Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-12
ROSE HILL FINE
TEST FOR AUTOS
HAYNES CAR MAKES CLIMB IN
QUICK TIME
FOLLOWS WAYNE AT LESS THAN
HALF THROTTLE
Full Power Is Not Needed on Ascent
of 80 Per Cent When Road Is
Rlsht-Tryout Sue
cessful

Wayne about ten days ago the Woodiil
Auto company went out to the grade
Friday afternoon with Haynes 20
try the hill again.
A ston was made at the foot of the
grade after the car tracks were crossed
and then the car was sent away on
the intermediate until the first per cent
grade around the first turn was en-
countered.
At that point the road is rough and
with poor traction on account OF the
oiled surface, but with little less than
half throttle the car pluckily climbed
up and up.
When the throttle was opened trifie
more the car would respond as readily
as when on the level. showing that 1t
was not necessary to use the full power
TO climb anything from 30 to 50 per
cent when the road was anywhere near
right.
canyon the car had TO tug to make
the turn at low speed, as the surface
and the sharpness of the turn Doth
prevented rushing it. On the next
stretch, however, the car bounded
shead as though it had got out on the
level again, but the grade was still
above 20 per cent. Then came the
worst turn, sharp hairpin curve made
right out on the face of the hill as
the road reaches the hogback.
Turf Sharp, Road Rough
The turn is sharp and the road
rough, and fast going would send car
and occupants over the grade and
down a few hundred feet on a side hill
that is like a roof. Nearly every ounce
of power that the motor could develop
was called out from the time that the
turn was reached until the car got to
the topmost point of the road.
Straight up the narrow path the car
went with throttle wide open and spark
held well back to prevent premature
explosions.
Five persons rode up the grade to
within 300 feet of the top, when the
writer jumped out and scrambled up
tie bank on one side of the road to
get q photograph OF the car making
the ascent.
When the writer jumped the car
seemed to leap forward as its speed
was considerably accelerated, showing
that it was not the momentum that
was carrying the car to any appreci-
able extent, but the steady power that
was pulling.
Foot after foot the car crawled up
while the people who live on the hill
side came running out from their
houses to see what they termed an
other set of foolhardy motorists.
TO have missed an explosion would
have meant failure, for the loss OF
power for even an instant would have
been fatal for the success of the stunt,
but the little motor never missed.
Car Backed Down Grade
AS in the case of the Wayne the car
was backed down the grade to its
steepest point so that another picture
could be made, and when the exposure
was done the Haynes went up to the
top once more, starting under its own
power and leaving one of the passen-
gers sprawling on the hillside.
AS a precaution everybody had put a
shoulder to the tonneau to hold the
car while the brakes were released
and until the power could be apphed:
When the clutch was engaged one OF
the men found he was left without
support, for the car shot forward very
rapidly and let him stagger up the hill
until he could once more attain an up
right position.
George Boyle of Riverside, who had
Just purchased one of the 30-horsepower
Haynes cars, went along with the party
in his own car to see the test.
He stopped at the foot of the hill and
watched the Haynes go up, appearing
time after time from behind point
of the hill or from behind one of the
numerous cottages on the hillside.
When it was all done he expressed his
amazement at the performance.
Another trip was made two-thirds of
the way up the hill to the foot of the
last steep grade to let him see for him
self Just what difficult task had been
set for the car.
It was with considerable trepidation
that he took a seat in the tonneau, but
after having seen it successfully made
he was more assured that 1T was not
too great risk to go up.
AS the car went up second time, re-
peating the performance just as credi-
Il a
marked that he had not thought before
a car could do it.
II Satisfied Him
''That more than satisfies me-" he
said, when safe back in his own car
there are no hills out our way that 1
can't climb. Why, can go hunting in
the car If l want to and ignore the
roads when it will climb like that
Rose hill grade from the Short Line
tracks to the top is three-eighths of a
mile long and on the second stretch the
grade gets as high as 3S per cent, while
on the last stretch up the hog back it is
said to be 40, that being the figure
given out by the city engineer and also
obtained with square and level by a
marty of motorists recently.
The demonstration is one that man
cares to make only once, as after that
the fact of having made 1t is suffi-
cient.
At requires a first-class car, as good
a driver and plenty of nerve. On the
down trip it is as trying, if not more
so, than going up, as there is not a
foot of the way that the breaks can
be released and in most of the grade,
when the speed equals five miles an
hour, the wheels begin to slide. To
let the car get away would mean its
demolition, as a rush down the hill
side would wreck any car and proba-
bly, wreck house as we'll.
AS a power demonstration, however,
1t is hard to excel, as the grade is of
sufficient length not only to test the
pulling power of a motor car and the
traction, but also its ability to climb
for a considerable distance on low gear.
Continuous running on low gear tests
the radiation qualities as well as the
fabrication system and long pull on
low is test for a motor that is not
approximated by any sort of high
speed work
There is some little talk of organiz-
ing little informal hill climbing cons
test on Rose hill open to all without
any cost.
In that case it is probable that time
would be taken and also consideration
given to the radiation.
Most cars will steam when they reach
the top and some are likely to seize
after such prolonged effort without the
benefit of the thrush of cold air to the
radiator that is obtained on the level
at high speed.