12-(*60) AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, MAY 12, 1941 MEMA Grand Index Shows Slight Decline in March

All , However, Classifications Are YOU Continue Above Last Year Training NEW YOR K. Manufacturers for February and 164 percent for furnishing their monthly index fig- March, 1940. Mechanics? ures to Motor and Equipment Shipments to vehicle manufac- Manufacturers Assn, report origi- turers for original equipment in nal equipment nnd replacement March declined to 232 percent of parts shipments for March as be- the base, which compares 244 Sliaw Heads List low February while shipments of percent registered in February and accessories and service equipment 174 percent for March last year. Of 42 Eligible were higher. All classifications con- Replacement parts shipments to tinue above the 1940 indices for wholesalers for March dropped to In 500-Mile Race the same month. 168 percent of the 1925 base as A fast and index to 174 percent for Feb- INDIANAPOLIS. Grand for all branches of compared field of 42 cars are eligible the to ruary. In March 1940 the index capable industry in March dropped compete the only major auto- 210 the 1925 stood at 158 percent. to in percent of January in the world the 214 to whole- mobile race left base as compared with percent Accessories shipments at the Indianapolis 128 percent 500-mile race salers in March rose to Motor Speedway on May 30. base index. This compares of the officially License Tax lAmit with 115 percent in February and The entry list closed May 1 elimina- RALEIGH, N. C. —Attorney General 82 percent in March, 1940. at midnight and no to the field the Harry McMullan has ruled that Service equipment shipments to tion trials trim to town may impose a license tax of cars will get under way wholesalers in March rose to 214 33 fastest more than $1 on a motor vehicle. He May also held that school buses can be percent of the base, which com- 17. used for transportation of children pares with 182 percent in February Wilbur Shaw, home-town boy and only to the school they regularly at- winner is back to at- tend and on regular school days. and 139 percent in March, 1940. three-time tempt two things no man has done before. First to win four Indian- apolis classics nnd second to win three races in a row'. Rex Mays of Glendale, Calif., who finished second last year, will QUIT SURE WIT drive the same car which is en- tered by Bob Bowes. Mays’ car Meyei*, ’ was designed by Louis re- tired three-time winner who will OF CONTROLLING TIRE PRESSURES’ run Mays’ pit. Ralph Hepburn, veteran driver, will be Mays’ run- says Engineer ning mate behind the wheel of a Noted Tire new Bow’es Seal Fast special which about Air-Sealing Tire Valve Caps has a new motor featuring many new racing gadgets never before “MAGIC EYE” camera Sequence of three picture*, left above, portray* tk» tested at the track. tremendous tiring power of the first M 3 medium tank built for the l . S. Arm' in Chrysler Corp.’s new $20,000,000 arsenal near Detroit. The white smoke i> Greenwald later, »* Mr. Lemon Mauri Rose, who finished third from the charging 28-ton tank's 75-millimeter Held gun. A split second last year, will leave his defense recorded by the fast-clicking camera, the smoke burst has mushroomed until it Twenty-five of Mr. (ireenwald's forty years in onrushing fortress, of which also in work at the Allison motor plant virtually obscures the mobile armament the tire industry have been devoted to special eludes a 37-millimeter cannon and full complement of machine gun*. Sequent and service work connected with for the day to drive one of two lower right, shows the tank about to enter a deep stream. <2> harsm engineering water roaring up the opposite bank. Photo, top right is tire consultant for fifth cars entered by Lou Moore. through the and <3> fleet operation. He shows tank in dramatic action, and picture, center, was snapped just after thi* York City Omnibus Officially entered and frantically deadly weapon snapped telephone poles as though they were match stick' Avenue Coach Co., New had oft crc» attempting to secure steamship and smashed a two-story house to smithereens. In photo, left below', the Corp. and Chicago Motor Coach Co. 1,. Iced, vice reservations to get here, are two of the tank is being congratulated on the demonstration by G. . president of ( hryslor C ovp* 3mk k JMP* Frenchmen w’ho have already of Do Boto division cleared their cars through the British blockade and need only preferred permission Lri to board an Francisco Begins Work a »on San r _ — American ship from Lisbon, Portu- _ ' i gal. They are Rene Leßegue, who raced at Indianapolis last year into Lot the 10th money spot and Jean Tre- On Underground Parking / vaux, famous French driver w-ho W .a. Special to News a of mechanics, will be making his first trip to Automotive will have system r “• SAN FRANCISCO. Actual ventilation which will completely J • / America. The cars are French built \>n- every Talbots which were completed just struetion work is now in progress change the air on nil floors on San Francisco’s Union Square 10 minutes. before the German invasion and kept at the / / have never been raced because of Garage, first sub-surface parking Parking rates will be cancellation of major European area in a downtown section in minimum, required to meet operat- I -tssft-»•'*„ / North America. This subterranean ing nnd financing requirements be- automobile raee^, of this * completed 10 cause the prime purpose H,,e Kelly Petillo, 1935. winner, structure when some has months will be four stories garage is to provide parking for / ' / car but in probabil- hence entered his all in depth will have a garage the central retail district and to ity Roy Russing, hot-foot from and the capacity of 1.400 cars on aisles, all ward oIT decentralization which u Pacific coast will do the chauffer- affecting so many of the centra, Petillo double parking being avoided. The ing while completes a deal architect is areas in large American cities. to Timothy L. Pflueger drive another car. It is known of San Francisco, w’ho designed that Kelly is eying the second car h many of the city’s foremost build- . / ; urg r 0,. which the French invaders brought a ings. Ditdge Dealers Fleet over last year and which has been The sub-surface garage ns its CLEVELAND.—Dodge Dealers Assr. n * purchased by a piston pin com- of Cleveland has elected following ol- pany. name irftHhes is to be under Union fleers: Lewis Hughes, president; Roj f / Square, a public park in the very R. Pierce, vice-president; William l The racing millionaire Joe heart of the city’s retail shopping Steudel, secretary, and Edward Do- / / Thorne, whose race car plant at area. Following the completion of Mooy. treasurer. Burbank, Calif, is engaged in mak- the subterranean building the level I a / ing plane parts as a part of the of the park is again to be restored defense program, will take a leave as a public resting place with flow- of absence to fly to Indianapolis ers, trees, the famous Dewey Me- attempt qualify car, to to his will morial monument, and plenty of return by plane to California to benches. keep plant his in operation and The size of the underground return to by air in time partici- building will be 275 feet 415 race on by pate in the Decoration Day. feet with 113,500 square feet on Chet Miller, racing hero No. 1 each full floor and 88.500 on the in 1939 when he drove his car top or entrance floor. The entrance Seals the Tire Valve through a guard rail to spare a floor is slightly less in area than i wrecked driver who was lying the other floors because of the at f/ie Mouth on the track, has returned to his difference in height between the old love, the Mike BTfyle racing I The metal reinforced rubber washer two extreme corners of the park. team as a mate for Wilbur Shaw I ilu standard cap seals the Entrance and exit driveways are 1 and George Connors. HOW TO HIM valve right the mouth. All tire to face each of the four streets. GET valves need this protection. On the two shorter streets the YOII Smith entrance and exit driveways will SELLING FOR - and Sandberg Always Replace the Cap be combined, each driveway being Are Promoted by Olds 20 feet or two lanes Koulp the gasoline tanks of jour c*rs with Sell replacements for missing caps and always put them back wide. The all width was adopted VENTAT.AItM slot gasoline attendant* repair work. Attention to this important LANSING.- Promotions for two in order to for you. after inflation, or blocking over the country will foil your car* good will. in the Oldsmobile organi- make of any of the drive- equipp'd service builds igpterans ways impossible. Attendant* tikn VENTALARM zation are announced by D. E. them till a tank The building tank*. VKNTAI.AItM let* Ralston, general sales manager. is to be of reenforced at full pumping speeds • without spill* or concrete, Hat car (inner* Way jr., slab construction and blow-hack- Saves them and man A. Smith Oldsmo- ami eliminates manager plenty of money and time bile’s office and car dis- a dangerous (Ire Write for tba in haranl. tributor the Cleveland zone since H ill Honor Army facta about VKNTAI.AItM. Schrader 1938, has been to Official transferred CHICAGO. Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Lansing nnd named office budget Barzynski, head of the U. S. Army manager. He succeeds Arthur Sand- quartermaster corps motor transport CAPS division, wdl be guest TIRE VALVE berg, to the of honor VENTALARM named assistant the di- and chief spenker next Saturday night SON BROOKLYN, N I \Y YORK visional comptroller. Smith joined May 17, at a banquet meeting tendered EJ9 A. SC HR AO HR'S Oldsmobile in 1929, while Sandberg him by the Motor Transport Industries SCULLY SIGNAL COMPANY of the Chicago area in the SI MAW Division o/ ScovilJ Manufacturing Company, Incorporated joined Oldsmobile in 1927. House. Palmer FIRST ST. CAMBRIDGE.