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56 WILMETTE LIFE May 10, 1929 : Motor Briefs Pierce-A'rrow to I ncrease Output Is Latest Report Pierce-Arrow's record output of the Straight Eight, which was introduced four months ago has fallen so far short of meeting the demand that all of May's production and part of June's will be needed to fill orders which were on hand May 1, according to James G. Barber, of Evanston, north shore dealer who has just received this information from the factory. The output has been increased to an average of 60 cars per day, and efforts to increase this to 70 cars per day are being made. Capacity production schedule calls for 1650 cars during May, representing an increase of 257 percent over May production last year. But even this increased Ma} schedule will leave a balance of 49-t May shipment orders now 011 fill: which will have to be carried forward into June. n~w ( Announcing Low Contract Prices On BOt:T a year ago California beA gan systematic teaching of safety in its public schools. When the cas4alty list for 1928 was compiled, it was found that fatalities among school children .had decreased by forty-two under the record for 1927. This was accomplished with considerably more motor vehicles on the streets and highways than ha·d been there the previous year. It is noted also that the traffic accident death toll for the state increased by ninety-four over 1927. This indicated ·that the safetv education in the- public schools had impressed the need for care on childish lllinds sufficiently to reduce the normal hazards. The automobile driver who goes about the streets and country roads at night with only one headlight burning is called a "Diabolic Nui sance." By one automobile writer in the East. He describes his expericences and dangers encountered on two different . nights-one when it was bright and clear and the other during a heavy rain. li r , } FUEL OILS (I'OR SEASON 1929-30) 38-40 DISTILLATE 1 to 99 gal. . .................................... . 9c 100 to 399 gal. . ... . .. . ............................. 8c 400 or more ...................................... 7~/2c 32-36 STRAW GAS OIL 400 gal. or more ................................. 63,4c 32-36 DARK GAS OIL 4CIO gal. or more .................................. 6lf2c 28-32 FUEL OIL 400 gal. or more .................................... 6c: 30-32 SPECIAL FUEL OIL <A spr~Jal grade for Williams OII·O·Matle, Combustion, Hart style burners) DJtd 4.00 gaL or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6c: 24-26 FUEL OIL 400 gal. or more .................................. 43,4c 18-22 FUEL OIL 400 gal. or more .................................. .P/2c These new low prices are retroactive on contracts which have already been signed. Phone our office and our representative will gladly call and confer with you on your fuel requirements. With Our Two Modern Bulk Plants and Fleet of Eleven Trucks We Are Able to Maintain the Best of Service for North Shore Patrons Ask Your Neighbor About BRAUN BROS. SUPER SERVICE Now Serving More Than 1500 Patrons Braun Bros. Oil Co. GENERAL OI'I'ICE 725 OAK STREET WINNETKA Pboaea: Wlaaetka 302.0·2.1·2.2. Car shipments for the first quarter of 1929 were 68 percent over those o\ 1928, while the first four months showed a 98 percent gain. The tn crease during April was so marked that it amounted to 160 percent as Among other things he said that compared with April 19~. Unfill~d the one-eyed car_s caused him to slow orders on May 1st were 2-tl percen down more than once and grope his over those of a year ago. way to the right hand curb, where ne waited-and prayed. The conditions he describes are. true, may be verified Mot~rists' Hotel Chain any night, in almosj any city. SomeIs Started in Missouri times drivers do not know when one In Missouri there has just heen com of the lights on their cars is out. On the other hand, it is believed that this pleted, at the town of Pond, the firs condition 1s due mostly to carele:;s- of what will be a chain of hostelries catering to motorists and .known as ness. "high hotels." The apartments are built around a A steam Cl.Utomobile, built m Engcentral court, which 1s sodded and land 34 years ago, when laws were dotted with flower beds. Each apart still in force restricting the speed of ment has its own garage for the motor vehicles to four miles an hour, guests' car, and a sleeping room right recently drove down a street in Basnext with all the comforts of a hote I ingstoke, a town west of London. For many years the machine was used in room. A shower bath is included, with hot and cold water. Charges for this hauling freight and passengers about accommodation are only $2 per night the town. It was built by the Thorny- for one person, $3.50 for two, and croft company, which still owns it. $4.50 for more. The odd vehicle is a front drive car. The front wheels, almost twice as It would seem that a countrv so com large as the rear ones, are driven by pletely motorized as this, wherein a chains and sprockets. Steering is ac- large part of the population take to complished by a wheel that turns the the roads 111 summer for greater vr less periods, would offer a fertile field rear wheels. for such a venture in organized hos pitality. A new motor road connecting the rivers Nile and Congo 111 equatorial New Gateway to the South Africa h~s been opened for general Opened at Brookport, Ill. traffic. It runs from Stanleyville, in Belgian Congo, north to Buta and then With the recent opening of a bridge Rejaf, in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The between Brookport, Ill., and Paducah, length of the new road, \vhich practi- Ky., over the Ohio river, motorists of cally once was "Darkest Africa," 1s the central states have still another 700 miles. gateway to the south at their disposal, the touring bureau of the Cht· Czecho-Slm·akia's Automobile club is cago Motor club has announced. The new span permits a different to erect sign posts and warning signals under an agreement with the routing between Chicago and MemCar owners formerly were ministry of public works, according to phis. the department of commerce. In re- forced to use a ferry at Cairo, Ill. Heturn the CzechosloYak Automobile cause of occasional high water in the club 1s g1ven a license to place ad- spring and ice in the winter, that service was not entirely dependable. After vertisements along the state road. leaving the ferry and driving south through parts of Missouri and Arkan85 CITIES USE SAME SIGNAL sas, motorists had to enter Memph1s Eighty-five cities are using the via a long toll bridge. · Both inconveniences have been three-color signal system, of which 76 use the amber after red and green. eliminated with the opening of the Eight have recognized the undesir- new bridge. ability of using it after the red and consequel!_tly usc it only after the 100 MILES HOUR MOTORCYCLE green is fl~hed. Eighteen cities usc There is one motorcycle policeman the amber m combination with the in southern Michigan who claims that red or green. The experts agree that his motorcycle can travel 100 miics use of the amber in combination with an. hour, at least for a couple of miles. red, as is the custom in Washington He also claims that a well-known and several other large cities, should make of automobile, manufactured m not be continued. The amber light Detroit, can travel 95 miles an hour. in such cases is taken as a signal All this was brought out in Justice to start, with the result that the in- Fred E. Gordon's court tn Ferndale, tersection is not cleared for the change near Detroit, the other day. He caught and collisions result. the speeder. ·