SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1929.
BIG MARMON WILL HAVE FOUR SPEEDS
An entirely new ivfarmon car will be introduced this fall, according to reports. It is understood 10 be a straight eight of the latest type, with a base price of around $2,(100. It will bo known as the “Marmon Big Eight,” according to reports.
The new car will be an addition to the present lino of Marmon and Roosevelt cars. It will be powered with a 125 horsepower motor, it is said, .and will carry a four-speed transmission.
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part in the manufacture oC tires as rubber, any increase in the price oC that* commodity could easily be reflected' in the cost of tires.”
ATTENTION TO MUFFLER.
The muffler deserves careful consideration every once in a while if the operator cares for efficiency and economical operation. This exhaust silencer has a great; number of very small openings on the inside of the chamber which become clogged with soot and carbon from the cylinders. The deposit collects very rapidly, especially when the grade of the. oil is poor or too much oil is used. When these small openings become clogged the exhaust gas cannot escape readily and naturally the cylinder of the engine is not clean at the exhaust stroke. Result: It. is impossible to bring in a full cylinder of new gas on the next intake stroke. There is not a full charge to explode and this means a loss of power to the engine.
Prolong the life of the car by studying the oil needs of the engine.
Metric Plug in
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Racing car, airplane and compression automobile eng are to the common run of mol what the thoroughbred race h< is to the ordinary nag. They decidedly “peppy,” but to dev< the fine performance of which'li are capable, their nerve systj must be kept in good order.
The nerve system of a ga: motor is its ignition. This sip that vital s ark of energy a gives it life. The type of igni system that suffices fer the nary low compression m would not suffice for high c pression motor any more than nerve system of the ordinary ’ horse would do for a Man O’ A
One of the most highly develc points, on racing cars is the i tion system, graph!, ally illusir: in the 500-mile automobile i at Indianapolis. Spark plugs suffice for'some passenger would go to pieces at Indiana! and the high compression en is a devclopment’of lessons lea at that famous track. Out of tl Speedway classics have omer the modern high compression, pcr-pcrformlng motors.
Naturally, with the greatly proved performance and po’ output developed from the h compression engine, have v« other improvements. The sp plug is .v' of them.
One of the recent Improveim in the Dodge cars has been adoption of the metric spark \ in place of the Z-inch type usui employed. The change was m because the new plug permits motor to meet both idling and ’ speed driving coditions better!
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—Photo by Harvey Patterson.
Exclusive style is evident in this Craliam-Paige eight sedan, with body by LeBaron.. It is now being displayed by .11. A. Dougherty Motors, Graham-Paige distributor here. Jt is powered with the well known Graham-Paige straight motor on a wheelbase of 137 inches. It also has the Graham-Paige 4-speed transmission, with two high speeds. Upholstery and interior appointments are of unusual design and quality.
been able to make a variety of articles from the formerly waste gases of gasoline crackling plants. Cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, lampblack and hydrogen are in the list.
Packard Sun Shade Helps
sun they can be lowered to any position before the eyes of the driver and front seat passenger. They make the heretofore useful but somewhat unsightly car visors
the recent prediction by W. O’Xeil, president of the General Tire and Rubber Co., that tire prices soon will be higher than they are now.
“Motorists who have been riding on low cost tires for more than a year may have to pay a higher price when they return to the market for replacements,” says I C. Croy, financial editor of the Arkon, Ohio, Beacon' Journal.
“Possibility of a general -upw; revision in practically all lines is being discussed in rubber circles and an important announcement concerning the new price lists may be forthcoming before Xov. 1.”
Pres. O’Xeil said recently that tiro prices arc the lowest they eve have been, being based on low contracts for cheap cotton and, principally, on Hie very low average cost of rubber.	'
O’Xeil pointed out that the consumption of crude rubber is now catching up to iis production at capacity and predicted that within a year tire prices would he higher because of higher crude prices..
“It is expected that prices c crude rubber wifll advance as soon as consumer buying begins,” the Akron financial editor says. “Cotton has been advancing steadily and the crop in some states may fall considerably short of the government's latest estimates due to rains in some sections and droughts in others. As cotton plays
RUBBER PHiCES
Upward Revision of Tire Prices Is Being Discussed
Survey of the rubber industry
has convinced a newspaper financial editor in the rubber capital of the world, of the correctness of
H. A, Dougherty Features LeBanon. Body on Graham-Paige 8 Chassis