Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 26 | New Oakland is Surprise to All

NEW OAKLAND IS 1 SURPRISE TO ALL irst of Light Six Models Received by Sharman Automobile Co. Ba.lt Laifi ha seen The first 191 Mttle mix Oakland. Th Bharman Automobile omp&ny DBllMbtod the flrit two rarloedn tbla week, and in tvo hours all were Tone except one whlh Mr. Sharman determined de-termined to hold as a demonstrator. The ir la al) that tli Oakland factory promised prom-ised aod It la bellnved It will at once Jump Into the front ranks as on1 of the leading atmall sixes for t)w year 1916. The equipment of the car la strictly up to date, with all the Improvements found on the highest prtC6d earn In the market. The tUctrlfl llfbtlnf and starting system sys-tem la nl the well-known ftamry mak. Including dimmers and shroud light, all operated from the instrument hoard with u. button. The one-man top of special Oakland design, divided windshield, Stewart Stew-art electric horn with hutton in the center cen-ter of the steering wheel, gasoline gauge. iloense tag, extra demountable rim and ffon-sldd rear tires show the up-to-date oulpment of this new car. The car la tUso fitted with the Htewart vacuum gasoline gaso-line feed, a feature found heretofore only on high priced cars. Speaking of t he new cars yesterday, ilanager SliHrninn of the Sharman Automobile Auto-mobile company said: The car was really a surprise to me. I did not think it was possible . to g"et so much automobile for so little money. As everyone knows, my experience. In handling cars In Salt Lake has always been In the high-grade high-grade line, like the Cadillac, and, nat-utratly, nat-utratly, I was surprised to see this car and then find out what It would do. To ride in It will satisfy anyone any-one that the Oakland 1r all the makers claim for it. On my first ride, without with-out any adjustments whatever, I had no trouble in going over the top of the Main street hill on high at thirty miles an hour. This remarkable flexibility of power is due to the size of the cylinders, which are 2 13-16x43. Such cylinders as theHe, with a high speed engine, naturally gl .'e plenty or power at either high or low rates of Bpeed. It means flexibility which counts for ao much in the up-to-date car. Although we have had the agency for only three weeks, we are now more than forty cars behind In or-d or-d era. Several dealers have ord ered carload lots which aa yet we cannot touch. We have four carloads on the way which will not come near to filling fill-ing back orders, but the factory wired me yeBterday that they would be able to "shoot a bunch" of cars through soon. While the Sharman company Is busy introducing the now Oakland car. It lias not forgotten the Cadillac. Mr. Sharman Shar-man said yesterday It had a batting average aver-age of 1.000 for Cadillacs this year. Twenty Cadillacs In all were received in August and all have been delivered to their owners. There are still back orders on hand which Mr. Sharman hopes to fill In a few days, as two more carloads are en route from the factory.