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THE HONGKONG

ANNOUNCING

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-"Any adjustment of a didores pancy Incurred a penalty. Each

truck was given 200 points to start with If your steering gear brake your entire 200 points were gone right then, and you were eliminat: Briot mention has been made ofed. The same was true if the an international endurance con-frame cracked. Penaltios ranged. This tast staged by the Soviet Govern- from the 200 points to 10. iment to determine what passenger was a good plan, as the Russiang cars and trucks would stand up wanted to climinate the trucks against the primitive road cond! that couldn't be operated over tions, axisting in Russia. Mr. J. G. their roads. We must give them Shelly who had charge of the credit for figuring out a way to Graham Brothers entry returned re-find out which were the good cently and gives a vivid account trucks. Our only penalty was a of the event,

10 for Alling the radiator." A Wild Race.

Our start was made with a "It was a wild race," said Mr.load of about 3,600 pounds, in- Shelley "We were to start in the cluding parts, spare tyres, 2,200 morning and reach a certain con- pounds of sand and three men. trol point at night. We were We ran between 750 and 800 miles stopped several times in the course with the load and then took the of the day in order to keep the load off. The idea of this was to whole company together.. Each shake the trucks to pieces, if pos truck had a commiander, or repre-sible, by running them empty over sentative of the government in the bumps; charge, who made a record of the

Five in a Bunch.

truck in which he was riding. "It was just one wild race all The Russians designated the roads the way, a case of dog eat dog. as 'paved, but we would hit holes For the last sixty miles there were that would throw all four wheels five of us in front, and a blanket off the ground.

260 feet long would have covered. "Before starting on this trip us all. There were the two Rug- the trucks were supposed to be slan trucks in the lead, two Ger- prepared and turned over to a man trucks and the "Graham technical committee of the Auto- rnobile Club of Moscow for com- parison and inspection and to note anything new or unusual in auto- mobile and truck construction. They also checked dimensions, which items also were checked. after the run, and there was just one point on which there was any variation in our truck with that of the original measurement. That was a spread of about.three- sixteenths of an inch between the front tyres. Otherwise the Graham Brothers truck was in perfect condition.

A Fine Showing..

"Our showing came pretty close to being perfect, compared with what happened to some of the others. A German truck had an increased spread between tho front tyres of more than an inch. Two Italian trucks went almost completely to pieces. Two Rus- sian trucks had to have new axles) when they got back to Moscow:

"The test run was 1,300 miles, and we averaged about 26 miles: 'an hour, with a gas mileage of about 10. For economy we equalled the best,

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Brothers truck.

Through a mie- understanding, we had entered only one truck, which automatical- ly eliminated us from a chance to get the grand prize.

"That last sixty miles was the most exciting run I expect ever to make We were doing from 40 to 45 miles an hour over a fright- ful road. We were filth, within, a few feet of one of the German, trucks which suddenly began to,) slow up. Within three miles of the finish it had 'thrown a con- necting rod and had to pull out. We swung out and passed at full| speed. There was another Ger-. man truck right behind us that had been trying for miles to get us, and we did not dare to slow down. We tore down a long hill with a sharp curve and a railroad track at the bottom, and that Ger- man truck behind us went at least three feet in the air, when it hit the track.

"We finished fourth, right on the taillights of the two Russian trucks and the one German car:

"After the long run we had a 'bad roads' contest, a trip around Moscow, they called it. The Russians had picked out the worst roads they could find for this test. There was one particularly bad place, The Russian trucks had been over the route before and knew how to avoid it. We had to get off the road and go over a hill through the woods. This was the slipperiest mud I ever have seen and at one place we had a slant of 40 degrees to one side.

Some

of the trucks simply couldn't make it. One American truck had to be pulled out. The two Italian trucks were completely done.

Climbed Heavy Grade. "Here the Graham Brothers truck certainly showed what it could do. There was a 25 per cent. grade, and we put on our chains and made it with the full load. We did it so nicely the other fellows were spellbound. There was nover a better perform- ance than our truck coming up out of that place. From then on our reputation was made. Every- time we stopped people would. come around and ask questions.

"Although we were not eligible for the prize because we had only one truck entered, a special sliver cup was awarded the Graham Brothers track for ability to pass over bad roads as a result of our performance."

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