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Edmonton Bulletin 1929-07-02 - 1929-09-30
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MOTORIZING INFANTRY lt; In an experiment to detern CUTTS foassbiltt a Going away Math Regiment Bustis, Va, ha: We'll gl toed r0stn our complete make of car. Sinners ies Serr aescy) fee They Find Satisfaction There are many car. owners come here for years for repairs, THEY FIND IT Pays BERT S GARAGE Dodge Specialists, REAR OF 101: Phone who have Driving. U you are dri i STREETER'S t SERVICE GARAGE i CIT Nya oe CHAINS GEAR. for timing gears and chams your needs for practically every OUR PRICES ARE nIGHT eres of Infantry. at Fort been equipped with First Pictures of the Front Drive Car 100 veliicles of various. ty as RUBBER ne the car all SPRING 4 ood. time to BLOCKS ly lve you an cesthmate TRANSMISSION St Phone e234 FRONT AXL This shows the whete works of the Cord front drive power plant. It ls a single unit, from motor to dif- ferential. When you need replacements 3S QuAiren: Lipric * sprinas ( 1 DOUBLE NIVERS, td BRAKE stock can supply DIFFERENTIAL Gear suet) FLAT FRAME, FURD TANK This-phantom view of the and leveled seating position. 9 wer 105th ST. 513 Het ste months of 15 units. Argentina, taking Js our second best market. PHONES 1919 2209 PENN COAL CO. You Getting Around Is accomplished rapidly, comfort- ably, and at low cost by making use of the luxurious Big 4 Taxi Service driven by a courteous and: reliable driver. Can Drive Yourself if you'wish. One of our splendid new. Buicks combines all the elements of com- fort, safety and capacity for the family or a party. You start out with the knowledge that your car won't fail you, and is well supplied with gas and oil and every accessory needful to see you through. Phone 4444 aie Office: 10037 Jasper Ave. new Cor d front drive automobile: shows the straight chassis frame, unit power plant ,, Canada Js the best. market for a: tomobiles built in the United st. Exports to that country. during. ae 33,460 109 units, The Front Drive Auto Is Ready On Market Soon With Entire Power Unit Ahead, Pull by Front Wheels is Substituted fer Push From Rear : BY ISRAEL KLEIN AUBURN, Ind., Sept. 14. In the early days of the in- dustry, automobiles were built with the drive applied to the front wheejs, But the great difficulty of st ering such a vehicle under the conditions then. existing forced manu- facturers to resort to rear wheel propulsion. Now, .however, with the stecring difficulty overcome and many other troubles cleared up; the front drive motor car is coming hack. The first of these to. he ready for + popular sale is the Cord. winch Is ae creed being introduced by the Auburn Hees Are wolng, there ts ner effleleney and ease of operation, Siren Comemsy cof tals ctly: TE -wroeit sive sscccsalinies turatng the gf Auburn, ts made in four models and nRiNe around so that the fy-wheel Si Anbu Aa mata fo toward the front, and litehing on Inizoduction of the front drive 1M ofder cluteh, tratemission and dit- eae ee A te Ban cat Neeeatiat TH ond Gratien Cees coe Seat poe suaee iba the cae: of this eitterseen aide tne Auburn ilecif is continuing the pro- duction of ts rear-drive models To even eevater proportions, than here: tofore. new type cars are much Costller, due largly to. the necessity soir ue an io he neces Contract Rates thelr entire practicability. What Car Can Do For more than two years Auburn i this type of even before that had been working construction. and time Harry Miller, famous front drive Facing car designer, had. been experi- menting with it, improving on we auyros i IS design ftom year to year, The Cord AUTOMOBILE REPAIS, front drive is the combined produet- Why not drop in and let us explain of Miller, C. W. Van Ransty another i pe tems Beet Sire otperh nad tis Sea ae sane Empire Auto Service 1 have just completed. inspection Automobile Maintenance of this car and a test drive-over w : 10165 1O8rd Street streeta, gravel roads and deep-rutted detours and T am. satisfied that, if + Next to Empire Theatre) Service Phone 2628 there were any serious disadvantages: Office Phone 4412 CAR OWNERS will be tnterested im our Special Contract Rates for fo thls type of automobile, they have been overcome. Of us did with tt We took turns on wet gravel ronds nid close to the edge at 70 miles an hour, without skidding over or losing control of the machine. We drove across banked railroad track at 40 miles an hour, came down ou the other: side with only one easy bump and leveled out much faster than any rear-drive car could, : We locked the rear wheels going at 69 miles an -hour on wet asphalt and came to without skidding out of- our al We drove into a car track-and right out ngala without the least ene etfor. We drove with the eft side on wet igrane aud te right on gravel road: Shen specued up the enti to mak the ete wh nd we moved straight, forward the driver svered. The uneven trae Pile a minh fee propeticr shatts, one to of the Cord, isa stu amemberjommng thr wt and crossing in front of th 8 an added eehanism Ite ull the works anism in frame in back can be thus. provldiny And. roadabilt Bincers. deen ot members In order to elim , according early experimentat models. One of the great whieh engin drive cars. wi ing the front wheels and ing them rotating at unvary at euch wheel which not on the wheels to be steered at Since the. transmission and a thrust through neu Uke the old Dodge system. of the battery in front and cessibility to tt. Hh say, will not affect The -motor of a front may be any stock. engine, the Cord: motor ts a horsepower. manifold heat. control. 101 carburetion and di Brakes aro four-whoel. int ton had no etfeet on the direction of motion, We took sharp: curves at. faste speed than we could dare with rear drive cars, without Kicking the rear over or losing control of the steering We turned completely around in 40-foot -circle and that with a car You Should Worry About your battery If you leave it with-us our expertr will see there.ts no cause for worry. bumped over deep rut speeds while the front-driving wheels continued to pull us along at a steady pace without difficutty tunes we kaar Gulte-k OUR BATTERY The SERVICE rear-drive models lower to give it greater and ts. bul roadabuii ne of the front drive auto- aioblle Tes I the pull as agal push of tear-dzive ear. Cot ay this af SMITH BATTERY italy AUTO ELECTRIC stratny, 1052 105 treet Phone 2649 pitenine, orings says applied power th al- rection the EDMONTON PONTIAC LIMITED Independent of thw uxle which, tn the Another peculiarity 4s the placing motor in order to afford greater ac , Cord: engineers it. nor will the Of braking in front and the rest ty folition boll out any taster that, tt back would in the heat of, summer with directiy to the ditfereatin battery-under-the-floorboard- t ye. erential, Spectal Powerful Engin di signed Lycoming straight-elght of 125 One of its features is ber blocks and. which adds materially in starting in welght In this than in rear-drive cats cold Weather, and another 1s iis du: 1 manifoldin; Panding hydraullc, with 60 per Internal : Effortless Steerinc Superb Roadability ach whee , aa ie SS rem against possible damage to the driv In. front els only 49 pounds difference In weight between front and rear, duc eavy fame and body. front, th straighened ind the body lowered considerably. much greater comf to. the Cord frame, bestd wened with sturdy nate side shay which was found to exist in, disadvanta, 8 pointed to on fi the difficulty of vet ki ving syece - This has been overcome in. the Cord by a sturdy double universal jo: nly perm ta 42-4 reg angle, greater than those on Feaf-drive cars. but also assures stant driving specd while turning. is toward the front, the gear shift lever extends through the dash and over the engin It is easily manipulated by turn mic.) sweeping fenders, differes wot of buinipers goes ahead of this. above the + The front brakes are applicd y rather than the wiheels.'s0 that they Become cat Mat fe nnn wo SRE bf i eo ieee vette et he rt ternal holds the road surely and easily at all speeds. FD, Steering, in the Pontiac Big Six, has been robbed of all strain and effort. You can really relax at the wheel. And, when you want to stop, you have the comforting assurance of the finest, four-wheel, internal-expanding braking system: on any car within hundreds of dollars of Pontiac price and an independent emergency brake that operates at rear of the transmission, tf ease of control, dependability. years of trouble-free service. HUGS THE ROAD PONTIAC 64S8S1TX PRODUCT OF JENERAL MOTORS 10151 108th STREET C. F. SHOWBRIDGE, Athabasca, Alta. View of the Cord front drive sport sedan, showing the V-type radiator, lat in front and tn front of that the axte. 2 Corners, Jasper and 106th Street Phones 5468 - 1822 Brakes Six. Built low, equipped with four Lovejoy Shock Absorbers Compare Pontiac Big Six, point by point, with ANY other car in its price-range. Check it for beauty, performance, comfort, And remember, Pontiac isa long-life car, always sure of a high resale value, even after Ask your Dealer about the GMAC Deferred Payncent Plan OF CANADA, Forty Motor Were Held During 1 IJ, A. Brown, General ) look for Auto Indus : is Goo ey head room, while tte of wider body. for comto arting wih the radiator tn front, U gracefully Ww i now In production al Automobile Comouny's plant at Auburn, Indiana, and. an nouneement will be made soon, Seek Cause-Of Car Accidents PITTSBURGH, Sept. 14. The National Safety Council has this elty to investigate the caus of mutomobile sore than forty Canadian cities and PW oor eons 20 iat O34 , ing. the tion of their tnhabitants on the ust Nitowmoblle, Ear interview with Tie FOR cil'nnd: kimptve this point wax ade BEY iced ty HA. Brown, veeepreident JR vi genera ei ene iSlors of, Canada, 85 ant indleation ne tremendous interest manifested ty the publi i new modela and w makes of cats, which were viewed We the fitst ime atthe yarlous might be thought that slandard vevtion, whieh has made possible, the Clues ebtainable in cars built on thts tontinent, would tend to make the hintor show Jack in variety, But Me. Thrown polnted out that last year the Chnadian buyer had his: choice of 765 nilterentatyles, and in 1929 General the Bctors alone offers more than 100 different. models. gre Mr.-BROwn pointed out that one of nie Hie mont Amportant developments. of il the current automotive year from the day point of VeW of the average Cana- the decentralization of mi ure by location of plants in sev yea new elties, 00 that an ever-grow- tbe number of eltinens are deriv it therefrom. Cities and towns which few years ago td no connec fon with tie motor ear industry are. y vitally Interested, through the peo tion of mannfacturing or assem- Ger plants within thelr limits. the act when General Motors opened a app plant in Regina lant Deceinber the ps . Dr. W. James H. Greene, all of the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh, will handle the investigation which will con- , sist of pure resen It tn planned to have each driver who has been in-an aceldent ts port to headquarters of the organ- tion and submit himself tc: pay chologteal, physical and hearing test ney plan in the end to make definite recommendations o safe driving practices based on sane sclentifie facts, OA even Oz own Po) vreeords eeliy Terove with every Lees bene ae amty and impressir Fisher, or by its mast road . . his every Six bears out the wisd: Siinder engine mean hills, in breath-taking eration . . how the gives ont knot ap, - oline . ove re (an foams oo ew ot do . how the harn EDMO SI Es no effort at all to driye Pontiac. 1: has the BIG SIX case of control for which motorists used to pay double the price of Pontiac . Pontiac P14.9.29 LIMITED EDMONTON, ALTA. i MACLEOD BROS LT Ss B ETTER BECAUSE IT S Athabasca, Alta. CANADIAN 1T s BET TE
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