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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1917
Page
7
The Standard Oi company announced last week that starting May 1 its 11 service offices in Seattle will remain open until 10 o clock each evening, extending beyond the 8:30 closing time that has been the custom.
Jim Parsons, Washington distributor for Parsons Motor Co and local speed demon, returned from a week in Walla Walla with five sales. The 1000 mile trip in a Stutz averaged 35 mph, despite a mud stretch of 2 1/2 miles near Cascade Locks and Hood River. George Drumhiller, Washington wheat grower, bought a Stutz Bear Cat for personal use and donated four other cars to his family. The car was shipped over the mountains due to 10 feet of snow remaining in the case.
L. J. Kerns of the Willys Overland Motor Car Co. drove from Seattle to Portland in a new five passenger car setting a new record of 195.1 miles in 5 hours 5 minutes beating the old mark by 38 minutes. He carried two companions and tested the Goodrich tires on rough stretches including south of Castle Rock.
The Automobile club recommended a new detour for motorists between Seattle and Tacoma. They advise leaving Seattle via Rainier valley to Bryn Mawr, then a right turn onto a graveled road upgrade to the Bartington links, from Ren ton to Renton Junction and straight ahead on the Pacific highway.
J Garner of Garner's Motor, Chalmers distributor, is upbeat about an early shipment arrival. Pacific Coast Smith Farm rep Edmund Soward praised a Washington lunch with a factory rep. Jim Parsons excels selling Stutzes as Bear Cats debut to farmers in Walla Walla, while Buddy Price pals with Ruth St Denis on a Paige roadster. Ted Shawn disrupts the date. V C Foree touts The Most Beautiful Car. Foree jokes about cutting food. W A Wallace recalls lake draining for potato planting on the row and cites Sherman on drainage policy.
The Tacoma Fourth of July races will showcase old favorites from the South with East entrants led by R Durant and Eddie Hearne. Durant, a noted speed demon, makes his Northwest debut after a three year layoff, facing local drivers and a strong field as war conditions reduce some events.
Export offices of the United States Motor Truck company in New York have been opened at 1457 Broadway. C. W. Moody is in charge of the companys foreign business.
A. D. Smith, former marine engineer from Beattie, created the Smith Form-A Truck. Brigham Motor Car Company will handle sales in Western Washington with M. S. Seward directing the push. The truck attaches to Ford or other light cars, converts them into one ton capacity tractors, and promises simple fitment without car damage. If successful, the concept could expand to 461 business lines and double production to meet demand.
John 8. Baisden, founder of John 8. Baisden Co. Inc, built an exclusive truck tire business. In just over a year his group has secured major contracts including Seattle city fleets, Seattle Electric, and Chas. H. Lilly's trucks, with Goodyear supplies.
Joe Dawson, famed for winning the 600 mile Indianapolis speedway race in 1912, has joined Chalmers Motor Company as assistant experimental engineer. He will work on the contest and trial section of the advertising department and is regarded as one of the world’s most daring drivers.
Maj. Lenoir announces a call for applicants aged 18 to 45 for the U S Signal Corps Reserve in Seattle. The unit, created last year, offers training in telegraph, telephone, radio and other technical work, with needs also for horse shoers and cooks at the Signal Corps office in the Arcade Building.
Walker and Corbett, local Miller Carburetor Co representatives, received a Los Angeles factory letter announcing successful government testing of Miller carburetors on new subchasers. The Atlantic City test reportedly showed the carburetors as a great success and satisfactory overall.
A five ton worm drive dump truck used by Covington Kentucky public works, with three men, completes in one day what an entire gang using pick methods would accomplish in a week, according to Commissioner Donnelly.
Waterhouse-Sands Co boasts a rapid system for reselling used cars led by Bill Williams. A traveler from Alaska, Charlies Meldner, witnessed the process and soon drove away in a Ford-based roadster after Williams demonstrated the method. The Studebaker company has noted the speed and influence of the Waterhouse-Sands approach.
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