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His Engineers Staged This Test 
ii 4w 7‘HY,” said J. M. W. (president,of the X-Auto 
\w Manufacturing Co.) to his engineer, “should a car 
owner puzzle his brains about the patent insides 
of this, that, and the other battery? 
“Most sensible folks who ride in cars don’t know and they 
don t want to know whether battery plates are made of 
wrinkled rubber or puckered lead. 
What they do want to know is that they are getting bat¬ 
tery service from the best battery made—from a battery 
that can and actually has won a side-by-side test, designed 
to demonstrate beyond question which one carries the most 
power and lives the longest life. 
“Such being the case, it is up to you and me to make the 
test that will settle the question.” 
Taking the best two of six batteries submitted—Prest-O- 
Lite and a competitor of equal capacity—the engineer 
placed both together, with a fine new stiff eight-cylinder 
engine, in the coldest room of a big cold storage plant. 
There he left the whole exhibit, batteries and engine, to 
chill for seventeen hours in a ten-below-zero temperature. 
The two batteries were then hooked up in turn to the en¬ 
gine, which they were asked to spin continuously—to the 
limit of the battery’s strength and power. 
At the finish of eight successive trials—with a rest of 
from one to three minutes between each—the score for the 
two batteries read:— 
For 
f 142 
Seconds 
75 
Revolutions 
1 13 
it 
5 
it 
COMPETITOR ; 
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3 
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1 
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132 
10 
Revolutions 
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PREST-O-LITE ‘ 
1 10 
it 
4 
it 
1 
f 15 
it 
5 
it 
A victory for the Prest-O-Lite—a clean, decisive victory_in the 
toughest battery contest which could possibly be staged. 
The answer—for you who ride in cars and buy batteries_is self- 
evident. Join the Prest-O-Lite Clan!—and forget your batterv 
troubles. 
, T J ier * 1S . a Prest-O-Lite Service Station man in your neighbor¬ 
hood. write us for his name and address. 
The Prest-O-Lite Company, Inc., 30 East 42d St., N. Y. City 
In Canada. Prest-O-Lite Co. of Canada. Limited Toronto 
Prest-O-Lite 
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The Oldest Service to Automobile Owners in America 
PREST-O-LITE SERVICE STATIONS IN NEW YORK STATE. ( Write us for list of Service Stations in other States.) 
ALBANY:—Albany Speedometer Serv. Sta 
248 Washington Ave. 
ARCADE:—D. A- II. Sales Co., Main St. 
AUBURN:—McKinley A Fairchild, 18 Clark 
6t. 
BINGHAMTON:—Robert C. Robinson, 230 
Water St. 
BOLIVAR:—McDonnell & Brannon. 
BROOKLYN:—Perfection Storage Bat. Co. 
Inc., 1175 Bedford Ave. 
BUFFALO:—Boyle & Kssenwnnger. Inc., 720 
Main St. 
CENTRAL VALLEY:—It. F. & W M Wey- 
gant. 
CORTLAND:—Cortland Auto Supply Co. 30 
Main St. 
EAST AURORA:—Glen G. -Gleed. 
ELLENVILLE:—Wayside Inn Garage. 
ELMIRA:—Win. T. Shoemaker, 244 W 
Water St. 
FLU8HING, L. I.:—The Flushing Storage 
Bat. Co., 02 Broadway. 
GLEN COVE, L. I.:—Glen Cove Batterv Co.. 
89 School St. 
G0UVERNEUR:—Storie Bros., John St. 
GREAT KILLS: -Great Kilts Garage. 
HAVERSTRAVT: —Taylor Garage. Inc.. 
Maple Ave. 
HOBART:—Cowan's Garage. 
HORNELL:—Geo. s. Peters. Cass and Buf¬ 
falo Sts. 
HUDSON FALLS:—A. .T. LaPan. 23 Manic 
St. 
JOHNSTOWN:—Staley-Folmsbee Co.. Main 
and Perry Sts. 
KELLEY CORNERS:—lluhbell Bcw 
KINGSTON:—Frank I.. Brown. 528 Broad¬ 
way. 
LITTLE FALLS:—Brunner's Garage. 7 W. 
Lansing St. 
MALONE The Service A- Satisfaction Shop. 
121 E. Main St. 
MEDINA: John B. Cobb. 106 E. Center St. 
MIDDLETOWN Middletown Storage Bat. 
Serv. Co. 
MT. VERNON:—AIlted-Anto Flee. Co.. Inc.. 
10 Prospect Ave. 
NEWBURGH:—Stubley’s Garage A- Auto 
Co.. 127-29 Broadway. 
NEW YORK:—Automotive Elee. Serv. Corp.. 
200 Amsterdam Ave. 
NEW YORK:—Bronx Auto Elec. Serv. Co., 
2438 Grand Concourse. 
OGDENSBURG:—Crescent Garage. 119 State 
St. 
OSSINING:—Nelson Park Garage. Albany 
Post Rif. 
PATCHOGUE, L. I.:—Patehogue Garage Co., 
Inc.. 50-50 W. Main St. 
PEEKSKILL:—I.ent A Burchettu Co.. Inc., 
1016 Main St 
PORT JERVIS:—Geo. W. Case Co.. Inc., 54 
Front St. 
POTSDAM:—Island Garage. 
car., ye -Market St. 
RI MUu^f AD ’ I-: —° vert,m Electric Co.. 
ROCHESTER:— Oliver Bros.. 109-11 Monroe 
Ave. 
ROME:— Fred Strowbridge. 324 W. Dominick 
bt. 
SALAMANCA: —Well> Garage. 32 34 Broad 
bt. 
SP W?rS L LnTmSt ral ° aragre & - Machine 
SYRACUSE:—Wm. H. Craig, 690 S. Salina 
U Cohtn,Wa' t 8f l ^ & SUWly C °" 117119 
WATERTOWN:— Ward P. Smith. 
WELLSVILLE:— Ritter Garage. 40 S. Main 
bt. 
YONKERS — Neidich Elec. Co., Inc ‘>47 S 
Broadway. ' 
