Goodrich Road Markers Erected on Transcontinental Routes
Akron, Ohio announced that B F Goodrich Co is placing road markers on two official transcontinental routes. The project targets the Santa Fe trail and a route via Denver Salt Lake City Reno to San Francisco, aiming for completion in summer 1914. Crews and trucks are already at work to guide motorists from Boston and New York to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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Akron
B. F. Goodrich Company
Goodrich
Denver
Salt Lake City
Reno
San Francisco
Boston
New York
Los Angeles
Union
United States
Goodrich Company
Record of miles driven and gear shifts by George Sickly
George B. Sickly a rural mail carrier of Devil's Lake Michigan drove a Buick 24 about 4000 miles starting and stopping 125 times every 25 miles totaling 20600 shifts and wrote the road conditions were harsh with hills and sand. He logged 900 miles fuel use of 50 gallons averaging 18 mpg and reported no oil repairs or punctures.
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George B. Sickly
Devil's Lake
Mich
Sickly
Wheeler & Schebler Carburetor Makers Join Indiana Coastal Tour
Indiana accessory maker Wheeler & Schebler participates in the Indiana autos coast tour leaving Indianapolis July 1. Douglas F. Wheeler travels in a Stutz car and the firm carries no exhibit. The trip studies carburetion challenges across altitudes and temperatures with Schebler carburetors on several entering cars. Frank H. Wheeler funds road projects, donating 50000 to Lincoln transcontinental road plans. he also leads in good roads advocacy and serves as Indianapolis Motor Speedway vice president.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Wheeler & Schebler
Douglas F. Wheeler
Frank H. Wheeler
Joe M. Ward
Wheeler & Schebler Institution
Schebler
Carl G. Fisher
Fisher
Wheeler
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Goux
Peugeot
Ford would build a giant 200000 car garage length 454 miles
Detroit July 19. A figure for a single Ford car garage expands to 200000 cars producing a building about 454 miles long and 808 miles wide with nine foot height. The imagined structure would cover vast real estate and could host New York City crowds or even a large army.
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Detroit
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Ford
City of
New York
Heat and Mad Add Discomforts on 10 Tour
The American Underslings reached Ellis Kansas on their 189 mile run amid 112 degree shade heat and 125 in sun with speeds near 50 mph. Reporter E I Lewis, special rep for American Motors, descr ibes a grueling tour tested by Kansas gumbo roads and hot winds. The group worried about navigating the wet gumbo terrain as the cars press on.
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Ellis
Kansas
American Motors Company of
Indianapolis
E. I. Lewis
Kan
Cuban finds gold mine in Havana taxi venture
Senor Month of Havana discovers his idle R C H touring car can run a lucrative taxi service. After a year The investment of 900 yields a net profit of 3000, prompting him to consider expanding into a taxi company with multiple cars.
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Senor
Havana
Cuba
Private funds push transcontinental highway plan
A public demand for highways moves into private enterprise as auto makers in Indianapolis raise millions for a possible cross‑country route. After a 1911 Atlantic City to Pacific tour inspired literature and data on road conditions, Indiana groups fund a Midland trail turning into the Lincoln highway with support from Colorado Utah and Nevada totaling over $309,000.
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Indiana
Lincoln Pike
Pacific Coast
Idable
Atlantic City
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Carl Fisher
Indianapolis
America
Indiana Automobile Manufacturers’ Association
United States
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Attorneys Named to Test Warnes Motor Law
President Charles C. Jones of the Ohio State Automobile Association designates three prominent lawyers to oversee proceedings challenging the Warnes motor law which becomes effective January 1 1914. The act allocates two thirds of motor vehicle registration revenue to the general fund and one third to road preservation and construction.
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Charles C. Jones
Ohio State Automobile Association
General Revenue Fund
Ford six to a car solves freight space question
Detroit July 19 Ford Motor Company uses a packing method that fills every inch of box cars. Stripped chassis stand on end in one end and bodies in the other with wheels and equipment crated and stacked between, leaving no vacant space and enabling delivery of large output.
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Rauch & Lang
Ranch & Long
Ranch & Lang Electric
Ranch & Lang
Electrica
Detroit
Mich
Ford Motor
Ford Company
Ford
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Pola Trang Santinental Auto
Salt Lake
E. C. Tibbitts
Goodrich Touring Bureau
Coast Tour
Flong
Congress of the
American
John Guy Monihan
Motor
Cement Ang Steel Industries
Penue
United
Rauch & Lang Company
Ranch & Lang Company
Ranch
Lang
Ra & Lang
Ada
Ohio
H. P
Chicega
F.O.R. Chica
Alamo Cycle Company
San Antonio
Texas
Excelsior
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