The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 299, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 16, 1913 Page: 4 of 68
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TWO THOROUGHBREDS FACE TO FACE
J What the "White Face” Is to the Herd the OAKLAND
- Is to the Automobile World
There are hundreds and more of five-passenger four-cylinder cars--all similar in appearance—and CAR of the group. A bold assertion but a true one. There are a score or more of models but
there is the Oakland Model of the same description but a car so different so beautiful so individual none of them have the fine characteristics of the Oaklands—cars of such striking lines that you gaze
that if you saw every five-passenger four-cylinder car made you would pick the Oakland as THE at them in sheer admiration and marvel at their wonderful symmetry and graceful appearances.
Some Of the Features We Give You e £’ ve T ou eaut y design. We give you beauty of construction. We give you unit power construction. We give you a double drop
frame. We give you the latest Delco self-starting lighting and ignition system. We give you every appliance in a convenient position to
use. We give you a car true inside mechanically. We give you a car true outside artistically. We give you maximum accessibility. We give you aluminum steps.
THE GREYHOrXD A-6-60—The new Oakland Six-Cylinder Chassis has a wheel base MODEL 43 CHASSIS 116-lnch wheel base. 4 1-4x5 1-4 motor double drop frame. unit MODEL 35 CHASSIS five-passenger touring ear wheel base 112 inehes motor 3 1-2x5
of 130 inches double drop frame unit power plant cone clutch sliding gear trans- power plant cone clutch sliding gear transmission full floating rear axle demountable unit jiower plant "V" shaped silver radiator 32x3 1-2 tires demountable rims
mission full floating rear axle demountable rims German silver radiator “V” shaped <rims 35xt 1-2 tires German silver radiator “V” shaped 10-lneh upholstering full gasoline capacity 15 gallons with electric lighting ignition anil starting system nickel
10-ineh upholstering full nickel trimmings and equipped with Delco electric lighting nickel trimmings and equipped with 1911 Delco electric lighting ignition and starting trimming. $1275. We are also building pn this chassis a three-passenger Sociable Koad-
and ignition system and self-starter. Price *2450. system. Price SIHSO. ster at *1250.
ABOVE MODELS QUOTED F. O. B. SAN ANTONIO. COMPLETELY EQUIPPED. TELEPHONE FOR A DEMONSTRATION—ANYTIME—ANYWHERE
Factory Branch—soo-302-304-306 Avenue D San Antonio
TESTS CONSTRUCTION
IN 15-FOOT PLUNGE
Wrecked Oakland Still Able
to Travel Under Its Own
Power.
As a comment upon the quality of
the material that goes into the con-
atruction of the present day motor
car and the almost Indestructable
character of the machine Itself B.
G. Campbell manager of the local
Oakland branch cites the Instance
of an Oakland Six-60 "Gray-hound."
which plunged through a washed-
out bridge into the dry bed of the
Leona river recently at the point
where it crosses tl)e Culebra road.
The car. traveling at a high rate
of speed plunged over the bank
which at that point is approximately
15 feet above the river. So great was
its momentum that it landed upon
all four wheels and at a distance of
41 feet from the foot of the bluff.
The front axle was badly bent and
the front wheels spread as shown
in the accompanying photograph but
neither was broken. The machine’s
radiator was half-buried in the
gravel of the river bed its top was
torn loose and all the bows were
SUNDAY
"fOINT
To appreciate the significance of this statement you must see the 1914 OAKLANDS.
They represent the BEST and CERTAIN of the old together with the SAFE and BEAUTIFUL of the new.
And now comes the squarest sentence ever printed in an Automobile Advertisement:—Make all the comparisons you want and if
you do not think the Oakland the most beautiful car in the world and the equal mechanically of any car made you need not buy it.
OAKLAND MOTOR COMPANY
—Photograph by Cone*.
B. G. CAMPBELL.
splintered while not a whole piece
of glass remained in the entire car. I
THE OAKLAND CAR AFTER THE PLUNGE
Despite the wrecked condition of the
machine however none of its occu-
pants were injured.
When the service men arrived on
• the scene. Mr. Campbell says that
Oakland
"THE CAR WITH A CONSCIENCE"
Is the FIRST of a New Era in Motor-Car Construction
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
'ltheir first thought was that the car’
- Iwas fit only to be sold as junk. How-
'ever investigation proved that they !
i were mistaken for after the axle .
t’and certain portions of the steering!
MODEL 43 OAKLAND With 1914 Delco System. Complete F. O. B. San Antonio. Fully Equipped $lB5O
PHONE—Crockett 1647
’gear had been straightened out over
। a fire <»f drift wood it was hauled |
from the river and driven to the city
a distance of 11 mii« s under It® own
’ I power. ‘
FEW MEDIUM-PRICED
CARS BUILT ABROAD
Oakland Takes Advantage of
Situation and invades
Foreign Field.
One of the most important
branches of the Oakland Motor Car
Company is its foreign department
which distributes hundreds »f cars
yearly.
None of the foreign motor car
manufacturers build a medium-
priced var which will compare with
American cars of the Oakland type.
This is explained by the fact that
there Is no manufacturer "on the
other side” turning out more than a
few hundred cars a year and the
average cost of these cars is £5OO.
American cars manufactured in
large numbers plus the shipping
charges and duty can be sold for
less than this amount and Ameri-
can manufacturers arc quick to take
advantage of this fact.
This year Oakland Australian
dealers have already contracted for
400 cars.
I There is a growing tendency
' among American manufacturers to
be represented at the foreign ex-
I hiblts and four Model 36. four-cy
B. G. CAMPBELL Manager
Inder .1914 Oaklands are being sent
by express steamer for the London
show. The Oakland will also be
shown at the Dublin show.
Wins Chinese Tour Trophy.
P. F. Richter driving a Stude-
baker. won the first formal motor
car competition ever held in China
by capturing the cup offered by the
governor general of Klachou. The
event was an economy contest over
a 25-mile course.
HAS NOVELNAME PLATE
Haynes Show History in the New
Device.
The Haynes Automobile Company
ot Kokomo has adopted for its lat-
est models a new name plate of
aluminum reproduced in the na-
tional colors. At the top the word
"Haynes" stands out prominently in
red against a background of white
enamel. Then comes a reproduction
of the first gasoline-driven car. in-
vented and built by Elwood Haynes
It. the year 1983-94. the original of
which Is now on exhibition at the
Smithsonian Institute. Washington.
D C. This is embossed in alumi-
num and stands out strongly in con-
trast with the background of blue
enamel. Below the reproduction of
the horseless carriage appears the
| company’s slogan "America’s First
Car.” In rod against a background
lof blue enamel. Altogether the
| name plate is decidedly distinctive
r.s well as attractive and Is regard-
| cd as an improvement over the old
method of displaying the Haynes
1- name on the radiator.
NOV. 16 1918.
DUDLEY FOOL CO. TO
PRODUCE CYCLECAR
New Machine to Be a Tan-
dem 10-horse Power
Model.
The Dudley Tool Company of Me-
nominee. Mich. is to place a cycle-1
! car on the market built along more
| or less standard cyclecar lines and
from the description furnished
sounds very promising.
The car will have a ten-horsepow-
V-type motor air-cooled and a plan-
etary-and-V-be!t transmission. The
wheelbase Is 96 inches and the
tread 36 inches. The seats will be
staggered or semitandem allowing
a body of the streamline form not
wide so as to look ungainly and With
little wind resistance.
A test car is now on the road and
the firm expects to turn out from
500 to IOpO cars for the next season
starting production about January 1.
The weight will be around 400
pounds according to the informa-
tion given out. The Dudley Tool.
Company has ample facilities for
producing the ears Including its
own drop forge plant.
I
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