Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 221, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1912 Page: 3 of 16
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Gasoline Tank. Gasoline is carried in tank at
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sure. Keeps constant supply in carburetor either
going up or down hill. Magnetic gasoline gauge
constantly indicate^ gasoline level.
Wheels. Extra strong. Artillery type. Ten spokes
in front wheel. Ten hub flange bolts. Twelve spokes
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Rear Axle. Pressed steel. Full adjustable, full
Windshield. Rain vision and ventilating; Not
a makeshift. Not an attachment. A part of the body.
Upholstering. Sofa type. Highest development of
automobile upholstering. Soft, flexible, resilient.
Comfortable positions. Hand-buffed leather—the
best to be had. 12 inches deep.
Horn. Bulb type. Concealed tubing.
Demountable Rim«. Latest type. Light. Easily
removed. Carry 36" x 4" Fisk tires—heavy car
type. Extra rim.#
Top. Genuine mohair. Graceful lines. Well fitted.
Storm curtains. Dust envelope.
Bodies. Note illustration. Deep, low, wide and
comfortable. You sit in the car—not on it. High
Electric Self-Cranking. Automatic. Will turn
oyer motor 30 minutes. Free from complications.
Simple. Positively effective.
Electric Lights. Brilliant head lights. Side lights.
Tail lamp. Illuminated dash. Extensive lamp for
night work about car. AH operated by handy switch
on dash.
Ignition. Integral with electric cranking and
electric lighting equipment. Gives magneto spark.
Known as Delco Patented System, the most effective,
efficient yet produced.
Speedometer. Clock, Illuminated face. Magnetic
construction. Jeweled bearings. Registers up to
00 miles an hour. Eight day keyless clock.
Electric Self-Cranking—Electrically Lghted
demonstrating this HUDSON “37.” Before a single car was shown HUDSON dealers had booked orders
I cars. All wanted for early delivery. You should act at
Graceful lines. All finished according to floating. Large bearings. Heat treated nickel steel
21 coats—varnish shafts. Easily disassembled, an item which indicates
•oimhnnt the simplicity and get-at-ableness of the entire car.
Models and Price. Five Passenger Tourings
Five Passenger Torpedo, Two Passenger Roadster—
$1875, f. o. b. Detroit. One price to all—everywhere.
Simplicity. The HUDSON standard of simplicity
is maintained. Every detail is accessible. There is
no unnecessary weight. All oiling places are conve-
nient. There are but two grease cups on the motor.
..„;t is g0 designed that it can be quickly and
easily disassembled. Think what an advance this is
over even the previous HUDSON—the "33”—the
“Car with 1000 less parts.”
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No one disputes his pre-eminent position
— ’—I— — -utomobile engineering progress.
His associates have been gathered from
nearly every important automobile engineering
There are men on this Board who were the
.^ineers of leading concerns. Every
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The HUDSON Company has millions at stake.
The future of the HUDSON will depend entirely
on this car’s performance. (
Howard E. Coffin, now the leading American
designer, has all his present prestige and future
fame tied up to the car which represents his
idea of perfection. (
And 48 engineers in the front rank of this
industry have all agreed that the HUDSON
“37” represents their highest accomplishment.
The future of all of them depends on this car’s
making good. ’ (
There was never a car on which so many men
had so much at stake as the HUDSON Staff has
on this. There was never a car of which so many
big men said, “There is no part of this car which
we know how to build better.”
Consider these facts when you read the claims
we make for this, the latest of the HUDSON
cars.
cushions and backs with soft upholstering that
will retain their easy qualities and not break
down, were added to the organization.
Never before in any other car was so much
thought given to these important items of com-
fort. 1 It is a dominating characteristic of the
New HUDSONS.
Worked Two Years
The result of two years’ work—the master
work of all these men—is shown in the New
HUDSON, cars.
As the experimental cars were completed,
they were sent with a corps of experts and
imaginable kind of road.
The cars were tried out last winter over roads
practically impassable to other vehicles. Snow
and mud and the worst weather did not interrupt
these tests. <
Officers of the company rode on these test
trips. They demanded more emphatically than
any owner can ever demand, that the quality of
the New HUDSON cars should be thoroughly
known to them.
The Allegheny mountains became our test-
ing ground.
No road was too rough, too steep, too danger-
ous or too long for these cars to be driven over
at maximum speed.
A driver—winner of many road races in Amer-
ica and abroad—who knows no fear—drove at
top speed .up rough mountain paths, through
bottomless roads of mire and over every con-
ceivable surface that a vehicle can be sept, to
prove that the car has the stamina, the power
and the comfort to do the work and do it with
minimum fatigue to the passengers.
Consider the Stake
In reading the claims which are made for this
car, consider how much is at stake on it.
Every HUDSON a Success
Such a body of experts render mistakes next to
impossible. A dozen men check every move of
each individual.
Your knowledge of American automobile
history tells you that every HUDSON car of
each model has been a brilliant success.
There is not the slightest question about that,
The secret of such constantly increasing quality
as has been shown each year in HUDSON auto-
mobilesisrdue to the fact that the best engineer-
ing brains in the world are used in'thejr building.
We regard it as the most essential part of an
organization. ^Fprty-eight experts are bound to
think faster, are bound to create more new
features, are bound to build a more thoroughly
proportioned car than any one man can ever
hope to do.
No one man’s personality, no one man’s
experience, can overshadow that of either of the
other 47 except in the details which he knows
better than the others know.
Such is the pedigree of the New HUDSON
Cars. It is nothing short of a romance of engi-
neering achievement. No other automobile ever
so completely represented what many trained
men could do. None other ever bore such unmis-
takable evidences of advancement and quality.
enced automobile engineers on the HUDSON
Engineering Board th;
ization in the world.
At the head of this body—now 48 in number
designer and builder of six famous
No one Disputes his pre-eminent position as
the leader of automobile engineering progress.
His associates have been gathered from
nearly every important automobile engineering
organization of the world.
There are men on this Board who were the
chief engineers of leading concerns. Every
automobile building nation has its representa-
tives here. v , drivers who knew all road conditions, over every
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France, England and Italy, as well as from
America.
y Combined they have had a hand in building
more than 200,000 cars of 97 well-known makes.
They Are Specialists—Every One
No one man can ever hope to know as much
about automobiles as these men, working in
unison, know. %,
Each is stronger for being associated with
so many other experts.
Each is a specialist. Each possesses a knowl-
edge and an ability not possessed by his
fellows. , '
In the same way that a base ball manager
in building a strong team chooses specialists
who excel at certain kinds of play—at pitch-
ing, catching, batting, and base running—so
Howard E. Coffin, four* years ago, set out to
organize the strongest body of automobile engi-
neers to be had.
The world was his field. If a man had
shown that he could get more power out of a
motor than any other man had been able to
get, or if one proved he could simplify work
others had more crudely begun, he was induced
to jom this organization.
Still, there are men here who know nothing
about automobile chassis designing but who know
everything about creating beautiful body lines.
These ^48 Engineers—Gathered From Everywhere—Have Had a
Hand in Designing Over 200,000 Cars of 97 Well-Known Makes
There are more high salaried, widely expert- Some who know how to make comfortable seat
tan in any similar organ-
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No. 3—Car, National; entrant, Rene
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No. 14—Car, Flanders Special;
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No. 16—Studebaker 20; entrant, P. H.
Bruske; driver, Christie.
No. 6—Car, base Special; entrant, J.
A Sloan; driver, B. Endicott.
YESTERDAY’S- RACE EVENTS.
During any one of the five^ auto-
mobile races of yesterday afternoon
the motor enthusiast had his chance
or seeing some excellent driving and
some real speed. None of the finishes
were short of the mile-a-minute clip,
and for some of the events an average
speed of more than that was main-
tained, especially in the seventy-five
mile race, the feature of the day. This
distance was run by the winning Sim-
plex in 69 minutes, which time would
of course have been greatly lessened
had the course been a straightaway
one without the exceedingly short
turns every two and one-half miles,
and at which the drivers were forced
to slow down to very ordinary paces
in rounding the barrels with flags af-
fixed to mark the course.
The very first event, a fifteen-mile
face, was exciting from many stand-
points. There were only thj^e entries
for this, but all were of speedy little
5 were the best of
the class to be found. In this Disbrow
In his White Streak Case car, got
away first, with Ferguson in a Mer-
cer a close second. Njkrent, also driv-
ing a Case car. killed his engine on the
getaway, and had-to wait for a new
start. The Mercer engine 'was not
working well for the first lap and by'
the second crossing of the starting
wire Nikrent had passed the Mercer
and taken the lead away from Dis-
brow. From this stage on to the fin-
ish. of tne race, the two Case cars kept
in the lead, slowly distancing the little
Mercer until at the finish they were
half a lap ahead. Nikrent won, but
coming at a much faster clip and rap-
idly gaining on him, the other Case
car, driven, by Disbrow, came in sec-
ond only a few feet behind, so close
in fact that the difference in time had
to be measured in one-hundredth parts
of a second. Nikrent’s time for this
race was 15 minutes, 4.62 seconds.
SECOND RACE.
The second speed event of the aft-
ernoon was ,also for fifteen miles and,
although there had previously been
j’-- entries for this race two of' them
< show up at starting time,
S 4»* y a Mason, driven by Harry
\ itt, and two Flanders Specials,
? 9i by Jack Tower and Bob Evans,
S Illy started. All three of the en-
2 ts in this event experienced engine
course of the
of seventy-five full
miles was made by the winning Sim-
plex in 69 minutes, 16.70 seconds, or
1:09:16.70. The second and third cars
also came over the finish wire with
average speed of better than one mile
a minute, considered exceedingly good
records when the short turns are taken
into consideration.
MOTORCYCLE RACES.
' Not without interest were the motor-
cycle races, which were given before
the automobile events in the nature of
a curtain-raiser. There were two mo-
torcycle races, the first for fifteen
miles and the second for five. In the
first Billy Brown, riding a twin In-
dian, was first; Oscar Hopkins, on his
twin Indian, second, and Fred Luther,
on a twin Excelsior third. Time of
the winner was 15 minutes, 41.13 sec-
onds.
The second race was for five miles,
in which Miller, riding a twin Indian,'
was first, McClanahan on a twin Ex-
celsior was second, and Fred Luther
on his twin Excelsior was third. This
time was a little more than five min-
utes for the five miles, r
There were six entries in the first
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George DeWitt; driver, DeWitt.
No. 4—Car, Case White Streak; en-
trant, L. Disbrow; driver, Disbrow.
No. 5—Car, Case Bullet; entrant, J.
Nikrent; driver, Nikrent.
No. 20—Car, Mercer; entrant, A Fer-~
guson; driver, Ferguson.
No. 24—Car, Mason; entrant, H. En-
dicott; driver, Endicott.
No. 16^—Car, Studebaker 20;
P. H. Bruske, driver, Christie.
EVENT NO. 9.
Class E (non-stock), flying start, for
beach record. Prize of $200 to be
awarded car making best time, provid-
ing present beach record of 37,8 sec-
onds Is lowered. Special prize of $590
to car making mile in 30 seconds or
better.
No. 15—Car, Flanders Special; en
trant, P. H. Bruske; driver, Evans.
No. 10—Car, Mercedes; entrant, W.
H. Bertrand;' driver, Clark.
No. 9—Car, Simplex; entrant,’ W. H.
Bertrand; driver, Pringle-
No. 7—Car, Fiat; entrant, R. W. Stu-
art: driver, J. de Palma.
No. 1—Car, Simplex; entrant, L\Dis-
brow; driver, Disbrow.
No. 2—Car, Jay-Eye-See; entrant, L.
Disbrow; driver, Disbrow.
EVENT NO. 10.
Distance, Fifty Mlles.
Class D, free-for-all. Prizes: First,
$350; second, $100; third, $50, and prizes
of $25 each to cars finishing first in
classes 1-c, 2-c; 3-c, 4-c and 5-c,
No. 1—Cai(, ^imphex; Entrant,
Disbrow; driver, Disbrow.
No. 7—Car, Fiat; entrant, R. W. Stu-
art: driver, De Palma.
No. 9—Car, Simple^;; entrant, W. H.
Bertrand; driver, Pringle.
No. 10—Car, Mercedes; entrant,
H. Bertrand; driver, Horan.
No. 20—Car, Mercer; entrant, A. Fer-
guson, driver, Ferguson.
No. 5—Car, Case Bullet; entrant, J.
Nikrent; driver, Nikrent.
No. 24—Car, Mason; entrant, H. En-
dicott; driver, H. Endicott. ’
No. 19—Car, Studebaker 20; entrant,
C. W. Hartman; driver, Finch.
No. 11—Car, National; entrant, P.
Plummer; driver, Plummer.
No. 12—Car, National; entrant, J. W.
Munn; driver, Melaun.
No. 23—Car, Stutz;
Bering; driver, Stolz.
No. 22—Car, Buick;
Ansel; driver, Robeties.
No. 4—Car, Case White Streak;
trant, L. Disbrow; dri\er, Ulbrecht.
constantly changing,
in his Mason, got :
with his engine not 1
soon in third place. Returning
first lap, however, the
good shape, and he
car; then qn the last lap took the, lead
and held it to a finish. The time of
Endincott for this fifteen miles was
15 minutes, 57.55 seconds. Tower, in
the Flanders Special, won second, and
Bob Evans third money.
TWENTY?MILE RACE.
In the third event of the afternoon,
trant, P. H. Bruske; driver, Tower.
No. 15—Car, Flanders Special; en-
trant, P. H. Bruske; driver, Evans.
a twenty-mile race, there had also been
five previous entries, but only three
cars showed up at the proper time and
got away at the crack of the starter’s
pistol. The race was run without the
thrills of former ones, the big Na-
tional driven by Plummer taking the
_ lead at the start and maintaining it to
> the ilnish. The other National, driven
by Melaun for Munn, got off in second
place, but after one lap the Stutz had
forged ahead and the big National went
out after completing threk laps in
comparatively slow time, owing to
some trouble.
Plummer won first place, *making
the twenty miles in 20 minutes, 5 sec-
onds. Stolz in his Stutz' came second
and tne other car did not finish.
EVENT NUMBER FOUR.
The fourth race of the afternoon,
while for only ten miles, was one of
the most interesting of all, in that all
three of the entries were cars of the
same make. All Studebaker “20” cars,
and with Tower, Evans and Finch as
drivers the three little racers put up a
clever exhibition, and snowed of what
low-powered machines are capable.
This race was for cars in class C of
160 and less cubic inches piston dis-
placement.
All three of the cars got away well,
and the first, lap looKed interesting,
but in the second it was evident that
the No. 19, driven by Finch, had lost
out. Evans came over the wire first
in 11 minutes, 7.09 seconds, and Tower
was second with a record only four
seconds slower, 11 minutes, 11.91 sec-
onds.
THE FEATURE EVENT.
When eleven racing- automobiles of
various sizes and makes lined up for
the seventy-five mile race there was a
noticeable stir among the spectators.
This event was open to all cars of 600
cubic inches piston displacement, and
under, with prizes of $400 for first
place, $200 for second place and $100
for third place. In addition there was
a special offer of $50 prize for the car
finishing first in each of the divisions
of class C, known as 1-C, 2-C, 3-C, 4-C
and 5-C.
Entries for this event were Simplex
Zip, entered by Louis Disbrow and
driven by him; Case White Streak, en-
tered by L.: Dibsrow and driven by Ul-
brecht; Case Bullet, entered by Joe
Nikrent and driven by him; Lozier, en-
tered by Applegate and driven by Ho-
ran; Mercedes entered by Bertrand and
driven by Clarke; iNational, entered by
Piummer and driven by him; National
entered by J. W. Munn and driven by
Melaun; Flanders Special entered by
Bruske anefftdriven by Tower; Flanders
Special entered by Bruske and driven
by Evans; Mercer entered by A. Fer-
guson and driven by him; Mason en-
tered by Harry Endicott and driven by
him.
At the very start the Simplex and
the Mercedes took first and second
places, respectively, and held them un-
til the finish of the race, always be-
ing practically together, the lead of
the first varying from 100 to 300 yards
at times, the Simplex apparently in-
creasing its lead down the long
straightaway from the west end to the
grandstand at each lap, but In turn
having this lead pulled down at the
short west end turn by the flying
Mercedes.
Of the eleven entrants who finished
the first lap, only ten were visible at
the end of the second, the Flanders
Special, No. 15, driven by Evans, hav-.
ing dropped out at this stage. The Re-
maining ten cars finished both second
and third laps, but at the end of the
fourth five miles the Lozier, No. 8,
driven by Horan, had come in, as it
was clearly outdistanced, the leaders
being three laps ahead when it had
finished this part of the course. At
the end of the fifth lap the Case Bul-
let, No. 5, driven by Nikrent. and which
had earlier in the day, put up such a
fine exhibition, was out of the run-
ning. At the end of the eighth and
tenth laps two more cars dropped out,
leaving the five who finally finished
the, course, these five winners being
Disbrow, in his Simplex Zip, first;
George Clark, in his Mercedes, second;
Harry Endicott, in his Mason, third;
Ulbrecht, in Disbrow’s Case White
Streak, fourth, and Ferguson, in his
Mercer, fifth.
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