eific
days.
' .tho air
in speed
{nil his
or Job
lei!
ours hu
' and g:
0 miles
Itionc of
. celled
ta! expen
mod (lt11'i1
QU.
wccessfully
by ‘automobi
‘How merit
.1' tlnlshed
" ran. 12.1
Won to 1,.11
der any it)
follies hm (1
153.1198 or in
mi: ships (11'
he botton
conqum al>l<
in a 111.1.
glues 111'
”horse lm
nod and
m by 1111 11
”its line lll' .',
qtgtho shin.
(rout airship
he: tragic 1.1x.
Reliability
personal
epochul flight of the PN—O.
I” 1,.which :or days claimed the
' tion of the entire world Com.
n itodgcrs said "the on-
e worked pertectly‘and
no signs (11' leaks or any other
0 DOWBI'
LWhlle a. v.
o the ocean wastes tor Command-
‘ Rodgers and his ga-llent brew of
r. other equally brave heroes of
8. Navy were placing their
that. with confidence born or man_v
hill! other motors designed and built
titans in the
, Motor Car company.
;‘ Ihown’ i1 111'
1111~11ce in the lot; of the.
million.
Debundonh met on»
"e which .111.
(or a. tc1rilic bitt e during which
£1101 was 111ll~1tl and tossed l1ke a
ard crimp 111
ard Motor Shows
ts Endurance in Its
' ight Across the Pa-
ot the
u 150 have demonctrate
inecre are. having in the deve—
‘pment of aerial transportation and
water travel.
story of ill
cross more than 1,300 miles of
'open Pact: to Ocean the, two 500
Packard motors of the
flying boat roared without oncc
. It's an explosion for more tlmn
rtlinr: ton tons of blane,
through ‘the air
when
forces of nuitlrc upset the cal-
winds
isollnr-
rm hour. Only
men with head
for greater potver
Com-
tliltlrt‘ of gasoline."
hole world waited and
1:;1he ten-doy search
met grueling tests in
anti ur-
plunt of the i'urkurd
lo engineers
ml was this:
uciiculiy the
truet is
lust um
I last tram lIiLll'll or the Navy's m'eut does within {our mouths of the (lily
althip. 1211‘ Shenandoah. "L'um- the first Ajax was run onto the
launder 01'1111'3 L‘.’:l‘i' in changing loading deck for shipment. is c1i-
. 1111.1. working perfect-
I114.
1TI1t-b'l111111111unl1 l\\lt€ before had
‘btls’llt 51'1 1>t11li1 against ntmms i‘onpled with \votd regmding pro-l
ich 1111,111'11.11i111l 1111: proportions duction expansion. it has been made
.hhl‘l'lciilllb. There was every known that Ajax Motors celebrated
me her safe in the air
However. just
been low led by earth-
rnavinrs. and just as
the 1.1111 1111\1'1 been sent
1 ivy 13111100113. the
11! these as yet
- throes of nature be-
uas {owed to bow
modern high
tpeed gasoline motor or great power
, II been brought forcibly to the at-
i~3tntlon of the world in the last few
Events both 011 the water and
there
.711!
consequent use of more gasoline
the great rilune come down. The
1-: ran right up to the time. the
drop of gasoline waI exhaust-
nd \vent «lend together.
under Rodgers commented on the
its very plunge into eternity.
in of the ship. He must
gacollno line would be severed and
the Ihip title-.1 with highly explollvo
than which the lame from the ex-
hnuIt. «one or the motorI would
have Int oti‘. HtI order Ibutttng
down Ill motor: it is believed un-
doubtedly saved on even twine
twigody.
White men in motor boat racing
do not stake their live; on the dc-
pendIbllity or motor: In they do in
the air no more grueling tent tor I.
gasoline engine could be defined
that flat given each year during
the great bO-mlle Detroit IwcepI-
taker contest. PIckard motors easi-
ly lock first and second places in
both these speed boat classicr thiI
(1 your. '
Baby Boctlegger, owned and driv-
en by Caleb Bragg. millionaire New
York sportsman. was the winner of
the Gold Cup race 1 It Manhunt
l‘iav. Long Island Sound. and Min
Tampa took second place. Each
boat had I. Packard Gbld Cup mo-
tor of :60 horse power. Still another
Packard powered crati, piloted by
Col. J. G. Vincent, vice president or
engineering of the Packard com-
pany set a new worlds record for
the second heat oi.r the race but.
later was put. out oi the running
with a broken propeller shaft.
The loll-mile sweepstakes race at
Detroit was won by Col. Vincent
Labor Day.\vlth Packard Chriscratt
ii and Baby Horace III was second.
15 miles ahead of the nearest other
contender. Both boats were.pow-
ered with Packard 12 cylinder
Sweepstakes motors developing 500
.horse power. Both tore through
lthe water at 60 miles an hour tor
the whole. 150 miles without either
motor once missing an explosion.
_mL—mm
BIG DEMAND FOR
NEW AJAX CARS
i‘1ocitution tenacity of the factory
e
Commander LImdownI right up to
His
laid order abutting down each motor
may well have saved the inn ot‘
11.ose who escaped the (out Iuntier-
have
known that in the breaking up the
Drawn )7 Conan
ot the Ajax Motors Company is to
be doubled. Overwhelming demand
for 1he Ajax Six has made ncccstary
the heavy inc-reuse in volume. and
active work preparatory to the in-
stallation of new machinery has ul-
ready begun.
This announcmncut.
coming as it
that year 192
pub.
4%
Tho motor excl-I in” It pruent Ire
flui- whom-ling for 81,000 or under,
Removal of Fedenl tIm on motor cIrI. trucks and parts will be urged by lutomobiio lender! It tin
button of the WI” Ind McInI Committee in October.
The Ipecial wcr- dime excise taxe- lnve Ilrudy been repealed on thirty-five lndmltrleI.
declare, Ind mInui’IcturerI IdvocIte
~11:"th heavy slate motor tux burdens.
tltIt the automobile buy BL is entltl
deuce of the (nthusmsttc minnct 1n
its fourth monthly "birthday." in
the shipment of the Entitlitth car to
leave the plant since May 26 when
the first Ajax was shown to a group
of dealers.
The remarkable thin: "out this
100 per cent increase in Ajax pro-
duction at. this early date is that it.
is brought about by a demand from
only one-titth of the major cities
llllli. will ultimately handle the car.
_\' bf‘iL
the Shenandoah were
wer motors especially
built for her by the
l 1th was led to
1: l1 and a half gaso-
111 neirh the long:
\l-n familiar with the
11.111. marveled since
rug-ht at the cool
What will happen when shipments
are made to the other dealer points
is a matter of interesting conjecture.
"While it was felt. before actual
production on the :1qu had begun.
that demand (01 the car woulrl he
unusually heavy. I am frank to my
that we did not anticipate public
acceptance of so sweeping a
character." said D. M. Averill, vice-
which the automobile buying publiciENGlNEERS
hns endowed the anli- built tar ' ‘
POINT OUT
By ISRAEL KLEIN
Government engineers are
These ideas are:
1. That an imprOVed rend
2. That all reads. it
per»
ROAD ERRORS
is a
luxury. to be enjoyed only if it can
be afforded and not essential to the
economic health of the community.
improved.
should be hard Iitrfaced to make it
worth while.
3. That roads be built for
manency.
' courage or her rcmmanding officer.
REO
the Ajax Motor: Company.
'.Bpeed Passenger design we knew that
Carl
possession of buyers."
IIAYDEN
president and general manager of
“B.-
cause of its engineering features and
the Ajax
would occupy a field entirely new
to the automobile industry so for
from the hands of dealers into the
There thought: are attacked and
broken down in I. Itatement of mem.
bers of the Bureau 0! Public Bonds
to the Secretary of Agriculture.
The idea. of good roads being lux-
£35131“; A\D OVERHAULING weeks past the factory has been win. any the engineers. “had its,
1,ng AVD ACCFSQORIES steadily increasing production with origin in the early days of the auto-
“ ' ‘ ‘ care moving almost immediately mobile when the motor vehicle was
thought to be merely I. toy for the
wealthy few. and mud imprmement
was thought to be in the interest of
; AUTOMOBILE CO.
1mm AVE. 1101;qu
I..’. Wagner. Branch Mgr.
‘ OE smnon PHONE 1381
rty Sq. Garage
.11 East Washington St..-
‘ East. Norwalk
Tel. 3343
. WINTER IS COMING
i1 , t_ Us Tune Your Motor
_0 Insure Easy Starting
your battery in good
pet We charge, repair
3 cell. Car and radio.
Bunsen-Powell Corporation.
HERE'S NEWS
Why buy I new Brunswick tire
when my vulcunlzlng method will
make virtually a. new casting out
or your old one.“ You can double
the lite of any tire or» tube by
having it vulcanized my way. 1
have learned from long experienct
how to build durability into casing
and tube. I Ipeclnlize in balloon
enrrl tire repairing.
McCOLLUM’S
lirunnwick Tires
47 West Avgnue Norwnlk, Conn
2C spend for the improvement of a
j given road is the sum of the indi-
‘ ion of the Government road ofliciale.
only this special class."
Conditions are dinerent now: An-
tomobiles are necessities to I great
degree, and roIdI are needed to Ic-
commodate them it only for trans-
portation purpOIeI.
"The fact iI.'f reads the report.
"we lose more by not improving the
roads "an it costs to improve them.
So we may say that we pay to:- im-
proved roads whether we tho them
or not. and we pay lose it we have
them than it we have not."
Hard surfaced roads are not eco-
nomicll in every case. ‘Accordiug to
the Bureau at Public Roads. the
types-o: IurraceI should be left to
the discretion of those who actually
use them.
“It has been shown that the maxi-
mum amount which it is proper to
vldual savings accruing from the
improvement to the owners of the
vehicleI driven over it." in the opin.
“What we Ipend for the improve-
ment of any given road should Il-
wayI be less than the cum total of
caring: from the improvement."
The type and amount of travel
'over I road determine to I. large e2-
tryinc: 3
to dispel three erroneous ideas Ibo111 '
[public highways in order to give the
country a highly improved system of
motor travel.
These levies totalled over $158,000,000 [I (It
5% on the wholenIle nine of cm. 8% on truck: (except true!
Ind bodies therefore wholesaling for me or under) Ind 356% or
1».
Motor claim
ed to relief Illa. upednlly II in in
TOURING HINTS
i
1‘
.\'11 carbon (lcposdt
oil is sun'r‘red |1.\‘ this: form 111’ spark
‘liluz. The, double 111111.11lar ring crin-
Sll'llt'ilrln in so nrrunced as to gather
limit in rhuiurs “lilt'll are running
genol and no prevent carbon from de-
positing.
A new way or carrying the exten-
sion light is on a reel. as made up
by a Chicago firm. The reel may be
mounted on the dash' and any port-
able spotlight attached. The cord in
1: feet long and is easily wound up
by hand.
A strong home-made automobile
lock may he made to keep the clutch
out and the brake pedal in one post-
trom spraying I
glue or ch ssiI.
can easily
non. It consists of an iron or steel
sleeve to fit around the brake arm.
with an arm stretching from the
sleeve and holding down the clutch
pedal. A padlock keeps the Iteol
sleeve in place. The only way the
car could
be. stolen. with thin lock
attached. would be by‘ breaking the
lock or towing away the car.
When placing I wire terminal un-
der I. terminal nut the wire Ihodld
be twisted the way the not mm, In
Ihown at left. Otherwllo. the tight-
ening of the nut: will loosen the Wire
from the terminal rether thIn hold
it tiBht.
A gasoline or kerosene spray Ict-
ing under ali- pressure, will quickly
remove dirt and grease from the In-
ThtI term at any
a mad; It home.
ten: the type'of construction.
That the road should be made for
permanency is looked upon II an
aqurd idea. There isn‘t Iuch a
thing In I. permanent read. any the
Government men.
' “It is this delusion." they say,
"that has been respouIible tor the
unhealthy disregard of the mainte-
nance of our roads in the put. Fol?
lowing the will-'o-the-wlsp ofv the
permanent road we have in the past
allowed some or our new roads to go
to pieces for lack of necessary re-
NORWALK
LET YOUR NEXT CAR BE A
P1. J.l“1DiPietro
’ STAMFORD
pelt. "
binary.
in: on ion working do: than Aug-
unt. actually quenched imlbu the
period 0! grate» duly production
Iince our comp-by wu louudad.
"During AuguIt nd September
titer, were produced Ind loll! 10.-
1989 Nash cIrI. Thu commuted
over 39 per cent 02 our entire buil-
neII {or the your 1924.” -
AGAIN,.1mn wow. ..
OXFORDSHIRE. England..--, 011
the root or an old minor hours in
. Oxfordahlre one may tliid I. dog ken-
nel. The kennel wu never intended
for I. dog. however. It In built. by
the owner or the house (or his broth-
er. trite two but filled out over I.
woman.
so FORM REPUBLIC.
ROME.—'-The ImalleIt‘ republic in
_ the world in TavolIrI, a. little ialInd
seven and I half mile: trom‘SIrdinlI.
in the Moditcrmnun see. The Ill-
Ind lI about I. mile in length Ind
m I. population of 50.1110 gov-
ernment was proclaimed I republic»
in 1882." The president is elected "tor
I. term or 10 years. and both men
and women exercise the vote.
The kite hII an eye for color,
and qually adornI its neat with 1:
biggest monthly volume in In Null“
September. however. buy-1
bright pieces at cloth as it can find.
BUICK MOTOR CO. FLINT. MICE.
mam-um.» we... m
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1 The Erwin M. Jennings Co., Inc...
. ' 12 “81' AVENUE, NORWALK
37.47 Ken-inn 811., Bridgeport, Oonn.
347 Crown St. New Heron
89 lulu 8t. DInbury
. 88 Willow St, Waterbury
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