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Show l MOTOR MOTIONS The Motordrome at Los Angeles has furnished i the automobile sensations of the week and local enthusiasts are just close enough to take an un- i usual interest in the speed events being run on the new motor car pie-pan on the coast. Oldfield, Hanshue, Robertson, De Palma, Les-cault Les-cault and other prominent racing drivers are I competing and in Saturday's events, a week ago today, Robertson broke the world's ten-mile record rec-ord by driving his Simplex the distance in 6 minutes 35.6 seconds. Oldfield is driving his i 200 h. p. Benz and De Palma his 90 h. p. Fiat, i and advices from the coast Thursday were to the effect that the much-discussed match race that the promoters of the Motordrome have been trying try-ing to arrange between the two speedsters has been declared off, Oldfield refusing to compete in such a race. The only accident of any seriousness se-riousness was the overturning of the Apperson Jackrabbit Monday with Harris Hanshue driving driv-ing and King in the cai with him. The accident was caused by a broken tire. The Apperson and Stoddard Dayton cars were running side by side and going better than a mile a minute when about one hundred yards beyond the judges' stand the Apperson right rear tire blew out and the car swerved. The Stoddard Dayton went 1 high on the bank of the track to safety, while j the Apperson turned suddenly on the left and shot down the bank. The momentum was too great for the car to be straightened quickly and when the wheels on the right side suddenly col-i lapsed, the car bounded into the air and rolled over four times. Hanshue was pinned under the steering wheel and did not fall out until the car had turned over twice. King was thrown fifty feet. Both men were unconscious when picked up, but they soon recovered and Hanshue is again driving. Several of the more prominent auto owners about town are pushing the organization of ar automobile club with a private clubhouse at some point along Little Cottonwood river, to be used as an auto resort for motorists. James B. Thompson, Thomp-son, W. W. Davis and others are back of the project, and have in view a site at a point about a mile and a half west of the mouth of Little Cottonwood. The week has been a busy one on motor row. The Studebaker company received Wednesday the first Flanders "20" to reach town since the trouble trou-ble between the Everitt-Metzer-Flanders Co. of Detroit and the Studebaker Brothers company was patched up and the Studebaker company announced an-nounced as selling agent for all E. M. F. "30" and Flanders "20" cars, two of the most popular makes of medium priced cars now on the market. The Flanders "20," which arrived Wednesday, is a beautifully designed car, and came through by express from Detroit in order that the Studebaker Stude-baker company here could get action at once on sales for this season. The car is one of the handsomest medium priced cars that has been placed on the local market in a long time. Tho Studebaker company has received two carloads B of E. M. F. "30's" with every car in the lot sold fl and a shipment of the Flanders cars will follow H Immediately. H f The Consolidated Wagon & Machine company B has exhausted its allotment of Velies, Overlands j and Franklin cars and at present is bending its j Efforts to securing an additional number from the Hr three respective factories. The company's record m of sales for the year is phenomenal. H i t The announcement early in the week that the 1 Utah Motor Car company has taken over the m retail agency here for the Buick and Oakland H automobile! came as an important piece of news H to those interested in the trade, as the Utah H , Motor Car company has perfected a selling or- H ganization that will shortly make it one of H , the most important factors in motor car circles H. in the west. Hj The taking over of the Buick and Overland Hl agency means that the company will hereafter H handle all cars of these makes sold locally at re- H ' all, and that the company will drop its agency H of the Cadillac car. The Buick has been widely H ' advertised throughout this section and is known H and recognized as a superior car in its class. It is popular and the large number now in operation oper-ation have given excellent service and satisfaction. satisfac-tion. The Buick line for the season will consist con-sist of the models 10, 17, 19 and F, these four comprising the best makes manufactured by the Buick company. The Oakland line, while not so well known locally, has come rapidly into prominence prom-inence in the automobile business of the west, and the two models most in demand are the Runabout Run-about and the model K, both of which will be handled by the Utah Motor Car company immediately. imme-diately. Two carloads of Buicks are en route to Salt Lake and a carload of Oakland's will follow later this month. The company reports two American Travelers due to arrive here in a week or two. A Packard truck has also been shipped and will arrive before May 1st. The company has completed arrangements for the interior decoration of its show rooms and garage on State street in the Moyle building. The entire work will cost in the neighborhood of $5,000 and when completed the establishment will bo one of the fine and most modern of its kind in the west. Besides its garage and show rooms, the supply department of the company will occupy 'a large portion of its new bui'ding. W. L. Wall, for many years prominent in east- em motor car circles and considered an expert in sales organization, is now associated with the company and will assist in the marketing of its cars. The Botterlll company has sold out on every line of aul mobiles it handles and Frank Bot-terill Bot-terill left for the east late last week in an effort to secure a new allotment of cars from the Pierce, Pope-Hartford, Hudson and Chalmers-Detroit factories. fac-tories. A. O. Whittemore reports an increased out-of-town inquiry on electrics of all models. The Baker electric, with its shaft drive, is at present the electric most in demand by prospective purchasers pur-chasers of cars of that class. Charles Hendy, Jr., manager of the Denver branch of the Ford Manufacturing company of Detroit, has been in town all week going over U the local situation with a view to placing an agency for the Ford with one of the local dealers. ' '" To date negotiations have not been completed. The Ford factory is building about 25,000 cars this year. At the new store of the Bertram Motor Supply company on South State, Mr. Bertram reports a surprisingly heavy inquiry by out-of-town motor car owners and dealers on all classes of supplies. There is every indication that as the supply business busi-ness develops here, Salt Lake will become more and more a distributing point for the entire inter-mountain inter-mountain country. |