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WILMETTE LIFE April 26, 1929 Fords Score Victories in Sweden 600 Mile Race Ford has won new honors · in a Each automobile in the United States foreign field. In the recent annual last year traveled approximately 5,590 winter race held in Sweden which is miles, according to estimates made by one of the most difficult reliability and The Automobile Club of Illinoi·s. endurance r_ ase's with limited s~;>eed held The estimate is based upon gasoline anywhere four Ford cars competed consumed by the 24,501,004 motor vewith twentv other makes in Class A. hicles registered last year which conSeven of the twenty-four participants sumed a total of 10,596,000,000 gallons reached the goal in "id'eal" time and of these seven winners, three were Model GERMANS STUDY U. S. GAS TAX of gas. The average mileage was 12.9 A's. . The operation of the gasoline tax miles per gallon, making a total of 137 The fourth Model A met with two in America is being studied by a Ger- billion mile'.s traveled by all motor vemishaps, skidding into a block of stone man Gasoline Tax Commission which hicles during the year or an average of approximately 5,590 miles each. at.rthe side of the road and later getting is now in New York. -------=--~----------------------------------------------------- into a di~ch. All along the rout(. are located control; and each car carries a controller, appointed by the Royal Automobile Club. The race was over a distance of 600 miles from Gothenburg on the western coast to Stockholm. The Skokie Motor company of \Vilmette and R. D. Cunningham of Evanston are the north shore Ford distributors. Avenge for Car in 1928 Estimated at 5,590 Miles Chevrolet in Year Pays Freight Bill Running $46,000,000 Evidence of the heavy demands made annualty on the railroads by automobile manufacturers comes to light with announcement of C. R. Scharff, general traffic director of Chevrolet Motor company, that the company'·3 freight bill for 1928, representing inbound and outbound shipments for sixteen domes tic plants, totaled more than $46,000,000. This was an increase of more than $11,000,000 over the 1927 bill. In making the announcement. Mr. Scharff revealed that the 1928 bill covered the movement of 272,368 car- · loads of freight, totaling 7,968,047,324 p0unds. Exclusive of this poundage, he declared, there was an additional 221,403,427 pound·.; of less than carload freight; 4,767,783 pounds shipped by express and 331,040 driveaways. These figures show the immen.se increase in the company's busines s. The·se figure :. indicate that the automobile manufacturers are among the railroads' best customers. Of the total freight shipment for last year 111,087 carloads were inbound and 161,281 outbound. The outbound shipment'3 included finished automobiles atid 394.804,171 pounds of export traffic. L and R Auto Service of \Vilmette is · the Chevrolet distributor. Dodge Shipments Show Increase of 48 Percent Delivered, Fua~ )' .. I More to Buy! Equipped, Nothtnc HEN a Nash leaves the facW tory it has been furnished with all items of equipment, including chromium"400" nickeled bumpers, front and rear, hydraulic shock absorbers, tire lock and tire cover. There is no extra charge made thereafter for these items. So, when you see, in a motor car advertisement, a price quoted, and under it the words "All .prices f. o. b. factory," you should make a mental note to ask the sales~ man for that car how much extra, over and above the f. o. b. price, it will cost you to have a fully ~quipped car such as the Nash "400." Some dealers (not Nash dealers) charge up to $50 or $60 extra for bumpers alone. Investigation will show you conclusively that the Nash way of building and selling a motor car saves you money. You will 6nd cars of competitive makes actually costing considerably more than a Nash "400" when delivered, j11lly ~quipped, nothing more to buy! March shipments of passenger cars and trucks of Dodge Brothers showed an increase over February of 7,755 units. or more than 48 percent, according to C. M McDonald of Evanston North Shore Dodge dealer. The figures include shipments from all plants in the Cnited States and Canada, and repre se nt substantial gains for the Senior Six. the new Dodge Brothers Six and Dodge Brother truck ami commercial car lines over February. Gains in shipments registered by the Senior Six line for March oyer the previous month totaled 141 percent, the New Six made a gain of 40 percent "vh ih· the Dodge trucks and commercia I cars imported a gain of 78 percent. · Motor car purchasers are adding to the highway burden at the rate of 100 miles of new automob-iles weeklY. At the end of 1929, the combined ·length of trucks, buses, and passenger cars will be approximately 65,000 miles. ... THENEWNA5H ~00" LEADS THE WORLD IN MOTOR CAR VALUE lliiPORT.NT "400" FEATURES- NO OTHER CdR Hd§ THE.?I d.LL High compression motor High Turbulence Lovejoy shock absorbers (l!.xchu.w N·sh Montiftl) Aluminum alloy pistons (ltiNr-StriiiS) 7-bearing crankshaft Exterior ntetalware chrome plated over nickel Short turning radius Longer wheelbase New double drop frame Torsional vibration damper World's easiest steering Salon Bodie· One-piece Salon fenders Clear vision front pillar posts Nash Speciai Design front and rear bum pen DEPEIIDABLE I'UEL OIL SERVICE All grades-Truck deliveries EV AMSTON MASH COMPANY D. K. VOGEDING THE 10 Blks. North of Davis St. "L" Station SBURE·PYRE COMPANY 180 No. MICHIGAN AVE. CHICAGO Col'. Bea·oa Ave. & Cluk St. EVANSTON Gl'eenleal 5500 Phones, Franklin 0 55 7 Niles Center 476