Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-31 | Page 14 | Mathematics and Nonskid Autos

ITMilS IB ifflO AUTOS j j Some drivers achieve nonwUid proper-1 proper-1 tics ly uhIiil: ciuiins; others by staying in , out of the rain. ! , Hut the builders of the Standard Uight j seem to liavo gone after a nonskid rec-I rec-I ord by resort to mathematics. The efti-I efti-I cient nnd painstaking distribution of the j car's COOO pounds of weight is t lie plot. "A man came in here the oilier day j and said he had a new name for his car," j declared C. A. Uuij:Iey. located at 3.1 K-j K-j chance place, dealer here for the Stand-it Stand-it rd Klhl. ' It-' called his Standard Kight the nonskld car. lie told me that he was ncLTotiatint,' the wettest roads the weather man hay sprung on us without putting on chains. "Pi-rsonally, I don't urge my customers lo run nut their ears on wet days without with-out putting on ehains. Hut tliiH nonskid fan I'm t I'll Ing about 1ms specialised on Just that feat. He explains that the swli't response of the cur to nil impulses of cotii rol liny enabled him, by carefully studying his car, to go 11 'barefoote i over the welti-s'. roads without skiudiim," added the dealer. The Stand-mi Kight is built bv the Standard Steel t':ir ronip:iny of Vit ts-biirur, ts-biirur, makers of railroad rolllmt stock, Thev (ire tho only automobile manufacturers manufac-turers o make their own sim1 for their en i s. As n result, the Standard Might has been called tho "open-hearth" motor cur.