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CHAMPION
of
Two Continents
[and a favorite all over the world ]
The transcontinental records for both Australia and In the United States are now held by Studebaker. 1924, it was a Studebaker that get a new Trans Australian record, a record which has never been And on June 17, the American trans- equaled. continental record was smashed by a stock model Studebaker Big Siz which bridged the 3471-mile gap between New York and San Francisco in "88 hours and 20 minutes-16 "hours and 25 minutes less than the previous record and 6 hours and 25 minutes faster than the fastest train time. Studebaker cars are capable of championing time and distance because. of the stamina built into them. You may never demand the gruelling service of a transcoutal run. from your car, but the qualities which make super- endurance. possible in a Studebaker mean" utmost dependability and economy for you in any type of service. To pay less than a Studebaker coats is false To pay more is needless extravagance. economy.
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MORTORIST'S HOPES OF
GOLD MEDAL.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1926.
FORD NEWS,
AN EFFICIENT MOTOR,
STARTER.
how long it could deliver that HINTS FOR DECARBON amount of power. The test show-
IZING.
ed that of all truck or automóbile motors tested the Ford startar motor was the only one to deliver two horse-power.
Piston heads will rosint the formation of carbon deposit för a "As the end of the twenty-one | longer period if they are polished Bad weather on a recent Satur
In a series of tests recently and one-half minutes, continuous to as smooth a surface as pos day night made the task of the conducted by the United States running, the test wus discon sible. Ting emery cloth and oil motorists taking part in the Lon- Naval Air Service at its Pensa tinued, because the battery (s should be used, followed by the don to Edinburgh trial difficult, cola, Florida station, a Ford new 130 ampero hour 6 volt hat application of an ordinary metal as the roads became treacherous motor starter proved that it was tery), bad become as heated its polish. LE
The driver of a motor-cycle almost as efficient at hauling in was deemed advisable to do so to A valve should not be regarded combination collided with a car sorial targets as it is at the more prevent destroying the battery.
as properly ground in untild and smashed his machine, while familiar task of oranking a Ford
"An examination of the starterfinal finish has been put on ite hie passenger was slightly in-car. In fact, according to eng fured, d
ineers of the Naval Air Serylos, motor showed that it was in face and seating by using metal There was a chapter of at the Ford unit proved more power-perfect mechanical condition. It polish as the abrasive." cidents during the passage of the ful than any of the truck or auto-had not overheated, neither was Pennines. A car driver fell asloop mobile starter motors employed the insulation impaired at all." " and collided with another comin the Government experiments. petitor, whose car was pushed into another. The "sandwiched " car was too badly damaged to continus, but nobody was hurt,
One competitor claims to have qualified for a gold medal on a car which he purchased for $12.
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AN EXAMPLE OF BRITISH
ENTERPRISE.
The Government's report to the Adding together the ratde Ford Motor Company not only power of all the Ford cars, trucek furalishes an interesting sidelight and tractors thus far built gives. on the ingenuity of the naval asum total equal to 97 times the
That Morris motors do their engineers, but also contains an potential of the falls of Niagara impressive demonstration of the according to a newspaper inter best to uphold British prestige on view, accredited to Henry Ford all acousions is shown by the He arrived at Edinburgh with his/Power and stamina of that me himself. Furthermore, "With the prompt attention given to a
chanical detail of Ford cara.
presant capacity of 2,000,000 cara cabled order for twenty-two care spare wheel collapsed, but had no trouble apart from the breakdown The test, the
a year the Company is able to from their Singapore doalers, the of this whaol.,
reads, "was to determine whether meet the needs. only of present whole of which was shipped to or not a starser motor could de-owners if they should each buy a them within twenty-four hours
on the s.8. Kitano Maru.. volop two horse-power, and if so, new car overy six years".
The chief obstacle was the newly introduced Askrigg Hill in the Pennines:-About-20-per- cont. of the competitors failed here, and it was a bottom-gear climb for most of the riders.
AIR FLIVER
Detroit, Mich., July 31.-Henry Ford celebrated his 63rd birthday Yesterday by exhibiting to the public for the first time a new nall airplano devised by exports from the Ford plant. The new plano is of three cylinders and has a twenty-foot-wing sprend Mr. Ford jokingly remarked that the new machine might possibly be dostined for a new “air flivor." It was announced that the, ma- chine had made. 100 miles an hour. it a practico flight, and it was expected that its per-mile cost, would be less than an automobile.
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IS IT
"as good as BUICK?
Before you are persuaded, by an extra allowance on your old car, to buy some car you might not choose otherwise, look it over carefully.
You probably will be told that it is "as good as Buick", but investigate. See if it is!
Does it have a "sealed chassis"? Has it a torque-tube drive? Has it mechanical 4-wheel brakes? Has it a ten-plate, multiple-disc clutch? Has it a Fisher body? Has it adequate and effi cient nation-wide service facilities? Has it more than a million enthusiastic owners?
When anyone offers you more for your used car than it will sell for on the used car market, com- pare the new car offered you to Buick.
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