Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-11
MAXWELL NEARS
END OF TEST
NEARLY 10000 MILES HAVE
BEEN NEGOTIATED
Roads of Three New England
States Since 1t Started
In March
Tspeciai to The Herald. ]

BOSTON, Mass, April 10.-The Max
we'll 30-horsepower, four-cylinder, nom
stop car has run up to IL o'clock Satur-
day night. 9411 miles having been al
ready covered without stopping the
motor. Everything is working in fine
shape, the car running apparently as
well as at the start. Only one spark
plug has been changed and only one
tire has blown out, the latter incident
car expects to complete the 10000 miles
Monday morning. 1t is to be officially
stopped by President Spear of the A.
A. A. In Copley square, Boston, at 5
o'clock p. m. Charles ]. Glidden will
ride on the last trip as an observer.
The mayor and other officials are to
be present at the stopping. The car
is to be turned over to the technical
committee of the Bay State Automobile
association. in charge of Prof. Park of
the Massachusetts, institute OF tech
nology to pass upon it's condition as to
its stock model Immediately after the
run.
BOSTON, April 4-For the past six
teen days the Maxwell 30 horsepower
touring car has been wearing paths in
the roads of Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and New Hampshire, grinding
out mile after mile on its ceaseless trip
of 10000 miles. To date-or rather up
to yesterday-the car had Travelled a
trifle more than $500 miles, the engine
running steadily since March IS, when
it was started in front of the Bay
State Automobile association. Since
then it has run day and night, the en-
tire twenty-four hours without skip.
total of more than $50 hours, this
alone a feat never before accomplished.
yet one that will be bettered inside of
the next two weeks, think the Maxwell
company. by which time a total of
10000 miles without stopping the en-
CINE will have been made.
Figures Are Inadequate
None, not even the most pronounced
automobile enthusiast or user, can
realize the immensely of the task that
is being performed and nothing, not
even figures, can really give any idea
of what 10000 miles, or even $500 miles,
on the road without stopping the en-
CINE really means To date the car has
Travelled more than four times the dis
lance covered in the Glidden tour OF
last year. This tour occupied nearly
three weeks, yet in less time than this
took the Maxwell has covered four
times the distance. Then, too. the
10 00O-mile car has been travelling day
and night without giving the engine so
much as a seconds rest, while in the
Glidden tour the average days driving
was eight hours.
Since the car started the run it has
been standing still, with the engine
running nearly eight hours while gas
oline and oil were being taken on-not
at one stretch, of course-but outside
of this time it has been on the move,
continually. travelling the bad as we'll
as the good roads and going and com
ing in snow and rain as we'll as In
pleasant weather.
Most Difficult Vet Tackled
The task is by far the most difficult
ever attempted by any make of auto
mobile. and the fact that all records
for nonstop runs have been broken
gives some idea of what the carrying
out of the plans to make the l0,OOt
miles really means. Everything. now
ever points to the successful culmlna-
ton of tile trip. as there has not beer
to date one seconds trouble with the
engine. In fact the only trouble en-
countered were few punctures and a
broken spring when the car went into
chuck hole while travelling pretty
fast, hitting the bump on a sharp
curve. These are the sum total OF
troubles to date. and so smoothV y
the engine running today that there IS
every reason 10 believe that the total
mileage will be made.
c. w. Kelsey, who has had charge
of the run. has decided to put the en-
CINE that is being used in the car into
one of the cars in the race across the
continent for the Guggenhelm trophy
which starts in June. In conversation
he said. "In order to prove that the
engine is just as good at the conclu-
sion of the 10000 miles as it was at the
start am going to have it put into
ono of the cars entered IN the New
York to Seattle race, which. by the
way, | feel pretty confident or VIII
ming"