| Show mo I H I TORi TORiI AIRY I J TALE AUlD r for Every Eleventh son in to Utah Decade Decade Sees Changes t ES fy y Frank E. E Becker re re is plenty of ot motion romance In the history and dent dent de- de nt ent nt of ot the automobile Dry est and statistics are never ex- ex fe- fe but but there is enough h speed and tn n the profound and astonish astonish- r of ot the mot motor r vehicle since sinca came a ame ne a practical thing less than decades cades ago t to fire the j n of anyone Where this deH de- de H ment ment will end or where it will not even the best informed per- per I would wo ld attempt to prophesy Were Were trash it is almost certain that i would be upset and confounded I years as has every other etc of ot mechanical achievement like periods of ot the immediate h is a. a a striking exa example of lof llie means to the l The first car made Its ranee ance in this state in n. n 1899 or S-ance S according to best information 13 there were 2576 2516 cars in use In 1917 this number had I sed to and with the thening thening thening ning of 1920 it is estimated that are more than automo- automo and more than motor ve- ve registered in this state a per ownership of ot 11 11 putting Utah class class with California one of ot the st states in the Union for auto- auto average owner of ot a car Is too engrossed with his own likes rp roubles bles pet hobbies or aversions much ink much about the automobile try tri as a whole However It is brush up briefly if for no fi purpose than to appreciate the eis taking in th the economic adment adment ad- ad ment of ot the race The years swiftly these times Only yes- yes the e airplane was an astonish- astonish h hing ng Tomorrow It will be a aon I on ow commercial utility HMAN FIRST INVENTOR motorcar was a steam Sand land and was built by a Frenchman J i in 1770 1170 It was a a. small e e wheeled wagon which carried persons at the ra rate e of two and quarter miles an hour Like all ally y yI it was propelled by mall mall- team engine taking steam 1 ifal plain drum boiler fired with l or r wood Sir Isaac Newton is Hed with a toy horseless carriage 1680 but it never got very far Frenchman ir actually got some acou ac- ac ou out of ot his flivver j England the old timers were an n made to sit up and take notice when Richard be- be I be-I and when in 1803 Brought out a car with a horizon- horizon ALLEN ALLEN A LLEN G. G RANDALL president I I L 1 and general manager of the I I Randall-Dodd Randall Auto company and 1 the Randall Republic company I kh 1 I wt I l I tal boiler and drive wheels ten feet I in diameter with which he attained I a speed of ot ten miles an hour All of I the inhabitants are said t to have taken I to the cyclone cellars and many of them haven't pome come out yet I The tubular boiler was first used on a motorcar by W. W H. H James in I 1823 and from that time to 1832 there was considerable progress in the de development development development de- de of the steam car r and nd motor omnibus lines were vere even put into operation Then it was that turnpike trustees and railroad promoters got in their deadly work ork by imposing such heavy tolls that they practically drove the steam car from the roads of ot England One can hardly blame them for those early steam juggernauts were indeed fearsome affairs that roused the country for tor miles around and made every staid and respectable old plow horse in Britain as temperamental and nd skittish as a a. prima donna Itis It Itis Itis is even said that the cows developed claws for climbing trees Between 1860 and 1870 steam cars were loved by no one apparently for they put a speed limit of four miles an hour on them and the traveler found It Jt better betterto to walk because a man had to go ahead waving a a. r red d flag Anyway it was much easier on the nerves In reality it was not until 1896 or about four years before the first motorcar in Utah that that- this appeared speed limit was removed in England AND IMAGINE IMAGINE THIS ONE v Aft After r 1870 the fie field d of f greatest activity ac activity activity ac- ac in the development of the i motorcar r shifted to France The great problem was to re reduce uce t the e weight and d I size of the boiler or rather to attain enough generative capacity from a a. boiler of practical proportions What they really wanted was room enough for a passenger after atter they got ready to go invented a special shape of tubes through which the water was circulated in such a way as to tobe tobe tobe be evaporated almost instantaneously into steam upon entering the boiler The boiler could be safely operated at a pressure of 1000 pounds pounds' inch inch four four five or more per square or I times that permissible in most e early boilers and this together with the quick production of steam solved the problem of ot sufficient boiler capacity produced his first vehicle I a tricycle driven by the new boiler in m 1888 From Irom that time onward the most successful steam cars used boilers boilers boil boil- I ers ra similar to the known as the flash or boilers because of the rapidity of ot steam generation He lIe made the steam car a practical success but it came at a time tim when the gasoline engine was entering the field The hi history tory of ot th the gasoline motorcar motor motor- car really begins with the construction construction construction tion of a a. successful gasoline engine by Gottlieb Daimler in 1884 In that year he patented an engine which was similar In its essential features to the modern four-cylinder four engine and in 1886 he first applied this engine for tor forthe forthe the propulsion of ot a bicycle The French and Belgian rights to construct construct construct con con- this engine were acquired in 1889 by and Levas- Levas sor sar whose first car car was built in 1891 Another pioneer in the development of ot th gas engine was Bentz who produced a mechanically propelled bicycle bi bicycle pl- pl cycle in 1885 His engine operated on the two stroke cycle an and is noteworthy noteworthy noteworthy thy as being the first to have electrical electrical r cal al ignition which Is now universally i used FIRST FIRS AUTO RACE II In 1872 George B. B Selden of ot Rochester Roches Roches- ter N N. Y T applied to the United States for tor a patent to cover a new I idea the a application of an internal combustion engine to a self-propelled self vehicle The patent was not granted until 1895 and by that time there were other inventors using the same idea idea Among them were Charles Chares B B. Duryea sometimes called the father of the American automobile Elwood Haynes Alexander Alexand r Winton Frank B B. Stearns R It E. E Olds and Henry Ford Ford began to build his first machine in 1894 and finished it t two years la later The first aut automobile mobile race was held in 1894 from Paris to Rouen a distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance of about eighty miles The first race in America was held on November November November Novem Novem- ber 2 1895 at Chicago over a course ourse of ninety miles Two cars started but only one car finished covering the ninety mile course after eight of clattering clattering clattering clatter clatter- hours forty-eight forty minutes ing and puffing During the race this car consumed five and one-half one gallons gallons gallons gal gal- lons of gasoline stopped ten times Umes for repairs and made an average speed of nearly ten miles an hour The car was several times to take on supplies of gas and cakes of ot Ice the later being placed around the hood to cool the motor The next day they k kept pt Ice on the head of the driver who was from speed mania and general nervous breakdown break breal- down That race aroused a general public interest which laid the foundation foundation foundation foun foun- dation for the present great Industry What 1 t may be t termed the decline of the steam car began the next year 1896 V Jh e first first raut aute mobile road a ewas a aPan Pan Pan- hard gasoline car of ot eight horsepower which ran from Paris to Marseilles and back 1050 miles in about sixty sixty- five hours In 1890 there was no automobile in industry industry industry in- in according to the census for 1900 there were in the United States alone fifty manufacturers who made about cars valued at In 1910 seven times the number of manufacturers made thirty times the number of cars valued at fifty times 5 Since that time the strides have been wonderful and there is no letup In sight ASTONISHING STRIDES In 1913 for instance to take a random random random ran ran- dom reference from th the long and te tedious tedious tedious te- te dious list of statistics there were RED FRED B. B WILLIAMS sal sal- sales sala a- a as s manager manager man man- I ager of the T T. T W. W and L. L O. O Naylor company s k M a A a e y t 4 Z K vl 6 v nM f b 4 r g a pl pleasure asure cars produced in the United States valued at In that year there were motor trucks produced valued at In 1917 which was a whale of a year for tor automobiles this country produced produced produced pro pro- cars with a value of In the same year the country produced trucks worth but in 1918 1018 the number of ot trucks was almost doubled while a automobiles fell off by three-quarters three of a million cars due to war condi condl- Production figures for last year are not yet available but there were nearly cars cars In n us use In Inthe inthe inthe the United States New York state passed the half mill haIt-mill mark In July r f rAfter of last year After war adjustment has been slow but 1919 production figures figures' willi un- un reach startling proportions owing to the big demand for cars carst 2 t t 1 as Continued on page H H. L |
