Highways Save More Than Road Cost With New Texas Fee
D E Colp of the Texas Good Roads Association reports that improving the San Antonio to Austin road saves motorists fuel oil and tire costs, totaling about 308 403 60 yearly, surpassing the road’s 239 800 construction cost. A state license fee of 7 50 effective July 1 funds maintenance and construction with federal aid forthcoming.
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D. E. Colp
Texas Good Roads Association
Bexar County Highway League
San Antonio
Austin
State Highway Department
Texas
Cal
New Substitute Fuel "Nucline" Tested in New York
In New York at the West Side Y M C A Automobile School the Nucline fuel was tested in a King Eight engine. Inventor M Louis Clement and associate Robert Grogan supervised with observers from Atkinson and Strobridge schools. The engine started on first turn and ran smoothly with blue flames, showing no carbon buildup. Cost analysis cites a 2.5 cents per gallon manufacturing cost and potential 10 cents selling price, with coal-price shifts possibly affecting small margins.
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West Side
West Fifty-seventh Street
New York
Atkinson
Strobridge
M. Louis Clement
Robert Grogan
Secretary of State
H. C. Brokaw
M. Clement
Towline hazard ruling notes driver precautions suffice
Fatal injuries to a pedestrian who passed between cars joined by a tow line do not prove negligence if reasonable precautions are taken. The New York ruling found the cars about ten feet apart and the towed car driver warned, braked, and veered to avoid the victim. A French inventor introduces a flexible steering wheel shaft for autos.
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New York
Cars Used for Tire Tests Are Scrapped
The B F Goodrich Rubber Co operates a six-division tire testing fleet using 36 new motor cars with a history of wear, dating 1915 to 1916, and reports 42 additional cars worn out in service. In 1917 the program expanded to cover the entire United States, with tests conducted across six fleets in major cities. Drivers are paid to drive tires to failure while tires are often returned to the factory for laboratory evaluation.
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B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
United States
Goodrich Company
Godrich
Convict Labor Powers War Efforts On Roads And Farms
The national committee on prisons and prison labor reports convicts can reliably work on roads and farms if properly managed. In Colorado six road camps have built about 1500 miles of highway and farmed thousands of acres for state institutions. The committee notes 4000 convicts remain idle and urges assignments to road and farm labor to ease wartime food pressures.
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National Committee On Prisons and Prison Labor
Colorado
Tynan
National Committee On Prisons and
Curtailing Trains Boosts Motor Trade Amid War Curbs
Herman Staacke of Steacke Bros. argues reduced rail service for war aims will push buyers toward automobiles. He foresees trucks and cars taking larger roles, with traveling salesmen and distribution networks relying more on road transport as train schedules shrink and wartime spending expands.
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Herman Staacke
Steacke Bros
Oldsmobiles
Special Or
United State
Ford to Begin Truck Production Next Month
Ford plans July production of 25 trucks daily using an overhead worm drive axle paired with the existing Ford passenger car power plant through a planetary gearset. Final production details are being settled at the Ford factory. A Transvaal land strip six miles wide by about fifty miles long yields roughly one third of the world’s gold.
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Ford
Transvaal
Packard Employees Aid Red Cross Fund
More than 75 percent of Packard Motor Car Company’s 9000 employees contributed to the Detroit Red Cross Chapter. Their gifts totaled 8824 dollars, the largest single contribution yet received by the Detroit branch.
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Packard Motor Car Company
Fund For
Detroit
Red Cross
Alva Macauley
Packard Company
Packard
Campaign events conclude with Packard Band parade
A series of 30 committee group and mass meetings ended with a parade by the Packard Band at the plant. The procession escorted cars carrying Red Cross nurses in uniform marking the campaign climax.
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Packard Band
Red Cross
Studebaker Pilot Car Leads San Francisco Delegates to St Louis
A caravan of fourteen cars left San Francisco on May 20th bound for St. Louis where the San Francisco Advertising Club delegates attended the 1918 convention. The Studebaker pilot car arrived on June 3 three hours late, with one private car as companion and a ceremonial handoff by Mayor Rolph before departure. Adjustable feet for bathtubs have been invented to level uneven floors.
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Studebaker
St. Louis
San Francisco
Golden Gate
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Nna
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America
Toledo
New Winerich
A. Winerch, Pres
Crockett
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