Show fRANKLIN CARS AND AUTO T TRUCKS ARE BIG SELLERS Tho The Salt Lako Autom Automobile company is giving ching a l lot t of attention to tho a auto to truck cars and ind reports good in inthis inthis inthis this line It is ia agent for or the Mack and Willys Willy's utility trucks having haying hay hav in ing recently taken over ocr vcr the tho agency for forthe fortie tie the last con concern ern whose cars are ro manufactured manufactured manu mann by th the Willy's Willys Overland corn com pany One of the tho Overland trucks has hu alre already dr been placed in commission inthis in inthis inthis this city since this company took the agency and a truck win wilt arr arrive arrO O OD D next week to be bo placed in the contracting contract ing business Several pleasure and business bus bus- mess iness cars have ha bc been n sold old by this agency during tho the week weck To the thc man who operates his own car ear easy dri driving ng is isa a a. very rl im important tant factor and especially is 18 this true in cases a lady drives her own car said laid A. A L L. Taylor of the tho Salt Lako Automobile company and easy driving can b be obtained obtained ob ob- ob- ob tamed only through ugh correct design not onI only of the steering mechanism but out of the entire car including classy construction construe construe- tion running gear car and tho spring BUS sus pension It is however through the steering device through which ens easy driving ing is first felt The steering devico dovice de de- vico vice used on Franklin cars care is not irreversible irreversible irre irre- that is it is not necessary to pull pall hard at tho the wheel to get the tho car carback carback back into a a straight course after fter it has been turned around a L corner or to dodge some somo obstruction in tho the road With other types t-pes of steering gears goare the drier driver has to exert tho same amount of eff effort rt to get the th wheels back into a straight course as ho does to turn them out ont He Me Meis Heis Ic Ici is i therefore constantly working at the steering wheel to keep the car in the road It 11 is th tho commonly known property of castors casters to to keep the bo body Y which they ther support moving in a straight ahead direction direction di dl despite the fact that the castors I themselves liem e ar are no not governed over by an any steering control The same aarno property is present in the Franklin front wheels This automatic action on the steering wheel to l keep the tho car in its proper course greatly reduces the strain on the driver so BO that the effort of steering is ill very verY- much less than with tho the usual nanal car Light weight is another important factor in the easy driving of the car The light weight car offers less resist resist- to anco-to tho efforts of the driver as ap ap- through the steering system The Tho various forces caused bv by the tho momentum of the heavy car traveling at an anything hing like a good speed make it a real effort to lo keep tho the car in the road This is esp especially noticeable when hen making turns Tho force which tends to throw the tho car awn away from tho the curve and arid out ut of the tho course has to be overcome through th the tho steering system an and in tho the heavy y car ear this centrifugal force is a very powerful pow pow- erful factor which the driver must over over- I come Outside of the actual steering ring of tho the car easy driving is a matter of comfort to the he driver himself If the car is not easy riding driving soon wears ono one out for not Dot only ony docs does the driver have havo to overcome o the various various forces of the car ar which are constantly working against his keeping it in tho course courso he ne wishes to drive but he ho is being constantly jolted around by the hard bard riding of tho the ear car This is where Franklin resilience and full spring equipment add to the ease of driving Tho The usual shocks of riding are overcome and the driver Instead of being jolted and aDd shaken around rides easily and comfortably The development of tho problem of w weight ight in an automobile is lar largely ely similar sim aim liar ilar to that in the tho bicycle The early bi cumbersome cumbersome cumber cumber- bicycles were WE're big heavy an and some somo affairs that did not last lon long and that were bard hard to run The Tho same way with the early de development of the tho au nu- nu Everything about th construction construction con con- h Th Tho motor was heavy j a was heavy and this necessitated heavy supports sup sup- Forts ports these supports meant a a. heavy j frame ramo rame and a heavy beay frame framo meant heavy springs and so on ou all aU through the car ear each piece piCCO of heavy heary construction made additional weight ht necessary in some somo other 1 part art and ana nothing was gained in strength weight was simply added to carry weight It is cas easy to see seo how weight in iIi one ono part adds add to weight ht throughout out the thc whole car Take Tako a big high powered heavy motor this motor this requires a heavy tr transmission sion a heavy tran ro- ro quires a a. heavy drift shaft a a. heavy rive c shaft m makes a a. heavy rear axle necessary and the tho weight of tho the drive o system makes it necessary to stiffen tiff n construction throughout the ehas chassis and to add weight to carry wel weight bt comfort in an automobile can not bo be obtained through the J use e of shock absorbers and other accessories unless tho the construction of tho the car is right in the first place and then the ac accessories c c- c will mil not be bo necessary ary Ridin ease 3 C i is Ls something that must be bo built buill into the thc car itself That i is th the car must bo be so 0 constructed that its very f features pf of design n overcome o tho actions of driving ring r ing which Thich cause canso fatigue and aud dis die com comfort fort Biding Riding case is is built into Franklin i cars |