Life — June 3, 1909 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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LIFE Accurate — at 1 mile or 100 The Warner Auto-Meter is the only speed indicating instrument you can buy — no matter what price you may pay — which is accurate at all speeds when you get it, and which will remain a.curate as long as you have a car to use it on. ‘The Auto-Meter correctly indicates the slightest forward movement of the car, and with equal accuracy every range of speed up to as fast as you dare to drive. All other “speed indicators” show no indication of speed whatever under sto 10 miles per hour, Watch them in use The Auto- Meter, because perfectly balanced in all its parts, works without internal vibration. Therefore the indicating dial is always steady and read- able. No jar or jolt of the car can affect it. Speed alone moves it. Onall other “speed indicators” the indicating hand continually flutters over a space on the speed dial representing 5 to 10 miles. The supposed speed is somewhere between these points. You must guess where. The Auto-Meter, because of the Magnetic In- duction principle on which it works, can be and is made so sturdy and strong, and with such refine: ments of construction, that practical tests have shown that it will withstand a MILLION MIL driving, without appreciable wear or departi than 70 fect to the mile, All other instruments are made on the centrifugal principle. All contain weights, which occupy so much space that the remaining parts must be small and weak. Cams, small pins and delicate coiled springs are used. ‘There i sliding friction everywhere. After a few months’ use wear of these delicate parts, and weakening of coiled springs when multiplied dozens of times through the indicating hand, renders centrifugal instruments so grossly in- accurate that they are Worse than useless. The Auto-Meter alone can be adjusted at the factory in a f-w minutes to of the hardest kind of rom absolute accuracy more The Warner Instrument Company Cincinnati, 122 E. Seventh Street ‘Boston, 925 Boylston Street New York, 1902 Broadway ittsburg, 3432 Forbes Street Dleveland, 2082 Euclid Avenue Detroit, 239 Jefferson Avenue The Warner Auto-Meter Guaranteed Absolutely Correct correct the slightest inaccura though this has never yet been necessary except in instraments in- jured by accidents. In centrifugal instruments no provision is made orcan be made for adjustments orcorrectii When inaccurate they must be thrown away. ‘Their accu- racy at the best is limited by a few weeks or months. ‘Then they are far worse than useless. a * an expensive Chro- nometer. It has but two moving parts. ‘These re- volve. There is no sliding friction, ‘The bearings are sapphire jewels and im ported Hoffman Balls. Every part must test accu rately to 1-1000 of an inch or it is thrown out. Such bearings will practically last a lifetime without wear. The Auto-Meter, because made on the only co rect principle, is unvaryingly accurate and so durable that it will outlast a dozen cars. No centrifugal instrument — though the may be the same — can be considered in the same class, any more than watch can be classed with a $200 Chronometer. * * * The Auto-Meter is bi price agt and durably as th If Temister 104i This is ofte been lost, registers lio 3 only button rescts to zero. the figures are not partly concealed by t speed, . * * We want every automobile owner to know the comparative tests which will enabl prove the truth of every claim we have made. We have put the which will be anyone for the asking. In your own interest, buy no speed indicator of any kind until you knc To buy the wrong instrument is to waste your money. Factery and Main Offices: 451 Wheeler Avenue, Beloit, Wis. Indianapolis, 33044 Philadelphia, 302 San Francisco, 8 Los Angeles, Buffalo, 722 Main Street Chicago, 102 Michigan Avenu Seattle, 914 E. Pike Street Cognac (Pounded 1715) kkk AND FINE OLD LIQUEUR BRANDIES GENUINE OLD BRANDIES MADE FROM WINE Sole Agents G.S. NICHOLAS &CO. New York "Stausuco oS C&CLotHn CHING, —" Gentlemens HPurnishing Boy’s Department. Summer Styles in Clothing, Furnishings, Hats and Shoes. Exclusive patterns, high class work- manship, moderate prices. Send for Illustrated Catalogue. BROADWAY Cor. TWENTY SECOND ST., NEW YORK comicbooks.com