i ai ’s rom which the principal frame members of the Essex coach body rf® ® iad ®» are subjected to several months of air drying, and then to a ary kiln with uniform moisture limits held at 6 to 7 per cent. This thorough treatment prevents warp “ The hard maple sills of ample pro portions give a solid foundation for the framework. The wood used for door pillars ta ash, which Is selected because it is light In weight and yet very strong. Thus, body balance is assured as well as proper door sup port and alignment. The roof side members are elm, held in square alignment by hard maple crossbars. Straight pieces—straight grained—. Tire* With 500 Nail Holes Leak No Air A new puncture proof inner tube, whieh In actual use was punctured 500 times without showing the loss of any air when tested by a tire gauge, has been Invented by Paul B. Coats, an electrical engineer of Chicago. It is inflated with air and has the same appearance as the regular inner tube, yet it re moves all the necessity of chang ing tires until the casings are en tirely worn out. Cars using these tubes are making from 8,000 to 12,000 miles without removing a tire from the wheel, A wonderful feature of this new tube Is that It can be produced and sold at about the same price as the ordinary tube. Mr. Coats has turned over all rights on his invention to the Milburn Puncture Proof Tube Co., 328 W. 47th St., Chicago, who wants to place these tubes In a few cars here. They will make a very liberal offer to anyone who * wishes to try them at the com pany’s risk, until a distributor is appointed for this territory.—Adv. Greatest Price Slashing OF USED CARS Ever Held in Phoenix We are closing out our entire stock of over thirty popular makes of used cars at prices never heard of before. Every car has been gone over mechanically, refinished and is guaranteed. Your last chance to buy a good, rebuilt automo bile from a house with a reputation, at 50 per cent under value. Look them over today. 1921 Oidsmobile 6 Touring .. .$650 This car has been thoroughly gone over from stem to stern and looks and runs as good as the day it left the factory. 1920 Oakland 6 Touring $595 This car has had very little uss. The tires are all new, non* skid cord, the top, paint and upholstery is practically new. An ideal family car and can be bought on very easy terms. 1920 Mitchell Roadster $595 This is the Victory model. Seats three people, has just been refinished a very pretty blue and it cannot be told from new. Two spare tires and other extras. 1919 Chandler Dispatch $865 Without question one of the prettiest sport model cars in town. Has brand new cord tires, including spare. Refinished Persian blue. Classy and snappy, and will give very easy terms. Don’t fail to see this. 1919 Buick 6 Touring $685 This is the Light Six five passenger. Has all brand new tires, new top, not a scratch or mar on it and the motor is ex* ceptionally quiet. This is a real Buick. 1919 Jordan 6 Touring $650 This Jordan 6 is in wonderful shape throughout, has brand new seat covers, costing $65. Has been refinished a beautiful tan. Top is new. Wire wheels. New Fisk Cords, bumpers, front and rear. You have to see it to appreciate it. 1919 Kissel 6 Roadster $695 One of the prettiest roadsters that we have ever rebuilt. Has four brand new non-skid tires, special red top and upholstery and has been refinished to match. If you are looking for a roadster out of the ordinary you won’t be disappointed in this one. 1918 Nash 6 Touring $495 You can't go wrong on a good Nash, and this one is right. The top and paint is new, the motor is perfect and at the price we're giving it away. If you don’t believe it come down and see it. 1918 Chalmers 6 Touring $295 This is the Light Six five passenger. Has good seat covers, top and tires. Motor is in good shape and it is an exceptional buy at this price. Will give terms. 198 Ford Touring $195 A mighty good Ford. The condition of this car is better than the average. Has new top, new tires and repainted. We have on hand about 15 others that are not listed here that the prices have been cut down to the bottom. This sale is for ten days only and you will never have a chance to get such values again. Will give easy terms and give a good allowanc® on your old car in trade. Open all day Sunday. Palace Garage 423-25-27 West Adams Street Phone 4265 . A are selected for the building of the Essex coach body.” One of the special security features of the Essex chassis which is dis tinctly an Essex advantage of great Importance to the driver’s safety is the unique connecting link between the steering gear and the front wheels, known as the drag link. In the Essex it is made from a single piece of seamless steel tubing. LETTER X IS USED BY KELLY The simple letter "X” has served a good many purposes from that of puzzling the youthful minds in the algebra class to the more difficult problem of serving as a title for a popular play. Now It ha* been chosen to serve the double purpose of a dis tinguishing mark on Kelly-Kant Slip cords and to form the non-skid sur face of the tire, says Bob Roberts of the Phoenix Rubber company. The engineering service department of the Kelly-Springfield company gave this problem serious considera tion for several months, according to Roberts, and finally determined upon the letter “x” a* the most logical so lution of the problem. “The*re&aons for this letter being selected for the tread on Kelly Kant- Slip cords is an interesting story,” he says. “Make a small “x’* with a pen cil and note the angles and straight lines encountered by any object en deavoring to cross the letter from any direction. If the cross-bar* forming the *x* are made of heavy, sharp edged piece*. these straight lines and angles will be formed of edges to fur ther Impede the movement of any object. “Thus the sharp-edged *x’ built on the surface of a tire provides the most effective non-skid surface. The series of these sharp-edged ‘x’s’ built up from the tire furnishes a sure road grip in all directions. No matter which way the tire is pushed or turned, there is always a sharp edge in contact with the road to prevent slipping.” Installs His Own T rouble-Shooter On Ford Ignition That up-to-date equipment has ev ery thing to do with the success of e, service department or repair shop is the contention of J. T. Staples, foreman and shop electrician for Ed Rudolph. In support of his conten tion, Staples points with pride to his methods of getting to the root of ignition troubles. As a result of a trip back to the Ford factory where he incidentally stayed for six years, Staples returned to Ed Rudolph in 1920 with keen ideas as to shop equipment and management. He im mediately started to work to rig up his own service stand for shooting ignition troubles, and many a Ford owner can now testify to the effi ciency of this new device. That every man should specialize In his own work is Mr. Staples* con- THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. PHOENIX, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1922. Scene from “The Mikado" as presented by the famous Dunbar Opera Company at tha Elks Theater today, matinee and night tention, and hs has assigned every man in the Rudolph shop to the work he is best suited to or has fol lowed. Carburetor men work or car buretors. machinists handle machine work exclusively, men who are adepts at motor overhauling are assigned to this type of work, and so on. The results of this system have been very gratifying. “And we are not resting on our oars, either,” declared Mr. Staples, “for we are making improvements Just as fast as we see the need for them. It is one thing to be a good mechanic and another to keep abreast of the times. Generally the two go hand in hand and they must do so of necessity if the proper results are to be obtained.” MOMENTUM IS ACCUMULATED 6T CADILLAC Larry Quinlan, manager of Babbitt Brothers, declares that production has been speeded up in the big Cad illac plants in Detroit, in response to a demand from dealers and dis tributors for cars in greater number than Is usual at this season of the year. A total of nearly 7.000 in the working force, a figure close to high water mark for the Cadillac organi zation, was reached this week. The increase In employment has been steady and gradual ever since the tremendously successful introduction of the Type 61 models. Order* for the new Type 61 Cad illac he says are coming in from every section of the country, pome dealers placing them for hundreds of cars. The success of the Cadillac is attributed to Its world-wide reputa tion for dependability and good serv ice. At the New York Auto Show. Cadillac did more actual business than at any previous show in that city, and results at Chicago were sim ilarly encouraging. The cars were listed at a price lower than that asked for any other high quality car on the market and demand for them is unusually widespread. Dealers and distributors in almost everv state have united in placing big orders. The factory Is on the biggest pio ductlon schedule In its history, and larger by 20 per cent than is ordi narily the case at this season of the year. With sales as high as they have consistently been in the months of January and February, the Cad illac executives know that they are facing a big year, and their arrange ments have been completed to take care of the demand. The Clark Avenue plant of the Cadillac is the largest plant in the world devoted exclusively to the pro duction of quality cars, and 7,000 men are employed there and in the other Cadillac plants, in the manufacture of the Type 61 Cadillac. The organi zation is now in its twentieth year of continuous production, and stands as the oldest automobile company in Detroit. It has the distinction of hav ing sold more than half of the high quality cars marketed in this country for the last three years. The stability of the Cadillac manu FABLES OF 1921 —By MARTIN ED WAS 5 0 FAT #E -X"' //AO TO A/A/L ///$ 1 FAVOe/TE CHAIR. 5 0 UHEAJ //£ UEAJT f /T WOOLOA/'r SUP * .... ..... facturlbg organization aa a whole is evidenced by the fact that nearly 70 per cent of the officials, superintend ents and foremen have been with it ever since the first eight-cylinder car was put on the market 8 years ago; 1200 employes have been Cad illac men for five years or more: 500 have had that honor for 10 years, and 80 for 15 years or more. BUM'S JOB TO TIKE PLACE OF IRON CRH “In selecting a battery,” says Tom Spaulding, “one must bear in mind that its job is to give a short power ful turn to the engine, such as a mus cular arms would accomplish on the crank. “This is better termed ‘cranking ability,’ which every battery, no mat ter how cheap, must have in suffi cient quantity to properly start the engine. It is this starting ability and not ampere hour capacity which a car owner should demand In a battery. “Whether the battery has the ca pacity to keep turning the engine continuously for 15 or 20 minutes Is of little importance because the bat-' tery in normal service is called upon to deliver cranking current for only a few seconds at a time. “Broadly speaking, what Is re quired is the capacity of the battery concentrated in a short spurt of cur rent delivered with a punch rather than spread out in a thin stream over several minutes. “The second consideration in choos ing the proper battery is long life. “In designing the Exide, no atten tion has been paid to how long it can deliver current at a certain rate. This is a non-essential quality in an auto mobile battery. Instead, every effort is directed toward increasing its “punch” or cranking power and in lengthening its life. “The result is a battery that has as much cranking ability and long life as it is mechanically and scientifically possible to build Into a battery of its size. Thus we have in the Exide an automobile battery without a frac tion of an ounce of superfluous weight or an inch of bulk —a very Im portant essential in any automobile or accessory." WILLVS KNIGHT RESUMES SEVEN PASSENGER GAR Herbert Hotchkiss of the Overland Arizona company, in speaking of the surprises featuring the Chicago show, states that John N. Willys again pre sented the thousands of visitors at the Chicago automobile show this year with a new thrill of surprise TOM. MOORE and HELENE CHADWICK ~ FR OAA,. THE GROU ND UP* OOLOWYN PICTURE. 6 Coming to Mauk’s Columbia Theater Next Tuesday and Wednesday when, with the opening of the show, models of two new seven-passenger Willys-Knight cars were disclosed in the exhibit space of WTllys-Overl&nd company. The new Willys-Knight seven passenger car is the logical successor of the Willys-Knight cars of similar size manufactured by Willys-Over land company up to 1919 in which year they were discontinued to make way for the big production on the Overland model 4 and the Willys- Knight model 20, both new models. The new seven-passenger Willys- Knight as displayed at the Chicago show won the instant admiration and approval of the great crowd because yThe Outstanding Value Among the Fine Light Sixes V THE NEW CLEVELAND SIX I THOSE who have been accustomed to fine quality recognize in this new Cleveland Six the same high standards of excellence for which they have heretofore paid a high price. Those who have denied themselves such a car now find it within their reach. Incorporated in this Cleveland are the individual style, the riding comfort, the dependable performance and the durability of large, expensive cars, without the extrava gance cf surplus weight and its consequent waste. touring car No Car Can Boast of Finer Engineering Take for instance one mechanical detail. Each piston and each connecting rod is carefully weighed and made Roadster . 1175 to exactly balance each of the other five. This practice has only been carried out on very expensive cars, and it SEDAN is one of the many fine features which help to produce the & f \ smooth operation and durability of Cleveland’s dependable * I I^^ overhead valve motor. JL One ride will convince you that this Cleveland Six is Coupe , . *1550 so replete with quality that it cannot be classified by its aji phc*« p. o. b. a«v«ba4 low price. CAL MESSNER Fourth Ave. and Adams St. Phone* 1386 4218 it follows closely In linos and finish the superb five-passenger Wiilys- Knight now entering upon its third year. The new Willys-Overland creation is a car with a 124-inch wheel-base and uses 32 by 4 -inch tires. The hood design follows the distinct hood lines of the five-passenger Willys- Knight. The power and transmission plants are those that have proved so consistently reliable in the Willys- Knight models now in production. The gear ratio is 6% to 1. O' Wireless waves travel at the same speed, regardless of their lengths. (Section Four) Rice can now be liquefied into the London bridge haa a rent roll of form of milk. 1750,000 a year. —— «■———l—i-» Pennzoil Lasts Did it ever strike you That motor oils are A lot like shoes For instance, you know The fellow who buys Half a dozen pairs a year That look fine when new But never last And you know the thoughtful buyer Who picks his leather carefully Pays more and gets more in return —Long mileage and shoe comfort Well, that’s pretty much The way with automobile owners Some are always having trouble And blame their motors for faults Directly resulting from The use of cheap oil While folks who stop to think Insist on the best Pay very little more Get better value And buy less often Specifically, PENNZOIL Motor Oil Like good shoe leather Withstands the hardest service With the least wear PENNZOIL’S Supreme Pennsylvania Quality means lasting economy SUPREME PENNSYLVANIA a* pitS&yt lubrication che Pennzoil Company PAGE SEVEN