614-16-18 South 21st St. Main 4221
OLDSMOBILE'SIX
PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS —
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Closed Car Is Balloon Tire Equipped
What is said to be the firBt car of this size to be equipped with Balloon Tires, was fitted out by Mc
Cormack Bros, with Firestone Balloon Tires this week. Exceptionally easy riding qualities aie thus effected
Il«r Barney Oldfield: Roe* anti
freeze make tbe engine run hot?
C. G. B.
It runs hotter than it would with
water. On a warm or mild day the
engine might overheat with anti
freeze, if you drive fast or use second
speed much.
Dear Barney Oldfield: Who was
the fir^t one to make balloon tires
in this country experimentally and who
first sold them? D. P. L.
Hewitt Rubber company. I believe,
was the first to experiment and build
them. John Palmer, inventor of the
cord, is their chief engineer. I believe
Firestone was the first to sell bal
loons. •
Rear Barney Oldfield: We hare a
large number of closed cars in the
garage with Velour and cloth uphol
stery and it takes quite a while for
the then to clean the insides: I thought'
of a vacuum cleaner with special fit
tings to get into tlie corners? Who
makes a cleuner of this kind.
T. B. M.
Please send me s stamped and ad
dressed envelope, repeating your in
quiry, and I shall gladly send you
the information you desire.
Rear Barney Oldfield: In the RB
automobic front end drive is it neces
sary to change the chain? It seems to
me that some time or other tbe chain
will Btretch and the automatic won’t
work P. M. C.
