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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Nov 1929, p. 52

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, · 5~l================~=========================W==I=L=M==E=·T~T==E==L=I=F=E==================~==============N=o=v=em==be=r=l=,=1=92=9 Graham-Pa'ige Uses Road Tips 710,000 Light Bulb~ in Cars This Year Condition of roads in Illinois as reported by the Chicago Motor club follows: · Glenview road is . in poor condition bet\\'ccn Hibbard road and Gross Point road. Traffic is advised to use Lake avenue. Dempster street and Church street are clos<:d at the Sanitan· District Ca11al. Tralnc is directed ~so uth Lm ~lcCormick boulevard ·to l\Iain street, · cast on ·?\lain street, then north 0\·e r a village street to Dempster and Church street-. La\\Tence avenue is c·losed between River road and Mannheim road. Traffic is directed north over village streets. ~orth avenue is closed between Mannhcim road and Thatcher avenue. ~1 ih,·aukee avenue is closed to t ~af fic het\\'een Palatine road and Dt ndee road. Traffic is directed east on Palatine road to Sanders road, north on Sander road to Dundee road, · then "·est on Dundee road to Mil\\'aukce a\'enue. Harlem avenue is in poor condition between Diversev Park boulevard and Xorth avenue. Traffic is advised to turn east on Diversey Park bouleya-d to Sayre street and south on Sayre ::;treet to · North a\·cnue. Mad.ison street is closed to traffic between First avenue, May\Yood, and Thatcher avenue. Traffic i·:'i directed north on First avenue to ~'a . hington boulevard, east on \Va ::; hington boulc,·ard to Thatcher a venue, then so uth on Thatcher avenue tP ~[adisnn street. One hundred cightv -third street is closed at \Vestern a~· enue. Traffic is directed south on Keclzie avenue to Flossmoor road. cast on Flos smonr road to Dixie highwa\·, then north on Dixie highwa,· to 18J~d street. Crawford avenm· is closed het\\·ec n Lincoln high\\·av and ·~auk Trail. Traffic is directed · ea:-t nn Lincoln hil:!~1\rav to Main tred. south on ·Main street to Sauk Trail. then \\'est on Sauk Trail to Cr;-ndnrd avenue. Dixie highwaY is closed hchYcrn 150th street and South Park <n-cn:Ic. and het\YCen Toc Orr rnad and T.incnln hiQ'hwa,-. Tra ffir is directed cast nn 159th street to Halsted str~,'ct. south nn Halsted street to T.ineuln highwaY. then "·est on Lincoln higl,,,.a,· tn Dixie highwaY . Thomas A. Edison made the fir st incandescent light twenty years before the automobile came in tc;> use ; now, there are 100,000,000 and more incandescent bulbs in the motor cars of the United States and Canada, a tributt· to the inventor that no other single in dustry can equal. While the motorist is virtually de pendent on the electric bulb, it gets little credit because the car Ov\·ncr takl.s it as a matter of course. Na less than ten light bulbs arc in every GrahamPaige built car. and the larger model~ have e'teven. There are two hcad-ligl1t bulbs. two side-light: , two lights in the instrument board, anothe r to flood light the coincidental lock and front compartment, one dome light, one tail tight and one stop-light. Counting ten lights per car, that means that th~.· Graham-Paige compan~· alone, in the first nine months of the Edison semicentennial year, has used 710,000 hu\h..; . For the entire automobile .. industrY. total production last year \\'as 4.601,000 cars; counting ten bulhs per car, as · in the Graham - Paige. thi s mean s -h\010,000 bulbs per annum as original equipment'. At the end of last \'ear, there \\'er e 25,550,000 automobiles registered in the United States and Canada. The aver- . age number of bulbs per car would hardh· be less than five (two heart lights, one instrument board, one . tail. · one . top') , and the average likely " ·mild be~ higher, for side-lights are alnw~t universal. But even \\'ith onlv finlights. that means 127,750.000 ckrtric light bulbs in use. Winter Neeessities Anti-Freeze Solutions Alcohol, quart ........................... 30c Glycerine, gallon ........................ $ Prestone, gallon ........................... $5 ·. CHAINS Weed Steel Skid Chains Gates Rubber Skid Chains HEATERS Arvin Hot Water Heater Francisco Manifold Type Heater Wahl Hot Air Heater 'J~1 MAIN STREET Wilmette ~bone w.~meib 0 o t J. C. SLOWN ) 0 ~A. B. VAN DEUSEN Test Cars of Chevrolet Go Nearly · s,ooo,ooo Miles Chevrolet test cars at General Uohw s prnying ground have· already been clrin:n up·,ya rds of fiw million mik:-~. accordinR to James M. Cra\\'ford, chid engineer of the company. An a verag~: of t\\'elYe test cars arc in constant operation. purring up steep inclines, plo\\'ing through sand, mud and snO\\', driving in the teeth of heavy winds, testing speed and endurance on th.c track and subjecting themseh·cs to cYen· kno\\'n performance trial. Tl~e se car:-; are not retired until the\· have been driven between 30,000 and 50,000 miles. After an experimental model attains this mjleagc it goes to the experimental laboratory to he 'dis mantled. Even· part is inspected. all ·evidences of wear noted. If a detail is not a s it should he, \\'Ork starts immecliatelv developing a new part \1r process to replace th old. The new feature is then built in an <:ntircly new car or three new cars if the operati.1n is vital and this in turn is subjected to the proving ground test.. . In the case of the new six. 100 di fferent experimental modeL were tc . ted over a period of four years. To the Car Owners of KENILWORT·H \V e wish to announce 24-HOUR MECH~4.NIC SERVICE .-\lso towing and expert electrical service Batteries charged-rentals. MILLER & MILLER 732 Twelfth St. George Miller Phone Wil. 50 Leo Miller A feat apprortchin~ that of proff's· siona1 endurance drin' rs was accomplished by a 19 -~·ear-nld college youth. who. returning to Han·anl from ('alifornia. drove his :\farm on 7R road 'iter from Berke\e,·, Calif.. tn Roston in 7° hours of acttial running time. ).f akin~ but three stops for food and one for rest during the trip. the young man spent onlv $97 in making the 3.600 mile journey in total elapsed time of 128 hours. This sum included food, tire repairs, gasoline and oil and all other in..: cidentals, and discloses the remarkable average cost of onlv 2.6 cents per mile. Although a cloudburst in Utah ancl a t\\'elve-hour wait for th e opening nf a blocked road in Nebraska delaved t'hc journev, an average speed of - ncarl~' -l7 miles an hour ,,·as maintained (lttrinrr the 79 hours on the road. Thirtv miles of the journev was made in to'~ gear through ·heavy mud. cluring which three sets of tire chains were used. Most of the food eaten bv this college youth on the trip was while he was en route. and his principal sustenance was in the form of a huge chocolate cake gh·en him hv a frienrl upon his departure from Berkelev. Nevertheless, he lost a total of twelve pounrls on the journey. · No trouble ,-,,hatsoever was encountered during- the lonrr trio. the vouth reJ)orted on his arrival in Boston. Harvard Student 'eS Marmon 7() Drt.tT. A cross [J · S 78 H r S· &. () ·t Augment Shipping Methods to Speed up Nash Delivery Pressing national demand for the Nash Twin-Ignition Eight, the new leader of the Nash "400" Series for 1930 has made it neces sarv to augment the usual shipping methorls employed Inthe Kenosha manufacturing plant with fast express shipments, ,and to face one of the most insistent public dematHls for immediate new car delivery in companv history. Twenty-t\\'0 fast express loads of the new straight eights ha vc been dispatched to Atlantic points in the last ten days to supply part of the orders taken by Nash di stributors and dealers. Regular shipments of all three of the new series. the Eight. TwinIgnition Six and Single Six, are going forward as rapidtv as the Nash precision production tines can supply the new cars. Nash plants are working full time and some departments are on night shifts to supply the demand.

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