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Show H POPULAR"EIGHT" Ford' Engineer Starts Work on Hit Own Car By Nmpisae Enterprise. MARYBVILXJd. Mich, March 6. Marysvlll hopes to tM tha home of an eight-cylinder popular car. tha first car came out 100 men were at work In tha plant. But Wills believe In starting alowly. He is not considering quantity production produc-tion until his product la well established. estab-lished. The Wills-8te. Claire has an eight-cylinder eight-cylinder enrlne. The car weighs 1000 pounds and Its chassis Is almost wholly of molybdenum steel, the firmest made. Car shipments have already been made. Its first public appearance waa In New York and Chicago. NOISE IN TRANSMISSION. A humming noise In the transmission transmis-sion may be caused by an excess of heavy crease. The case should never be more than two-thlrda full. TO STAND THE WEAR. . Truck pneumatics are made In the (larger passenger car sixes. They are heavier than the corresponding motor car tires and will stand up longer. They go well on heavy touring cars that are hard on tires. CLEAN UP THE FLOOR. OH should never be allowed to re-matn re-matn on the garage floor. It Is detri mental to tires. The floor should be kept clean constantly. HEAT REMOVES SOLT. To remove a rusted bolt, heat an open spanner wrench that fits the nut of the bolt and let it rest there a few minutes. The nut will expand from the heat and will come off readily. RUN FLAT OVER SAND. Driving over a sandy stretch will be easier if the pressure In the tires ' ia decreased to about fifteen or twenty pounds. The tires flatten out. afford- -Ing a wider and more pliable surface to (Tip the sand. NO TAX ON AUTOMOBILES. . Passenger automobiles and trucka may be Imported Into Mexico duty free. That Is In accordance with a decree issued by former President Carranxa. LESS WEIOHT FOR CARS. Ninety per cent of the experimental work on automobile In this country is devoted to weight reduction, either in materials or in fuel. The engine of today weighs as much as that of a decade ago, yet It la twice as powerful. Its weight per horse power has been I cut In half. C1 V J It Is the Wllls-81. Wllls-81. Claire and Its designer and engineer engi-neer Is C. H. Wills, the man who helped make' the Kord popular. Worn 1901 to till Wills was chief engineer end manager for Henry Hen-ry Kord. He de-aigned de-aigned every Ford model In exlatence and Is also aald to be reaponalble for the production and efficiency methods in the Kord plants. w. n. il-L8. These same methods Wills expects ex-pects to Install In his own plant. He started with a force of 4S0 men. Before |