Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 42 | Service Stations are Kept Busy

SERVICE STATIONS ARE KEPT BUSY Inter-Mountain Electric Company Reports Re-ports Speedy Times at Their Numerous Testing Plants. The service stations maintained by the Inter-Mountain Electric company report big business during the past few weeks. This is especially true of the stations devoted to the Gray and Davis and the YYestinghouse starting and lighting systems. "Each year shows a marked advance ad-vance in the motoring public's knowl-dgp knowl-dgp of the more intricate parts of the automobile and the best methods to keep down maintenance and repair expense,'' ex-pense,'' said ('. M. McDonald, manager of the inter-Mountain company's service serv-ice stations, yesterday. "The big majority ma-jority of car owners today are men who have learned from their own experience ex-perience that the periodical overhauling overhaul-ing of their electrical systems saves expensive ex-pensive repairs as well as prolongs the life of the accessory. "Despite the fine motoring weather we have been having lately, this department de-partment has been busy overhauling starting and lighting systems. Owners who have laid their cars up for the winter (there have been comparatively few of them so far) are having their work done now. when it can be done in a more thorough manner than is pos-sib'e pos-sib'e in the spring, when everybody is in a hurry, and the owners who are driving their cars through the winter months are also taking advantage of this comparatively slack period to have these important details taken care of now. "In my judgment." added Mr. McDonald, Mc-Donald, there is no better way to keep down maintenance expense than to have your electric systems and storage stor-age butteries overhauled periodically, and now is a good time i 'i--1