The Austin Statesman (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 44, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 17, 1921 Page: 24 of 26
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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
SUNDAY, JULY 17.1Y21.
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Approximately $40,000,000 In Automobile Costing $35,000 and
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THOMSON MOTOR CAR CO.
Colorado at Fifth
Phone 5391
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Phone 6661
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6-39 Sedan
$2775
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Auburn Automobile Company, Auburn, Indiana
TIRESERVICE
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TO BROADEN VISION,
SAYS MANUFACTURER
Built Bomb-Proof Convey-
ance of Chinese Governor,
The Sedan enjoys, everywhere, a
distinctly high social status, and
yet its economy is one of the
outstanding reasons for its strong
hold on American appreciation.
$1695
$1695
$1745
Te "ideal sectlon," soon to be built
on the Lincoln Highway, is expected
ments from the facto-
vril and May were <7
Carlad shop
ries during >
per cent of the
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here is
at ap-
UNITED STATES
UTILIZES WORLD'S
RUBBER SUPPLY
Removes the Hum-Drum Routine
of Daily Business
Life.
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The gasoline consumption is unusually low
The tire mileage is unusually high
Motor Car Quotations Are Prac-
tically Down to Pre-War
Level Again.
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U. S. RUBBER COMPANY
WILL BUILD HIGHWAY
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Tires Exported to Foreign
Countries Yearly.
6-39 H Touring
6-39 K Tourster
6-39 R Roadster
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U-N-D-E~R—
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two months of lastyear, and-t
reason to believe June will be
Exide Battery Service Station
A. W. WHITTEN, Mgr.
Harold Lloyd and his company will
take a week’s vacation upon the om-
fiction of his present comedy.
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Buy a
Battel
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JOE H. WOOD MOTOR COMPANY
406 Brazos Street. f ’
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110 EAST SEVENTH STREET, AUSTIN, TEXAS
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The daring lines and consistent power of Auburn Beauty-Six gain
increasing recognition. Every luxury of comfort so pleasing to the
experienced motorist is embodied in Auburn Beauty, Series 20. Adequate
power, instantly responsive on country road or in city traffic, makes one
feel entirely confident of Auburn Beauty-Six at all times.
For year 'round service Auburn Beauty-Six Sedan assures you com-
plete protective comfort through all changes of weather.
Deco
Rem
Khaxe
Faenos
During the war it was used as auxiliary power on
Uncle Sam’s big battleships, for turret turning, for
gun firing, for wireless and for many other vital
purposes.
An "Exide" Battery in your car will put a sturdy,
willing and dependable power supply behind your
starting and lighting system. It will do for you
exactly what it is doing for hundreds of thousands
of other car owners, making "A Sure Start Assured”
a proved fact.
It is a fighting battery, indeed, all the time, in peace
as well as war. It is fighting the starting and light-
ing battles of motorists all over the country; fighting
them and winning them.
Hoto
MICHELIN
has overcome the commonest
causes of tire trouble
Th
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has been intimated that the section
may be constructed in Indiana not far
from Chicago.
"The funds for building the ideal
section will be provided by the United
Sts tea Rubber Company, says Walter
Badger, local dealer in United States
tires. "The company has always been
interested in better roads and has un-
The leaves are three-lobed and
flowers small and inconspicuous.
When a tire is under-inflated its side walls
are constantly flexed by the weight of the
car as the wheel rotates. Just as repeated
bending back and forth breaks a wire, so
this constant flexing tends to break the
cords or fabric of which the tire is chiefly
built. Blowouts results.
6-39 Coupe .... $2775
F. O. B. Auburn, Indiana
-
to become the most famous piece of;dertaken this work in order that the
highway in the world. The exact loca- i world may have a concpete-illustration
tion has not yet l»ecn chosen, but it' of the ideal type of road to build."
Price readjustment in the automobile
Industry seems to have been about
completed, according to the final report
issued recently by the National Auto-
mobile Chamber of Commerce, which
shows changed prices on the various
makes of tars. The new prices in
many instances go back to the figures
of a few years ago,not withstand! ng
that the models/many cass are big-
ger with better finish and such addi-
tional equipment as cord tires and im-
proved elegfrc apparatus.
In the opinion of students of th© in-
dustry. the midyear change has how
stabilized fhe industry to a degree that
is bringing Increased sales to all com-
panics. ,
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"Ch"Exie" ■
I Starting Slighting Battery
is a FIGHTING BATTERY
r •
Michelins suffer less than other tires be-.
cause of this abuse, for seldom if ever do
you see a Michelin with a blow-out in
its side wall. This is because of the unique
construction of Michelin Tires. Let us
explain it to you.
fol
The automobile has been recognized
as the means of transportation of roy-
alty tn the far eastern government of
China. An automobile which is one
of the most luxurious cars ever pro-
duced and also a steel-walled fort that
is bullet and bomb-proof, has just been
delivered to the governor general of
Manchuria. This car, the first of its
kind, is likely to bo followed by many
others for officials whose lives are in
constant danger now that the story
of its construction can be told. It
Wa8 ©specially designed and manufac-
tured by the Packard Motors Export
Corporation.
In appearance the car is simply a
remarkably luxurious two-six limou-
sine of a deep tan color with manog-
any top and trimming, special head-
lights and unusually heavy springs,
inside the panels are of inlaid mahog-
any with more than twenty differ*.nt
kinds of wood used in each. The fit-
tings and all metal of the tonneau are
of silver and coissonne. The uphol-
stery is purple and gold mohair.
But when it happens that his excel-
lency, General Tsan-Tso-Lin is in dan-
ger the car can be transformed in a
second. The body is built of chrome
nickel steel and inside the top are
chrome nickel steel shutters which
slide down on roller bearings and cover
the windows Another steel shutter
rises from the partition between the
tonneau and the driver’s seat A Colt
ma ch le gun can be taken from under
the driver’s seat and fastened to a
specal bracket built at the right hand
side of the cowling. Two loopholes
open on each side and two more at the
rear, and automatics or rifles can be
fired through them.
Finally, there are swivels fastened
above the running board with belts
provided. so that three soldiers can be
strapped to each running board with
their hands free to handle weapons.
S if it is attacked, the luxurious tim-
on si ne becomes a bullet-proof armored
car, defended by a machine gun With
six soldies on the outside and by six
more rifles on the inside. -
The great weight of the car made it
necessary to strengthen the whole
frame of the vehicle. The running
boards were reinforced, extra leaves
were added to the springs and West-
inghouse air springs were attached.
All windows are constructed of triplex
glass which will not splinter if strucK
by a bullet. The total cost of the ma-
chine is in the neigborhood of $35,000.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 16.-The
United States manufactured enough
rubber ties during the year ending
June 20, 1920, to supply the millions
of cars that are skimming over her
splendid roads and also to ship about
$40,000,000 worth of them to ports the
world over from bonny Scotland to
volcano-torn Java.
"Crude rubber comes to our shores
free of duty from places equally as
divergent in latitude," says a bulletin
from the Washington headquarters of
the National Georgraphic Society.
"Brazil contributes more than 58,-
000,000 of the 575,000,000 pounds which
we receive each year, the Dutch East
Indies an equal or slightly larger
amount, and the British Straits Settle-
ments nearly five times as much as
either of these, while sundry contribu-
tions of balata. guayule gum, gutta-
jelutong, gutta percha, and Indian
rubber come from Japan, Belgian Con-
go. French Africa, Veneznela, Mexico.
Panama, Peru. the British possessions
and many other countries.
"The discovery of rubber or caut-
chouc is attributed to Columbus, who
reported that he had found the natives
of Haiti playing with balls that
bounced. Priestley, the great English
chemist, found, while experimenting
with the substance, that it would erase
lead pencil marks. For want of a
better name he dubbed it rubber, and
thename has stuck and is used almost
exclusively in English-speaking coun-
tries,
•The large balls or loaves of raw
rubber imported to America are made
not from the sap, as is ordinarily sup-
posed, but from the milk of the rubber
trees. The hydorcarbonous subsiance,
when it first comes from the trees, re-
minds one of the juice that comes from
the everyday milkweed.
"The Paia rubber, one of the best
of the grades of raw rubber, which got
its name from the port of Brasil. froth
which so much of it is shipped, is ob-
tained from trees that thrive in the hot
damp forests of the Amazon. Many
of the trees measure from eight to ten
feet in girth and sixty feet in height.
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Let us show you why.
"The
senger <
depends
applies t
senger e
to popul
cars," Si
Austin
Nash. T
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manufac
standard
where s
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will not
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for tran
our grov
ly."
Gloria Swanson’s husband Herbert K.
Sanborn, is president of the new pro-
ducing concern which is featurin.?
Juanita Hansen. It is called Foremost
Photoplays Company. The blonde
Juanita is making more serials.
proximately th* same rate.
Compared with the feverish rush of
motor cars last spring a two-thirds de-
mand looks to be a big falling off. but
compared with normal years it shows
that the motor car business is faring
much better than other lines.
There has been a steady demand for
used cars, prices which have also been
substantially reduced. Lower prices
on new cars have been offset somewhat
by the reduced allowances on used cars
when offered for a trade- in'by the
retail buyer. In other words, many
who waited for the reductions of the
last few months saved comparatively
little owing to the lower valuation on
their old car.
Good buying power has been shown
where prices have been reduced or
I where it was known that present prices
and quality would be maintained. The
National Automobile Chamber of Com-
merce figures show that with more
than 8000,000 passenger cars in use,
the replacement demand alone should
be about 1,000,090 cars. The production
of passenger cars last year was 1,883,-
000. To show how close are the new
prices, one of the largest manufactur-
ers in his last cut was only able to
reduce $25. This manufacturer is pro-
ducing at the rate of 110,000 vehicles
a month. During this readjustment
period, some cars tre being sold at a
loss because of the high wages and the
costly materials that were bought last
fal.
"The man who works in shop or of-
fice. who is 'on the pay roll," whose
income is sufficient to provide home
comforts and probably lay away a lit-
tle money besides, may feel that be
has no practical need of an automo-
bile; that to him it would merely be
a costly luxury, a means purely of
pleasure and recreation for himself and
family.
"He is looking at only one side of
the subject," says a letter from the
Mather Spring Company to the Benson
Motor Company. Continuing, the
writer says:
"An automobile will help to make a
new man of him. It wi|l give him a
new spirit. The very nature of his
work, occupied the same number of
hours in the same place day in and day
out, tends to restrict his vision. It
limits his thinking. It puts him in a
mental groove that handicaps his pos-
sibilities of rapid growth in his chosen
Held.
"His head is his gold mine. His abil-
ity to dig out the gold is in propor-
tion to his broad outlook, his initia-
tive, ambition, courage, writ. An au-
tomobile, through all the recreation II
makes possible for him, gives him a
new angle on himself and on his work
It helps him to think. It make his
contact with the other fellow rdr
greater—opening up a new world of
opportunities to him.
"An automobile broadens his mind;
makes him see many things in a brand
new light; makes him reflect on sub-
jects that he had probably never
thought about before, and inspires him
to be a greater master at his task in
the realisation that a man’s reward hi
success is in proportion to the degre
of skill and enthuslasm that he puts
into his work.
"To such a man an automobile pays
for itself and makes a profit through
the success- making Inspirations that
come to him through Its use. It gives
teamwork to his brain. It acts as a
constant urge to him to make bls job
I a bigger and better job by putting big-
I ger effort and better ideas into it."
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