Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free press. Winnipeg. Saturday May Meed More than tin to b1ld million Fords huge quantities of raw materials required for year s output of of livers. Re ports from Detroit indicate that the production of the Ford motor company for the current fiscal year will be about passenger cars if the average for the first seven months is maintained. Despite this output unparalleled in the history of motor car manufacture the Ford company last month had unfilled orders on its books he adds. Ford also expects to build trucks during this fiscal year. Based on a production of Only 000.000 passenger cars a year the Fol lowing figures Are cited More than tons of steel required. Some Square feet of rubber cloth material for tops around each of wheels and tires. Over lamps. A total of feet of Vanadium steel shafting and axles. Exactly Square feet of plate Glass for windshields. More than feet of Copper tubing Tot the radiators. Around pounds of steel for Ford magnetos. About Miles of wiring used 211 magnetos. Some Square feet of galvanized Metal for gasoline tanks. A total of Square feet of Sheet Metal for guards and Fen Ders. About feet of tubular rods. Some 15s.546 freight cars to handle material and product in addition to pounds of material in Leas than car Load shipments. Approximately profits shared annually with employees. To clean spark an excellent method of cleaning spark plugs or in fact any Mica sur Sace is to Wash them first in a 10 per cent solution acetic Fli Ich san infallible solvent of grease and Carbon the subject of a National policy and plan for further Highway development will be brought up at the National conventi ins of both of the dominant political parties in the United Minneapolis and St. Paul Are fac ing the biggest year in their histories of motor truck transportation. Sixty motor trucks with a carrying Capac Ity of five Railroad express cars oper ate daily Between the two cities. Instead of the usual registration tax based on horse Power rating motorists in Oregon Ore assessed of cent a gallon gasoline and one halt a gallon on distillation. It is estimated that the 1920 Revenue will exceed 5500.000. Goodyear begins work on big Plant in Brazil Akron. Ohio. The Goodyear tire and rubber. Co. Has decided to establish a Branch factory at Rio die Brazil. Construction of the Plant which already has been begun will be completed the capacity will be about tires a Day and the employees will number about classes for the training of the personnel in the portugese Lan Guage will started soon in Akron where most of the workers will be recruited. Digest Honic business of wondering what a Motorist thinks about. Spurred to a spell of scientific investigation by the efforts of that Emi nent psychologist Briggs we decided to give up a solid week to won Dering. What a Motorist thinks about. A dismayed by the discouraging verdict of a Host of wet Blanket purveyors who claimed that most motor its could be arrested for what they think about we kept right on won Dering for the full 168 hours and after a most elaborate investigation extending from the Corner of Carlton Street to the coca cola Emporium at the intersection of Smith and port age involving the use of the most delicate re Ordina instruments we beg to file the following report the thoughts of motorists vary in reverse ratio to the Square of their distance from Tho nearest repair shop and Are found in a crude state in the following proportions wonder if i m per cent i m out of Gas 19.2 wonder if that cop saw per cent. Wonder How much of this Hera anti freeze is per cent. Wonder if that s a spark Knock or per cent. Wonder if the wife has finished shopping per cent. Wonder if that Sparo is pumped per cent. Wonder if i can Park Here 3.7 per cent. Wonder if i better Tell that Fallor smashed his per cent. Foreign thoughts which defied Allet of four. 18.00 for Fen ton truck.37.00 Cost Little Savo Springs smooth out bumps and Jolt Jar and Fords ride like Bis limousines. Sold on a Money Back guarantee Canadian i i More than automobile owners and mechanics have received train ins in motor courses at the Colle ii 1 of the City of new York. The refrigerator motor truck a lined especially for handling of perishable foods is the latest development in the automotive Industry. The Czecho Slovac automobile club of Prague will hold its twelfth annual motor exposition july 17 to 25 for Domestic and foreign cars. Ekbal fined to haul trailers with sup plies about factories and storage Yarde gasoline propelled tractors for Jse in Industrial plants Are popular. Residents of the West end of Mil ton mass., have organized a motor transportation company which is owned exclusively by inhabitants of that suburb. Illinois Ohio and Pennsylvania Are nearly alike in the number of registration of motor vehicles. Road trains is a Newi name coined through Extension of use of trucks with two or More trailers per truck Over the modern roads in Najid near All records were broken in the i shipment of motor vehicle Fly to in for when the Adriatic recently docked at Southampton with an assignment of 131 commercial oars. Planned by the new Orleans Hadgu no. 30, b. P. O. E., a unique fashion show was recently held in that City for automobiles designed to show off not Only the car but also the driving dressing etc., of the occupants. The proceeds were turned Over to Charity. By installing miniature laboratories on motor trucks a series of Tours is organized in France for an trucks supplant Railroad Kansas City. Motor trucks Are being used successfully to fill the needs of the communities along the Kansas City Northwest Ern Railroad which suspended operations several months ago. It was the first test of the truck As n substitute for the Railroad in the District and has proved eminently satisfactory. By tidally testing water in Wells throughout the old Battle area. Approximately tons of supplies Are handled daily toy the 076.000 motor trucks throughout the United states or tons in a year of 300 working Days. Hie Krupp works at Essen upon which h Tho German armies Chi Eniy de Pended for ordnance during the War now manufacturing and agricultural machinery. Through the replacement of horse Power by motor Power wild horses Are no longer found on ranges in new Mexico. The Small mexican cow ponies Are rapidly diminishing. Believing that motor vehicles would play an important part in future wars a prize of was offered by the German government for the Best War automobile 20 years ago. The formation of a National Motoi truck transportation organization Foi the purpose of securing Protection i against any oppressive arbitrary 01 unjust administration of the traffic Laws and regulations was decided by motor truck owners and from nine Eastern states in a recen session held in Philadelphia a. For transportation by rail Flat cars and gondolas Are used in shipping automobiles around the country. Truck and tractor owners for lighting Era trucks and delivery cars Prest a lire is if tial simple and costs less to operate and maintain than any other an it client lighting system. Stands All kinds of hard in night re Over rough streets. For lighting farm tractors called upon to co considerable travel Ling at in grit Over rough roads Presto Lite la the Ideal system. Authorized distributors Battery maintenance phone scr. 5382. Ltd. 587-9 Portage ave no blowouts the tire filler Era is the proof More than owners of passenger ears trucks tract s Vid trailers have already paid Over Lor Essen Kay the tire filler. These Essen Kay users travel More than 500.orio.000 a n dually Over All kinds of streets and roads without a or Blowout. These Essen Kay users include Bankers Doc tors retail merchants municipalities departments cd Rover me n t and great Industrial concerns in nearly every country of is final proof of Essen Kay Success. Essen Kay service co. Service station phone Sher. 894. Corner Portage and St. James. City office 108 Princess St. 152 main St. Winnipeg Portage la Prairie it the wander lust stirs in the Motorist s blood with the coming of warm air and Good hard roads. He feels a craving Tor the big distances the wide views the purple Hills and for a deep breath of pure thrilling elixir of youth. Give rein to your adventurous impulses climb into your car and revel in the ecstasy of a care free flight into the Back country. Two you re in a new world. No hampering Walls of Brick and Stone no crashing Din of City streets but the quiet of country roads that stretch Between Broad Fields or Tunnel through the overarching Woods. This sort of Holiday brushes the cobwebs from your brain. The fresh pure air sends new vitality pulsing through you. It May mean a year More of life and a Keener life while you live. After All your motoring pleasure depends upon your times and to make that flight care free you should equip the wheels that drive you with the tires that Are care free trouble free substantial and Percha the tires that give satisfaction tires Gutta Percha rubber limited head offices and factory Toronto branches in a leading cities of the Dominion ;