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RE. 34 WINNETKA TALK August 18, 1928 Car Lifter Speeds Work at Hanson Company Shop In the shop of the Hanson Motor company of Winnetka there is a car lifter which it is claimed is the only one of its kind on the north shore. This apparatus makes it unnecessary to have a pit, for it works so rapidly that a car may be lifted from the floor level to four or five feet height in one minute. One look at this machine which is called "Swift Lift," makes it evident that the days of climbing under a car are over. It is probably a foot wider than car width and two feet longer than a car. To get the car on the machine it is only necessary to drive into the drive- way into which the rear wheels rest. When the motor is started the rollers revolve and every revolution raises the car higher and higher on threaded rods. The Hanson company which is dealer for the Graham-Paige car an- nounce that Graham-Paige has added two handsome bodies of unusual type, a five-passenger coupe and a two-door phaeton, to its line of four-speed mo- dels. The five-passenger coupe ap- pears on the Graham-Paige eight and the 129-inch wheelbase six. The two- door phaeton is offered on the 119-inch and 1l4-inch sixes. A seven-passen- ger phaeton also has been added. The new five-passenger coupe, while seating one more passenger than the usual car of this type, conforms to the accepted coupe line. Its extra capacity is gained through the use of a full- width rear seat for three passengers and a divided front seat for two. Illinois produced more canned corn during 1927 than Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohic combined. 26 00 less This new seven-passenger sedan ty PIERCEARROW selling today for $2850 Your gain is immeasurably greater than a saving of $600 when you possess this dis- tinguished automobile. . . precedented price of $2850. A more important consideration about at its today's un- any Pierce-Arrow is the fact thatitisa Pierce-Arrow . . . that it is traditionally America's finest automobile . . . that it has two generations of well-bred people con- stituting its ownership. This prided model carries all the beautiful dignity plus the Continental flavor of design and coloring for which the new Pierce- Arrow line is famous. A magnificently com- plete motor car in every finished detail of upholstery, fittings and equipment. y 4 The trade-in value of your present car may easily cover the initial payment on this special offering by Pierce-Arrow. It is aimed to make the terms as attrac- tive as today's prices. Today's prices are lower than ever before known to cars of Pierce-Arrow manufacture. From $2475 to $2950, at Buffalo. Your present car will be accepted at fairly appraised value. This will apply against down and monthly payments which make Pierce-Arrow ownership surprisingly easy. PIERCE-ARROW SALES CORPORATION (Factory Branch) 2420-22 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Telephone Michigan 2400. James G. Barber Service Station, 1508 Elmwood Ave., Evanston. MOTOR CONGESTION IS COSTLY, SURVEY SHOWS President Hayes of the Chicago Motor Club Points Out Great Need for a Remedy "If the average motorist realized what congestion means to him, in just dollars and cents, he would call upon everyone, from his alderman to the president of the United States, to do something to relieve him from the burden," says Charles M. Hayes of Winnetka, president of the Chicago Motor club, and Chairman of the Na- tional Wider Highways Committee of the American Automobile association, "but this charge is so mingled with the necessary cost of upkeep that very few car owners even attempt to arrive at its amount. "In a survey made by Miller Mc- Clintock, director of the Albert Russel Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Re- search, it was estimated that traffic congestion adds approximately a billion dollars a year to our bills as a nation. In the case of Chicago, alone, it was shown that a 10 per cent reduction in traffic delays would result in a saving of twenty-seven million dollars a year; in San Francisco, the cost of moving many staple commodities from freight car to consumer was found to run from 33 per cent to 81 per cent of the total cost of transportation. Wider Highways Needed "Although individuals might be aware of the cost of their personal transpor- tation, the indirect cost of living to be found in commodity prices resulting from cartage of materials is less well known and its burden less realized. The first step in the solution of this problem is wider highways," points out Mr. Hayes; "grade separations will inevitably follow, but let us have wider highways now." Mr. Hayes also says that an unfor- tunate situation has arisen on our highways as a result of the rapid in- crease of American airports and the enthusiastic interest displayed by the public in those airports. "The element of novelty and adven- ture is still present in aviation, and every Saturday, Sunday and holiday looks down on halting lines of automo- biles converging toward the flying fields," he says. "The authorities at the airports have provided free parking space for sightseers, and these parking spaces should be used, as, with cars parked along the sides of the road or slowed down to almost no miles an hour, while their occupants watch the maneuvers of the planes, the narrow roads are almost completely blocked. Space Free to Motorists "Some motorists have an idea that the free parking space is only for those who are going up in the planes, but this is a mistaken idea. The space is provided for the cars of all sightseers, so that the highways may be kept open to traffic. The superintendent of traffic of Cook county has asked the co-oper» ation of the club in getting motorists to help in the alleviation of this really serious condition." Motor transport investment, includ- ing hard surfaced roads, has now reached the amazing sum of $29,000,000- 000, as compared to $24,000,000,000 in- vested in railway development, accord- ing to a bulletin issued by the Chicago Motor club. "The investment in motor transport has been made in the past 25 years," the bulletin says, "while the railroad investment extends over a period of a century." The club points out that the investment in motor trans- port includes $3,000,000,000 expended for trucks and $9,000,000,000 invested in hard-surfaced roads. There are three times as many public utility employes and their dependents in Illinois as there are people in the state of Nevada.