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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1920
Page
2
Secretary of State J. M. Howell asks automobile and motor vehicle license holders to file locations now for the year beginning March 1. County auditors hold forms and applicants should answer questions clearly to avoid temporary plates and ensure prompt delivery of new numbers.
Details the 1920 license system with color schemes, application points in Olympia, 140000 plates ready, and a March 1 1920 license year. Schedules fees for private, hire, auto stages, trailers, motor trucks, dealers, transfers, duplicates, and county auditor charges.
The 1920 license plate program adopts black letters on yellow background for durability, with 140000 sets ready. Applications must include accurate name and address for prompt delivery, as misaddressed or unclaimed plates delay issuance. Notify the secretary of state of address changes with county auditor details to avoid mail loss.
Seaboard Motors launches in Seattle at 309 11 East Pine with partners Mark Fence Robert R Pence and Paul R Grege distributors of Transport trucks from Mt Pleasant Michigan. The line includes one to three and a half ton models with on display units and shipments headed to Seattle as service stations planned to cover Western Washington.
A government notice outlines different weight based license fees for cars, stage coaches, auto trucks, and trailers. It requires certificates of weight from public scale owners, lists statutory county auditor fees, and specifies per hundred pound charges with fractions ignored. It defines motor truck and details varying first 1500 to 1600 pounds thresholds and capacity based surcharges.
In the week of January 19 A F P Hawkinson of United Motors in Presidio sold and delivered twelve Reo Speed Wagon three quarter ton trucks to Seattle firms for city street use. Purchasers include Pacific Telephone Telegraph Co Occident Road Co Overland Transfer Mickett Transfer Globe Transfer Reliable Transfer Public Market Delivery and Beattie water department.
Harry F. Mammen explains to W. M. Hartford that European buyers should adapt to American Traffic Trucks. He notes travel across Europe and talks with dealers who prefer national pricing and standards, despite requests for color changes.
The notice adds 25 cents to each license application as the statutory county auditor's fee. It recalls a 10 000 pound limit on truck loads on public highways unless within city limits per local ordinances, and requires showing capacity load on licenses. Original dealer license is 60 dollars, additional plates 10 dollars, motorcycle dealers 10 dollars.
An official of the Pierce Arrow Motor Company cites growing use of motor trucks to meet economy and speed in national building operations. Milwaukee firms like W. H. Pipkorn Company run three five ton Pierce-Arrow trucks, one in service nine years with 120000 miles, replacing six teams of horses and expanding reach. In a recent month one truck logged 1204 miles in 25 workdays, averaging over 48 miles daily and hauling about 21.2 tons daily of cement and materials.
A National Bureau of Standards wartime project describes a special carburetor test plant. It simulates air flow through the carburetor in a small altitude chamber, using a vacuum pump and controlled pulsations. The system allows pressure to drop to about a quarter atmospheric and temperature to rise above ambient.
Louis Von Waamer manager of the Excelsior Motorcycle and Co. left Tuesday for the Henderson and Excelsior factories in Chicago. H. B. Armstrong accompanied him on the two week trip to obtain an enlarged allotment of the 1920 Hendersons due to strong demand. Automobiles of American make are rising in Venezuela with 1000 privately owned cars in Caracas, a per capita rate of one to every 100.
Experiments in this necronauitic power plant prove the Bureau of Standards can reproduce nearly any condition encountered in service on engines. The plant weighs fuel like a carburetor to determine mixed ratios and flow coefficients under aircraft service conditions, functions managed by a single operator.
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