Life — April 26, 1900 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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a = PACTORY OP THE MOBILE COMPANY OF AMERICA.—VIEW LOOKING SUUTH. THE LARGEST AUTOMOBILE FACTORY IN THE WORLD. LOCATED AT KINGSLAND POINT ON THE FAMOUS PHILIPSE MANOR PROPERTY. PER MONTH, The first MOBILES were turned out at the ficory of THE MOBILE COMPANY OF AMERICA at Kingsland-Point-on-the-Hudson during the month ot March. Nine months be- jore, two hundred and thirty-three acres of the famous Philipse Manor property, having nearly a mile of river frontage on the Hudson, and bi- sected by the New York Central Railway, was parchased with the tdea of building there an au- obile factory of such extent that the cost of production could be brought to the lowest possi- ble figure. While the factory was in course of tection, a corps of engineers and experts under direction of the Messrs. Francis and Freeland Stanley was engaged in strengthening and im- r: ig the carriage and perfecting methods and special tools for the manufacture of the automo- bie carriage invented by the Messrs. Stanley. The carriage thus perfected is to be known as the “WESTCHESTER COUNTY MODEL" to distinguish it from the carriages of the Stanley design turned out at the works in Massachusetts. It carries the very latest improvements, and the orders for its construction have been to use only the finest quality of material and to spare no pains to turn out the best of which the most skillful workmanship is capable. It is believed that the ESTCHESTER COUNTY MODEL,” built at the factory of THE MOBILE COMPANY OF AMERICA, is not excelled in strength, durability and excellence of design. WHAT THE MOBILE IS. “WESTCHESTER COUNTY MOD- built by THE MOBILE COMPANY OF AMERICA, is a horseless carriage weighing less than five hundred pounds. and costing BUT SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS. Com- pectly built, with workmanship of the finest qual- y. capable of traveling twenty miles or more an hour or reducing its speed so that it can take its rlace in the slowly moving and stopping line of travel in the great cities, it is operated by steam under circumstances which render it absolutely safe. More than a thousand Stanley carriages of the Massachusetts model are now in public use, and there has never been a single boiler acci- dent. The fuel shuts off automatically when the steam reaches one hundred and sixty pounds. ere is a safety-valve which opens at one hun- red and seventy pounds. Each boiler is wound with piano wire and tested up to six hundred pounds pressure, and is calculated to withstand a strain up to thirty-five hundred pounds pressure JOHN BRISBEN WALKER, President. to the square inch. Recently, as an experiment, a boiler was placed in an excavation, all valves closed, and the fire turned on full head. A gauge carried off to a distance showed a steam pressure of twelve hundred pounds, Then the steam began to drop, owing to a slight escape around the head of each of the copper tubes which compose the boiler flues, and the pressure did not rise above the twelve hundred pounds indicated until all the water was exhausted. If the water supply should be exhausted in the boiler through oversight, the pressure drops and the boiler ceases to produce steam, and with the decreased pressure of the steam the carriage comes to a stop and the pump which supplies water ceases to work. THE MOBILE BUILT TO CLIMB THE STEEPEST HILL ROADS. The question of steep grades is an annoying one for the average horseless carriage. Not so for the MOBILE. It can climb on a fairly made road up a fourteen per cent grade (which is con- sidered a pretty steep county road) at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. During last summer, Mr. Freeland O. Stanley and his wife ascended the long, steep road up Mount Washington in two hours and twenty minutes. IN THE MATTER OF COMFORT. The MOBILE is perfectly smooth in operation. It moves without jar or vibration of any kind. When in motion, the products of combustion are carried underneath the carriage, and neither heat nor odor of any kind arises, The machinery is noiseless except in climbing stiff grades, when a slight puffing is audible, but nothing in the least degree objectionable. There are more than a dozen improvements in the present carriage over the Stanley carriage as originally put out. The first and most important of these is in the engine. The second relates to the gasoline tank, which now holds double the quantity of fuel formerly carried. A seamless copper tube, very strong in construction and ellip- vet in shape, secures this much-to-be-desired re- sult. Another marked improvement is in the ball bearings of the engine, which are one-half instead of three-eighths inch, as formerly, experience showing that the increase of strength thus ob- tained is an item of great importance. . The other improvements are largely in details of construction, no effort in time or money hav- ing been spared to work out the most perfect results. THE WORK OF PREPARATION REQUIRED TO HUILD SIX HUNDRED CARRIAGES HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE IN THE UNITED STATES, The claims which the MOBILE makes upon} the public confidence may be, brietly summed up} as follows: ; First. The lightest, most compact, best de- signed and most perfect horseless carriage now before the public. Second. ‘The highest class of materials and workmanship. Third. Cost—but $650. Fourth. Simplicity in construction, odorless when running, and aimost noiseless. Fifth. It can speed at a gait up to thirty miles per hour or follow the slowest truck. Sixth. It is operated by steam, the standard power of the world, under perfect regulation and test. Seventh. Its fuel is inexpensive; it carries a} supply for fifty to one hundred miles, according | to the character of the road, which can be pro- cured at any drug store at slight expense. Eighth. It embraces all the latest improve- ments and is confidently recommended as the most perfect piece of machinery now on the market. The probabilities are that not one automobile carriage will be built during the coming season where ten will be required to supply the demand. The impression prevails that there are a great number of horseless carriage factories being erect- ed and that the output will be large during the coming season. The fact remains that there are not in operation in the United States at this time factories capable of turning out twenty machines a day other than the Stanley carriage. After three years of experiment on the part of the Messrs. Stanley, and nine months spent in the construc- tion of a factory, we are only now in a position to turn out carriages on a considerable scale. INSPECTION OF VEHICLES. The MOBILE carriage, “WESTCHESTER COUNTY MODEL,” may be found from 9 A.M. to 6 P. M. in front of the New York offices of the company, Fifth avenue and Forty-second street, and the Times Building, New York, Intending purchasers are invited to visit the factory, where instruction will be given in hand- ling the carriage. KINGSLAND POINT WELL ADAPTED FOR TRYING AUTOMOBILES. The Philipse Manor property contains many beautiful roadways, steep, level, good, and some bad. so that the purchaser or intending purchaser will find it admirably adapted as a place to try automobiles. THE ‘‘ MOBILE” COMPANY OF AMERICA. WILLIAM A. BELL, Vice-President. New York Offices: 180 Times Ballding, ana Sth Avenue and 424 St., N. Y. City. Pactory: Kingsland Point, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N. Y.