Six Cars Enter Harvest Auto Races at Indianapolis
Indianapolis August reports that six cars will compete in the Harvest Auto Racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on September 9. Premier cars driven by Gil Anderson and Steward Wilcox will contest the 20 mile, 5 mile, and 100 mile championship events, with Bert Childs and Gaston Weigl as key mechanics. The field includes two Peugeots Ostewig Special Sunbeam and two Premiers, with drivers John Aitken Charley Merz S Ostewig O Jsef Christiaens Gil Anderson and Toward Wilcox.
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Indianapolis
Gil Anderson
Steward Wilcox
Harvest
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Indianapolis Speedway
T. E. Myers
Speed
Wilcox
Anderson
Bert Chields
Gaston Weigl
America
Weigl
Europe
Sunbeam
John Aitken
Charley Merz
S. Ostewig
Ojsef Christiaens
Toward Wilcox
Heat Treatment Emphasized by Auto Makers Dodge Brothers
A prominent scientist reports heat treatment of steel as the most crucial operation in auto manufacturing. Dodge Brothers back expert handling with precise pyrometers and specially designed furnaces. They conduct extensive preproduction research to determine exact heat for each steel type and car part. Tests include Brinell hardness. electric furnaces allow precise control up to 800 degrees F. Also reports Overland Wins Inter-City Race with Roy Wright in a New Series Overland Model 75 B finishing one hour seven minutes and 36 seconds after a 36 mile course at high altitude.
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Dodge Brothers
Overland
Roy Wright
Cripple Creek
Colo
Manitou
Ute Pass
Four Mile Hill
Regal dealers stage 2000 mile opening touring run
National Touring Week saw Regal dealers cover 2560 miles at 23 mpg on day one. Drivers faced deserts, mud, hills, and highways from Denver to Seattle and beyond. A Lansing driver, halted by detectives pursuing a Detroit pay car robbery, was cleared after identity checks.
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Regal
United States
Lansing
Michigan
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Detroit
Art Smith Buys a Willys-Knight Car
Art Smith, famed stunt aviator, cabled a purchase order for a Willys-Knight touring car to the Overland and Willys-Knight dealer in Fort Wayne Indiana. Intrigued by the car’s quiet power and sleeve-valve engine, he ordered delivery to his mother so it would be waiting when he returns from abroad.
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Willys- Knight
Art Smith
America
Willys-Knight
Overland
Fort Wayne
Ind
Smith
Orient
Japan
Author Kelland Joins Overland Ranks
Clarence Budington Kelland, once editor of juvenile journals and now a noted author with serial Sudden Jim and Efficiency Edgar in the Saturday Evening Post, has joined Overland owning authors per word from Invia Overland Co. Other prominent novelists Harry Leon Wilson and Thomas Dixon have also bought Overland cars. Oren J. Spahti, Overland dealer at Pleasantville, Iowa, sold four Model 75-Bs to one family for use by a father two sons and a brother within three days.
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Clarence Budington Kelland
Sudden Jim
Saturday Evening Post
Edgar
Overland
Invia-Overland Co
Harry Leon Wilson
Thomas Dixon
Oren J. Spahti
Pleasantville
Old Betsy Demonstrates Knight Motor Strength in Quincy
Old Betsy the first Willys Knight car in Quincy is shown in fairs by Irwin-Overland Co. and local dealers. The car has logged nearly twenty thousand road miles plus fair use this week at Brown County fair Mt. Sterling. W. H. Callahan will exhibit at Camp Point chautauqua next week. F R Lusk says the car’s value proves the Knight motor improves with use and would not be sold at any price.
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Lusk
Willys-Knight
Quincy
Irwin-Overland Co
Mt. Sterling
W. H. Callahan
Overland
Camp Point
F. R. Lusk
Willys Knight
Betsy
New Improvements in Maine Street Finished
Extensive work on the Buckley building front and interior refinishing in the Irwin Overland Co. car department at 217-221 Maine Street aims to open this week after delays for remodeling in the ee house and new floors are installed.
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Maine Street
Buckley
Irwin-Overland Co
Irwin Overland Co Employees Treated With Ice Cream
Leaton Irwin entered the automobile business as Overland employees received a treat of Schwindeler ice cream by W A Schwindeler a Maine street improvement noted between Third and Fourth streets and the use of an intended exchange car building for warehouse purposes.
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Third
Leaton Irwin
Overland
W. A. Schwindeler
Priday
Irwin- Overland Co
Schwindeler
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New York
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Jesse
Bosch
Gray & Davis
Rayfield
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Henry Geise
Maine St
Quincy, Ill
Adams Co
Ill
Marion, Lewis, Knox, Scotland and Clark Counties
Richardson Lubricating Company
Atech
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Toledo
Willys-Knight Motor
Irwin-Overland Co Distributors
Telephonea
Service Dept
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Toledo, Ohio
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