The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 299, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 16, 1913 Page: 2 of 68
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Insure With the Aetna
Combination Auto Policy
Loss of Use by Fire. Lightning. Explosion. Cyclone Tornado. Water Damage. Col-
lapse of Building and Transportation Perils
The above cut shows overturned car of Mr. W. E. Milligan President Maverick Clark Print*
ing Co. The Aetna has paid bills for damages on this car amounting to $2000.00.
JOHNSTON ta BURNETT
Chandler Building
CYCLECAR HAS MADE
72.5 MILES AN HOUR
Record Set at Brooklands
Duryea and Fenton
Enter Field.
A cyclecar has run 72 1-2 miles
In one hour on Brooklands tracks.
Though this was of the small-car
type Its weight and cylinder capacity
came within the definition and all
credit is due the designers of the
Singer cyclecar for a great triumph
saya an editorial writer In Motor
Age.
The first attempt at the hour rec-
ord for the cup offered by the Eng-
lish Cyclecar magazine was made by
W. Ward in 1912 who covered 43.69
miles in the hour. After other runs
and an Increase of this figure the
G. W. K. friction drive in October
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of the same year set the mark at 66 j
miles per hour. The present record
was made by the Singer cyclecar a j
shaft-drive four-cylinder water-cool-
ed machine weighing about 670 |
pounds stripped. This puts its con-
struction beyond the American field
as a possibility of the near future
tor America the field ot a cyclecar
is limited by the small-car competi-
tion to a price considerably below
this.
It Is not surprising that Charles
Duryea always a disciple of sim-
plicity in motor car construction has
taken up the cyclecar and an-
nounces a machine of standard
tread 700 pounds weight twin-
cylinder air-cooled two-cycle motor
। and friction-roller drive of the type
used on his motor buggies. This drive
‘ is an exceptionally efficient fric-
. tlon construction and should be es-
j peclally adaptable to cyclecars.
The Fenton cyclecar is announced
from Fenton Mich. This is a slde-hy-
’ side seating friction-and-belt-drlve
cyclecar with the usual 36-lnch tread.
The wheelbase Is 96 Inches and the
' wheels 26 inches in diameter fitted
* with 2 1-2 Inch tires. Electric lights
g are furnished as equipment.
8 Paraguay has valuable forest resources
e the most Important of which Is quebracho
r particularly rich In tannin.
Six-Thirty Touring Car—S23oo
general’agfnts
AETNA ACCIDENT & LIABILITY CO.
WOMEN WILL ATTEND
AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL
Former Students Said to Be
Good Mechanics —Ex-
pert “Trouble Finders.”
Men who think that women can-
not manipulate a monkey wrench
screw driver hammer or a pair of
pliers are Invited to scan the record
of a woman's class which recently
completed a course in the automo-
[ bile school of the West Side Young
! Men's Christian Association. Eighth
avenue and Fifty-seventh street. New
York.
A regular course for women has
been put on In the school as a re-
sult of the good work of the experi-
mental class for women. The women
will meet on Monday and Thursday
mornings when there are no men's
Birdsong & Potchernick
Salesroom and Garage: 124*1 26 Avenue D
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
Loss by Theft —Covering loss
of your car or any part of its
operating equipment.
Loss by Collision —Covering
damage to your car or any
part of its operating equip-
ment while attached thereto.
Personal Injury Claims—Cov-
ering claims against you for
damages on account of injur-
ies to others.
Property Damage Claims—
Covering claims against you
for damages on account of
injury to other people’s
property.
San Antonio Texas
classes. The regular staff of twenty
Instructors will teach them. Even to
grinding valves and "cranking up ।
the women will receive the same in-
struction as men. “Hunting trouble I
is a feature of the instruction in
which the women students will
share. Instructors purposely “queer''
an engine by disarranging some part
and then the students are set to
work to find and remedy the trouble
and get the motor to running.
The first class of women students
proved themselves adept in this
phase of the work. Road lessons in
operating cars also will be the same
as furnished the men and each wom-
an student will be taken out for in-
dividual lessons.
r. R. L. Boston Branch Moved.
The U. S. Light and H ■ g Com-
pany announces the removal of Its
Now England sales office formerly
located at 84 State street to 25 Irv-
ington street Boston Mass. This
change brings the New England U.
S. L. service station and sales office
under one roof an arrangement
which It was deemed advisable to
make because of increase in business
and the greater opportunity afford-
ed for close co-operation between
the two departments.
LOUIS DEI AGE
MW DRIVE IT
INDIANAPOLIS
Albert Guyot May Also Enter
With Grand Prix Sun-
beam.
BABLOT A POSSIBILITY
Delage Would Wrest Ameri-
can Laurels From Last
Year’s Victorious Peugeot.
Peugeot's bitterest rival Louis
Delage who fought him in European
racing events this season may in-
vade the United States next year in
quest of his American speed laurels
won at Indianapolis.
Albert Guyot who drove a Sun-
beam last year and for sixteen laps
led the French Grand Prix at Am-
iens has been named as probable
representative. He is to have the
car which won the Grand Prix at Le
Mans establishing a new European
road racing record of 76.8 miles an
hour. Peugeot's best performance
for the year was 72.2 at Amiens.
Won Le Mans Contest.
In addition there la a possibility
IS POPULAR POPULAR-PRICED CAR
The accompanying photograph Bhowk J. F. Alexander of the ( Idzcnn*
Auto Company at the wheel of one. of the new Reo Fifth models which have
only re<*eiitly been received by the firm. ... . .
The Keo cars have won great favor among the local automobile-buying
publk*. and. during the past touring aeasou have eatßbliwhcd many overland
records uliicb indicate their unsurpassed mediaiiicai reliability.
The above cut shows car which was damaged by the recent flood waters of ths San Anton •
river. This car is AETNAiZED consequently all cost for repairing etc. was paid by the
- Aetna. Aetna Policy is the only one which covers such losses.
of Bablot dean of the Delage camp
coming over. Bablot is the man
whose prowess it is said caused
Peugeot to withdraw from the Le
Mans contest fearing defeat. That
cause for misgivings existed was am-
ply proved by the sensational man-
ner in which he won reeling off the
last lap at an average of 85 miles an
hour after motor trouble had nearly
caused his undoing. Guyot ran sec-
ond in this contest but a few min-
utes behind the winner. Between the
two other entrants in the Indianap-
olis sweepstakes will get a run for
their money.
Delage's desire to wrest from
Peugeot the honors won during the
500-mlle race last year is as natural
as the animosity between cat and
dog. Ever since the two firms went
into the racing game they have been
at each other s throats. First it was
motorcycles then volturettes and
finally when big car racing was re-
vived in France automobiles. First
one would win and then the other.
With clocklike precision the pendu-
lum of supremacy swung to and fro.
In 1912 and the early part of 1913
Peougeot seemed to have a shade.
Then Dejage came back strong at Le
Mans with threats ot even more.
Cars Are Similar.
In appearance and general design
the cats are about the same. The
same peculiar system of multiple
overhead valves low suspension and
build is used. Americans familiar
with the appearance of Peugeots will
find nothing so very peculiar about
Delages. Ot course they differ
widely from standard United States
design.
A feature not common to any oth-
er car is that they contain a five-
speed transmission giving unusual
velocity and a quick pick-up with
minimum engine wear it is claimed.
This is held to be of especial advan-
tage in speedway competition where
the abilitv to take turns slowly and
make time on the straightaways is
» great factor on account ot tire
wear it is said.
OAKLAND VETERANS
HAVE LONG RECORDS
One Has 9 Times Registered
9999; Others in Daily
Service.
Three of the first cars built by the
Oakland Motor Car Company are
still doing dally service on the streets
of Pontiac. One of the cars Is
unique in that it has traveled In five
years a distance equal to four times
the circumference of the earth.
This car was bought In 1908 by R.
H. Purse of Pontiac and has been
in constant use since. The speedo-
meter has nine times registered 9999
miles giving the car a total mile-
age of 95000 miles for the fbur
years of its life.
Purse also owns one of the other
cars a two-cylinder model and the
You Run Your Car
You Pay Your Bills
Why Not Save
Buy from yourself—
Learn how from
Auto Owners Protective Co.
215 Avenue C. Phone Crockett 404.
BUY STANDARD TIRES AND ACCESSORIES FROM YOURSELF.
NOV. 16 1918.
first Oakland built. This car does
rescue work for a garage and re-
cently hauled another car from Pon-
tiac to Detroit covering 21 miles in
5S minutes.
The third car is owned by Vern
Reason of Sylvan Lake. It is also a
two-cylinder model and was built in
1908. Not a single part of this ear
has ever been replaced since it was
built. It Is used with interchange-
able bodies both as truck and tour-
ing car. Reason with his family
recently made a tour of five states
in this two-cylinder Oakland.
The two 1908 two-cy!lndcr models
furnish an interesting comparison on
the planetary and selective trans-
mission as the first Oaklands had
planetary transmission and Reason’4
model was a special car using the
selective type. Each type has given
equally good service. However the
selective type on Reason's car with
Its record of absolutely no trouble
would appear to be the better.
Barrier With Lyons-Atlas Co.
B. Jay Barrier formerly with the
Pullman Motor Car Company has
joined the sales force of the Lyons-
Atlas Company of Indianapolis as
division sales manager for the mid-
dle west.
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Diehl, Charles S. & Beach, Harrison L. The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 299, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 16, 1913, newspaper, November 16, 1913; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1595871/m1/2/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .