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Show WEIL li Company's New Establish- ment Is Reported Finest in West. ---Owners of Hudson, Dodge o;- Brothers and Essex Cars HI '; Are Invited. With what is undoubtedly one of the Jnest and most complete? equipped me-...Aanical me-...Aanical departments in the entire west, :v w under full headway at the company's :a rfcird East street store, the Eotterili Au- omobile company has announced' that it .; 6 especially well preoared to take care , tiie requirements of ail Hudson Super- Six, Dodge Brothers and Kssex motor car owners' in Fait Lake and vicinity, whose cars require mechanical attention of any description. With the opening: of the Third East street store, where headquarters for Dodtre Brothers sales and accounting' are located, Mr. Botterill set to work to brinp every phase of the company's mechanical department to a very high p!ano of efficiency. ef-ficiency. Thousands of dollars' worth of new shop equipment was ordered and installed, and much of this machinery lias re-ached Salt Lake recently and gone into operation in the mechanical department depart-ment of the Third East street store. Veteran Again on Job. Meanwhile some twenty men who left the Botterill shop for war service have returned, after from one to three years apiece spent in the aeroplane, motor transport or other mechanical departments depart-ments of the government service, where tiiey received excellent training. These men are all back at their old jobs in the Botterill mechanical, department, and the result is, according- to Mr. Botterill, one of the higtrest corps of finely trained mechanics he has ever assembled. "I believe it would surprise the aver- ; ape motorist to v sit our new median i-cn! i-cn! department and inspect the added facilities fa-cilities and equipment we have provided for fast and dependable work in repairing repair-ing or overhauling motor cars," said Mr. Bot tprill yesterday. '"The thing that pleases me most is the fact that we have enough equipment, er.ouuh room and enough men who are thoroughly experienced in repairing and overhauling our cars, so that any owner : enn drive in and be assured that work 1 will be started on his car at once and ; that the job will be put through with- I out any delay. We are carrying1 the largest stock of parts in the history ot our business, together with a very large stock of motoring accessories of every description, and this combination maki-s it possible for us to turn out complci e overhauling and repair jobs with minimum mini-mum loss of time to the owner. "The convenience of the Third Ea?t street store in the matter of getting in and out with cars is a nother factor we find is pleasing the public." Locked in high gear, a stock Essex touring car has just completed the niont remarkable demonstration of automobile endurance ever planned or undertaken In Vermont, according to word received yesterday yes-terday by Mr. Botterill. The account of this endurance test reads as follows: "Driven by E. W. Williams of Bennington, Ben-nington, Vt., this Essex covered 1372 miles under the eyes of official observers. observ-ers. Throughout the trip not a single mechanical adjustment of any kind was necessary. At night the car was left in charge of the police at the towns visited, "The road taken covered most of the main highways of Vermont and some in New Hampshire. The gasoline used averaged av-eraged 16.8 mil op per gallon, which is considered a wonderful record in view of the bad rnad conditions encountered and the steepness of the grades surmounted. sur-mounted. Three-quarters of the journey waa made over roads soaked with heavy rains. Only once on the journey did the oil indicator get low enough to permit per-mit the addition of a quart of oil. Two quarts of water were added to the sup-piv sup-piv in the radiator during the test. "At the end of the run, which occupied occu-pied a little over two weeks, the official observer reported that 'if there is any difference, . tbe car Phowed more power than it did at the beginning.' " 'Skid' Causes Lare Per Cent of Accidents WHENEVER a motor accident occurs, wo are pretty sure to seo in the papers that it was caused by the failure of the steering gear or by the bursting of a tire or similar sim-ilar stock reason. In most cases this given reason is really wide of the mark. There are many accident causes in which failure of the mechanism mech-anism does not entor at all. One of the most dangerous mishaps that the motorist meets is a front-wheel skid, when the car gets completely out of control and probably brings up against the curb or a telegraph pole. The reporter finds the car badly smashed up, the steering gear particularly so, and assigns failure of that unit as the cause of the trouble. trou-ble. We mention this to impress tho motorist with the fact that lt is not so much mechanical failure that ho has to fear as carelessness on his own part. Drive carefully, slowly rather than fast, never speed except under the impulse of necessity, and there is little danger of accident in the modern motor car. |