The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-19

the explosion of one cylinder mas ex-
pired, another explosion occurs to keep
| UP the motion.
A nonstop record of $50 hours was
| reached at 1924 o'clock last night by
| the ixty-horse-power- Thomas flyer,
which has been running continuously
since January 2. The engine is run
ming so easily that it was announced
| last night at the auto show it had been
decided to keep the car running
| throughout the week about the city
and on Sunday it will be started on a
nonstop run to Chicago and will be
kept running in that city throughout
the Chicago auto show. If these plans
are carried out successfully and the car
encounters no accident during mat
time, the record of the car at midnight
February 8, when it will be stopped,
will be over 1000 hours, with an ap-
proximate 1900 miles.
The car is owned by Aubrey H. Mar
| tin of Philadelphia. He started the
car at Harrisburg, Pa, where it took
part in the two-day endurance contest
| of the Quaker City Motor club. Ernest
Kelly is the chauffeur and the auto
made such a good showing that 1t was
decided to continue the run, and bring
it on to New York. Official observers
have been in the car every hour. The
former nonstop record for time was
about 500 hours. In other runs of a
similar nature it has been the custom
to choose a time when the weather
conditions and the state of the roads
would present the most favorable OPP
portunities for nonstop work 1t would
be hard, however, to imagine a worse
time than the present for cross
country run. At Philadelphia the flyer
was sent through the crowded streets
and also made a number of trips to the
suburbs and cities nearby.
The car was driven over the roads
from there to New York and special
permission obtained to cross the ferry
without first stopping the motor.
When Ralph Owen, the driver of the
Oldsmobile Mud Lar" started out
from New York, on December %, he
made a prediction that he would arrive
in Florida in twenty days. He not only
succeeded in doing this, but cut off two
days from his running time, making
the total running time eighteen days
two days taken out for Christmas.
The distance covered was 1900 miles.
The 5O-horsepower Pope Toledo run
about is proving one of the best sellers
at the show. This car, which sells for
$4,250, has the same equipment as the
touring car, with the exception of the
runabout body. It has a shorter wheel
base than the touring car, and is, con-
sequently, considerably lighter. 1t has
of course, the popular rumble seat in
the rear.
F., II. Furman of the Autocar Sales
company carried off the honors yester-
day at the Autocar exhibit at the show
by closing three sales in thirty minutes.
the show are the stereoDhoto pictures
of the Clement-Bayard factory shown
in the stand of the Sidney B. Bowman
Automobile company. These pictures
are contained in a handsome box
somewhat similar to the penny the
slot machines, and every one is able to
focus the pictures to his own eyes and
turn them either fast or slow to his
own satisfaction. They are remarkably
clear and stand out in a very life-lfke
manner.
A. Clement has for a long time tried
to devise some means of showing his
wonderful factory, and at last has hit
upon this novel and emphatic idea. 1t
is the only thing of it's kind in the
show, and is liable to be copied by a
great many other manufacturers.
The new Columbia gasoline car with
direct electric transmission is attract
ing much attention. The claims adj
vanced in behalf of the new car by the
Electric Vehicle company are, among
others, that it is a hight powered, fast
machine, absolutely noiseless, and un-
der even more perfect control than an
ordinary electric carriage. Its attrac-
ton as a pleasure vehicle, which a wo-
man can handle with ease is undoubt-
eddy a great point in its favor.
A report comes from San Francisco
of a recent time record breaking trip
of a Studebaker automobiles run of
ESQ miles over the worst possible kind
of mountain roads having been made
in ID II hours. This run was under
taken to prove the feasibility of a mo-
tor stage line between two towns in
California, whose present means of
communication is an old-time stage
route.
Another report comes from a prom
inent government official, who made
an unusually comfortable trip from
New York to Washington by way of
York, Pa, the route taking him over
heavy mountain roads, in rain and
snow, the trip having been accomplish |
ed without the least difficulty.
1t is performances such as these
which have determined the manufac-
turers of this popular automobile upon
the rather unusual course of practic- |
ally duplicating last years model in
their 1907 car.
One of the most interesting exhibits
at the Garden is the eight-cylin6er
Hewitt touring car, which the Hewitt
Motor company has on show for the |
first time this year
Besides being the only eight-cylinder |
car on exhibition it is distinctive in |
that it en1bodies certain features of
construction which are absent in cars
of four or six cylinders.
The claims made for the car by its
manufacturers are that it is more
powerful and less noisy than steam or
electricity driven vehicles, that no
change of speed is necessary in driv-
ing, that 1t is self-starting, and that it |
is the lightest high-powered car ever |
built.
The crank shaft has only four
throws as In an ordinary four-cylinder
motor, the ignition is by Bosch mag
netos and the oiling is automatic.
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